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McNally's Alibi

Vincent Lardo, Lawrence Sanders · 330 pages

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End of Watch

Stephen King · 448 pages

A suspenseful closing volume. Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes killer, returns to diabolically drive his victims to suicide in this last installment, starring the ever more winning Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney.

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Reel Estate Rip-Off

Renee Pawlish · 244 pages

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Aberystwyth Mon Amour

Malcolm Pryce · 266 pages

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Long Lost

Harlan Coben · 374 pages

A blistering **'Myron Bolitar'** thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ***''Hold Tight.''*** Harlan Coben's millions of fans waited three long years for a new Myron Bolitar novel taking Coben's last stand-alone, ''Hold Tight,'' to #1 on the New York Times list in the interim. ***Myron hasn't heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended with no explanation

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The Wrong Side of Goodbye

Michael Connelly · 392 pages

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Bryant & May and the Burning Man

Christopher Fowler · 399 pages

No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London's most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they'll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer's feet to the fire. In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London's peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest. Enraged by a scandal involving a corrupt financier accused of insider trading, demonstrators are

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Casual Rex

Eric Garcia · 337 pages

A beautiful and beguiling Velociraptor is leading a movement to allow dinosaurs to shed their latex disguises and go about as they really are, but Vincent and Ernie investigate when a member of this cult dies mysteriously.

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Thirty-Three Teeth

Colin Cotterill · 248 pages

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Curtain

Agatha Christie · 231 pages

wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place… The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel

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The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett · 197 pages

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.

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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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Cold Copper Tears

Glen Cook · 249 pages

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Wizard by Trade

Jim Butcher

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Something Borrowed, Someone Dead

M.C. Beaton · 291 pages

Hired by the Parish councilor of a small community in the Cotswold Hills to investigate the murder of a jolly widow, Agatha Raisin learns about the victim's penchant for keeping borrowed items in a case that is complicated by village secrets and a killer who would make Agatha a next target.

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Self's Punishment

Bernhard Schlink, Walter Popp · 256 pages

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The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken

Tarquin Hall · 368 pages

When an elderly Pakistani visiting India dies frothing at the mouth during a banquet, it’s not a simple case of Delhi Belly. His butter chicken has been poisoned. To solve the case, India’s “Most Private Investigator,” Vish Puri, must infiltrate the dangerous world of illegal gambling, following a trail that leads deep into Pakistan—the country in which many members of the investigator’s family we

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A Body in the Bathhouse

Lindsey Davis · 354 pages

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Hail Mary

J.R. Rain

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The Outsmarting of Criminals

Steven Rigolosi · 303 pages

"A cozy introducing Miss Felicity Prim, who believes her ample experience in reading mystery novels has prepared her for a new career in private detection"--

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Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

G.M. Ford · 314 pages

When an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, without the sense God gave a gopher. With the help of "the Boys" -- a group of aging winos who are his modern day "Baker Street Irregulars" -- Leo fights Native American tribal politics, industrial pol

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Douglas Adams · 276 pages

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163714W). It was followed by the [Salmon of Doubt](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163715W), an incomplete Dirk Gently novel included in a p

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Heart Trouble

Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Mary Kay Andrews · 278 pages

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