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Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl by Will FergusonAn empty elevator. A missing girl. A brother's obsessive search for the truth. From bestselling and Giller Prize-winning author Will Ferguson, Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl begins in southern Japan with a young woman entering an elevator late at night. When the doors open, she has vanished. Fifteen years later, her younger brother Kaito has worked his way up the ranks to police inspector, still haunted by his sister's disappearance. On a sleepy island in Okinawa, Kaito tracks down Shimada, a senior officer who once solved an impossible elevator crime decades earlier. The unlikely pair travel back to the city where Kaito's sister first disappeared. Together, they retrace her steps and uncover the truth of what happened that night. The story of a lost family, lifelong regrets, and quiet desperation, Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl pulses with action and leaves readers guessing until the end.
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The Opposite of Murder by Sophie HannahThe perfect alibi. The perfect motive. The perfect lie? Jemma Stelling walks into a police station and confesses--not to a murder she's committed, but to the one she's terrified she might. Jemma can't stop herself from thinking about murdering her stepmother, Marianne Upton. The only way to stop herself might be to confess before she snaps and does the unthinkable. But while Jemma is still giving her statement, a call comes in: Marianne has just been found stabbed to death, killed in exactly the way Jemma described. Suddenly, the woman desperate to prevent a murder has an unshakeable alibi... and a disturbingly accurate description of the crime she couldn't have committed. Is Jemma an innocent bystander? Or a brilliant, cold-blooded killer who planned everything down to the minute? In The Opposite of Murder, New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah unveils another mind-bending mystery--an impossible puzzle guaranteed to hold readers spellbound to the very end.
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God's Country by William Kent KruegerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The River We Remember, a new mystery in the wildly popular Cork O'Connor series. Cork O'Connor, preparing for a family trip into the Boundary Waters, is troubled by ominous visions about his future. Ignoring the warnings, he uncovers signs of violence while searching for his missing friend, Cordell Bishop. Soon, he is forced to negotiate with dangerous criminals, the Kennedy brothers, who are seeking their late father's hidden stash. Facing escalating danger and difficult choices, Cork grapples with his darkest instincts as he helps others escape and eventually takes justice into his own hands. God's Country is an action-packed thrill ride that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
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Dead Men Don't Play Fetch: An Andy Carpenter Mystery by David RosenfeltIt's defense lawyer Andy Carpenter's dream to retire. That goal is once again thwarted when he gets a call from Lou Campanelli, an old friend who he simply cannot refuse, asking for a favor. Lou runs a rehab center, and when one of his patients, a homeless veteran, is charged with first degree murder, he needs Andy's help. And of course, Andy will also be called on to care for the accused's dog, but that's okay: What's one more dog? The man that Jason Maddox is accused of stabbing to death is none other than billionaire Paul Vincent, an eccentric businessman and inventor. Bickert dedicated a great portion of his life to philanthropy, with a soft spot for dog-related causes. This led him to befriend Jason, a physicist and war hero, whose life fell apart to the point where he ended up on the streets with his dog, just trying to survive. But why would Jason possibly have wanted to kill him? Well, for one thing, he was to receive a fortune in Vincent's will. That, coupled with the fact that Jason was at the scene, his fingerprints were on the knife, and Vincent's wallet was in his jacket, made it a slam dunk arrest. Once again, Andy is enmeshed in a puzzling, twisty case. But in order to reunite a man and his dog, Andy will have to untangle it all.
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My Sister Is Going to Kill Me by Nina SimonWhat's a family vacation without a little murder? Liv and Mandy Chisholm's yearly sister trip is a sacred tradition, an attempt to bond as their lives increasingly diverge. Liv, the ever-practical older sister, packs the color-coded itineraries. Mandy, a bedazzled human tumbleweed, brings the spontaneity. This year, the sisters take off for a rafting adventure through the breathtaking depths of the Grand Canyon with a group of strangers. But beyond the terrors of whitewater rapids, sibling squabbles, and rogue reptiles, the ferocious beauty of the river carries a darker undercurrent, and an unexpected guest: a murderer in their midst. When a fellow traveler is found dead and another corpse hits the water, the rafting trip flips from idyllic sister vacation to high-stakes murder investigation. Every suspect has a secret, every clue is drenched in mystery, and Liv and Mandy can hardly trust each other, let alone their own instincts. With the river raging and danger around every bend, the Chisholm sisters must work together to catch a killer--and keep their relationship from capsizing--before it's too late.
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My Inner Child Wants to Kill by Karsten DusseA shady lawyer puts the meditate in premeditated as he searches for inner peace with blood on his hands in the darkly funny and shocking follow-up to Murder Mindfully, now an original series streaming on Netflix. Bjorn Diemel, once an overworked defense lawyer for very nasty organized criminals, has mastered the principles of mindfulness, and he only had to kill a couple of people to pull it off. Now, running his own practice, spending more time with his daughter, and arguing less with his wife, he should be sitting pretty, but he keeps losing his cool--with deadly results. Why can't Bjorn just enjoy his new mindful life? Does it have something to do with the mafia boss he has locked up in the basement of his daughter's preschool? Or is his wounded inner child to blame? Over the course of one outrageous week, Bjorn and his inner child confront overzealous helicopter moms, hypocritical startup bros, and mysterious blackmailers as they race to solve all their problems at once before the criminal empire Bjorn has built for himself comes crumbling down.
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The Truth about Ruby Cooper by Liz NugentFrom the internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond comes a twisted suspense novel about two sisters and the scandal that changes their lives forever. If my sister hadn't been beautiful, none of it would have happened. Sixteen-year-old Ruby and her older sister Erin live comfortably in their Boston home with their pastor father and Irish mother, until one day Ruby is involved in an incident with Erin's boyfriend, Milo, that causes her family to implode. Ruby and her mother leave in a hurry for Ireland, while Erin and her father stay behind. As the story alternates between Erin and Ruby's perspectives over decades, two very different women emerge. Erin struggles with trust issues. Ruby is set on a course of self-destruction. When the truth threatens to emerge from this brilliantly dark and tangled web, the sisters' lives may be upended all over again. Can either of them ever truly recover from the events of that day in 1999?
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The Women in White by Sarah PekkanenThe next thriller from #1 bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen combines a decades-old mystery with spine-tingling paranormal elements in this twisty novel of the seen and unseen. Extrasensory perception. The Gift. A Sixth Sense. Or something else.... In 1964, four remarkable young women at a prestigious university became the subjects of parapsychology experiments by a visionary scientist. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough, the women mysteriously vanished and the program was erased from history. Decades later, Riley Bell, newly divorced and desperate for a fresh start, accepts a caretaker job for an elderly widow named Betty. Riley steps into a home that is frozen in another era - no microwave, television, or cell phones, and Betty has never heard of the internet. Why has Betty lived in such profound isolation for so many years, and why does she need Riley now? As the story unfolds across two timelines - Betty's 1960s era of 5 o'clock martinis and high-stakes experiments, and Riley's quest to uncover the truth about the missing women - old secrets rise to the surface. And the only way to survive is to confront the mystery that has lingered for sixty years.
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