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Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's Border Crossing portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland. Uncannily, he recognizes the man; it's Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Since the trial, he has reconsidered that evidence and found it lacking. Now he confronts the man whose altered fate may be his responsibility.
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3) Dark places
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For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started -- on the run from a killer.
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Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
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320 pages ; 22 cm
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Investigating the suspicious death of an artistic retreat director, Florence private investigator Sandro Cellini is drawn into the lives of the retreat's artist residents and considers several possible suspects who in turn reveal chilling surprises.
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"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life -- she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker...
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When her dream job turns into a living nightmare, causing her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation, art gallery manager Alice Humphrey must prove that she has been set up -- a deadly mission that plunges her into a high-tech criminal conspiracy that is shockingly linked to her own family.
13) Blind fury
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492 pages ; 21 cm
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Helping to investigate a series of killings, Detective Inspector Anna Travis accepts an offer of assistance from Cameron Welsh, a convicted murderer she helped arrest in the past, but Welsh's obsession with Anna brings terrible consequences.
14) She said/she saw
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When Tegan's two best friends are gunned down in front of her, nobody believes her that she didn't see who did it and doesn't know why.
15) Dead deceiver
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243 pages ; 23 cm.
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A string of crimes in Loon Lake, including a shooting on a ski trail and the stalking of a former nun, occurs during an international ice fishing festival, and Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris must investigate.
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356 pages ; 24 cm.
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In the aftermath of a businessman's disappearance and his wife's public murder, Jana Matinova struggles with red tape and secrecy to determine who the killer's intended target was, in a case with ties to a dark period of Slovak history.
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On an island off the coast of Cornwall, Lord Max Trevalyan is found dead of severe head wounds. The many suspects include Trevalyan's widow, her lover, and the gardener, whose daughter gave birth to Max's son. It's up to young future author Daphne du Maurier to find the killer.
18) Cross the line
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Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city's police force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross steps into the leadership vacuum to investigate the case. But before Cross can make any headway, a brutal crime wave sweeps across the region. The deadly scenes share only one common thread -- the victims are all criminals....
19) Queen of bones
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Havana mystery volume 2
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"Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santería priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognizes one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table. Meanwhile, an old flame of Rosita's, Juan, has returned to Cuba after fleeing by raft twenty years ago. He is with his American wife, Sharon, and has come...
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"Sebastian Becker, a former policeman and Pinkerton agent who now works as the special investigator to the Masters of Lunacy, looking into cases involving any man of property whose sanity is under question. His latest assignment takes him to the small town of Arnmouth to determine whether Sir Owain Lancaster has gone around the bend."--Provided by publisher.
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