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A taut and unsparing novel about a community plagued by violence, drugs, corruption, and prejudice—but where love and justice prevail.
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The Ambitious City
In the second installment of the MacNeice Mysteries series, Det. MacNeice faces off against a gang of violent bikers and a bloodthirsty serial killer.
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The Couturier of Milan
In the ninth installment of the bestselling Ava Lee series, Ava investigates the dark side of the glamorous world of fashion.
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The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
Ava Lee uncovers the secret world of art fraud in the third book in the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee series.
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The Scottish Banker of Surabaya
The fifth installment in the popular Ava Lee series, The Scottish Banker of Surabaya exposes the dark world of money laundering and the Italian mob.
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The Two Sisters of Borneo
The sixth installment in the wildly popular Ava Lee series from Arthur Ellis Award winner, Ian Hamilton.
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Foresight
The second book in the gripping Ava Lee spin-off series features Uncle Chow Tung and his ascendancy to the head of the Triad gang in Fanling.
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I’m about five minutes away from the cut-off to Lake Charles.”\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eU.S. EXPOSURE\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe will be giving away ARCs of \u003cem\u003eErasing Memory\u003c\/em\u003e at Bouchercon, Winter Institute, and ALA Midwinter.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[An] impressive debut . . . 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Erasing Memory
The heart-pounding first installment of the MacNeice Mysteries, featuring a sophisticated detective solving the murder of a beautiful violinist.
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The Exclusives
The Exclusives is a thriller that examines a schoolgirl friendship gone awry at an elite private school.
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The Shadow
Ruth Ware meets Shari Lapena in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller about the inescapable pull of destiny and revenge.
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The Ninth Grave
Fabian Risk is on the hunt for a serial killer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events of Victim Without a Face.
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The fourth and final installment in Ian Hamilton’s exhilarating Ava Lee spin-off series The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung.
