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Where Is Joe Merchant?
Where Is Joe Merchant?
A Novel Tale
Jimmy Buffett
0156026996 Trade Paperback


Where is Joe Merchant? That's what his sister, Trevor Kane, the hemorrhoid-ointment heiress, wants to know. In his debut novel, Jimmy Buffett cooks up an irresistible gumbo of dreamers, wackos, pirates, and sharks, as he leads Trevor and Frank on a wild chase through the Caribbean Islands to a place where anything can happen . . . and everything does.

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The Great Stink
The Great Stink
Clare Clark
0156030888 Trade Paperback
0151011613 Hardcover


A debut by a writer with "the eyes of a historian and the soul of a novelist" (Amanda Foreman), The Great Stink transports us into the tunnels beneath the glittering facades of Victorian London, where an engineer and war veteran become entangled in a murder.

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Red Leaves
Red Leaves
Thomas H. Cook
0156032341 Trade Paperback
0151012504 Hardcover


Red Leaves is a story of broken trust and one man's heroic effort to hold fast the ties that bind him to everything he loves.
The Enemy of God
The Enemy of God
Robert Daley
0156032287 Trade Paperback
015101244X Hardcover


This is the story of four childhood friends now in their 50s, and of two of their wives. It is an ample and dramatic novel that plays out against a background of New York and America, the Police Department and the Catholic church as well, over a period of 35 years. It is part love story, part mystery, partly the search for meaning in the modern world.
Glass Tiger
Glass Tiger
Joe Gores
0156032740 Trade Paperback
0151011214 Hardcover


A testosterone-fueled thriller pitting rival snipers against each other in a plot to assassinate the president.
Codex
Codex
Lev Grossman
015602859X Trade Paperback
0151010668 Hardcover


A hot-shot young investment banker is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients and during the process finds a hidden medieval codex in a set of rare book volumes. His decoding obsession deepens when he discovers surprising parallels between his favorite computer game's virtual reality and the mystery of the codex.
Hard Man
Hard Man
Allan Guthrie
0151012989 Hardcover


Revenge is part of the grieving process. But has Pearce finally found his match? It's time to find out who the real hard man is.
The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer
John Harwood
0156032325 Trade Paperback
0151010749 Hardcover


In search of the past that his obsessively protective mother refuses to talk about, Gerard finds his grandmother's ghost stories-and realizes that they're starting to come true.
Damnation Street
Damnation Street
Andrew Klavan
0156032627 Trade Paperback
0151012172 Hardcover


Two sworn enemies with a single obsession: a woman on the run from them both.
Learning to Kill
Learning to Kill
Stories
Ed McBain
0156031477 Trade Paperback
0151012229 Hardcover


Here are kids in trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs. Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are cops and robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter to become Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved 87th Precinct novels.

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The Female of the Species
The Female of the Species
Tales of Mystery and Suspense
Joyce Carol Oates
0156030276 Trade Paperback
0151011796 Hardcover


With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species--be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers--are by nature more deadly than the males.
The Museum of Dr. Moses
The Museum of Dr. Moses
Tales of Mystery and Suspense
Joyce Carol Oates
0151015317 Hardcover


In this collection of stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores with bloodcurdling insight the ties that bind—or worse.

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Silence
Silence
Thomas Perry
015101289X Hardcover


In Thomas Perry's latest thriller, everyone has a past they'd rather forget and a reason to kill the one person who reminds them of it.
The Skirt Man
The Skirt Man
Shelly Reuben
0151010781 Hardcover


Investigating the death of a small-town eccentric in a tragic house fire leads State Trooper Sebastian Bly and Fire Marshal Billy Nightingale to uncover small-town passions, simmering hatreds, and a shocking conclusion that will forever alter Killdeer, New York.
Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa
Shelly Reuben
015101079X Hardcover


A tragic house fire leads to an unusual killer and a new family for the baby who survives.
Drive
Drive
James Sallis
0156030322 Trade Paperback


The story of a man who works as a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night.



 

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