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Broken Bones

Angela Marsons · 366 pages

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The Butterfly Garden

Dot Hutchison · 333 pages

"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious butterflies -- young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is

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Behind Closed Doors

Elizabeth Haynes · 484 pages

An old case makes Detective Inspector Louisa Smith some new enemies in this spellbinding second installment of New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Haynes's Briarstone crime series that combines literary suspense and page-turning thrills. Ten years ago, Scarlett Rainsford vanished while on a family holiday in Greece. Was she abducted, or did she run away from her severely dysfunctional fam

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Livia Lone

Barry Eisler · 358 pages

Seattle PD sex-crimes detective and former human-trafficking victim Livia Lone must relive the horrors of the past when she gets a fresh lead as to the whereabouts of her little sister, Nason.

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Dead Tomorrow

Peter James · 536 pages

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The Silent Dead

Tetsuya Honda · 292 pages

"When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally--his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what" or the "why" of this crime. At age twenty-nine, Reiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Homicide Division

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J.D. Robb In Death: The First Cases

J.D. Robb · 550 pages

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Bad Wolf

Nele Neuhaus · 434 pages

"On a hot June day the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washes up on a river bank outside of Frankfurt. She has been brutally murdered, but no one comes forward with any information as to her identity. Even weeks later, the local police have not been able to find out who she is. Then a new case comes in: A popular TV reporter is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her own car. She survives,

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Death Rites

Alicia Gimenez Bartlett · 300 pages

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Low Tide

Dawn Lee McKenna · 190 pages

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Ties That Bind

Carolyn Arnold · 304 pages

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Shallow Waters

Rebecca Bradley · 377 pages

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Frozen Assets

Quentin Bates · 330 pages

Officer Gunnhildur investigates the discovery of a body in an Icelandic fishing village and uncovers a web of political intrigue and corruption.

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New Orleans Mourning

Julie Smith · 339 pages

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Someone Else's Skin

Sarah Hilary · 414 pages

"The debut of an exciting new series for fans of Sophie Hannah, Kate Atkinson, and Tana French. No two victims are alike. DI Marnie Rome knows this better than most. Five years ago, her family home was the scene of a shocking and bloody crime that left her parents dead and her foster brother in prison. Marnie doesn't talk much about her personal life, preferring to focus on work. Not even her part

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Locked In

Kerry Wilkinson

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The Murder Wall

Mari Hannah · 460 pages

Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels finds herself haunted by her inability to solve a brutal double murder. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle's Quayside opens up another opportunity for Daniels to get it right, and her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. But when Daniels recognises the corpse, she fails to disclose that fact, and that puts her personal life in jeopardy. She

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Whiskey Sour

J.A. Konrath · 312 pages

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Hunted

Elizabeth Heiter · 400 pages

Terror stalks a small Virginia town. FBI rising star, criminal profiler Evelyn Baine, knows how to think like a serial killer. But she's never chased anyone like the Bakersville Burier, who hunts young women and displays them, half-buried, deep in the woods. As the body count climbs, Evelyn's relentless pursuit of the killer puts her career'and her life'at risk. And the evil lurking in the Burier'

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Cruel Justice

M.A. Comley · 320 pages

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Farewell to Freedom

Sara Blaedel · 345 pages

"A young woman's body is found on the street in Copenhagen's Vesterbro district, her throat slit, and the media is clamoring for the grisly details. Detective Louise Rick is investigating the gruesome murder when her friend, Camilla Lind, calls. Louise assumes it is because Camilla, a crime reporter on a morning paper, wants to be the first to hear of any juicy new developments. Instead, her dist

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Long Way Home

Eva Dolan · 400 pages

Peterborough is changing. Migrant workers, both legal and illegal, are working in the fields, the factories and the pubs of the town. Most keep their heads down, keen to avoid trouble and DI Zigic and DS Ferreira from the local Hate Crimes Unit know all too well the issues that come with having a foreign name, no matter how long you've lived here. While Zigic ignores his father-in-law's needling a

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The Blue Hour

T. Jefferson Parker · 480 pages

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The Ritual Bath

Faye Kellerman · 360 pages

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is

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