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Murder, Stage Left
by Robert Goldsborough
When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls in Nero Wolfe. Though the corpulent genius wouldn't normally accept a job this vague, a mutual friend dangles the prospect of a very rare orchid in exchange for his services, and Wolfe can't resist.
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Rusty puppy
by Joe R. Lansdale
Hap, a former flower-power activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, teams up with Leonard, a hardened, gay, Vietnam vet to investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop that was stalking his sister.
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Walk away
by Sam Hawken
A former combat medic with a mysterious past struggles to rescue her sister and niece from an abusive boyfriend who is being assisted by his brother, an unhinged ex-Special Forces operative.
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One by one
by Sarah Cain
When a high school acquaintance asks for help, and then is murdered, Philadelphia journalist Danny Ryan discovers that other members of their class have suffered the same fate after receiving threatening text messages and must put together memories from one fateful party all those years ago to catch a killer. By the author of The 8th Circle.
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August Snow
by Stephen Mack Jones
A debut mystery by an award-winning playwright finds mixed-race Detroit police officer August Snow winning a wrongful dismissal case, only to return to the city 12 years later to discover that his innumerable enemies have scores to settle.
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Man overboard : an Ali Reynolds novel
by Judith A Jance
When a brilliant software engineer falls to his death from a stateroom suite balcony, the police are unable to collect needed information from the victim's tough maiden aunt and enlist the help of Ali Reynolds to discover what really happened.
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Girl in disguise
by Greer Macallister
Going undercover to infiltrate the seedy side of Chicago, first female Pinkerton detective Kate Warnes assumes a range of sophisticated identities to track down evildoers and bring them to justice. By the best-selling author of The Magician's Lie.
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Blue Light Yokohama
by Nicolas Obregon
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. A first novel.
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Swiss vendetta
by Tracee De Hahn
Transferring to the Violent Crime unit in the aftermath of her husband's death, Swiss-American police inspector Agnes Lüthi investigates her first homicide case in the stabbing death of an auction house appraiser who had been working in a medieval chateau filled with priceless works of art.
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A darkness absolute
by Kelley Armstrong
Homicide detective Casey Duncan and fellow deputy, Will, are stranded in a blizzard, only to discover a captive former resident and two murder victims who may or may not have been targeted by an outsider in their off-the-grid community. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of City of the Lost.
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Conviction : a novel
by Julia Dahl
Investigating when a Jewish man convicted 22 years earlier for the brutal murders of a Crown Heights black family writes to her, pleading his innocence, journalist Rebekah Roberts is challenged to infiltrate Brooklyn's insular Hasidic community, where she is targeted by a determined killer.
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A death at the Yoga Café
by Michelle Kelly
The owner of a yoga studio and vegetarian cafe investigates after the boyfriend of her nemesis, the mayor, is found dead after a public argument. By the author of Downward Facing Death.
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The whole art of detection : lost mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
by Lyndsay Faye
The Edgar Award-nominated author of the Timothy Wilde trilogy presents a collection of 15 Sherlock Holmes stories that features pieces previously published in literary journals and two new works, including "The Lowther Park Mystery" and "The Adventure of the Thames Tunnel."
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Murder on the Serpentine : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel
by Anne Perry
Privately summoned by Queen Victoria when one of her closest confidantes is murdered, Thomas Pitt navigates the secretive world of London society in what becomes the most dangerous case of his career. By the best-selling author of the William Monk series.
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Twelve angry librarians
by Miranda James
Attending the Southern ALA annual meeting only to be confronted by an old nemesis from library school, interim library director Charlie Harris is wrongly implicated in his rival's murder and must discover which of their fellow librarians is the true killer in order to clear his own name. By the New York Times best-selling author of No Cats Allowed.
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Cruel mercy
by David John Mark
A first U.S. case for Detective Sergeant McAvoy finds the British investigator assisting the NYPD in the aftermath of a shooting attack that has killed a promising young boxer and left his legendary coach in a coma. By the best-selling author of Taking Pity.
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Six four
by Hideo Yokoyama
A Tokyo press officer attached to the cold case of a 7-year-old's abduction 14 years earlier investigates a disturbing anomaly, only to be stymied by an unimaginable discovery. By an internationally best-selling author.
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The black book
by James Patterson
A devoted Chicago cop from a family of career detectives miraculously survives an attack that kills his partner but that he cannot remember himself, an event that causes him to be charged with double murder and tasked with uncovering what really happened to clear his name. By the authors of The Murder House.
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In this grave hour : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs is plunged into a treacherous personal battle when she stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may not be who they seem against a backdrop of the outbreak of World War II in England. By the best-selling author of Journey to Munich.
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Bone box : a Decker/Lazarus novel
by Faye Kellerman
When Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods near her upstate New York community, her husband, police detective Peter Decker, becomes embroiled in a series of gruesome, decades-old unsolved murders.
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London rain : a new mystery featuring Josephine Tey
by Nicola Upson
Intrepid writer and amateur sleuth Josephine Tey must unravel an intricate web of betrayal, jealousy and long-held secrets when a new murder throws her friend, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose, for a loop, while being caught in a love triangle of her own making. Original.
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Mississippi blood : a novel
by Greg Iles
A conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that includes The Bone Tree finds a shattered Penn Cage shut out by his once-revered Southern doctor father, who is about to be tried for murder in the wake of revelations about a mixed-race child and KKK associations.
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