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Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith · 384 pages

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu

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Force of Nature

Jane Harper · 326 pages

When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investig

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The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo · 519 pages

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The Precipice

Paul Doiron · 336 pages

"When two young female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness--the most remote stretch along the entire two-thousand mile Appalachian Trail--Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the search to find them. The police interview everyone they can find who came in contact with the college students and learn that the women were lovers who had been keeping their relationship secret from their Ev

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Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane · 392 pages

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.

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61 Hours

Lee Child · 481 pages

Jack Reacher is back.The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page.Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bo

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Winter Study

Nevada Barr · 384 pages

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Memory Man

David Baldacci · 509 pages

Amos Decker's life changed forever-- twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect -- he can never forget anythi

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Ashes to Ashes

Tami Hoag · 579 pages

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The Dogs of Riga

Henning Mankell · 336 pages

In 1991, two corpses, frozen together, have been washed ashore on the remote Swedish coastline. Inspector Wallander travels to the politically unsettled Latvia to attempt to solve the mystery.

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The Poet

Michael Connelly · 512 pages

An acclaimed novel by the Edgar Award-winning author of The Concrete Blonde follows crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy as he tracks down a versifying serial killer who preys on police detectives.

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The Wild Inside

Christine Carbo · 416 pages

A special agent for the Department of the Interior, Ted Systead, investigates a murder in Glacier National Park where a victim was tied to a tree and mauled by a grizzly bear. It was a clear night in Glacier National Park. Ted Systead and his father were camping beneath the rugged peaks and starlit skies when a grizzly bear attacked Ted's father and dragged him to his death. Twenty years later, a

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Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom

Tsugumi Ohba · 200 pages

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legen

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Cold Snap

Marc Cameron · 340 pages

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Batman: The Long Halloween

Jeph Loeb · 369 pages

Unaware of being watched, Batman pursues villains including Killer Croc and Poison Ivy, and discovers that Poison Ivy's latest plan will require that he ally himself with Catwoman in order to defeat his old friend Superman.

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The Likeness

Tana French · 466 pages

In the follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, itʼs six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad with no plans to go back—until an urgent telephone call summons her to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Cassie must

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Still Life

Louise Penny · 380 pages

The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own pol

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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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Victims

Jonathan Kellerman · 338 pages

"Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction's #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman's universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic pol

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The General's Daughter

Nelson DeMille · 464 pages

Here is an intriguing and sophisticated murder mystery of an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life.When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is relu

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Stolen Prey

John Sandford · 416 pages

"Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale

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Child 44

Tom Rob Smith · 480 pages

A propulsive, relentless page-turner.A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read."There is no crime."Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its cit

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Kill Alex Cross

James Patterson · 384 pages

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Watching the Dark

Peter Robinson · 416 pages

The twentieth installment in the Inspector Banks series. When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered in the tranquil grounds of the St Peter's Police Treatment Centre, DCI Banks is called in to investigate. It emerges that Reid's murder may be linked to the disappearance of an English girl called Rachel Hewitt, in Estonia, six years earlier. The deeper Banks looks into the old case, the m

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