June 2017 list by Nanette Alderman
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Dangerous Games
by Tess Diamond
Former FBI agent Maggie Kincaid is called back into action when a senator’s daughter is abducted, setting in motion a nightmare that becomes personal and forcing her to turn to Jake O’Connor, a hot-as-hell ex-soldier who plays by his own rules, for help in negotiating this hostage situation.
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The Girl on the Bridge
by James Hayman
A month after Hannah Reindel kills herself, those who assaulted her at a fraternity party years earlier begin dying in mysterious circumstances. Detectives Mike McCabe and Maggie Savage must find the killer before more are executed.
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Gone Without a Trace
by Mary Torjussen
When her longtime boyfriend and every record of his existence go abruptly missing, Hannah becomes increasingly determined to find him and get answers as she is thrust into a maze of madness and obsession.
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Goodnight from London
by Jennifer Robson
An ambitious American journalist determined to start a new life an ocean away from her past relocates to London in 1940 to report on World War II, only to lose everything and find herself dependent on strangers during the horrors of the Blitz.
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Hate Thy Neighbor
by William W. Johnstone
On the brink of ruin due to drought, Kate Kerrigan hires the rainmaker Professor Somerset Lazarus, who promises salvation in the form of a deluge. Kate is desperate enough to try anything. But when four angry gunmen show up, ready to lynch the phony rainmaker for swindling them out of their money, the Kerrigans have to choose sides fast.
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House of Names
by Colm Tóibín
A retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children in the legendary Greek city of Mycenae, describes how at the side of her lover she plots to murder her long-absent husband for his betrayals and infidelities.
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Love Me Again
by Jaci Burton
When the man she left behind to marry someone else starts renovating the building next to her new bookstore, Loretta Simmons, with her young daughter in tow, must make amends with Deacon Fox, who refuses to let her break his heart twice.
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The Moon and the Other
by John Kessel
When an investigation reveals the poor treatment of men by the Female Society of Cousins in their lunar state, a moon war erupts amid political tensions and gender imbalance.
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Positively Pippa
by Sarah Hegger
After her life self-destructs on national TV, Pippa Turner returns home to Ghost Falls and her loving grandmother where she, deciding to give her live a much-needed makeover, sets her sights on her gorgeous high school crush, adding him to the top of her to-do list.
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Price of Duty
by Dale Brown
When Russia constructs its most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb and launches carefully plotted attacks on unsuspecting U.S. and European targets, Brad McLanahan and his Scion team arm themselves with the world's most advanced technological weaponry to prevent a full-scale cyber war.
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The Red Line
by Walt Gragg
World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored thrust into the heart of Germany. Standing against them are the woefully undermanned American forces. The thin line between victory and defeat is also the red line between life and death.
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Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone
by Phaedra Patrick
Benedict Stone has settled into a complacent and predictable routine. Business at his jewelry shop has dried up; his marriage is on the rocks. His life is in desperate need of a jump start...And then a surprise arrives at his door. Gemma is Benedict's audacious teenage niece—the daughter of his estranged brother, Charlie.
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Shadow Man
by Alan Drew
When a serial killer begins breaking into random homes in California's quiet Rancho Santa Elena, detective Ben Wade and forensic specialist Natasha Betencourt confront a long-buried secret and the tragedy of a teen's suicide in order to get ahead of the killer.
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The Ship
by Antonia Honeywell
Living a fairly sheltered existence amidst the ruins of civilization, Lalla sets off for the unknown, after her father has decided the world has gotten too dangerous and orchestrates their escape on a ship he built that can hold 500 people.
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Sins of Empire
by Brian McClellan
The young nation of Fatrasta is a turbulent place -- a frontier destination for criminals, fortune-hunters, brave settlers, and sorcerers seeking relics of the past. Only the iron will of the lady chancellor and her secret police holds the capital city of Landfall together against the unrest of an oppressed population and the machinations of powerful empires.
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