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Abundance
by Jakob Guanzon
Recently released from prison for dealing opioids and living in a pickup truck, a father and son try to get their lives back on track, but are hindered after a parking lot altercation sends them fleeing into the night.
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The Affair
by Danielle Steel
A fashion magazine executive navigates a scandal involving her son-in-law's affair with a Hollywood actress, while her daughters support each other through infidelity, commitment issues and personal secrets.
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Antonio
by Beatriz Bracher
On the verge of fatherhood, Benjamin discovers a family secret involving patrimony and determines to find out how it happened. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three closest confidantes are still alive-and each will tell him different versions of the facts. Only by collecting these shards of memories will Benjamin piece together the painful puzzle of his family history.
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Are We There Yet?
by Kathleen West
A mother who has used social media to pass judgment on others faces her own reckoning when her children are accused of poor school performance and bullying, causing her to become targeted online in friendship-polarizing ways.
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The Arsonists' City
by Hala Alyan
The scattered members of a Middle-Eastern clan unite at an ancestral home in Beirut to change a new patriarch's decision to sell the property, igniting revelations about their family's past in Lebanon, Syria and the United States.
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The Art of Losing
by Alice Zeniter
The Algerian-French daughter of a man who claims he does not remember the past discovers her heritage when her grandmother's return to their native home reveals their family's secret past and the inescapable legacies of colonialism.
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Band of Sisters
by Lauren Willig
Eschewed by her wealthy graduated classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs.
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Big Time: Stories
by Jen Spyra
A debut collection by a Late Show with Stephen Colbert staff writer shares dark, satirical tales starring such protagonists as a desperate bride who enrolls in an unconventional weight-loss program and a lonely snowman who comes monstrously to life.
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Brood
by Jackie Polzin
An unnamed narrator recounts her year-long attempt to overcome a loss while taking pains to safeguard four chickens from challenges ranging from predators and an interfering mother to a tornado and a brutal Minnesota winter.
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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
by Jamie Figueroa
After their mother’s death, two siblings in a tourist town deal with depression and try to make enough money performing for the wealthy visitors to afford a plane ticket out while dealing with the ghosts of their ancestors.
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Call It Horses
by Jessie Van Eerden
In the twilight of the eighties, three women—niece, aunt, and stowaway—each separately haunted, set out in an Oldsmobile Royale for the desert of Georgia O’Keeffe, seeking an escape from everything they’ve known.
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Captain Putnam for the Republic of Texas
by James L. Haley
Ready to retire with his wife in Connecticut, Captain Putnam is drawn into the Texas Revolution by President Andrew Jackson, who asks him to lead a secret mission in the latest novel of the series.
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Cloudmaker
by Malcolm Brooks
Secretly building an airplane during the summer of Amelia Earhart’s final flight, a young tinkerer and an aspiring pilot discover a body that is wearing a rare Lindbergh flight watch.
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Creatures of Passage
by Morowa Yejidé
In a reimagined, 1970s Washington, DC, Nephthys Kinwell ferries passengers in a haunted Plymouth and grieves over the death of her twin brother who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River. Unknown to Nephthys, her great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that same river, and soon she will have to find a way to placate the dead and rescue the living.
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Destined for You
by Tracie Peterson
A smallpox survivor who would protect her family and a railroad manager whose reunion with a brother is shattered by an act of vengeance find comfort and support in each other.
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The Eagle and the Viper
by Loren D. Estleman
In this reimagining of history, a failed Christmas Eve assassination attempt targeting Napoleon Bonaparte takes an ominous turn when an evolving conspiracy brings the world to the brink of total war.
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Edie Richter Is Not Alone
by Rebecca Handler
A debut novel set in the early 2000s about an idiosyncratic woman with a shocking secret whose father has just died. Leaving her family in San Francisco, she moves to Perth, Australia with her husband where instead of starting over, she is forced by the new neighbors, wildlife, and landscape, to confront her own past.
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Eternal
by Lisa Scottoline
An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy.
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Facing the Dawn
by Cynthia Ruchti
Mara Jacobs does her best to hold everything together, despite three detention-prone kids, an unrewarding job, never-ending chores, and a husband thousands of miles away. After a shocking loss, she must lean on those around her to find her way to healing and renewed faith.
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Foregone
by Russell Banks
A septuagenarian leftist documentary filmmaker gives a last interview from his mythologized life to a former star student to whom he discloses his experiences as a draft dodger who fled to a new life in Montreal.
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Good Eggs
by Rebecca Hardiman
Three generations of a boisterous Irish family are upended by a matriarch’s shoplifting activities and an upbeat American home aide whose initial support catapults the family into the worst crisis they have ever faced.
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How Beautiful We Were
by Imbolo Mbue
A young revolutionary risks everything to secure her people’s freedom when her small African village is decimated by an American oil company that reneges on promises of reparation.
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Half Life
by Jillian Cantor
A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices.
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Infinite Country
by Patricia Engel
Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogatá.
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Waiting to be chosen by a customer, an Artificial Friend programmed with high perception observes the activities of shoppers while exploring fundamental questions about what it means to love.
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The Lamplighters
by Emma Stonex
A haunting debut novel, based on true events, follows the experiences of three wives on a remote Cornish Coast tower when their lighthouse-keeper husbands go mysteriously missing.
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Libertie
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Coming of age as a free-born Black woman in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson struggles against her mother’s medical aspirations for her when she finds herself more drawn to a musical career that could compromise her autonomy.
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Life after Death
by Souljah
The long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Coldest Winter Ever continues the gritty experiences of Winter Santiaga, now out of prison and determined to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father's empire, and get her man back into her life.
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The Lost Apothecary
by Sarah Penner
Secretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries.
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The Lowering Days
by Gregory Brown
Growing up in a riverside region of 1980s Maine, three brothers from the Penobscot Nation find their childhood innocence shattered by a nearby paper mill fire that divides their community.
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A Man at Arms
by Steven Pressfield
A jaded legionary from the first century AD Roman Empire is confronted by an inexplicable event when intercepts a suspected fanatic’s letter to insurrectionists in Corinth.
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Meant to be
by Jude Deveraux
The award-winning author presents a latest historical family saga chronicling the lives and loves of three generations of women in a small Kansas community.
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The Memory Collectors
by Kim Neville
A woman who can sense the emotions people leave behind on objects and a woman who hoards such items meet and try to avoid the dark effects which took over a third person with similar powers.
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Mrs. Wiggins
by Mary Monroe
Follows the experiences of a woman from an at-risk family who marries a preacher to establish a safer life before discovering her husband’s desperate secret.
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My Heart
by Semezdin Mehmedinović
An intimate work of autobiographical fiction traces the experiences of a writer who, in the wake of a life-risking heart attack, reevaluates his past as a member of a Bosnian war refugee family.
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The Path to Sunshine Cove
by RaeAnne Thayne
The daughter of parents who died under traumatizing circumstances reevaluates her life on the road when she unexpectedly falls in love and reconnects with her sister, whose marriage has crumbled in the wake of a devastating diagnosis.
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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
by Laura Imai Messina
The international bestselling novel about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected "wind phone" that has become a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami.
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Raft of Stars
by Andrew J. Graff
Fleeing into the woods believing that they have accidentally murdered an abusive parent, two young boys, unaware that they have become the focus of a desperate search, navigate dangerous natural threats in their effort to survive.
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Red Island House
by Andrea Lee
The National Book Award-nominated author presents a tale of love and identity that follows two decades in a marriage between an African-American professor and her wealthy Italian husband in tropical Madagascar.
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The Rose Code
by Kate Quinn
Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy’s dangerous agenda against a backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
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The Scapegoat
by Sara Davis
Investigating the suspicious death of his estranged father at a hotel that was once the site of a Spanish mission, a California university employee begins experiencing hallucinatory daydreams as his academic colleagues turn increasingly hostile.
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The Seed Keeper
by Diane Wilson
Spanning several generations, this is a moving meditation on connections to the past and a reverence for the land, as a Dakota family struggles to preserve their way of life, and sacrifices to protect what matters most.
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Sparks Like Stars
by Nadia Hashimi
Adopted from Afghanistan 40 years earlier by an American diplomat in the aftermath of a coup and assassination, Aryana has a chance encounter with the soldier who saved her life and killed her family.
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Sunflower Sisters
by Martha Hall Kelly
Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey, an ancestor of Caroline Ferriday, travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.
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Three O'Clock in the Morning
by Gianrico Carofiglio
Visiting Marseilles to seek medical care, an estranged father and his epileptic son endure two caffeine-imbued nights of bonding in the culturally rich city while encountering a diverse array of remarkable locals.
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Vera
by Carol Edgarian
Narrowly surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a bordello proprietor’s daughter bonds with an unlikely new family, from a Chinese clan and an orphan caregiver to tenor Enrico Caruso and tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels.
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We Begin at the End
by Chris Whitaker
A guilt-ridden police chief and a tough-as-nails woman who was forced to support her family as a girl work together to protect loved ones when the latter’s father is released after 30 years in prison.
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What's Mine and Yours
by Naima Coster
Integrated into a predominantly white high school, an anxious young Black student and a half-Latina whose mother would have her pass as white join a bridge-building school play that shapes the trajectory of their adult lives.
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Wild Women and the Blues
by Denny S. Bryce
In an award-winning debut novel, a sharecropper’s daughter navigates celebrity encounters, bootlegging and gangster activities in Jazz Age Chicago before sharing her story with a grieving film student nearly a century later.
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2034: A Novel of the Next World War
by Elliot Ackerman
Two former military officers and award-winning authors present a near-future geopolitical thriller that depicts a naval clash between America and Asia in the South China Sea of 2034.
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Becoming Inspector Chen
by Xiaolong Qiu
In the superior 11th novel featuring Shanghai policeman and poet Chen Cao, the Inspector navigates the perilous waters of conducting investigations without running afoul of party leaders.
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The Beirut Protocol
by Joel C. Rosenberg
Abducted by Hezbollah forces while trying to secure the Israeli-Lebanon border for a long-awaited peace agreement, Special Agent Marcus Ryker navigates delicate political challenges to prevent his own broadcasted execution.
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The Bone Code
by Kathy Reichs
The twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. An absorbing look at the sinister uses to which genetics can be put.
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The Bounty
by Janet Evanovich
Straitlaced FBI agent Kate O'Hare and international con man Nick Fox reluctantly team up with the fathers who taught them everything they know to prevent a shadowy international organization from claiming a fortune in Nazi gold.
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By Way of Sorrow
by Robyn Gigl
Erin McCabe is a New Jersey criminal defense attorney doing her best to live a quiet life in the wake of profound personal change—until a newsworthy case puts both her career and safety in jeopardy.
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City of Fallen Angels
by Paul Buchanan
Set in 1962 Los Angeles, Buchanan’s debut introduces Jim Keegan, a journalist turned private investigator who refuses a small fortune to find a beautiful woman from a set of photographs as the job seems suspicious.
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The Consequences of Fear
by Jacqueline Winspear
Entreated by a witness nobody believes to investigate a murder, Maisie Dobbs uncovers a conspiracy with devastating implications for Britain’s war effort during the Nazi occupation of Europe.
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The Committed
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer finds the unnamed “man of two minds” and his blood brother dealing drugs in 1980s Paris, where he navigates the worlds of privileged clients while trying to reconcile two politically polarized friends.
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Danger in Numbers
by Heather Graham
Investigating a ritualistic murder in a small north Florida community, an agent from the State police reluctantly partners with an FBI cult specialist to uncover dark local secrets and the violent activities of a doomsday prep group.
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The Dark Heart of Florence
by Tasha Alexander
While Colin teams up with a fellow agent to investigate a series of burglaries at his daughter’s palazzo in Florence, Lady Emily secretly launches an inquiry into the falling death of a man in Tuscany.
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Dark Sky
by C. J. Box
Reluctantly accompanying a Silicon Valley tech baron on an elk hunting trip, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds himself defending his high-profile charge from a vengeful sharpshooter.
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Death Grip
by Elaine Viets
Chouteau County death investigator, Angela Richman, goes up against the wealthy residents of Chouteau Forest, a town of privilege and secrets, to bring the killer of a popular Forest High track star to justice.
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Double Jeopardy
by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington launches an investigation in coastal Maine, where he confronts high-connected and well-funded family enemies hiding in plain sight among the region’s stately houses and private clubs.
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Every Vow You Break
by Peter Swanson
A bride’s dream honeymoon with her beloved millionaire groom is upended by the appearance of an obsessive one-night stand who would claim her for himself.
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Fast Ice
by Clive Cussler
Investigating the disappearance of a NUMA colleague on the icebergs of Antarctica, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are confronted by a radical environmentalist who would use a Nazi-era weapon to usher in a new Ice Age.
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Fatal Intent
by Tammy Euliano
Backed into a corner, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey must prove her innocence when she is implicated in the suspicious deaths of her elderly patients and as she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to choose which of her loved ones to save —and which must be sacrificed.
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Fresh Brewed Murder
by Emmeline Duncan
Sage Caplin, owner of the Ground Rules coffee truck in Portland, investigates after she discovers a man’s body with his throat slashed in front of her business while trying to keep her estranged, con-artist mother at bay.
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Haunted Hibiscus
by Laura Childs
When their literary haunted house costume party is disrupted by an untimely double attack, Indigo Tea Shop proprietress Theodosia Browning and her sommelier, Drayton, investigate suspects including a man with a claim to the Bouchard Mansion property.
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Her Dark Lies
by J. T. Ellison
Disregarding messages from an anonymous texter who claims her fiancé is not the man he pretends to be, Claire travels to Italy for her destination wedding before harrowing discoveries and accidents expose ominous family secrets.
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The Hiding Place
by Paula Munier
When the man who killed her grandfather breaks out of prison to target her grandmother, Mercy investigates long-buried family scandals while battling a former canine handler to retain her partnership with Elvis.
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Infinite
by Brian Freeman
Surviving the accident that killed his wife, Dylan begins experiencing bizarre hallucinations of himself before encountering an unfamiliar psychiatrist who claims they have been engaging in parallel-universe hypnotherapy treatments.
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The Jigsaw Man
by Nadine Matheson
Serial Crimes Unit DI Anjelica Henley races to stop a copycat killer and prevent her own death before the ruthless murderer who is being imitated takes matters into his own hands.
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Later
by Stephen King
Jamie Conklin, a boy born with an unnatural ability to see and learn things no one else can, is enlisted to help an NYPD detective pursue a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
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The Lost Village
by Camilla Sten
Obsessed with the vanishing residents of an old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt and her crew set up camp and are soon plagued by strange events that makes them realize they are not alone.
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A Matter of Life and Death
by Phillip Margolin
Rising attorney Robin Lockwood takes the death-penalty case of a homeless father who has been set up for the murder of a prominent judge’s wife.
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Not Dark Yet
by Peter Robinson
Investigating the murder of a property developer in Yorkshire, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his team begin scanning the victim’s security tapes only to discover that a brutal second crime was also captured.
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On Harrow Hill
by John Verdon
Approached by a former colleague for help solving the death of a prominent community resident, retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney finds the limits of his analytic skills tested by a murderer who may be working from beyond the grave.
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The Other Emily
by Dean R. Koontz
Haunted by the unsolved disappearance of the love of this life a decade earlier, writer David Thorne visits her suspected killer in prison before meeting a woman who uncannily resembles the person he lost.
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The Palm Beach Murders
by James Patterson
Three stories from the world’s best-selling author include the tale of a pair of divorcees who begin a strangely intense game of make-believe and a popular advertising exec who notices the people around him are being murdered.
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The Red Book
by James Patterson
Launching an investigation of his own when his instincts tell him that more is behind a political shooting on Chicago’s west side, SOS Detective Billy Harney uncovers a spate of murders connected to his troubled past.
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Red Widow
by Alma Katsu
Recruited by the CIA’s Chief of the Russian Division amid rumors of a department mole, former Moscow Field Station handler Lyndsey Duncan teams up with a murdered director’s widow to expose a life-threatening web of secrets.
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The Sharpest Needle
by Renee Patrick
1939, Los Angeles. Marion Davies, one of Hollywood's leading ladies, has received letters highlighting an embarrassing event in her past from the mysterious 'Argus'. Lillian Frost and her partner-in-crime Edith Head try to expose the writer before they expose Marion, but are drawn into increasingly dangerous and disturbing territory.
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Too Good to Be True
by Carola Lovering
Accepting the proposal of an older, sophisticated man after a whirlwind courtship, a woman struggling with severe OCD throws herself into wedding plans before discovering her fiancé’s secret past and deceptive agenda.
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Transient Desires
by Donna Leon
Investigating a mysterious boating accident outside his jurisdiction, commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, discover that one of the suspects is associated with Laguna’s sinister underworld.
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An Unexpected Peril
by Deanna Raybourn
Assembling a memorial exhibit for a famed mountaineer, newest Curiosity Club member Veronica Speedwell discovers evidence that the late climber may have been murdered.
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Who is Maud Dixon?
by Alexandra Andrews
Working for a mysterious novelist known as Maud Dixon, Florence Darrow accompanies her to Morocco where her new novel is set – and where she, after a terrible accident and no sign of Maud, decides to become Maud, claiming the life she’s always wanted.
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Win
by Harlan Coben
A high-suspense story-that shows what happens when a dead man's secrets fall into the hands of vigilante antihero-is told from the viewpoint of Myron Bolitar’s sidekick, Windsor Horne Lockwood III.
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The Windsor Knot
by S. J. Bennett
A crime series debut that finds 90-year-old Elizabeth II turning detective when MI5 bungles the murder case of a young Russian pianist at Windsor Castle.
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Winterkill
by Ragnar Jonasson
A conclusion to the best-selling series finds Police Inspector Ari Thór battling an violent Icelandic storm during a tourist-filled Easter weekend to investigate the suspicious falling death of a 19-year-old local whose diary suggests she may have been murdered.
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Act Your Age, Eve Brown
by Talia Hibbert
When his life is taken over by a purple-haired tornado of a woman named Eve Brown, B&B owner Jacob Wayne tries to fight his attraction to this sunny, chaotic woman who is his natural-born enemy.
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The Dating Plan
by Sara Desai
A characteristically obedient Indian-American software engineer, determined to avoid a loveless arranged marriage by her traditional parents, enlists a childhood crush, required to marry in order to secure his inheritance, to be her decoy fiancé.
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Meet Me in Paradise
by Libby Hubscher
Reluctantly leaving home for the first time since her journalist mother’s death, Marin visits a tropical island spa before a series of embarrassing events reveal her sister’s secret matchmaking agenda.
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A Rogue to Remember
by Emily Sullivan
Devising a plan to create a scandal shocking enough to make her unmarriageable, Lottie Carlisle is upset when it doesn’t work and turns to her childhood friend Alec Gresham for help and discovers that their explosive chemistry is still alive and well.
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Yes & I love you
by Roni Loren
Hiding her fears and isolation behind a successful brand as a New Orleans cultural influencer, a talented reviewer, ordered to add video to her blogs, seeks coaching from an ambitious actor in search of his big break.
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The Conductors
by Nicole Glover
Having used her wits and magic to help dozens of slaves escape, a former Underground Railroad conductor settles down among the Black elite of Philadelphia with her husband, where they investigate cases that white authorities refuse.
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Dead Space
by Kali Wallace
After a life-altering terrorist attack, a woman working dead-end security job for a powerful asteroid-mining company is contacted by a fellow victim who claims to have shocking information about their shared tragedy just before he is murdered in space.
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A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady Martine
A space-opera sequel to the Hugo Award-winning A Memory Called Empire finds a desperate Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus attempting diplomacy with the mysterious and hostile alien armada on the edge of Teixcalaanli space.
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Machinehood
by S. B. Divya
In 2095, when her client is killed in front of her, Weiga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, discovers that a new and mysterious terrorist group called The Machinehood is responsible and that they are just getting started.
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The Two-faced Queen
by Nick Martell
Spared from execution for being a traitor, Michael Kingman, his family and his friends become enmeshed in rival conspiracies tearing The Hollows apart, in the second novel of the series following The Kingdom of Liars. "A masterclass in grand-scale storytelling."
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The Unbroken
by C. L. Clark
In an epic fantasy unlike any other, two women clash in a world full of rebellion, espionage, and military might on the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire.
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Wild Sign
by Patricia Briggs
Tapped by the FBI to investigate the disappearance of an entire small community, mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham become dangerously compelled by a mysterious force in the nearby California mountains.
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