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Finding Nouf
by Zoe Ferraris
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A captivating page turner that vividly evokes Saudi Arabian society and introduces an original new hero. When sixteen year old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir,a desert guide hired by her More
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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest
by Stieg Larsson
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Lisbeth Salander, the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels, is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: when she’s well enough, she’ll sta More
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The Crossing Places
by Elly Griffiths
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When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson. He thinks they may be More
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Pray For Silence
by Linda Castillo
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New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo delivers an electrifying thriller in which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family. The Plank family mov More
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31 Bond Street
by Ellen Horan
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The sensational murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell in his lower Manhattan home made front-page news across the United States in 1857. "Who killed Dr. Burdell?" was a question that gripped the nation. 31 BOND STREET, a debut n More
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Ice Cold
by Tess Gerritsen
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New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen’s relentless, inventive novels take readers on pulse-racing thrill rides that are as satisfying as they are heart-stopping. Now, in this edge-of-your-seat suspense novel, a mysteri More
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61 Hours
by Lee Child
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Lee Child is the author of fourteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the "New York Times" bestsellers" "Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, and The Hard Way, and the #1 bestsellers Gone Tomorrow, Bad Luck and Tro More
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Child 44
by Tom Rob Smith
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An amazingly assured and exciting debut, set in Soviet Russia in 1953, with a wonderfully realised sense of all pervading fear and the desperateness of a chilling race against time. How do you solve an impossible crime? More
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Broken
by Karen Slaughter
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Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Her latest offering features the retur More
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The Surgeon
by Tess Gerritsen
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In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.
He slips into their homes at More
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The Unit
by Ninni Holmqvist
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When Dorrit Wegner turned fifty, the government transferred her to a state-of-the-art facility where she can live out her days in comfort. Her apartment is furnished to her tastes, her meals expertly served, and all at the very r More
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Gone Tomorrow
by Lee Child
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Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan by dozens of people with one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A More
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The Tale of Halcyon Crane
by Wendy Webb
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When a mysterious letter lands in Hallie James’s mailbox, her life is upended. Hallie was raised by her loving father, having been told her mother died in a fire decades earlier. But it turns out that her mother, Madlyn, was aliv More
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Fault Line
by Barry Eisler
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Silicon Valley: the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal. Istanbul: a cynical undercover operative receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believe More
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Think Twice
by Lisa Scottoline
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"From the blockbuster "New York Times "bestselling author of "Look Again "comes a novel that makes you question the nature of evil: is it born in us or is it bred? Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connol More
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The Bride Collector
by Ted Dekker
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FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raine More
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Angelology
by Danielle Trussoni
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(3.5 stars) A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time between a hidden society and heaven's darkest creatures. "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in u More
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Nine Dragons
by Michael Connelly
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(3.5 stars) LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest,fiercest,and highest stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murde More
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Lights Out Tonight
by Mary Jane Clark
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In Mary Jane Clark’s latest blockbuster novel, you will enter the mind of a sociopath. It’s a place where the rules don’t apply. Where anything is fair game. And where murder is the ultimate means to an end. What kind of person, More
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The Violet Hour
by Daniel Judson
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In Daniel Judson’s powerful new thriller, Bridgehampton auto mechanic Caleb Rakowski gets paid under the table at his friend Eric Carver's auto repair shop and lives in an apartment above. He's good at his job, he's a hard worker More
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The Girl Who Played With Fire
by Stieg Larsson
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Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine "Millennium, " has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well known and More
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U Is For Undertow
by Sue Grafton
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Calling "T is for Trespass" "taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific",USA Today went on to ask, What does it take to write twenty novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre bending novel every time? It More
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The Waters Edge
by Karin Fossum Charlotte Barslund
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A married couple, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristine’s horror, kneels More
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Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold's luminous first novel, one of the most celebrated litery debuts of recent seasons, that builds out of a family's grief the most hopeful and joyful of stories. More
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Among The Mad
by Jacqueline Winspear
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(3.5 stars)In the thrilling new novel by the "New York Times" bestselling author of "AnIncomplete Revenge," Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale. It's Christmas Eve 1931. On the way t More
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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
by joshilyn jackson
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether shes helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister T More
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The Tenderness of Wolves
by Stef Penney
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A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award formerly the Whitbre More
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Blue Heaven
by C J Box
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A twelve year old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder,four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where th More
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Perfume
by Patrick Suskind
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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion his sense of smell leads to murder. In the s More
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
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A sensation across Europe, millions of copies sold. A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story and financial intrigue. It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger a young scion of one of More
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The Bonemans Daughters
by Ted Dekker
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They call him BoneMan, a serial killer who's abducted six young women. He's the perfect father looking for the perfect daughter, and when his victims fail to meet his lofty expectations, he kills them by breaking their bones and More
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Mortal Friends
by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
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When the latest victim of the "Beltway Basher" is found in the woods of Montrose Park, Reven Lynch's favorite jogging spot, her crime loving antenna goes up. The murder makes Reven and her best friend, Violet Bolton, reconsider t More
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Sworn To Silence
by Linda Castillo
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Some secrets are too terrible to reveal. Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve. In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and “English” residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ag More
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The Neighbor
by Lisa Gardner
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From a master of suspense comes a chilling new novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors. This is what happened.It was a More
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The September Society
by Charles Finch
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The sitting room looked as familiar as the back of his hand, and immediately Lenox took a liking to the young man who inhabited it. He saw several small artifacts of the missing student’s life, a frayed piece of string about two More
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The Beekeepers Apprentice
by Laurie R king
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What would happen if Sherlock Homles, a perfect man of the Victorian age, pompous, smug, and misogynisitic,were to come face to face with a twentieth century female? If she grew to be a partner worthy of his great talents? Laurie More
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The Eight
by Katherine Neville
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Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for ye More
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The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
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When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. All children mythologize their birth. So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the More
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Shadow of Betrayal
by Brett Battles
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The meeting place was carefully chosen: an abandoned church in rural Ireland just after dark. For Jonathan Quinn a freelance operative and professional “cleaner” the job was only to observe. If his cleanup skills were needed, it More
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Arctic Chill
by Arnaldur Indridason
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On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his More
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Oxygen
by Carol Cassella
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With the compassion of Jodi Picoult and the medical realism of Atul Gawande, Oxygen is a riveting new novel by a real life anesthesiologist, an intimate story of relationships and family that collides with a high stakes medical d More
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A Killers Kiss
by William Lashner
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You want to know what deceit tastes like? It’s sweet. Like honey. Charged with electricity. Laced with amnesia. It’s why adultery will never go out of fashion, why sincerity fails, why sex with strangers is more fun than ever it More
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Evil at Heart
by Chelsea Cain
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Chelsea Cain's novels featuring Portland detective Archie Sheridan and serial killer Gretchen Lowell have captivated fans through two nail biting entries, Heartsick and Sweetheart,both of them multiweek bestsellers in The New Yor More
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Fafon
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Before Daniel knows it, his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness, and doomed love, and before long he realizes that if he doesn't find out the More
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Reliable Wife
by Robert Goolrick
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Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land ste More
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Come Clean
by Bill James
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Sarah Iles latest young lover, Ian Aston, and the seedy gangland club he frequents both possess the intense attraction of the forbidden. When one night at the Monty they witness a fatal knifing, they unwittingly learn far too muc More
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The Secret Speech
by Tom Rob Smith
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Soviet Union, Stalin is dead, and a violent regime is beginning to fracture leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. A secret speech composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is More
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Forty Words For Sorrow
by Giles Blunt
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The discovery of the body of a supposed thirteen year old runaway and the disappearance of another youngster in the rural town of Algonquin Bay force local cops John Cardinal and his new partner, Lisa Delorme, into a desperate se More
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The Dirty Secret's Club
by Meg Gardiner
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Recently Stephen King devoted an entire Entertainment Weekly column to Meg Gardiner, proclaiming her “as good as Michael Connelly and far better than Janet Evanovich.” How is it possible, he wondered, that this Californian was pu More
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Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess R More
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This is a good murder mystery that takes place in Saudi Arabia. I highly recommend this book. Reading about the Saudi culture and the difference in how men and women are treated kept me totally engrossed. I read far beyond my bedtime on several occasions. by-Melissa 2010/09/06, 09:23 AM
This is an intriguing look at today's Muslim culture from the perspective of an American woman who spent time in Saudi Arabia and was married to a Saudi Palestinian Bedouin. Learning about this culture is the heart of this book but the mystery is also quite interesting. by-Lyn 2010/01/03, 05:52 AM
(3.5 stars) This is a great cozy mystery. It's slow in pace with the main draw being Maisie Dobbs; she endearing and a delight to read about. by-Lyn 2010/01/03, 07:38 PM
I was drawn to the title of this book; but it was a disappointment, just never went any where. by-Lyn 2009/04/21, 07:46 AM
Our book club read this book a few months back. There are ten of us. Only three people two besides the one who selected it liked this book, the rest either did not finish it or thought it was not worth reading. by-Mandy 2009/03/15, 06:29 PM
