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by Andrew Michael Hurley
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Published Jan 2017
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by John Keyse-Walker
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsWritten with a wry, witty narrative voice and a plot full of twists and turns, John Keyse-Walker's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut is a pure delight.
by Bernard Minier
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsSaint-Martin-de-Comminges is a small town nestled in the French Pyrenees. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens. Until the winter morning when a group of workers discover the headless, flayed body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff.
by Tana French
Published Aug 2015
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by Ruth Rendell
Published Jul 2015
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by Louise Penny
Published Jul 2014
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by Lyndsay Faye
Published Mar 2013
Read Reviews1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever.
by A. D. Scott
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsAs a decade of change comes to a close, murder hits close to home in a small Scottish town...
On a dark, damp Sunday evening, a man taking a shortcut home sees a hand reaching out in supplication from a bundle of sacks. In an instant he knows something terrifying has happened.
by Kate Atkinson
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsTracy, a retired police detective, rescues a small child; Jackson Brodie, a detective, rescues an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished.
by Martin Walker
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsThe first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoît Courrèges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the café still rule.
by Donna Leon
Published Apr 2006
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