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| The Red Grove by Tessa FontaineSixteen-year-old Luce has spent half her life in the remote commune known as Red Grove, which was founded as a women's refuge from violence and oppression. But when an unexpected death involving a stranger upsets the status quo, Luce finds herself getting swept into internal power dynamics as bitter as anything in the outside world. |
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| The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova GlassIn this intricately plotted psychological suspense novel from the author of The Vanishing Hour, the crumbling lives of two struggling women become unwittingly entangled by a suspicious death (deemed a suicide by the police) and the enforced proximity of living in the same claustrophobic apartment building. |
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| The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko JeanWashington State based detective Chelsey Calhoun is assigned to the case of the titular Ellie Black, a young woman found alive after being kidnapped 2 years earlier. Deeply traumatized Ellie refuses to say anything about her captor, which seriously complicates an investigation already made difficult by the hostile work environment where Chelsey works. |
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| The Band by Christine Ma-KellamsThe unnamed narrator of this darkly humorous yet gripping story is a Chinese American psychologist who agrees to take in a troubled K-pop star Sang Dun after a chance meeting in an L.A. H-Mart. Sang Dun gains the chance to lay low after a publicity crisis and the narrator gets to break the monotony of her home life, but how long can this unlikely duo cohabitate before their strange dynamic gets even stranger? |
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| Very Bad Company by Emma RosenblumIn this fast-paced and suspenseful send-up of tech entrepreneur culture, bored TV producer Caitlin Levy accepts an event coordinator job at a startup for a change of pace. But when an executive disappears at the Miami team-building retreat she's running, Caitlin will need to do everything in her power not to lose herself in the company's tangled web of secrets and lies. |
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Sleeping Giants
by Rene Denfeld
The Child Finder and The Butterfly Girl author Rene Denfeld tells the intricately plotted and occasionally heartwrenching stories of young people trying to survive in a world not set up to support or protect them. Searching for information about the mother who put her up for adoption, Amanda Dufresne discovers she had a brother who met a tragic, avoidable fate 20 years earlier at a local "home for troubled boys."
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While We Were Burning
by Sara Koffi
Unable to return to full function while mourning a friend who died under suspicious circumstances, Elizabeth follows her husband's advice and hires a personal assistant, the positive, supportive, and effective Brianna. But Brianna has her own reasons for wanting the job, and she'll do everything in her power to see her plans through.
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A Better World
by Sarah Langan
Set in the near future, this thought-provoking dystopian thriller centers on pediatrician Linda and her scientist husband Russell, who was just laid off from the EPA. Forced by crumbling finances and environmental instability, the couple move with their twin daughters to a suspiciously idyllic company town run by Russell's new employers.
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A Game of Lies
by Clare Mackintosh
In this compelling sequel to The Last Party, Welsh detective Ffion Morgan is called to the rugged, picturesque mountain set of a polarizing reality TV show when the crew discover bones that turn out to be from an animal. But when the show's creator later winds up dead, Ffion must root out the murderer before they can kill again.
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Safe and Sound
by Laura McHugh
As their high school graduation approaches, sisters Amelia and Kylee are reminded of their missing cousin Grace, who vanished just as she herself was about to leave their bleak small town for college. Deciding it's time to find out what really happened to Grace, the sisters begin an investigation that could put their lives on the line in return for the truth.
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Nothing Without Me
by Helen Monks Takhar
Awards buzz surrounds April Eden's directorial debut film The Vanished Woman, which stars her best friend Essie Lay in a much-needed career comeback. When Essie goes missing the night of a prestigious ceremony, April takes some bad advice and unwittingly dredges up the complex history of their friendship, with dramatic fallout for everyone.
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The Extinction of Irena Rey
by Jennifer Croft
In this offbeat and atmospheric send-up of the world of literary translators, 8 writers gather at the remote Polish cabin to collaborate on their translations of the magnum opus by the Irena Rey of the title. But when the author vanishes, the group's effort to search for her in the forbidding Białowieża Forest descends into complete disarray.
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Like a Mother
by Mina Hardy
Everything that can go wrong does go wrong for Sarah Granatt, who is left with their 3-year-old daughter Ellie and another child on the way after her husband Adam's sudden death. Left financially vulnerable by Adam's unscrupulous business partner, Sarah is forced to move in with Adam's mother Candace, which takes her out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead
by Jenny Hollander
Although journalist Charlotte "Charlie" Colbert has built a good life for herself since, being the sole survivor of a violent attack at her grad school's campus still haunts her. When plans for a feature film to mark the event's 10-year anniversary are announced, Charlie, who can't remember everything that happened that night, decides she needs to stop the production -- by any means necessary.
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A Step Past Darkness
by Vera Kurian
In 1995, a group of teens working on a local history project accidentally discovered a dark connection between an abandoned mine and the megachurch that dominates their small town. Twenty years later, a member of the group turns up dead, pulling the survivors back together for a long, long overdue reckoning.
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Finding Sophie
by Imran Mahmood
After their 17-year-old daughter goes missing, Harry and Zara King begin to fixate on the deafening silence of their reclusive neighbor Herman, the only person on the block who refuses to entertain their questions. Full of suspicion and grief, the desperate parents decide to take matters into their own hands, with unanticipated fallout for everyone involved.
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My Name Was Eden
by Eleanor Barker-White
In this compelling debut, a complicated mother-daughter relationship grows even thornier after the titular teenage daughter Eden survives almost drowning. After her near-death experience, Eden's behavior takes a sinister turn, and she begins churning up family secrets, and asking uncomfortable questions about someone named Eli.
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The Split
by Kit Frick
YA author Kit Frick makes her adult debut in this fast-paced and haunting work of psychological suspense, which examines the nature of choice through the fraught relationship between two sisters and one desperate late night phone call between them. For fans of: The Choice by Gillian McAllister and The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton.
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The Mystery Writer
by Sulari Gentill
Theodosia "Theo" Benton puts aside her legal career to finally get serious about writing, moving in with her brother Gus and convincing an established author to mentor her. But when her mentor turns up dead and the police decide Gus is a person of interest, Theo makes a decision she can't take back in order to find out what really happened.
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One of the Good Guys
by Araminta Hall
In this fast-paced and intricately plotted psychological suspense novel, narrator Cole leaves his London life (and failed marriage) behind to start over in a quiet town on England's South Coast. He starts getting close to his neighbor, an artist called Leonora, but the local disappearance of two activists upends their tenuous relationship and uncovers that neither of them are quite who they seem to be.
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
by Janice Hallett
Washed-up true crime writer Amanda Bailey sees the chance to revitalize her career by writing a book about the titular Alperton Angels, a cult known for brainwashing a teen mother into believing that her child was the antichrist. Forced to collaborate with a professional rival also interested in the group, she soon discovers that the disturbing, dark truth is much stranger than fiction.
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The Fortune Seller
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
One part coming-of-age story and one part atmospheric suspense, The Fortune Seller stars social outsider Rosie Macalister as she returns to Yale for her senior year, where she's on an equestrian team scholarship. The seemingly accidental death of a teammate ends up poisoning Rosie's social circle, and after graduation the members of the team begin receiving sinister messages that cast doubt on everything they thought they knew.
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Northwoods
by Amy Pease
Traumatized Afghanistan vet Eli North is a problem drinker with untreated PTSD and a failing marriage. After his Fish and Wildlife Service job is eliminated, he returns to the picturesque Midwestern home town where his mother is the sheriff, and where his efforts to help investigate the murder of a young boy will uncover ugly secrets about the town's opioid crisis.
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