January 2020 list by Nanette Alderman
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Africaville
by Jeffrey Colvin
Three generations of a family of former slaves, the founders of a small Nova Scotia community, navigate prejudice, harsh weather and estrangements against a backdrop of the historical events of the 20th century. A first novel.
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Anyone
by Charles Soule
When a botched experiment leads to the unexpected development of consciousness-transferring technology, a scientist witnesses the havoc of her innovation throughout two subsequent decades of body-rental violence, entertainment and warfare.
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Come Homicide or High Water
by Denise Swanson
School psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd hopes to ease back into work after returning from maternity leave but fate has other plans for her when Scumble River is faced with another murder.
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Beating About the Bush
by M. C. Beaton
Discovering evidence of a gruesome murder in a roadside hedge, private detective Agatha Raisin is embroiled in a case involving industrial espionage, a bad-tempered donkey and her own growing fame.
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Chinese Whispers
by Peter May
Young and beautiful victims are mutilated by the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him. But just as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer's sick signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, revealing his intentions: the Ripper plans to tear Li and Campbell's lives apart.
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Crossroad
by W. H. Cameron
After stumbling upon a perplexing, but grisly car crash an apprentice mortician, Melisende Dulac, is accused of stealing the bodies from her family’s funeral home and must uncover the truth about the accident before its too late.
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Genesis
by Robin Cook
Investigating the suspicious death of a social worker, Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery makes the controversial decision to use genealogic DNA databases to identify a mysterious killer.
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Good Girls Lie
by J. T Ellison
In a follow-up to Lie to Me and Tear Me Apart, a popular transfer student at an elite prep school races to protect a dangerous secret when a killer sets her up for a string of murders.
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Gunpowder Express
by Brett Cogburn
With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it because of the dangerous trail it must traverse, a mine owner hires Newt “Widowmaker” Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage, putting him on a collision course with a nasty band of outlaws.
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The Hanged Man
by K. D. Edwards
The last child of the fallen Sun Throne, Rune Saint John must protect his ward from a forced marital alliance with the Hanged Man, which takes him to the darkest corners of the island where a gathering of the Arcana will change his life forever.
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The Kill Club
by Wendy Heard
To save her young brother from their fanatical foster mother, Jazz makes a dangerous pact with a network of vigilantes who hunt down predators and leave a trail of bodies through Los Angeles.
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The Light of All That Falls
by James Islington
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Shadow of What Was Lost finds Wirr navigating a precarious alliance, while a conflicted Davian is pitted against the remaining Venerate armies.
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A Madness of Sunshine
by Nalini Singh
Returning to her impoverished New Zealand hometown to reconnect with familiar things after a personal tragedy, Anahera Rawiri bonds with detective Will Gallagher to uncover the community secrets behind a missing-persons case.
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Matchmaking Can Be Murder
by Amanda Flower
When her niece Edith’s former fiancé, a cruel and greedy man, is found dead in Edith’s greenhouse, quiltmaker Millie Fisher must piece together the clues to keep Edith out of prison and protect her own reputation.
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Meg & Jo
by Virginia Kantra
When their mother falls ill, the March sisters—reliable Meg, independent Jo, stylish Amy and shy Beth, return home to North Carolina for the holidays where they’ll rediscover what really matters.
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Oppo
by Tom Rosenstiel
Offered the vice presidential spot by both major parties during a tumultuous primary season, a respected centrist senator hires investigator Peter Rena to uncover an anonymous adversary who is threatening her career.
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The Prince of Broadway
by Joanna Shupe
Using each other for their own means, Clayton Madden, the owner of the city’s most exclusive casino, and heiress Florence Greene’s finds their mutually beneficial relationship taking a romantic turn, which forces both their hands.
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Terminal Black
by Adrian Magson
When his old friend, Rik Ferris, goes missing, allegedly in possession of highly sensitive secrets from MI6’s archives, former MI5 agent Harry Tate sets out to find him, but, unbeknownst to him, Rik is being tortured for information that could result in a cyber attack that could level the UK.
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This Is Happiness
by Niall Williams
A young man’s first experiences of falling in and out of love are shaped by the arrival of electricity in his small western seaboard village, an enigmatic woman and a mysterious drought.
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The Wicked Redhead
by Beatriz Williams
Distancing herself from an unethical employer and unfaithful husband, a woman investigates the story of a previous resident in her Greenwich Village apartment, a Prohibition-era flapper who went missing amid an agonizing moral quandary.
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