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  The Naming of the Birds

  Paraic O'Donnell

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  Something is troubling Inspector Henry Cutter. Sergeant Gideon Bliss is accustomed to his ill-tempered outbursts, but lately the inspector has grown silent and withdrawn. Then, the murders begin. The first to die is the elderly Sir Aneurin Considine, a decorated but obscure civil servant who long ago retired to tend his orchids. If the motive for his killing is a mystery, the manner of his death is more bewildering still. The victims that follow suffer similar fates, their deaths gruesome but immaculately orchestrated. The murderer comes and goes like a ghost, leaving only carefully considered traces. As the hunt for this implacable adversary mounts, the inspector's gloom deepens, and to Sergeant Bliss, his methods seem as mystifying as the crimes themselves. 
   
   
   
  Why is he digging through dusty archives while the murderer stalks further victims? And as hints of past wrongdoing emerge—and with them the faint promise of a motive—why does Cutter seem haunted by some long-ago failing of his own? To find the answers, the meek and hapless sergeant must step out of the inspector's shadow. Aided by Octavia Hillingdon, a steely and resourceful journalist, Bliss will uncover truths that test his deepest beliefs. 
   
   
   
  Hypnotic and twisty, The Naming of the Birds will leave you questioning what matters most—solving a case or serving justice.

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  Vice: A gritty crime thriller...

  Karen Woods

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  Betrayal, family loyalties, secrets: not all gangsters live in the east end. 
  Two families run this part of Manchester: the Johnsons and the Bennetts. With the head of the Johnson family banged up, the Bennetts have made their move. But power comes at a price… 
  Now Charlie Johnson is out of prison and he wants his empire back. But the Bennetts have had a taste of the money and the control. Charlie’s sons want to strike now and destroy their rivals but Charlie wants to wait. He has a personal score to settle. 
  Charlie’s wife Janey hates that her controlling husband is home from prison and is hatching a plan to leave him, but she knows he won’t let her go easily – not with the secrets she carries. She needs allies – and through her daughter and her passionate affairs, she may have found the way out she needs. 
  But for all of them, getting what they want will mean risking everything. 
  The suspense and crime elements in VICE make it a top choice for fans of legal thrillers. Karen Woods delves into the complexities of dysfunctional relationships, making it one of the best in its genre. 
  For fans of Kerry Kaya (Revenge), Alex Kane (The Angels), Gillian Godden (The Street), Heather Burnside (Vengeance), and Mandasue Heller (Running Scared). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  Dead Pile (A Maggie Killian...

  Anonymous

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  A murdered ranch hand. An unpredictable lover. If Maggie doesn’t catch the killer, she could be next on the dead pile. 
  "Hutchins’ Maggie is an irresistible train wreck—you can’t help but turn the page to see what trouble she’ll get herself into next." — Robert Dugoni, #1 Amazon Bestselling Author of My Sister's Grave 
  After Maggie Killian’s junker business collapses in Texas, the former alt-country rocker heads to Wyoming with her vintage truck, her rescue mutt, and a sexy reunion with ex-bull rider Hank Sibley. But the reunion is cut short when she discovers Hank’s foreman dumped on the ranch’s dead pile, the grim repository for deceased livestock. Suspicion falls on everyone, especially Andy, a young Amish hand and Maggie’s guitar protégé. 
  Determined to prove Andy’s innocence, Maggie delves into a web of murder, betrayal, and secrets—while juggling her resurrected music career, a crumbling business, and a complicated future with Hank, whose past injuries and family challenges threaten their fragile relationship. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes that the killer may be someone she can’t afford to lose faith in. 
  Dead Pile is the third standalone novel in the Maggie Killian trilogy and part of the addictive What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery super series. Available in ebook, print, and audiobook. 
  Once Upon A Romance calls Pamela Fagan Hutchins an “up-and-coming powerhouse writer.” If you love Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you’ll devour this fast-paced, suspenseful, and sexy mystery series. 
  Grab Dead Pile today for your next adrenaline-fueled mystery fix!

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  Who Has Buried the Dead? - From...

  KGE Konkel

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  The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have never been revealed. One such secret was buried in the deep, dark forest of Katyn, Poland. The other in the pages of a notebook hidden in an otherwise unremarkable café in an ancient Polish city.
  		 
  That notebook, known as the Scottish Book, was an obscure work of intellectual gamesmanship between a specialized group of mathematicians who met at a local pub near the town’s medieval university, where they shared and solved complex mathematical problems in the pages of the book. In 1939, as the Nazis overran the country, the book mysteriously vanished from its hiding place in the café. Some of its contributors avoided certain death by fleeing Poland  for America, where the government recruited them. Ultimately, some of these intellectuals became participants in a deadly undertaking: the Manhattan Project.
  		 
  Who Has Buried the Dead? may be fiction, but it draws on years of research to plausibly answer the real questions surrounding one of the last great secrets of the Second World War. What did the Scottish Book contain that led the NKVD, the Gestapo, and the Allies on a desperate search, using any means to find it? Why has its existence not factored into the telling of Second World War history? What is ultimately revealed within the Scottish Book that brought mortal enemies and their top spy operatives into a deadly contest for its discovery and seizure?

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  Best Offer Wins - A Novel

  Marisa Kashino

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  An insanely competitive housing market.  A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino’s darkly humorous debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success—and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your dreams?  Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian — and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby, and whole life back on track — Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed and the masses descend (with unbeatable, all-cash offers in hand).A little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary. As Margo infiltrates the homeowners’ lives, her tactics grow increasingly unhinged—but just when she thinks she’s won them over, she hits a snag in her plan. Undeterred, Margo will prove again and again that there’s no boundary she won’t cross to seize the dream life she’s been chasing. The most unsettling part? You’ll root for her, even as you gasp in disbelief.Dark, biting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Best Offer Wins is a propulsive debut and a razor-sharp exploration of class, ambition, and the modern housing crisis.A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books

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  The Pike - A Lancashire...

  JJ Richards

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  A party gone wrong? 
  Or a sickening group attack? 
  Not everything is what it seems, and not everyone is who they appear to be. 
  A young girl is found dead at the Pike Tower on Winter Hill near Chorley and DCI Walker and the newly promoted DC Briggs are drafted in to investigate. But what they find extends far beyond the Rivington Pike. What seems like a party gone wrong, or a sickening group attack, transpires to be much more, and threatens not only the local community, but Walker and his team too. 
  "Authentically written, patiently penned, and satisfyingly dark, The Pike is a top-flight crime thriller." - SPR Editorial Review ★★★★★ 
  After identifying who’d taken the deceased to the Pike, a cat and mouse chase ensues, taking them to Manchester and back. And when more women are attacked and left for dead, Walker gets reinforcements, turns it into a wide-scale manhunt. If they don’t find the attacker soon, more women will almost certainly die. 
  But Walker and his team don’t have to look too far, and what they find is much darker than they could possibly have imagined. 
  Is it a sin if you are the victim? 
  The Pike is the second book in the stunning debut police procedural crime thriller from JJ Richards (although it can be read as a stand-alone). 
  Fans of Ian Rankin, JD Kirk, Matt Brolly, Patricia Gibney, and Michael Connelly will love this! 
  Buy your copy NOW and get into this page-turning, unputdownable series!

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