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Bestseller Preview May - July
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The 24th Hour (Women's Murder Club #24)
by James Patterson
SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco’s finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married. Before they can raise their glasses, there’s a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. As Yuki leads the prosecution, Lindsay chases down a high-society killer whose target practice may leave the Women’s Murder Club short a bridesmaid … or two.
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Think Twice
by Harlan Coben
Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Now, two federal agents walked into his office, demanding to know where Greg Downing is. According to the agents, Greg is still alive—and has been placed at the scene of a double homicide. Myron and Win, longtime friends and colleagues, set out to find the truth, but the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous their world becomes.
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You Like It Darker
by Stephen King
“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life. “Two Talented Bastids” explores the secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,” psychic flash upends dozens of lives. In “Rattlesnakes,” a sequel to Cujo, a widower travels to Florida and receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,” a Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man” asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by tragedy can still be meaningful.
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Mind Games
by Nora Roberts
Thea and her grandmother both awaken from the same nightmare. And though the two have never discussed the special kind of sight they share, they know as soon as their eyes meet that something terrible has happened. Thea will make friends, build a career, find love. But that ability to see into minds and souls still lurks within her, and though Grammie calls it a gift, it feels more like a curse-because the inmate who shattered her childhood has the same ability. Thea can hear his twisted thoughts and witness his evil acts from miles away. A long, silent battle will be waged between them--and eventually bring them face to face, and head to head.
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Camino Ghosts
by John Grisham
In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn’t know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed…and the past is never the past…
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Summers at the Saint
by Mary Kay Andrews
Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as “the Saint.” If you grew up coming here, you were “a Saint.” If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were “an Ain’t.” Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn’t rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One summer she did, and married the boss’s son. Now, she’s the widowed owner of the hotel, determined to see it return to its glory days. Enlisting a motley crew of recently hired summer help—including the daughter of her estranged best friend—Traci has one summer to turn it around. But new information about drowning at the hotel come to light, and the tragic death of one of their own brings Traci to the brink of despair.
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One Perfect Couple
by Ruth Ware
Lyla's post-doctoral research has fizzled out, and things with her boyfriend, Nico aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla finds herself whisked off with Nico to Ever After Island, to will compete against four other couples to win a cash prize. But after they arrive on the island, things start to go wrong. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real and the stakes are life or death.
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Lies and Weddings
by Kevin Kwan
"Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted, all that remains is a mountain of debt. The only solution is for Rufus to attend his sister's wedding at a luxury eco-resort and seduce a woman with money. Should he marry the French heiress or the venture capital genius? Or should he follow his heart and confess his love to the girl next door? When a volcanic eruption burns through the nuptials and a hot mic exposes a secret tryst, the Gresham family plans go up in flames. Will a secret tragedy, hidden for two decades, reveal a shocking twist?
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I Will Ruin You
by Linwood Barclay
In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teacher's act of heroism inadvertently makes him the target of a dangerous blackmailer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
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The Paradise Problem
by Christina Lauren
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized housing while at UCLA. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the family corporation. He is interested in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. Due to a clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see his spouse. He has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.
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The Guncle Abroad
by Steven Rowley
Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years since he was his niece Maisie and nephew Grant’s caretaker. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by and relaunch his dormant acting career. When his brother announces he’s getting remarried in Italy, Maisie and Grant are not thrilled. As they travel through Europe on their way to the wedding, Patrick tries his best to help them understand love. When they arrive in Italy, Patrick is busy managing a groom with cold feet, his sister Clara flirting with guests left and right, a growing rivalry with the kids’ charming soon-to-be-launt (lesbian aunt), and two moody young teens trying to adjust to a new normal, all culminating in a disastrous rehearsal dinner.
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Southern Man (Penn Cage #7)
by Greg Iles
Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. But his exile comes to an end when a brawl at a Mississippi rap festival triggers a mass shooting—one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. As the stunned cities of Natchez and Bienville reel, antebellum plantation homes continue to burn and the deadly attacks are claimed by a Black radical group as historic acts of justice. But what might have been only a regional sideshow of the 2024 Presidential election explodes into national prominence, due to the stunning ascent of Robert E. Lee White. With White set to declare his candidacy, the forces polarizing America line up against one another. Teaming with his fearless daughter and a former Black Panther who spent most of his life in prison, Penn tears into Bobby White’s pursuit of the Presidency and ultimately risks a second Civil War to try to expose its motivation to the world.
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Swan Song
by Elin Hilderbrand
Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons—how did they make their money, exactly?—Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. When their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island is up in arms.
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Resurrection
by Danielle Steel
Darcy Gray is a successful influencer with her blog. Darcy and her husband, Charlie Gray, are a power couple. To celebrate twenty years of marriage, Darcy flies to Rome to surprise Charlie and receives shock of her life. Reeling, Darcy flees to Paris to see her daughter. But a rapidly escalating worldwide health crisis forces her to remain indefinitely in France. Her forced separation from her daughter and her family feels like too much to bear. Until Darcy finds a refuge in the home of an aging French movie star. There, she meets a widower and former Marine Bill Thompson. He is kind but also carries an air of mystery about him. In this shared confinement, Darcy begins to see glimpses of new possibilities.
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Eruption
by Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton, creator of Jurassic Park and Westworld, had a passion project he'd been pursuing for years ahead of his untimely death. Knowing how special it was, his widow held back his notes and the partial manuscript till she found the right author to complete it. The author she chose is the world’s most popular storyteller: James Patterson. Eruption brings the pace of Patterson to the concept of Crichton—the most anticipated mega-thriller in years.
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Clete (Dave Robicheaux #24)
by James Lee Burke
Clete Purcel-private investigator, former cop, and war veteran with a hard shell covering just a few soft spots-is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. When Clete picks up his car from the local car wash, only to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade, it feels personal. As Clete traces the connections in this far-reaching criminal enterprise, Clara Bow, a woman with a dark past, hires Clete to investigate her ex-husband, and a string of brutal deaths all link back to a heavily tattooed man who lurks around every corner. The thugs who destroyed Clete's car might have been pawns in a scheme far darker than they could've imagined.
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Flashback (Kendra Michaels #11)
by Iris Johansen
When two sisters in their twenties go missing while investigating a series of brutal murders committed over two decades before, Kendra Michaels joins the search for the missing women. Kendra's investigation takes her to Catalina Island, a peaceful hamlet that may be hiding a grim secret. Little does Kendra realize that her search is about to unleash a long-dormant killer on modern-day San Diego. With help from government agent-for-hire Adam Lynch, private eye Jessie Mercado and her sightless childhood friend Olivia Moore, Kendra must unravel the deadly scheme not only to save the lives of the two sisters, but also untold others.
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The Midnight Feast
by Lucy Foley
Welcome to the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxury resort built on top of old secrets in an ancient wood THE FOUNDER THE HUSBAND THE MYSTERY GUEST THE KITCHEN HELP THE DETECTIVE All have an agenda. All have a past. But not everyone will survive…. The Midnight Feast
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Red Star Falling (Luke Daniels #2)
by Steve Berry
Luke Daniels receives a surprise visit from the head of a former-CIA operation named Sommerhaus which ranks high on Luke’s list of painful regrets for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince, was captured by Russian operatives and supposedly executed. But Vince is alive, in failing health, locked in prison. Just as he frees his friend Vince tragically dies and his final words plunge Luke into a hunt for something in the library of Ivan the Terrible. Within that priceless collection of rare manuscripts is the key to unraveling a modern-day cipher and stopping a secret Soviet satellite program that still exists.
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All the Colors of the Dark
by Chris Whitaker
After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.
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The Lonely Hearts Trivia Night
by Lauren Farnsworth
Five lonely strangers join a bar trivia team in an effort to find friends, but end up on a path that will change each of their lives forever. How do you make friends as an adult? That’s one question lonely Londoners Bryony, Harry, Jaime, Luke, and Donna would really like the answer to. They tend to do better with questions of a different variety—trivia questions. In an effort to meet new people, the five not-yet-friends answer an ad seeking members of a bar trivia team—the Red Hot Quizzy Peppers. As the weeks go on, the disparate band of unhappy strangers becomes swept up in both the buzz of winning and the way quiz nights start to bond them together in friendship . . . to the detriment of other parts of their lives. The Lonely Hearts Trivia Night is a story of finding friendship, love, confidence, and purpose.
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A Talent for Murder
by Peter Swanson
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured divorcee with a job that took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes. A year in and the marriage was good, except for that strange blood streak on the back of one of his shirts he’d worn to a conference in Denver. Her curiosity turning to suspicion, Martha investigates the cities Alan visited over the past year and uncovers a disturbing pattern—five unsolved cases of murdered women. Is she married to a serial killer?
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Confessions of the Dead
by James Patterson
Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves. The crime rate—zero--is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett. The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals know her. She can’t or won’t answer any questions. While the girl is in protective custody, the officers are called to multiple crime scenes leading them closer and closer to a lake outside of town that doesn’t appear on any map.
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Flashpoint (FBI Series #27)
by Catherine Coulter
A year has passed since Elizabeth Palmer was nearly killed in the attempted bombing of St. Paul’s in London, believed to be a terrorist act until the police discovered it was a cover for something even more sinister. Autumn Backman, twelve years old, begrudgingly accepts a summer job to shepherd Tash Navarro. Autumn learns Tash is gifted psychically, like her, and Tash’s father, Archer Navarro, is suspected of embezzling from his own firm. The FBI and Interpol are on the case. Tash is convinced his father needs help, so Autumn reaches out to Dillon Savich. Elizabeth flies to Washington, D.C., to seek out Savich and Sherlock and is assigned Special Agent Rome Foxe for protection. With deadly assailants in pursuit, Elizabeth and Rome find themselves neck deep in danger and in a race for survival.
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Hard to Kill (Jane Smith #1)
by James Patterson and Mike Lupica
Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense. Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the lucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. It’s not double jeopardy. It’s not double murder. It’s double triple homicide. Jane’s career has spanned from NYPD beat cop to Hamptons courtroom. She’s tough to beat. She’s even tougher to kill. The defense may never rest.
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Shadow of Doubt (Scot Harvath #23)
by Brad Thor
A shadowy Russian defector. A beautiful Norwegian intelligence officer. A deadly American spy. An ingenious plot to collapse the United States has been uncovered. But can the highly suspect intelligence be trusted? In the fog of war, when friends can appear as enemies and enemies as friends, only one thing is certain—when in doubt, there is no doubt.
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The Burning (Kate Burkholder #16)
by Linda Castillo
Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. It is an appalling and eerily symbolic crime against an upstanding husband and father. Kate knows all too well that the Amish prefer to handle their problems without interference from the outside world, and no one will speak about the murdered man. Swanz led a deeply troubled life and had recently been excommunicated. When her own brother is implicated in the case, Kate finds herself not only at odds with the Amish, the world of which she was once a part, but also the English community and her counterparts in law enforcement.
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The Briar Club
by Kate Quinn
Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own.
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Breaking the Dark
by Lisa Jewell
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell launches the Marvel Crime program with an original story of Jessica Jones investigating a case about a mother who fears her children have been replaced"
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The Summer Pact
by Emily Giffin
Four freshmen arrive at college from completely different worlds. As their college years pass, their bond intensifies and they become inseparable. As graduation nears, their lives are forever changed after an desperate act leads to tragic consequences. Stunned, a pact is made to be there for each other. Ten years later, one is anticipating what should be one of the happiest moments of her life when everything is suddenly turned upside down. Calling on her closest friends, it soon becomes clear that they are facing their own crossroads. True to their promise, they agree to take a time out from lives headed in wrong directions and embark on a journey of self-discovery, forgiveness, and acceptance.
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The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie #15)
by Alexander McCall Smith
Isabel Dalhousie, everyone's favorite moral philosopher, is once again called on to help navigate a decidedly delicate dispute with all of the insight and compassion she has become known for. What makes Isabel's investigations so unique is her uncanny ability to view all sides of a situation with coolness and reserve - and she will tap deep into her stores of both in order to help see this one through. Meanwhile, Isabel and her husband Jamie will together be dealing with tricky personal issues of their own.
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