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A Willing Murder: A Medlar Mystery
A Willing Murder: A Medlar Mystery New York Times bestselling romance author Jude Deveraux makes her debut in the world of mystery with a story of old secrets, deadly grudges and an improbable group of friends who are determined to uncover the truth regardless of the consequencesSara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and shes found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion shed admired as a child. Its much too...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Jude Deveraux
Language: English
Publisher: MIRA
Published on: Sep 18, 2018
Pages: 400
Open Season
Open Season The first novel in the thrilling series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett from #1New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game wardenespecially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other wayis far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that th...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: C. J. Box
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Published on: May 7, 2002
Pages: 304
The Fallen
The Fallen Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town--and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New York Times bestseller.Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes--obscure bible verses, odd symbols--have the police stumped.Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jami...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: David Baldacci
Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published on: Apr 17, 2018
Pages: 432
Twisted Prey
Twisted Prey Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now a powerful U.S. senator, in this thrilling #1 New York Times-bestselling new novel in the Prey series.Lucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before.A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U.S. Senate, where Lucas had predicted she'd fit right in. He was also convinced that she'd been responsible for three murders, though he'd never been able to prove it. Once a psychopath had gotten that kind of rush, though, he or she often n...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: John Sandford
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Published on: Apr 24, 2018
Pages: 400
Conviction
Conviction "If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction....A twisting, darkly comic, thrill-a-minute ride." (Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said) A true-crime podcast sets a trophy wife's present life on a collision course with her secret past.ONE OF THE SUMMER'S BEST READS -- O, the Oprah Magazine-- Minneapolis Star-Tribune-- Seattle Times-- Refinery29-- CrimeReads-- Publishers WeeklyThe day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life exploded started off like all the days before: Packing up the kid...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Denise Mina
Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published on: Jun 18, 2019
Pages: 384
Wolf Pack
Wolf Pack Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf--only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box.The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife--and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy. When Joe tries to lay ...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: C. J. Box
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Published on: Mar 12, 2019
Pages: 384
Her Silent Cry: An absolutely gripping mystery thriller
Her Silent Cry: An absolutely gripping mystery thriller Round and round she goes, blonde pigtails flying, her high-pitched giggle catching on the wind. But as the ride slows to a stop, her seat is suddenly empty. Little Lucy is goneWhen seven-year-old Lucy Ross is snatched from the carousel in Denton city park,Detective Josie Quinnjoins the frantic search. Shes the one who finds Lucys sparkly butterfly backpack abandoned by the ticket booth, a note with a devastating message stuffed inside:answer your phone, or your sweet little darling will di...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Lisa Regan
Language: English
Publisher: Bookouture
Published on: Aug 14, 2019
Pages: 403
The Last Widow: A Novel
The Last Widow: A Novel New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you wont see comingA mysterious kidnappingOn a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor. A devastating explosionOne month later, the serenity ...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Karin Slaughter
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published on: Aug 20, 2019
Pages: 464
Child's Play: A totally unputdownable serial killer thriller
Child's Play: A totally unputdownable serial killer thriller Finally were playing a game. A game that I have chosen. I give one last push of the roundabout and stand back. You really should have played with me, I tell her again although I know she can no longer hear.Late one summer evening, Detective Kim Stone arrives at Haden Hill Park to the scene of a horrific crime: a woman in her sixties tied to a swing with barbed wire and an X carved into the back of her neck. The victim, Belinda Evans, was a retired college Professor of Child Psychology. As Ki...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Angela Marsons
Language: English
Publisher: Bookouture
Published on: Jul 11, 2019
Pages: 439
Neon Prey
Neon Prey Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer in the new nail-biting #1 New York Times-bestseller from John Sandford.Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy--it's his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: John Sandford
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Published on: Apr 23, 2019
Pages: 400
Hindsight
Hindsight Investigator Kendra Michaels -- whose former blindness has left her with uniquely insightful observational skills -- must put her life on the line to catch a terrifying murderer setting his sights on some of society's most vulnerable in this electrifying new novel from the #1 New York Times and Edgar Award winning writing duo Iris and Roy Johansen. Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned inv...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published on: Jan 7, 2020
Pages: 368
Her Pretty Bones: A completely addictive crime thriller with nail-biting suspense
Her Pretty Bones: A completely addictive crime thriller with nail-biting suspense THE UNPUTDOWNABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NEXT GIRLWhat if your child went missing... and everyone thought it was your fault?Julia Dawsons daughter is gone. She knows everyone thinks Christina is dead; that people say Christina ran away to escape her controlling mother. But Christina would never do that, and Julia will never give up on finding her.Christina was a difficult child. Short tempered and secretive, she didnt get on with her new step-father. What Julia reme...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Carla Kovach
Language: English
Publisher: Bookouture
Published on: Jan 17, 2019
Pages: 349
The Missing Ones: An absolutely gripping thriller with a jaw-dropping twist
The Missing Ones: An absolutely gripping thriller with a jaw-dropping twist The hole they dug was not deep. A white flour bag encased the little body. Three small faces watched from the window, eyes black with terror. The child in the middle spoke without turning his head. I wonder which one of us will be next?When a womans body is discovered in a cathedral and hours later a young man is found hanging from a tree outside his home, Detective Lottie Parker is called in to lead the investigation. Both bodies have the same distinctive tattoo clumsily inscribed on their ...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Patricia Gibney
Language: English
Publisher: Bookouture
Published on: Mar 16, 2017
Pages: 460
Uniform Justice
Uniform Justice A wall of silence surrounds a cadets death at an elite military academy: Superb... This is an outstanding book. Publishers Weekly Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parents worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venices elite military academy. Brunettis sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of th...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Donna Leon
Language: English
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published on: Dec 1, 2007
Pages: 272
Perfect Prey (A DI Callanach Thriller, Book 2)
Perfect Prey (A DI Callanach Thriller, Book 2) Without doubt, this is one of the best detective series I have read. Womans Way Magazine Your new addiction starts here: get hooked on the #1 bestselling series. Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and M.J. Arlidge. Welcome to Edinburgh. Murder capital of Europe. In the middle of a rock festival, a charity worker is sliced across the stomach. He dies minutes later. In a crowd of thousands, no one saw his attacker. The following week, the body of a primary school teacher is found in a dump...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Helen Fields
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published on: Jul 27, 2017
Pages: 464
Willful Behavior
Willful Behavior In this powerful novel in the New York Timesbestselling series, an Italian police detective delves into two deaths and a dark era of history (The Times, London). When Commissario Guido Brunetti first meets her, Claudia Leonardo is merely one of his wifes students. Intelligent and serious, she asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of ituntil Claudia is found dead. Unable to find any living relatives, he visi...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Donna Leon
Language: English
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published on: Aug 31, 2010
Pages: 320
Bloody Genius
Bloody Genius Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review).At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: John Sandford
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Published on: Oct 1, 2019
Pages: 384
A Dangerous Man
A Dangerous Man A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date.Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: Robert Crais
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Published on: Aug 6, 2019
Pages: 352
Her Shallow Grave: An absolutely gripping and pulse-racing crime thriller
Her Shallow Grave: An absolutely gripping and pulse-racing crime thriller She runs her trembling fingers over the dark, damp walls surrounding her. Above her head, she hears heavy footsteps. She knows she has nowhere to hide and as the door to the cellar is flung open, she finally sees his face.Its winter in Black Rock Falls and, as tourists flock to the small town to take in the snowy mountain peaks, one visitor makes a sickening discovery. The frozen body of a young woman hangs from a tree on the outskirts of town. Detective Jenna Alton is called in to investigate....
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: D.K. Hood
Language: English
Publisher: Bookouture
Published on: Jul 10, 2020
Pages: 339
Cajun Justice
Cajun Justice This new standalone thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author follows ex-Secret Service agent, Cain Lemaire, as he uncovers the dark secrets hidden beneath the Tokyo streets.The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail from it, including Cain Lemaire, an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. Cain had the dream job he had always wanted, protecting the President, until a single night resulted in a scandal that lost him his post. Needing a new dir...
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Category: Fiction / Crime
Authors: James Patterson and Tucker Axum III
Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published on: Jul 14, 2020
Pages: 432