Unfinished
by Rich J.B. Martin
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Alex Taylor arrives at Covenant University looking for a fresh start. He wants a quiet life, a college degree, and no reason to depend on anyone. Then his roommate is found beaten and unconscious behind a campus technology building. Hours earlier, witnesses heard Alex threaten him. Alex has no alibi.

Anonymous notes claim he possesses something he has never seen. The victim’s final, fragmented words seem to point directly at him. As Detective Sarah Sloane investigates, she uncovers a second trail involving unauthorized computer access, a missing professor, and groundbreaking artificial-intelligence research that someone is willing to use violence to obtain.

Faith Hunter
by William Pickrel
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Daniel Rowan used to find things for a living. Then he found something that cost too many people too much, and he disappeared to a cottage at the end of a dirt road. Now a foundation director has tracked him down with a clay jar from a dead collector’s estate.

Inside is a scroll written by a man who calls himself the son of Jesse. It tells where he laid down the sword of Goliath, and why he wrapped it in cloth: his own men had started turning on each other around it.

A Cornucopia of Murder
by Michele PW (Pariza Wacek)
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When Charlie accepts an invitation for a potluck Thanksgiving feast, she immediately decides to bring dessert. Homemade pies, of course. And they look so delicious that two of the guests decide to sneak a few bites before the meal.

Which wouldn’t be an issue, except they both end up dead! Obviously, Charlie didn’t poison the pies, but that’s not how it appears. Can she solve the case in time to save the day?

Dead Man’s Loot
by Armstrong Johnson
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Johnny Foster was three days from homeless and one bad morning from giving up. Then he bid sixty dollars on the wrong pallet. It should have been junk.

Instead, Pallet 13 held a dead knight’s legacy: a sword that glows, rings that will not come off, bags that hold more than they should, coins from a mint no country on Earth ever stamped, and one legendary artifact that wakes something called the System and marks Johnny as a Traveler. He does not go alone.

The Other Woman
by Daniel Silva
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In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin’s most closely guarded secret.

Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West—a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power. Only one man can unravel the conspiracy: Gabriel Allon, the legendary art restorer and assassin who serves as the chief of Israel’s vaunted secret intelligence service.

The Order
by Daniel Silva
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It was nearly one a.m. by the time he crawled into bed. Chiara was reading a novel, oblivious to the television, which was muted. On the screen was a live shot of St. Peter’s Basilica. Gabriel raised the volume and learned that an old friend had died …

Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome for a secret mission of international intrigue by the Holy Father’s loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati.

The Oxford Detective Society
by Faith Martin
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Oxford biographer Lyssa Moore is delighted to be commissioned to write about Amelia ‘Monty’ Montrose, the 1960s music icon who died mysteriously at her birthday party in 1966. But as Lyssa delves into Monty’s past, she discovers the wild child portrayed by the press was hiding far more than anyone knew.

And someone is taking a very keen interest in Lyssa’s research. Her flat has been broken into, her phone is acting strangely, and she has a feeling she is being followed. Is Lyssa getting too close to a dangerous truth—was there more to Monty’s death than a tragic accident?

Hunting Badger
by Tony Hillerman
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Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute nation and then disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. When the FBI, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, launch an investigation of their own.

Chee sees a dangerous flaw in the federal theory; Leaphorn sees intriguing connections to the exploits of a legendary Ute bandit-hero. And together, they find themselves caught up in the most perplexing—and deadly—criminal manhunt of their lives.

Ghost Writer
by Alison Bruce
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Jen Kirby has seen ghosts since she was a child, but she can’t talk to them or help them cross over. And, after a violent death in the family, she doesn’t want to see them anymore.

In her role as ghostwriter, Jen joins a Canadian Arctic expedition to document and help solve a forty-year-old mystery involving an American submarine station lost during the Cold War. The trouble is, there are people—living and dead—who don’t want the story told, and they’ll do anything to stop her.

Hollow Bones
by Jodi Picoult
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On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world.

Faith Hunter
by William Pickrel
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Daniel Rowan used to find things for a living. Then he found something that cost too many people too much, and he disappeared to a cottage at the end of a dirt road. Now a foundation director has tracked him down with a clay jar from a dead collector’s estate.

Inside is a scroll written by a man who calls himself the son of Jesse. It tells where he laid down the sword of Goliath, and why he wrapped it in cloth: his own men had started turning on each other around it.

Blink of an Eye
by Roy Johansen and Iris Johansen
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Delilah Winter is one of the hottest pop stars on the planet, so how in the world was she kidnapped right in the middle of a show at the famous Hollywood Bowl? If anyone can figure it out, it’s Dr. Kendra Michaels, who works with local and federal authorities on only the most impossible cases.

Blind for the first twenty years of her life until a revolutionary surgical procedure allowed her to regain her sight, Kendra uses her powers of observation—honed during her years in the dark—to detect what other investigators don’t.

Lethal Prey
by John Sandford
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Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death . . . but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found. Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all.

Shadowed Lives
by Vikki Corowa
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Rick never expected to survive prison, especially not after the knife meant to silence him. As darkness closes in, he hears words that chill him deeper than the blade. “She is ours. We are coming for her.”

When Rick wakes chained to a hospital bed and under guard, he knows the woman he once hurt is in grave danger. Steph, the woman he never stopped loving, the woman he swore he would protect, is being hunted by a ruthless international trafficking syndicate with ties to Sydney’s underworld.

Murder in Bologna
by T A Williams
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A grieving father asks Dan to uncover the truth behind the death of his gifted son, a student at Bologna’s prestigious Art Institute. Accompanied by his loyal Labrador, Oscar, Dan heads north from Florence to investigate. The student’s former girlfriend is consumed by grief and the Art Institute is mourning one of its brightest talents.

But beneath the surface, Dan senses that someone is hiding the truth. Doing a favour for his friend, Commissario Virgilio Pisano of the Florence murder squad, Dan soon finds himself caught up in the shady world of drug dealing, organised crime and fraud on a grand scale.

The Taken Ones
by J. A. Jance
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Despite her name, Twinkle Winkleman is as tough as nails. A skilled mechanic and certified spitfire, she has a nose for trouble. So when a young woman from Anchorage disappears after heading to Seattle for an internship that seems too good to be true, Twinkle is convinced that something dangerous is happening. But both the Anchorage and Seattle authorities dismiss her out of hand.

With nowhere else to turn, Twinkle calls on an old friend: private investigator and former homicide cop J. P. Beaumont.