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Bestseller Preview July - September
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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, believed to be a terrorist act until the police discovered it was a cover for something even more sinister. Autumn Backman 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. 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
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 was chained to a stake and burned alive. 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. 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. When the widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her 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 dinner parties and window-brewed tea become a balm on their lives, but she hides a 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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By Any Other Name
by Jodi Picoult
Across centuries two women, Melina Green and Emilia Bassano, one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female playwrights.
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Joy
by Danielle Steel
Abandoned by her free-spirited mother and raised by an emotionally distant father, Allegra finds solace in books and love, only to face the harsh realities of war and its impact on her husband, who returns from Afghanistan nearly unrecognizable.
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Angel of Vengeance (Agent Pendergast #22)
by Douglas J. Preston
An FBI Special Agent poses as a cleric in New York's notorious Five Points slum to help catch a dangerous serial killer, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Cabinet of Dr. Leng.
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Fire and Bones (Temperance Brennan #26)
by Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates a deadly fire in a Washington, DC neighborhood called Foggy Bottom with a colorful past and ties to gangs in the present, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Bone Hacker.
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The Lost Coast (Clay Edison #5)
by Jonathan Kellerman
PI Clay Edison, when a case of simple fraud explodes into an elaborate con game stretching back decades and involving countless victims, follows the evidence to a tiny town on California's remote Lost Coast where he discovers the price of truth is higher—and deadlier—than he ever could've imagined.
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Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor #20)
by William Kent Krueger
The disappearance of a local politician’s teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim.
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The Seventh Veil of Salome
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves. Two actresses, both determined to make it to the top in Golden Age Hollywood. But this is the tale of three women, it is also the story of the princess Salome herself, consumed with desire for the fiery prophet who foretells the doom of her stepfather, Herod.
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Arkangel (Sigma Force #18)
by James Rollins
Sigma Force is summoned to help search for a missing trove of ancient books after a Vatican archivist is murdered near the Kremlin, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Tides of Fire.
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Between a Flock and a Hard Place (Meg Langslow #35)
by Donna Andrews
Meg grapples with belligerent turkeys, building code violations and a murder during a reality show makeover, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow!.
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This Is Why We Lied (Will Trent #12)
by Karin Slaughter
While on their honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge, GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must solve a murder when the Lodge's manager is found dead, and investigating the McAlpine family and other guests, they realize everyone here is lying—lying about their past, lying to their family, lying to themselves.
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Passions in Death (Eve Dallas #59)
by J. D. Robb
On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls' night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancâee. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve who once suffered an assault in the very same room. Eve knows that the level of violence and the apparent premeditation involved suggest a volatile mix of hidden, heated passion and ice-cold calculation.
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Counting Miracles
by Nicholas Sparks
Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad. When his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are find where you belong. She also tells him the name of the father he never knew-and where to find him. Tanner is due at his next posting soon, but he sets out for Asheboro, North Carolina, to ask around. He's been in town less than a day when he meets Kaitlyn Cooper, a doctor and single mom. Meanwhile, eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin. With only his old dog, Arlo, for company, he lives quietly. As these characters' fates orbit closer together, none of them is expecting a miracle . . . but that may be exactly what is about to alter their futures forever
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Bad Liar
by Tami Hoag
A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff's detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero Marc Mercier suddenly gone missing. Meanwhile, sheriff's detective Annie Broussard begins her first day back on the job after suffering a brutal attack. Robbie Fontenot has been missing for eight days, local police have no interest in the case. But his mother, B'Lynn swears her son was turning his life around. As the investigations proceed, it quickly becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems in the lives of either man. And it's still not clear whether either--or neither--of them might be the unidentified murder victim.
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Den of Iniquity (J.P. Beaumont #26)
by J. A. Jance
Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont faces trouble. Both his personal and professional lives are thrown into turmoil. Beau’s daughter and son-in-law are having marital troubles. His grandson, shows up on his doorstep, wanting to live with Beau and his wife Mel. Meanwhile, a friend from his past asks for Beau’s help in looking into what appears to be an accidental death. A young man died of a fentanyl overdose, but those closest to him are convinced that he would never have used the drug. Beau agrees to unofficially reopen the case, and his investigation leads him to uncover similar mysterious deaths that all point to a most unlikely suspect. It will take everything Beau has to track down a dangerous vigilante killer.
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Capture or Kill : A Mitch Rapp Novel by Don Bentley (Mitch Rapp #23)
by Vince Flynn
April 2011: On a remote mountaintop overlooking the remains of the Iranian nuclear weapons program, Azad Ashani witnesses a Quds Force demonstration. Alone, Ashani stands no chance of preventing this rush to madness. In Washington, DC, CIA director Irene Kennedy briefs the president that the operational window to kill or capture Osama bin Laden is rapidly closing. But before he’ll authorize a commando raid on Pakistani soil, the president demands irrefutable proof of bin Laden’s presence. Preventing a looming war in the Middle East while delivering justice for the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 would be a big ask for anyone.Mitch Rapp isn’t just anyone.
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On the Hunt (Kira Drake #1)
by Iris Johansen
Kira Drake has come to Paris with her highly trained Golden Retriever, Mack, to investigate the bombing of a museum. Jack Harlan has all the money in the world, but it can’t bring his brother back. His sibling was murdered during the theft of a scientific discovery. Now, after a four-year search, Harlan learns that this bombing was the work of the same twisted man. Kira and her dog are in demand from law enforcement agencies all over the world, but Harlan convinces her to continue the investigation for his own purposes. So against her better judgment, Kira finds herself on the hunt, placing her trust in Harlan. For what she hopes is justice. When what he may be seeking is vengeance.
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Tell me Everything
by Elizabeth Strout
As Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone's life mean? It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in a murder investigation, defending a man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives with her husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. Together, they spend afternoons in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known - "unrecorded lives," Olive calls them - reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.
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Here One Moment
by Liane Moriarty
A woman stands up on a plane, and predicts when everyone will die. Everyone laughs it off until it starts to come true.
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The Life Impossible
by Matt Haig
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.
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We Solve Murders
by Richard Osman
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . .
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