Thriller / Detective

The Letter of Marque

The Letter of Marque

Patrick O'Brian

When Captain Jack Aubrey is disciplined for a crime he didn't commit, his friend Maturin and he set sail on a desperate mission against the French....

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Nemesis

Nemesis

Catherine Coulter

The next high-octane thriller in the FBI series featuring Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock from # 1 New York Times;bestselling author Catherine Coulter. When Special Agent Lacey Sherlock foils a terrorist attack at JFK airport, she thinks her job is ...

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The Executioner

The Executioner

Chris Carter

Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced ...

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Batman

Batman

Alan Moore

"One bad day. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going ...

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A Sea of Troubles

A Sea of Troubles

Donna Leon

The murder of two of the clam fishermen of the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders wo...

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The Brothers Bulger

The Brothers Bulger

Howie Carr

The riveting New York Times bestseller by award-winning columnist Howie Carr--now with a stunning new afterword detailing Whitey Bulger's capture. For years their familiar story was of two siblings who took different paths out of South Boston: Willia...

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Killings

Killings

Calvin Trillin

These vivid pieces, drawn from the renowned journalist's acclaimed "U.S. Journal" series from the "New Yorker" deal with the theme of sudden death, ranging from the murder of a Miami defense lawyer to a violent tragedy in an Iowa farm family...

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Murder Past Due

Murder Past Due

Miranda James

FIRST IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CAT IN THE STACKS MYSTERY SERIES! Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. He’s returned to his home...

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savan...

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The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris

THE LEGENDARY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER An FBI trainee A psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes And a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim... FBI rookie Clarice Starling turns to Dr. Hannibal Lecter, monster cannibal held in a hos...

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Skin Game

Skin Game

Max Allan Collins

The saga of Dark Angel continues! Someone is killing normal humans in the fog-enshrouded city of Seattle. The murders are brutal and grisly, but inside Terminal City they barely cause a ripple of concern. The transgenics who live there have problems ...

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The Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient E...

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Horns

Horns

Joe Hill

The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Heart-Shaped Box" returns with a relentless new supernatural thriller. Hill spins a story that's both morbidly amusing and emotionally resonant.--"Publishers Weekly."...

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Speaks the Nightbird

Speaks the Nightbird

Robert McCammon

"A single-volume paperback edition of a popular tale by the author of Swan Song follows the efforts of seventeenth-century clerk Matthew Corbett to prove the innocence of a Portuguese widow who has been accused of witchcraft in the wake of a series o...

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Death Troopers

Death Troopers

Joe Schreiber

A deadly virus turns its victims into the vicious undead when an Imperial prison barge breaks down in deep space with its load of prisoners--criminals and murderers, human and non-human....

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Dust & Decay

Dust & Decay

Jonathan Maberry

In post-apocalyptic America, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends set out into the great Rot & Ruin hoping to find a better future but are soon pitted against zombies, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland....

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The Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient E...

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Along Came a Spider an Alex Cross Thriller

Along Came a Spider an Alex Cross Thriller

James Patterson

Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out ...

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Clouds of Witness

Clouds of Witness

Dorothy L. Sayers

The fiancé of Lord Peter's sister, Mary, is found dead outside the conservatory of the Wimsey family's shooting lodge in Yorkshire. The evidence points to their older brother, Gerald, the Duke of Denver, who is charged with the murder and put on tria...

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The Lady in the Tower

The Lady in the Tower

Alison Weir

The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, p...

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It

It

Stephen King

A thriller about a malevolent force in a small New England town that takes the shape of a clown, terrifying youngsters with their innermost fears and bringing them to untimely doom....

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The...

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A Face at the Window

A Face at the Window

Sarah Graves

It starts with a phone call that reopens a painful chapter in Jake Tiptree’s past. After years of delay, the man who murdered Jake’s mother is finally scheduled to stand trial—until he vanishes into thin air. Maybe the only thing worse about Ozzie Ca...

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No Mark upon Her

No Mark upon Her

Deborah Crombie

New York Times Notable author Deborah Crombie is regularly named among the greats of British-set crime fiction (P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George et al) for her riveting police procedurals featuring Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, Scotland Y...

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Deadman Wonderland

Deadman Wonderland

Jinsei Katoka

Ganta enters the Carnival Corpse, a battle between two Branch of Sin users. Ganta’s next opponent is a timid girl; can he even take her on? Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of the prison, the warden stands face to face with the Red Man. Who really murde...

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What the Eyes Don't See

What the Eyes Don't See

Mona Hanna-Attisha

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power. “Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their ...

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Murder Mysteries

Murder Mysteries

Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell

One of the most celebrated writers in the history of comics teams up once again with one of the industry's most accomplished artists! Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell once again venture into the world of myth and angels. Constructing and maintaining ...

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Chaka

Chaka

Thomas Mofolo

Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions from black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolo's fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, be...

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The Impossible Fortune

The Impossible Fortune

Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club team returns. This time, our retired detectives' case involves a wedding, a missing person, a murder, and a valuable code. Humor, warmth, and the wit of the elderly heroes are once again at the forefront. It reached number on...

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The Intruder

The Intruder

Freida McFadden

Freida McFadden is already a phenomenon when it comes to psychological thrillers. In this book, you discover that the "stranger" who has entered your home and infiltrated your life may be more familiar than you think. Surprise ending, toxic relations...

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The Secret of Secrets

The Secret of Secrets

Dan Brown

A fast-paced, code-hunting thriller, à la Dan Brown: religious symbolism, political secrets, and a global conspiracy. A top hit on Publishers Weekly lists. The fast-paced plot, filmic sequences, and the who-really-runs-the-world feeling are in full s...

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