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Friday Fiction: Midwinter SuspenseJanuary 2016
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After the crash : a novel
by Michel Bussi
A best-selling psychological thriller from Europe details the aftermath of a tragic plane crash in which a baby is the only survivor and two families — one poor, one wealthy and dangerous — step forward to claim her.
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American blood
by Ben Sanders
A former NYPD officer living in the witness protection program becomes involved in a search for a missing, local New Mexico woman despite the fact that the Mafia wants him dead and has hired a hitman to find him.
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The children's home : a novel
by Charles Lambert
The disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins, Morgan Fletcher—along with his housekeeper, Engel—opens up his home to two strange children whose disturbing behavior escalates as they, and even more children, discover the truth of his past in the attic of his mansion.
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Cold shot
by Dani Pettrey
After ending his career as a SWAT-team sniper, Griffin McCray is working as a park ranger at Gettysburg when skeletal remains are unearthed, and the FBI agent put on the case is Declan Gray, a friend Griffin lost touch with after a tragic loss.
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The crooked house
by Christobel Kent
Alison, the only survivor of unspeakable horror, decides to confront her past to overcome the trauma of what happened by returning to her old hometown where she discovers that the townspeople were all somehow involved in her family's murder.
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Don't try to find me
by Holly Brown
When their daughter Marley goes missing, Rachel and Paul, getting no help from the police, turn to Facebook and Twitter, but when Rachel blows a television interview and shocking secrets come to light, the blogosphere is convinced she is a suspect in Marley's disappearance.
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Dragonfish : a novel
by Vu Tran
Unable to forget the mysterious Vietnamese wife who left him and blackmailed by her second husband into searching for her, a rugged Oakland cop infiltrates the sleazy gambling dens of Las Vegas to uncover his ex's painful past in a Malaysian refugee camp.
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The expatriates
by Janice Y. K Lee
A traumatized college graduate, a lonely housewife and a burned-out mother of three endure the challenges of their respective demons and families in the face of unexpected consequences within their American expat community in Hong Kong. By the best-selling author of The Piano Teacher.
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The Flood girls : a novel
by Richard Fifield
Returning to her tiny Montana hometown where jaded locals refuse to let her make amends, a woman who left behind a trail of chaos discovers herself and receives assistance from a local boy in her efforts to correct past mistakes. A first novel.
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Georgia : a novel of Georgia O'Keeffe
by Dawn Clifton Tripp
A tale inspired by the romance between master painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz describes how a young O'Keeffe becomes the married photographer's mistress and muse as her star rises in the art world in spite of criticism about her role as the subject of Stieglitz's infamous nudes. By the award-winning author of Game of Secrets.
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The girl in the red coat : a novel
by Kate Hamer
Despite being told by the authorities that she might be gone for good, a newly single mom embarks on a harrowing journey to find her daughter, who went missing during a local outdoor festival.
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The good girl
by Mary Kubica
The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.
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The gun
by Fuminori Nakamura
Stealing a gun from a Tokyo riverbank crime scene where a man has died, a young man experiences an intoxicating sense of purpose as his personal entanglements become unexpectedly complicated by two love affairs and the terminally ill biological father he never met.
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The high mountains of Portugal : a novel
by Yann Martel
An allegorical novel in three parts is set in the fictional High Mountains of 17th-century Portugal and beyond, where characters explore questions of loss and faith while on a quest, while tackling ghosts and in the contemporary world. By the award-winning author of Life of Pi.
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The illegal : a novel
by Lawrence Hill
Forced to flee his native country after his journalist father is murdered for criticizing their tyrannical government, Keita, a talented runner, becomes part of an illegal underground network of athletes who participate in competitions to win survival money.
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In the blood
by Lisa Unger
A master manipulator and compulsive liar, Lana Granger, with her trust fund almost depleted, takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke, who, accustomed to controlling the people in his life, threatens to reveal the truth about her involvement in the disappearance of her closest friend.
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The invisible guardian : a novel
by Dolores Redondo
Homicide investigator Amaia Salazar returns to her hometown of Basque County, Spain, after a murdered teenage girl is found along the riverbank, and must determine if the crime is a result of a ritual killer or a mythological creature known as the Basajuan.
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Keep calm : a thriller
by Mike Binder
Present at a bombing that injures the prime minister of England, a former Michigan police detective, Adam Tatum, must work to uncover the culprits who seem determined to pin the attack squarely on his shoulders.
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The killing lessons
by Saul Black
Investigating the latest victims of a pair of serial killers, increasingly unstable San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart investigates the murderers' only survivor, a traumatized 10-year-old girl. A first novel.
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The lost time accidents
by John Wray
Exiled from time after a failed love affair, Waldemar "Waldy" Tolliver is forced to confront a difficult betrayal and his ancestral legacy against a backdrop of historical events in the first half of the 20th century. By the award-winning author of Lowboy.
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The mask
by Taylor Stevens
Accompanying her investigator lover, Bradford, on what she believes will be a quiet vacation in Japan, Vanessa Michael Munroe is shocked when Bradford is wrongly arrested for murder. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Informationist.
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The nest
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Gathering to confront an older sibling who has been recently released from rehab after a drunk driving accident, the Plum siblings watch as the trust fund left by their father rises and falls according to self-inflicted problems. A first novel.
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One step too far
by Tina Seskis
A woman leaves her happy family and home to reinvent herself as a completely different person, with no trace of her former self, working in a hip London ad agency, until a shocking revelation makes her face what she has done.
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The pack
by Jason Starr
New to the role of stay-at-home-parent, Simon Burns befriends a tight-knit group of other dads at the playground whose warm welcome into their “pack” may have been literal when he begins to suspect that they are actually werewolves.
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The silent wife : a novel
by A. S. A. Harrison
Told in alternating voices, this gripping novel follows the events leading up to the violent dissolution of Jodi and Todd's marriage—a union steeped in lies, infidelity, jealousy and denial.
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The summer before the war : a novel
by Helen Simonson
Arriving in the 1914 village of Rye, England, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes a first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew. By the best-selling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
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Time of departure
by Douglas Schofield
Discriminated against because of her youth and gender, newly promoted Florida Felony Division Chief Claire Talbot links the discovery of a pair of skeletons to a decades-old string of abductions while questioning the agenda of a retired cop with suspicious knowledge of the case. A first novel.
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The two faces of January
by Patricia Highsmith
When Chester MacFarland, an American embezzler, runs into trouble with a Greek policeman in Athens, Rydal Keener, a fellow American, offers to provide him with an alibi
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The visitors : a novel
by Simon Sylvester
Two teenage girls investigate the ongoing disappearances of men on Bancree, the remote Scottish island, and are suspicious that the kidnappings seem to be the work of mythical creatures that turn from women into seals, called selkies. Original.
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What Alice forgot
by Liane Moriarty
Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last 10 years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is 39 years old, a mother of three children and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves. By the author of Three Wishes.
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What she knew
by Gilly Macmillan
A recently divorced mom finds herself in the eye of an increasingly suspicious public after her 8-year-old son suddenly vanishes at a park on a Sunday afternoon and must follow the clues to find him herself.
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The widow
by Fiona Barton
After Jean's husband dies, the community wants to know the real truth about the crime he was suspected of—but Jean has secrets of her own.
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Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist : a novel
by Sunil Yapa
Follows seven different people, including a marijuana dealer and his estranged police chief father, who have their lives altered one afternoon in Seattle during the WTO protests that tried to shut the city down in 1999.
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