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The Cloud of Unknowing
The Cloud of Unknowing
Thomas H. Cook
0156032805 Trade Paperback
0151012601 Hardcover


A man's stable life and family are fatally disrupted by his sister's suspicion that her husband drowned her schizophrenic son.

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The Dying Crapshooter's Blues
The Dying Crapshooter's Blues
David Fulmer
0151011753 Hardcover


In his acclaimed Storyville series, David Fulmer brought the jazz-soaked streets of New Orleans to life. Now he brings us another absorbing mystery in a new setting raucous with music and rich with history.

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The Mosaic Crimes
The Mosaic Crimes
Giulio Leoni
0151012466 Hardcover


An enthralling historical thriller, from Italy's new maestro of crime.
 
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The Great Stink
The Great Stink
Clare Clark
0156030888 Trade Paperback
0151011613 Hardcover


Enter the dirty world beneath the glittering facades of Victorian London, where an engineer and war veteran becomes entangled in a murder.

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Rampart Street
Rampart Street
David Fulmer
0156030519 Trade Paperback
0151010242 Hardcover


Valentin St. Cyr returns to Storyville for the third installment of this gripping, evocative mystery series. David Fulmer has created a heart-pounding, deft mystery in this, his soulful detective's most dangerous case yet.

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The Necropolis Railway
The Necropolis Railway
A Jim Stringer Mystery
Andrew Martin
0156030683 Trade Paperback


The first volume in a mystery series that introduces readers to Jim Stringer, this thriller is features a heady mix of Edwardian London, steam locomotion, and murder.

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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.

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The Indian Bride
The Indian Bride
Karin Fossum
0151011826 Hardcover


Another brilliantly conceived, dark novel from one of Europe’s most successful crime writers, featuring "the Morse of the fjords," Inspector Konrad Sejer.

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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 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.
Ice Moon
Ice Moon
Jan Costin Wagner
0151012695 Hardcover


Set in Finland during the unnervingly long days of late summer near the top of the world, this haunting book is an unsettling, poignant mystery.
 
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When the Devil Holds the Candle
When the Devil Holds the Candle
Karin Fossum
Translated by Felicity David
0156032120 Trade Paperback
0151011885 Hardcover


When a simple purse-snatching from the handle of a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing still another. Another brilliantly observed, precisely rendered psychological mystery from the highly acclaimed Karin Fossum.

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Darkness & Light
Darkness & Light
A Frank Elder Mystery
John Harvey
0156031418 Trade Paperback
0151011338 Hardcover


Former cop Frank Elder is once more drawn out of retirement by a phone call from his ex-wife. In a case in which neither memories, confessions, nor instincts can be trusted, Elder struggles with the weight of the past and Harvey delivers another psychologically trenchant page-turner.

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The Blackpool Highflyer
The Blackpool Highflyer
A Jim Stringer Mystery
Andrew Martin
0156030691 Trade Paperback


The second book to feature steam detective Jim Stringer, this whodunnit takes place during the hot summer of 1905, when vactioners on the train to the seaside resort of Blackpool learn that murder takes no holiday.

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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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54
54
Wu Ming
0156031884 Trade Paperback
0151013802 Hardcover


It's 1954. The height of the Cold War. The world is divided into East and West.

Featuring Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly, 54 is a historical epic that is by turns edgy social satire, modern comic send up, and touching romance.
 



 

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