Detective and mystery fiction
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A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today). "In Bluebird, Bluebird, Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."—Ann Patchett. When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules—a fact that Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up Black in the Lone Star State, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could.
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
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L'inspecteur Kristoffer Bark doit faire la lumière sur une nouvelle affaire non résolue : Emelie Kartman, enseignante au primaire, veuve et mère, disparue il y a dix ans et dont le corps a été retrouvé trois ans plus tard enfermé dans un baril transpercé de centaines de longs clous. Une mort d'une atrocité sans nom. Bark découvre rapidement que l'enquête de l'époque a été bâclée. Lorsqu'il joint sa collègue en arrêt de travail, Sara Bredow, pour prendre des nouvelles, il apprend qu'elle aussi a fait l'objet de menaces.
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Guy Saint-Jean Editeur, Incorporated
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"Glamorous, gripping, absolutely heaps of fun. I loved this." —Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Paris Apartment. "Unexpected delights await on every page of Ram Murali's impressive and captivating debut. Crisp as a gin and tonic and delightfully wicked, this smart, smart novel delivers a sophisticated, subversive murder mystery set in the highest stratosphere of the international idle rich.
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“Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife” (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye, is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida—and a lot that’s rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments.
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Un an plus tard, l'Escouade des crimes violents se remet difficilement des séquelles laissées par le passage de l'Artiste. Quand on confie l'affaire d'un cadavre momifié au lieutenant McDougall, Kate se retrouve devant une évidence : sa récente sobriété, l'évolution de sa relation avec Sylvio et ses incapacités de mère affectent son habileté à résoudre le dossier. Surtout lorsque l'enquête les mène à l'organisation d'extrême droite liée à l'Artiste et que sa fille, un beau matin, manque à l'appel...
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A USA Today Bestseller. #1 Toronto Star Bestseller in Canadian Fiction. A Globe and Mail Bestseller in Canadian Fiction. A Vancouver Sun Bestseller in New Releases. An Indie Next List Pick (May 2024). An Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense (May 2024). Library Journal's Mystery Pick of the Month (April 2024). Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. "Quick, captivating, and oh-so-much-fun!
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In the follow-up to the National Book Award–longlisted Shutter, Navajo forensic photographer Rita Todacheene grapples with a fanatical serial killer—and the ghosts he leaves behind. A dual-voice cat-and-mouse thriller, told from the points of view of a killer who has created his own deadly religion and the only person who can stop him, an embattled young detective who sees the ghosts of his Native victims.
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Un thriller à ne pas manquer. "Je serai mort dans trois mois." Sebastian Trapp invite Nicky Hunter, sa correspondante de longue date, dans la superbe demeure de San Francisco où il vit reclus. Le célèbre auteur veut que la jeune femme écrive son histoire. "On pourrait élucider un ou deux mystères, vous et moi." Mais si, en apparence, tout se passe bien, Nicky ne peut s'empêcher de repenser à la mystérieuse disparition de la première femme et du fils de Trapp, une nuit de 31 décembre. "La vie est dure.
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[Place of publication not identified]
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The National and International Bestseller. “If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King. Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive... In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club—a group of survivors the press dubbed “The Final Girls”: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who endured the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape the massacre at Pine Cottage.
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House
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From the author of the critically acclaimed, prizewinning, and internationally bestselling The Colony of Unrequited Dreams comes an epic family mystery with a powerful, surprise ending, which features the return of the ever-fascinating Sheilagh Fielding, one of the most memorable characters in fiction. Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school in the chill hush that precedes the first storm of the winter of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car missing, and his parents gone without a trace.