| The Silent Appeal by Janice HallettFollowing "The Appeal" and "The Christmas Appeal," the Fairway Players of Lower Lockwood are back! Tensions are high as they prepare to put on an Agatha Christie play, and that's before they find themselves embroiled in murder. Again. Later, intrepid young lawyers Femi and Charlotte dig into emails, text messages, and more to figure out what really happened and who's really guilty in this fun, intricately plotted epistolary whodunit. For fans of: Robert Thorogood's Marlow Murder Club novels. |
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| The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies by Kate WestburyIn 1951 Oxford, England, Gin Bishop is a clever student with no plans to marry the well-to-do man her aristocratic father has selected, while Sidney Braithwaite, a veteran and former spy, studies Latin and Greek. At first, Gin and Sidney annoy each other, but when a kindly librarian is murdered, and they learn he had been tracking a Soviet agent, they team up to investigate in this "cracking good debut" ('Kirkus Reviews'). For fans of: Susan Elia MacNeal; Jess Armstrong's Ruby Vaughn mysteries. |
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Lower City
by Alex Spring
It’s October 2025 and Hamilton, ON is a city on edge - job insecurity, rising rents, and polarization combine in dangerous ways. When a series of abductions plunges the city into chaos, an unsuspecting hero arises: a young steelworker struggling to find his place in the world. At 26 years old, Danny Clarke’s greatest concerns are: the Blue Jays World Series run, maintaining a friendship with his ex-girlfriend (and definitely not vying to win her back), and becoming a good man. On a crisp October evening, during his break at the plant, Danny witnesses the abduction of Braden Steel CFO Jonathan Lean, his hands and feet bound as he’s dragged out of the office by three masked kidnappers. Capitalizing on the existing social tension in the city, the criminals begin terrorizing Hamilton, abducting one person per day in a twisted mission to form “the perfect family.”
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Not a Word
by Linwood Barclay
A man’s world is upended after he finds his father and a woman who isn’t his mother dead in the family home - and his mother goes missing. Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ home he’s shocked to find his father and a woman he assumes is his mother in bed. Dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself. As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up. It’s a call from his mom - his real mom. The dead woman in that bed is clearly not the person Reece believed her to be. Reece simply tells her: “Come home now.” But instead of rushing home, she disappears. Could she have been involved?
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The Mystic and the Missing Girl
by Vikki Vansickle
Vikki VanSickle seamlessly draws readers into an utterly charming world in this unputdownable, small town mystery. Drew Benson has a secret. She gets visions, something she hasn’t tapped into since she was a teenager, when her late aunt, a TV psychic known as Hannah Mystic, became the scapegoat in the unsolved disappearance of a local teenager. 20 years later, Drew is happy to ignore her gift, focusing instead on keeping the metaphysical shop she inherited from Hannah afloat. But when Drew's arch-nemesis from high school, now a big city reporter, decides to investigate the cold case from all those years ago, it’s Drew’s ability that could finally make a break in the decades old mystery.
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The Secrets We Hide: A North Falls Thriller
by Karin Slaughter
Welcome to North Falls. A small town with big secrets… 1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors. When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison Vickery has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead. Everyone thinks they know what happened. But secrets are buried everywhere in this small town. And it’s up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth…
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The 10:12
by Anna Maloney
Claire Fitzroy was on the way home to London when her train from Manchester was hijacked by a group of armed men. In one terrifying moment she faced the starkest of choices: to passively stand back or act and fight back - knowing that with either choice, she could die. With nothing to lose, the middle-aged art lecturer gathered and led a squad of passengers who, against all odds, overcame the hijackers and saved hundreds of lives. But what at first looks like heroism may play out very differently in the courts of law and public opinion. Especially when you have the blood of two men on your hands. Opinions are heated and divided.
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Wolf Season
by Wesley King
In the stark, remote beauty of rural Montana, Everett returns to his hometown after his father, the local sheriff, mysteriously disappears while investigating the murder of a teenage girl. Driven by duty and a deep-seated longing for Bernadine Armel, the girl's older cousin and the woman he has loved since childhood, Everett plunges into untangling the twisted cases. The Armel family is shrouded in mystery, the men long since killed in a horrific 'accident, ' with rumors of more disappearing on their land. And as Everett delves deeper into the family's past, he uncovers a sinister pattern of murders and hints of supernatural phenomena he can't explain.
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Beyond Honor
by K. B. Brodsky
A man forged by war, paramilitary operative Kevin Rhoads is recruited for a solo extraction mission deep inside Siberia. CIA analyst Whitney Skyler’s investigation into a Russian-backed bank on American soil leads to the US President. Director Cynthia King plays an audacious gambit, leveraging a 30-year debt of honor to save a captured American agent. But in this world of shifting alliances, even the most careful plans can unravel. Skyler faces an impossible choice: expose her mentor’s dangerous game to protect national security or reveal the truth to Rhoads. Already shattered by loss, Rhoads discovers the devastating betrayal that will transform him into a force of vengeance, leaving death in his wake.
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That Night
by Gillian McAllister
An electrifying thriller about three siblings torn apart by the cover-up of a death while on a family vacation in Italy. On vacation in Europe, Frannie makes two urgent phone calls. One to her sister, and one to her brother. The siblings come running, and they find their sister covered in blood, kneeling over an unmoving body. There’s been an accident: Frannie has hit a man with her car, and she needs their help. They bury the body, and they make a promise. They’ll never tell anyone. But when the police come calling, the siblings’ lies start to spiral. They begin to doubt their trust in each other. Because what really happened that night? And who will be the first to crack?
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