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Hidden in Memories
by Viveca Sten
During Easter weekend at a luxury ski lodge in Åre, property developer Charlotte Wretlind is found stabbed to death in her suite—a targeted killing that rattles the resort town. As panic spreads, detectives Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog navigate hostile staff, relentless media, and a growing list of suspects.
When a lodge cleaner is discovered strangled in the woods and Charlotte’s son vanishes, the investigation darkens, entangling Hanna and Daniel in a web of corruption, betrayal, and buried personal trauma. As tensions rise, it becomes clear that Åre’s killing season has only begun.
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| Death at the Door by Olivia BlackeRuby Young is slowly adjusting to her new life in Boston. A big part of that is her unexpected roommate—the ghost of the woman who lived there before. For Cordelia Graves, she may no longer be breathing, but it’s still her apartment and Ruby is the somewhat unwanted houseguest. They’re both happy they’ve managed to become friends, which is a miracle considering they struggle to communicate with each other. Cordelia even set Ruby up with her old job.
When Ruby discovers the body of a delivery guy at work, the new life she’s been building hangs in the balance. The last time Cordelia dragged Ruby into a murder investigation, it was almost two ghosts living in the apartment, not one. Determined to protect Ruby, Cordelia tries to shield her from the investigation, but Ruby has other ideas. It will take both of them working together to navigate the fine line between the dead and the living to bring a killer to light. |
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| Two Truths and a Murder by Colleen CambridgeWhile her famous employer is occupied abroad, amateur sleuth Phyllida finds her own reputation bringing new cases to her door. Invited to a dinner party to observe a suspected affair, she instead witnesses a tense game of Two Truths and a Lie—during which one guest claims to have seen a murder.
The next morning, that guest’s shy sister is deliberately run down by a car, and Phyllida suspects the real target may still be alive. With a killer possibly among the dinner guests and the police moving slowly, Phyllida sets out to uncover the truth—before the murderer strikes again. |
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Robert B. Parker's Showdown
by Mike Lupica
Vic Hale isn’t anyone’s idea of a father figure. He is one of the biggest – and loudest -- podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric that’s reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of “entertainment” is so successful, he’s about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting. Vic’s riding high...until he gets a visit from Spenser, who specializes in bringing guys like Hale back down to Earth.
Spenser is there on behalf of Daniel Lopez, a young man who believes Hale may be his father. It’s a potentially explosive revelation for a man in the podcaster’s position and it might even be enough to blow up his massive new deal. That could explain the bodies that start popping up – bodies connected in one way or another with the mystery surrounding Daniel’s birth. There are a lot of questions remaining, and Spenser’s going to have to find the answers before someone shuts Hale or Daniel up for good.
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Silent Bones
by Val McDermid
In 2025 Scotland, torrential winter rains trigger a motorway landslide that exposes a hidden skeleton—revealed to be Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who vanished years earlier after becoming the prime suspect in his girlfriend’s murder. Buried when the road was built, his death revives a case tangled in the shadowy politics of the Scottish independence referendum.
For DCI Karen Pirie and Police Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit, the discovery opens a web of cold cases, including a suspicious hotel death and a fatal Highland “accident.” As the connections deepen, Karen and her team are pushed to their limits by secrets powerful enough to kill—and bury—for good.
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The Birdwatcher
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
When she is convicted of a double murder, Felicity Wild, a brilliant grad student turned high-priced escort, declares, “I may not be innocent, but I’m innocent of this.”
Reenie Bigelow never doubted it. A jury may have given Felicity a life sentence, but Reenie knows that her childhood best friend is not capable of murder. And so Reenie, a journalist, decides to use her deep connections to Felicity’s past to unravel the truth.
The more she uncovers, the more Reenie is convinced that the story the prosecution told is wrong, despite the puzzling fact that Felicity said not one single word in her own defense. But there's one thing Reenie knows for certain: Felicity would never lie.
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The Living and the Dead
by Christoffer Carlsson
On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.
The hunt for the killer will take more than twenty years. It will see the lead detective leave the force forever. And it won’t end until a second body turns up in similar circumstances, and the tight-knit community’s secrets are finally brought to light.
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At Midnight Comes the Cry
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
At Christmastime in Millers Kill, Reverend Clare Fergusson and her husband Russ van Alstyne hope for a quiet holiday with their newborn—until a beloved parade is disrupted by white supremacists, pulling them into a dangerous world of militias and murder. As a missing ex-cop alarms officer Hadley Knox, a young state lawyer pursues an off-the-books investigation into an alt-right conspiracy, and a forest ranger searches for his vanished uncle, separate threads begin to converge. What starts as a fractured holiday season becomes a race to stop violence before it takes root in the mountains.
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The Last Exile
by Sam Wiebe
Maggie Zito, a volatile single mother, is charged with the brutal murder of the retired leader of the Exiles motorcycle gang and his wife aboard their luxury houseboat. With a mystery witness placing her at the scene and the gang demanding vengeance, her survival to trial is far from certain.
Desperate to prove her innocence, Maggie’s lawyer Shuzhen Chen turns to Dave Wakeland, who is forced back into a dangerous city and a violent underworld. As bikers edge toward civil war and hidden enemies vie for power, Dave and Shuzhen must confront their shared past, uncover why Maggie was framed, and identify the witness—before time, trust, and lives run out.
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The Italian Secret
by Tara Moss
Spanning Naples in wartime 1943, the Pacific in 1907, and Sydney in 1948, this story weaves together the lives of three women linked by secrets and survival. After discovering a mysterious box in her late father’s files, investigative journalist Billie Walker begins unraveling a hidden family history that takes her aboard a postwar luxury liner from Sydney to Naples.
As Billie’s search draws her toward two women from the past, she realizes the truth may place them all in danger. With an old enemy of her father’s possibly tracking her across continents, every answer brings new risks—and a deeper reckoning with the legacy she has inherited.
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