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Die with Me

Elena Forbes · 350 pages

Somewhere in London, a lonely young woman is reaching out to the wrong man. It's up to Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia and the rest of the Murder Squad to find her before a killer does. When fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer's broken body is found on the floor of St. Sebastian's Church, the official ruling is that she jumped to her death from the organ gallery above the altar. But then a witness c

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A Tapping at My Door

David Jackson · 400 pages

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The Bat

Jo Nesbo · 369 pages

Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings. Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Harry befriends

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Broken Silence

Danielle Ramsay · 416 pages

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The Diggers Rest Hotel

Geoffrey McGeachin

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An Accidental Death

Peter Grainger

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First Frost

James Henry · 400 pages

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Blue Light Yokohama

Nicolas Obregon · 428 pages

Newly reinstated Tokyo Homicide Division Police Inspector Iwata works with reluctant colleagues to investigate the brutal murder of an entire family and other deaths that are identified as the work of the same killer.

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The Blind Man of Seville

Robert Wilson · 434 pages

A Seville police detective investigates the death of a man found bound and gagged in front of his TV with self-inflicted wounds testifying to his attempts to avoid the images in front of him.

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The 7th Woman

Frederique Molay · 249 pages

"There's no rest for Paris's top criminal investigation division, La Crim'. Who is preying on women in the French capital? How can he kill again and again without leaving any clues? A serial killer is taking pleasure in a macabre ritual that leaves the police on tenterhooks. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky--a super cop with a modern-day real life, including an ex-wife, a teenage son and a budding love

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Cut Like Wound

Anita Nair · 358 pages

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Dead Wood

Dani Amore, Dan Ames · 258 pages

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A Song From Dead Lips

William Shaw · 468 pages

London, October 1968. As Beatles fans encamp outside Abbey Road Studios up the road, the Marylebone CID is as much an old boys' club as it ever was. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is the pariah of the office, having just run out on a fellow officer held at knifepoint, when it's shaken up by the arrival of WPC Helen Tozer: awkward chatterbox, farmgirl, and the first woman to enter the murder unit

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Too Close For Comfort

Adam Croft · 181 pages

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In the Heat of the Night

John Dudley Ball · 186 pages

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The Hanging

Lotte Hammer, Soren Hammer · 298 pages

"One morning before school, two children find the naked bodies of five men hanging from the gym ceiling. The case leads detective Konrad Simonsen and his murder squad to the school janitor, who may know more about the killings than he is telling. Soon, Simonsen realizes that each of the five murdered men had a dark and terrible secret in common. And when Simonsen's own daughter is targeted, he mus

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Faceless Killers

Henning Mankell · 284 pages

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Colt

Jude Hardin · 196 pages

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The Honey Guide

Richard Crompton · 320 pages

Meet Mollel, a former Maasai warrior whose beloved wife died in the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi. Mollel has been assigned to the investigation of the brutal murder of a local prostitute. Despite the resistance of his colleagues, Mollel soon begins to uncover something more far reaching. But are his warrior's instincts, which have always served him so well, correct? Or will his convictions

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Cold Killing

Luke Delaney · 446 pages

A series of brutal killings leaves South London's Murder Investigation Unit struggling to connect the crimes: no recognizable method; no forensic evidence; and the victims have nothing in common. DI Sean Corrigan's troubled past has left him with an uncanny ability to identify the darkness in others -- a darkness he struggles to keep buried within his own psyche. Sean knows these murders are the

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MPD Psycho, Vol. 1

Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima · 184 pages

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The Rabbit Factory

Marshall Karp · 574 pages

Welcome to Familyland, an offshoot of Lamaar Studios. Once a small, Southern California animation house, it has grown into an entertainment conglomerate encompassing movies, television, music, video games, and a sprawling theme park.When an actor portraying Familyland's beloved mascot, Rambunctious Rabbit,is brutally murdered on park grounds, Lamaar executives are worried that the idyllic image of

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The Harbour Master

Daniel Pembrey · 320 pages

Maverick cop Henk van der Pol is thinking about retirement when he finds a woman’s body in Amsterdam Harbour. His detective instincts take over, even though it’s not his case. But Henk’s bigger challenge is deciding who his friends are – not to mention a vicious street pimp who is threatening Henk’s own family. As his search for the killer of the woman in Amsterdam Harbour takes him into a corrupt

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Havana Blue

Leonardo Padura · 265 pages

Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year's Eve hangover. Though it's the middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklatura. Conde remembered Morin from their student days: good-looking, brilliant, a "reliable comrade'' who always got what he wanted, including Tamara, the

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