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An Unsuitable Job For a Womanby P. D. JamesLeft alone by her partner's suicide, Cordelia Gray struggles to manage the private detective agency they once shared.
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Back Channelby Stephen L. CarterWhile the Kennedy administration furiously debates about a response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 19-year-old black Cornell sophomore Margo Jensen becomes an unwitting pawn in escalating tensions between American and Soviet government forces. By the best-selling author of The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln.
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Girl Waits with Gunby Amy StewartLiving in virtual isolation years after the revelation of a painful family secret, Constance is terrorized by a belligerent silk factory owner and fights back in ways outside the confines of early-20th-century women.
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Broken Monstersby Lauren BeukesDetective Gabriella Versado investigates after disturbing displays fusing the bodies of murder victims with those of animals are uncovered in abandoned Detroit buildings. A thriller from the author of the international best-seller The Shining Girls.
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Mr. Churchill's Secretary: A Maggie Hope Novelby Susan Elia MacnealAfter German Luftwaffe bomb London, Maggie Hope - a woman trained in math and code breaking, but only able to find a job as Winston Churchill's secretary -uses the unfettered access her position demands to try to unravel a plot to assassinate Churchill himself.
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Pattern Recognitionby William GibsonHired to investigate a mysterious video collection that has been appearing on the Internet, market research consultant Cayce Pollard realizes that there is more to the assignment when her computer is hacked. By the author of Idoru and Neuromancer.
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The Eyre Affair: a Novelby Jasper FfordeIn a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller.
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Freedom's Child: a Novelby Jax MillerLiving in witness protection to hide from her late husband's violent family, Freedom Oliver risks her life in order to save the kidnapped daughter she gave up for adoption.
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Land of Shadowsby Rachel Howzell HallA skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles Police Department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a teenage girl and the unsolved murder Lou's sister. By the author of A Quiet Storm.
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The Silent Dead: A Mysteryby Tetsuya HondaReiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police searches for a serial killer responsible for 12 murders in which all the victims were wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and her only possible clue involves something on the dark web known as “Strawberry Night.”
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