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Just for Thrills November 2020
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A beautiful crime
by 1975- Bollen, Christopher
A Beautiful Crime is a twisty grifter novel with a thriller running through its veins. But it is also a meditation on love, class, race, sexuality, and the legacy of bohemian culture.
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Black water rising
by Attica Locke
When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
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Cari Mora
by 1940- Harris, Thomas
Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.
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I've got my eyes on you : a novel
by Mary Higgins Clark
When an 18-year-old girl is found murdered at the bottom of her family's pool, her older sister, a guidance counselor, rules out the chief suspects and teams up with the Prosecutor's Office to uncover the truth, unaware that doing so is putting her own life at risk. By the best-selling author of As Time Goes By.
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Indian killer
by 1966- Alexie, Sherman
Dubbed the "Indian Killer, a serial killer stalks the streets of Seattle, taking the scalps of white male victims, and thrusts the city's Native American community into turmoil and John Smith, an Indian raised by a white family, into the investigation.
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Run away
by 1962- Coben, Harlan
After discovering his drug-addicted daughter Paige, who he has not seen in six months, panhandling in Central Park, Simon follows her into a dark and dangerous world he never knew existed that puts his family and his life on the line.
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The banker's wife
by Cristina Alger
When her husband disappears after a plane crash in the stormy Swiss Alps, Annabel Lerner determines that his death was no accident, and that she is now in the crosshairs of his powerful enemies.
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The chalk man
by C. J. Tudor
Three decades after his circle of friends is traumatized by the discovery of a murder victim while passing secret messages through a chalk-figure code of their invention, Eddie finds himself targeted by an unknown adversary who is using their former communication methods to torment and kill his friends.
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The child finder
by Rene Denfeld
Hired by a family that has become desperate to find the young daughter who went missing three years earlier, a talented private investigator embarks on a search in a mysterious forest in the Pacific Northwest, where she is forced to confront painful realities from her own past as a lost child.
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The flight attendant : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
A binge-drinking flight attendant wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a dead body and sneaks back to her work, telling a series of lies that complicate her ability to figure out what really happened. By the best-selling author of Midwives.
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The kill club
by Wendy Heard
Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother.
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Two girls down
by Louisa Luna
Hired by the devastated mother of two young girls who have gone missing from a small Pennsylvania town strip mall, enigmatic bounty hunter Alice Vega is rebuffed by the overextended local police and partners with disgraced former cop, Max Caplan, on a case involving a dangerous web of lies, false leads and complex relationships.
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