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MIDNIGHT SUN

By Jo Nesbø, Knopf $23.95

Jo Nesbø departs his Harry Hole series to introduce Jon Hansen, the “fixer” for the drug lord, known as “The Fisherman.”  When Jon fails to “fix” a non-paying client, he runs for his life, as far away from Oslo above the Artic Circle. He gets off the bus at Kaslund and spends the night in the church where he’s found and befriended by the caretaker. She and her precocious son set him up in her husbands hunting cabin in the woods. There, going by the name, Ulf, he waits in fear for the Fisherman’s revenge. And it arrives sooner than expected.

ALL THINGS CEASE TO APPEAR

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By Elizabeth Brundage, Knopf $26.95

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Local college professor George Clare comes home one afternoon to find his wife murdered and their three-year-old daughter alone in her room. Who would kill his wife? How long was his daughter alone in the house?  He carries his child across the field to his neighbors 

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