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It's August 1946--one year after the Japanese surrender--and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. As Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police--irreverent, angry, despairing--goes on the hunt for a terrifying killer, he finds himself simultaneously haunted by his own memories of atrocities he can neither forget nor forgive.
In the latest installment of this beloved series, Isabel Dalhousie--the nosiest and most sympathetic philosopher you are likely to meet--returns to investigate an irresistible puzzle in the art world. While juggling upsets at work with new developments in her personal life, Isabel notices that two paintings attributed to a deceased artist have appeared on the market. Suspicious that they might be forgeries, she begins an investigation that becomes nothing less than an inquiry into the soul of an artist.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
When Ismay and Heather's stepfather was discovered dead in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded the drowning was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have had something to do with it. Now that they're adults, Heather has started seriously dating a man, and Ismay finds that her long-repressed memories can no longer be ignored.
Detective Alisha Barba hadn't heard from her long lost friend Cate in years, but when she receives a frantic letter pleading for help, she knows she must see her. Hours later, Cate and her husband are fatally run down by a car, and Alisha embarks on a journey to uncover the truth behind their deaths.
Private detective Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner to solve an eight-year old rape and battery case long gone cold. But when the partner turns up dead, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived. To close the case, Kelly will have to face the mob, a serial killer, his own double-crossing friends, and the mean streets of the city he loves.
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Two brothers born into a race of Travelers--prophets able to journey to different realms of consciousness--have just discovered that their long lost father may still be alive. Gabriel, who could be humanity's savior, wants to protect him. Michael, however, wants to destroy his father and humanity's hope for freedom. As they race across the globe, their frantic search puts them on a collision course, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective, returns in this blistering novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the snuff film he's just been sent anonymously. Furiously fast-paced and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero, Bangkok Haunts more than lives up to the smart and darkly funny originality of its predecessors.
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Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a swirling blizzard late one night, they discover a dead body. In the wake of the death, the icy veneer of their town Elm Harbor, a place Julie calls "the heart of whiteness," begins to crack, having devastating consequences for a prominent local family and sending shock waves all the way to the White House.
Tokyo Year Zero
A Novel
by David Peace
The Careful Use of Compliments
An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
by Alexander McCall Smith
Bestselling author of The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The Water's Lovely
by Ruth Rendell
Night Ferry
A Novel
by Michael Robotham
author of Suspect 
The Chicago Way
by Michael Harvey
The Dark River
by John Twelve Hawks
author of The Traveler
Bangkok Haunts
by John Burdett
author of Bangkok 8
New England White
A Novel
by Stephen L. Carter
author of the #1 bestseller The Emperor of Ocean Park
