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Cold Blood

Robert Bryndza · 358 pages

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Above Suspicion

Lynda La Plante · 400 pages

A rookie detective, Anna Travis is about to embark on her first murder case - and it couldn't be a more serious, more gruesome series of murders. The killings began eight years before and now the body count is up to six.

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With No One as Witness

Elizabeth George · 707 pages

In With No One as Witness, Elizabeth George has crafted an intricate, meticulously researched, and absorbing story sure to enthrall her readers. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley is back, along with his longtime partner, the fiery Barbara Havers, and newly promoted Detective Sergeant Winston Nkata. They are on the hunt for a sinister killer.When an adolescent boy's nude body is found mutilated and

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Now You See Me

Sharon Bolton · 400 pages

Stumbling onto a murder scene that a reporter likens to the crimes of Jack the Ripper, young detective constable Lacey Flint races against time to prevent additional deaths and realizes that the killer is taunting her with secrets from her past.

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Her Final Breath

Robert Dugoni · 527 pages

Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister’s killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life. A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle. Even after a stalker leaves a menacing message for Crosswhit

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Obsession in Death

J.D. Robb · 464 pages

Eve Dallas is used to unwanted attention. Famous for her high-profile cases and her marriage to billionaire businessman Roarke, she has learned to deal with intense public scrutiny and media gossip. But now Eve has become the object of a singular and deadly obsession. She has an "admirer", who just can't stop thinking about her. Who is convinced they have a special bond. Who is planning to kill fo

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The A.B.C. Murders

Agatha Christie · 252 pages

There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans . . .

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Déjà Dead

Kathy Reichs · 509 pages

Un beau jour d'été à Montréal, sur la table de dissection du laboratoire de médecine légale de la police provinciale, arrive un cadavre découvert dans l'ancien parc du Grand Séminaire. Le docteur Temperance Brennan est chargé d'autopsier ce qu'il reste d'une femme découpée en morceaux. Sa sinistre expertise va l'amener en première ligne de l'enquête, face à l'assassin pervers qui collectionne les

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The Last Place

Laura Lippman · 414 pages

Five brutal homicides ... zero arrests. Disgraced private investigator Tess Monaghan agrees to review the police murder files for blunders and finds a single common thread emerging with shocking clarity -- the link is Tess Monaghan herself.

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212

Alafair Burke · 353 pages

When college coed Megan Gunther is murdered after she receives threats on the Internet, NYPD detectives Ellie Hatcher and J. J. Rogan investigate the crime and its links to other murders and accelerate their efforts once Megan's roommate goes missing.

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Ashes to Ashes

Tami Hoag · 579 pages

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The Preacher

Camilla Lackberg · 419 pages

The discovery of two murder victims who were killed twenty years earlier is complicated by the body of a third, recent victim at the same location, a case that compels detective Patrik Hedstrom to investigate a feuding clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.

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Born in Death

J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts · 384 pages

A Eve Dallas Investigation In Death 2060 in New York City. Lieutenant Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis Freestone, but that's supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis

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Don't Talk to Strangers

Amanda Kyle Williams · 322 pages

"Hailed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as "one of the most addictive new series heroines," Keye Street is the brilliant, brash heart of a sizzling thriller full of fear and temptation, judgments and secrets, infidelity and murder. He likes them smart. In the woods of Whisper, Georgia, two bodies are found: one recently dead, the other decayed from a decade of exposure to the elements. The she

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Malevolent

E.H. Reinhard · 338 pages

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Burning Man

Alan Russell · 298 pages

Michael Gideon and his police dog partner investigate a crucifiction. "When LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his police-dog partner Sirius are assigned to tithe Special Cases Unit (SCU), Gideon knows their work lives will be anything but ordinary. SCO gets the cases no one else wants, the unusual and bizarre crimes that need special handling and special investigators. When a high-school student

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The Cutting

James Hayman · 352 pages

"Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, to escape a dark past: both the ex-wife who'd left him for an investment banker, and the tragic death of his brother, a hero cop gone bad. He sought to raise his young daughter away from the violence of the big city ... so he's unprepared for the horrific killer he discovers, whose bloody trail may lead to Portland's s

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Think of a Number

John Verdon

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Career of Evil

J.K. Rowling · 512 pages

When a woman's severed leg is delivered to Robin Ellacott, her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, looks into his past to determine who is responsible.

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Fractured

Karin Slaughter · 464 pages

"Breathless tension!" raved the San Francisco Chronicle. "One of [the year's] most remarkable achievements," crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karin Slaughter dazzled readers and critics alike with Triptych, her New York Times bestselling suspense novel set in metropolitan Atlanta. Now the #1 internationally bestselling author returns to the damaged landscape she knows so well in a bold new novel-

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Easy Prey

John Sandford · 407 pages

In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that’s demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone had imagined—one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared

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Unnatural Exposure

Patricia Cornwell · 367 pages

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is newly returned from Dublin, where she was called in to examine the remains of a murder victim whose limbs and head were expertly severed - a signature of a cunning serial killer on the loose again after an eight-year sabbatical - when the same killer apparently strikes again, this time much closer to home. After Scarpetta investigates the murder scene, the killer boldly con

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Darkness, Take My Hand

Dennis Lehane · 480 pages

The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in this terrifying tale of darkness and redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know something about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of

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