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Deadline For Murder

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The Last Place You Look

Kristen Lepionka · 336 pages

"Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton--black and from the wrong side of the tracks--was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution i

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The Beverly Malibu

Katherine V. Forrest · 274 pages

As LAPD detective Kate Delafield investigates the Thanksgiving Day strychnine poisoning of retired movie director Owen Sinclair, she discovers that he turned over names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and destroyed countless careers. But which of his charmingly eccentric neighbors, most of whom have worked in Hollywood since the 1940s, might be responsible for what now a

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The Lion's Mouth

Anne Holt · 405 pages

"From the internationally bestselling author of 1222, called the "godmother of modern Norwegian crime" by Jo Nesbø, the next book in the Edgar Award-nominated mystery series: Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case when someone murders the prime minister of Norway. Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a politically

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The Art of Detection

Laurie R. King · 396 pages

In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King's Edgar and Creasey Awards--winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes--in a spellbinding dual mystery that could come only from the "intelligent, witty, and complex" mind of New York Times bestselling au

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The Red Road

Denise Mina · 293 pages

Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Mark Lynch ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Lynch's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated

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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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Payment in Blood

Elizabeth George · 374 pages

Detective Thomas Lynley and his partner are called in to investigate the murder of playwright Joy Sinclair at an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands.

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Partners

Gerri Hill · 235 pages

Detective Casey O'Connor is back, this time with new partner Leslie Tucker. They join forces with Tori Hunter to track down a killer targeting single women who live alone. But as Casey and Leslie grow closer, Leslie begins to question her sexuality.

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Out of Bounds

Val McDermid · 448 pages

"When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. It's a cold case that should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen is mired in grief and guilt after the death of her partner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has

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A Small Weeping

Alex Gray · 256 pages

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Driftnet

Lin Anderson · 242 pages

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Bitter Water

Gordon Ferris · 334 pages

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Death by the Riverside

J.M. Redmann · 256 pages

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Close to the Bone

Stuart MacBride · 511 pages

From the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead, a new crime thriller featuring DS Logan McRae. The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker? Someone's leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRae's house, but he's got more press

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The Book of Souls

James Oswald · 445 pages

Each year for ten years, a woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christimastime--naked, throat slit, body washed clean. The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancee. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake, and McLean put an end to the brutal killing spree.

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Black Widow

Christopher Brookmyre · 432 pages

There is no perfect marriage. There is no perfect murder. Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet as revenge for her writing. Then she meets Peter. He's kind, generous, and knows nothing about her past: the second chance she

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She

Pete Brassett · 177 pages

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Eye For An Eye

Frank Muir · 256 pages

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Let It Bleed

Ian Rankin · 368 pages

The eighth Inspector Rebus mystery. Rebus is haunted by the deaths of two drop-outs who fall from the Forth Bridge. Why did they pretend to kidnap the Provost's daughter and what connection have they with the Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Office and a dead, corrupt city councillor? Rebus is haunted by the deaths of two drop-outs who fall from the Forth Bridge. Why did they pretend to kidnap

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The Pearl Thief

Elizabeth Wein · 336 pages

Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate and this will be a summer of goodbyes. Not least to the McEwen family, Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember, loved by the family, loathed by the authorities. Te

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L.A. Heat

P.A. Brown · 307 pages

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The Lewis Man

Peter May · 435 pages

Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary.

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The Little Death

Michael Nava · 165 pages

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