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Coded Justice
by Stacey Abrams
Avery is now working as an internal investigator when a high-profile client seeks her out. Camasca Enterprises has a big problem. The tech company has developed a new integrated AI system poised to revolutionize the medical industry but their prototype has been plagued by a series of disturbing anomalies—culminating in the mysterious death of a beloved Camasca engineer.
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Do Not Disturb
by Freida Mcfadden
Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.
To avoid spending her life in prison she makes a run for it and heads for the northern border. When an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, she must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isn't the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past.
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Edge Of Honor
by Brad Thor
After six months abroad, elite spy Scot Harvath returns to a shifting political landscape in America, where a powerful secret cabal threatens to destabilize the nation.
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Everyone Is Lying To You
by Jo Piazza
Lizzie and Bex were best friends in college. After graduation, Bex vanished. Fifteen years later, Bex is now Rebecca Sommers, a “traditional” Instagram influencer with millions of followers. One night out of the blue, Bex calls Lizzie with a career-making proposition—an to a conference and an exclusive interview with her about her multimillion-dollar business venture. Lizzie finds herself plunged into the dark side of the cutthroat world of social media that includes jealousy, backstabbing, and murder.
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The Frozen People
by Elly Griffiths
Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they're frozen—or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence.
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The Hamptons Lawyer
by James Patterson
The Hamptons on Long Island is known for its beautiful beaches, its luxury lifestyle—and its exclusive legal advice. When Jane Smith takes on a famous celebrity client, she’s armed and ready: with brilliant arguments, hard evidence—and two Glocks. Yet she’s chased down, shot at, and risks contempt of court. That’s when mounting a legal defense turns into self-defense.
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An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
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The Lake Escape
by Jamie Day
Julia, David, and Erika grew up together spending summers at their idyllic Vermont lake homes. Now adults the three friends have amassed secrets over the years. This summer, David is eager to show off his newly renovated home and his much-younger girlfriend. He also, unwittingly, brings a nanny with a hidden agenda. When David's girlfriend mysteriously vanishes after a shouting match, Julia and Erika wonder just how well they know their lifelong friend.
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The List
by Steve Berry
Brent Walker is returning home to Concord, a quaint town in central Georgia. Ten years ago, after the sudden death of his wife, Brent closed his law practice, said goodbye to his parents, and moved three hundred miles away. Now Brent's coming back to take care of his ailing mother, hired by Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as an assistant general counsel. A move that puts him in the crosshairs of men who want him dead.
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Matchmaking For Psychopaths
by Tasha Coryell
When Lexie's fiancé runs off with her so-called best friend on her birthday, her carefully crafted fairy-tale life shatters. To distract herself, Lexie throws herself into her unusual job: matchmaking psychopaths (a specialty her clients are blissfully unaware of). But the loneliness is crushing. So when a gorgeous, overprotective new client named Aidan insists they're soulmates, Lexie can't help but find the attention comforting. Then a human heart appears on Lexie's doorstep. She must confront a terrifying question: did she inadvertently match herself with a killer?
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Mean Moms
by Emma Rosenblum
Meet Frost, Morgan, and Belle―a wealthy, gorgeous group of New York City moms, the queen bees of downtown Manhattan. Their children attend Atherton Academy, the top private school in the city, and their social lives revolve around elaborate themed parties. On the first day of school, the arrival of a new mom and mysterious beauty from Miami, Sofia shakes up their world. When Sofia quickly integrates herself into their clique, inexplicably bad things start to happen to the women. Is someone at school out to get them?
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Not Quite Dead Yet
by Holly Jackson
In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm. Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light. She has at most seven days to solve her own murder.
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Our Last Resort
by Clémence Michallon
Frida and Gabriel arrive seeking a fresh start at the stunning Ara Hotel in the secluded desert of Escalante, Utah. Once so close they were able to finish each other’s sentences, they’ve grown apart in recent years after a sudden, unspeakable tragedy. Now, at the luxe resort, they are ready to reconnect between dips in the pool and hikes on spectacular desert trails. It all feels like paradise—until the dead body of a beautiful young woman who was vacationing at the Ara.
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Party Of Liars
by Kelsey Cox
Today is Sophie Matthews’s sixteenth birthday party, an exclusive black-tie bash in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where secrets are as deep-rooted as the sprawling live oaks. Sophie’s dad has spared no expense, and his renovated cliffside mansion―once thought haunted and shuttered for years from outsiders―is now hosting the event of the season. Then, just before the candles on the three-tiered red velvet cake are blown out, a body falls from the balcony onto the starlit dance floor below.
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Rage
by Linda Castillo
Summer has arrived with a vengeance in Painters Mill, and a macabre discovery by three Amish children brings the quiet to a grinding halt. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on scene to find the dismembered body of 21-year-old Samuel Eicher, a local Amish man who owned a successful landscaping business. The investigation has barely begun when, miles away, a second body is found. Will the secrets simmering beneath the surface of Painters Mill take another life before she can expose the truth?
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She Didn't See It Coming
by Shari Lapena
When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late?
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The Unraveling Of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she's cursed. She's lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard from a stranger. Bewildered, she heads to Tuscany for answers. Before long, Julia suspects she's being followed, and strange things begin to happen.
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The Woman In Suite 11
by Ruth Ware
When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career. The chateau is everything she's ever dreamed of but when Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’s hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted by a woman claiming to be his mistress and in life-or-death jeopardy.
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You Belong Here
by Megan Miranda
Beckett Bowery never thought she’d return to Wyatt Valley, a picturesque college town in the Virginia. For the last two decades, Beckett has done her best to keep her distance. Then her daughter, Delilah, secretly applies to Wyatt College and earns a full scholarship, and Beckett can only hope that her lingering fears are unfounded. But deep down she knows that Wyatt Valley has a long memory, and that the past isn’t the only dangerous thing in town.
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