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All That's Left to Tell
by Daniel Lowe
A mid-level executive who has been taken hostage in Karachi interacts exclusively with a mysterious woman who confronts him about his murdered daughter before engaging him in a nightly storytelling ritual imagining how his life might have unfolded had the girl not been killed.
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Always
by Sarah Jio
Encountering a ragged homeless man on her way to a romantic dinner with her fiancé, Kailey Crane discovers that the man is the ex she never got over and confronts an impossible choice against a backdrop of the 1990s music scene in Seattle.
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The Bertie Project
by Alexander McCall Smith
The return of his overbearing mother and other local dramas compel Bertie to consider moving away from Scotland Street, where newfound love, an estranged marriage and a high-profile guest render his grandmother's home a tempting alternative.
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The Blue Hour
by Laura Pritchett
The tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside.
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
by Jennifer Ryan
Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.
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The Dark Flood Rises
by Margaret Drabble
Driven to live life to its fullest while she still can, a housing expert for the elderly balances her challenging career with the cares of her loved ones, in a tale that juxtaposes her interconnected social circle in England against her contacts in an idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands.
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The Dressmaker's Dowry
by Meredith Jaeger
A modern-day writer in San Francisco stumbles across the story of a local, immigrant dressmaker in 1876 who disappeared under mysterious circumstances and who may be connected to her through an heirloom engagement ring in her husband’s family.
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The Evening Road
by Laird Hunt
In the summer of 1920 in small-town Indiana, two extraordinary women—beautiful Ottie Lee Henshaw and Calla Destry, a young black woman—cross paths and they soon move through an America plagued by fear and hatred, determined to flee the secrets they have left behind.
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Everything Belongs to Us
by Yoojin Grace Wuertz
Attending the elite Seoul National University in 1970s South Korea during the final years of a repressive and transformative regime, a tycoon's daughter and her impoverished best friend are drawn to a social-climbing boy who would find his place in a cutthroat world.
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Forever Is the Worst Long Time
by Camille Pagán
A tale of love and loss, with some unexpected twists along the way. When James Hernandez first meets Louisa "Lou" Bell, he instantly falls in love with her. Only trouble is, she's engaged to his best friend, Rob. When Lou and Rob's relationship begins to waver, James can't help but be there for Lou, attempting to rationalize away his betrayal of his childhood friend.
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The Fortunate Ones
by Ellen M. Umansky
One very special work of art—a Chaim Soutine painting—will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in a debut novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.
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Ghachar Ghochar
by Vivka Shanabhga
Follows the changing dynamics of an impoverished Bangalorean family who lived in a bug-infested shack until their family’s spice company became an overnight success and ushered them into a new way of life and a brand new set of challenges.
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The Horseman
by Tim Pears
The first book of a new trilogy follows the lives of an English farmer and his family on Lord Prideaux’s estate as at the start of WWI in 1911.
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If I Could Tell You
by Elizabeth Wilhide
Unexpectedly falling in love on the eve of World War II, a Suffolk pianist, wife and mother finds herself cut off and accompanies her lover, a documentary and propaganda filmmaker, during the harrowing years of the Blitz.
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Miranda and Caliban
by Jacqueline Carey
A fantastical retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest is told from the perspective of the daughter of a powerful magus, who grows up in protective isolation before finding solace and companionship with the bewitched feral youth who serves her father.
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The Mother's Promise
by Sally Hepworth
A dying single mother reaches out to her oncology nurse and social worker for help protecting her troubled teen daughter, forging a unit that bonds the four women together and challenges them to confront their sharpest fears and secrets.
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My Not So Perfect Life
by Sophie Kinsella
After being unexpectedly fired by, Demeter Farlowe, her brilliant and creative boss, Katie Brenner retreats to her family's farm to help them set up a vacation business, but when Demeter shows up out of the blue, Katie has a new chance at re-evaluating—and resetting—her life.
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On Turpentine Lane
by Elinor Lipman
Living a mostly peaceful existence in her small suburban hometown where she struggles to ignore the dysfunctional people in her life, Faith discovers mysterious artifacts that make her question a promising new relationship and everything she believes.
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The Orphan's Tale
by Pam Jenoff
A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II introduces two women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival.
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.
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A Piece of the World
by Christina Baker Kline
Tells the story of Christina Olson, who served as the host and inspiration for artist Andrew Wyeth, despite an incapacitating illness. By the New York Times best-selling author of Orphan Train.
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The Sisters of Sugarcreek
by Cathy Liggett
In the aftermath of a local church fire, a trio of unlikely friends take it upon themselves to bring hope to their Ohio community of Sugarcreek, one anonymously delivered care package at a time.
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Sweet Lake
by Christine Nolfi
Everyone in Sweet Lake, Ohio, a small town slowly dying out, wants Linnie Wayfair to muster all her business sense and return the local Wayfair Inn to its former glory. But knowing just how many people are counting on you doesn’t make doing any easier.
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Swimming Lessons
by Claire Fuller
Returning home to care for her aging father 12 years after her mother's disappearance, Flora discovers that before she went missing, her mother wrote letters to her father about their marriage and hid them among his thousands of books.
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To the Farthest Shores
by Elizabeth Camden
Six years after breaking army nurse Jenny Bennett's heart, Naval officer Ryan Gallagher reappears in her life, refusing to explain why he left, but Ryan remains determined to win Jenny back in spite of the fact that he cannot talk about his secret government mission.
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August Snow
by Stephen Mack Jones
Murder, corruption, dirty money and racial politics come to a bloody head in the bankrupt city of Detroit.
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The Bogus Bondsman
by Paul Colt
1878. A Pinkerton operative signs on with a rival concern just in time to catch a case that will pit him against a resourceful gang of swindlers—and one of his former Pinkerton colleagues.
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Bone Box
by Faye Kellerman
When Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods near her upstate New York community, her husband, police detective Peter Decker, becomes embroiled in a series of gruesome, decades-old unsolved murders.
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A Cast of Vultures
by Judith Flanders
A wild post-launch party culminates in an elaborate mystery involving missing neighbors, suspected arson and an unidentified murder victim that pits editor Sam Clair, Inspector Jake Field and her goth assistant against wacky adversaries.
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The Crow Trap
by Ann Cleeves
First U.S. publication of the first book in the popular series that inspired the television mystery: the leader of an environmental survey struggles to manage the schemes of her rival team members. Then a suspicious suicide occurs and the unconventional detective inspector Vera Stanhope is assigned to the case.
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Cruel Mercy
by David John Mark
A first U.S. case for Detective Sergeant McAvoy finds the British investigator assisting the NYPD in the aftermath of a shooting attack that killed a promising young boxer and left his legendary coach in a coma.
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The Dalliance of Leopards
by Stephen Alter
In this sequel to The Rataban Betrayal, Colonel Afridi and his sidekick, agent Annapurna Anna Tagore, pursue an elusive warlord known as Guldaar, who, with the support of the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI, has built an illicit empire in the Himalayan borderlands based on kickbacks, money laundering, corruption, and murder.
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A Death in the Dales
by Frances Brody
When a solitary witness to a murder dies before exonerating a man wrongly convicted of the crime, amateur sleuth Kate Shackleton embarks on a holiday with her niece, only to uncover another suspicious death and an illicit affair.
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Death of a Ghost
by M. C. Beaton
Spending an investigative night at a local castle reputed to be haunted, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth and his policeman associate, Clumsy, discover a dead body that suddenly goes missing.
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The Dime
by Kathleen Kent
Betty Rhyzyk, Brooklyn's toughest female police detective, relocates to rough-and-tumble Dallas, Texas, where she must contend with a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization and an unsupportive girlfriend.
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A Divided Spy
by Charles Cumming
Former MI6 officer Thomas Kell takes the law into his own hands when an unexpected chance at revenge compels him to track a top Russian spy in possession of a terrifying secret, only to find himself embroiled in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse.
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The Fifth Element
by Jørgen Brekke
Imprisoned on an island off the coast of Norway, Police Inspector Odd Singsaker wakes up with a gun in his hand next to a dead body and tries to reconstruct what happened and how it may be related to his estranged wife, a corrupt Oslo cop, a drug-stealing college student and a hit man.
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The Freedom Broker
by K. J. Howe
Kidnap-and-rescue negotiator Thea Paris' worst nightmare comes true when her father is kidnapped and the only way to rescue him may involve an unthinkable sacrifice.
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Garden of Lamentations
by Deborah Crombie
While Gemma James investigates the murder of a young nanny who appears to be one of a series of victims, Duncan Kincaid uncovers disturbing information about seemingly unrelated cases that may be putting his friends and family into mortal danger.
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The German
by James Patrick Hunt
Kurt Miller is released from prison after serving a thirteen-month sentence for a crime he didn't commit. Prior to his arrest, Miller had been an intelligence agent and analyst for the BND, Germany’s federal intelligence agency. Upon his release, Miller returns to Hamburg and, finding that all he has treasured is gone, begins to hunt for the people who framed him.
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Gunmetal Gray
by Mark Greaney
Investigating an attempt on his life after his return to the CIA, Court Gentry follows clues to an old friend, who has been taken hostage by the Chinese for his role in tracking down an insider from a Chinese covert computer warfare unit.
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Heartbreak Hotel
by Jonathan Kellerman
Surprised by a nearly 100-year-old new client who refuses to explain the reason she needs his services at their first session, Alex Delaware is shocked by the woman's subsequent murder and teams up with detective Milo Sturgis to investigate her mysterious life and death.
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I See You
by Clare Mackintosh
Spotting her own picture in a classified ad referencing a mysterious website, Zoe discovers that other women who have appeared in the ad have become the victims of increasingly violent crimes.
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The Last Night at Tremore Beach
by Mikel Santiago
Taking shelter on an isolated Irish beach to work through a creative crisis, Peter is struck by lightning and begins to suffer headaches and nightmares that blur his perceptions of reality and warn him of imminent danger.
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The Lost Book of the Grail
by Charles C. Lovett
An obsessive bibliophile and Holy Grail fanatic combs through centuries of history to uncover a long-lost secret about the medieval Barchester Cathedral library at the side of a young American charged with digitizing the library's manuscripts.
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A Measure of Murder
by Leslie Karst
Joining her boyfriend's choir while planning the autumn menu for her family restaurant, Sally Solari investigates the suspicious falling death of a choir member, only to have the restaurant targeted as she begins to expose dangerous truths.
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Most Dangerous Place
by James Grippando
When an old school friend's wife is accused of murdering the man who had assaulted her, Jack Swyteck finds the case unexpectedly complicated, in a thriller based on true events.
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Murder at an Irish Wedding
by Carlene O'Connor
The O’Sullivan clan of County Cork, Ireland, are thrilled to be catering the matrimonial affairs of a celebrity couple—until a cunning killer turns an Irish wedding into an Irish wake.
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The Murder of Willie Lincoln
by Burt Solomon
When a devastated 16th President enlists him to investigate a sinister message that Lincoln's beloved son, Willie, did not die from natural causes, aide John Hay infiltrates the loftiest and lowest corners of Washington City for answers that pit him against political adversaries.
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Old Bones
by Trudy Nan Boyce
When a peaceful demonstration at a black women's college is thrown into chaos by a racially motivated drive-by shooting, detective Sara Alt investigates a nearby murder only to discover that the victim is someone she arrested two years earlier.
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Racing the Devil
by Charles Todd
A year after a band of World War I veterans agrees to hide the details of a reckless driving incident, a fatal crash is investigated by Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge, who combs through dangerous secrets to identify a killer.
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Robert B. Parker's Revelation
by Robert Knott
When a particularly intimidating criminal and his cold-blooded posse escape from prison, Cole and Hitch join their Territorial lawmen team to capture the fugitives and rescue a woman who was kidnapped during the escape.
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Rush of Blood
by Mark Billingham
After meeting while vacationing in Florida, three British couples stay in touch and discover in each other increasingly unsavory secrets, kinks and vices, which may have something to do with the murder of a teenager who stayed at the same resort.
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Shining City
by Tom Rosenstiel
The president of the United States hires fixer Peter Rena to vet his nominee for the Supreme Court.
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Spook Street
by Mick Herron
What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secrets? These are the questions River Cartwright asks himself as his grandfather, a Cold War-era operative, starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services to watch him.
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Swiss Vendetta
by Tracee De Hahn
Transferring to the Violent Crime unit in the aftermath of her husband's death, Swiss-American police inspector Agnes Lüthi investigates her first homicide case in the stabbing death of an auction house appraiser who had been working in a medieval chateau filled with priceless works of art.
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Waking Lions
by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Fleeing the scene after accidentally running down an African migrant whose widow makes an impossible demand for his silence, a neurosurgeon with a seemingly idyllic life resorts to extreme lengths to save his family and reputation.
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Between the Devil and the Duke
by Kelly Bowen
When he catches Angelique Archer counting cards at his vingt-et-un table, club owner Alexander Lavoie gives this blonde beauty an offer she can't refuse—until their business arrangement turns into a game of love that neither of them want to lose.
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Devil in Spring
by Lisa Kleypas
Strong-willed Lady Pandora Ravenel meets her match in Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, one of London's most notorious—yet irresistible—rakes.
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The Duke
by Kerrigan Byrne
A nurse by day, but a fallen woman and a spy by night, Imogen Pritchard is thrown back together with the Duke of Trenwyth, the man who seduced her on the job years ago, and is forced to play a dangerous game for both her heart—and her life.
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A Lady's Code of Misconduct
by Meredith Duran
Facing an unwanted marriage and the theft of her fortune, Jane Mason, done with being agreeable, strikes a devil’s bargain with the most dangerous man she knows and soon they find salvation—and passion—in each other’s arms.
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One More Kiss
by Samantha Chase
Matt Reed was living the dream, until a bad career move sends him back to his hometown for much-needed privacy, but then he stumbles upon Vivienne Forrester, the woman whose steamy kiss he remembers like it was yesterday.
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Sinful Scottish Laird
by Julia London
In the idyllic Scottish Highlands, a young widow puts her sexy suitors to the test.
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Under Her Skin
by Adriana Anders
Caught between a brutal past and an uncertain future, Uma is reluctant to bare herself to anyone...much less a rough ex-con. But beneath his frightening exterior, Ivan is gentle, compassionate and just as determined to heal Uma's broken heart as he is to destroy the monster who left his mark scrawled across the delicate tapestry of her skin.
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Unstrung
by Laura Spinella
Years ago, Olivia fell in love with Sam. Their impulsive marriage imploded with a fateful car crash and harsh parting words. Now Sam is back, wanting her forgiveness and to recapture their volatile love affair. Olivia is torn between rekindling romance and saving her marriage. To her surprise, it’s the presence of the young music teacher—and the lessons from a reckless past—that may bring harmony to Olivia’s off-key life
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Echoes In Death
by J. D. Robb
Rescuing a severely traumatized survivor of a violent house invasion that ended the life of her obsessive husband, New York lieutenant Eve Dallas makes unsettling discoveries about the victim while struggling to piece together baffling clues about the killer.
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Humans, Bow Down
by James Patterson
Surviving a terrible war between the victorious Robots and defeated humans who must submit to their new rulers or be banished to the desolate Reserve, Six, a feisty young survivor, launches a rebellion to save the human race.
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Revenger
by Alastair Reynolds
Joining the crew of Captain Rackamore—who, in a galaxy that has seen great empires rise and fall, believes there are vast fortunes to be made if you know where to find them—Adrana and Fura Ness, determined to save their family from bankruptcy, soon discover that there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune.
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Winter of the Gods
by Jordanna Max Brodsky
This stellar follow-up to The Immortals finds a disgruntled Selene DiSilva (Artemis) assisting the NYPD when a high-profile murder victim is discovered on Wall Street's Charging Bull statue. An outstanding series for those who enjoy mythology and/or New York City.
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The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death
by Kim Harrison
An official prequel to the best-selling series finds Trisk and her hated rival, Kal, rendered fugitives after a world-saving experiment gone wrong gives way to the rise of a paranormal species that wages war against a weaker human race.
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