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2024 Flags on the Bayouby James Lee BurkeAccused of murder, an enslaved woman goes on the run with an abolitionist schoolteacher in the fall of 1863, dodging constables and slave catchers, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author. |
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2023 Notes on an Executionby Danya KukafkaTold through the women in his life--his mother, his sister-in-law, and the detective who brought him to justice--this gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row as he awaits his execution in twelve hours |
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2022 Five Decembers by James KestrelAs the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Honolulu police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to a homicide case that will take him across the pacific and change his life forever. |
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2021 Djinn Patrol on the Purple Lineby Deepa AnapparaIn an award-winning debut based on true events, a 9-year- old reality-television enthusiast in India uses crime-show approaches to investigate the disappearance of a classmate, before additional abductions shatter life in his sprawling city home. |
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2020 The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths A first stand-alone mystery by the author of the Ruth Galloway series finds a high school English teacher chronicling her suspicions about the murder of a colleague before discovering a sinister message in her own diary. |
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2019 Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter MosleyFramed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black radical journalist who has been wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops. |
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2018 Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica LockeForced by duty to return to his racially divided East Texas hometown, an African-American Texas Ranger risks his job and reputation to investigate a highly charged double murder case involving a black Chicago lawyer and a local white woman. |
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2024 The Peacock and the Sparrowby I. S. BerryStationed in Bahrain for his final tour, world-weary CIA spy Shane Collins is ready to return home until he meets a beautiful and enigmatic artist. Before he can win her love, he is caught in the crosshairs of a revolution and must use his skills to navigate a bloody uprising. |
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2023
Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent takes Billy into his home, hoping to protect his star player as the Pirates begin their playoff run. But when Billy's stepfather is found murdered, nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the town apart.
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2022 Deer Seasonby Erin FlanaganOver a weekend a teenage girl goes missing. Hal, a mentally challenged farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of. |
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2021 Please See Usby Caitlin MullenTwo young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home. |
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2020 Miracle Creekby Angie KimA dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened. |
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2019 Bearskin by James A. McLaughlinHiding out from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed in Arizona, Rice More, while protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia, exposes a bear-poaching scheme that revelas his location to the criminals he was running from in the first place. |
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2018 She Rides Shotgunby Jordan HarperFresh out of jail, Nate thrusts his 11-year-old daughter into a world of robbery and violence in an effort to keep her safe from the prison gang that has put a bounty on his head and murdered her mother. |
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