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by Ben H. Winters
When the Earth is doomed by an imminent asteroid collision, homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares about. |
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by Anthony Horowitz
Ignoring the troubling behavior of an eccentric crime writer with whom she has worked for years, editor Susan Ryeland is dismayed when a subplot hidden in the author's latest manuscript reveals a real-world murder. |
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by Isaac Asimov
For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. |
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Under the Tulip Treeby Michelle ShockleeSixteen-year-old Lorena Leland's dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position interviewing former slaves for the Federal Writers' Project. There, she meets Frankie Washington, a 101-year-old woman whose honest yet tragic past captivates Rena. As Frankie recounts her life as a slave, Rena is horrified to learn of all the older woman has endured-especially because Rena's ancestors owned slaves.
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Broken countryby Clare Leslie HallWhen her brother-in-law's actions reconnect her with a former love, Gabriel, whose son eerily resembles her deceased child, Beth's carefully constructed life unravels as past secrets and jealousies resurface, leading to deadly consequences and a difficult choice.
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by John Banville
Called in from Dublin to investigate a missing person's case, Detective Inspector Strafford soon turns to his old ally—the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke—but as the case unfolds, events from the past resurface that may have life-altering ramifications for all involved. |
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha ChristieThe puzzling question of a dying man leads friends and fun-loving adventurers Bobby Jones and Frances Derwent into a complex and dangerous investigation that puts both their lives in jeopardy.
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by Kim Stanley Robinson
In the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to attempt to conquer the barren, desolate landscape of Mars. |
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by Dorothy L. Sayers
A famous London financier vanishes from his bedroom, leaving no trace. Across town, a corpse is found in an architect's bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. The body is not that of the missing financier, so--whose body is it? When Lord Peter Wimsey is asked by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, to help clear her architect of suspicion, he eagerly obliges. |
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The Unquiet Deadby Stacie MurphyThree months after her harrowing experience on Blackwell's Island, Amelia is doing her best to come to terms with her new ability to commune with the spirit world. But when she and her brother Jonas discover the body of a young girl whose recent kidnapping electrified the city, Amelia's resolve wavers. It breaks entirely when a fifteen-year-old boy is accused of the crime. Amelia and Jonas have to find the real murderer, and they have to do it quickly.
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by Richard Osman
Meeting weekly in their retirement village’s Jigsaw Room to exchange theories about unsolved crimes, four savvy septuagenarians propose a daring but unorthodox plan to help a woman rookie cop solve her first big murder case. |
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by Sujata Massey
A debut entry in a new series by the Agatha Award-winning author of The Sleeping Dictionary introduces Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, as she investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances. |
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The Appealby Janice HallettWhen the cast of a local theater group raises money for an experimental treatment for the director's granddaughter, who has a rare form of cancer, one member raises her concerns, creating tensions within the community, which leads to murder.
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by Joanna Schaffhausen
Chicago Detective Annalisa Vega investigates when a new tally is added to the body count of the Lovelorn Killer, a notorious, local serial killer who has evaded the police and been dormant for 20 years. |
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Ophie's Ghosts by Justina IrelandTwelve-year-old Ophie uses her recent ability to see ghosts to help Clara, a spirit whose life ended suddenly and unjustly, pass on to the other side, but she soon realizes that Daffodil Manor, the place of Clara's untimely death, may hold more secrets than Ophie bargained for.
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Miracle Creekby Angie KimA dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened.
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by William Kent Krueger
Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes. |
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by Kwei Quartey
Turning private detective when her ambition to be a police officer is dashed, Emma Djan teams up with a first client to search for a man whose disappearance is linked to the email scams and fetish priests of Ghana. |
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The Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsA drawing master's moonlight encounter with an ethereal, if forlorn, woman leads to sensational events in Victorian England in a chilling tale of dark secrets, amnesia, madness, mistaken identities, and intrigue.
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by C. J. Sansom
Having worked to establish laws that protect the interests of the crown in 1537, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, enlists fellow reformer and lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his young protégé to investigate a commissioner's murder, which may be tied to an impending rebellion. |
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The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan SlocumbWhen, right before the cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition the Olympics of classical music, his priceless Stradivarius is stolen, with a ransom note for five million dollars in its place, Ray McMillian must piece together the clues to reclaim the violin before it's too late.
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