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2666
From the Publisher: "Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared."... Show More
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36 Yalta Boulevard: a Novel
From the Publisher: "As a member of the Ministry for State Security, it is part of Brano Sev’s job to do what the authorities ask, no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector, he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder, he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course. But Comrade Brano Sev learns that loyalty to the cause might be the biggest crime of all."... Show More
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Absolute Certainty
From the Publisher: "After Martha “Marty” Nickerson, an assistant district attorney on Cape Cod, won a murder case, the suspect is put behind bars. But soon another body turns up in disturbingly similar circumstances. Did Marty and her colleagues target the wrong man?"... Show More
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Abyssinian Proof
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Achilles' Heel
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After House
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After You With the Pistol
From the Publisher: "Kyril Bonfiglioli’s wickedly fun mysteries featuring the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai—degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin, and general knave-about-Picadilly—are cult classics in the UK. Charlie’s back in After You With the Pistol, along with his thuggish manservant, Jock, and his penchant for too much whiskey—which makes it all the more difficult to figure out what his beautiful new wife Joanna is up to when she tries to convince Charlie to kill the Queen. "... Show More
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All in One Piece
From the Publisher: "Regina Cutter has a new upstairs tenant, Steven Damelin, a single, young, financial analyst whom she is surprised to hear was involved in a “deal” with her late Aunt Jo shortly before her death. But before Reggie can learn specifics, Steven is brutally murdered, and Reggie’s own front door is smeared with mysterious blood marks. Though dismissed by the Boston P.D., Reggie resolves to use her psychic powers to help find the murderer—who may already have picked her as the next victim."... Show More
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Already Dead
From the Publisher: "From the Battery to the Bronx, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe Pitt is one of them, and he’s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that’s eating at him isn’t his idea of a good time. Now some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks’ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he’s still the one who has to deal with them. It ain’t easy going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan. But it’s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition and finds himself searching for a little rich girl who’s gone missing. Now anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, a crazy cult is stalking him, and Joe’s got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the sun comes up."... Show More
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Amethyst Dreams
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
From the Publisher: "More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, two novice writers at the dawn of their careers, sat down to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. Alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence. The manuscript, named after a line from a news story about a fire at a circus, was rejected by publishers and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth century’s most influential writers is being released. Both a fascinating piece of American literary history and an engrossing, atmospheric novel, it brings to life a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation."... Show More
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Anteater of Death
Gunn Zoo Mystery
From the Publisher: "If Lucy, the pregnant Giant Anteater from Belize, didn’t kill the man found dead in her enclosure, who did? California zookeeper Teddy Bentley must find the real murderer before her furry friend is shipped off to another zoo in disgrace.<p>Then another human bites the dust, the monkeys riot, and the wolves go nuts. Things get worse when the snooty folks at Gunn Landing Harbor attempt to evict Teddy from her beloved houseboat. That’s just the beginning. Her father, on the lam from the Feds for embezzling millions, gets targeted by a local gangster. Her socialite mother, Caro, a former beauty queen who loathes Teddy’s dangerous job, starts introducing her to “eligible bachelors.” But Teddy has already given her heart to Sheriff Joe Rejas, a migrant worker’s son. Caro is not pleased.<p>Zoo life, animal lore, and the leaky ups and downs of Central Coast California houseboat living create a thrilling backdrop for murder."... Show More
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Arms of Nemesis: a Mystery of Ancient Rome
From the Publisher: "South of Rome on the Gulf of Puteoli stands the splendid villa of Marcus Crassus, Rome’s wealthiest citizen. When the estate overseer is murdered, Crassus concludes that the deed was done by two missing slaves, who have probably run off to join the Spartacan Slave Revolt. Unless they are found within three days, Crassus vows to massacre his remaining ninety-nine slaves. To Gordianus the Finder falls the fateful task of resolving this riddle from Hades. In a house filled with secrets, the truth is slow to emerge. And as the hour of the massacre approaches, Gordianus realizes that the labyrinthine path he has chosen may just lead to his own destruction."... Show More
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Artifact
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Artists in Crime
From the Publisher: "When murder upsets the creative tranquillity of an artists’ colony, Scotland Yard sends in its most famous investigator. What begins as a routine case turns out most momentous for Roderick Alleyn, whose heart is captured by one of the suspects."... Show More
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As Simple As Snow
From the Publisher: "When the enigmatic Anastasia shows up in the halls of Hamilton High, the narrator finds his life changes greatly. She opens his mind to Burroughs, Baudelaire, Chet Baker, and Mozart. She reveals a world of magic tricks, ghost stories, and affectionate mind games. Together the couple probe through enchanted woods, the Internet, and everything in between, until one winter evening when Anastasia disappears, leaving only a dress on a frozen pond and a string of unanswered questions. Suddenly alone, the narrator is hit with the weight of life’s less playful mysteries, possible signs from the supernatural, and the mystery of what actually happened to his missing love. "... Show More
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Assassin
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Baker Street Letters: a Mystery
From the Publisher: "Reggie and Nigel Heath are relatively close in age but worlds apart in personality. The older of the two brothers, Reggie is a successful attorney with charisma to spare. Nigel has always struggled to step out of his shadow. When Reggie leases space in an office building on London’s Baker Street, he finds that the paperwork comes with an odd stipulation: his firm must receive and respond with a standard reply to letters sent to Sherlock Holmes, who had occupied the same famous address. When Nigel, newly suspended from practicing law and relegated to clerk duties, becomes intrigued by one of the “Dear Sherlock” notes, he disappears quite suddenly, leaving a dead body in his wake, and Reggie must hop the next flight to Los Angeles to uncover the truth. Hot on his heels is Laura, a quick-witted stage actress who’s captured the hearts of both brothers."... Show More
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Balance of Power
From the Publisher: "When an American cargo ship off the coast of Indonesia is seized by terrorists and its crew slaughtered, the sitting Congress demands revenge. The president’s refusal to react aggressively leads to mounting resentment. Then an ambitious young congressional assistant, Jim Dillon, discovers a long-forgotten clause in America’s Constitution that could be used to wrest power from the chief executive—inciting a devastating constitutional crisis and plunging the country into chaos.<p>Now, a battle group steams toward a fateful confrontation in the Java Sea, commissioned by Congress and opposed by the president. Dillon finds himself in the center of a firestorm that rages from the highest court in the land to the killing fields half a world away, as the great nation prepares for war—with itself."... Show More
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Ballad of Frankie Silver
From the Publisher: "Spencer Arrowood was a young, untried deputy sheriff when his testimony helped convict a Tennessee youth for the brutal slaying of two hikers. Now, twenty years later, Spencer receives an invitation to an execution. But time has eroded Spencer’s moral certainty of guilt and raised an interesting coincidence."... Show More
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Barbarous Coast
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Before the Frost
From the Publisher: "In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter, Linda, join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father—the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood friend, Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared. As the case that her father is working on dovetails with her own, something far more dangerous than either could have imagined begins to emerge. They soon find themselves forced to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners."... Show More
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Best Defense
From the Publisher: "When the sister of “Baby Killer” Kennerman asks for help, attorney Barbara Holloway reluctantly looks into matters and finds that incompetent lawyers and a smear campaign from the local right-wing press are going to allow a killer to go free."... Show More
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Big Heat
Unabridged.
From the Publisher: "It all started when a cop committed suicide. Worry over ill health, said his wife. When detective Dave Bannion starts digging deeper, he uncovers a red-hot story of murder and corruption that would blow Philadelphia’s underworld sky high. The big heat was on."... Show More
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Billingsgate Shoal
From the Publisher: "After a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore, a young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found dead. Doc Adams must plumb the depths of a murder he should have prevented. There on the Cape Cod coast he uncovers a cache of illegal arms and barely survives a confrontation with a gun. That leaves the killers with the comfortable idea that Doc is dead. "... Show More
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Black As He's Painted
Alleyn Mysteries
From the Publisher: "When the president of Ng’ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old schoolmate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to try to persuade him otherwise. Alleyn does so. However, an assassin does strike, and Alleyn discovers a wealth of suspects residing in the very shadow of the embassy."... Show More
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Black Hornet
Lew Griffin Mystery
From the Publisher: "A sniper appears in 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. Five people have been fatally shot. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. He's black and she's white, and though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make some sense of it. His unlikely allies include a crusading black journalist, a longtime supplier of mercenary arms and troops, and bail bondsman Frankie DeNoux. Yet it is the character of Lew Griffin that takes center stage, as in each of Sallis's highly praised books. He is by now, in this prequel, well on the way to becoming what he will be; violent, kind, contradictory, alcoholic. Both naïve and wise, he is a man cursed by unspeakable demons, yet seemingly encircled by redemptive angels awaiting an opening."... Show More
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Black Monday: A Novel
From the Publisher: "A Muslim cleric predicts planes will fall from the sky, and America braces for a terrorist attack. But when the prediction proves true, the real cause is far more terrifying: a microbe that eats oil, effectively destroying all gas-operated mechanisms and bringing the world’s economy to a crashing halt. "... Show More
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Black Money
From the Publisher: "When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who’s run off with his client’s girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the suntanned skin of Southern California’s high society."... Show More
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Black Tower
From the Publisher: "From the acclaimed author of The Pale Blue Eye, this literary thriller features Eugène Vidocq, a criminal who transformed himself into the world’s first and greatest detective.<p>After the execution of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI and the death of their son, the Dauphin, the Bourbon monarchy has at last been restored. Dr. Hector Carpentier leads a very quiet life, until he meets legendary police officer Vidocq, who has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance and his extensive knowledge of the Parisian underworld to capture some of the most notorious and elusive criminals. Now, with the help of Carpentier, Vidocq may prove that the Dauphin lives, which could change the course of history."... Show More
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Blacklight Blue
Enzo Files
From the Publisher: "Enzo MacLeod, a Scot teaching in southwest France, has confidently bet that he can crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases. He has, in fact, solved the first two crimes, but the third is far from his mind right now. He’s just been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and he’s become the victim of someone who seems intent on destroying his credit and his relationships—and getting him arrested for murder.<p>This is one instance where his Scottish stubbornness might pay off. Having established a safe house to protect his loved ones, Enzo sets to work. Are his personal woes somehow connected to the digging he’s done into the brutal murder of a rent boy in a Paris apartment sixteen years ago? What further remnants of evidence will he find? And can he stay alive long enough to catch the long-hidden killer?"... Show More
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Blackman's Coffin
From the Publisher: "Sam Blackman is an angry man. A Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the U.S. military, he lost a leg in Iraq, and has been outspoken in his criticism of his medical treatment. Then, ex-marine and fellow amputee Tikima Robertson walks into his hospital room and hints that she has an opportunity for Sam to use his investigative skills—if he can stop feeling sorry for himself. But before she can return, Tikima is murdered, her body found floating in the river.<p>A journal found in Tikima’s apartment, dated to 1919 and written by a twelve-year-old boy, reveals a ninety-year-old crime that foreshadows Tikima’s death—the murder of her great-great-grandfather, Elijah, whose body was also found in the French Broad River. Sam must delve into Asheville’s rich history to uncover the murderous truth. "... Show More
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Blood & Rubles
From the Publisher: "Crime in post-Communist Russia has only gotten worse. Rubles are scarce, blood plentiful. In the eyes of Inspector Portiry Rostnikov and his metropolitan police team, newfound democracy has unleashed the desperation that pushes people over the edge. Deputy Inspector Sasha Tkach must find the murderers terrorizing the ghetto. Policewoman Elena Timofeyeva joins the tax police in a raid on a house filled with Czarist treasures, which disappear the next day. And relentless Inspector Emil Karpo intends to punish the Mafia beasts who killed his lover."... Show More
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Blood Lies
From the Publisher: "Two years ago, Ben Dafoe, a young doctor and part-time crime-scene consultant for the Seattle P.D., lost his identical twin Aaron to cocaine addiction. When his former fiancée is found murdered and blood on the scene matches Ben’s DNA, he becomes the prime suspect. But Ben is convinced his brother must still be alive."... Show More
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Blood Spilt
From the Publisher: "In the magical time of midsummer in Sweden, the murder of a female priest sends shock waves through the community. With no cause to get involved, attorney Rebecka Martinsson cannot help herself. Soon she is drawn into the dead woman’s world of hurt and healing, sin, sexuality, and sacrifice."... Show More
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Blue Hammer
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Bluebottle
Lew Griffin Mystery
From the Publisher: "As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he's just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. What happened? Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the sniper? There are too many pieces missing, too few facts, and a powerful need to know why a year has been stolen from his life.<p>Weaving Griffin's search for identity—one of the recurring themes in this magnificent series—with a sensuous portrait of the people and places the define New Orleans, Sallis continues not only to unravel Griffin's past but to map his future…and our own. Bluebottle continues the mysterious journey begun in The Long-Legged Fly and demonstrates the growing mastery of one of America's finest crime fiction stylists."... Show More
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Body on the Beach
From the Publisher: "Recently retired, Carole Seddon is residing in the Fethering the cottage she purchased with her ex-husband. Theree she maintains a quiet and sensible life with the companionship of Gulliver, her Labrador retriever. But everything changes when she and Gulliver, while taking their daily constitutional, find a corpse on the beach. What’s more, there are two wounds on its neck. The body mysteriously disappears and the police dismiss Carole as a befuddled middle-aged woman. She almost starts to believe it herself...until a stranger threatens her to keep quiet or else.<P>Unable to contain her anxiety, Carole confides in her eccentric neighbor, Jude—who suggests that if the police cannot be bothered to catch a killer, maybe they should do it themselves."... Show More
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Bone of Contention: a Magdalen La Bâtarde Mystery
From the Publisher: "Magdalene la Bâtarde knew trouble was brewing in medieval Oxford, but she never expected it would involve murder. She teams up with old friends and cohorts, including the whores and barmaids of Oxford, to clear up the mess and untangle a murder."... Show More
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Bones of the Barbary Coast
The Cree Black Series
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Bonfire of the Vanities: a Novel
From the Publisher: "Tom Wolfe’s best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an even more beautiful mistress—until one wrong turn sends Sherman spiraling downward in a humiliating fall from grace. A car accident in the Bronx involving Sherman, his girlfriend, and two young lower-class black men sets a match to the incendiary racial and social tensions of 1980s New York City. Suddenly, Sherman finds himself embroiled in the most brutal, high-profile case of the year, as prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers rush in to further their own political and social agendas. With so many egos at stake, the last priority on anyone’s mind is truth or justice in this bitingly hilarious American satire."... Show More
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Borrower of the Night
From the Publisher: "It began as a game, a treasure hunt in an old German castle. For the beautiful and brilliant Vicky Bliss, it was also a challenge, a chance to bring an arrogant young man down a notch or two. And all things considered, it would have been no contest.<p>The prize was a centuries-old shrine carved by Tilman Riemenschneider, probably Germany’s greatest master of the late Gothic period. The place was the forbidding Schloss Drachenstein, where the stones were stained with ancient blood and the air reeked of evil.<p>The problem was that someone was targeted, and the game was soon being played in deadly earnest."... Show More
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Boulevard
From the Publisher: "Stephen Jay Schwartz delivers an intense, nonstop thrill-ride in this shocking new novel about a Los Angeles Police Department robbery-homicide detective who must find the killer responsible for a series of murders that are directly related to him. LAPD detective and former vice cop Hayden Glass is a sex addict. The addiction has ruined his marriage and continues to complicate every aspect of his life. But regular attendance in Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings has helped keep his behavior from affecting his career. That is, until he suspects that three macabre and seemingly unrelated murders are linked to his meetings and targeted directly at him. The rift between his private secrets and his duty to uphold the law plays out against an ever-shortightening timetable in which to save his own life and the lives of the people he loves."... Show More
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Break a Leg, Darlings: A Trixie and Evangeline Mystery
From the Publisher: "Trixie and Evangeline fearlessly face incompetence, irritation, and boredom as they scour the pub theatres and eccentric venues of the London fringe in their search for a new play to star in. They never suspect that while they are stalking a likely playwright, a merciless killer is stalking them."... Show More
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Bridge of Sighs
From the Publisher: "In the volatile and shifting political atmosphere of Eastern Europe after World War II, an inexperienced homicide detective fresh out of the academy is assigned a homicide that no one wants to solve. "... Show More
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Broken Heartland
Mad Dog and Englishman Mystery
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Broken Shore
From the Publisher: "Big-city detective Joe Cashin, posted to a quiet Australian coastal town after a scrape with death, is thrust into a murder investigation in which the evidence points to three boys from the nearby aboriginal community. Unconvinced, Cashin suspects something far more terrible than a burglary gone wrong."... Show More
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Brutal Telling
A Three Pines Mystery
From the Publisher: "As autumn descends upon Three Pines, a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store at the center of town. No one admits to knowing the murdered man, but as secrets are revealed, chaos begins to close in on the beloved bistro owner, Olivier. What past did he leave behind, and why has he buried himself in this tiny village? A trail of astounding clues and treasures—from first editions of Charlotte’s Web and Jane Eyre to a spider web with the word “WOE” woven in it—lead the Chief Inspector deep into the woods and across the continent in search of the truth, then back to Three Pines as the little village braces for the final, brutal telling."... Show More
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Buried Too Deep
From the Publisher: "The spring of 98 AD is a time of optimism in the turbulent frontier province of Britannia. Business is brisk at the mansio (inn) that Aurelia Marcella runs with her twin brother, Lucius, on the road to York. Then, a wagon arrives bearing a local farmer who is dying of a grievous sword wound. The twins head for the coast to return the man to his family and to check out a shipwreck bearing valuable official cargo. A band of outlawed sea-raiders led by a Gaul are suspected of stealing it, along with killing the farmer. It all adds to the feuding that has erupted between the colonists and the natives, which has seen both sides resorting to terrorist tactics: burning, kidnapping, and even murder. Counselors, citizens, chiefs, and slaves mix in; but a subtle, personal agenda is at work as well, for one or more of the combatants may have hired the Gauls to orchestrate the violence."... Show More
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Burn Me Deadly
An Eddie LaCrosse Novel
From the Publisher: "Alex Bledsoe’s The Sword-Edged Blonde drew rave reviews for its ingenious blend of fantasy and hard-boiled detective fiction. Now he brings back his freelance sword jockey, Eddie LaCrosse, in an all-new tale of mean streets and medieval intrigue.<p>Eddie’s on his way back from a routine investigation when his horse almost runs down a half-naked blonde in serious trouble. Against his better judgment, he promises to protect the frightened young woman, only to find himself waylaid by unknown assailants and left for dead beside her mutilated body. Eddie’s quest for payback leads him to a tangled mystery involving a notorious crime lord, a backwoods dragon cult, royal scandals, and a duplicitous femme fatale who has trouble keeping her clothes on. As the bodies pile up, Eddie must use all his wits if he hopes to survive."... Show More
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