| How Quickly She Disappears by Raymond FleischmannWhat it's about: This historical thriller follows 1940's housewife Elizabeth Pfautz, who is lured into an intricate web of secrets after a stranger tells her he knows what happened to her twin sister Jacqueline, who disappeared when they were children.
Read it for: the stark and well-rendered Alaska setting, the isolation of which only underlines the lack of choices Elizabeth finds herself forced to confront. |
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Grace is gone : a novel
by Emily Elgar
A tight-knit English community is rocked by the murder of Meg Nichols and the disappearance of her daughter Grace, prompting a local journalist, desperate for redemption, to embark on a search for the missing girl that leads to more and more questions.
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| The Better Liar by Tanen JonesWhat it is: a fast-paced and compelling psychological thriller of fraud and family dysfunction, told from multiple (unreliable) perspectives.
The setup: Leslie hasn't seen her estranged sister Robin in a decade, but she needs to find Robin in order to claim her much-needed share of an inheritance. Luckily, she's tracked Robin down. Unluckily, Robin appears to have died of an overdose.
The doppelganger: On her way out of town, a grief-stricken Leslie meets a waitress named Mary who looks enough like Robin that she just might be able to get the job done... |
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| The Rabbit Hunter by Lars KeplerSeries alert: This is the 6th entry in the D.I. Joona Linna series of Nordic crime thrillers, which finds the titular detective sprung from prison to investigate the death of a government minister with possible terrorist ties.
His mission: prevent two follow-up terrorist attacks by infiltrating the networks of a notorious drug, lord and later, an elite secret society.
Who it's for: readers who don't mind a little gore; fans of compelling crime fiction with a menacing tone. |
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Scarlet fever : a novel
by Rita Mae Brown
Facilitating romantic matches during the hunting season at Tattenhall Station, proud Master of Foxhounds “Sister” Jane Arnold uncovers a link between a suspicious death and an inheritance scam. By the author of the Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries.
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Peace
by Garry Disher
Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He's still new in town but the community work welfare checks and working bees is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a ute and Brenda Flann entering the front bar of the pub without exiting her car, Hirsch's life has been peaceful. Until he's called to a strange, vicious incident in Kitchener Street.
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The earthquake bird : A Novel
by Susanna Jones
"Lucy has fled a painful past to work as a translator in Japan. It is there that she begins an affair with a secretive photographer named Teiji, but when Lucy and Teiji befriend Lily Bridges, Lucy's own life begins to fall apart"
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A Silent Death
by Peter May
A new suspense novel unites a strong, independent Spaniard with a socially inept Scotsman; a senseless vendetta with a sense-deprived victim; and a red-hot Costa Del Sol with an ice-cold killer.
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In the Clearing [New Zealand]
by J. P. Pomare
Amy has only ever known what life is like in the Clearing. She knows what's expected of her. She knows what to do to please her elders, and how to make sure life in the community remains happy and calm. That is, until a new young girl joins the group. She isn't fitting in; she doesn't want to stay. What happens next will turn life as Amy knows it on its head.
A new book by the winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel.
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A madness of sunshine [New Zealand]
by Nalini Singh
Returning to her impoverished New Zealand hometown to reconnect with familiar things after a personal tragedy, Anahera Rawiri bonds with detective Will Gallagher to uncover the community secrets behind a missing-persons case.
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Blindside
by James Patterson
Agreeing to help the mayor of New York track down his missing daughter in exchange for leniency for his imprisoned son, detective Michael Bennett investigates a tricky homicide before uncovering ties to a sophisticated hacking operation.
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The museum of desire
by Jonathan Kellerman
When a crime of unprecedented malice occurs in a deserted Bel Air mansion, LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware navigate blind mazes in their efforts to identify links among the victims and how they were killed.
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| Providence by Caroline KepnesThe premise: New Hampshire teen Jon is something of a loner, although he does have a friend named Chloe, whom he is beginning to realize he has feelings for.
The problem: Jon is kidnapped, only to turn up four years later with only an H.P. Lovecraft book and no memories of where he's been. When the people around him start to die suddenly, Jon has to keep Chloe far away from him while he figures out what's going on -- and do it before the police label him a murderer. |
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| The Shimmer by Carsten StroudStarring: mob-connected serial killer Selena D'Arcy, who travels through time while on the run; Florida Highway Patrolman Jack Redding, who manages to follow her only to find himself faced with the temptation of altering his painful past.
For fans of: the Harry Bosch mystery series; Stephen King's 11/22/63.
Reviewers say: it's "a riveting, edge-of-your-seat read" (Library Journal). |
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