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And After Many Days
by Jowhor Ile
In the aftermath of a teen's disappearance from bustling Port Harcourt in 1995 Nigeria, a once-ordered family is irreparably shattered in ways that prompt its youngest member, Ajie, to embark on a quest for answers that reveals long-forgotten secrets and regional brutalities.
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Arcadia
by Iain Pears
Traces the fantastical intersections between a 1960s Oxford professor who dabbles in espionage, a psychomathematician from a dystopian future world and a scholar's apprentice in a pastoral land.
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The Arrangement
by Ashley Warlick
A story inspired by the real-world love triangle between M. F. K. Fisher, her husband and her lover depicts food writer Mary Frances in 1934 Los Angeles, whose articles become metaphorical for her hunger for passionate fulfillment in a marriage that is no longer intimate or creative.
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Be Frank with Me
by Juli Claiborne Johnson
Reluctantly hired into the home of a famed reclusive writer who would recapture her lost fortunes by completing a new manuscript, Alice Whitley becomes obsessed with identifying the paternity of her employer's precocious young son.
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Black Deutschland
by Darryl Pinckney
In the age of Reagan and AIDS in a city on the verge of tearing down its walls, Jed—a young, gay black man—arrives in Berlin where he, encountering outcasts, intellectuals, artists and misfits on his way to adulthood, hopes to escape what it means to be a black male in America.
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Black Rabbit Hall
by Eve Chase
Planning her wedding at her family's haunting, timeless London country estate, Lorna recalls half-buried memories of her mother before uncovering the manor's labyrinthine history and becoming obsessed with a need for answers.
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Cometh the Hour
by Jeffrey Archer
In the aftermath of a devastating suicide, Harry Clifton continues his efforts to rescue Anatoly Babakov from a Siberian gulag, while his wife Emma counsels Margaret Thatcher with unexpected consequences and their friends endure heartache and financial setbacks.
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Every Anxious Wave
by Mo Daviau
When he stumbles upon a time-traveling wormhole, bar owner Karl Bender develops a business selling access to people who want to travel back in time to hear their favorite bands until he accidentally sends his best friend Wayne back in time way too far and must team up with a prickly astrophysicist to bring him back.
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Flight of Dreams
by Ariel Lawhon
Struggling to maintain her professionalism and hide her own agenda on board the Hindenburg, where everyone seems to be keeping secrets, Emilie, a sole female crewmember, interacts with passengers and fellow workers throughout the doomed airship's three-day flight.
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The Flood Girls
by Richard Fifield
Returning to her tiny Montana hometown where jaded locals refuse to let her make amends, a woman who left behind a trail of chaos discovers herself and receives assistance from a local boy in her efforts to correct past mistakes.
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The Forgetting Time
by Sharon Guskin
While a mother's life abruptly stops after receiving an emergency phone call from her son's preschool, a driven former Ivy League professor confronts the realities of his terminal diagnosis and helps a woman whose child has been missing for years.
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Forty Rooms
by Olga Grushin
Follows the life of a woman, born in Moscow, who finds happiness and love in America but must also deal with the ghosts of her youth.
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The Fragment
by Davis Bunn
In the newest high-stakes historical thriller from a master storyteller, skepticism vies with faith amid the grit and grandeur of post-World War I Europe.
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A Friend of Mr. Lincoln
by Stephen Harrigan
Depicts Abraham Lincoln in his 20s and 30s, as he works as a lawyer and in the state legislature and spends time with a fictional poet, Cage Weatherby.
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The Girl in the Red Coat
by Kate Hamer
Despite being told by the authorities that she might be gone for good, a newly-single mom embarks on a harrowing journey to find her daughter, who went missing during a local outdoor festival.
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A Girl's Guide to Moving On
by Debbie Macomber
An ex-daughter-in-law and mother-in-law become unlikely best friends and embark on newly single lives together.
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Goddess of Fire
by Bharti Kirchner
Rampore, India, 1684. About to be burned alive on her late husband's funeral pyre, 17-year-old widow Moorti is rescued from a gruesome fate by a passing British merchant. Thus begins an extraordinary love story and incredible journey as the humble village girl Moorti transforms herself into Maria, becoming one of the most powerful women in India.
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The Heart
by Maylis de Kerangal
A tale told over the 24-hour period surrounding a fatal accident and resulting heart transplant traces the experiences of a child victim, a woman who receives a chance to survive and their stricken loved ones.
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Hide
by Matthew Griffin
Falling in love in the aftermath of World War II, a gay taxidermist and a veteran are forced to cut all ties with their discriminating North Carolina textile town and share a life of quiet self-sufficiency for decades until one of them falls terminally ill, forcing the other to reckon with the consequences of their isolation.
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The High Mountains of Portugal
by Yann Martel
An allegorical novel in three parts is set in the fictional High Mountains of 17th-century Portugal and beyond, where characters explore questions of loss and faith while on a quest, while tackling ghosts and in the contemporary world.
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I'll See You in Paris
by Michelle Gable
Three generations of women—Laurel; her daughter, Annie; and a relative known as the Duchess of Marlborough—face similar struggles in life, including lost loves, romance and mystery.
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I'm glad about you
by Theresa Rebeck
Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is determined to shed her Midwestern roots and emerge an actress. Kyle, all heart and spiritual yearning, believes medicine can heal the world. What could these mismatched souls have to do with each other? A comedic and tender novel.
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In Another Life
by Julie Christine Johnson
Returning to rural southwest France to rebuild after the loss of her husband, historian Lia Carrer unexpectedly falls in love with a man who challenges everything she believes about life and her husband's death.
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The Life of Elves
by Muriel Barbery
Two girls from France and Italy who possess uncanny respective abilities to communicate with nature and perform music at a preternatural level come into contact with magical and malevolent forces before meeting each other in world-changing ways.
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The Longest Night
by Andria Williams
Reluctantly moving to a remote Idaho outpost when her Army Specialist husband is reassigned, 1950s military wife Nat is horrified when her husband discovers that the local nuclear reactor is crumbling and that his superiors are more interested in concealing the imminent disaster.
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Man on Fire
by Stephen Kelman
Fleeing a life of mediocrity in England to become an assistant to an extreme world-record breaker in India, John Lock helps the man prepare to survive a new pursuit while encountering others in search of meaning and confronting his own beliefs about a life well lived.
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Marriage Material
by Sathnam Sanghera
This debut novel is a luminous exploration of the life of an immigrant family in the UK, layering the contemporary story of a young man caught between British and Punjabi culture, the history of his family, and the new life he's made for himself.
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Not All Bastards Are from Vienna
by Andrea Molesini
A U.S. release of an award-winning debut novel portrays the heroism and traumas within a Northern Italian village at the end of World War I and the experiences of a family that is forced to confront the war's injustices when their villa is requisitioned by enemy troops. By the winner of the Campiello Literary Prize.
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Opening Belle
by Maureen Sherry
A self-made, 30-something Wall Street star juggles the impossible demands of working in sexist environments and raising her children with a deadbeat husband while considering the life she may have had with her former fiancé, a situation that is complicated by the impending 2008 crash.
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The Opposite of Everyone
by Joshilyn Jackson
Placed in foster care in the wake of criminal allegations, Paula Vauss grows up to become a tough divorce attorney only to have her life thrown into chaos by an astonishing revelation and a cryptic message from the Hindu storyteller mother she has not seen in 15 years.
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The Photographer's Wife
by Suzanne Joinson
Years after photographer William Harrington participates in a 1920s project to redesign Jerusalem with British parks against a backdrop of growing nationalist unrest, his revelations about long-buried secrets transform the life of his former employer's daughter.
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Piece of Mind
by Michelle Adelman
Unable to relate to people or hold a job after suffering a head injury in early childhood, talented artist Lucy is forced out of her protective Jewish home and into a New York City studio apartment with her college-age brother, where she struggles to adapt to life without a safety net.
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The Quality of Silence
by Rosamund Lupton
A beautiful astrophysicist and her precocious hearing-disabled daughter arrive in a remote part of Alaska to discover that the girl's father has been the victim of a suspicious accident, an event that prompts their dangerous search in the storm-stricken tundra.
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The Ramblers
by Aidan Donnelley Rowley
Three lost souls from Manhattan's Upper West Side, Central Park and Greenwich Village find their bond tested during the course of a fateful Thanksgiving week when emotions run high in the wake of complicated family dynamics.
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Remembrance
by Meg Cabot
Graduating from college and becoming engaged to Dr. Jesse de Silva, psychic mediator Susannah Simon accepts a guidance counselor job at her former school and is tested by a string of meddlesome ghosts, including the vengeful spirit of her ex, Paul.
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Shylock Is My Name
by Howard Jacobson
In a magnificent modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most provocative characters—Shylock—Simon Strulovitch, riddled with grief after the death of his wife, struggles with his daughter Beatrice’s betrayal of family and his daughter Jessica’s rejection of her Jewish roots.
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Tender
by Belinda McKeon
When they meet in Dublin in the late nineties, Catherine and James become close friends. She is a sheltered college student, he an adventurous, charismatic young artist. But as Catherine opens herself up, James's life becomes walled off by a truth he feels unable to share. When crisis hits, Catherine's uncontrollable feelings may jeopardize everything.
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The Vatican Princess : A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
by C. W Gortner
Told in the notorious Italian villainess' own voice, a fictionalized account covers her privileged and pampered childhood in Roman palaces to her arranged marriages, and complicated relationship with her brothers.
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The Vegetarian
by Han Kang
Deciding to go vegetarian in the wake of violent thoughts, Yeong-hye, a woman from an Asian culture of strict societal mores, is denounced as a subversive as she spirals into extreme rebelliousness that causes her to splinter from her true nature and risk her life.
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Where I Lost Her
by T. Greenwood
This page-turning and haunting new novel follows one woman's journey through heartbreak and loss to courage and resolve, as she searches for the truth about a missing child.
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The Witches of Cambridge
by Menna van Praag
Estranged from her beloved fellow witches by secrets, art-history professor Amadine wishes that her empathic abilities could extend to the mind-reading gift of her student, Noa, who considers her powers a curse and takes a reckless chance to get rid of them.
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Wreck and Order
by Hannah Tennant-Moore
A young woman, sick of her abusive boyfriend and dead-end job sets out for adventure, traveling from California to Brooklyn to Sri Lanka in search of experiences and human connections to help fill the perceived void in her life.
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The Art of War
by Stephen Coonts
Elevated to the head of the CIA when his predecessor is assassinated, Jake Grafton races against time to halt a conspiracy involving a nuclear weapon hidden by Chinese sleeper agents at Norfolk, Virginia's massive naval base.
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Back Blast
by Mark Greaney
Returning to Washington to uncover the truth about why the CIA betrayed him, former elite agent-turned-Gray Man Court Gentry discovers that the case is still very much under discussion and that he has stumbled onto a secret that powerful enemies will kill to keep.
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Betty Boo
by Claudia Pineiro
Seemingly unconnected deaths lead to the darkest secrets of the Argentine establishment. By South America's best-selling crime novelist.
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The Big Rewind
by Libby Cudmore
A noir escapade through hipster Brooklyn places aspiring music writer and amateur sleuth Jett Bennett on the hunt for a killer when she discovers the dead body of the local queen bee after accidentally receiving a mix tape meant for the victim.
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Blood Will Tell
by Jeanne M. Dams
American Anglophile Dorothy Martin tackles a tricky puzzle in the historic university town of Cambridge.
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The Blood Strand
by Chris Ould
In a thrilling new series, readers meet Jan Reyna, a British police detective. He is drawn back to the bleak Faroe Islands he left as a child when his estranged father is found unconscious, a shotgun by his side and covered in someone else's blood. This is a tense and gripping crime series written by award-winning crime scriptwriter.
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Breakdown
by Jonathan Kellerman
When an emotionally unstable actress turns up dead after a dramatic public breakdown weeks earlier, psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware assists police lieutenant Milo Sturgis with the case and wonders if there is a connection to the victim's missing daughter.
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Brotherhood in Death
by J. D. Robb
Assisting a colleague whose husband may have been attacked by an injured senator who betrayed his family and then went missing, Eve Dallas uncovers clues leading to a powerful adversary with numerous targets.
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Cat Shout for Joy
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
While expecting their new litter of kittens, Joe Grey and Dulcie become involved in investigating a human murderer who has been targeting the local elderly.
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The Cellar
by Minette Walters
Allowed a bedroom, clothing and nominally improved treatment when the teen son of the African-immigrant family that enslaves her goes missing, Muna hides her cleverness from her captors and the Scotland Yard while hatching terrible plans.
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Death of a Nurse
by M. C. Beaton
Visiting a newcomer to Sutherland who treats him rudely, Hamish MacBeth invites the man's private nurse out to dinner only to find himself investigating the young woman's suspicious death.
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The Fall of Moscow Station
by Mark Henshaw
When the Moscow Station is left in ruins after a major intelligence breach, CIA analyst Jonathan Burke and agent Kyra Stryker are fast on the trail of Alden Maines, an upper-level CIA officer whose defection coincides with the murder of the director of Russia’s Foundation for Advance Nuclear Research.
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Find Her
by Lisa Gardner
Requesting the assistance of a survivor of an extended abduction experience who has become obsessed with the cases of girls who never made it home, Boston detective D. D. Warren becomes suspicious of the woman's agenda upon discovering her relationships with other victims.
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The Fourth Horseman
by David Hagberg
When a diplomatic expert from the CIA murders the head of Pakistan's military intelligence and declares himself a messiah who will bring peace and stability to the country, former CIA director Kirk McGarvey is dispatched to assassinate the man in what has become the world's most dangerous region.
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The God's Eye View
by Barry Eisler
Working as a camera surveillance tech for a zealous security director, Evelyn stumbles on a mysterious program code connected to a string of journalist and whistle-blower deaths before finding herself and her deaf son in the crosshairs of a sadistic bomber and her boss's enforcer.
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Honky Tonk Samurai
by Joe R. Lansdale
Blackmailed into accepting a missing-persons cold case, rebel Hap and gay veteran Leonard search for their client's long-missing granddaughter, who they discover was involved in a prostitution ring.
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Hostile Witness
by Leigh Adams
When single mom and computer security specialist Kate Ford is suddenly and mysteriously put on administrative leave, she finds herself drawn into the drama of a lurid kidnapping case with ties to her company.
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If I Run
by Terri Blackstock
Casey Cox has blood on the bottom of her shoes, in her car, on her clothes, but there's no point in trying to defend herself; she just has to run.
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I'm Traveling Alone
by Samuel Bjørk
Investigating the brutal murder of a six-year-old girl found on the Norwegian countryside, veteran homicide detective Holger Munch reactivates haunted former investigator Mia Krüger, who discovers links between the case and an infant abduction years earlier.
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Interior Darkness : Selected Stories
by Peter Straub
A collection of stories from the past 25 years by the award-winning author of Lost Boy Lost Girl includes "Mr. Club and Mr. Cuff," "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine" and "Blue Rose."
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Into Oblivion : An Inspector Erlendur Novel
by Arnaldur Indriðason
A follow-up to prequel Reykjavik Nights continues the story of young 1970s detective Erlendur as he works for the shadowy Marion Briem and investigates the case of a man who may have been thrown from an airplane and the cold case disappearance of a young girl.
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Jane and the Waterloo Map
by Stephanie Barron
Rushing to the bedside of a banker relative whose health has succumbed to the financial stresses of the Battle of Waterloo, Jane encounters a dying colonel whose enigmatic final words spark her hunt for a treasure of incalculable value and a killer of formidable cunning.
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Keep Calm : A Thriller
by Mike Binder
Present at a bombing that injures the prime minister of England, a former Michigan police detective, Adam Tatum, must work to uncover the culprits who seem determined to pin the attack squarely on his shoulders.
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The Language of Secrets
by Ausma Zehanat Khan
After an informant is murdered at a training camp, Rachel Getty goes undercover in a small-town Canadian mosque to gain information on a terrorist cell planning an attack on New Year’s Day.
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Midnight Sun
by Jo Nesbø
Arriving in a quiet Norway community where locals ask few questions, a former fixer for a cruel international drug king seeks redemption while becoming the kind of man his former boss and he used to target.
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Missing Pieces
by Heather Gudenkauf
Haunted by the unsolved murder of his mother in his teens, Sarah Quinlan's husband, Jack, is forced to confront the past in the wake of a devastating accident and disturbing family questions.
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Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories
by Andrea Camilleri
This collection of 21 short stories spans the entire career of Inspector Montalbano, including his very first case when he was assigned to Vigàta as a young deputy, to “Montalbano Says No,” in which he refuses a crazy case.
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Murder of a Lady
by Anthony Wynne
Dispatched to Duchlan to investigate the mysterious murder of Mary Gregor, the sister of the laird of Duchlan who was found dead in a locked room, Inspector Dundas, along with a local amateur sleuth, must unravel the complex clues to catch a clever killer as more deaths occur, in a classic mystery that has not been reprinted since 1931.
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Murder on a Summer's Day
by Frances Brody
Amateur detective Kate Shackleton investigates the death of Maharajah Narayan, whose body was found on the Bolton Abbey hunting grounds after shooting a sacred white doe.
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No Shred of Evidence
by Charles Todd
Investigating the suspicious arrest of four young women on the north coast of Cornwall, Ian Rutledge confronts personal elements in the case while trying to balance the outrage of the accused with the grief of the victim's family.
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One Under
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train, and a teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, puzzlingly far from her home: two unrelated incidents which occupy DCI Bill Slider and his team during a slack period. But links to a cold case create doubts as to whether they are indeed unrelated.
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The Passenger
by F. R. Tallis
When the German submarine, U-471, collects two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast, ordered to transport them to the base at Brest, one of the prisoners, a British submarine commander, goes rogue, setting in motion a series of shocking, brutal events that seem to be linked to the supernatural.
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The Quality of Silence
by Rosamund Lupton
A beautiful astrophysicist and her precocious hearing-disabled daughter arrive in a remote part of Alaska to discover that the girl's father has been the victim of a suspicious accident, an event that prompts their dangerous search in the storm-stricken tundra.
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Robert B. Parker's Blackjack
by Robert Knott
Managing an influx of carpetbaggers, gamblers, thieves and other disreputables in prosperous Appaloosa, Cole and Hitch are challenged by a flashy and womanizing casino owner who proves slippery when he is implicated in a series of murders.
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Runaway
by Peter May
A failed musician looks back on the half century that has passed since he convinced four friends to run away with him as ambitious teens and is haunted by the memory of a traumatizing event while a murderer in London embarks on a nightmarish spree.
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She's Not There
by Joy Fielding
Haunted by the kidnapping of her infant 15 years earlier, Carole Shipley receives a phone call from a sweet-voiced girl claiming to be her lost daughter, an event that plunges Carole back into a world of heartbreak, suspicion and questions.
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Shoot
by Loren D Estleman
A film archivist and part-time detective is approached for help by his favorite Western film actor—who is being blackmailed over a print of an early and scandalous film made by his late wife, threatening her wholesome legacy.
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The Silence of the Sea : A Thriller
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Thora Gudmundsdottir searches for a missing family when a luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbor as a completely abandoned ghost ship.
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Thicker Than Water
by Sally Spencer
DCI Monika Paniatowski is only just back from maternity leave when she is called in to investigate the murder of a mother of three small children. Her husband is a wealthy politician, and the prime suspect. Following a nasty twist the investigation is suddenly national news. Monika's sure she has the right man--but how to prove it?
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Trade Secrets
by David Wishart
May, AD 41. The emperor Claudius has acceded to the throne, and Rome's citizens look forward to an era of peace. Not so Marcus Corvinus however, who finds himself investigating two murders in this intriguing, witty and irreverent new mystery.
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Violent Crimes
by Phillip Margolin
Hired to represent the eco-warrior son of an oil tycoon who has been found murdered, veteran lawyer Amanda Jaffe, discovering that the suspect has only confessed to promote a cause, endeavors to discover the identity of the true killer.
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Wedding Cake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Preparing for her nuptials to college crush Ross Barton, Hannah Swensen is delighted by her successful participation in a Food Channel dessert contest and prepares to be judged by a harsh celebrity chef who turns up dead at Lake Eden Inn.
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What Remains of Me
by Alison Gaylin
After serving time for the murder of an Oscar-nominated director when she was still a teen, Kelly Michelle Lund is suspected in another, similar murder, 35 years after being released, and must work to clear her name.
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The Widow
by Fiona Barton
After Jean's husband dies, the community wants to know the real truth about the crime he was suspected of—but Jean has secrets of her own.
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The Witches of Cambridge
by Menna van Praag
Estranged from her beloved fellow witches by secrets, art-history professor Amadine wishes that her empathic abilities could extend to the mind-reading gift of her student, Noa, who considers her powers a curse and takes a reckless chance to get rid of them.
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The Wolves
by Alex Berenson
Determined to bring an insidious war instigator to justice, John Wells confronts obstacles in the form of political resistance, CIA agendas and meddling by foreign interests before embarking on a high-risk solo mission.
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The Friends We Keep
by Susan Mallery
While Gabby Schaefer reels in the face of crushing news that has thwarted her plans to return to work, Hayley Batchelor pursues high-risk fertility treatments and Nicole Lord fears falling in love after emerging from a divorce from a man who barely touched her heart.
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The Hunter
by Kerrigan Byrne
When he is hired to kill beautiful actress Millie LeCour, Christopher Argent, London's deadliest hitman, is unable to complete his mission as he becomes overwhelmed by the passion that simmers between them, and vows to keep her safe from her enemies as danger closes in.
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Lady Bridget's Diary
by Maya Rodale
American heiress Lady Bridget Cavendish keeps a diary that documents her disastrous attempts to assimilate in London high society, her adoration of the dashing rogue next door, her hatred for the Dreadful Lord Darcy and some scandalous secrets that could ruin them all.
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Taking Fire
by Cindy Gerard
When he is reunited with Talia Levine, the war correspondent who played him for a fool and broke his heart six years earlier, military contractor Bobby Taggart, on a covert security mission for the U.S. Embassy in Oman, must place his feelings aside to save her from the dangerous forces closing in on them both.
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Three Promises
by Lily Everett
Available for the first time in print, the popular e-novellas starring billionaire bachelors who made a pact to enjoy the single life forever, follows these three men as they change their minds about matrimony with a little help from Sanctuary Island magic.
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A Gathering of Shadows
by Victoria Schwab
Experiencing ominous dreams four months after the events of A Darker Shade of Magic, Kell watches Red London excitedly preparing for the Element Games international magic competition only to realize that the threat of Black London is returning.
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Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
by Lois McMaster Bujold
While Admiral Oliver is caught up in renewal plans by the widowed Cordelia, investigator Miles Vorkosigan examines the mystery surrounding his own mother.
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Kingfisher
by Patricia A. McKillip
After the son of a sorceress discovers the truth about his father, a knight in the court of King Arden, who had a destructive infatuation with the queen, he sets out towards Severluna to help restore the kingdom to its former glory.
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Version Control
by Dexter Palmer
A woman deals with a strange and persistent sense of everything being slightly off, which may or may not be related to her scientist husband’s pet project, a “causality violation device” that might actually be working.
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