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Midnight Riot

Ben Aaronovitch · 310 pages

"As a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic"--P. [4] of cover.

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Death Warmed Over

Kevin J. Anderson · 302 pages

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Bullet for a Star

Stuart M. Kaminsky · 192 pages

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The Rainy City

Earl Emerson · 288 pages

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Big Red Tequila

Rick Riordan · 386 pages

Everything in Texas is bigger...even murder. Meet Jackson 'Tres' Navarre--tequila drinker, tai chi master, and unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left San Antonio and the memory of his father's murder behind him. Now he's back, looking for answers.

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Motor City Blue

Loren D. Estleman · 219 pages

Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager who happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar­a semi-retired mobster. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eye Amos Walker. Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla's whereabouts is a pornographic photograph that clearly proves that she's become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian. The photo l

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A Witness Above

Andy Straka · 272 pages

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The Norfolk Mystery

Ian Sansom

'The County Guides' are a series of detective novels set in 1930s England. The books are an odyssey through England and its history. In each county, the protagonists - Stephen Sefton, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and his employer, the People's Professor, Swanton Morley - solve a murder. This book is set in Norfolk.

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Death Trick

Richard Stevenson · 212 pages

Gay activist and ... accused murderer? Billy Blount's missing, but Albany PI Donald Strachey doubts Billy's guilt. The 1981 book that launched Richard Stevenson's pioneering series is a cracking mystery and a fascinating trip into bygone gay culture-- before HIV, in the bad old days of bath houses and gay disco, police corruption and tacit policies of harassment.

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Thus Was Adonis Murdered

Sarah Caudwell · 296 pages

The witty chronicles of a stable of young London barristers, narrated by their former tutor, an academic scholar of indeterminate gender. These stories are Bertie Wooster only with brains; Rumpole if he were young and good looking; Mary Poppins unencumbered with kiddies. You will laugh.

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The Strings of Murder

Oscar de Muriel · 416 pages

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The Hexologists

Josiah Bancroft · 318 pages

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The Monkey's Raincoat

Robert Crais · 245 pages

When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.

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McNally's Secret

Lawrence Sanders · 341 pages

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This Doesn't Happen In The Movies

Renee Pawlish · 226 pages

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie · 190 pages

Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed old aunt Emily, she of a sizeable fortune, to a suspicious younger man, Alfred Inglethorp, twenty years her junior. Emily's two stepsons, John

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The Setup Man

T.T. Monday · 262 pages

Johnny Adcock is an aging Major League pitcher with the perfect retirement plan--he moonlights as a private investigator. Major League Baseball, as it turns out, is a prime source of employment for a philosophically inclined, discreet detective who has both the brains and the brawn to handle the unique problems of professional athletes. What sounds like the standard story of a pro athlete's marria

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The Late-night News

Petros Markaris · 288 pages

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Tonight I Said Goodbye

Michael Koryta · 305 pages

In this haunting, cleverly constructed, brilliantly plotted debut novel, private investigators Lincoln Perry and his partner Joe Pritchard are hired to find the wife and child of a man found dead in an upscale Cleveland suburb-was it suicide, or was it murder?Crusty old John Weston hires partners Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard to investigate both the death of his son, Wayne, and the disappearance

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The Little Death

Michael Nava · 165 pages

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Russian Roulette

Mike Faricy · 356 pages

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A Conspiracy of Paper

David Liss · 512 pages

"In "A Conspiracy of Paper, " David Liss has woven a tale of 18th-century finance, murder, and religion that is a remarkable debut and a thoroughly satisfying novel."--Arthur Golden, author of "Memoirs of a Geisha."

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Tilt-a-Whirl

Chris Grabenstein · 321 pages

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Storm Front

Jim Butcher · 362 pages

The novels of the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and non-stop fun. Storm Front is Jim Butcher's first novel and introduces his most famous and popular character-Harry Dresden, wizard for hire.For his first case, Harry is called in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with the blackest of magic. At first, the less-than-solvent Harry's eyes light up w

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