April 2021 list by Donalee Jacobs
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All the Children are Home
by Patry Francis
Two long-term foster parents in a mid-20th-century Massachusetts community reluctantly take in an abused young girl who strengthens their family’s bonds in unexpected ways.
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Animal Instinct
by David Rosenfelt
Investigating the murder of a woman he failed to protect years earlier, K Team private investigator Corey Douglas resolves to bring an abusive boyfriend to justice.
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The Bounty
by Janet Evanovich
Straitlaced FBI agent Kate O’Hare and international con man Nick Fox reluctantly team up with the fathers who taught them everything they know to prevent a shadowy international organization from claiming a fortune in Nazi gold.
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The Consequences of Fear
by Jacqueline Winspear
Entreated by a witness nobody believes to investigate a murder, Maisie Dobbs uncovers a conspiracy with devastating implications for Britain’s war effort during the Nazi occupation of Europe.
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Double Jeopardy
by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington launches an investigation in coastal Maine, where he confronts high-connected and well-funded family enemies hiding in plain sight among the region’s stately houses and private clubs.
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Eternal
by Lisa Scottoline
An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy.
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Forever in Cape May
by Jennifer Probst
When best friends Taylor Sunshine and Pierce Powers decide to explore a no-strings attached summer fling, they are both faced with hard choices once the summer ends – follow their individual dreams or have a future together.
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The Good Sister
by Sally Hepworth
Twin sisters who are polar opposites but who are harboring a deep, dark secret about their sociopathic mother must face the consequences of both her actions and their own when one tries to start a family.
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The Happiest Girl in the World
by Alena Dillon
Turning against a friend who reported their doctor for illegal dosing, an Olympics hopeful with an ambitious mother endures abuse and injuries before her choices lead to a dangerous addiction.
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In Her Tracks
by Robert Dugoni
Reopening the cold case of an abducted child whose parents were once prime suspects, detective Tracy Crosswhite is simultaneously partnered with Kinsington Rowe to investigate a jogger’s disappearance from a North Seattle trail.
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The Last Night in London
by Karen White
A journalist in 2019 London interviews a World War II-era model to learn the story of the woman’s best friendship with a Royal Air Force pilot’s wife, who was catapulted by the Blitz into a web of intrigue and secrets.
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Lover Unveiled
by J. R. Ward
The latest entry in the best-selling Black Dagger Brotherhood series continues the story of Sahvage, a powerful MMA fighter whose buried secret threatens to irrevocably change the world of Caldwell.
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The Man Who Lived Underground
by Richard Wright
Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers.
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Ocean Prey
by John Sandford
Picking up a stalled FBI case involving three murdered Coast Guardsmen, Lucas Davenport teams up with detective Virgil Flowers to investigate the suspicious activities of a sophisticated boat and mysterious diver.
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Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia
The daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties.
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The Other Emily
by Dean R. Koontz
Haunted by the unsolved disappearance of the love of this life a decade earlier, writer David Thorne visits her suspected killer in prison before meeting a woman who uncannily resembles the person he lost.
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Raft of Stars
by Andrew J. Graff
Fleeing into the woods believing that they have accidentally murdered an abusive parent, two young boys, unaware that they have become the focus of a desperate search, navigate dangerous natural threats in their effort to survive.
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The Red Book
by James Patterson
Launching an investigation of his own when his instincts tell him that more is behind a political shooting on Chicago’s west side, SOS Detective Billy Harney uncovers a spate of murders connected to his troubled past.
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Scoundrel of My Heart
by Lorraine Heath
To claim her inheritance, Lady Kathryn Lambert must marry a titled gentleman but instead falls for an unsuitable man – Lord Griffith Stanwick – and must decide if he is worth sacrificing her legacy.
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Stargazer
by Anne Hillerman
Officer Bernie risks her relationship with Chee to investigate the disappearance of a former college roommate, whose confession for murder does not add up.
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Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill
by Jim Fergus
The conclusion for the One Thousand White Women trilogy is set in the aftermath of the battle of Little Big Horn and finds the integrated women survivors of a decimated Cheyenne tribe taking up arms against the United States on behalf of Native American territory rights.
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Sunflower Sisters
by Martha Hall Kelly
Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey, an ancestor of Caroline Ferriday, travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress. By the best-selling author of Lilac Girls.
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Turn a Blind Eye
by Jeffrey Archer
Going undercover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police Force, Detective Inspector William Warwick is compromised by a high-profile trial and a teammate's romantic relationship with his suspect.
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Under the Wave at Waimea
by Paul Theroux
A once-famous surfer confronts aging, privilege and mortality when he accidentally kills a man and makes an astonishing discovery about his personal link to the victim.
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When a Stranger Comes to Town
by Michael Koryta
A story collection from Mystery Writers of America features tales of terrifying encounters with strangers from a variety of popular mystery and crime fiction authors including Michael Connelly, Dean Koontz, Joe Hill and Attica Locke.
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