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The Nature of the Beast

Louise Penny · 448 pages

"Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced w

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Dregs

Jorn Lier Horst · 310 pages

Chief Inspector William Wisting is an experienced policeman familiar with the dark side of human nature.He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world.Dregs begins with a police report giving the place and time of the discovery of a training shoe washed up on the sand, c

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Not in the Flesh

Ruth Rendell · 303 pages

A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master's first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a pre

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Back on Murder

J. Mark Bertrand

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In the Heat of the Night

John Dudley Ball · 186 pages

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Help the Poor Struggler

Martha Grimes · 225 pages

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Haunted

James Patterson, James O. Born · 368 pages

"Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation -- un

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The Blood-Dimmed Tide

Rennie Airth

With the publication of the New York Times Notable Book River of Darkness, Rennie Airth established himself as a master of suspense. The Blood- Dimmed Tide, set in 1932, marks the return of the beloved Inspector John Madden, whose discovery of a young girl's mutilated corpse near his home in rural England brings him out of retirement despite his wife's misgivings. Soon he finds himself chasing a k

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Faithful Place

Tana French · 448 pages

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family’s cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn’t show. Frank took it for granted that she’d dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went

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The Theory of Death

Faye Kellerman · 416 pages

Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus series. Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of his new job with the Greenbury police departmen

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Dead Level

Damien Boyd

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A Long Shadow

Charles Todd · 341 pages

In 1919, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself the target of a mysterious person who is leaving oddly engraved cartridge casings around that seem to point to unfinished business involving the Great War.

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Redemption

David Baldacci · 496 pages

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Robert B. Parker's The Hangman's Sonnet

Reed Farrel Coleman · 511 pages

"Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancée by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protégé, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last forty years in seclus

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Stone Cold

Robert B. Parker · 160 pages

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The Calling

Alison Bruce · 346 pages

Receiving a mysterious call that a missing woman is still alive and that a man named Peter Walsh is responsible for her disappearance, DC Goodhew approaches Walsh, whose new love affair is being obsessively watched by an enigmatic woman.

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Red, Green, or Murder

Steven F. Havill

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Cover Her Face

P.D. James · 254 pages

When a sly and sensuous young woman who had used her body and her brains to climb the social ladder is murdered by someone who had clearly decided that the wages of sin should be death, it falls to Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who the killer is.

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Dance Hall of the Dead

Tony Hillerman · 224 pages

Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archa

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The Killings at Badger's Drift

Caroline Graham · 264 pages

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly

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Death of a Liar

M.C. Beaton · 261 pages

"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though, sh

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Innocent Graves

Peter Robinson · 352 pages

The worst that can possibly happen . . . has. A beautiful child is dead -- defiled and murdered in a lonely graveyard on a fog-shrouded evening. It is the sort of horrific crime Chief Inspector Alan Banks fled the city to escape. But the slaying of a bright and lovely teenager from a wealthy, respected family is not the end of a nightmare. Lies, dark secrets, unholy accusations, and hints of sexua

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The Way Through The Woods

Colin Dexter · 320 pages

Detective Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis are working together on another case. This one involves a beautiful young woman, a Swedish student who's been missing for over a year, yet her body has never been found. All that was recovered was a rucksack and camera. Now someone has sent a letter to the local paper, in the form of a poem containing clues, imploring someone to find her body a

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Breach of Duty

J.A. Jance · 378 pages

New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance presents another extraordinary adventure featuring hard-bitten homicide detective J.P. Beaumont, in the series that earned Jance the American Mystery Award.

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