Dead Is Better (Charlie & Rose Investigate #1)
By: Jo Perry
4.03
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Charles Stone is pretty sure he's dead. He has bullet holes in his chest, and there's a ghostly dog…
Want to Read $ 0.99"In life I'd heard of dogs like her, cheap burglar alarms. Solitary, lonely, they bark at passerby and garbage trucks from behind high fences in exchange for water and kibble when the people remember to feed and water them. They bark out of fear. And to remind themselves that they in fact exist."-Jo Perry, Dead Is Better (Charlie & Rose Investigate #1)
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1. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
By: Alexandra Horowitz
3.62
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and del… read more
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"Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach--but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves (and our faces) unbearably far away, and we can come to a mutual understanding."-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
"By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they have succeeded magnificently. They have applied a novel tool to the task. We are that tool. Dogs h…"-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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2. The Goblin Emperor
By: Katherine Addison
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a b… read more
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3. Dead Stop (Sydney Rose Parnell #2)
By: Barbara Nickless
4.06
Format: None pages,
The search for a missing child leads a courageous railway cop down a twisted trail of murder. It's … read more
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5. A Fine Dark Line
By: Joe R. Lansdale
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The k… read more
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6. In Good Faith (Joe Dillard, #2)
By: Scott Pratt
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A family of four is slaughtered in rural Tennessee. Two weeks later, a retired high school principa… read more
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7. Bruno, Chief of Police (Bruno, Chief of Police #1)
By: Martin Walker
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoit Courreges, a po… read more
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8. A Crime of Passion (Joe Dillard #7)
By: Scott Pratt
4.15
Format: None pages,
A beautiful, young, rising star in the country music world is found dead in a Nashville hotel room.… read more
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9. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)
By: C.J. Box
4.36
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more
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10. Dream Town (Eve Ronin #5)
By: Lee Goldberg
4.18
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
A gated dream town for the megarich becomes a murderous nightmare in a riveting Eve Ronin thriller … read more
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11. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)
By: Don Winslow
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more
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12. The K Team (The K Team #1)
By: David Rosenfelt
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In David Rosenfelt's newest series - a spinoff of the much beloved Andy Carpenter mysteries - Andy'… read more
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13. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
By: Don Winslow
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more
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14. Murder Book
By: Thomas Perry
3.87
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting Midwestern towns in this "master cl… read more
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15. Last Resort (Joe Dillard #10)
By: Scott Pratt
4.61
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
A young girl vanishes without a trace in the dead of night. Was her menacing absentee father inv… read more
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16. Salt Lane (DS Alexandra Cupidi #1)
By: William Shaw
4.01
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
No-one knew their names, the bodies found in the water. There are people here, in plain sight, that… read more
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17. Malibu Burning (Sharpe & Walker #1)
By: Lee Goldberg
4.26
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
For a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildf… read more
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18. Salt & Broom
By: Sharon Lynn Fisher
4.15
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
A gifted healer unravels the mysteries of a cursed estate—and its enigmatic owner—in a witchy retel… read more
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19. The Unwilling
By: John Hart
4.15
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and seari… read more
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20. Heir of Uncertain Magic (Whimbrel House, #2)
By: Charlie N. Holmberg
4.17
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
One man is on a journey to unravel his magical lineage in the next novel of the Whimbrel House seri… read more
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21. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
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The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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4.07
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
The mercenaries set an explosive scheme in motion to blow this bad dream to smithereens. But in par… read more
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23. Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4)
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4.02
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
What has been awakened is unbound. The Boy is getting his first taste of freedom. As their comrades… read more
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4.08
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
Their radio is sabotaged. The wolves are gathering outside. And for the increasingly desperate merc… read more
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25. The Pit and the Box (The Boy in the Iron Box, #2)
By: Guillermo del Toro
4.03
Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition
On an isolated mountain, a stone labyrinth provides rough shelter for a band of mercenaries. At its… read more
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26. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
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28. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
By: Mick Herron
4.28
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
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29. Dead Is Better (Charlie & Rose Investigate #1)
By: Jo Perry
4.03
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Charles Stone is pretty sure he's dead. He has bullet holes in his chest, and there's a ghostly dog… read more
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"In life I'd heard of dogs like her, cheap burglar alarms. Solitary, lonely, they bark at passerby and garbage trucks from behind high fences in exchange for water and kibble when the people remember …"-Jo Perry, Dead Is Better (Charlie & Rose Investigate #1)
30. Ashes Never Lie (Sharpe & Walker, #2)
By: Lee Goldberg
4.38
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
The secrets hidden in smoldering ashes hold the fate of a city in an explosive thriller by #1 New Y… read more
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