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The Drifter
by Christine Lennon
Present Day… For two decades, Elizabeth has tried to escape the ghosts of her past…tried to erase the painful memories…tried to keep out the terrifying nightmares. But twenty years after graduating from the University of Florida, her carefully curated life begins to unravel, forcing her to confront the past she’s tried so hard to forget. 1990s, Gainesville, Florida… Elizabeth and her two closest friends, Caroline and Ginny, are having the time of their lives in college—binge watching Oprah, flirting for freebies from Taco Bell, and breaking hearts along the way. But without warning, their world is suddenly shattered when a series of horrific acts of violence ravage the campus, changing their lives forever. Sweeping readers from the exclusive corners of sorority life in the South to the frontlines of the drug-fueled, slacker culture in Manhattan in the ‘90s and early ‘00s, when Elizabeth is forced to acknowledge her role in the death of a friend in order to mend a broken friendship and save her own life, The Drifter is an unforgettable story about the complexities of friendships and the secrets that can ultimately destroy us.
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A simple favor : a novel
by Darcey Bell
A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. It starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son Nicky after school, she happily says yes. Nicky and her son, Miles, are classmates and best friends, and the five-year-olds love being together—just like she and Emily. A widow and stay-at-home mommy blogger living in woodsy suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a sophisticated PR executive whose job in Manhattan demands so much of her time. But Emily doesn’t come back. She doesn’t answer calls or return texts. Stephanie knows something is terribly wrong—Emily would never leave Nicky, no matter what the police say. Terrified, she reaches out to her blog readers for help. She also reaches out to Emily’s husband, the handsome, reticent Sean, offering emotional support. It’s the least she can do for her best friend. Then, she and Sean receive shocking news. Emily is dead. The nightmare of her disappearance is over. Or is it? Because soon, Stephanie will begin to see that nothing—not friendship, love, or even an ordinary favor—is as simple as it seems.
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| Kill the Next One by Federico Axat; translated by David FryeBoston businessman Ted McKay is terminally ill, and has decided to commit suicide to get it over with. But right at the critical moment, the doorbell rings. At the door is a stranger with a deal to offer: in return for killing two men "deserving" of death, someone will kill him, sparing his family the shame of his suicide. So far, so Strangers on a Train-ish. But then comes the twist: there are strange connections between McKay's life and those of his victims, and when he ends up in a hospital for the insane, he truly can't tell if he's a killer or the victim of a conspiracy. With an unreliable narrator in McKay, this English-language debut is complex and intriguing. |
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The Day I Died
by Lori Rader-Day
From the award-winning author of Little Pretty Things comes this gripping, unforgettable tale of a mother's desperate search for a lost boy. Anna Winger can know people better than they know themselves with only a glance—at their handwriting. Hired out by companies wanting to land trustworthy employees and by the lovelorn hoping to find happiness, Anna likes to keep the real-life mess of other people at arm’s length and on paper. But when she is called to use her expertise on a note left behind at a murder scene in the small town she and her son have recently moved to, the crime gets under Anna’s skin and rips open her narrow life for all to see. To save her son—and herself—once and for all, Anna will face her every fear, her every mistake, and the past she thought she'd rewritten.
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What's become of her : a novel
by Deb Caletti
Isabelle Austen returns to her hometown on a small, isolated Pacific Northwest island to take over the family tourism business after the death of her mother, a disapproving parent and a hard woman to love. Feeling lost, Isabelle is also struggling with a recent divorce, and wondering if she'll ever come into her own. Then Isabelle's life takes a surprising turn. A mysterious man named Henry North arrives on Parrish Island, steps off a seaplane, and changes Isabelle's world forever. From the beginning, their relationship is heady and intense--until Isabelle learns of Henry's disturbing past involving the death of a fiance and the disappearance of a wife. Suddenly, Isabelle is caught between love and suspicion, paranoia and passion, as she searches for the truth she may not want to find--and is swept into a dangerous game from which she may not survive.
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Edgar and Lucy
by Victor Lodato
Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear―not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past.
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Lola : a novel
by Melissa Scrivner Love
The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia . . . but what no one has figured out is that the gang's real leader (and secret weapon) is Garcia's girlfriend, a brilliant young woman named Lola. Lola has mastered playing the role of submissive girlfriend, and in the man's world she inhabits she is consistently underestimated. But in truth she is much, much smarter--and in many ways tougher and more ruthless--than any of the men around her, and as the gang is increasingly sucked into a world of high-stakes betrayal and brutal violence, her skills and leadership become their only hope of survival. Lola marks the debut of a hugely exciting new thriller writer, and of a singular, magnificent character unlike anyone else in fiction.
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Field of Fire
by Marc Cameron
When a deadly nerve gas is unleashed upon Los Angeles, claiming innocent lives and creating panic, special agent Jericho Quinn is dispatched to the Alaskan wilderness to hunt down the man responsible, a brilliant Russian scientist who is beginning to lose his mind to dementia. By the USA Today best-selling author of Time of Attack.
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Walk away
by Sam Hawken
A former combat medic with a mysterious past struggles to rescue her sister and niece from an abusive boyfriend who is being assisted by his brother, an unhinged ex-Special Forces operative.
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The dark room
by Jonathan Moore
SFPD homicide inspector Gavin Cain is forced to set aside a cold case when a ruthless killer attempts to blackmail San Francisco's mayor with exposures of grisly secrets unless the mayor commits suicide. By the author of The Poison Artist.
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False friend : a novel
by Andrew Grant
When an arsonist begins setting fires at local schools, exposing a terrible mystery about long-buried bones on one of the sites, police detective Cooper Deveraux struggles to solve the mystery in the face of a blackmailer who would expose Cooper's darkest secrets. By the author of False Positive.
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The clairvoyants : a novel
by Karen Brown
A young woman who wants to escape the challenges of being able to see ghosts pursues a college education and a budding romance before the apparition of a missing young woman prompts her to help. By the award-winning author of Little Sinners and Other Stories
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The beautiful dead
by Belinda Bauer
A television crime reporter desperate to recharge her flagging career becomes an unwitting accomplice to an attention-hungry serial killer at the center of the decade's biggest murder investigation. By the award-winning author of Rubbernecker.
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| Onslaught: The War with China: The Opening Battle by David PoyerIn this 16th in the Tales of the Modern Navy series (and 2nd in the War with China story arc), U.S. Naval Captain Dan Lenson is tasked with the seemingly impossible: prevent China from starting World War III while also appearing politically neutral. And there's trouble brewing in the tight quarters on board, too. If you're new to the series but eager for well-depicted military action, you might want to start with the book immediately previous to this one (Tipping Point) to get your sea legs (and an understanding of the situation). |
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This is not over : a novel
by Holly Brown
Clashing over exchanged insults that compromise their reputations, a woman running from her sordid past and a doctor's wife who depends on tenant income risk everything to protect shattering secrets.
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Kill the father : a novel
by Sandrone Dazieri
In a first U.S. publication by a best-selling international author, two top analytical minds from Italy, both haunted by respective traumas, are recruited by the chief of Rome's major crimes unit to investigate the case of a woman's death and her young son's disappearance.
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| Nitro Mountain by Lee Clay JohnsonRural Noir. In Virginia's isolated mining communities, life is hard. The most common distractions are heavy drinking, violence, and bluegrass. It's no different for Leon, a broken-armed bass player who can't keep a job or his girl, Jennifer. And it's no different on Nitro Mountain, where Jennifer hooks up with a truly bad man she's desperate to escape. With no good options, these characters make exceptionally bad choices, and the consequences are deadly. Don't go looking for a happy ending here, but as bleak as Nitro Mountain is, it's still "relentlessly compelling" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| The Girl Before by Rena OlsenPsychological Suspense. Clara Lawson is brushing young Daisy's hair in the kitchen when gunfire and screaming interrupt the peaceful scene. Her husband warns her to say nothing when he sees her with the people who have invaded their home -- people who insist on calling her Diana. They also insist that her husband is a criminal involved in despicable acts. Jumping between her present (institutionalized by those who took her while she refuses to say anything at all) and a past filled with trauma, Clara gradually faces a truth she has trained hard to ignore. For fans of psychological suspense, this debut is creepy, unsettling, and totally absorbing from the very first page. |
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| Try Not to Breathe: A Novel by Holly SeddonPsychological Suspense. Amy Stevenson has been in a coma for 15 years, ever since she was beaten and left for dead by an unknown assailant. Alex Dale is an alcoholic who has lost both her journalism career and her marriage, and, like the equally desperate protagonist in The Girl on the Train, feels that solving this tragic case will allow her to reclaim her life. Told from multiple perspectives in both 2010 and in the days leading up to Amy's attack in 1995, Try Not to Breathe is both a grim portrait of a failing, fragile alcoholic and a suspenseful search for justice. |
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| Cambodia Noir: A Novel by Nicholas SeeleyNoir Fiction. Will Keller was once a great war photographer, but by 2003 he's working at a nondescript paper in Phnom Penh to support his drug habit. He's also pretty good at finding people lost in Cambodia's criminal underworld, which is how he gets involved in the search for a young Japanese-American woman. Clues in her diary -- which depicts a descent into darkness -- suggest that her disappearance isn't an accident. With an eye for seedy detail and an impressive array of corrupt politicos, alcoholic ex-pats, and other ne'er-do-wells, this vivid debut is memorable: "the plotting is wily and entertaining, the take on Cambodia, trenchant and disturbing" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| Only Daughter by Anna SnoekstraPsychological Suspense. In 2003, 16-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared from her Canberra suburb. Eleven years later, she's reunited with her family -- except she isn't actually the real Bec, she's an imposter taking advantage of their physical similarities. While trying to avoid slipping up and getting caught, the fake Bec realizes that she hasn't fooled everyone -- and that she might be in danger from whoever took Bec. The stories of both Becs alternate, and with two unreliable narrators and a handful of red herrings, the suspense only intensifies. |
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