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Unholy Land – Lavie Tidhar

2018-11-05

Mystery writer Lior Tirosh is sucked into a mystery rivaling one of his own creations when he returns to his homeland Palestina, a Jewish homeland in East Africa.

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Hap and Leonard: Blood & Lemonade – Joe R. Lansdale

2017-03-27

A collection of Hap Collins’ younger days growing up in East Texas, and some of his earliest adventures with pal Leonard Pine.

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Coco Butternut – Joe R. Lansdale

2016-12-27

Hap and Leonard are hired to exchange a sack full of money for a mummified dog corpse; things go wildly amiss from there as the job flops and the duo unearth age-old murders…

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Resume Speed – Lawrence Block

2016-12-07

“He got on the Trailways bus in Galbraith, North Dakota, booked all the way through to Spokane. But the Help Wanted sign at the diner in Cross Creek was calling his name.”

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Even the Wicked – Ed McBain

2016-10-15

Zach Blake and his daughter Penny return to Martha’s Vineyard, seeking the truth behind the “accidental” death of their wife/mother Mary.

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Phantom Lady – Cornell Woolrich

2016-09-14

Scott Henderson is on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. The one person whose testimony can clear him? A woman nobody, not even Henderson, remembers.

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Death on the Riviera – John Bude

2016-03-05

Inspector Meredith and Sergeant Strang investigate a counterfeiter and smuggling ring on the French Riviera, along with one mysterious murder of an Englishman…

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Honky Tonk Samurai – Joe R. Lansdale

2016-02-16

Hap and Leonard get the band back together, pulling in characters from Lansdale’s other novels to take down a band of inbred hitmen who work for a mysterious criminal enterprise.

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Detour – Helen Nielsen

2016-01-31

Kid hitchhiker Danny was making his big break for Mexico when the kindly old man giving him a lift is murdered. Danny sets out on the lam, trapped by circumstantial evidence.

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Mystery in White – J. Jefferson Farjeon

2015-12-12

A group of travelers seek shelter from a blizzard at a country home—they find the fire roaring, the tea boiling, but nobody home. A crime is afoot, and there’s a murderer in their midst…

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The Z Murders – J. Jefferson Farjeon

2015-08-31

Richard Temperley finds his erstwhile travel companion—a disagreeable fellow passenger—dead, with a mysterious woman and a crimson metal “Z” the only clues to the murderer…

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