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Foxglove Summer

Ben Aaronovitch · 354 pages

"When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable Peter Grant has to leave London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. It's purely routine, Nightingale thinks he'll be done in less than a day. But Peter's never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his services to the local police, who need all the

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Where's My Son?

John C. Dalglish · 183 pages

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Frost At Christmas

R.D. Wingfield · 280 pages

D.I. Frost takes over the search for a missing child at Christmastime.

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Point of Hopes

Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett

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Close to Home

Peter Robinson · 451 pages

There are human bones buried in an open field, the remains of a lost teenaged boy whose disappearance devastated a community more than thirty-five years ago ... and scarred a guilt-ridden friend forever. A long-hidden horror has been unearthed, dragging a tormented policeman back into a past he could never truly forget no matter how desperately he tried. A heinous crime that occurred too close to

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The Ice Child

Camilla Lackberg

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Black Seconds

Karin Fossum · 264 pages

A little girl seems to have vanished without trace. Inspector Sejer must find her before it's too lateIda Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her

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The Harbor

Katrine Engberg · 352 pages

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Buried

Mark Billingham · 522 pages

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The Blood-Dimmed Tide

Rennie Airth

With the publication of the New York Times Notable Book River of Darkness, Rennie Airth established himself as a master of suspense. The Blood- Dimmed Tide, set in 1932, marks the return of the beloved Inspector John Madden, whose discovery of a young girl's mutilated corpse near his home in rural England brings him out of retirement despite his wife's misgivings. Soon he finds himself chasing a k

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The Dance of the Seagull

Andrea Camilleri · 277 pages

Giuseppe Fazio unknowingly gets entangled in a messy affair. When he disappears, Montalbano and the rest of the crew get involved too, and, like retrieving a week-old corpse from the bottom of a well, the closer they get to resolution the messier the affair gets.

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The Coffin Maker’s Garden

Stuart MacBride · 496 pages

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Bad Boy Brawly Brown

Walter Mosley · 320 pages

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Necessary as Blood

Deborah Crombie · 384 pages

In this dazzling addition to Deborah Crombie's acclaimed mystery series, a disappearance, a murder, and a child in danger lead Scotland Yard detectives Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid into London's legendary East End-a neighborhood where the rich and the poor, the ambitious and the dangerous, collide-to solve one of the most challenging and disturbing cases they've ever faced. . . .Once the haunt o

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The Lamorna Wink

Martha Grimes · 394 pages

Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series--now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Melrose Plant....

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Any Other Name

Craig Johnson · 317 pages

"Sheriff Walt Longmire had already rounded up a sizable posse of devoted readers when the A&E television series Longmire sent the Wyoming lawman's popularity skyrocketing. Now, with three consecutive New York Times bestsellers to his name and the second season of Longmire reaching an average of 5.4 million viewers per episode, Craig Johnson is reaching a fan base that is both fiercely loyal and ev

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Kiss the Girls

James Patterson · 466 pages

First came the stunning number-one bestseller Along Came a Spider. Now comes the scariest, most unforgettable novel in several years. In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever patter

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Dead Tomorrow

Peter James · 536 pages

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The Unquiet Heart

Gordon Ferris · 269 pages

"Danny McRae, private detective scraping a living in ration-card London. Eve Copeland, crime reporter, looking for new angles to save her career. It's an alliance made in heaven." "Until Eve disappears, a contact dies violently and an old adversary presents Danny with some unpalatable truths." "His desperate search for his lover draws him into a web of black marketeers, double agents and assassins

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Dregs

Jorn Lier Horst · 310 pages

Chief Inspector William Wisting is an experienced policeman familiar with the dark side of human nature.He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world.Dregs begins with a police report giving the place and time of the discovery of a training shoe washed up on the sand, c

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Darkness and Light

John Harvey · 384 pages

Former cop Frank Elder is drawn out of retirement when his ex-wife asks him to look into the disappearance of her friend Jennie’s sister Claire in Nottingham. Elder reluctantly returns to the city where his family disintegrated. Elder uncovers sexual secrets of Claire’s that take Jennie by surprise. But when Claire is found dead at home—unmarked and carefully dressed—it is Elder who is surpris

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Dead Lagoon

Michael Dibdin · 404 pages

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The Bookman's Wake

John Dunning · 400 pages

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Child's Play

Reginald Hill · 368 pages

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