August 2025 list by S Ward |
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The Color of Death
by Trey Gowdy
Following the death of his wife and daughter, Colm Truesdale is left mentally scarred. After time off, and with no desire to return to the courtroom, Truesdale is brought back into the investigation of the murder of a young woman who ran a beauty salon outside of town. When a page from her appointment book goes missing, and then the crime scene burns down, it’s up to Colm to untangle the web of deception that implicates a powerful judge and his family.
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Crossfire
by Wilbur A. Smith
It's 1943 and the tides of the Second World War are changing: the Germans are losing and the Allies are on their way. Special Operations Executive, Saffron Courtney is sailing to New York on the Queen Mary. Her mission is to uncover a Nazi spy ring and a mole deep within the British Embassy. As Churchill and Roosevelt are about to begin talks that will determine British and American military strategy for the next two years, it is vital that the enemy don't find out their secrets.
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The Dead Come to Stay
by Brandy Schillace
When neurodivergent American Jo Jones relocates to her family's North Yorkshire estate, she's pulled into a murder investigation with gruff detective James MacAdams, uncovering ties to missing teens, illicit artifact trading, and buried family secrets harbored by the region's polished elite.
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The Dead Husband Cookbook
by Danielle Valentine
When Thea Woods is chosen to work with Maria Capello on her sure-to-be-infamous memoir, she finds that there might be something sinister lurking behind the Capello family.
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Emma on Fire
by James Patterson
What Emma Caroline Blake has planned at New Hampshire's Ridgemont Academy is to change the world will shock all involved.
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Full Bloom
by Francesca Scottoline Serritella
After receiving a mysterious perfume that transforms her into the center of attention, Iris Sunnegren navigates newfound power, buried trauma and the dark secrets of New York's elite.
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The Glass Man
by Anders De La Motte
Detective Leonore Asker investigates a mutilated body found on her estranged father's farm while writer Martin Hill uncovers eerie legends at a remote estate, their paths converging as a mysterious figure known as the Glass Man emerges from the shadows.
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High Season
by Katie Bishop
After the death of a troubled young socialite, the victim's twin brother is determined to hold the family together, at any cost.
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Knife In the Back
by Karen Rose
After being framed for stealing cocaine from evidence and serving five years in prison, Officer Naomi Cranston is threatened again by the crooks who framed her; former cop Burke Broussard reluctantly agrees to protect her and her son and prove her innocence.
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Last Seen
by J. T. Ellison
Halley James knows her marriage is over. But she’s not prepared for the rest of her life to fall apart too. She just lost her job at the forensics lab. Her dad needs emergency surgery. But the biggest blow comes when she discovers her mother didn’t actually die in a car crash. Her mom was murdered―and her father lied about it all these years. Now, she doesn’t know what to believe.
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Leverage
by Amran Gowani
When Al, star of hedge fund Prism Capital, loses $300 million, the politically connected founder demands he recover the money in three months or take the fall for insider trading—to survive, Al must outfox one of the world's most powerful men.
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The Locked Ward
by Sarah Pekkanen
When Amanda visits her institutionalized twin Georgia—accused of murdering their younger sister—she's drawn into a chilling spiral of doubt, buried family tensions, and psychological manipulation that forces her to question the truth, her past, and her own sanity.
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Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library
by Amanda Chapman
Tory, conservator at Manhattan's Mystery Guild Library, discovers a woman in the Christie Room who says she's Agatha Christie, there to solve a future murder—so when Tory's cousin Nic gets involved in her talent agent's suspicious death, she turns to Mrs. Christie for help.
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Peter Miles Has To Die
by Katie Collom
Peter Miles has to die. And Dylan Darcy, Priya Shah, and Isabel Guerrero—a bartender, a nurse, and a student—have to be the ones to kill him. As they see it, this local cop deserves death for murdering their best friend and getting away with it. All they need to do to pull off the perfect crime is stick to their carefully prepared plan.
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The Understudy
by Morgan Richter
After years of rigorous instruction, Kit finally gets her big break when she’s hired to play the lead role in a new opera. Entrusted with playing the beautiful and seductive titular role, Kit is on her way to the top of the highly competitive world of New York City opera. But then she walks into rehearsal and meets her understudy. Stunning, suggestive, and bursting with confidence, Yolanda is physically everything the role needs. Kit isn’t threatened, until Yolanda reveals that she wants the role—and will do anything to get it.
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The Witch's Orchard
by Archer Sullivan
Former Air Force Special Investigator Annie Gore joined the military right after high school to escape the fraught homelife of her childhood. Now, she’s getting by as a private investigator and her latest case takes her to an Appalachian holler not unlike the one where she grew up.
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