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Framed in Death (Eve Dallas #61)
by J. D. Robb
Manhattan is filled with galleries and collectors who can make an artist's career. But one man toils in obscurity, his brilliance unrecognized while lesser talents bask in the glory he believes should be his. Come tomorrow, he vows, the city will be buzzing about his work. Indeed, before dawn, Lt. Eve Dallas is speeding toward the home of the two gallery owners whose doorway has been turned into a horrifying crime scene overnight. A lifeless young woman has been elaborately costumed and precisely posed to resemble the model of a long-ago Dutch master, and Dallas plunges into her investigation
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Billion-dollar Ransom
by James Patterson
Five members of a billionaire’s family. In different locations. All kidnapped at the same moment. Two children taken from a private-school bus. A film producer and a movie star grabbed at a hideaway resort. A beautiful wife whisked off the streets of Beverly Hills. A patriarch wants his family back. The cash, gold, jewels, are crypto are all ready. There’s only one problem: a brilliant, very stubborn FBI agent. Special Agent Nicky Gordon doesn’t want to pay the kidnappers. Not a dime.
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The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon #6)
by Dan Brown
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing a book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of belief. But a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, and Katherine suddenly disappears along with her manuscript. Langdon finds himself targeted by a powerful organization and hunted by an assailant sprung from Prague’s most ancient mythology.
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The Academy
by Elin Hilderbrand
America Today just ranked Tiffin Academy the number two boarding school in the country. It’s a seventeen-spot jump – was there a typo?
But just as the rarefied air of Tiffin is suffused with self-congratulation, the wheels fall off the bus. One by one, scandalous blind items begin to appear on phones across Tiffin’s campus, thanks to a new app called ZipZap, and nobody is safe. Everyone has something to hide.
As if high school wasn’t dramatic enough...As the year unfolds, bonds are forged and broken, secrets are shared and exposed, and the lives of Tiffin’s students and staff are changed forever.
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Apostle's Cove (Cork O'Connor #21)
by William Kent Krueger
As Cork O'Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming sixtieth birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that twenty years ago Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit. Cork wants to reinvestigate the crime, but the case is closed and Axel Boshey is refusing to help. The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth.
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A Slowly Dying Cause (Lynley #22)
by Elizabeth George
Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family’s tin & pewter workshop. It’s suspicious enough that his body was found by a representative of Cornwall EcoMining, a company keen on acquiring his family’s land, and it’s made even worse when he’s revealed to have been the majority owner of the business and the sole obstacle preventing a deal from being made. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers are brought in to solve the crime and search for justice in a community where lust, greed, and family traditions collide with devastating consequences.
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The Portrait
by Danielle Steel
Devon Darcy’s reputation precedes her. As a highly sought-after portrait artist, she seems to have the ability to peer into the souls of her subjects and then capture them on canvas. When entrepreneur Charles Mackenzie Taylor sees her at a New York gallery event, he is instantly haunted by her beauty and her talent. Charlie has given up on love. But Devon awakens something in him across that crowded gallery, and she is in turn intrigued by Charlie. He approaches her to paint his portrait. When they encounter each other over the summer in the Hamptons, their connection deepens as they each release years of pent-up emotions and unfulfilled longing. After an accident endangers Devon’s career, they must decide together what their future holds.
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Gray Dawn (Easy Rawlins #17)
by Walter Mosley
Easy Rawlins' success has bought him a thriving detective agency, with its first female detective; a remote home, shared with children and pets and lovers, high atop the hills overlooking gritty Los Angeles; and more trouble, more problems, and more threat to those whom he loves. A number of below-the-law powerbrokers plead with Easy to locate a mysterious, dangerous woman—Lutisha James, though she’s gone by another name that Easy will immediately recognize. 1970s Los Angeles is a transient city of delicate, violent balances, and Lutisha has disturbed that. She also has a secret that will upend Easy’s own life.
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Denied Access (Mitch Rapp #25)
by Vince Flynn
The Central Intelligence Agency is in crisis. Interim CIA director Thomas Stansfield must fight for his agency’s survival while explaining why the previous candidate for his job was found murdered in a French hotel. Worst yet, a sting operation in Moscow has resulted in the arrest of America’s most prized Russian asset and the expulsion of his CIA handler. Stansfield seeks help from Mitch Rapp. But he has problems of his own: his girlfriend's grandfather receives a box containing the head of a former Cold War comrade along with a note promising that Greta’s head will be next. Rapp finds himself in a war between the American and Russian intelligence services.
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The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club Mystery #5)
by Richard Osman
It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favorite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets Nick, a wedding guest asking for her help, she finds her old instincts are ready to be put to the test again. And when Nick disappears without a trace, his cagey business partner becomes the gang’s next stop. It seems the duo have something valuable—something worth killing for. Plunged back into action once more, can the four friends solve the puzzle and a murder in time?
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The Widow
by John Grisham
Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder.
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The Proving Ground
by Michael Connelly
Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty.
Representing the victim’s family, Mickey’s case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails. Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to write a book about it.
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Remain
by Nicholas Sparks
When Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his world. Tate and Wren find themselves forging a connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wren’s idyllic life, hatred, jealousy, and greed are festering, threatening their relationship. Tate realizes that to free Wren from a desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out
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The Black Wolf (Inspector Gamache #20)
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montrâeal, arresting the person behind it. A man they called the Black Wolf. In a turn of events, Gamache has realized that plot was just the beginning. Something more damaging is planned. Did he in fact arrest the Black Wolf, or are they still out there? Still recovering from wounds received in the first attack, Armand is confined to the village of Three Pines, leading a covert investigation from there. He must be careful not to let the Black Wolf know he has recognized his mistake. In a quiet church basement, he and his senior agents Beauvoir and Lacoste, pore over what little evidence they have. From the apparent peace of his village, Gamache finds himself playing a lethal game of cat and mouse with an invisible foe who is gathering forces and preparing to strike.
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The Picasso Heist
by James Patterson
A previously unknown Picasso is discovered in the attic of a French villa.
Filthy-rich Manhattan art people. Organized crime bosses. Power-hungry government officials. A notorious forger. A glamorous twenty-two-year-old art thief. She’s the rival none of the power players see coming.
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Sharp Force (Kay Scarpetta #29)
by Patricia Cornwell
During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again. The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade his victims' homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds. Scarpetta is summoned to Mercy Island, the site of a notorious psychiatric hospital where two people have been brutalized, one of them from Scarpetta’s past. It soon becomes apparent that she could be next…
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Coyote Hills (Clay Edison #6)
by Jonathan Kellerman
Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner’s office to strike out on his own as a private investigator. He’s perfectly happy working low-stakes embezzlement cases—that is, until PI Regina Klein calls him with a mystery only he can solve. The son of a wealthy couple has washed up dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay with drugs in his system and a head injury. The police are calling it an accident. But the parents are adamant something’s not right—and as Clay digs deeper, he uncovers a horrifying tangle of betrayal and lies.
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Twice
by Mitch Albom
When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. The one catch: he must accept the consequences of his second try—for better or worse. He grows up correcting his mistakes and saving himself from adolescent embarrassments. In time, he falls deeply in love with Gianna, the woman he believes is the one. He seems to find contentment. But as the years pass, Alfie's eye begins to wander. Which is when he learns a lone caveat to his power: once he undoes a love, that person can never fall in love with him again. Knowing if he gives into to temptation, he will risk losing what he has with Gianna, Alfie makes a choice that changes his life forever.
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Five Golden Wings (Meg Langslow #38)
by Donna Andrews
Two of Meg's cousins, members of Mother's vast Hollingsworth clan, are getting married, and both have chosen Caerphilly for their Christmas destination wedding . . on the same day, in the same venues. But while they're cousins they're also lifelong enemies. Mother's efforts to keep the peace are wearing her down, and the battling brides (and their mothers) are making the holiday season miserable for everyone. So Meg steps in to keep the peace. And it was going badly even before she stumbles over the murdered body of the wedding photographer.
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Sugar and Spite (Agatha Raisin #36)
by M. C. Beaton
When a series of deaths within the small Cotswolds birdwatching community begins to unravel her village, Agatha and her team at are certain there has been foul play involved. They must dig up decades' worth of tempestuous relationships and simmering secrets among the birdwatching enthusiasts of the village in order to prevent any further deaths. Agatha will have to break out her binoculars and embrace her bitter side to solve the murders and wrangle the sickly-sweet temptations in her own life. Will she be able to gather all the breadcrumbs and put together the clues before she becomes a sitting duck herself?
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Return of the Spider (Alex Cross #33)
by James Patterson
Detective Alex Cross; the “human superhero” versus Gary Soneji; the "most deliciously wicked character since Hannibal Lecter”.
But that wasn’t their first meeting. Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, “Profiles in Homicidal Genius,” detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer—including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective. Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face…the Return of the Spider.
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The Seven Rings (Lost Bride #3)
by Nora Roberts
Sonya MacTavish lives in a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedding rings. Refusing to let her spirit be broken, Sonya searches each room for clues to her ancestors' hidden story. But the enemy in the black dress continues to hover, to come at her in frightening forms. They may be illusions-but illusions can be powerful enough to wound and kill.This dark-hearted witch wants to be mistress of Poole Manor, at any cost. And Sonya will need to fight a battle across two realms to finally take possession of the house on the clifftop-and of her own future..
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Nash Falls
by David Baldacci
Walter Nash is a sensitive, intelligent and kindhearted man. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments. Following his father's funeral, Nash is approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers. Nash accepts the FBI's demands and try to bring Steers and her partners to justice. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him. That forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to take his revenge.
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The King's Ransom
by Janet Evanovich
Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she can’t seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble. As the president of a bank, he invested in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts. Recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there’s no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail.Gabriela knows what she must do: travel around the world with Rafer to find the missing works of art, keep Harley out of jail, and save both his skin and his bank.
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Exit Strategy (Reacher #30)
by Lee Child
Reacher makes his way towards the entrance of a coffee shop. A young, stressed-looking guy in a suit brushes against him. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There's no problem. Nothing is missing. But later in the day he finds something new has appeared in another pocket. A cryptic note. Reacher figures the guy in the suit must have planted it during their brief contact. Impressed by the guy's technique and intrigued by the message, he decides to find out more...
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The Color of Hope
by Danielle Steel
Following the unexpected death of her beloved husband, art gallery owner Samantha Thompson finds herself adrift in their Malibu beach house. Her three adult children are concerned for her and encourage her to take a trip to Paris. Once abroad, an impulsive day trip from Paris to Biarritz leads Samantha to discover the charming medieval village of Arcangues.The château is the ancestral home of Xavier de Bonport. He needs rental income as much as Samantha needs a refuge. With Xavier living in a smaller house on the property, Samantha begins to transform the château into a temporary home. As a newfound family begins to fill the château, Samantha and Xavier wonder if their friendship is becoming something more.
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Evil Bones (Temperance Brennan #24)
by Kathy Reichs
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. One day, as Tempe is relaxing at home she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human. Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell. And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings. Next, people Tempe cares about begin to go missing until it becomes clear she is being taunted. A game that has her and Slidell racing against the clock.
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Queen Esther
by John Irving
Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board a ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won’t be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won’t find any family who’ll adopt her. When Esther is fourteen, soon to be a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic New England family with a history of providing foster care for orphans. The Winslows aren’t Jewish, but they despise anti-Semitism. Esther’s gratitude for the Winslows is unending; even as she retraces her roots back to Vienna, she never stops loving and protecting the Winslows.
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Otherwise Engaged
by Susan Mallery
When Shannon gets engaged, her mom, Cindy, is the first person she wants to tell, and the last. Cindy’s engaged, too, and has already hinted at a double wedding. She’ll keep her engagement a secret until Cindy’s I-dos are done. Victoria has never been proper enough for her mother, Ava. She lives on her own terms. Ava loves but doesn’t understand her stuntwoman daughter. When a movie-set mishap brings Victoria home, Ava longs to finally connect. Chance brings the four women together at a wedding venue, where a shocking secret comes tumbling out. Twenty-four years ago, teenager Cindy chose wealthy Ava to adopt her baby—then changed her mind. As Shannon and Victoria deal with the fallout from the decisions their mothers made, they wrestle with whether who they are is different than who they might have become.
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False Witness
by Phillip Margolin
Defense Attorney Karen Wyatt exposed corruption in the police force and the District Attorney's office while getting her client exonerated in court. But in doing so, she put a target on her back and she was set-up on fake drug charge, imprisoned and disbarred until the conspiracy unraveled and her innocence was proven. Now reinstated to the bar, Wyatt is still interested in finding out who ordered her to be set-up. In the meantime, Wyatt is a practicing defense attorney, whose current client is either guilty of a heinous murder, or is a too-trusting patsy for an acquaintance set-up for a crime he didn't commit. .
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Robert B. Parker's Showdown (Spenser #52)
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.
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. That could explain the bodies that start popping up. 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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