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The Serpent's Tale
by Ariana Franklin
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 3 Feb 2009
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| Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic
thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in her second novel
in the Mistress of the Art of Death series, featuring medieval heroine Adelia Aguilar. |
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An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
Hardcover: Feb 2008
Paperback: 25 Nov 2008
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| In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community. |
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The Monsters of Templeton: A Novel
by Lauren Groff
Hardcover: Feb 2008
Paperback: 4 Nov 2008
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| "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass."
So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. |
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The Dart League King: A Novel
by Keith L. Morris
Hardcover: Oct 2008
Paperback: 1 Oct 2008
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| A dart contest on a Thursday night in Garnet Lake, Idaho brings together five very different characters, whose fates are threaded together more closely than they realize. |
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Down River
by John Hart
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 30 Sep 2008
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| After being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam Chase is hounded out of the only home he’s ever known, exiled for a sin he did not commit. For five long years he disappears. Now he’s back and nobody knows why, not his family or the cops, not the enemies he left behind. |
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Blonde Faith
by Walter Mosley
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 6 Aug 2008
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| The tenth Easy Rawlins thriller puts him on the streets of LA to solve a case that threatens the lives of his closest friends. |
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The Shadow Walker
by Michael Walters
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| Murder is so uncommon in Mongolia that when one occurs, the government accepts help from England in the person of Chief Inspector Drew McLeish of Manchester.Together with Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes squad, they follow the trail of the dead from the abandoned factories of the city's decaying suburbs to the icy expanse of the barren steppes. |
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Year of The Hyenas
by Brad Geagley
Hardcover: Feb 2005
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| A murder mystery set in ancient Egypt that merges historical fact and speculation with a nail-biting crime story that could be taking place in the present. |
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