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New For You - Mystery & Thriller - December 2024

Fiction that keeps you guessing - you'll find danger, killers, and unexpected twists in this selection of the newest mystery and thriller titles.

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  • A new advice columnist has to deal with more than the humdrum problems from her readers as she starts receiving threatening letters, are they to do with the previous columnists murder or her own dark past?
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  • Meet Agatha Dorn, cantankerous archivist, grammar pedant, gin aficionado and murder mystery addict.
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  • Both a white-knuckle spy novel and a thrilling exploration of high-tech immigration, U.S.-China conflicts, identity, and disaffection
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  • Entwining the lives and dramas of the staff and diners at the hottest new restaurant. Sure to appeal to those who like a bit of macabre with their entrée.
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  • There is a Russian mole in the upper reaches of the CIA and a savvy Russian spymaster will protect Moscow's mole at all costs. A John le Carré-level game of cat and mouse.
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  • A suspense-horror thriller about a first-year resident whose life-shattering visions reveal the truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in the history of medicine.
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  • Milan Berg is standing at a set of traffic lights when a car stops next to him. In the back seat he sees a frightened young girl. Desperate, she presses a piece of paper against the window. A cry for help? Milan can’t read it – because…
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  • Slow Horses meets Red Sparrow in this electrifying, globe-trotting spy thriller featuring a brilliant young intelligence officer and a troubled heiress who stumble into a global conspiracy that pits present-day Russia against the CIA and…
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  • A bride-to-be lying to everyone. A grieving mother who can't move on. A little sister keeping secrets of her own. And a member of the wedding party who won't survive to cut the cake. What happened on the jetty a decade before was an…
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  • She thinks it was murder. But if she can't trust herself, can anyone else? Nancy North and her boyfriend Felix are making the move across London to Harlesden. A new flat, a new area, a new start. Because while Nancy is fine now, she wasn't…
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