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In Sunlight or In Shadow

Stephen King, Justin Scott, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Gail Levin, Kris Nelscott, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Warren Moore · back to the book

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Predators

Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg · 384 pages

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2011

Harlan Coben · 410 pages

HARLAN COBEN PICKS THE YEAR'S BEST CRIME WRITINGHand-picked by number one bestselling author Harlan Coben, this definitive anthology showcases the best of this year's crime-writing, from the masters of modern suspense and the stars of the future alike. Whether ingenious detective story or hardboiled noir, action-packed thriller or stylish historical mystery, these twenty stand-out stories should f

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Dangerous Women: Original Stories from Today's Greatest Suspense Writers

Otto Penzler, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver · 384 pages

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today's finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In "***Third Party***," Jay McInerney takes you on

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Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance

Lee Child · 400 pages

Features new stories in which characters take the law into their own hands in search of vengeance, with contributions by Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaughter as well as up-and-coming new writers in the field.

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2003

Michael Connelly · 352 pages

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The Further Adventures of Batman

Martin H. Greenberg · 408 pages

"Batman" stories by Isaac Asimov, Stuart Kaminsky, William F. Nolan, Max Allan Collins, Ed Gorman, Edward D. Hoch, Joe Lansdale, and Henry Slesar, among others.

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Rogues

Gardner Dozois · 832 pages

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KL NOIR: RED

Adib Zaini, Khairulnizam Bakeri, Megat Ishak, Dayang Noor, Amir Hafizi, Brian Gomez, Preeta Samarasan, Marc de Faoite, Shaz Johar, Fadzlishah Johanabas, Dina Zaman, Eeleen Lee, Kris Williamson, Shivani Sivagurunathan · 270 pages

"KL NOIR: Red is the first of 4 volumes about the Malaysian capital city's dark side. There are 14 short stories and one essay about the seedy, the sinister and sometimes the spooky. You will find murder, drug-dealing, kidnapping, sexual depravity, prostitution, celebrity secrets, suicides, academic rivalry, gangsters, police brutality, cannibalism, black magic, creepy rituals, political corruptio

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The Book of Other People

Zadie Smith · 304 pages

The Book of Other People is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you'll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life of Jamie Johnson; Hari Kunzru twitches open his net curtains to reveal the irrepressible Magda Mandela (at 4:30a.m., in her lime-green thong); Jonathan Safran Foer's Grandmother offers cookies to swee

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Like a Charm

Denise Mina, John Harvey, Kelley Armstrong, John Connolly, Emma Donoghue, Jane Haddam, Laura Lippman, Peter Robinson, Fidelis Morgan, Peter Moore Smith, Lynda La Plante, Jerrilyn Farmer, Lee Child, Mark Billingham · 352 pages

KARIN SLAUGHTER, MARK BILLINGHAM, LEE CHILD, JOHN CONNOLLY, JOHN HARVEY,LYNDA LA PLANTE, DENISE MINA, PETER ROBINSON - A STUNNING COLLECTION BY CRIME FICTION'S BEST...Desire leaves a man destroyed - a young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden - an accidental encounter on a train ends violently - ambition leads to a curious exchange - an uncanny likeness changes two lives forever -

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2008

Elizabeth Strout, Chuck Hogan, Rupert Holmes, Holly Goddard Jones, Alice Munro, Scott Wolven, Peter LaSalle, Thisbe Nissen, Joyce Carol Oates, Kyle Minor, Scott Phillips, Stephen Rhodes, James Lee Burke, S.J. Rozan, Michael Connelly, Robert Ferrigno, Melissa Vanbeck, Nathan Oates, Jas. R. Petrin, Hu · 423 pages

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Dark Love

John Lutz, David J. Schow, Robert E. Weinberg, Richard Laymon, Bob Burden, George C. Chesbro, John Peyton, Kathryn Ptacek, John Shirley, Michael Blumlein, Ed Gorman, Lucy Taylor, Karl Edward Wagner, Douglas E. Winter, Michael O'Donoghue, Kathe Koja, Basil Copper · 408 pages

Contains: [Lunch at the Gotham Café](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781075W/Lunch_at_the_Gotham_Cafe) / Stephen King -- The psycho / Michael O'Donoghue -- Pas de Deux / Kathe Koja -- Bright blades gleaming / Basil Copper -- Hanson's radio / John Lutz -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- Ro Erg / Robert Weinberg -- Going under / Ramsey Campbell -- Hidden / Stuart Kamins

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Murder for Christmas

Thomas Godfrey · 465 pages

The murder for Christmas guide to gift giving / A.A. Milne -- Back for Christmas / John Collier -- Mr. Big / Woody Allen -- [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The adventure of the Christmas pudding / Agatha Christie -- Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon -- Cambric Tea / Marjorie Bowen -- Death on Christmas Eve / Sta

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The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

Otto Penzler · 654 pages

"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories--many of which are difficult or nearly impossible to find anywhere else"--Provided by publisher.

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Faceoff

Linwood Barclay, Heather Graham, Peter James, Raymond Khoury, Dennis Lehane, John Lescroart, Steve Martini, T. Jefferson Parker, Douglas Preston, Ian Rankin, James Rollins, Steve Berry, M.J. Rose, John Sandford, R.L. Stine, F. Paul Wilson, Lee Child, Lincoln Child, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, · 384 pages

23 best-selling suspense writers pit their most popular characters against one another in eleven stories.

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1,132 pages

Contains: - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Scandal in Bohemia - Red-Headed League - Case of Identity - Boscombe Valley Mystery - Five Orange Pips - Man with the Twisted Lip - Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Adventure of the Speckled Band - Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Adventure of the Noble Bachelor - Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - Adventure of the Copper Beeches - Case-B

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Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories

Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Norbert Davis, John D. MacDonald, Benjamin Appel, Elmore Leonard, Jonathan Craig, David Goodis, Ross Macdonald, W.R. Burnett, Mickey Spillane, Gil Brewer, Leigh Brackett, Helen Nielsen, Evan Hunter, Jim Thompson, H.A. DeRosso, Michael Kerr, James Re · 540 pages

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Manila Noir

Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra, Sabina Murray, Angelo R. Lacuesta, Budjette Tan, F.H. Batacan, Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., R. Zamora Linmark, Gina Apostol, Marianne Villanueva, Eric Gamalinda, Jonas Vitman, Lysley Tenorio, Rosario Cruz-Lucero · 258 pages

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The Best American Noir of the Century

James Ellroy, Otto Penzler · 752 pages

From the Publisher: In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes

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Manhattan Mayhem: New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America

Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, T. Jefferson Parker, S.J. Rozan · 343 pages

Best-selling suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark invites you on a tour of Manhattan's most iconic neighborhoods in this anthology of all-new stories from the Mystery Writers of America. From the Flatiron District (Lee Child) and Greenwich Village (Jeffery Deaver) to Little Italy (T. Jefferson Parker) and Chinatown (S.J. Rozan), you'll encounter crimes, mysteries, and riddles large and small. Illu

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The Penguin Book of Crime Stories

Robert Barnard, Ian Rankin, Rob Sawyer, Peter Sellers, Karin Slaughter, Eric Wright, Mark Billingham, Michael Connelly, John Harvey, Jose Latour, Laura Lippman, Mary Jane Maffini, Sara Paretsky, George P. Pelecanos · 252 pages

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The Plot Thickens

Mary Higgins Clark, Nelson DeMille, Nancy Pickard, Linda Fairstein, Donald E. Westlake, Edna Buchanan, Walter Mosley, Lawrence Block, Carol Higgins Clark, Ann Rule, Janet Evanovich, Lauren DeMille · 272 pages

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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

Ellen Oh · 336 pages

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