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The girls are all so nice here by Laurie Elizabeth FlynnWhat it is: the brutal lengths girls can go to get what they think they're owed, and what happens when the games we play in college become matters of life and death. What happens: receiving ominous threats during a 10-year college reunion, Ambrosia and her best friend discover that they are being targeted by an unknown adversary who would exact revenge for a dangerous secret from their past.
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Mother May I by Joshilyn JacksonWhat happens: just minutes before Bree's infant son, asleep in his car seat only a few feet away, vanishes. If she wants her baby back, she must not call the police or deviate in any way from the instructions that will follow. The problem: to get her baby back, Bree must complete one small but critical task. It seems harmless enough, but her action comes with a devastating price. Bree will do whatever it takes to protect her family but what if the cost tears their world apart?
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| Khalil by Yasmina KhadraWhat it is: the character-driven and thought-provoking story of would-be suicide bomber Khalil, who begins to reevaluate his life and his choices after his explosive vest fails to detonate during a planned attack.
Read it for: Khalil's reflections on his difficult childhood as a Belgian of Moroccan descent and the racism that eventually radicalized him. |
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| Possession by Katie LoweThe premise: ten years ago, Hannah McLelland's life was upended when her husband was murdered in their London home. Since then she has worked hard to rebuild and make a life for her daughter, far away from the media sensation surrounding the trial of her husband's killer.
The problem: a true crime podcast is re-investigating the case, and as the host digs deeper into Hannah's past, the court of public opinion turns against Hannah and threatens to undo everything. |
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The lamplighters by Emma StonexFeaturing: based on true events, follows the experiences of three wives on a remote Cornish Coast tower when their lighthouse-keeper husbands go mysteriously missing. What happens: moving between the women's stories and the men's last weeks together in the lighthouse, long-held secrets surface and truths twist into lies as we piece together what happened, why, and who to believe.
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The committed by Viet Thanh NguyenFeaturing: the unnamed “man of two minds” and his blood brother dealing drugs in 1980s Paris, where he navigates the worlds of privileged clients. This is the sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. What it's about: traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the he finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. He will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail.
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Lost by James PattersonStarring: Detective Tom Moon's ~ he's always kept it local, attending University of Miami, a Miami PD officer, and now, is the new leader of a FBI task force called "Operation Guardian. His purpose: tasked with combating international crime, he searches for two Russian nationals who have built a vast, powerful European crime syndicate that reaches into Miami Series alert: This it the first novel in the series Tom Moon.
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Cemetery Road : a novel by Greg IlesWhat it is: an ambitious stand-alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption. What happens: when Marshall McEwan left his Mississippi hometown at eighteen, he vowed never to return. His father's terminal illness, his family's struggling newspaper and a politically charged murder trial force him to return to his small Mississippi hometown.
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The chestnut man : a novel by Søren SveistrupWhat it is: a psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. Leaving handmade dolls at his murder scenes, two detectives struggle to put aside their differences and follow forensic clues linking the case to a politician’s kidnapped daughter. Read it for: with rapid-fire cinematic cuts from one brutal scene after another, illuminating the complexities of urban police work amid abundant inefficiencies, a plethora of red herrings, and government corruption.
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| Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukWhat it's about: translated from the original Polish, this stylistically complex blend of literary fiction and suspenseful detective story follows quirky, reclusive Janina Duszejko as she involves herself in the investigation of a neighbor's murder.
Read it for: the offbeat tone, compelling writing, and Janina's insightful reflections on life in a small Polish village. |
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