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Fans of Anne Tyler's quirky characters and her attention to family life, or Pete Hamill's depiction of diverse, ethnic, urban neighborhoods will connect to Most Precious Blood, set in the eleventh-hour of a declining Italian-American neighborhood where complex and often destructive loyalties have dire consequences. Hard Luck Lenny is the quintessential good son, brother, and father, and he fears a calamity will derail his son's future the way his own dreams were derailed years ago, but Frankie is preoccupied with thoughts of Gennaro DiCico, the son of a small-time mobster.

The return of the western - with a definite Canadian twist. The man, the myth, the gun-toting legend. The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy. In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother Purcell disappears into a winter storm in the mountains of British Columbia, while hunting down his outlawed half-brother. Sixteen years later, the wreck of Purcell resurfaces - derelict, homeless and one-eyed - in a San Francisco jail cell. And a failed journalist named Barrington Weaver conceives a grand redemptive plan.

Eve Duncan became a forensic sculptor after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie, whose remains were discovered ... yet unrecognizable. Driven by a need to liberate innocence from the shroud of death, she obsesses over recreating the likenesses of faceless, decomposed murder victims, using only their bare skulls as a guide. Fleeing to Baton Rouge to take on the project of identifying a skeleton, Eve is forced to work in secrecy, given only the sketchiest of information, and she can't help but wonder if the high-level security that surrounds her is meant to protect her ...

Journalist Sharon Martin and her fiance, attorney Steve Peterson, stand on opposite sides of the capital punishmen debate. Sharon opposes the death sense, while Steve believes that murderers should be executed. But one night, when Steve's young son and Sharon are kidnapped by a madman, Sharon's beliefs are put to the ultimate test. She must stop their captor, even kill him if necessary, or she and the boy will surely die.

Constable Hamish Macbeth's affairs of the heart will have to wait when vile, boorish Captain Bartlett is found murdered--shot while on a grouse hunt. When the hidden culprit strikes again, Hamish will find himself trying to save Priscilla from a miserable marriage--and catch a killer before he flies the coop.

A collection of short stories that explore family relationships and emotions with gruesome and sometimes horrifying results.

Commissario Ricciardi is investigating the death of one of the many street urchins who live in the dark alleys of 1930s Naples. His sixth sense is no help to him this time. Has his unwelcome gift finally faded? Or is something more sinister at work?

Meet Dahlia Moss. Unemployed, broke, and on her last bowl of ramen, she's not living her best life. But that's all about to change. Before Dahlia can make her life any messier on her own, she's offered a job that will lead her to a murder, an MMORPG, and possibly a fella (or two?).

When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. But he hadn't counted on the discovery of a corpse. Glebsky's vacation is over, and he's embarked on the most unusual investigation of his career.

After her friend fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend due to what psychiatrists later dubbed an acute psychotic break, Amy Butcher became obsessed with finding an explanation for the crime. This is her deeply personal account of the consequences of failing a friend when he needed one most.