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    The Big Sleep (Special Edition)

    by Raymond Chandler

    A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
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    American Heroin

    by Melissa Scrivner Love

    The unforgettable protagonist of Lola returns in a gritty, high-octane thriller about a brilliant woman who will stop at nothing to protect her growing drug empire, even if she has to go to war with a rival cartel…or her own family.
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    Lullaby Road

    by James Anderson

    Despite deep misgivings, Ben takes a left behind abandoned child with him in his truck and sets out into an environment that is as dangerous as it is beautiful and silent.
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    The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game

    by Patricia Highsmith

    Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith’s hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing–not even murder– to accomplish his goals.
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    The Reckoning

    by John Grisham

    In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to a Mississippi courtroom.
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    The Maltese Falcon (Special Edition)

    by Dashiell Hammett and Josephine Hammett Marshall

    The beloved classic The Maltese Falcon centers around Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, a perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.
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    The Chalk Man

    by C. J. Tudor

    The Chalk Man is a riveting and relentlessly compelling psychological suspense debut that weaves a mystery about a childhood game gone dangerously awry, and will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending.
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    The Girl in the Spider’s Web

    by David Lagercrantz

    A genius hacker who has always been an outsider. A journalist with a penchant for danger. The duo find themselves working together again–each with their own agenda. Their search for the truth leads them into an underworld of spies, cybercriminals, and government operatives willing to kill to protect their secrets.
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    Macbeth

    by Jo Nesbo

    Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo’s Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. What follows is an unputdownable story of love and guilt, political ambition, and greed for more, exploring the darkest corners of human nature, and the aspirations of the criminal mind.
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