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The forgotten girl
by Rio Youers
Beaten up by goons at the order of a sinister man known only as "the spider," a young street performer discovers that he once had a girlfriend who used her supernatural powers to erase memories of her from his mind and that some part of him still loves her. By the author of Point Hollow.
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Turkey trot murder : a Lucy Stone mystery
by Leslie Meier
An uneventful Thanksgiving season is shattered by the overdose-related death of a wealthy investor's beautiful daughter, a tragedy that Lucy Stone links to the possible schemes of the victim's pregnant stepmother. By the best-selling author of Candy Corn Murder.
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The Chalk Pit
by Elly Griffiths
Mystery. Beneath Norwich, England lies a number of medieval and chalk-mining tunnels, and in one of them, a surveyor unearths recent human bones. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway teams up with DCI Harry Nelson to investigate the bones amid reports of cults, cannibals, a man who vanished into thin air, and a missing homeless woman. Featuring complex characters and relationships (Ruth and the married Harry have a child together) combined with suspenseful plotting, this 9th in the Ruth Galloway mysteries will please fans of both Louise Penny and Julia Spencer-Fleming.
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| Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica LockeMystery. In a rural East Texas town of fewer than 200 people, the body of an African American lawyer from Chicago is found in a bayou, followed several days later by that of a local white woman. What's going on? African American Texas Ranger Darren Mathews hopes to find out, which means talking to relatives of the deceased, including the woman's white supremacist husband -- and Mathews soon discovers things are more complex than they seem. With fully realized characters and a timely look at race relations in the U.S., this book by award-winning novelist Attica Locke (who's also written and produced for TV's Empire) is the 1st in her Highway 59 series. |
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| Lightning Men: A Novel by Thomas MullenHistorical Mystery. In this highly anticipated follow-up to last year's Darktown, African American police officers Tommy Smith and Lucius Boggs find themselves once again navigating volatile racial tensions in Atlanta. This time, it's 1950, and their attempt to stop the influx of illegal alcohol and drugs is complicated by the involvement of whites, whom they're not allowed to arrest. Meanwhile, neo-Nazis are in town stirring up trouble as black families move into formerly whites-only neighborhoods. Examining the cops' professional and personal lives, Lightning Men provides a well-rounded look at fascinating characters in an explosive setting. |
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| The Amber Shadows by Lucy RibchesterHistorical Mystery. Walking to her billet after watching Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion, Honey Deschamps is given a package by a man she doesn't know. He claims to work at Bletchley Park like Honey, but since the package contains a small piece of amber from Russia, Honey can't help but wonder if she's being tested. Or is the amber some sort of coded message from someone? Maybe from her Russian father, who her brother claimed was custodian of the famous Amber Room? When more packages arrive, people go missing, and a murder occurs, Honey must decode what's going on and figure out whom to trust. This well-researched, suspenseful tale should please fans of Hitchcock and World War II mysteries. |
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Heat Storm
by Richard Castle
Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding and presumed dead for 17 years, a cold case that is challenged by a nefarious group of Chinese businessmen. 150,000 first printing.
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Dark legacy : a Carpathian novel
by Christine Feehan
Struggling to manage the pain that has overwhelmed her since her ordeal in the underground labyrinth, Emeline Sanchez is haunted by the voice of the evil master vampire who exchanged blood with her and considers a terrible sacrifice to protect the children once under his thrall.
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| A Kind of Grief: A Novel by A.D. ScottMystery. It's 1950, and newly married Joanne Ross no longer works at the Highland Gazette, but has taken to writing short stories and other pieces. Hearing about an artist on trial for being a witch, she thinks it might make an interesting story. But after Joanne visits the acquitted, the woman's found dead in her home on a remote Scottish glen. Unable to accept it was suicide, Joanne investigates and finds a secret government agency is somehow involved. If you'd like to visit 1950s Scotland, pick up this 6th Joanne Ross novel. Want to meet Joanne when she's trying to escape her abusive first marriage? Pick up the 1st book, A Small Death in the Great Glen. |
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The dying game : a novel
by Asa Avdic
A locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state follows the experiences of seven people who are brought to a remote island to compete in a 48-hour test and solve a staged murder to win a top-secret intelligence position. A first novel.
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