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    Not So Perfect Strangers
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    Not So Perfect Strangers

    Onefateful encounter upends the lives of two women in this tensedomestic thriller, a modern spin on Alfred Hitchcock'sStrangers On A Trainthat flips the script on race and gender politics."I'm a big believer that women should help each other, Tasha," she...
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  • The Horoscope Writer
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    The Horoscope Writer

    From Audie Award-winning author Ash Bishop"Readers will be eager to see what Bishop does next." -Publishers Weekly". . . filled with realistic scenarios and satisfying twists." -Midwest Book ReviewLeo: You'll step out the door, prepared for a normal day...
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  • The Dazzle of the Light
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    The Dazzle of the Light

    Ruby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Forty Thieves' most talented members. Harriet Littlemore is an aspiring journalist from a 'good' family, engaged to a rising star of the Tory party - but...
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Thefts of Christmas
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Thefts of Christmas

    A thrilling chase as Sherlock Holmes is set a fiendish puzzle by Irene Adler over a snowy London Christmas, in this stunningly packaged mystery.Sherlock Holmes's discovery of a mysterious musical score initiates a devious Christmas challenge set by Irene...
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  • Turn on the Heat
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    Turn on the Heat

    Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print. Among those books were the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible...
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    Ellery Queen's Japanese MysterY Stories
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    Ellery Queen's Japanese MysterY Stories

    A newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered - it's impossible but the truth is not so simple; five strangers who share the same initials are invited to spend the night in a luxury hotel but one of them is a murderer...
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  • The Longest Summer
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    The Longest Summer

    Being queer in a small town? Bad. Your employer believing you stole ten thousand dollars? Worse.Abboton, IN has kept hard-partying Victor Adewale in the closet for his entire life. So he makes a deal with his stern Nigerian father: Clean up his act, hold...
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  • The Secrets of Ohnita Harbor
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    The Secrets of Ohnita Harbor

    Amid a mountain of rain-soaked donations to the Ohnita Harbor Public Library rummage sale, Gabriela Domenici finds a small box that contains an odd-looking cross. When the carved center turns out to be ivory and a clue links the cross to Catherine of...
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  • The Language of Bodies
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    The Language of Bodies

    Maddie Wells' life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back...
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  • Angel of Ambition
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    Angel of Ambition

    Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite recipient for fiction. Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, audio version for fiction. Angela Hanson grew up poor in a world of despair. Toughened by rejection and disappointment, she vows to hide her fears...
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  • The Devil Hound
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    The Devil Hound

    How do you stay alive when everybody wants you dead? The Devil Hound, set in mid-eighteen century Europe and the Americas, as an evil priest dedicates his life to destroying two innocent Romani (Gypsy) brothers because of their ethnic origin and because...
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  • A Deadly Mermaid Fetish
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    A Deadly Mermaid Fetish

    A dead girl, dressed in a tattered mermaid costume and a harpoon jutting from her chest, washes ashore on a world-renowned beach in Florida, bringing with it a nightmare of evil the City of Sarasota has never known. Chief Homicide Detective Miranda...
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  • Light on Bone
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    Light on Bone

    Kathryn Lasky has written an exciting new adult amateur sleuth mystery set in New Mexico in the 1930s. The sleuth is GeorgiaO'Keefe, who actually did suffer a nervous breakdown in 1933 when her husband Alfred Stieglitz had a somewhat public affair, was...
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  • Split City
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    Split City

    Agatha Christie meets How We Roll in this entertaining new series.Murder sees double when former pro bowler Billy Gills finds himself summoned to the Partridgeberry County morgue to identify the body of his identical twin brother Bo. Billy is the...
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  • Standalone
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    Standalone

    "Top 25 Mystery Novels of 2022"-The Strand Magazine"Chambers makes the smell and harrowing vibe of the mean streets of the nation's capital come alive."-Publishers WeeklyDickie Cornish, Washington, DC street denizen turned unlicensed private...
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  • The Glassmaker's Wife
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    The Glassmaker's Wife

    In August of 1844, a man named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois, and four days later he is dead. The cause? Arsenic poisoning.The suspect? His wife, Betsey.The chief witnesses against her? A hired girl, Eveline...
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  • Hind's Kidnap
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    Hind's Kidnap

    A long-ago kidnaping case all but abandoned resurfaces, yet its memory of lives put aside almost screens itself with a population of new life. Neighborhoods of New York, of Brooklyn Heights, a larger uncertain and disturbing America of the 1960s, this...
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  • The Snow Collectors
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    The Snow Collectors

    Haunted by the loss of her parents and twin sister at sea, Henna cloisters herself in a Northeastern village where the snow never stops. When she discovers the body of a young woman at the edge of the forest, she's plunged into the mystery of a...
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  • Harm Reduction
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    Harm Reduction

    A secret binds them together, the truth will unravel them.Jenny Ocean's life is already on shaky ground when a violent attack sparks a chain of events that leaves her with a terrible secret that she can share with no one, and which clouds her every...
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  • Till We Become Monsters
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    Till We Become Monsters

    "With her debut novel,Till We Become Monsters, Amanda Headlee raises the genre to a chilling new level. I recommend reading this one with all the lights on."-Phil Giunta, author ofLike Mother, Like DaughtersMonsters existand Korin Perrin knew this as...
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    Criminal Zoo

    Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Best Horror Novel of 2016 Like millions of children, Samuel Bradbury comes from a broken home. Yet he still enjoys the everyday activities of being a kid: playing basketball, shooting his air rifle, and hanging out...
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    The Obama Inheritance

    Noir meets diverse voices and transforms the genre into an over-the-top, transcendental psychedelic thriller ride of pulpy goodness in THE OBAMA INHERITANCE, a collection of fifteen stories of conspiracy noir curated by editor and award-winning...
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  • Stuff to Die For
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    Stuff to Die For

    Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are hardly on the fast track. While James works as a line cook at Cap'n Crab, Skip spends his days selling - or rather, attempting to sell - security systems to people who (a) have no money, and (b) have nothing...
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  • Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
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    Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

    While their last venture was hardly crowned with success, James Lessor and Skip Moore, (and their white box truck) are back. When Reverend Preston Cashdollar and his traveling tent revival come to town, James and Skip reinvent themselves--as holy rollers...
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  • The Necklace
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    The Necklace

    Susan Lentigo's daughter was murdered twenty years ago - now, at long last, she will witness the killer's execution.But on her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that suggests the condemned man is innocent - and the real killer is still out...
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  • The Perfect Neighborhood
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    The Perfect Neighborhood

    Think you know your neighbors? Think again.When actress Allison Langley leaves her former rockstar husband in the middle of the night, her sudden departure becomes the talk of upmarket Oak Hill. But the relentless gossip comes to an abrupt halt when...
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  • The Sheriff of Geneva
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    The Sheriff of Geneva

    A cache of Venezuelan gold bullion is hijacked en route to safe-keeping in a bank vault deep in the Swiss countryside, the heist orchestrated by the elusive Mr Bonjour, an international man of mystery and villain. Through a series of events, the gold...
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  • Three Novels
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    Three Novels

    The Mexico we hear of in the news - the drug cartels, migration and senseless violence - is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless realm of myth, epic and fairy tale, such as the singer...
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  • Phenotypes
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    Phenotypes

    *Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize*A smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in our hearts and institutions alike.Federico and Loureno are brothers. Their father is black, a famed forensic pathologist for the police; their...
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  • Kalmann
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    Kalmann

    This atmospheric crime thriller laced with humour is set in the village of Raufarhfn in the far north of Iceland. Kalmann Odinsson is the self-appointed Sheriff of his town. He is 34, neurodiverse and hunts Arctic foxes and catches gigantic Greenland...
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  • Vanda
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    Vanda

    'Beautifully etched portrait of a woman who knows only extreme love. Wild, ferocious, she smells her son without biting him, but would suffocate him in her arms rather than see him leave her.' - FigaroSet in Marseilles, this is the...
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  • Silver Pebbles
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    Silver Pebbles

    A Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the German police. The courier manages to flush...
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  • The Transparency of Time
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    The Transparency of Time

    Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favour...
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  • The Basel Killings
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    The Basel Killings

    It is the end of October, the city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Police Inspector Peter Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man Hardy sitting on a bench under a street light...
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    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

    The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle's wonderful tales of the inimitable 'consulting detective' at work.Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this...
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    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle's wonderful tales of the inimitable 'consulting detective' at work.Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this...
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  • The Murder of Harriet Monckton
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    The Murder of Harriet Monckton

    From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a real murder. The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on an unsolved true crime. On 7thNovember 1843, 23 year-old...
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    The Aosawa Murders

    Winner of the 59th Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel On a stormy summer day in the 1970s the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party in their villa on the Sea of Japan. The occasion turns into...
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  • Grab a Snake by the Tail
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    Grab a Snake by the Tail

    *Longlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Award 2020*Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde is asked to take the case by the sultry, perfectly...
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  • I Don't Expect Anyone To Believe Me
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    I Don't Expect Anyone To Believe Me

    'I don't expect anyone to believe me,' warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he's kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement...
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  • Unbury Our Dead With Song
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    Unbury Our Dead With Song

    '..the first time you heard a Tizita that was yours, you fell in love with it. You never forget your first love; you never forget your first Tizita.'In the heart of Nairobi, four musicians The Diva, The Taliban Man, The Corporal and...
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  • Baby Blue
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    Baby Blue

    The second in the Stratos Gazis seriesStratos is a walking contradiction: a hit man with a conscience, in this case charged with finding and killing the murderer of the adoptive father of Emma, a beautiful teenage magician who until recently was...
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  • The Greek Wall
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    The Greek Wall

    A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey. Intelligence Agent Evangelos must solve the case of the severed head but is also asked not to make waves. After all, EU funding and...
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  • The Road to Ithaca
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    The Road to Ithaca

    In May 1941, Wehrmacht officer Bora is sent to Crete, recently occupied by the German army, and mustinvestigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross representative befriended by SS-Chief Himmler. All the clueslead to a platoon of trigger-happy German...
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  • Heretics
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    Heretics

    In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his parents, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the...
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  • Athenian Blues
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    Athenian Blues

    "So sweet, so calm, so unaffectedly natural... I'd nearly forgotten that the reason she had invited me there was to discuss how I would kill her husband."Stratos Gazis hates being called a contract killer. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes...
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  • Chain of Custody
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    Chain of Custody

    Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller set in Bangalore India, the city now a hub for child trafficking.How is twelve-year-old Nandita's disappearance connected to the murder of a well-known lawyer? What services has college student...
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  • A Fine Line
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    A Fine Line

    When Judge Larocca is the subject of corruption allegations, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. After all they had been at school and university together. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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