April 2020 list by Donalee Jacobs
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A Bad Day for Sunshine
by Darynda Jones
Challenged to prove herself when her New Mexico community becomes the center of a nationwide manhunt, police chief Sunshine Vicram is seduced by an alluring FBI agent and a sultry U.S. Marshal who test her feelings for a childhood crush. New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones is back with the first novel in the brand-new snarky, sassy, wickedly fun Sunshine Vicram series.
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The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
A modern-day teacher discovers the story of three Reconstruction-era women and how it connects to her own students’ lives in this latest from the New York Times best-selling author of Before We Were Yours.
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Code Name Hélène
by Ariel Lawhon
A novel based on the life of spy Nancy Wake follows a woman who kills a Nazi and becomes one of the most decorated women in World War II. By the New York Times best-selling author of I Was Anastasia.
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Days of Distraction
by Alexandra Chang
A marginalized Silicon Valley staff writer moves with her boyfriend to a quiet upstate New York town where she confronts the challenges of their interracial relationship and the questions it raises about her heritage.
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Dead End
by Nancy Mehl
When multiple corpses are found, their remains point to a serial killer with a familiar MO but who's been in prison for over twenty years - Special Agent Kaely Quinn's father. In order to prevent more deaths, she must come face-to-face with the man she's hated for years.
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Dead Land
by Sara Paretsky
Dragged by her impetuous goddaughter into a legal battle over a clandestine deal that is threatening community land, V. I. Warshawski uncovers a developer scheme that ends the life of the young man her goddaughter is dating.
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Eight Perfect Murders
by Peter Swanson
Years after establishing a literary career through his compilation of the mystery genre’s most unsolvable classics, an unsuspecting bookseller is tapped by the FBI for help solving murders that eerily mimic the books on his list.
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The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
by Joseph Fink
The best-selling authors of Welcome to Night Vale present the story of the Faceless Old Woman, from her 19th-century childhood and rise in the criminal underworld to her plot for vengeance and decades as a restless spirit.
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Fearless
by Fern Michaels
Falling in love with a divorced professor she meets on a singles cruise, widow Anna Campbell accepts his proposal before uncovering disturbing facts about him and his children.
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The Final Deception
by Heather Graham
In a series finale, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan navigates unnerving ties to an escaped killer in the wake of an outbreak of violent murders that FBI agent Craig Frasier believes may be the work of a copycat.
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The Lady in the Coppergate Tower
by Nancy Campbell Allen
Haunted by dreams about an increasing imperiled woman with her face, Hazel falls in love with her high-society doctor employer before discovering that she was kidnapped at birth and has a dangerously ill twin.
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Lakewood
by Megan Giddings
Forced to drop out of school to help support her family, Lena takes a lucrative job as a secret laboratory subject before devastating side effects make her question how much she can sacrifice.
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The New Husband
by Daniel Palmer
After meeting Simon Fitch, a teacher from her daughter Maggie’s middle school, widow Nina Garrity has hopes of putting her shattered life back together, but her friends aren’t so sure that Simon has the best of intentions.
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Shakedown
by Newt Gingrich
This sequel to Collusion finds former FBI counterintelligence agent Valerie Mayberry and ex-SEAL Brett Garrett navigating a tense alliance with Iran to uncover a threat while operating outside of official channels to pursue an elusive killer.
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Simon the Fiddler
by Paulette Jiles
Conscripted into the Confederate Army after nearly escaping the American Civil War, an itinerant fiddle player joins a ragtag regimental band playing for both sides of the conflict before falling in love with an indentured Irish governess.
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The Sinner
by J. R. Ward
Mercenary Syn forges a passionate connection with a woman undergoing transition with no understanding of her nature, forging an unlikely alliance with Dhestroyer Butch O’Neal to stop a threat against the Omega.
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Texas Outlaw
by James Patterson
Receiving unwanted attention when his country-singer girlfriend writes a hit song about his heroism, Texas Ranger Rory Yates relocates to a tiny municipality where he investigates the suspicious death of a corrupt councilwoman.
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Then the Fish Swallowed Him
by Amr Amad riyn
Arrested for political dissidence in the violent aftermath of Iran’s driver’s strike, a once-apolitical man develops an unsettling but interdependent relationship with his interrogator that exposes the oppressive power of the state to control individual lives.
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Undercover Bromance
by Lyssa Kay Adams
This sequel to The Bromance Book Club finds restaurant employee Liv Papandreas fired for reporting sexual harassment before teaming up with Bromance Book Club member Braden Mack to turn the tables on an abusive celebrity chef.
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The Unsettling Stars
by Alan Dean Foster
While helping a large colony ship of alien refugees who are under siege by an unknown enemy, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise get more then they bargained for when the answers to why they were attacked are revealed.
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