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Still Mine

Amy Stuart · 311 pages

When Clare turns up alone in the remote mining town of Blackmore asking about a local girl named Shayna who disappeared, it turns out that everyone in this place is hiding something just as she does.

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Sycamore

Bryn Chancellor · 344 pages

"In the tradition of EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, and with echoes of OLIVE KITTERIDGE, comes a stunning debut from Bryn Chancellor, an award-winning writer hailed as "amazing, sensitive, and thoughtful" by Kevin Wilson"-- Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As n

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Starvation Lake

Bryan Gruley · 370 pages

In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake -- the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation's legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accident happened five miles away on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thi

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The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James · 338 pages

Upstate NY, 1982. Viv Delaney knows something isn't right at the Sun Down motel, where she works as a night clerk, and she's determined find out what. Upstate NY, 2017. Carly Kirk has always been fascinated by her aunt Viv who disappeared from the Sun Down before Carly was born. Using a small inheritance from when her mom dies, Carly leaves college to figure out what happened to her aunt thirty-fi

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The Mourning Hours

Paula Treick DeBoard · 321 pages

Kirsten Hammarstrom hasn't been home to her tiny corner of rural Wisconsin in years-not since the mysterious disappearance of a local teenage girl rocked the town and shattered her family. Kirsten was just nine years old when Stacy Lemke went missing, and the last person to see her alive was her boyfriend, Johnny-the high school wrestling star and Kirsten's older brother. No one knows what to beli

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Two Can Keep a Secret

Karen M McManus · 331 pages

Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, s

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Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose · 272 pages

Beth's life hasn't worked out the way she planned. After her father walked out on their family with a note simply saying 'I'm sorry', she became obsessed with finding him. An obsession that destroyed her relationship with her husband and her daughter. She just has her dying mother left, Beth taking care of her as best she can until she breathes her final, shocking words: **Your father. He didn'

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All Good People Here

Ashley Flowers · 336 pages

You can’t ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors. Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city j

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All the Missing Girls

Megan Miranda · 400 pages

It's been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left Cooley Ridge. Ten years since she broke up with Tyler, the man she thought she'd marry. Ten years since her best friend Corinne disappeared, never to be heard from again. When the call comes that her father is ailing. Nic is living in Philadelphia light-years away from her younger self. She drops everything to care for her dad, but within days of h

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The Church of Dead Girls

Stephen Dobyns · 410 pages

Despite its superficial resemblance to a whodunit, The Church of Dead Girls is not a conventional thriller. Don't expect it to be suspenseful. This is a literary horror tale--slow paced, contemplative, meticulous in its descriptions--about a formerly sleepy small town in which the crucial distinction between public and private life is dissolving as suspicion spreads like a toxin. The reader's guid

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Naked Once More

Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz · 332 pages

Kirby is chosen to write a sequel to a bestselling novel whose author disappeared seven years earlier. When she goes to the author's hometown she is plagued by accidents and becomes embroiled in murder, mystery and romance.

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The Last Child

John Hart · 432 pages

> Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he’d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is

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Out of the Deep I Cry

Julia Spencer-Fleming · 344 pages

A pivotal book in this award-winning series, and nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Novel—Julia Spencer-Fleming's Out of the Deep I Cry is a triumph not to be missed. On April 1, 1930, Jonathan Ketchem's wife Jane walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night of chasing bootleggers, did what they could. But no

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The Winter People

Jennifer McMahon · 408 pages

West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted th

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The Devil Crept In

Ania Ahlborn · 384 pages

"--a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance of his cousin and uncovers a terrifying secret kept hidden for years. Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They're well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the odds

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Arrowood

Laura McHugh · 320 pages

When Arden Arrowood was four years old, her two-year-old twin sisters were stolen from the front yard of their hometown of Keokuk, Iowa, on the Mississippi River while Arden watched. Twenty years later, she returns home to confront the darkest part of her past. As the mystery unravels, the novel explores the reliability of memory, the stories we tell ourselves, and the power of love.

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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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The God of the Woods

Liz Moore · 496 pages

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disa

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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

Joel Dicker · 649 pages

Joel Dicker's phenomenal European bestseller is a brilliantly intricate murder mystery, a hymn to the boundless reaches of the imagination, and a love story like no other. August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Aurora, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer Harry Quebert fell in love with 15-year-old Nola Kellergan. 33 years later, her body is dug up from his yard along wit

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Bone by Bone

Carol O'Connell · 426 pages

A stunning stand-alone novel from the national-bestselling author who “has raised the standard for psychological thrillers” (Chicago Tribune). Carol O’Connell’s most recent Mallory novel, Find Me, was one of the most highly praised suspense novels of the year. “A terrific find: a tightly wrapped, expert combination of suspense, mystery and show-stopping character” (Janet Maslin of The New York Tim

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Missing

Kelley Armstrong · 384 pages

The best thing about being a teen in Reeve's End is that I'll be able to leave soon. Like my best friend did. Like my sister did. Most of us go. There's nothing here but abandoned mines and an empty future. I'm better off taking my chances elsewhere. The only thing I'll miss is the Kentucky wilderness that has always been my refuge. But that changed the day I found Lennon. Left for dead, ble

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Chasing the Boogeyman

Richard Chizmar · 322 pages

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Bent Road

Lori Roy

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Reservoir 13

Jon McGregor · 336 pages

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