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The Librarians
by Sherry Thomas
When two patrons die after a themed game night, four Austin librarians—each guarding painful secrets—must overcome mistrust and unite to protect their beloved library, unraveling a mystery that threatens the refuge they've built and the fragile peace they've found.
Scheduled release date: September 30, 2025 - place holds on physical copy now.
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The Missing Half
by Ashley Flowers
Nicole Monroe, still haunted by her sister Kasey's unexplained disappearance seven years ago, teams up with Jenna Connor, whose sister vanished under similar circumstances, as they unravel buried secrets and risk everything to uncover the truth about their missing loved ones.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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What Have You Done?
by Shari Lapena
When the body of Diana Brewer is discovered in a hayfield by a local farmer, sleepy little Fairfield, Vermont, a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects and a place of fear and paranoia where everyone wants answers.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Not Yours to Keep
by Zelly Ruskin
Billie Campbell, a Massachusetts adoption specialist grappling with fertility issues, dreams of adopting a baby, but not just any baby--her pregnant client's baby. While her longing threatens to send her down a dark path, her husband, Tyler, is keeping secrets: he's full of doubts about becoming a father, and he's also trying to figure out who is sending him upsetting anonymous texts and photos. On the other side of town, Anne, a woman scarred by childhood abuse, obsesses with a second chance at becoming a family with the two people she regrets ever having let go of: the baby she gave up for adoption twenty years ago and the man of her dreams.
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She's Not Sorry
by Mary Kubica
Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Perfect Divorce
by Jeneva Rose
It's been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. When the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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What We'll Burn Last
by Heather Chavez
Sixteen years after the disappearance of her sister, Grace, and Grace's boyfriend Adam, Leyna, when something strange happens, returns home to find answers, and as a wildfire sparks, tempers flare and intentions turn deadly because someone knows what really happened that night—and how good the forest is at keeping its secrets.
Physical copy available only.
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Kill Your Darlings
by Peter Swanson
Wendy and Thom's marriage is told in reverse, moving backward to witness key moments from the couple's lives—their fiftieth birthday party, Jason's birth, the mysterious death of a colleague—all painting a portrait of a marriage defined by a terrible act they plotted together years ago.
Physical copy available only.
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What Remains
by Wendy Walker
Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has become an expert on how murderers slip up and give themselves away. She has dedicated her life to creating a sense of order, at work with her ex-marine partner; at home with her husband and two young daughters; and within, battling her own demons. Elise has everything under control, until one afternoon, when she walks into a department store and is forced to make a terrible choice: to save one life, she will have to take another.
Physical copy available only.
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Something She's Not Telling Us
by Darcey Bell
After her daughter is kidnapped, Charlotte suspects her brother's girlfriend, who seemed a little obsessed with the child, but all is not as it seems. By the best-selling author of A Simple Favor.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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The Wrong Family
by Tarryn Fisher
An off-kilter narrator witnesses the slow unraveling of a couple's strained marriage that erupts in unexpected ways, in a chilling tale of domestic suspense.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Before I Let You In
by Jenny Blackhurst
When Kate, a psychiatrist, takes on a new patient, she soon discovers that she has put her best friends, Eleanor and Bea, in danger because her patient seems to know more about all of them than anyone outside of their circle should.
Available on Hoopla.
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The Lying Club
by Annie Ward
Their fates bound by an elite private school's handsome, charming assistant athletic director, three very different woman, after the unimaginable happens, find jealously between mothers and daughters, rival lovers and the haves and have-nots tearing apart their lives and their affluent town.
Available on Hoopla.
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A Flicker in the Dark
by Stacy Willingham
Twenty years after her father was arrested as a serial killer, Louisiana psychologist Chloe Davis becomes alarmed when local teenage girls once again go missing and she begins seeing parallels that may or may not be there.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Little Disasters
by Sarah Vaughan
A pediatrician makes unsettling discoveries when her best friend arrives in the emergency room with her infant daughter and a story that does not quite add up.Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Blackbird Season
by Kate Moretti
After a student claiming to have had an affair with a popular school teacher and coach goes missing, the teacher is the main suspect. By the New York Times best-selling author of Thought I Knew You.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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The Best of Friends
by Lucinda Berry
When a tragic accident befalls their teenage sons, leaving one dead, another in a coma, and a third too traumatized to speak, best friends Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani plunge into a desperate investigation of the bizarre incident and soon uncover secrets that threaten to poison their families, their friendships, and the whole community, forcing these women to confront the hazards of heartbreak, the consequences of jealousy, and the dangers of living double lives.
Physical copy available only.
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Just Between Us
by Rebecca Drake
Desperate to save their friend Heather before her husband's abuse kills her, three friends must decide what lengths they will go to when Heather isn't the one who's dead.
Available on Hoopla.
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The Woman in Suite 11
by Ruth Ware
Journalist Lo Blacklock travels to a luxury Swiss hotel hoping to revive her career, but when a mysterious woman draws her into a dangerous chase across Europe, she must weigh ambition against survival in a world of wealth and shifting alliances.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Libby now.
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Fog and Fury
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Relocating to peaceful Haven, former LAPD cop Sonny Rush's search for a missing dog unravels dark secrets and murder, shattering the town's perfect image and threatening her own safety, in the new novel from the author of The Last One.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy now.
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12 N. Elm St., Prospect Heights, Illinois 60070
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