October 2020 list by S. Ward
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Confessions on the 7:45
by Lisa Unger
Befriending a stranger in an accompanying seat when their commuter train stalls, Selena confesses a personal grievance before her life is upended by her nanny’s disappearance and growing fractures in her marriage.
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Dear Child
by Romy Hausmann
A kidnapping victim struggles to escape her abductor and prove her identity to doubting relatives 14 years after her disappearance.
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The Devil and the Dark Water
by Stuart Turton
It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. Anyone could be to blame. Even a demon.
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Elsewhere
by Dean R. Koontz
Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed entrusts him with a strange and dangerous object. He tells Jeffy that he must never use the device.
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The Exphoria Code
by Antony Johnston
Brigitte Sharp is a brilliant but haunted young MI6 hacker who has been deskbound and in therapy for three years. Despite her boss's encouragement, Bridge isn’t ready to go back in the field. But now one of her best friends has been murdered and Bridge believes his death is connected to strange posts on the internet.
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The Girl in the Mirror
by Rose Carlyle
Taking her successful identical twin’s place in the aftermath of a suspicious accident, cynical Iris endeavors to conceive a child with her twin’s unknowing husband to secure a multi-million-dollar inheritance.
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The Girl Who Wasn't There
by Vincent Zandri
Sidney O’Keefe just wants to spend a peaceful weekend alone with his wife and daughter in the vacation paradise of Lake Placid, New York. But any illusion of a peaceful future is destroyed when his eleven-year-old daughter, Chloe, disappears.
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The House of a Hundred Whispers
by Graham Masterton
Dartmoor is the perfect place to build a prison. It's not a place many would choose to live—yet the Governor of Dartmoor Prison did just that. When he retired, he bought All Hallow's Hall on the edge of the moor. Now he's dead, and his estranged family are set to inherit his estate but the atmosphere of the moors seems to drift into every room.
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Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
Sheltering in a New York beach house with a couple that has taken refuge during a massive blackout, a family struggles for information about the power failure while wondering if the cut-off property is actually safe.
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The Man in Milan
by Vito Racanelli
When NYPD detectives Paul Rossi and Hamilton P. Turner begin investigating the Sutton Place murder of an Italian air force pilot, the last thing they expect is that they will find themselves sucked into the potential cover-up of the Ustica massacre, the most horrific aviation crime in Italian history.
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The Nightworkers
by Brian Selfon
A man from a Brooklyn family of money launderers questions the trustworthiness of his closest associates in the violent aftermath of a runner's death and the disappearance of $250,000 in stolen funds.
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Only Truth
by Julie Cameron
Surviving a violent assault she cannot remember, a successful artist relocates to the country with her husband to recuperate from her injuries before uncovering dark secrets and noting the return of an eerily familiar stranger from her clouded past.
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Shakeup
by Stuart Woods
Looking forward to relaxing with his girlfriend after returning from a dangerous coastal adventure, Stone Barrington finds his plans thwarted by the arrival of a grisly crime on his doorstep, along with some suspicious new clients eager for his help.
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Snow
by John Banville
Investigating the murder of a 1957 County Wexford priest, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community’s culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family’s dangerous secrets.
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A Song for the Dark Times
by Ian Rankin
When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst – and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect.
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Still Life
by Val McDermid
DCI Karen Pirie is drawn into a murder investigation involving a historic disappearance, art forgery and secret identities, while dealing with the release of the man responsible for the death of the love of her life from prison.
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They Never Learn
by Layne Fargo
A respected English professor and secret vigilante killer of nefarious men insinuates herself into the investigation of her own murders, while a college freshman becomes obsessed with exacting justice in the wake of her roommate’s sexual assault.
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Three Women Disappear
by James Patterson
When three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing, Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection to the case, discovers why the women have to stay hidden from both the law and each other.
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A Time for Mercy
by John Grisham
Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career and the safety of his family on the line to defend a 16-year-old murder suspect who is facing the death penalty.
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The Unspoken
by Ian Smith
Fired for refusing to cooperate in a police cover-up, Chicago detective-turned-private investigator Ashe Cayne searches for a missing woman who has been hiding dangerous secrets from her wealthy family
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