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Coffey's Hands by Stephen King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWelcome back to E Block, the deadliest place this side of the electric chair, where assaults are a daily grind and miracles are about to happen. Paul Edgecombe has become increasingly curious about John Coffey, the brutal killer of two girls. But Coffey is about to reveal something extraordinary, and life on the Green Mile may never be the same again...Categorized as:
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![Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino]()
Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFrom the acclaimed international bestseller Keigo Higashino (The Devotion of Suspect X) comes a sweeping novel in the tradition of Les Miserables and Crime and Punishment...Categorized as:
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![The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers]()
The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA beautiful repackaged edition of Francine Rivers's classic novel that breaks through the many taboos surrounding abortion. In one terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, and her doting family torn apart...Categorized as:
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![Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes]()
Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper asking readers to send rocks in honor of loved ones to create something life-giving but the building halts when tragedy strikes. Decades later, Annie returns to the coastal Maine town where stone ruins spark her curiosity and her search for answers faces a battle against time...Categorized as:
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![After the Fire by Will Hill]()
After the Fire by Will Hill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade.Before, she lived inside the fence. Before, she was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything—and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible consequences... -
![Cianură pentru un surâs by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu]()
Cianură pentru un surâs by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsÎntr-un imobil oarecare din strada Crăiței, cu ocazia unei inundații, cinci locatari dau peste două tablouri de o valoare inestimabilă. Cei cinci fac planuri pentru a se îmbogăți, dar, unul câte unul, încep să moară otrăviți. De fiecare dată, cei rămași trebuie să ascundă cadavrele și să fenteze Miliția, ducând mai departe, în paralel, planul pentru a vinde tablourile peste hotare... -
![The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter]()
The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe final Inspector Morse mystery finds the cunning detective and the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis in pursuit of nurse Yvonne Harrington's murderer . . . two years after her death... -
![The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies]()
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Fifth Business Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and...Categorized as:
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![A Light in the Window by Jan Karon]()
A Light in the Window by Jan Karon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratings- Readers will enjoy a story from the popular series-packaged bestseller!- Includes new Reader's Guide for group discussion or personal...Categorized as:
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![Med rett til å drepe by Daniel Silva]()
Med rett til å drepe by Daniel Silva
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMunich: The writer Benjamin Stern entered his flat to see a man standing there, leafing through his research, and said, "Who the hell are you?" In response, the man shot him. As Stern lay dying, the gunman murmured a few words in Latin, then he gathered the writer's papers and left... -
![The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler]()
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsDown-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to the only friend he can trust: private investigator Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty... -
![Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer]()
Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings[NB: 2-in-1 edition]Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's stunning debut, tells the story of a young Jewish American's quixotic journey into an unexpected past... -
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Seven by Anthony Bruno
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMismatched partner cops Somerset and Mills are on the trail of a psychotic murderer who intends to avenge the seven deadly sins, starting with gluttony... -
![Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb]()
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas és Holdvilág) is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.'On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice ...'Mihály has dreamt of Italy all his life...Categorized as:
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![The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman]()
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNote: This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 0449235637.While waiting for a view of her night-blooming cereus, the mild-seeming Mrs. Pollifax received urgent orders for a daring mission to aid an escape. Soon, the unlikely-looking international spy was sporting a beautiful new hat that hid eight forged passports...Categorized as:
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![5-B Poppy Lane by Debbie Macomber]()
5-B Poppy Lane by Debbie Macomber
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoin #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber in Cedar Cove this Christmas! Come to 5-B Poppy Lane, where you’ll meet Helen Shelton, her granddaughter Ruth, and Ruth’s husband, Paul. They’ll offer you a cup of mulled cider and tell you the story of how Ruth and Paul met. And you’ll hear about Helen’s breathtaking adventures during the Second World War! Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove... -
![People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman]()
People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWho would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wife pay $3,000 to get them back? These questions haunt Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police as he journeys into the scorching Southwest...Categorized as:
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![Sweet Liar by Jude Deveraux]()
Sweet Liar by Jude Deveraux
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt was her father's dying wish that Samantha Elliot search for her grandmother, who'd disappeared from Louisville when she was a baby. So here she was, in big, dirty New York City...her parents were dead, her divorce was final, and she was all alone.... Michael Taggert was Samantha's landlord, and he was easily the most beautiful man she'd ever seen... -
![Chance by Robert B. Parker, Burt Reynolds]()
Chance by Robert B. Parker, Burt Reynolds
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSearching for a big-time hoodlum's missing son-in-law, Spencer and Hawk probe organized crime... -
![Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie]()
Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAfter twelve years, the last person Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid expects to hear from is his ex-wife Victoria. But this is no social call. In her biographical research on troubled poet Lydia Brooke, Vic’s uncovered reasons to believe Lydia’s death five years ago was not suicide... -
![The Way Through The Woods by Colin Dexter]()
The Way Through The Woods by Colin Dexter
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMorse is enjoying a rare if unsatisfying holiday in Dorset when the first letter appears in THE TIMES. A year before, a stunning Swedish student disappeared from Oxfordshire, leaving behind a rucksack with her identification. As the lady was dishy, young, and traveling alone, the Thames Valley Police suspected foul play... -
![One Step Behind by Henning Mankell]()
One Step Behind by Henning Mankell
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But unknown to them, they are being watched. With a bullet each, all three are murdered. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is this the same killer, and what could the connection be? In this investigation, Wallander is always, tantalisingly, One Step Behind... -
![The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman]()
The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times BestsellerThe New York Times bestselling novel by master writer Tony Hillerman—an electrifying thriller of revenge, secrets, and murder.“One of the best of the series.”—New York Times Book ReviewOld Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies... -
![The Mark Of The Assassin by Daniel Silva]()
The Mark Of The Assassin by Daniel Silva
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCIA Agent Michael Osbourne stars in this suspenseful series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gabriel Allon novels.When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the east coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin...Categorized as:
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![Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George]()
Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen thirteen-year-old Matthew Whateley goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St...Categorized as:
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![A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George]()
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsTo this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders... -
![The Witnesses by Linda Byler]()
The Witnesses by Linda Byler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNote: product cancelled, or possibly postponed--Good Books went out of business in December 2013 and was acquired by Skyhorse Publishing in a bankruptcy court auction in September 2014 The Witnesses is the third novel in Amish novelist, Linda Byler’s current series, “Lancaster Burning... -
![Between the Sound and Sea by Amanda Cox]()
Between the Sound and Sea by Amanda Cox
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEvery family has its secrets. Josephina Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their own after a lawsuit tarnishes their name. When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned lighthouse on a North Carolina island, she jumps at the chance to escape her small town to oversee its restoration... -
![Long Upon the Land by Margaret Maron]()
Long Upon the Land by Margaret Maron
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMargaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author and Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, returns to Colleton County with an exciting new Deborah Knott mystery . . . LONG UPON THE LANDOn a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knott's father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote corner of his farm: the body of a man bludgeoned to death... -
![The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman]()
The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOfficer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road--with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket ... and a tobacco tin nearly filled with tracer gold. It's her initial mishandling of the scene that spell trouble for her supervisor, Sgt...Categorized as:
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![Mourn Not Your Dead by Deborah Crombie]()
Mourn Not Your Dead by Deborah Crombie
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a high-ranking police officer is brutally murdered, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are drawn into a case that not only challenges their investigative skills but forces them to examine their ethics and their relationship with each other... -
![Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie]()
Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsScotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James face their most haunting case yet when the past devastatingly intersects with the present....The call from Scotland Yard couldn't have come at a worse time for Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. He has promised the weekend to Kit, the eleven-year-old son of his ex-wife... -
![Death Is Now My Neighbor by Colin Dexter]()
Death Is Now My Neighbor by Colin Dexter
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe peaceful quadrangle of Lonsdale College seems remote from the shocks of the outside world—such as the shooting of a young woman in her North Oxford home. But things at Lonsdale are not as tranquil as they appear. The Master of the college is retiring, and two senior dons, Denis Cornford and Julian Storrs, are vying, discreetly but furiously, to succeed him... -
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Clockers by Richard Price
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAward-winning author Richard Price here offers a viscerally affecting and accomplished portrait of inner-city America.Veteran homicide detective Rocco Klein's passion for the job gave way long ago... -
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![Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman]()
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNavajo Tribal Police Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn investigate murders that lead them into spine-tingling and mystical world of Navajo witchcraft. Three unsolved homicides and an attempt on Chee's life have left the Navajo Tribal Police baffled...Categorized as:
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![In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George]()
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA theatrical producer shoots himself on the night of his greatest triumph. A young woman camping on the Derbyshire moors is bludgeoned to death. A motorcyclist is found stabbed to death in the center of an ancient henge. Is there a connection? Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley is on the case, but recently demoted Constable Barbara Havers isn't about to let him go it alone... -
![Let It Bleed by Ian Rankin]()
Let It Bleed by Ian Rankin
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the dark days and biting windstorms of an Edinburgh winter, two drop-out kids dive off the towering Forth Road Bridge. A civic office is spattered by a grisly gun-blast. Two suicides and a murder that just don't add up, unless John Rebus can crunch the numbers... -
![Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George]()
Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive." In her astonishing "New York Times" bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession... -
![The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin]()
The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon... The hanging of four French villagers in World War II... The hanging of an old man in a Scottish cemetery... Seemingly random facts linked to one man.. -
![Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George]()
Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBalford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, a Pakistani named Haytham Querashi, is found dead near its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites...Categorized as:
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![Hotel by Arthur Hailey]()
Hotel by Arthur Hailey
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDuring five days in the midst of a hot, steamy Louisiana summer, the lives of a colorful cast of characters intertwine in a series of public, private, and personal dramas at the famed St. Gregory luxury hotel...Categorized as:
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![Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George]()
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer... -
![The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow]()
The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTurow's acclaimed second novel, which topped international bestseller lists, is now available in trade paperback. Sandy Stern, the brilliant defense attorney from Presumed Innocent, faces an event so emotionally shattering that no part of his life is left untouched. It reveals a family caught in a maelstrom of hidden crimes, shocking secrets, and warring passions... -
![Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer]()
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe!!A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man...Categorized as:
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![The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies]()
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHailed as a literary masterpiece, Robertson Davies' The Cornish Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in the bestselling Lyre of Orpheus.There is an important decision to be made...Categorized as:
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![Marathon Man by William Goldman]()
Marathon Man by William Goldman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence--and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder--and force him into a race for his life . . -
![With No One as Witness by Elizabeth George]()
With No One as Witness by Elizabeth George
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe police never suspected a serial killer was at large until they found the third murdered boy, the first white victim, his body draped over a tomb in a London graveyard. Suddenly a series of crimes and a potential public relations disaster have Scotland Yard on the defensive, scrambling to apprehend a maniac while avoiding accusations of racism... -
![For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George]()
For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsElena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge—where Elena was a student at St... -
![A Taste for Death by P.D. James]()
A Taste for Death by P.D. James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen the quiet Little Vestry of St... -
![A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George]()
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratings'Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride...
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