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Mystery / ThrillersApril 2020
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Masked Prey by John SandfordWhen a Senator’s daughter discovers that an unknown extremist has been posting politician kid photos online beside vicious but legal ideological rants, Lucas Davenport is summoned by influential Washington leaders to prevent dangerous attacks on their children.
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The 20th Victim by James PattersonInvestigating three simultaneous murders in Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, SFPC sergeant Lindsay Boxer identifies an unsettling link between the victims before the killer's escalating shootings galvanize the country.
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Camino Winds by John GrishamThe best-selling author of Fair Warning presents a follow-up to Camino Island that finds novelist Mercer Mann’s continued efforts to find literary inspiration in the idyllic region complicated by mysterious intrigues.
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Walk the Wire by David BaldacciThe best-selling author of The Fix presents a highly charged thriller in which fan-favorite character Amos Decker embarks on an action-packed investigation that is complicated by Baldacci’s signature twists and turns.
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The Goodbye Man by Jeffery DeaverA sequel to The Never Game finds Colter Shaw investigating a mysterious organization in Washington State that is either a therapeutic healing colony or a dangerous cult under the sway of a charismatic leader
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Dead Land by Sara ParetskyDragged 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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The Last Trial by Scott TurowA brilliant octogenarian defense lawyer on the brink of retirement seeks to prove the innocence of a long-time friend, a former Nobel Prize winner who has been charged with murder. By the best-selling author of Presumed Innocent.
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Broken : Six Short Novels by Don WinslowDrug dealers, bounty hunters, fugitives, struggling cops and lost souls rob, steal, kill, corrupt and betray their way through five intense novellas in this collection from the internationally best-selling author of The Border.
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Robert B. Parker's Grudge match by Mike LupicaReluctantly taking the case of a long-time gangster associate who will forgive a betrayal in return, private investigator Sunny Randall tracks down the man's missing girlfriend and business partner before the murder of a witness reveals unanticipated dangers.
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Have You Seen Me? by Kate WhiteArriving at work to discover that she has suffered a dissociative fugue and lost five years of her memory, a finance journalist examines a traumatic past event before connecting her experience to an unsolved murder.
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Pretty Things : a novel by Janelle BrownTo save her mother, a con artist who hustled to give her a decent childhood, Nina must run her most audacious, dangerous scam yet that involves a privileged young heiress as they both try to survive the greatest game of deceit and destruction they will ever play.
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He Started It by Samantha DowningForced by their wealthy grandfather’s death to reunite after an extended estrangement, three siblings and their respective partners reluctantly participate in a cross-country road trip to fulfill a final request and secure their inheritances.
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The Split by S. J BoltonTaking a job on an isolated island to hide from her former inmate ex-husband, Felicity is offered help from a doctor who would understand Felicity and her ex’s complicated past. By the award-winning author of the Lacey Flint series.
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The Devil's Bones by Carolyn HainesVisiting a Jerusalem-inspired garden with the newly pregnant Tinkie, Sarah Booth and Cece stumble on the body of an underhanded local lawyer before taking the case of a wrongly implicated pharmacist. By the award-winning author of Game of Bones
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A Good Marriage : a novel by Kimberly McCreightBegged for help by an old friend, an overworked lawyer investigates a suspicious death in a Brooklyn brownstone before she is confronted by a close-knit circle of parents who would protect an exclusive school.
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Little Secrets by Jennifer HillierA year after the disappearance of her son, Marin, a shadow of herself, hires a P.I. to pick up where the police left off, only to discover that her husband is having an affair with a younger woman, which is a problem Marin wants to fix by any means necessary.
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Murder on Pleasant Avenue by Victoria ThompsonWhen Gino Donatelli is wrongly implicated by the police in a brutal murder, Frank and Sarah navigate long-simmering precinct resentments to uncover the truth. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Murder on Trinity Place.
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Final Judgment by Marcia ClarkBreaking her personal rule about avoiding relationships when she falls for an ambitious entrepreneur, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman is challenged to prove her lover’s innocence of murder when his alibi and past are thrown into question.
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