September 2018 list by Nanette Alderman
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Abandoned
by Allison Brennan
Max Revere investigates the disappearance of her own mother several years earlier, tracing her activities in a small Chesapeake Bay community where witnesses are keeping dark secrets.
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All the Way
by Kristen Proby
With his niece staying with him on Marthaās Vineyard, lawyer Finn Cavanaugh is reluctant to take time off, until he meets his beautiful new neighbor, whom he hopes to lure out of her shell.
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Dark Alpha's Hunger
by Donna Grant
Eoghan is a Reaper, an elite assassin of the Fae that answers to Death. Finding out who hunts Thea could lead to the knowledge to defeat the enemy, but Thea's music stirs Eoghan's heart and stirs a passion that he had never before known.
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Epidemic of the Living Dead
by John Russo
It starts with infected needles. It spreads like a plague. Soon the town of Chapel Grove, Pennsylvania, is overrun with cannibalistic corpses. Detective Bill Curtis manages to rescue his pregnant wife Lauren from the ward in the nick of time. But the other pregnant women are not so lucky. Some of them have been bitten and infected. Now it's anyone's guess what's growing inside them.
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French Exit
by Patrick deWitt
Bankrupted by her infamous litigator husband's tabloid death, a scandal-fearing widow flees New York for Paris, where her deadbeat son and she navigate near-comic self-destructive choices.
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The Good Luck Charm
by Helena Hunting
Lilah isn't sure what hurt worse: the day Ethan left her to focus on his hockey career or the day he came back eight years later. He might think they can pick up where they left off, but she's no longer that same girl. Just when she might finally be ready to let him in, she finds out their reunion might have nothing to do with love and everything to do with improving his game.
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Herokiller
by Paul Tassi
In the near future, the line between entertainment and brutality has blurred. Mysterious billionaire Cameron Crayton is a household name from televised spectacles the newest of which is the Crucible, a to the death tournament anyone can enter. Mark Wei, former black-ops operative, enters the arena to investigate Crayton's shady connections to foreign powers.
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His Favorites
by Kate Walbert
Jo, the drunk driver of a "borrowed" golf cart that crashes and results in the death of her best friend, flees her home town that has turned against her and enrolls in a prestigious boarding school. Looking back ten years later, Jo describes a series of shattering events and the system that failed to protect her.
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The Iceman
by Peter T. Deutermann
A decorated submarine commander haunted by a violent youth unsettles his crew with the incrementally risky measures he takes to sink Japanese ships in the western Pacific during World War II.
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The Middleman
by Olen Steinhauer
The rise and fall of a domestic left-wing terrorist group is traced from the perspectives of an FBI agent, an undercover agent, a convert and a writer on the sidelines.
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The Money Shot
by Stuart Woods
Disguising himself as a stuntman to investigate blackmail threats against an actress starring in a new production, Teddy Fay discovers that the perpetrators are looking for something other than money.
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Pieces of Her
by Karin Slaughter
The daughter of a woman who has wanted nothing more than a quiet life in her small beachside home embarks on a desperate search for answers when she discovers the explosive truth about her mother's true identity.
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Rust & Stardust
by T. Greenwood
The story of the 11-year-old kidnapping victim whose 1948 abduction inspired Nabokov's Lolita, recreating in chilling detail Sally Horner's exploitation and assault by predatory former inmate Frank LaSalle.
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Tailspin
by Sandra Brown
Hired to deliver a mysterious box to a fogbound Georgia town, daredevil pilot Rye Mallett is targeted by saboteurs and law enforcement officials before teaming up with an attractive but suspicious doctor to determine the box's significance.
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Texas Ranger
by James Patterson
Dedicated Texas Ranger Rory Yates is wrongly implicated in the murder of his ex-wife and finds his skills pushed to the limit in his effort to find the real killer and prove his own innocence.
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An Unwanted Guest
by Shari LapeƱa
Weathering a storm that has cut them off from the outside world, the guests at a Catskills skiing lodge panic as an unknown assailant starts killing them off one by one.
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Walking Shadows
by Faye Kellerman
Decker and Lazarus risk their lives to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than 20 years earlier.
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The Washington Decree
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Doggie, a dedicated advisor who has spent more than half her life supporting a remarkable Democratic candidate's path to the White House, is shattered when the President-elect's wife is assassinated on election night by Doggie's Republican father.
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When a Duke Loves a Woman
by Lorraine Heath
Coming to the rescue of the Duke of Thornley, who is searching for his wayward bride, tavern owner Gillie Trewlove finds herself falling in love with this handsome aristocratic man.
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With You Always
by Rena Olsen
Falling in love with a charming man whose attentions and faith seem to be everything she has ever wanted, a woman finds herself increasingly isolated from the outside world before becoming desperate to escape the relationship.
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