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Mysteries:
15th Affair by James Patterson: Lindsay Boxer has a beautiful baby daughter and a husband
she loves unconditionally. She'd always been too focused on her career as a San Francisco
police detective to wonder what domestic bliss might feel like, but now she knows, and she's
never been happier. She can't imagine that a brutal murder at a luxury hotel, and the
disappearance of a gorgeous blond woman from the scene, could have anything to do with her
own life and marriage--yet soon both are unraveling, and Lindsay can't ignore disturbing clues
that hit very close to home.
Just as bombs are starting to go off in her personal life, an explosive tragedy rocks San
Francisco, plunging the city into chaos. Pressed into duty to investigate a criminal plot that
stretches around the globe, Lindsay again finds herself following signs that lead to her own
front door. Thrown into a tailspin and fighting against powerful enemies trying to protect their
operatives and conceal the truth at all costs, Lindsay turns to the Women's Murder Club for
help as she desperately searches for the elusive, and deadly, blonde before she loses Joe for
good.
Filled with the pulse-pounding intrigue that has made James Patterson the world's #1
bestselling writer, 15th Affair is an emotionally charged story that proves all is fair in love, war,
and espionage.
Bitter Poison: An English Village Cosy Featuring the Colonel (First World Publication) by
Margaret Mayhew: The Colonel turns reluctant sleuth once more when tragedy strikes at a
Christmas party, in Margaret Mayhew’s latest atmospheric village mystery
Frog End, that most quintessential of English villages, is preparing for its annual Christmas
pantomime. This year, it’s Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairytale The Snow Queen. Local
busybody Marjorie Cuthbertson is on the hunt for her leading lady – and who better to play the
icy queen than beautiful new resident, ex-model Joan Dryden. But as interested as they are in
their new neighbours, the residents of Frog End remain wary of the Dryden family, considering
them aloof Londoners.
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Mystery is about to engulf the village however when a cast member collapses and dies at a
Christmas party, having consumed a rogue mince pie. Was the death an accident – or was it a
malicious revenge strategy masked as an allergic reaction? The Colonel makes it his business to
find out.
Black Run by Antonio Manzini: Already an internaonal hit, a sly, sizzling mystery—the rst in a
sensaonal crime series—set in the Italian Alps, reminiscent of the works of Andrea Camilleri,
D. A. Mishani, Donna Leon, and Henning Mankell.
Geng into serious trouble with the wrong people, deputy prefect of police Rocco Schiavone is
exiled to Aosta, a small, touristy alpine town far from his beloved Rome. The sophiscated and
crotchety Roman despises mountains, snow, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his
superiors and their pey rules. But he loves solving crimes.
When a mangled body has been discovered on a ski run above Champoluc, Rocco immediately
faces his rst challenge—idenfying the vicm, a complex procedure complicated by his
ignorance of the customs, dialect, and history of his new home. Proud and undaunted, Rocco
makes his way among the ski runs, mountain huts, and aerial tramways, meeng ski instructors,
Alpine guides, the hardworking, enigmac folk of Aosta, and a few beauful locals eager to give
him a warm welcome.
It won't be easy, this mountain life, especially with a corpse or two in the mix. But then there's
nothing that makes Rocco feel more at home than an invesgaon.
An insighul observer of human nature, Antonio Manzini writes with sly humor and a dash of
irony, and introduces an irresisble hero—a fascinang blend of swagger, machismo, and
vulnerability—in a colorful and atmospheric crime mystery series that is European crime con
at its best.
Boar Island by Nevada Barr: Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has
had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a
new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod.
Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until,
one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt.
And then she calls in the cavalry---her aunt Gwen and her friend Anna Pigeon.
While they try to deal with the fragile state of affairs---and find the person behind the
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harassment---the three adults decide the best thing to do is to remove Elizabeth from the
situation. Since Anna is about to start her new post as Acting Chief Ranger at Acadia National
Park in Maine, the three will join her and stay at a house on the cliff of a small island near the
park, Boar Island.
But the move east doesn't solve the problem. The stalker has followed them east. And Heath (a
paraplegic) and Elizabeth aren't alone on the otherwise deserted island. At the same time, Anna
has barely arrived at Acadia before a brutal murder is committed by a killer uncomfortably
close to her.
BOAR ISLAND is a brilliant intertwining of past and present, of victims and killers, in a
compelling novel that only Nevada Barr could write.
City of Jackals: A Makana Mystery by Parker Bilal: Mourad Haz appears to have dropped out
of university and disappeared. Engaged by his family to try and nd him, Makana comes to
believe that the Haz boy became involved in some kind of polical acvity just prior to his
disappearance. But before he can discover more, the invesgaon is sidetracked: a severed
head turns up on the riverbank next to his home, and Makana nds himself drawn into ethnic
rivalry and gang war among young men from South Sudan. The trail leads from a church in the
slums and the benevolent work of the larger-than-life Rev. Preston Corbis and sister Liz to the
enigmac Ihsan Qaddus and the Hesira Instute.
The h installment of this acclaimed series is set in Egypt in December 2005. While Cairo is
torn by the protests by South Sudanese refugees demanding their rights, President Mubarak
has just been re-elected by a dubious 88 percent majority in the country's rst mul-party
elecons. In response to what appears to be agrant elecon-rigging, there are early srrings of
organized polical opposion to the regime. Change is afoot and Makana is in danger of being
swept away in the seismic shis of his adopted naon.
Corners of the Globe: A James Maxted Thriller by Robert Goddard: In The Ways of the World,
the first novel in this gripping historical series by bestselling author Robert Goddard, James
“Max” Maxted arrived in Paris during the 1919 peace conference to investigate the suspicious
death of his diplomat father. But it didn’t take long for the daredevil Royal Flying Corps veteran
to land himself a new role: double agent.
In The Corners of the Globe, Max is sent on his first mission for legendary German spy Fritz
Lemmer, the very man who claims responsibility for the murder of Max’s father. As Max travels
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to Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands to collect a mysterious grey file from a German captain, he
must keep his true allegiances in mind. Further complications arise when a fellow tourist
recognizes Max from their school days and threatens to blow his cover. Meanwhile, in Paris,
Max’s trusty sidekick Sam Twentyman has been promoted to chief mechanic for the British
diplomatic fleet of cars. Though worried about his friend, Sam is content with his new set-up,
until he receives warning that a nefarious element in the Japanese delegation is out to kill
Lemmer—and they have reason to believe that Sam might be a link in the chain connected back
to him.
With the Germans about to enter the peace negotiations, the need for reconciliation among
nations is greater than ever. But there is one secret so explosive that it threatens to endanger
the whole peace conference, and Max is intent on finding it out.
Cut Me in by Ed McBain: When a Man’s Partner is Killed, He’s Supposed to Do Something
About It.
Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the
women who discovered his other lovers, not even his partner in the Gilbert and Blake literary
agency – me. But when I found him shot to death on the oor of his oce, I had no choice. I
had to track down the person responsible. And not just to lay Del to rest, either. Next to his
body, the oce safe was wide open, and a contract worth millions was missing...
Deep Dark by Laura Grin: “If you like CSI and well-craed suspense, don’t miss these books”
(RT Book Reviews)! The tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Tracers series is a
gripping romanc thriller from the author who “never fails to put me on the edge of my seat”
(USA TODAY).
The moment detecve Reed Novak steps onto the crime scene, he knows the case is going to
rock his world. A beauful young woman murdered at home. No sign of forced entry. No
move. She’s obviously not the killer’s rst vicm, and Reed’s insncts tell him she won’t be his
last. Reed’s rst clue comes via a mysterious text that links to a dang prole, but even more
intriguing than the clue is the person who sent it.
Extreme Prey by John Sandford: The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New
York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.
After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation—
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no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a
presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff.
“Should be fun!” he says, and it kind of is—until they find they have a shadow: an armed man
intent on killing the governor . . . and anyone who gets in the way.
Ghosts of Bergen County by Dana Cann: Set in New York City and New Jersey on the cusp of
the nancial crisis, Ghosts of Bergen County is a literary mystery with supernatural elements.
Gil Ferko is a private-equity lieutenant who commutes to Manhaan from the New Jersey
suburbs. His wife, Mary Beth, has become a shut-in since a hit-and-run accident killed their
infant daughter. When Ferko reconnects with Jen Yoder, a former high school classmate, Jen
introduces him to heroin. As his dependency on the drug grows, his downward spiral puts his
life in danger and his career in jeopardy. Mary Beth has also found an escape―rst in
prescripon drugs that numb her senses, then in the companionship of a mysterious girl who
heightens them. A ghost? Mary Beth believes so. And Jen is also haunted. Years ago she
witnessed a man she had just met fall from a rooop. She walked away from the accident and
has been haunted since by the queson of why she did so. As her quest to recfy that mistake
starts to collide with the mystery of the hit-and-run driver who killed Ferko and Mary Beth’s
daughter, all of the characters are forced to face the ne line between fate and happenstance.
Dana Cann’s debut novel is a tautly paced and intricately ploed story in which collecve
burdens manifest into haunngs.
Heart of Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery by James Ziskin: In the waning days of a lazy August
holiday, Ellie Stone is enjoying a bright Adirondack-lake morning. Nearby, two men plummet to
their deaths on the rocks below, just a few feet short of the water of a dangerous diving pool. A
tragic accident, it seems. But the state police quickly establish that the two vicms--one, a
stranger to the lake and, the other, a teenaged boy from a nearby music camp--surely didn't
know each other. That anomaly is strange enough, but what really perplexes Ellie is the out-of-
place staon wagon parked twenty yards from the edge of the cli.
Wading into a slippery morass of fellow travelers, free-love intellectuals, rabid John Birchers,
and charismac evangelicals, Ellie must navigate old grudges and Cold War passions, lost ideals
and betrayed loves. She scks her nose where it's unwanted, raling nerves and pung herself
in jeopardy. But this me, it's her heart that's at risk.
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Hide Away by Iris Johansen: DARK SECRETS: World-famous forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has
landed in a well-guarded hospital room in Carmel, California. But hidden danger looms for Eve,
her beloved Joe Quinn, and Cara Delaney, the young girl they’ve both sworn to protect. With
Cara’s enemies on the move, Eve has no choice but to flee the hospital―no matter what the
doctors say. Her protective instincts in full gear, she decides that their best chance of survival is
to get out of the country. She turns to her daughter, Jane MacGuire, for help.
DESPERATE MEASURES: For years, Jane has been avoiding pressure to find a treasure thought
to be buried in Scotland―but she’s finally succumbed to John MacDuff’s pleas to track it down.
Eve and Cara join Jane in the remote mountains, but soon realize that nowhere is far enough
away from the ruthless predators who are on their trail. . .
Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger: An instant page-turner (Lisa Gardner) that straddles the line
between thriller and horror...sure to appeal to a wide range of readers, including Stephen King
fans. (Booklist, starred) A young woman's mysterious gi forces her into the middle of a
dangerous invesgaon of a lile girl's disappearance.
Twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery is rarely alone. Visited by people whom others can't see
and haunted by prophec dreams, she has never been able to control or understand the things
that happen to her. When Finley's abilies start to become too strong for her to handle - and
even the roar of her motorcycle or another dazzling taoo can't drown out the voices - she
turns to the only person she knows who can help her: her grandmother Eloise Montgomery, a
renowned psychic living in The Hollows, New York.
Merri Gleason is a woman at the end of her tether aer a ten-month-long search for her
missing daughter, Abbey. With almost every hope exhausted, she resorts to hiring Jones
Cooper, a detecve who somemes works with psychic Eloise Montgomery. Merri's not a
believer, but she's just desperate enough to go down that road, praying that she's not too late.
Time, she knows, is running out.
As a harsh white winter moves into The Hollows, Finley and Eloise are drawn into the
invesgaon, which proves to have much more at stake than even the fate of a missing girl. As
Finley digs deeper into the town and its endless layers, she is forced to examine the past, even
as she tries to look into the future. Only one thing is clear: The Hollows gets what it wants, no
maer what.
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Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square: Lawless 1 by William Suon: It is 1859, and novice
detecve Campbell Lawless has just arrived in London. He is summoned to the scene of a
deadly act of sabotage at Euston Staon by the illustrious Inspector Wardle. Wardle believes
that the man found dead amidst his handiwork is the culprit, but Lawless is not so sure. So
begins his hunt for elusive revoluonary Berwick Skelton. Aided by a gang of street urchins and
a vivacious librarian, Lawless must capture his underworld nemesis before Skelton unleashes
his nal vengeance…
Murder on the Quai by Cara Black: The world knows Aimée Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in
this New York Times bestselling series, as a très chic, no-nonsense private invesgator—the
toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now, author Cara Black dips back in me to reveal how
Aimée rst became a detecve . . .
November 1989: Aimée Leduc is in her rst year of college at Paris’s preeminent medical
school. She lives in a 17th-century apartment that overlooks the Seine with her father, who
runs the family detecve agency.
But the week the Berlin Wall crumbles, so does Aimée’s life as she knows it. First, someone has
sabotaged her lab work, pung her at risk of failing out of the program. Then, she nds out her
aristo boyfriend is geng engaged to another woman. And nally, Aimée’s father takes o to
Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aimée to help out at the detecve agency while he’s
gone—as if she doesn’t already have enough to do. But the case Aimée nds herself
invesgang—a murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French
countryside during the height of World War II—has goen under her skin. Her heart may not lie
in medicine aer all—maybe it’s me to think harder about the family business.
Plague Land: A Somershill Manor Mystery by S. D. Sykes: In this chilling historical mystery,
young girls go missing from a medieval English village and Lord Oswald de Lacy must nd the
killer before tragedy strikes again.
Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a
monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers
are killed by the Plague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate. He nds the years of
peslence and neglect have changed the old place dramacally, not to menon the atude of
the surviving peasants.
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Yet some things never change. Oswald's mother remains the powerful matriarch of the family,
and his sister Clemence simmers in the background, dangerous and unmarried.
Before he can do anything, Oswald is confronted by the shocking death of a young woman,
Alison Starvecrow. The ambious village priest claims that Alison was killed by a band of
demonic dog-headed men. Oswald is certain this is nonsense, but proving it―by nding the real
murderer―is quite a dierent maer. Every step he takes seems to lead Oswald deeper into a
dark maze of polical intrigue, family secrets and violent strife.
And then the body of another girl is found.
Sarah Sykes brilliantly evokes the landscape and people of medieval Kent in this thrillingly
suspenseful debut.
Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night (The Grantchester Mysteries, Book 2) by James
Runcie: The loveable full me priest and part me detecve Canon Sidney Chambers connues
his sleuthing adventures in late 1950's Cambridge. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador
Dickens, and working in tandem with the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keang,
Sidney is called on to invesgate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King's
College Chapel; a case of arson at a glamor photographer's studio; and the poisoning of Zafar
Ali, Grantchester's nest spin bowler, in the middle of a crucial game of cricket. As he pursues
his quietly probing inquiries, Sidney also has to decide on the vexed queson of marriage. Can
he choose between the rich, glamorous socialite Amanda Kendall and Hildegard Staunton, a
beguiling German widow three years his junior? To help him make up his mind Sidney takes a
trip abroad, only to nd himself trapped in a complex web of internaonal espionage just as the
Berlin Wall is going up.
Here are six interlocking adventures that combine mystery with morality, and criminality with
charm.
Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil (The Grantchester Mysteries, Book 3) by James
Runcie: Our favorite clerical detecve is back with four longer mysteries in which Canon Sidney
Chambers aempts to stop a serial killer with a grievance against the clergy; invesgates the
disappearance of a famous painng aer a distracng display of nudity by a French girl in an art
gallery; uncovers the fact that an "accidental" drowning on a lm shoot may have been
something more sinister; and discovers the reasons behind the the of a baby from a hospital
just before Christmas 1963.
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In the meanme, Sidney wrestles with the problem of evil, aempts to fulll the demands of
his faithful Labrador, Dickens, and contemplates, as always, the nature of love.
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (The Grantchester Mysteries, Book 1) by James
Runcie: It is 1953, the coronaon year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of
Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with
dark brown hair, eyes the color of hazelnuts, and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an
unconvenonal clerical detecve. He can go where the police cannot.
Together with his roguish friend, inspector Geordie Keang, Sidney inquires into the suspect
suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewelry the at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the
unexplained death of a jazz promoter's daughter, and a shocking art forgery that puts a close
friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detecve, like being a clergyman, means that
you are never o duty, but he nonetheless manages to nd me for a keen interest in cricket,
warm beer, and hot jazz―as well as a curious fondness for a German widow three years his
junior.
With a whi of Agatha Chrise and a touch of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown, The
Grantchester Mysteries introduces a wonderful new hero into the world of detecve con.
Troublemaker: A Novel by Linda Howard: A thrilling, fast-paced novel of romantic suspense
from sensational New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Linda Howard.
For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before
his job. But when he’s ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is determined to find out
who’s after the members of his elite squad—and why. Due to worries that this unknown enemy
will strike again, Morgan is sent to a remote location and told to lay low and stay vigilant. But
between a tempting housemate he’s determined to protect and a deadly threat waiting in the
shadows, keeping under the radar is proving to be his most dangerous mission yet.
The part-time police chief of a small West Virginian mountain town, Isabeau “Bo” Maran finally
has her life figured out. She’s got friends, a dog, and a little money in the bank. Then Morgan
Yancy shows up on her doorstep. Bo doesn’t need a mysterious man in her life—especially a
troublemaker as enticing and secretive as Morgan.
The harder they fight the intense heat between them, the closer Morgan and Bo become, even
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though she knows he’s hiding from something. But discovering the truth could cost Bo more
than she’s willing to give. And when Morgan’s cover is blown, it might just cost her life.
Vinyl Detecve Mysteries - Wrien in Dead Wax (A Vinyl Detecve Mystery, Book 1) by
Andrew Cartmel: He is a record collector — a connoisseur of vinyl, hunng out rare and elusive
LPs. His business card describes him as the “Vinyl Detecve” and some people take this more
literally than others.
Like the beauful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to nd a
priceless lost recording — on behalf of an extremely wealthy (and rather sinister) shadowy
client.
Given that he’s just about to run out of cat biscuits, this gets our hero’s full aenon. So begins
a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all…
We Were Kings by Thomas O'Malley: In 1950's Boston, the Irish Republican Army is running
guns and killing witnesses. Cal and Dante are commied to stopping them.
When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks--tarred, feathered and shot to death--it
appears to be a gangland killing, and is almost immediately dismissed. However, Cal O'Brien's
cousin, Boston PD detecve Owen Lackey, recognizes the murder style as the typical retribuon
for IRA informers. Combined with a p-o about a boat coming into Boston weighed down with
stolen guns and ammunion, the body in the locks hints that much more may be at stake than a
one-o hit.
Serpents in the Cold introduced us to Cal and Dante, whose previous invesgaon brought
them to the highest ranks of Boston's polical elite. This me, Cal and Dante descend into the
city's shadowy underbelly--a world of packed dance halls, Irish wakes, and funeral parlors.
There they discover a terrorist plot that will shake the city to its core and bring them head-to-
head not only with Cal's past, but with the IRA Army Council itself.
Woman in Blue by Ely Griths: In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary
foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanacism
in an old medieval town.
Known as England’s Nazareth, the medieval town of Lile Walsingham is famous for religious
apparions. So when Ruth Galloway’s druid friend Cathbad sees a woman in a white dress and
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a dark blue cloak standing alone in the local cemetery one night, he takes her as a vision of the
Virgin Mary. But then a woman wrapped in blue cloth is found dead the next day, and Ruth’s
old friend Hilary, an Anglican priest, receives a series of hateful, threatening leers. Could these
crimes be connected? When one of Hilary’s fellow female priests is murdered just before Lile
Walsingham’s annual Good Friday Passion Play, Ruth, Cathbad, and DCI Harry Nelson must
team up to nd the killer before he strikes again.
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