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Secrets

Jordan Castillo Price · 212 pages

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Pressure Head

J.L. Merrow · 224 pages

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A Dead and Stormy Night

Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages

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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams

Lawrence Block · 258 pages

Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It's been an entire year since he's entered anyone's abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord's threat to increase Bernie's rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it's a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accu

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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

Benjamin Stevenson · 320 pages

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Fit to be Tied

Mary Calmes

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And Four to Go

Rex Stout · 222 pages

From Wikipedia: And Four to Go (British title Crime and Again) is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1958. The book comprises four stories — three appearing previously in periodicals, and one making its debut in print: "Christmas Party" (Collier's, January 4, 1957, as "The Christmas-Party Murder") "Easter Parade" (Look, April 16, 1957,

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The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

David Rosenfelt · 328 pages

"Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter usually tries to avoid taking on new cases at all costs. But this time, he's happy--eager, even--to take the case that's just come his way. Andy's long-time friend Martha "Pups" Boyer takes in stray puppies that the local dog rescue center can't handle, raises them until they're old enough to adopt, and then finds good homes for them. Not everyone admires the work Pu

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Mucho Mojo

Joe R. Lansdale · 308 pages

Intrigue, chilling suspense and hair-raising horror will freeze you to the bones as you read this novel. In the hellish July heat, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine clean out the house of Leonard's just-dead Uncle Chester. However, as they clear away the filth, they uncover a dirty secret. Beneath the rotting floorboards, Hap and Leonard unearth a small skeleton, wrapped in porno magazines. Thinking wh

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Shattered Glass

Dani Alexander · 360 pages

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Homicide in Hardcover

Kate Carlisle · 289 pages

"Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can't be said of Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn's friend and former employer. On the eve of the celebration for his latest book restoration, Brooklyn finds her mentor lying a pool of his own blood. With his final breath, Abrah

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Booked To Die

John Dunning · 432 pages

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The Assignment

Evangeline Anderson · 190 pages

"Detective Nicholas Valenti, tall, dark and stoic, has been best friends with his partner, Sean O'Brian for six years. The two men have seen each other through divorce, disaster, and danger, and saved each other's asses more times than Valenti can count. Exactly when he started seeing his blond, intense partner in another light, Valenti isn't really sure. He only knows that he wants O'Brian in a w

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Codex Born

Jim C. Hines

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Stormhaven

Jordan L. Hawk · 178 pages

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The Lightning-Struck Heart

T.J. Klune · 400 pages

Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident. Of course, this catches the attention of a higher power, and Sam's pulled from the only world he knows to become an apprentice to the King's Wizard, Morgan of Shadows. When Sam is fourteen, he enters the D

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Succubus Heat

Richelle Mead · 343 pages

Georgina Kincaid has been a bad, bad succubus……which should be a good thing. But lately, thanks to her foul mood over breaking up with bestselling writer Seth Mortensen, she’s been so wicked that Seattle’s uber-demon Jerome, decides to “outsource” Georgina to a rival—and have her spy for him in the process.Being exiled to the frozen north—okay, Vancouver—and leaving Seth in the cozy clutches of hi

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The Horse You Came In On

Martha Grimes · 417 pages

Richard Jury is supposed to be on holiday when the telephone call comes. And in any case, what has sudden death on American soil to do with an English police superintendent? But when the victim turns out to be British by birth, and to have a distant connection with Jury's old acquaintance Lady Cray, he reluctantly pries himself loose from his pint at the Jack and Hammer. Enlisting the aid of aris

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Carry On

Rainbow Rowell · 519 pages

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right. Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around wearing

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The Well of Lost Plots

Jasper Fforde · 384 pages

"Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world, the s

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Tigers and Devils

Sean Kennedy · 376 pages

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In One Person

John Irving · 448 pages

A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Ir

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Strangled Prose

Joan Hess · 187 pages

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Looking For Rachel Wallace

Robert B. Parker · 219 pages

"Private investigator Spenser searches for the kidnappers of a lesbian writer who hired him as her bodyguard"--Best Books for Public Libraries, c1992, p. 401.

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