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"The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience." —Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of Wench Attica Locke's breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won resounding acclaim from major publications coast-to-coast and from respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, earning this exciting new author comparisons to Dennis Lehane, Scott Turow, and Walter Mosley.

Before she went to prison, Alison Kidd was the best thief in the city. But Ali has changed. All she wants now is to clean up her act and work in her brother Dean’s restaurant. She never wants to go back inside.On the day she gets out, Dean is supposed to pick her up. But he never shows. Ali makes her way to Dean’s apartment and uses her unique skill set to let herself in. Dean is missing. After some investigation, Ali discovers that he was kidnapped and is being held hostage by powerful crime boss, Lisa Wan.

Follow along as reluctant mob goddaughter Gina Gallo gets dragged into one wild scheme after another by her bumbling mob family that never gets it right. This digital bundle includes the entire Gina Gallo Mystery series: The Goddaughter, The Goddaughter's Revenge (winner of the Arthur Ellis and Derringer Awards), The Artful Goddaughter, The Goddaughter Caper, The Bootlegger's Goddaughter and The Goddaughter Does Vegas."Campbell's comic caper is just right for Janet Evanovich fans.

RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson has been serving with the United Nations, a job that takes him to South Sudan and Haiti, where he is training local police and assisting with investigations. However, murder seems to find him wherever he goes—even on vacation in the Turks and Caicos Islands. These satisfying short mysteries introduce the reader to colourful locales and a determined protagonist who will stop at nothing until he solves the crime. This digital bundle includes the entire Ray Robertson series: Juba Good, Haitian Graves and Blood and Belonging.

The 6th of January is Sherlock Holmes's birthday, and lucky for Gemma Doyle, January is also the slowest time of the year at both the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, and Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room. It's a good time for Gemma and her friends to travel to England for a Holmes Convention.

Artist and spa owner Penny Brannigan has been asked to organize a formal dinner to mark the centenary of the armistice that ended World War One. After dinner, the guests adjourn to the library for a private exhibition of the Black Chair, a precious piece of Welsh literary history awarded in 1917 to poet Hedd Wyn. But to the guests' shock, the newly restored bardic chair is missing. And then Penny discovers the rain-soaked body of a waiter. When Penny learns that the victim was the nephew of one of her employees, she is determined to find the killer.

Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. When they find themselves staring at the dead Indian lying in the field, there's a long and dangerous way to go to find the men who killed him.

Sydney Green starts a Brooklyn walking tour and finds an unlikely assistant in her neighbor Theo. But their deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear.

In the dirty thirties jobs were hard to come by. Having lost her father and her home in southern Alberta, Tilly McCormack is thrilled when her application for a position as a chambermaid at the prestigious Banff Springs Hotel, one of Canada's great railway hotels, is accepted. Local trail guide Ryan Blake is taken with Tilly's sparkling blue eyes and mischievous sense of humor. On the night he plans to propose to Tilly, another bride-to-be, whose wedding is being held at the Hotel, disappears. Tilly has an idea where she might have gone and together with Ryan sets out to search for her.

Livy Nash is sent to France with one task: track down the traitor who killed the only man she ever loved. But the City of Lights is teeming with spies, and Livy quickly learns just how much the game has changed.