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352 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
A Deadly Endeavor
Jenny Adams

A serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia in Jenny Adams’ debut historical mystery, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Rhys Bowen.

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pp. Paperback
Mystery
Death Under a Little Sky
Stig Abell

In this widely praised debut crime thriller, a high-flying detective leaves London for a fresh start in the countryside—only to find himself on familiar ground hunting for a dangerous killer.

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368 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
End of Story
A. J Finn

For fans of Knives Out comes a spellbinding thriller from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window. 

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320 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
Benjamin Stevenson

From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery that "offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it" (Nita Prose) -- perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz

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326 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
Face of Greed
James L'Etoile

A Detective Emily Hunter Mystery. Greed, corruption, and betrayal—no murder is as simple as it seems.

An Athenaeum Mystery Book Club Pick

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276 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
Murder at la Villette
Cara Black

An Aimée Leduc Investigation Book #21 -- Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter’s father—now she’s on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black’s New York Times bestselling mystery series.

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229 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
Murder at the College Library
Con Lehane

Crime-fiction librarian - and reluctant amateur sleuth - Ray Ambler gets mixed up in murder once again when he's called to appraise a mystery-novel collection at an exclusive New York college. (A 42nd Street Library Mystery, 5.)

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182 pp. Paperback
Mystery
Murder in Stained Glass
Margaret Armstrong

The first in the American Queens of Crime series. Meet Miss Trumbull, a stout talkative New Yorker with perfect manners and a passion for sleuthing.

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342 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
One Wrong Word
Hank Phillippi Ryan

A heart-racing new psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning author, Hank Phillippi Ryan.

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343 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
Radiant Heat
Sarah-Jane Collins

When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman’s hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived . . . until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.

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276 pp. Paperback
Mystery
Stigma
Thomas Enger, Jørn Lier Horst

Incarcerated in a Norwegian high - security prison, a broken Alexander Blix joins forces with Emma Ramm to find a ruthless killer who has escaped from a German jail. A pulse-pounding Nordic Noir.

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665 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
The Essential Harlem Detectives: A Rage in Harlem, The Real Cool Killers, The Crazy Kill, Cotton Comes To Harlem
Chester Himes

A one-volume selection of four novels in the legendary detective series—blistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's criminal underworld—by master crime writer Chester Himes. With an introduction by New York Times bestselling author S.A. Cosby.

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

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294 pp. Paperback
Mystery
The Excitements
CJ Wray

Arriving in Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans, use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends and pull off one last, daring heist before their illustrious careers are over.

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298 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
The Fury
Alex Michaelides

A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder ― from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient

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340 pp. Paperback
Mystery
The Lies You Wrote
Brianna Labuskes

For a brilliant forensic linguist, crimes of the past hold clues to new series of murders in a twisting novel of suspense by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of A Familiar Sight.

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245 pp. Paperback
Mystery
The Man with No Face
Margaret Armstrong

Meet the unlikeliest pair of detectives: Minton Marbury is an old-fashioned New York gentleman with a passion for gardening; Jim Northcote is a young, prestigious artist who loves to paint the rich and famous.

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453 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
The Mountain King
Anders de la Motte

This atmospheric and sinister mystery will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a brilliant female detective investigating the darkest side of humanity.

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256 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
The Silver Bone: A Novel
Andrey Kurkov

The Kyiv Mysteries, #1 -- From Ukraine’s most celebrated novelist, a perplexing mystery that introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early twentieth century.

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278 pp. Paperback
Mystery
The Washing Away of Wrongs
G. M. Malliet

In this new mystery for Max Tudor (Book 8), he is forced to revisit the past to solve a very recent case of murder...

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280 pp. Hardcover
Mystery
Village in the Dark
Iris Yamashita

Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder--and she will stop at nothing to find the truth in this riveting mystery from the author of City Under One Roof.

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272 pp. Paperback
Mystery
Where They Lie
Claire Coughlan

An immersive, literary thriller set in 1960s Dublin about an ambitious young female journalist whose investigation of a long missing actress will take her through misty streets and the tangled underworld—and force her to confront the long-buried secrets of her own past.

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