The Bright Lands
by John Fram

Welcome to Bentley, Texas: A sleepy town that holds two things near and dear, football and secrets. When high school star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, local fears and secrets grip this small Texas town.

What happens: Shamed away from his hometown when he came out as gay, Joel Whitley, Dylan's older brother, returns to Bentley after receiving alarming texts from Dylan. Teaming up with a former high school classmate turned Sheriff's Deputy, Joel looks for his brother. Secrets aren't the only things he digs up though, something more sinister lurks in this town.

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Cajun Justice
by James Patterson and Tucker Axum

Introducing: Cain Lemaire, an ex Secret Service agent from New Orleans. Cain had his dream job, protecting the president. He had it all until one night which resulted in a scandal and cost him his job.

New work: In need of a new job, Cain turns to his sister in Japan, who helps him get a job in Tokyo as head of security for an important CEO. Working security seems standard to Cain, until he uncovers a web of corruption, greed, and extortion. On his own, he can only rely on his years of training to find justice.

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The Girl From Widow Hills
by Megan Miranda

Who is Arden Maynor?: A little girl swept away while sleepwalking during a terrible rainstorm. After days of being lost, and the search efforts of the community, she was found clinging to a storm drain, alive. A living miracle, fame soon followed, and with fame, creeps and stalkers.

20 years later: When she was old enough,Arden left her hometown to escape the fame and now goes by Olivia. With the 20th anniversary fast approaching, and people asking where Arden is now, Olivia feels like she is being watched and begins to sleepwalk again. Things take a turn when she wakes up in her yard to a corpse at her feet...
 
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One Last Lie
by Paul Doiron

Last words: "Never trust a man without secrets." These are the last words spoken by retired game warden Charley Stevens to his surrogate son, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch. Soon after, the retired warden disappears without a trace in a forest along the Canadian border.

An old case and an old badge: Mike suspects that Charley's disappearance has to do with an old badge found at a flea market, a badge that belonged to a warden who supposedly died 15 years ago, but whose body was never found. Looking into that case to find clues to save Charley, Mike learns that some people want that case to remain unsolved.

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The Visitors
by Catherine Burns

What it's about: Middle-aged Miriam Zetland lives a reclusive life in a tumbledown seaside mansion with her cruel and overbearing brother John, a former school teacher who spends most of his time in the cellar building model airplanes -- and occasionally receiving visitors whom Miriam never gets to meet.

Read it for: the atmospheric and creepy tone, which builds tension slowly and deliberately until circumstances force Miriam to get closer to the disturbing secrets her brother has been hiding behind the (locked) cellar door.

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With You Always
by Rena Olsen

The premise: Julia Hawthorne has never been especially religious, but when she begins dating handsome lawyer Bryce Covington and learns that his parents run a church, she starts attending services with him. Unexpectedly she has a profound spiritual experience, and soon she's becoming increasingly committed to both her faith and her relationship.

The problem: Julia's sister Kate is suspicious of Bryce and of the church almost immediately but Julia won't hear of it. As she grows increasingly isolated from her old life and more dependent on the church, Julia learns the Bryce isn't who she thought he was. Now Julia can't see a way out, especially once the church services start to take a turn for the bizarre.

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Baby Doll
by Hollie Overton

What it is: an intricately plotted story of survival in which a woman held captive since her teenage years fights to rebuild her life and keep her kidnapper behind bars. 

Starring: Lily Riser, who has spent the last eight years trapped in a basement; Rick Hanson, a high school English teacher and Lily's kidnapper who is determined to punish her for escaping; Abby Riser, Lily's twin sister who faced her own struggles while Lily was missing; and Sky, Lily's young daughter who has never lived in the outside world. 

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The Turn of the Key
by Ruth Ware

Too good to be true: On the surface Rowan Caine's new nanny job seems great -- the girls are charming, the parents seem nice, and she'll be living with them in a beautiful house in the Scottish countryside 

What happens next: Once Rowan takes off her rose-colored glasses she starts noticing creepy things about her employers and their house, and when one of the children is found dead, Rowan becomes the prime suspect. 

Why you might like it: This homage to the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw is framed as a letter Rowan is writing to her lawyer from prison as she tries to defend herself and figure out what really happened. 

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