Stephen King's classic Carrie returns, plus hot new books from Spiegelman and Perry

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While you're scrambling to take advantage of the last days of summer, don't forget to bring along one of our new mysteries to while away the time. Anne Perry and Peter Spiegelman return with ACCEPTABLE LOSS and THICK AS THIEVES. The story of Sherlock Holmes and his wife Mary Russell continues in THE GOD OF THE HIVE. Revisit a real-life hijacking case that stumped detectives with the audiobook SKYJACK. Finally, Stephen King's terrifying classic, CARRIE, is back in a new paperback edition.

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ACCEPTABLE LOSS by Anne Perry http://www.randomhouse.com/book/129747/acceptable-loss-by-anne-perry/&ref=emailmystery

When the body of a small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves--far from it. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. How did this elegant scarf--whose original owner was obviously a man of substance--end up embedded in the neck of a wharf rat who richly deserved his sordid end?

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CARRIE by Stephen King http://www.randomhouse.com/book/92955/carrie-by-stephen-king/&ref=emailmystery

Unfashionable and unpopular, Carrie White had a gift: the ability to make things move by concentrating on them. This was her power and her sin. An act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be normal and go to her senior prom. But another act of ferocious cruelty turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget.

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DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND by Lisa Unger http://www.randomhouse.com/book/181688/darkness-my-old-friend-by-lisa-unger/&ref=emailmystery

The New York Times bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL LIES and FRAGILE returns to The Hollows, delivering a thriller that explores matters of faith, memory, and sacrifice. This is the riveting story of lives set on a collision course with devastating consequences. The result is Lisa Unger's most compelling fiction to date.

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THE FIFTH WOMAN by Henning Mankell http://www.randomhouse.com/book/107085/the-fifth-woman-by-henning-mankell/&ref=emailmystery

In Africa, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the nameless woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled when a retired car dealer is found impaled and the body of a missing florist is discovered strangled. With only a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men as clues, Wallander needs to uncover the reason behind these deaths and their elusive connection to the fifth woman.

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THE GOD OF THE HIVE by Laurie R. King http://www.randomhouse.com/book/92803/the-god-of-the-hive-by-laurie-r-king/&ref=emailmystery

Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath of a murderous secret organization bent on infiltrating the government. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy with limitless resources and powerful connections.

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A Ladies' Home Journal Book Club pick BITTER IN THE MOUTH A novel by Monique Truoug http://www.randomhouse.com/ladies-home-journal-book-club?&ref=emailmystery

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LOW TOWN by Daniel Polansky http://www.randomhouse.com/book/209621/low-town-by-daniel-polansky/&ref=emailmystery

Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops, and sorcery: welcome to Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its champion, the Warden, an ugly man. After a fall from grace five years ago, he leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs. His life of drugged iniquity is shaken by his discovery of a murdered child down a dead-end street, setting him on a collision course with the life he left behind as a former agent with the secret police known as Black House.

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SKYJACK Written & read by Geoffrey Gray http://www.randomhouse.com/book/70831/skyjack-by-geoffrey-gray/9780307735799&ref=emailmystery

I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.

That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D.B. Cooper's case has become the stuff of legend, obsessing and cursing his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now with SKYJACK, journalist Geoffrey Gray delves into this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamous case.

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THICK AS THIEVES by Peter Spiegelman http://www.randomhouse.com/book/171071/thick-as-thieves-by-peter-spiegelman/&ref=emailmystery

Ex-CIA Carr is the reluctant leader of an elite crew planning a robbery of such extraordinary proportions that it will leave them all set for life. Diamonds, money-laundering, and extortion go into a timed-to-the-minute scheme that unfurls across South America, Miami, and Grand Cayman Island. Carr's cohorts are seasoned pros, but they're wound drum-tight: months before, the man who brought them together was killed in what Carr suspects was a setup. And there are other loose ends. Some of the intel they're paying for is badly inaccurate, and one of the gang--Carr's lover--may have an agenda of her own.

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THIRTEEN MILLION DOLLAR POP by David Levien http://www.randomhouse.com/book/200040/thirteen-million-dollar-pop-by-david-levien/&ref=emailmystery

In an Indianapolis underground parking structure, Frank Behr is on protection detail for Bernard "Bernie Cool" Kolodnik, a hard-driving business mogul on the verge of making a move into big-time Indiana politics. It's an uncomfortable fit, both literally and philosophically. The uneasy stability is quickly rocked by an attempt on the prominent client, and Behr manages to protect him and repel the attackers. Though celebrated for his heroism, Behr can't help but investigate what happened in that garage--and why the Indianapolis cops seem to be burying the incident.

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For Young Adult Readers SIREN'S STORM by Lisa Papademetriou http://www.randomhouse.com/book/126460/sirens-storm-by-lisa-papademetriou/&ref=emailmystery

Nothing has been the same for Will since last summer. On a sailing trip with his brother, there is a strange accident and his brother is presumed drowned. Worst of all, Will can't remember what happened--his family finds him unconscious, with no memory of the incident. After another mysterious drowning, Will and his best friend and neighbor Gretchen begin to wonder: Is Asia, the exotic new girl in town, just another beautiful, wealthy summer resident? Or is she something entirely more sinister...and inhuman?

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