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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.

Widowed ProtagonistFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulAmerican South
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Fool Me Once

Harlan Coben · 400 pages

If your husband was murdered And you were a witness How do you explain it when he appears on your nanny cam? You thought you trusted him. Now you can't even trust yourself.

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherFamily SecretsTense and Suspenseful
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Hush

Karen Robards · 405 pages

When her estranged husband is found dead, Riley Cowan teams up with FBI agent Finn Bradley to identify the killer.

Financial FraudWidowed ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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Wolfhunter River

Rachel Caine · 330 pages

Single MotherAmerican SouthTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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A Flicker in the Dark

Stacy Willingham · 368 pages

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for he

American SouthFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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The Rescue

Nicholas Sparks · 446 pages

One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.

Single MotherWidowed ProtagonistAmerican SouthTense and Suspenseful
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Everything We Keep

Kerry Lonsdale · 296 pages

Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents' restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Struggling to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into James's disappearance. What Aimee uncovers is an ocean of secrets that make her quest

Widowed ProtagonistFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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Simply Lies

David Baldacci · 432 pages

Single MotherTense and SuspensefulWitness ProtectionPsychological Manipulation
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Sail

James Patterson, Howard Roughan · 427 pages

Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself. The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-year-old Erni

Widowed ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulFamily SecretsThriller
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The Melody Lingers On

Mary Higgins Clark · 352 pages

As the sole assistant to a famous upscale interior designer, Lane Harmon, mother to five-year-old Katie, is accustomed to visiting opulent homes around the tri-state area. A born optimist, Lane finds the glimpse into these gilded worlds fascinating, and loves the reward of exceeding the expectations of their often-demanding owners. When she is called to assist in redecorating a modest townhouse in

Financial FraudFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Midwives

Chris Bohjalian · 312 pages

Sibyl is a respected midwife, accused of murder after she performs a caesarian on a mother whom she believes to have died of a stroke during a long and difficult labour. A trial ensues to decide whether Sibyl has committed murder. The story is told from Sibyl's daughter's viewpoint.

Single MotherWidowed ProtagonistFamily SecretsTense and Suspenseful
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Blindsighted

Karin Slaughter · 393 pages

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another lo

American SouthFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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The Marriage Lie

Kimberly Belle · 384 pages

"Iris and Will have been married for seven years, and life is as close to perfect as it can be. But on the morning Will flies out for a business trip to Florida, Iris's happy world comes to an abrupt halt: another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field, killing everyone on board and, according to the airline, Will was one of the passengers. Grief stricken and confused, Iris is convinced

Widowed ProtagonistAmerican SouthTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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Unspoken

Lisa Jackson · 400 pages

WHEN SECRETS ARE REVEALED Shelby Cole thought she'd put Bad Luck behind her. Bad Luck, Texas, that is. She'd left her hometown ten years ago, her world shattered and her illegitimate baby dead. Now she's receiving anonymous letters claiming that her daughter is alive. But going home means demanding answers that her father, Judge Jerome Cole, won't be happy to give--and facing Nevada Smith, the m

American SouthFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Midnight Secrets

Ella Grace · 440 pages

"On a hot southern night, with a storm on the horizon, a family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters--Savannah, Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde--go on with their lives, each significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight calls them home. Savannah is the first one back, when a gru

American SouthFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty · 482 pages

Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead. Was it a murder, a tragic accident or just good parents gone bad? As the parents at Pirriwee Public are about to discover

Single MotherFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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The Accident

Linwood Barclay · 469 pages

It is the new normal at the Garber household in Connecticut. Glen, a contractor, has seen his business shaken by the housing crisis, and now his wife, Sheila, is taking a business course at night to increase her chances of landing a good-paying job. But she should have been home by now. Waiting for Sheila's return, with their eight-year-old daughter sleeping soundly, Glen soon finds his worst fear

Financial FraudWidowed ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
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Touch & Go

Lisa Gardner · 474 pages

When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes' darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far they are willing to go.

Single MotherTense and SuspensefulFamily SecretsFast-Paced
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Safe by the Marshal's Side

Shirlee McCoy · 215 pages

"For a year, U.S. marshal Hunter Davis has protected witness Annie Delacorte and her toddler daughter. But now, someone is determined to stop Annie from testifying against the men who killed her husband. To guard Annie, by-the-book Hunter will have to break a promise to himself: to not get emotionally involved. After all, he already cares more deeply than he ever imagined for the sweet family of t

Single MotherTense and SuspensefulThrillerFast-Paced
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The Names

Peter Milligan

"THE NAMES is a contemporary thriller that starts off as a revenge story: A deadly heroine ticks off--and kills--each "name" that brings her closer to knowing who killed her husband. It will become much more than that... The world of THE NAMES is Big Money. Hedge funds, leveraged buyouts, market raids, flash buys. Incredibly high end deals that ruin lives and economies, where secret cabals gamble

Financial FraudWidowed ProtagonistFast-PacedThriller
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The Book of James

Ellen J. Green · 470 pages

"After a devastating car accident, Nick whispers his last words to his wife, Mackenzie: "As soon as they know I'm dead, they'll come after you." Frightened and bewildered, Mackenzie travels to Philadelphia for the reading of her late husband's will. To her shock, she learns that Nick's mother, Cora, is not dead as he always claimed--rather, she is living as a recluse in the family's gloomy ninete

Widowed ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulFamily SecretsThriller
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The Last Sister

Kendra Elliot · 328 pages

Tense and SuspensefulFamily SecretsFast-PacedSmall Town Secrets
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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

Tense and SuspensefulFamily SecretsFast-PacedThriller
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The Firm

John Grisham · 501 pages

Financial FraudAmerican SouthTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced

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