August 2020 list by Donalee Jacobs
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1st Case
by James Patterson
Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeting young women through a sophisticated messaging app.
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Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio
by Mario Giordano
When her idyllic Sicilian retirement is interrupted by one of her unfaithful detective inspector husband's cases, the irascible Auntie Poldi uncovers shocking secrets in her effort to rescue an in-law from the Mafia.
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The Boy in the Field
by Margot Livesey
Saving the life of a young boy, three siblings find their bond challenged by their parents' troubled marriage and their respective efforts to identify the boy's attacker, manage a new relationship and search for a birth parent.
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The Boys' Club
by Erica Katz
An Ivy League overachiever accepts a job at a prestigious Manhattan law firm where the dynamics of workplace sexism force her to choose between her career and doing what is right.
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Choppy Water
by Stuart Woods
When his Maine vacation is interrupted by extreme weather that a menacing adversary uses as cover to target a close friend, Stone Barrington uncovers a massive scheme with corrupt ties spanning New York City through Key West.
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Deadlock
by Catherine Coulter
Targeted by a vengeful psychopath who would destroy his family, Savich receives three mysterious boxes containing clues leading to an unfamiliar community and a young wife who must confront a decades-old secret.
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The End of Her
by Shari Lapeña
When a woman from her husband’s past shows up and raises questions about the death of his first wife, Stephanie remains loyal to her husband until a newly opened police investigation starts eroding her trust and her marriage.
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The First to Lie
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
A devastating act of betrayal catapults a young woman onto an obsessive path to justice that embroils a glamorous manipulative wannabe, an in-too-deep reporter and a grieving widow into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse.
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The Geometry of Holding Hands
by Alexander McCall Smith
Investigating local rumors about mysterious occurrences taking place throughout Edinburgh, a skeptical Isabel finds the limits of her good sense and ethics tested by the demands of her family, including her tempestuous niece’s latest romantic entanglement.
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Ghost Ups Her Game
by Carolyn Hart
In this cozy mystery, a warm-hearted sleuth with heavenly powers returns to her hometown to solve a murder that has a very unlikely suspect.
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Hieroglyphics
by Jill McCorkle
Bonding over the mutual losses of their parents in childhood, a couple determined to leave a history for their own children respectively sift through family records and obsess over a possible childhood home before uncovering troubling memories.
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The Less Dead
by Denise Mina
Navigating burnout, an unfaithful ex and a relative's recent death, Margo reaches out to her birth family before discovering that her biological mother was murdered years earlier by a killer who begins sending her threatening letters.
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The Midwife Murders
by James Patterson
When two kidnappings and a stabbing occur on her watch in a Manhattan university hospital, a fearless senior midwife teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to investigate rumors that shift from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network.
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The Monsters We Make
by Kali White
A series of paperboy abductions in Iowa during the summer of 1984 make locals nervous and set in motion a series of violent, devastating and unpredictable events that touch everyone in unexpected ways.
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The Night Swim
by Megan Goldin
A popular true-crime podcaster finds an unsettling note on her windshield begging for help before she uncovers dark community secrets from the past and present, including one involving the disappearance of her own sister.
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The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
by Ursula Hegi
When an 1878 tidal wave claims three children from Germany’s island of Nordstrand, three women — including a grieving mother, a seamstress and a young girl on the brink of giving birth — help each other in unanticipated ways.
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Playing Nice
by JP Delaney
Informed by a stranger that his son was switched at birth with another baby, Pete struggles to adjust to the needs of two families before an investigation unearths disturbing questions about the hospital and the night the exchange occurred.
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A Private Cathedral
by James Lee Burke
Swept up in a criminal underworld rivalry involving a pair of star-crossed teen lovers, Detective Dave Robicheaux is targeted by a time-traveling superhuman assassin who forces him to confront the demons of his own past.
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Riviera Gold
by Laurie R. King
Visiting the French Riviera in the summer of 1925, Russell and Holmes are embroiled in a mystery shaped by the traditional pleasures of Monte Carlo and the modern delights of the Jazz Age.
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Royal
by Danielle Steel
Sent into hiding during World War II, headstrong 17-year-old Princess Charlotte assumes an alias and enjoys the freedoms of a normal life in Yorkshire before her ill-fated romance with her guardians' son leads to the orphaning of a royal infant.
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Squeeze Me
by Carl Hiaasen
When a high-society dowager murdered at the height of Palm Beach’s charity gala season is declared a political martyr by the colorful President she supported, a talented wildlife wrangler uncovers the truth amid the discovery of a controversial affair.
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A Star Is Bored
by Byron Lane
A debut novel by Carrie Fisher's former personal assistant follows the experiences of an assistant to an award-winning celebrity who becomes a close friend and possibly more as she conducts him through the wonders of Hollywood life.
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Then She Vanished
by T. Jefferson Parker
Helping a rising politician whose wife has gone missing amid an inexplicable series of bombings, private investigator Roland Ford investigates the activities of a mysterious group before uncovering sinister ties to a kidnapping that threatens an entire city.
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War
by Jeff Rovin
After the devastating outbreak of a killer super virus, the Black Wasp Team must prevent America’s enemies from gaining access to the most dangerous weapon the world has ever seen.
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The Way of Love
by Tracie Peterson
A follow-up to Secrets of My Heart finds a medical student and anti-racism activist hiding the secret of her heritage to help the native populations of Oregon and tend the wounds of a handsome riverboat captain.
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