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The Broken Girls
by Simone St. James
Four girls have been sent to Idlewild Hall, a forbidding Vermont boarding school where the education is as meager as the care. One of the four, Sonia, is particularly in need of love and attention but gets none, and her disappearance is swept under the rug as her friends’ pleas for a search go unheeded.
Years later, in 2014, Idlewild is again central to a mystery: What exactly happened to the murdered sister of Fiona Sheridan, a journalist who sees the renovation of the school as her chance to get to the bottom of the crime.
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| Force of Nature by Jane HarperWhen five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods, and each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened.
Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk leads the investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, discovering a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder?. |
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This Is How It Ends
by Eva Dolan
Two women, Ella and Molly, have been working with an anti-gentrification faction to protect the remaining residents of a social-housing building in London slated for demolition. When Ella finds the dead body of an unknown man in her flat, Molly convinces her that the police won’t believe she’s innocent because of her unpopular political affiliations, and the two women hide the body. But when a neighbor tells Molly that he heard Ella arguing with a man in the hallway, and Ella learns some compromising information about Molly, their close relationship begins to unravel.
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Let Me Lie
by Clare Mackintosh
Anna Johnson’s parents committed suicide within months of each other, diving from the same cliff. A year later, Anna is struggling to reconcile her grief with the joys of new motherhood when she receives an anonymous letter: “Suicide? Think again.” It’s all Anna needs to fly to the police station; she’s always known that her parents weren’t suicidal. Murray Mackenzie, a retired detective volunteering at the station’s front desk, is unable to ignore his twitching intuition at hearing Anna’s story. Technically, the note doesn’t present a crime, so Murray isn’t required to report it to CID. It can’t hurt, however, for a seasoned detective to take another look at the suicides.
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Glimpse
by Jonathan Maberry
Rain Thomas, a recovering drug addict, seems to be missing a day: she went to sleep Thursday night and woke up on Saturday. After she awakens, but before she becomes aware of the missing time, she experiences what she can only assume is a dream: images of a small boy being chased by a threatening... something. She is shocked to discover that the drug-induced hallucination she called Doctor Nine has somehow manifested himself and is chasing the boy Rain had seen in her dream—a boy who, Rain now realizes, bears an uncanny resemblance to her former boyfriend, the father of the baby she put up for adoption 10 years ago. As reality and illusion collide, Rain must decide how far she is prepared to go to save the boy and herself.
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The Flight Attendant
by Chris Bohjalian
Flight attendant Cassie Bowden is working the first-class cabin on the JFK to Dubai run and, not uncharacteristically, strikes up a flirtatious banter with the passenger in 2C, Alex Sokolov, a charming Manhattan hedge-fund manager. Then Cassie wakes up in Sokolov’s hotel room, disoriented from their night of binge drinking and repeated lovemaking. The sight of Sokolov’s corpse in the bed next to her, his throat slit and the sheets bloody, effectively banishes Cassie’s incipient hangover. What happens next is a series of misguided decisions that only someone with Cassie’s shaky self-image can make: she lies to the FBI, her lawyer, and her family and unwisely tries to identify the mystery woman who briefly shared a bottle of vodka with them that night.
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Tangerine
by Christine Mangan
Alice, a fragile Englishwoman, has landed in Tangier after a sudden marriage to one of those British gentlemen whose pedigree masks his idler essence. The marriage is a way of escaping the scandal that caused Alice’s breakdown and forced her to leave college in Vermont. When Lucy, Alice’s college roommate, turns up at Alice’s door in Tangier, we gradually learn what happened in Vermont and begin to get a feel for the psychological dynamics between the two women.
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Sunburn
by Laura Lippman
A pair of travelers meet in a small Delaware town; she’s a customer at a restaurant-slash-bar, and he’s sitting a couple of stools over. They make small talk, lightly flirtatious banter, and they wind up sharing an attraction. But here’s the thing: the bad girl, who calls herself Polly, has a past. And their meeting is no chance encounter; the man (it’s tempting to call him a patsy), Adam, has followed her to this small town. Why? For whom is Adam working? What secrets is Polly keeping hidden away?
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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
by Mario Giordano
Isolde “Poldi” Oberreiter has recently moved from Germany to her late husband’s hometown in Sicily, planning to drink herself to death and join him in the afterlife. But things keep getting in the way: a murder, a handsome police officer, and a visit from Poldi’s author nephew. It would appear that her new home is not quite as tranquil as she anticipated.
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