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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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A Song From Dead Lips

William Shaw · 468 pages

London, October 1968. As Beatles fans encamp outside Abbey Road Studios up the road, the Marylebone CID is as much an old boys' club as it ever was. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is the pariah of the office, having just run out on a fellow officer held at knifepoint, when it's shaken up by the arrival of WPC Helen Tozer: awkward chatterbox, farmgirl, and the first woman to enter the murder unit

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The Sleepwalkers

Paul Grossman · 317 pages

A high-ranking Jewish detective in Berlin in 1932, Willi Kraus finds his murder investigation of an oddly deformed and mysterious young woman made difficult by his superiors and several disturbing events.

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Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog

Boris Akunin · 273 pages

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Powers: Definitive Collection, Vol. 1

Brian Michael Bendis · 456 pages

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Cruel Justice

M.A. Comley · 320 pages

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Murder on Astor Place

Victoria Thompson · 278 pages

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Booked To Die

John Dunning · 432 pages

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Broken Silence

Danielle Ramsay · 416 pages

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The Blight Way

Patrick F. McManus · 272 pages

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Fair Game

Josh Lanyon · 266 pages

A crippling knee injury forced Elliot Mills to trade in his FBI badge for dusty chalkboards and bored college students. Now a history professor at Puget Sound University, the former agent has put his old life behind him--but it seems his old life isn't finished with him. A young man has gone missing from campus--and as a favor to a family friend, Elliot agrees to do a little sniffing around. His i

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Birdman

Mo Hayder · 379 pages

Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad is called out by CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, all young women, are ritualistically murdered and dumped. Post mortems reveal a most dangerous sexual serial killer on the loose.

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Malevolent

E.H. Reinhard · 338 pages

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Mahu

Neil S. Plakcy · 282 pages

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A Man Named Doll

Jonathan Ames · 224 pages

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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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The Blessing Way

Tony Hillerman · 289 pages

Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.Joe Leaphorn must stalk a supernatural killer known as the "Wolf-Witch" along a chilling trail of mysticism and murder.When Lt. Joe Leaphorn of The Navaho Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a mo

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My First Murder

Leena Lehtolainen · 242 pages

Maria Kallio has just been assigned her first murder investigation. To prove to herself and her squad that she has what it takes to be a detective, she'll have to solve the death of Tommi Peltonen. Found floating facedown at the water's edge of his Helsinki villa, Tommi had invited his choir group to spend a weekend at his retreat. But beneath the choir's seemingly tight-knit bonds seethed bitter

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The Complaints

Ian Rankin · 480 pages

Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it's where Malcolm Fox works. His new case: investigate a cop named Jamie Breck. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks--dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home.

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Tennison

Lynda La Plante · 576 pages

From the creator of the award-winning ITV series 'Prime Suspect', starring Helen Mirren, comes the fascinating back story of the iconic DCI Jane Tennison. In 1973 Jane Tennison, aged 22, leaves the Metropolitan Police Training Academy to be placed on probationary exercise in Hackney where criminality thrives. We witness her struggle to cope in a male-dominated, chauvinistic environment, learning f

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Turnstone

Graham Hurley · 368 pages

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The Final Cut

Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison · 455 pages

From Catherine Coulter, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the FBI Thriller series, and J.T. Ellison, bestselling author and ITW Award winner, comes the first book in a brilliant new international thriller series featuring a new hero: American-born, UK-raised Nicholas Drummond. Book 1 of "A Brit in the FBI" series Scotland Yard’s new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first f

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Tilt-a-Whirl

Chris Grabenstein · 321 pages

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Before the Frost

Henning Mankell · 384 pages

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