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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (The Millennium Trilogy #1) by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, corporate intrigue, subtle psychology, explosive content, and a sensational heroine make for a high-caliber novel.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (The Millennium Trilogy #2) by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo caught the world by surprise with its relevant and riveting story. The Girl Who Played with Fire, the second novel in the Millennium trilogy, reads even more smoothly. It leaves me wanting much more from this... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (The Millennium Trilogy #3) by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick Picking up mere moments after the cliffhanger ending of The Girl Who Played with Fire, this final book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy brings the adventures of Salander and Blomkvist to a thunderous and satisfying conclusion.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the Woods by Tana French Staff Pick The only thing more exciting than a great thriller is a terrific debut by a great thriller writer! Tana French makes a tremendous splash with In the Woods, a harrowing mystery in the vein of Mystic River that wholly earns the comparison. I dare you to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Staff Pick The Gun Seller reminds me of a well-made gin and tonic crisp, hip, and refreshing, with a droll twist of lime.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, corporate intrigue, subtle psychology, explosive content, and a sensational heroine make for a high-caliber novel.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick Staff Pick Come a day, you might get sick of hearing about A Reliable Wife — so many people will have read it and raved to you about it. Here's some preventative medicine: read it first. Seduction, marriage, money, sex, drugs, murder... when Catherine Land... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley Staff Pick If Nancy Mitford wrote I Capture the Castle or Cold Comfort Farm and starred in them Harriet the Spy you'd have something close to the quirky charm of Bradley's Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Even if you figure out the probable culprit before it's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Likeness by Tana French Staff Pick The Likeness is another masterpiece of suspense by Tana French. Reminiscent of The Secret History, this psychological thriller is wonderfully written and impeccably paced a perfect summer read.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg Staff Pick If you're looking for a well-crafted, suspenseful mystery novel, you'll definitely want to check out Camilla Lackberg's The Ice Princess, the first installment in a series that's been garnering praise from every quarter. Far, far superior, in my humble... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston Staff Pick Weird happenings at NYC's Museum of Natural History follow the discovery of a 19th-century, mass grave. Spines cut from corpses. Impalements on dinosaur horns. It's all frightful enough to rouse the FBI's quirkiest investigator — the pale, enigmatic... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Junkyard Dogs (Walt Longmire Mysteries) by Craig Johnson Staff Pick Gripping, gritty, and hilarious, Junkyard Dogs is the sixth in the Walt Longmire series, but you can dive in and thoroughly enjoy it without reading the previous books. Though once you've read one Craig Johnson novel, you'll feel the need to read all of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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One Good Turn: A Novel by Kate Atkinson Staff Pick It's hard to believe Kate Atkinson could follow up Case Histories with such a superb — may I suggest even superior? — novel: sly and witty, honest and humane, and, finally, complex and suspenseful. One could not ask for more than the whole package... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Heartsick by Chelsea Cain Staff Pick One of the best thrillers I've read in years, Heartsick is taut, edgy, and disturbing, and Archie Sheridan is a compelling new character. I eagerly anticipate the next book in this new series.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Codex: A Novel by Lev Grossman Staff Pick This clever literary thriller concentrates on a series of incidents that appear straightforward but grow more and more complicated as our protagonist's mission to track down an ancient codex runs eerily parallel to a virtual reality game he's become... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry Staff Pick Come on — a thriller that reveals shocking, long-hidden secrets about the fate of the Romanovs (and their Svengali, Rasputin)! What's not to love?... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Staff Pick Reading Sometimes a Great Notion (I finally made it past the first 100 labyrinthine pages after many failed attempts) had such a profound impact on me; it spoke so directly to my core and to what brought me to the land of big trees and ocean breeze (I'm... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #01) by Jasper Fforde Staff Pick The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next a literary detective from the future enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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