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Nightshade
by Michael Connelly
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found wrapped in plastic and weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, he starts doggedly working the case. Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.
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Hidden Nature
by Nora Roberts
Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world. She may be down, but she’s not out. So when a woman vanishes, Sloan searches online for similar cases. She finds them, spread across three states. Men and women, old and young. The abductions keep happening. Luckily, the new man in her life shares her passion for solving this mystery. But it will take every ounce of endurance to get to the dark heart of this bizarre case.
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Never Flinch
by Stephen King
When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to "kill thirteen innocents and one guilty" in "an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man," Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help. Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women's rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate's message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate's bodyguard-a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness.
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South of Nowhere (Colter Shaw #5)
by Jeffery Deaver
When a levee collapses in Hinowah, a small town in Northern California, Colter Shaw is brought on by his sister, Dorion, a disaster response specialist, to help locate a family swept away by the raging water, with mere hours to survive. But after a surprise attack along the river obstructs Colter's urgent search, the siblings are forced to consider a new reality: Is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes, or is someone sabotaging it? Colter and Dorion must race against a ticking clock to uncover the truth and save the citizens before the village washes out completely.
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My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it.
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Fever Beach
by Carl Hiaasen
Figgo's already messy life is about to get more complicated, thanks to two formidable adversaries. Viva Morales is a newly transplanted Floridian, a clever woman recently taken to the cleaners by her ex-husband, renting a room in Figgo’s apartment because there’s no place else she can afford. Twilly Spree has an anger management problem, especially when it comes to those who deface the environment, and way too many inherited millions of dollars. He's living alone a year after his dog died, two years after he sank a city councilman’s party barge, and three years after his divorce. Viva and Twilly are plunged into a mystery—involving dark money and darker motives—they are determined to solve.
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My Name Is Emilia Del Valle
by Isabel Allende
In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man’s pen name. Later, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. An opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, as does Eric. As she and Eric discover love, the war escalates and Emilia finds herself in extreme danger, fearing for her life and questioning her identity and her destiny.
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The River Is Waiting
by Wally Lamb
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible.
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The Tenant
by Freida Mcfadden
Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make his mortgage payments, he's desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets...
Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late.
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The Names
by Florence Knapp
Can a name shape the course of a life? In the wake of an enormous, history-making storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia,to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the child after him. But when the registrar asks which name she wants to pick, Cora hesitates . . . What follows are three alternate and alternating versions of both Cora's and her young son's life, shaped by her brave last-minute choice of name. The Names explores the painful ripple effects of domestic abuse, the messy ties of family, and the possibilities of autonomy and healing.
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The First Gentleman
by James Patterson and Bill Clinton
America has a powerful new president... And her husband's on trial for murder. The President of the United States is up for reelection.
Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer?
A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.
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Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. In 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates. As the new astronauts become friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a love she never imagined. Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then in December of 1984 it all changes in an instant.
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Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie
by James Lee Burke
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher. Watching the vast Texas countryside being destroyed by an oil company and a menacing figure with a violent past, Bessie is prepared to defend her home and her family. When she accidentally kills an unarmed man to defend her father, she must flee to New York. There, her brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters, but as children admire and respect Bessie's spirit and fortitude as she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy.
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Badlands
by Douglas J. Preston and Lincoln Child
In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two artifacts are found clutched in her hands-lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found-exactly like the other-the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price.
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Don't Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
A novel following three woman who have seemingly separate lives and the one man connecting them all.
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Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman
Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with an irresistible mystery featuring Muriel Blossom, a former private investigator and middle-aged widow whose vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery...that only she can solve.
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With a Vengeance
by Riley Sager
One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by V. E. Schwab
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1827.
Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.
And all of them grow teeth.
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King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby
When Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family and the family business together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. Roman, a financial whiz, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself. Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother. Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything. Because everything burns.
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A Mother's Love
by Danielle Steel
On the occasion of her daughter Valerie’s wedding and her upcoming fiftieth birthday, bestselling author Halley Holbrook finds herself reflecting. Raising twins Valerie and Olivia is her proudest accomplishment. After Valerie moves to Los Angeles with her husband, and Olivia follows to remain close to her sister, Halley is alone in her Fifth Avenue apartment. Facing her first holiday alone in years, she books a trip to Paris. On the flight, she meets Bart Warner. Halley hasn’t dated since her partner died three years ago, yet she quickly begins to feel more like herself. When a thief makes off with her handbag and then begins to harass her, it reawakens ghosts from her past. Vowing not to be a victim, and with Bart’s help, she chooses a bold course of action.
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Fox
by Joyce Carol Oates
"Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.
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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, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago. The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo’s ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. 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, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’s mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.
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The Hamptons Lawyer
by James Patterson
Undefeated criminal defense attorney Jane Smith, known as the Hamptons Lawyer, represents a local real estate mogul with more enemies than clients. When Jane’s own life is threatened, mounting a legal defense turns into self-defense. Knowing every day in court could be her last, she’s armed and ready: with brilliant arguments, hard evidence—and two Glocks. Until she hears the words “not guilty,” Jane Smith never fails to make her case.
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An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva
Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with twenty-four thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring the “much-loved Gabriel Allon” (Booklist) and ingenious plots that have taken him around the globe and back—from the United States to Europe, Russia to the Middle East. Now, Silva returns with another blockbuster thriller, a powerhouse novel showcasing his superb skill and brilliant imagination that is a must read for both his multitudes of fans and growing legions of converts.
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The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
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, informing her that she inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard from a stranger, Emilia Rossi. Julia wonders if Rossi could family. She heads to Tuscany for answers. There, Julia discovers that Rossi was a recluse, who believed herself to be a descendent of Duchess Caterina Sforza, a Renaissance ruler. Julia is stunned by her resemblance to Rossi and to Caterina. Next, Julia suspects she's being followed, and strange things begin to happen. Not even a chance meeting with a handsome Florentine can ease her mind. When events turn deadly, she breaks with reality. Julia's struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival.
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Edge of Honor : A Thriller
by Brad Thor
After six months abroad, America’s top spy returns to a new administration, a new set of global priorities, and a power struggle.
Drawn into a web of deceit and deadly politics, Scot Harvath is thrust into a high-stakes conspiracy that could change the course of history. A cabal of shadowy elites is maneuvering for control and if they succeed, they will bring the country to its knees.
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The List
by Steve Berry
Brent Walker is returning home to Concord, Georgia. Ten years ago, after the sudden death of his wife, Brent closed his law practice and moved three hundred miles. 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. Southern Republic's success is based largely on the Priority program, a highly unorthodox way to secretly control costs. Only the three owners of the company are aware of the program's existence. Brent's return to Concord, a move owner, Bozin, personally orchestrated, provides a chance at redemption that Bozin wants before cancer takes his life. So a plan is set into motion-one that will not only criminally implicate Bozin's two partners-it will also place Brent Walker right in the crosshairs of men who want him dead.
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The Winds from Further West
by Alexander McCall Smith
A dazzling and uplifting novel of new beginnings and endless possibilities, in which a slew of personal and professional disasters cause a young researcher to upend his seemingly stable life in Edinburgh and move to a remote island off the Scottish coast
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The Red Queen
by Martha Grimes
One night in Twickenham,Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor's life-from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner had differing opinions of him.To complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for Treadnor. Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jury's partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: His sister, missing and presumed dead, just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.
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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. The latest assignment sees Ali venture back farther than they have dared before: to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, an eccentric patron of the arts. Rumor has it that Cain is part of a sinister group called The Collectors. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many questions. As the clock counts down, Ali becomes more entangled in the mystery. She soon finds herself trapped, unable to make her way back to her beloved son, Finn, who is battling his own accusations in the present day.
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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
by Sangu Mandanna
After resurrecting her great-aunt and befriending a half-villainous talking fox, Sera Swan is exiled from the magical Guild and loses her magic, but an old spell book mentioned by a handsome historian may hold the key to restoring her power.
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The view from Lake Como : a novel
by Adriana Trigiani
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone, "a big-hearted writer who tells big stories" (Jeanette Walls) comes a story of love, second chances, and making your own fate"
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