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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

When her mother arrives unannounced during harvest season, apple orchard owner Meg Corey finds things taking a turn for the worse when an old friend of her mother's is found dead on her property and her mother stands accused of the crime. Original.

A Killer Crop

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#paperback #fiction #crime #detective #crimenoir #mystery 

Tennessee

A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue

The Maltese Falcon

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#paperback #father #daughter #crime #conman #family

Georgia

Her father an incorrigible con man, her mother a daydreamer who died young, Sonya Weiler is forced to tend both father and sister but gallantly manages to build a life for herself

Imaginary Crimes

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#paperback #teens#action #crime #EveYohalem

Alabama

. . . should appeal to all with a sense of adventure. Publishers Weekly . . . an engrossing journey. Kirkus Reviews Teens itching to read about life on another continent will relish Yohalem's exciting debut novel. Booklist . . . this unusual adventure places a reassuringly typical American teenager in an intriguingly different setting. School Library Journal

Escape under the Forever Sky

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

A Wexford Novel

From the award-winning author and grand dame of British crime fiction (The Gazette) comes the chilling new novel featuring Chief Inspector Wexford and the Kingsmarkham Police Force.

Not in the Flesh

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New York

Will Robie is the government's most professional, disciplined, and lethal assassin. He infiltrates the most hostile countries in the world, defeats our enemies' advanced security measures, and eliminates threats before they ever reach our shores. But now, his skills have left him. Sent overseas on a critical assignment, he fails, unable to pull the trigger. Absent his talents, Robie is a man without a mission, and without a purpose. To recover what he has lost, Robie must confront what he has tried to forget for over twenty years: his own past. THE GUILTY Will Robie escaped his small Gulf Coast hometown of Cantrell, Mississippi after high school, severing all personal ties, and never looked back. Not once. Not until the unimaginable occurs. His father, Dan Robie, has been arrested and charged with murder. Father and son haven't spoken or seen each other since the day Robie left town. In that time, Dan Robie-a local attorney and pillar of the community-has been elected town judge. Despite this, most of Cantrell is aligned against Dan. His guilt is assumed. To make matters worse, Dan has refused to do anything to defend himself. When Robie tries to help, his father responds only with anger and defiance. Could Dan really be guilty? With the equally formidable Jessica Reel at his side, Robie ignores his father's wishes and begins his own desperate investigation into the case. But Robie is now a stranger to his hometown, an outsider, a man who has forsaken his past and his family. His attempts to save his father are met with distrust and skepticism . . . and violence. Unlike the missions Robie undertook in the service of his country, where his target was clearly defined, digging into his father's case only reveals more questions. Robie is drawn into the hidden underside of Cantrell, where he must face the unexpected and possibly deadly consequences of the long-ago choices made by father and son. And this time, there may be no escape for either of them.

The Guilty

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#paperback #thriller #mystery #suspense #crime #murder 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years.

Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication, Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug. He has new information which he refuses to divulge, new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to re-investigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down.

A Greek tragedy in modern England, Val McDermid's A Place of Execution is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.

A Place of Execution is winner of the 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a 2001 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.

A Place of Execution

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The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals

An FBI criminal profiling expert discusses his theories of motive.

The Anatomy of Motive

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#hardcover #fiction #mystery #thriller #adult #bestseller #crime #Russian #ArkadyRenko 

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Gorky Park and Tatiana comes a breathtaking new novel about investigator Arkady Renko—“one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY)—who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist Tatiana Petrovna. Journalist Tatiana Petrovna is on the move. Arkady Renko, iconic Moscow investigator and Tatiana’s part-time lover, hasn’t seen her since she left on assignment over a month ago. When she doesn’t arrive on her scheduled train, he’s positive something is wrong. No one else thinks Renko should be worried—Tatiana is known to disappear during deep assignments—but he knows her enemies all too well and the criminal lengths they’ll go to keep her quiet. Renko embarks on a dangerous journey to find Tatiana and bring her back. From the banks of Lake Baikal to rundown Chita, Renko slowly learns that Tatiana has been profiling the rise of political dissident Mikhail Kuznetsov, a golden boy of modern oil wealth and the first to pose a true threat to Putin’s rule in over a decade. Though Kuznetsov seems like the perfect candidate to take on the corruption in Russian politics, his reputation becomes clouded when Boris Benz, his business partner and best friend, turns up dead. In a land of shamans and brutally cold nights, oligarchs wealthy on northern oil, and sea monsters that are said to prowl the deepest lake in the world, Renko needs all his wits about him to get Tatiana out alive. The Washington Post has said “Martin Cruz Smith is that rare phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction.” In the latest continuation of his unforgettable series, he brings us to the inside world of shadowy political figures and big wig oil oligarchs providing us with an authentic view of contemporary Russia, infused with his trademark wit.

The Siberian Dilemma

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#Dexter #suspense #thriller #bestseller #Showtime #TVshow #serialkiller #murder #crime #serial-killer.  Book in very good condition.

Dexter Morgan, who hides a secret life as an assassin while working as a murder analyst for the Miami police, is intrigued by the work of a new serial killer whose style mimics his own.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

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 #fiction #paperback #suspensethrillers #thriller #crimefiction #crime #stieglarsson #series

Two reporters responsible for a sex-trafficking exposâe are murdered, and the fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander, prompting the magazine's publisher, Mikael Blomkvist, to launch his own investigation to vindicate Salander.

The Girl Who Played with Fire

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#crime #vanishingfalls #fiction #paperback 

A Novel

In this propulsive, page-turning thriller, the dark secrets of a small town in Tasmania are unraveled as a well-known figure goes missing without a trace--perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant and Ruth Ware. Vanishing Falls, deep in the Tasmanian rainforest, is a remote small town with a storied past. The town's showpiece, built in the 1800s, is its calendar house--an eccentric, lavish mansion. These days, the house is occupied by Jack Lily, a prominent art collector and landowner, and his wife, Celia...or at least, it was. For the pretty, popular, and kind Celia has suddenly disappeared. Joelle Smithton knows that a few folks in Vanishing Falls believe that she's stupid. It's true that Joelle's brain works a little differently--a legacy of shocking childhood trauma. But Joelle sees far more than most people realize, and remembers details that others cast away. For instance, she knows that Celia's husband, Jack, has connections to unsavory local characters whom he's desperate to keep hidden. He's not the only one in town with something to conceal. Even Joelle's own husband, Brian, a butcher, is acting suspiciously. While the police flounder, unable to find Celia's body, Joelle is gradually parsing the truth from the gossip she hears and from the simple gestures and statements that can unwittingly reveal so much. Just as the water from the falls disappears into the ground, gushing away through subterranean creeks, the secrets in Vanishing Falls are pulsing through the town, about to converge. And when they do, Joelle must summon the courage to reveal what really happened to Celia, even if it means exposing her own past. With one of the most memorable heroines in fiction, Vanishing Falls captivates from its first page to the shocking, electrifying ending.

Vanishing Falls

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Wisconsin

A Totally Addictive Crime Novel Packed with Twists

The girl trips over branches, losing her footing. The darkness swallows her and she grabs thin air as she falls, her scream piercing the night. When she slams into the bottom of the pit, her heart hammers. She can't believe what she's seeing-a pile of perfect white bones...

In the small town of Crooked Creek, where the Appalachian Mountains climb into the clouds, nineteen-year-old Mandy's Spring Break takes a sinister turn. Detective Ellie Reeves races straight to the scene, driving through the winding roads to the abandoned orphanage.

Ellie saves the teenage girl but discovers human remains that have been there for thirty years, ever since the home for children closed down. Her heart shatters at the thought that they might belong to the helpless orphans.

Working day and night on the case, Ellie searches for the orphanage's files, but they have been stolen-somebody is clearly trying to cover their tracks. As she interviews the residents of the mountain community, Ellie finds out that almost everyone connected to the children's home has disappeared.

Then a woman is found dead, her body marked with a strange symbol. When Ellie learns that the victim used to work at the orphanage, it's clear that a twisted killer is trying to stop the truth coming out.

Ellie vows to solve this case that spans decades, and when her research into the meaning of the symbol leads her to a local business at the heart of recent controversy, she's on the right track. Can she bring the secrets to light before another innocent person is murdered? And when she gets too close to uncovering the truth, will she survive?

A totally gripping and pulse-pounding crime-thriller that will have you holding your breath as you race through the pages! Perfect for fans of Lisa Regan, Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh.

Readers absolutely love Rita Herron:

"WoW! WoW! WoW! What an absolutely mind-spinning, gripping story!... I had a really hard time putting my e-reader down to do my adult responsibilities." NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"Omg omg omg... Man oh man, this book gripped me... This is edge-of-your-seat stuff... You won't get anything else done throughout the day as you can't put this book down... Amazing." NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"I was literally hooked ... So many twists and turns... I stayed up all night reading!... This book is unputdownable, giving you a rollercoaster ride with twists and turns you never would expect!" Tropical Girl Reads, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"Wow!... I literally haven't been able to put this book down! This has completely gripped me and has been utterly impossible to put down." Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"This book was so damn good! I just couldn't put it down until I finished it!... Had me hooked right from the start... Amazing!!" Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"Such a rollercoaster ride!... I was literally hooked... An unputdownable thriller!!!" @RubieReads, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hidden Bones

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Very good condition with mild spine creases, #fiction #paperback #mystery #murdermystery #crime #puzzles

Virginia

When Joanna Clayton, her greatest rival, is poisoned, Savannah Stone, who makes her living creating puzzles for logic lovers, is stumped by this mystery and must sort through Joanna's long list of enemies to solve this crime. Original.

A Grid for Murder

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Shelf wear only, never read this book and honestly refuse to do so. Bargain bin price for a garbage bin author. #hardcover #fiction #detective #mystery #thecuckooscalling #cormoranstrike #jkrowling #crime 

The Cuckoo's Calling

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#paperback #nonfiction #mindhunter #truecrime #serialkillers #fbi #crime #biography 

Iowa

Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

Includes material on "the Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta child murderer, the Tylenol poisoner, the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, and Seattle's Green River killer ..."

Sheila Connolly

A Killer Crop

Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon

Sheila Ballantyne

Imaginary Crimes

Eve Yohalem

Escape under the Forever Sky

Ruth Rendell

Not in the Flesh

David Baldacci

The Guilty

Val McDermid

A Place of Execution

John E. Douglas; Mark Olshaker

The Anatomy of Motive

Martin Cruz Smith

The Siberian Dilemma

Jeff Lindsay

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Poppy Gee

Vanishing Falls

Rita Herron

Hidden Bones

Casey Mayes

A Grid for Murder

Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoo's Calling

John E. Douglas; Mark Olshaker

Mindhunter