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The Woman in Suite 11
by Ruth Ware
When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago. The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo’s ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’s hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’s mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.
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The Hamptons Lawyer
by James Patterson
Undefeated criminal defense attorney Jane Smith, known as the Hamptons Lawyer, represents a local real estate mogul with more enemies than clients. When Jane’s own life is threatened, mounting a legal defense turns into self-defense. Knowing every day in court could be her last, she’s armed and ready: with brilliant arguments, hard evidence—and two Glocks. Until she hears the words “not guilty,” Jane Smith never fails to make her case.
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An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva
Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with twenty-four thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring the “much-loved Gabriel Allon” (Booklist) and ingenious plots that have taken him around the globe and back—from the United States to Europe, Russia to the Middle East. Now, Silva returns with another blockbuster thriller, a powerhouse novel showcasing his superb skill and brilliant imagination that is a must read for both his multitudes of fans and growing legions of converts.
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The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she's cursed. She's lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. Then a letter arrives, informing her that she inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard from a stranger, Emilia Rossi. Julia wonders if Rossi could family. She heads to Tuscany for answers. There, Julia discovers that Rossi was a recluse, who believed herself to be a descendent of Duchess Caterina Sforza, a Renaissance ruler. Julia is stunned by her resemblance to Rossi and to Caterina. Next, Julia suspects she's being followed, and strange things begin to happen. Not even a chance meeting with a handsome Florentine can ease her mind. When events turn deadly, she breaks with reality. Julia's struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival.
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Edge of Honor
by Brad Thor
After six months abroad, America’s top spy returns to a new administration, a new set of global priorities, and a power struggle.
Drawn into a web of deceit and deadly politics, Scot Harvath is thrust into a high-stakes conspiracy that could change the course of history. A cabal of shadowy elites is maneuvering for control and if they succeed, they will bring the country to its knees.
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The List
by Steve Berry
Brent Walker is returning home to Concord, Georgia. Ten years ago, after the sudden death of his wife, Brent closed his law practice and moved three hundred miles. Now Brent's coming back to take care of his ailing mother, hired by Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as an assistant general counsel. Southern Republic's success is based largely on the Priority program, a highly unorthodox way to secretly control costs. Only the three owners of the company are aware of the program's existence. Brent's return to Concord, a move owner, Bozin, personally orchestrated, provides a chance at redemption that Bozin wants before cancer takes his life. So a plan is set into motion-one that will not only criminally implicate Bozin's two partners-it will also place Brent Walker right in the crosshairs of men who want him dead.
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The Winds from Further West
by Alexander McCall Smith
A dazzling and uplifting novel of new beginnings and endless possibilities, in which a slew of personal and professional disasters cause a young researcher to upend his seemingly stable life in Edinburgh and move to a remote island off the Scottish coast
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The Red Queen
by Martha Grimes
One night in Twickenham,Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor's life-from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner had differing opinions of him.To complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for Treadnor. Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jury's partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: His sister, missing and presumed dead, just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.
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The Frozen People
by Elly Griffiths
Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they're frozen—or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. The latest assignment sees Ali venture back farther than they have dared before: to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, an eccentric patron of the arts. Rumor has it that Cain is part of a sinister group called The Collectors. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many questions. As the clock counts down, Ali becomes more entangled in the mystery. She soon finds herself trapped, unable to make her way back to her beloved son, Finn, who is battling his own accusations in the present day.
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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
by Sangu Mandanna
After resurrecting her great-aunt and befriending a half-villainous talking fox, Sera Swan is exiled from the magical Guild and loses her magic, but an old spell book mentioned by a handsome historian may hold the key to restoring her power.
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The View from Lake Como
by Adriana Trigiani
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone, "a big-hearted writer who tells big stories" (Jeanette Walls) comes a story of love, second chances, and making your own fate"
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Emma on Fire
by James Patterson
You—all of you—are sleepwalking through global catastrophe. And I intend to wake you up.
What Emma Caroline Blake has planned at New Hampshire’s Ridgemont Academy is shocking. Her school blames a heartbreaking tragedy in her family. Her best friends point to her most recent social media. Her teachers, even her father, say it’s a drastic cry for help. But Emma doesn’t want help. She wants to make a difference. Now. Today. Not tomorrow. She’s going to walk through fire to change the world.
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For Richer for Poorer
by Danielle Steel
Eugenia Ward started her own company when she turned forty, fourteen years ago. She is now a major name in evening gowns and wedding gowns, ready-to-wear and haute couture. But with the fashion business in major downturn, she has recently suffered heavy losses, and Eugenia desperately needs new investors. The silver lining in it all may be meeting Patrick Hughes, a successful real estate developer. A brilliant and creative businessman, Patrick gives her valuable advice about her business challenges. Eugenia finds friendship with Patrick sailing on his yacht and starts to imagine a new beginning, independent of her roles as mother and entrepreneur.
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We Are All Guilty Here
by Karin Slaughter
Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home.But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did.
Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?
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Kiss Her Goodbye
by Lisa Gardner
Recent Afghan refugee Sabera Ahmadi was last seen three weeks ago. The police have yet to open a case. Sabera's closest friend, is convinced Sabera would never willingly leave her three‑year old daughter. At her insistence, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search. Frankie quickly realizes there's much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye. The father Isaad is a brilliant mathematician, Sabera a gifted linguist, and their little girl Zahra has an uncanny ability to remember anything she sees. When Isaad also disappears and an attempt is made on Zahra's life, Frankie realizes she must quickly crack the code of this family's horrific past.
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Jenny Cooper has a Secret
by Joy Fielding
In this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places, a dementia patient reveals a deadly secret-and one woman must decide whether to believe her.
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Katabasis
by R. F. Kuang
Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.
But Hell is not like the storybooks, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.
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For Duck's Sake (Meg Langslow #37)
by Donna Andrews
Meg is in the backyard of the house, supervising some workmen who are using a bulldozer to start digging out a duck pond. Meg thinks it will be more peaceful at Rob's house--and it is until the bulldozers uncover a skeleton whose skull has a hole and a bullet rattling around inside. Meanwhile, Chief Burke begins searching the police records to see if he can identify any missing persons who would fit the bill. He doesn't turn down Meg's offer to help with his identification efforts. She's all the more eager to help because Iris Rafferty, who sold the house to Rob and Delaney and still lives in the mother-in-law suite, disappears the morning after the finding of the body. Does her disappearance have anything to do with finding the body?
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The Locked Ward
by Sarah Pekkanen
It's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, "I didn't do it. You've got to get me out of here." Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Nothing is as it seems in this shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood-and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point.
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Smuggler's Cove
by Fern Michaels
Growing up, Madison Taylor and her younger brother Lincoln lived in privilege, but their sheltered existence abruptly ended when their father was arrested for fraud and the family assets were seized. Madison and Lincoln are now the new co-owners of a marina at Smugglers Cove on the Navesink river. Smugglers Cove offers little beyond a dilapidated dock, a few gas pumps, and a handful of clam boats. Madison’s plan to sell the property goes awry when a dead body is found floating under their dock and transforms their new inheritance into a crime scene. They’re discovering more about themselves and each other every day, but with a mystery to solve, and big decisions to make, these are lessons they’ll need to learn fast . . .
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Upon a Starlit Tide
by Kell Woods
In 1758 Saint-Malo, Lucinde Leon, the rebellious daughter of a wealthy shipowner, discovers a world of faerie magic, love, and betrayal after rescuing a drowning man, drawing her into a dangerous web of secrets, power and the pull of the sea.
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Something to Look Forward To
by Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg once said that what the world needs now is a good laugh. That is what she gives us in these thirty warmhearted, often hilarious, stories about Americans finding ways of dealing with the curveballs life throws at us. We meet Velma from Kansas, a loving great-grandmother who struggles to bridge the generational divide with her great-grandchild in California. We cheer for Helen, in Ithaca, New York, who takes an audacious course of action when her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Four men in Bent Fork, Wyoming, make a bold decision after learning that the cafâe where they eat breakfast every day is about to be sold to a stranger from out of town. And observing them all is Special Agent Frawley, a visitor from another planet, sent to Earth to figure out what makes human beings tick, only to fall in love with one of them-and with her cat"
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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. Joyce’s daughter Joanna jumps into the fray to help the gang. Plunged back into action once more, can the four friends solve the puzzle and a murder in time?
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