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Wilde Lake

Laura Lippman · 384 pages

Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected--and first female, state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard county doesn't

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The Woods

Harlan Coben · 442 pages

Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again.For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known, is

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The Quiet Game

Greg Iles · 564 pages

Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forces, the FBI, and his own past.

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My Soul to Take

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

A grisly murder is committed at a health resort situated in a recently renovated farmhouse, which turns out to be notorious for being haunted. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is called upon by the owner of the resort - the prime suspect in the case - to represent him. Her investigations uncover some very disturbing occurrences at the farm decades earlier - things that have never before seen the ligh

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My Sister's Grave

Robert Dugoni · 410 pages

Seattle police officer Tracy Crosswhite lost her sister Sarah over 20 years ago, and she has never forgiven herself. With no corpse discovered, there was still enough evidence to convict the man thought responsible for Sarah's disappearance. Now a body has been found and Tracy learns the remains are of her sister. Tracy has had her doubts about the guilt of the man behind bars, and she's absolutel

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Best Kept Secrets

Sandra Brown · 458 pages

From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Texas Sage! and A Whole New Light comes a sizzling tale of a love that bridges two different worlds. Out-of-print for over four years, Temperature's Rising tells a story of love and passion set in the contemporary South Pacific.

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The Couple at No. 9

Claire Douglas · 407 pages

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The Ice Child

Camilla Lackberg

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Trial By Fire

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg · 354 pages

Brilliant, hard-driving Stella Cataloni is the star of the Dallas District Attorney's office, with an amazing 100 percent conviction rate. But the conviction she most desperately wants agonizingly eludes her. The fire that years ago killed her parents and scarred her life remains unsolved. When her ex-boyfriend Tom Randall, who Stella is convinced set the fire, suddenly reappears in Houston, Stell

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Cross

James Patterson · 400 pages

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods.Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he's s

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Night Night, Sleep Tight

Hallie Ephron · 379 pages

Los Angeles, 1985. When Deirdre Unger makes the drive from San Diego to Beverly Hills to help her father put his dilapidated house on the market, she's expecting to deal with his usual kvetching and dark moods. But she gets a lot more than she expected. In a cruel Sunset Boulevard twist, Deirdre arrives home to find her father facedown in his too-small swimming pool -- dead. At first, Deirdre assu

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Killer Smile

Lisa Scottoline · 358 pages

Everybody around lawyer Mary DiNunzio has decided she isn't allowed to be a Young Widow anymore, even though she didn't know there was an official cutoff. They're all trying to fix her up -- her South Philly Italian parents, her best friend Judy Carrier, even the office security guard.All Mary wants to do is immerse herself in a case everybody else calls "The History Channel", a pro bono represen

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A Kind Of Vanishing

Lesley Thomson · 379 pages

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Cruel Justice

William Bernhardt · 466 pages

Oklahoma lawyer Ben Kincaid, assigned to defend a black man accused of a ten-year-old murder, finds a link to a missing boy and a child molester.

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The Missing Half

Ashley Flowers · 273 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie. “A propulsive mystery with excellent writing . . . Simply a great read!”—Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a

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The last time I lied

Todd Ritter · 384 pages

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Criminal

Karin Slaughter · 518 pages

"1974: in the blistering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer prowls the streets, searching for the weak, the vulnerable and the lost. Forty years later, a young woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid high-rise apartment. The specifics of her death are detailed and macabre, but for Special Agent Will Trent they are startingly familiar, and can only mean one thing. Desperate to deny this might

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Echoes from the Dead

Johan Theorin · 388 pages

Following in the footsteps of prize-winning authors Arnuldar Indridason and Henning Mankell, comes a chilling new voice in European crime...Can you ever come to terms with a missing child?Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found.Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia

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Into the Water

Paula Hawkins · 388 pages

"A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the car

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 400 pages

Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! With shades of Serial and Making a Murderer this is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyo

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Weirdo

Cathi Unsworth · 288 pages

An atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator who reopens the case to discover that she may not have acted alone.

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Trail Of Blood

Lisa Black · 393 pages

Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean investigates a crime spree from Cleveland's past when the bodies of recent murder victims show up bearing the hallmarks of an uncaught serial killer who had terrorized the city seventy-five years prior.

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The Overnight Guest

Heather Gudenkauf · 316 pages

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Every Secret Thing

Emma Cole, Susanna Kearsley · 437 pages

A moving love story and a thrilling story of the quest to uncover a hushed-up murder, moving between present-day London and Canada and the dangerous, double-crossing streets of war-time Lisbon. Journalist Kate Murray brushes aside the old man who attempts to tell her the story of a murder that has not been brought to justice - until he mentions her beloved grandmother. Before she can reply, he wal

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