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by Christopher Moore - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Humor, Mystery

In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield and shot himself. Or did he? Two skeptical friends of his vow to discover the truth about his untimely death. Their quest will lead them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late 19th-century Paris.

by Jane Haddam - Fiction, Mystery

Martha Heydrich is the stay-at-home wife of a very rich husband, and is rumored to be having an affair with a local teenager. One morning she seemingly vanishes from her house, and later that night her husband Arthur returns home to find the pool house ablaze.

by David Baldacci - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

America has enemies --- ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Robie may have just made the first --- and last --- mistake of his career.

by Andrew Vachss - Fiction, Hard-boiled Mystery, Mystery

Esau Till’s race is almost run. After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, he sits on death row, awaiting lethal injection. And writing his life story. But his memoir is no case study in tragedy --- it’s his one last chance to protect his brother Tory after he’s gone.

by Imogen Robertson - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Mystery

London, 1781. Harriet Westerman anxiously awaits news of her husband, a ship's captain who has been gravely injured in the king's naval battles with France. As London's streets seethe with rumor, a body is dragged from the murky waters of the Thames.

by Frank Delaney - Fiction, Historical Fiction

The national mood in Ireland is downtrodden, and although Ben wants no part of the insurrection along the northern border, he unknowingly falls in with an IRA sympathizer. Yet all he can think about is finding his former wife and true love, actress Venetia Kelly.

by Rachel Hore - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Mystery

Auction house appraiser Jude leaves London for her dream job at a countryside, evaluting the manuscripts and instruments of an 18th-century astronomer. Though Jude is far from her life in London, her arrival at Starbrough Hall brings a host of childhood memories.

by Robert Barclay - Fiction

Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit her grandmother's cottage in the Adirondacks. But when she finds her grandmother's WWII diaries, she's stunned to discover that they hold secrets she never suspected --- and they have the power to upend her own life. 

by Stef Penney - Fiction, Mystery

Small-time private investigator Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed. But before the accident that landed him there, he'd been hired to find Rose Janko, the missing wife of the son of a traveling Gypsy family.

by Susan Fraser King - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Shipwrecked on the Scottish coast, Margaret of Scotland and her family ask for sanctuary from the warrior-king Malcolm Canmore. A foreign queen in a strange land, Margaret adapts to life among the barbarian Scots, forging unexpected friendships and trying to fulfill her destiny.