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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam

Chris Ewan · 240 pages

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Anonymous Rex

Eric Garcia · 303 pages

**Publisher's summary:** Private investigator Vincent Rubio is down on his luck: He's out of work. His car's been repossessed. He's been banned from The Council. His partner has died under mysterious circumstances. And his tail just won't stay put. Vincent is a dinosaur - a velociraptor, to be precise. The dinosaurs faked their extinction 65 million years ago and still roam the planet, wrapped up

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Free Fall

Robert Crais

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The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons

Lawrence Block · 317 pages

Bernie Rhodenbarr returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling car

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The Hexologists

Josiah Bancroft · 318 pages

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Don't Ever Get Old

Daniel Friedman

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Earthly Delights

Kerry Greenwood · 258 pages

Introducing baker and amateur sleuth Corinna Chapman ... mysteries filled with gastronomical delights, humour and unexpected twists from the bestselling author of the Phyrne Fisher mysteries.Baking is an alchemical process for Corinna Chapman. At four am she starts work at Earthly Delights, her bakery in Calico Alley.But one morning Corinna receives a threatening note saying 'The wages of sin is d

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Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn

Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker · 365 pages

The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston's South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Boston firefighter Jack McGee, who lost his best friend in the blaze, suspects arson, and is convinced department investi

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Tilt-a-Whirl

Chris Grabenstein · 321 pages

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Champagne for One

Rex Stout · 194 pages

Archie Goodwin sits in for a friend at a charity dinner dance for unwed mothers, and one of the guests drops dead on the dance floor. The young woman was depressed and known to carry poison - but Archie is sure that this was murder.

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Dread Brass Shadows

Glen Cook · 255 pages

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The Widower's Two-Step

Rick Riordan · 408 pages

Tres Navarre has just hours of apprenticeship time to serve before he can go for his P.I. license. Staking out a musician suspected of stealing a demo tape should be a piece of pan dulce. But his attention wanders just long enough for fiddle player Julie Kearnes to be gunned down before his eyes. He should just back away and let the cops investigate, but backing away has never been Tres's strong p

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Wizard by Trade

Jim Butcher

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Cold Service

Robert B. Parker · 305 pages

Hawk is shot while on the job. After recovering, he enlists Spencer and others to extract revenge.

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One for the Money

Janet Evanovich · 320 pages

Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash--fast--but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family. Stephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bo

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Fearless Jones

Walter Mosley · 320 pages

Paris Minton is minding his own business--a small used bookstore of which he is the proud proprietor--when a beautiful woman named Elana Love walks in and asks a few questions. Within the next twenty-four hours, Paris has been beaten up, made love to, shot at, and robbed, and his bookstore has been burned to the ground. He's in so much trouble he has no choice but to get his friend Fearless Jones

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Déjà Dead

Kathy Reichs · 509 pages

Un beau jour d'été à Montréal, sur la table de dissection du laboratoire de médecine légale de la police provinciale, arrive un cadavre découvert dans l'ancien parc du Grand Séminaire. Le docteur Temperance Brennan est chargé d'autopsier ce qu'il reste d'une femme découpée en morceaux. Sa sinistre expertise va l'amener en première ligne de l'enquête, face à l'assassin pervers qui collectionne les

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The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man

W. Bruce Cameron · 367 pages

Ruddy McCann, former college football star, has experienced a seismic drop in popularity; he is now a full-time repo man in Kalkaska, Michigan and part-time bouncer at his sister's bar. His best friend is his low-energy Basset hound Jake, with whom he shares a simple life of stealing cars. Simple, that is, until Ruddy starts hearing a voice in his head. The voice introduces himself as Alan Lottner

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Hostile Witness

William Lashner · 589 pages

Hard-luck Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl is just itching for the opportunity to sell out. Then good fortune comes knocking at his door in the guise of William Prescott III, a blue-blood attorney from one of the city's most prestigious firms. Prescott wants Victor to represent a councilman's aide who is on trial, along with his boss, for extortion, arson, and murder. It's the juiciest, highest-pro

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Some Girls Bite

Chloe Neill

First in a brand new series about a Chicago graduate students introduction into a society of vampires.Sure, the life of a graduate student wasnt exactly glamorous, but it was Merits. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsuckerand this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead.Turns

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Dirty Martini

J.A. Konrath · 352 pages

In Whiskey Sour, Chicago police Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels hunted down a killer dubbed "The Gingerbread Man." In Bloody Mary, she busted a psychopath with a penchant for dismemberment. In Rusty Nail, it was a serial killer with a doozy of a family tree. And now, in Dirty Martini, Jack faces her toughest adversary yet: a sicko who's poisoning the city's food supply. Can she catch him - an

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Benjamin Stevenson · 384 pages

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Lucky Stiff

Deborah Coonts · 364 pages

After a truck spills a million honeybees on the Las Vegas Strip, hotel customer relations head Lucky O'Toole discovers that a prominent district attorney has been murdered during the ensuing chaos and that private investigator Jeremy Whitlock is being unfairly scrutinized.

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Tapping the Billionaire

Max Monroe · 376 pages

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