February 2021 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Before She Disappeared
by Lisa Gardner
Investigating the cold-case disappearance of a Haitian teen in a gritty Boston neighborhood, Frankie Elkin navigates resident and police resistance as well as the challenges of her own sobriety before risking her life to uncover the truth.
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Blink of an Eye
by Iris Johansen
Investigator Kendra Michaels teams up with military-trained bodyguard Jessie Mercado and agent-for-hire Adam Lynch in a desperate effort to rescue a famous pop singer who has been kidnapped during a live performance.
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The Center of Everything
by Jamie Harrison
Recuperating from a head injury that has scrambled her perception of time, a Montana native attends a family reunion before the disappearance of a beloved friend dredges up painful memories.
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The Children of Red Peak
by Craig DiLouie
David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. They grew up in an overbearing religious community on the isolated mountain Red Peak -- and they were a few of the only survivors of its horrific last days. Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far behind. And when a fellow survivor commits suicide, they reunite to confront their past and share their stories. As long-repressed memories surface, they begin to recall different images of that final night. Images that raise questions with no easy, or even believable, answers. Together, they will return to Red Peak. But discovering the terrifying truth might make escaping a second time almost impossible.
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Faithless in Death
by J. D. Robb
Investigating a woman whose report about an artist’s murder is not adding up, Eve Dallas uncovers a fanatical conspiracy that leads to Dallas’ partnership with the FBI.
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The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah
A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California.
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The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh
by Molly Greeley
A reimagining of the story of Jane Austen’s mysterious character depicts a rejected young heiress who fights a life-long addiction before discovering health and passion in the London home of her cousin, Colonel John Fitzwilliam.
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Ink and Shadows
by Ellery Adams
When her bookstore is targeted by a family-values group during the Halloween season, Nora Pennington and her fellow readers investigate a suspicious death that occurs at the same time Nora discovers an ominous message under her doormat.
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Kingdom of Shadow and Light
by Karen Marie Moning
MacKayla Lane faces the ultimate threat when war breaks out between the kingdoms of shadow and light.
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The Last Garden in England
by Julia Kelly
Given the opportunity of a lifetime to restore an admired designer’s famed historic gardens, Emma uncovers long-hidden secrets about her role model and three women who lived on the property during World War II.
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The Lost Manuscript
by Cathy Bonidan
Discovering an abandoned manuscript in her Brittany hotel room, a woman falls in love with the story and begins a life-changing correspondence with its mysterious writer.
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Meet Me in Bombay
by Jenny Ashcroft
A homesick Englishwoman falls in love with a charismatic man who opens her eyes to the beauty and culture of 1913 Bombay, before their relationship is complicated by a disapproving parent and the harsh realities of war.
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Missing and Endangered
by Judith A. Jance
Protecting a brilliant freshman whose homeschooled life has left her unprepared for the outside world, Jennifer invites the vulnerable girl home for a break that embroils Sheriff Joanna Brady in a volatile missing-person's case.
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The Paris Library
by Janet Skeslien Charles
Based on a true story, describes how a lonely, 1980s teenager befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris who joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived.
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A Perfect Amish Romance
by Shelley Shepard Gray
Bookmobile librarian and matchmaker Sarah Anne Miller discretely assists an Amish youth who would obtain his GED and a heartbroken reader who becomes his tutor, in a series debut by the best-selling author of the Walnut Creek romances.
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The Power Couple
by Alex Berenson
Embarking on a European family vacation to revitalize their marriage, two government employees find the limits of their bond tested when their daughter goes missing from a Barcelona club.
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Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Exile
by Joshua Hood
This sequel to The Treadstone Resurrection finds Adam Hayes offering passage to a tech baron’s daughter, whose subsequent kidnapping pits the former Operation Treadstone agent against a rogue operative connected to a scheme to steal millions in relief aid.
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Serpentine
by Jonathan Kellerman
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis and brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware investigate a decades-unsolved case involving a rich and spoiled client, a mysterious birth mother and violent coincidences.
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The Shadow Box
by Luanne Rice
Preparing for an exhibit that includes a piece about the domestic violence she once endured at the hands of her gubernatorial candidate husband, an artist survives a home invasion only to find herself pitted against dangerous corrupt forces.
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The Survivors
by Jane Harper
Haunted by guilt for a reckless and consequential mistake in his youth, Kieran returns to his coastal hometown and his struggling fishing-industry parents, before the discovery of a body on the beach reveals long-held secrets.
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The Umbrella Lady
by V. C. Andrews
Left on a train platform in an unfamiliar village, a girl who has lost her father finds herself at the mercy of a woman who is not quite what she seems.
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The Unwilling
by John Hart
The younger brother of a wrongly implicated Vietnam veteran and ex-con races to uncover the truth about a young woman’s murder and the brutal realities of war that shaped his brother’s darker nature.
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The Vineyard at Painted Moon
by Susan Mallery
Devastated by a divorce that she admits was inevitable, MacKenzie finds her attempts to move away from the only family and source of employment she has ever known complicated by an unplanned pregnancy.
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Water Memory
by Daniel Pyne
With memory lapses becoming more frequent from serial-concussion syndrome, a black ops specialist, Aubrey Sentro, must elude the pirates who have seized the cargo ship she’s on, save the passengers and get home safely to her children.
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We Could Be Heroes
by Mike Chen
Two superpowered individuals who have lost all memory of their real identities use their respective powers to commit or fight crime before teaming up together to stop the mad scientist behind a devastating medical conspiracy.
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The Yellow Wife
by Sadeqa Johnson
Born on a plantation, but set apart from the others by her mother’s position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at 18 and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
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