| Freefall by Jessica BarryThe setup: Maggie Carpenter receives news that a plane crashed in the Colorado Rockies, killing everyone onboard -- including her estranged daughter Allison.
The truth: The crash wasn't an accident, and Allison Carpenter isn't dead. Unfortunately she is stranded in the mountains, and the wilderness isn't the only force she'll have to battle to stay alive.
For fans of: Lisa Jackson, Clare Mackintosh, and Liane Moriarty. |
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| The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay FayeStarring: Alice James, whose sordid activities in 1920s Harlem end with a flight for her life on the first train she can find. Her destination? Portland, Oregon.
What happens: Alice, who is white, finds an unexpected welcome at the black-owned and operated Paragon Hotel. But the KKK is on the rise in Portland, and when a young mixed-race boy goes missing, everything threatens to boil over.
Read it for: the distinctive and lively inhabitants of the hotel, such as glamorous and mysterious cabaret singer Blossom Fontaine; the frank depiction of Oregon's often-forgotten history with racist violence. |
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Inhuman resources
by Pierre Lemaître
Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out. So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow money, shame his wife and his daughters and even participate in the ultimate recruitment test: a role-playing game that involves hostage-taking. Alain Delambre commits body and soul in this struggle to regain his dignity. But if he suddenly realised that the dice had been loaded against him from the start, his fury would be limitless. And what began as a role-play game could quickly become a bloodbath.
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| Hunting Annabelle by Wendy HeardFeaturing: Sean Suh, a 23-year-old Korean American man recently released from a psychiatric facility after serving time for a violent crime he committed in his youth; Sean's controlling but brilliant neurosurgeon mother, who he moves in with.
What happens: Sean struggles to deal with his loneliness, and with the schizophrenia diagnosis he doesn't relate to, but then he meets and falls for Annabelle who, to his shock, likes him back. Pity that on their first date, someone decides to kidnap her.
Why you might like it: the unreliable narrator, complex characters, and neon-hued 1980s setting. |
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The killing site : a Liberty Lane mystery
by Caro Peacock
July, 1847. Now a happily married mother-of-two, Liberty Lane is undertaking very few private investigative assignments. But when she is kidnapped from outside a smart London townhouse, where she had been attending a dinner party with her husband Robert, she must call on all her old investigative skills to discover who has taken her, and why. As Libby tries to formulate a plan of escape, her old friends, former street urchin Tabby and groom Amos Legge, desperately search for her. Convinced that somebody in the Maynard household, where the dinner party was held, knows something about Libby's disappearance, Tabby keeps watch on the house, and makes a truly shocking discovery.
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Don't believe it
by Charlie Donlea
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history; a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and centers on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring Break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work? Grace has spent the last ten years in a St. Lucian prison, and reaches out to filmmaker Sidney Ryan in a last, desperate attempt to prove her innocence. As Sidney begins researching, she uncovers startling evidence, additional suspects, and timeline issues that were all overlooked during the original investigation. Before the series even finishes filming, public outcry leads officials to reopen the case. But as the show surges towards its final episodes, Sidney receives a letter saying that she got it badly, terribly wrong. Sidney has just convinced the world that Grace is innocent. Now she wonders if she has helped to free a ruthless killer. Delving into Grace's past, she peels away layer after layer of deception. But as Sidney edges closer to the real heart of the story, she must decide if finding the truth is worth risking her newfound fame, her career, even her life.
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What Happened That Night
by Sheila O'Flanagan
She doesn't remember that night. But she will never be the same. One moment, Dahlia is a successful Harvard student; the next, she wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault. Her life veers into a tailspin, and what's worse, her memory of the attack has been ripped away, leaving a cold rage in its wake. Now, years later, Dahlia is a tattooed paralegal suffering from PTSD and still haunted by that night. Until one day, a video surfaces online, and Dahlia sees her attack for the first time. Now she knows what happened to her. And she knows who is to blame. Her rage is no longer cold, but burning, red hot. And she is about to make everyone pay..
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The thinnest air
by Minka Kent
A woman's disappearance exposes a life of secrets in a twisting novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Memory Watcher. Meredith Price is the luckiest woman alive. Her husband, Andrew, is a charming and successful financial broker. She has two lovely stepchildren and is living in affluence in a mountain resort town. After three years of marriage, Meredith's life has become predictable. Until the day she disappears. Her car has been discovered in a grocery store parking lot; purse and phone undisturbed on the passenger seat, keys in the ignition, no sign of struggle, and no evidence of foul play. It's as if she vanished into thin air. It's not like Meredith to simply abandon her loved ones. And no one in this town would have reason to harm her. When her desperate sister, Greer, arrives, she must face a disturbing question: What if no one really knows Meredith at all? For Greer, finding her sister isn't going to be easy, because where she's looking is going to get very, very dark.
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| The Other Widow by Susan CrawfordThe premise: Dorrie and Joe's affair comes to an abrupt end on a late night drive, when Joe tells Dorrie it's time to break things off. Seconds later, Joe's car skids on some ice, killing him instantly and leaving a stunned Dorrie in the passenger seat.
The problem: Not wanting the affair to be exposed, Dorrie flees the scene of the accident to return to her husband and child. But strange things about the accident begin to torment Dorrie, like the failure of Joe's airbag, or that the door on his side of the car was open as she fled.
Author alert: The Other Widow is the second novel by Susan Crawford, whose debut was 2015's The Pocket Wife. |
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| The House Swap by Rebecca FleetWhat it's about: a struggling married couple, Caroline and Francis, who hope to work on their relationship during a week-long getaway to London, facilitated by a housing-swap website.
Good neighbors: Soon after their arrival, the next-door neighbor begins showing an unusual interest in the couple. And worse, the house is full of objects -- like pink roses and a bottle of a familiar aftershave -- that remind Caroline of a secret she's been hiding from Francis for years.
You might also like: My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry; Twisted River by Siobhan MacDonald. |
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She was the quiet one
by Michele Campbell
Enrolling in a prestigious New Hampshire boarding school, rival twins Rose and Bel navigate the dark activities of their privileged, uninhibited classmates, while the wife of a ruthlessly ambitious teacher wonders about her husband's true nature.
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| Almost Missed You by Jessica StrawserWhat it is: a fast-paced, intricately plotted tale of Violet, a mother desperate to reunite with her child; and of Caitlin, who is in a position to help Violet if she's willing to let a life-changing secret be revealed.
What goes wrong: Violet Welsh is enjoying her family's beach vacation, at least until her husband Finn suddenly takes off with their toddler. Finn hopes his longtime friend Caitlin will help hide them, but when she balks, he threatens to expose a devastating secret from her past.
For fans of: Fiona Barton, Christobel Kent, and Mary Kubica. |
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