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Horns by Joe Hill Ignatius
Perrish wakes up after a bender to find a pair of horns growing from his
forehead. Others don't notice the horns but are compelled to reveal
their darkest secrets. Does this have something to do with Ig's dead
girlfriend, who everyone thinks he murdered a year ago?
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The Spire by Richard North Patterson
Mark Darrow returns to his alma mater as its new president and immediately
starts digging into a murder that happened when he was a senior. His best
friend was convicted, but Darrow thinks the real culprit is still at large.
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Sleepless by Charlie Huston
After the spread of a disease that causes sleeplessness
threatens to destroy society, a miracle drug known as DR33M3R promises
relief—if it doesn't end up on the black market. Otherwise it could cause a
war.
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The Night Monster by James Swain When
a teammate of Jack Carpenter's daughter is kidnapped, the perpetrator is
familiar to the former police officer—a monster of a man who kidnapped
another student nearly twenty years ago.
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Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
Avast ye hearties! There's a ship full of Spanish gold
anchored at a Caribbean island with a reputation for being impregnable, but
that won't stop pirate captain Charles Hunter from trying for it.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by
Alexander McCall Smith The current and former occupants of 44
Scotland Street in Edinburgh have another series of mild misadventures
involving cub scouts, pretenders to the throne, purloined tea cups and
procreating dogs.
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Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
In a novel that spans the continent from Nebraska to Ohio to
the Arctic Circle, no one is who he or she appears to be and names are less
substantial than the wind.
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Ford County by John Grisham
Seven short stories set in Grisham's fictional Ford County,
Mississippi, the setting for such novels as A Time to Kill and The
Summons, explore AIDS, the death penalty and unethical lawyers through
the eyes of characters affected by these diverse topics.
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Heat Wave by Richard Castle
With the assistance of—or despite the interference of—ride-along partner
Jameson Rook, NY homicide detective Nikki Heat works on the murder of a
wealthy entrepreneur in the ABC series tie-in novel.
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The Complaints by Ian Rankin Malcolm
Fox, who works for the British version of Internal Affairs, investigates a
fellow officer suspected of being a pedophile. The situation becomes
complicated when the officer is assigned to a murder case with personal
implications for Fox.
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Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon
Matthew Corbett embarks on a cat-and-mouse game with a lethal and aptly
named killer named Mister Slaughter.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by
Stieg Larsson The concluding installment of the Millennium trilogy. Mikael
Blomkvist investigates a super-secret division of the Swedish Intelligence
Service while trying to save a friend.
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9 Dragons by Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch spends 36 hour in Hong Kong looking for his daughter after
receiving a video message saying that she has been kidnapped while he
works a robbery homicide that brings him in conflict with the Chinese triads.
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The King's Gold by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Captain Alatriste and his faithful sidekick Íñigo Balboa, recently
returned from the war in Flanders, assemble a crew of pirates to take over a
shipment of gold from the West Indies.
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The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig
Larsson
Lisbeth Salander, the computer savant, becomes the prime suspect in the
murders of two young journalists writing an expose for Millennium magazine,
leaving Mikael Blomkvist as her only ally.
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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Robert Langdon is launched on another scavenger hunt laced with secret
codes and enigmas when he is summoned to Washington only to find that someone
is using him as a pawn in a nefarious and deadly game with cosmic
repercussions.
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How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve
Hely
Nothing motivates a man more than spite, which is what drives aspiring
author Pete Tarslaw to dash off a best-selling novel so he can show up his
former girlfriend at her upcoming wedding.
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The Way Home by George Pelecanos
A young man tries to find his way back to the straight and narrow path
after a troubled youth; however, trouble has a way of finding people, even
when they aren't looking for it.
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Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
When bodies and body parts start turning up in Portland, it appears that
Gretchen Lowell has broken her promise to Archie Sheridan, who checked
himself into a psychiatric ward after his last run in with the serial killer.
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A Twisted Ladder by Rhodi Hawk
A young woman struggles to deal with the recent death of her brother, her
father's mental illness and disturbing revelations about her family tree
while worrying about her own sanity at the same time.
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This is Not a Game by Walter Jon
Williams
A woman enlists the help of the thousands of players of the online
Alternate Reality Game that she designed to discover who murdered one of her
best friends, and why.
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Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale After
Leonard volunteers his help (and Hap's) to a friend, the daring duo finds
themselves on the wrong side of the Dixie Mafia and in the sights of a deadly
but beautiful assassin.
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The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
Ever since the day Benjamin Gould was supposed to die—but didn't—he's
had a ghost hanging around, though he doesn't know it. His dog, Pilot,
knows, though. And the ghost happens to be in love with his ex-girlfriend,
German.
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Cemetery Dance by Douglas
Preston & Lincoln Child Zombies are on the loose in Manhattan.
Well, one or two of them maybe. Pendergast and D'Agosta try to figure out how
the lead suspect in a murder could have committed the crime from beyond the
grave.
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The Scarecrow by Michael
Connelly
Crime reporter Jack McEvoy wants to make his last story for the Los
Angeles Times count. He starts out trying to prove a young man innocent
and ends up dueling with a serial killer.
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The Rules of the Game by Leonard
Downie Jr.
A political reporter lands the story of a lifetime when she uncovers
systematic corruption in the government. Her subjects, however, would
kill to keep the story off the front page of the Washington Capital.
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The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
The son of an Irish immigrant leads a group of underpaid Boston police
officers in a fight against City Hall as they seek to unionize as World War I
comes to an end.
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Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
Jack Foley, the most successful bank robber in history, and con man Cundo
Rey are best buddies (road dogs) in prison. Once they're out, it's a
different situation, especially with the beautiful Dawn Navarro in the
equation.
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When Will There Be Good News by
Kate Atkinson
Former detective Jackson Brodie's path crosses that of two women who were
the victims of terrible acts of violence after he accidentally takes the
wrong train.
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Eclipse by Richard North
Patterson
An American lawyer defends a freedom fighter charged with the murders of
three oil workers in a corrupt oil-rich west African nation ruled by tyrants.
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The Associate
by John Grisham
Associates at Scully & Pershing work long hours doing drudge work that
law school didn't prepare them for. However, Kyle McAvoy has an incentive to
perform—if he doesn't, he may end up facing prosecution!
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The Private Patient by P.D. James
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his Special Investigation Squad investigate
the murder of a journalist who was recovering from cosmetic surgery at a
private hospital in Dorset in P.D. James's 20th novel.
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They Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of
Death by Charlie Huston Web takes a job helping clean up after
suicides and homicides; however, the mess he gets into after he meets a
beautiful young woman and her half-brother is even worse.
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Spade & Archer by Joe Gores How
did Sam Spade end up in partnership with Miles Archer in the days before the
case of the Maltese Falcon landed at his door? This prequel answers that
question and more, all in the style of Dashiell Hammett
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