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Mysteries & ThrillersMay - June 2024
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Camino Ghosts by John GrishamBay Books shop owner Bruce Cable is reunited again with best-selling author Mercer Mann to solve another murder on Camino Island, Florida, in the third novel of the series following Camino Winds.
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Think Twice by Harlan CobenWhen his former client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing, who is deceased, has been placed at the scene of a double homicide, sports agent Myron Bolitar and Win, search for answers, but the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous their world becomes.
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Eruption by Michael CrichtonTwo of the world's most popular and prolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades.
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Southern Man by Greg IlesA man—and a town—are rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but he's unbowed in the fight to save those he loves.
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One Perfect Couple by Ruth WareLanding on a tropical paradise where they'll compete against four other couples to win a cash prize, Lyla and Nico, starring on the new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, find themselves on a storm-swept island where they all must band together as a killer walks among them.
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Stuart Woods' Smolder by Brett BattlesWhen he is drawn into a case involving a ring of art thieves, which has links to his own mother's paintings, Stone Barrington must draw out a familiar enemy and face down his most vindictive threat yet.
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Flashback by Iris JohansenTwenty years after their mother was the second victim of the Bayside Stranger, two sisters disappear leaving Kendra Michaels to investigate the cold case in the eleventh novel of the series following More Than Meets the Eye
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Some Murders in Berlin by Karen RobardsAssisting the Kripo in solving a series of murders in Nazi Germany, Dr. Elin Lund, an expert in psychological profiling, when the killer realizes she's figured out who he is, must join Denmark's Jews, along with her family, who are being smuggled to Sweden that very night to survive.
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The Midnight Feast by Lucy FoleyDuring the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxe coastal retreat built on top of old secrets, those in attendance all have an agenda but not everyone will survive.
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The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline WinspearIn 1945 London, psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs visits a vacant Belgravia mansion where she finds four adolescent orphans and a demobilized, gravely ill soldier and as she tries to bring comfort to them all, she is forced to examine her own painful past.
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First Frost by Craig JohnsonSheriff Walt Longmire tries to manage his increasingly complicated personal life while staving off the violent underworld that is encroaching on the Old West, in the 20th novel of the series following The Longmire Defense.
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Clete / : A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee BurkeJames Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave's partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop the ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drug.
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Middle of the Night : a novel by Riley SagerReturning to his childhood home 30 years after his friend Billy's disappearance, Ethan sets out to find out what really happened that night and, reunited with former friends and neighbors, finds his investigation leading him to an institute where clandestine research is performed.
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Red Star Falling by Steve BerrySearching for the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible, rare manuscripts that contain the key to ending a looming threat orbiting 200 miles above the earth, Luke Daniels must find them before others, both inside and outside of Russia, unleash the destructive potential of the Red Star program.
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Farewell, Amethystine by Walter MosleyLos Angeles detective Easy Rawlins investigates when the ex-husband of his ex-lover, Amethystine Stoller, turns up dead and his only friend at the LAPD goes into hiding in the sixteenth novel of the series following Blood Grove.
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Devil's Fortress by Dale BrownAfter saving the US from a Russian nuclear attack in the bestselling Weapons of Opportunity, Nick Flynn returns in what could be his most dangerous mission yet.
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Death Behind Every Door by Heather GrahamPosing as a tourist, an FBI special agent visits a Scottish castle that's been turned into a bed and breakfast to infiltrate a society of twisted killers named after the man believed to be America's first serial killer.
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Red Sky Mourning by Jack CarrWhen three seemingly disconnected events are about to ignite, Navy SEAL sniper James Reece, to save America, must reconnect to a quantum computer called “Alice” who is positioned to act as either the county's greatest savior or its worst enemy.
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Tom Clancy Act of Defiance by Brian AndrewsWhen U.S. intelligence reports there's something going on in Russia, President Jack Ryan and his youngest daughter, Katie, determine the Russians are about to launch a super missile submarine, and the race is on to find its location and decide if it poses a threat to the continental U.S.
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Market for Murder by Heather GrahamIn Edinburgh, where murder victims are being dissected and sold for spare parts, Special Agent Luke Kendrick and Carly MacDonald, are running out of time—and people they can—trust to catch the killers before they themselves are put on ice.
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Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace AtkinsA Memphis wife and mother hires an old friend of her father, legendary private investigator Porter Hayes, to search for her missing husband and the pair uncover a dangerous knot of international intrigue involving mercenaries, retired actresses and imposters.
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The Next Mrs. Parrish : a novel by Liv ConstantineWith her husband Jackson getting out of prison, prominent socialite Amber Patterson Parrish, she, Jackson and Jackson's ex-wife Daphne become unlikely allies but when all is said and done, they'll have to fight for everything they have left in this zero-sum game.
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The Last Murder at the End of the Worldby Stuart TurtonOn an isolated island where 122 villagers and three scientists live in peaceful harmony, one of the scientists is found brutally murdered, which triggers a security system, giving the islanders only 107 hours to solve the murder or be smothered by the fog that destroyed the planet.
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One Deadly Eye : A Doc Ford Novel by Randy Wayne WhiteWhen a cataclysmic event hits Sanibel Island, setting Russia's most dangerous prisoners free, including a notorious serial killer, Doc Ford, teams up with an enigmatic British inventor bent on revenge to survive the 12 hours of chaos that follow.
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If Something Happens to Meby Alex FinlayAs Ryan Richardson races from Tuscany, to a village in the U.K., to the streets of Paris in search of the truth behind his missing girlfriend, he has no idea that his salvation may lie with a young sheriff's deputy in Kansas working her first case, and a mobster in Philadelphia.
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Very Bad Company by Emma RosenblumOn an exclusive retreat in Miami with her new employer, trendy tech startup Aurora, Caitlin Levy, when a fellow high-level executive vanishes, and her colleagues must continue the charade to keep the future of Aurora afloat amid all the fatal speculations.
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The Last Time She Saw Him by Kate WhiteWhen her ex-fiancé is found dead from a gunshot wound while at their friend's Connecticut country house, Kiki is determined to prove it was murder, not suicide, and to get the police to take her seriously, searches for the missing link, uncovering something far more sinister.
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Sentinel by Mark GreaneySent to Ghana to protect U.S. embassy personnel who are there to highlight American commitment to the construction of a new dam, Josh and Nikki Duffy, when the Chinese get involved, find themselves on the run, caught between a Chinese hit squad and a rebel army.
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A Talent for Murder by Peter SwansonA newlywed becomes suspicious of her husband after finding a blood streak on the back of a shirt he wore to a conference and discovers a disturbing pattern of unsolved murders in all the cities he's visited.
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One of Our Kindby Nicola YoonMoving their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, hope to find a community of like-minded people, Jasmyn, perplexed and frustrated by most residents' outlook, discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders.
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Westport by James ComeyWhen she becomes the lead suspect in her coworker's murder, Nora Carleton calls in her old colleagues, Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and lawyer Carmen Garcia, and as they hunt for the true killer's motive, Nora examines her history with the company to determine who framed her.
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The North Line by Matt RiordanJoining an Alaskan fishing crew for some quick money, Adam, on the unforgiving Bering Sea, is invigorated by the labor and comradery, but when violence stalks the waves, he is thrust into a struggle for survival at the edge of the world where evolutionary and social forces collide.
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Phantom Orbit : a thriller by David IgnatiusWorking in secret for years to solve the puzzle in the writings of the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, Ivan Volkov, after the loss of his son and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA, risking his life to help stop the Doomsday clock.
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The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko JeanWhen Ellie Black, who disappeared two years earlier, is found alive in the woods of Washington State, Detective Chelsey Calhoun, whose own sister went missing when they were teenagers, realizes something is not right with Ellie and it's up to her to find the answers.
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You'll Never Find Me by Allison BrennanPrivate investigator Margot Angelhart works alone helping those whom the law overlooks, but when she takes on a case that forces her to team up with her estranged siblings—and is exposed to a vengeful, corrupt cop—reconciling is her only hope at survival.
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The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery LloydFifty years after runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, two Cambridge art history students stumble across proof that the fire was no accident, which threatens the very foundation of Juliette's aristocratic family.
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The Unwedding by Ally CondieRecent divorcee Ellery Wainwright, while staying at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, finding the place beautiful, yet unsettling, especially when a mudslide traps her and the other guests with a murderer who has something horrific in store for them all.
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Swiped by L. M. ChiltonTo fill the void in her life, Gwen Turner turns to a dating app, spending her evenings out on one disastrous date after another, but when she becomes the main suspect in a serial killer's murderous spree whose victims are linked to her, she must swipe her way to the truth.
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When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillipsAn outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school. A first novel.
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Long Time Gone by Charlie DonleaWhen Dr. Sloan Hastings submits her DNA to an online genealogy site for a research assignment, she discovers she's “Baby Charlotte,” who had mysteriously disappeared in 1995 along with her family soon realizes no one is happy about her return.
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The Hunter's Daughter by Nicola SolvinicA decorated sheriff's lieutenant serving a rural county, Anna Koray, who is secretly the daughter of a notorious serial killer, finds her suppressed memories returning when a new serial killer emerges, copying her father, and must use her father's tricks to stop him.
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Shanghai by Joseph KanonIn pre-World War II Shanghai, glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost of doing business.
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All the Colors of the Dark by Chris WhitakerAfter a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.
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Peg and Rose Play the Ponies by Laurien BerensonWhile in Kentucky to sell her Thoroughbred's offspring at a high-stakes yearling sale, rival sisters-in-law Peg and Rose discover something seems off about Six Oaks farm, and when the yearling manager with serious anger issues is murdered, the ladies enter the ring to expose the culprit.
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Trust Her by Flynn BerryBuilding a new life in Dublin with their young children, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian are drawn back into the IRA conflict when Tess is told she must track down her old handler from MI5 and attempt to turn him into an IRA informant or lose everything.
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The Paris Widow by Kimberly BelleA married couple's trip to Paris takes a dark turn when the husband goes missing, dredging up secrets from both of their pasts.
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Pitch Dark by Paul DoironGame Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods.
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Tell Me Who You Areby Louisa LunaA psychiatrist with a shocking past is challenged by a dangerous new patient.
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We Used to Live Here by Marcus KliewerAn eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house's previous residents unexpectedly visit.
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