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Motherless Brooklyn
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Staff Pick
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Cross Country (Alex Cross Novels)
by James Patterson
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The Arcanum
by Thomas Wheeler
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Horns
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The Troubled Man
by Henning Mankell
Staff Pick
The final installment in the Wallander series is a story about the transitory nature of memory. As Wallander sifts through the fading memories of witnesses and suspects to untangle the connections between recent events and those that occurred decades in... (read more)

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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)

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My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir
by James Ellroy
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James Ellroy is the heir apparent to Raymond Chandler. His dark, convoluted, steroid-infused crime novels have made him the reigning king of LA Noir. Ellroy's stylized prose is "so hard-boiled it burns the pot" and his outlook is as cynical as a frog in... (read more)

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The Boy Detective Fails
by Joe Meno
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The world Joe Meno creates in this book is one full of infinite possibilities. The protagonist, somewhat of a superhero with sleuthing powers, spends his childhood solving mysteries and fighting crime. His adulthood is spent being frightened by the... (read more)

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Rebecca
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Worst Case
by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
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Worst Case, third in the Michael Bennett series, is an intense read. Written with Michael Ledwidge, it bears the hallmark of James Patterson's tight plotting, plus two engaging and intelligent protagonists. The authors have created a warped do-gooder... (read more)

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Close Case (Samantha Kincaid Mysteries)
by Alafair Burke
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Dead in the Family is much more character driven than the last book in Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series. Finding a dead body on her land (no, not the one she knew was there) leads to the discovery that someone (the new Vampire King? the FBI... (read more)

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Ice Cold: A Rizzoli and Isles Novel
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Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir
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The Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
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Lush Life
by Richard Price
Staff Pick
It's a given that fans of Price's earlier novels will rush to read Lush Life. In addition, fans of the HBO series The Wire — or anyone who enjoys a gripping read, period — won't want to miss this fantastic novel, which peels back the shiny surface of... (read more)

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Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (11 Edition)
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H. P. Lovecraft created a world full of frightful and disturbing creatures that would go on to influence popular culture in ways he could never have imagined. While he graced the pages of the Weird Tales pulp magazine, his work was never published in... (read more)

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