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| Your House Will Pay by Steph ChaLos Angeles, 1991: A heightened period of racial tension in the city heats up even more after black teenager Ava Matthews is killed by Korean shop owner Jung-Ja Han, who believed the girl was shoplifting.
Los Angeles 2019: Jung-Ja Han (now an elderly woman going by the name Yvonne Park) is targeted in a drive-by shooting, and the police are sure the shooter was Ava's brother Shawn or cousin Ray. Meanwhile, Yvonne's daughter Grace must reckon with both the truth about her mother's past and her own sense of justice.
What makes it unique: Based on a true story, this dramatic and candid thriller fictionalizes the murder of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, which is considered to be one of the events that incited the 1992 L.A. riots. |
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City of windows
by Robert Pobi
When his former partner is murdered by an unusually skilled sniper, a disabled former FBI agent with an exceptional ability for reading difficult crime scenes struggles to outmaneuver a killer during a historical blizzard. By the best-selling author of Bloodman.
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Lethal agent
by Kyle Mills
A divisive presidential election is complicated by terrorist videos of a kidnapped scientist who is being forced to produce anthrax, catapulting Mitch Rapp into an undercover mission to prevent the weapon from being smuggled into America. Read by George Guidall. Simultaneous. Tour.
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The second sleep : a novel
by Robert Harris
Arriving in a remote mid-15th-century Exmoor village, a young priest discovers his late predecessor’s possibly fatal obsession with the ancient coins, glass and human bones strewn throughout the region. By the author of Fatherland.
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| Dark Rooms by Lili AnolikWhat it is: the creepy and haunting story of college student Grace Baker, whose all-consuming grief over her sister Nica's death and suspicions about the alleged killer lead her to go undercover at Nica’s exclusive prep school to find out what really happened.
You might also like: The Reunion by Guillaume Musso, which also deals with a prep school murder; Alex Blackmore’s Lethal Profit, in which a sister who doesn’t buy the official story of her brother’s murder looks for the truth.
Reviewers say: This intricately plotted debut "will haunt you" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth BrundageWhat it's about: the brutal murder of young mother Catherine Clare, the creepy farmhouse she had just moved into with her toddler daughter and professor husband, and the insular upstate New York town that mistrusts both the newcomers and the house itself.
Read it for: the parallel narrative structure, which moves between past and present; the 1970s atmosphere, which is skillfully evoked in the flashback scenes.
For fans of: Jennifer McMahon's The Winter People, which also features a mix of mystery, Gothic horror, and a farmhouse with dark secrets. |
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| Temper by Layne FargoStarring: struggling actress Kira Rascher, recently cast as the lead in a highly anticipated new play; the play’s director Malcolm Mercer, who is both revered for his work and notorious for being volatile and manipulative; Malcolm’s long-suffering business partner Joanna, who secretly nurses her own ambitions.
Behind the scenes: Malcolm wastes no time doing whatever it takes to get what he wants from Kira -- a powerful performance, yes, but maybe even more. Meanwhile, Joanna grows increasingly resentful of Kira until things suddenly start to spiral out of control for them all. |
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| GBH by Ted LewisWhat it's about: This stylistically complex noir follows fallen criminal kingpin George Fowler as he lays low in a seaside town after the collapse of his empire.
Read it for: George himself, who isn't exactly likeable but still manages to be compelling as he reflects on his past and awaits his inevitable fate.
About the author: Ted Lewis is best known for Jack's Return Home, which was adapted into the Michael Caine film Get Carter. GBH (which stands for "grave bodily harm") was his final novel. |
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| The Kind Worth Killing by Peter SwansonStrangers on a plane: Ted Severson is drowning his sorrows at an airport bar, where he meets and flirts with Lily Kintner. On a drunken whim, Ted confides in Lily that he's thought about killing his unfaithful wife.
Be careful what you wish for: Shockingly, Lily offers to help him, but Ted’s impulsive decision to trust this stranger soon puts him at the center of a plot that began years ago -- and at the mercy of a woman he vastly underestimated.
For fans of: noir classics like Double Indemnity by James M. Cain; Laura Lippman’s Sunburn, another novel of travelers and the dark secrets they share. |
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