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Afterburn

Sylvia Day · 130 pages

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The Devil's Punchbowl

Greg Iles · 580 pages

The shocking new thriller from the king of southern gothic.When he was a prosecuting attorney Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown - Natchez, Mississippi - that Penn will face his most dangerous threat.Urged by old friends to restore the town to its former glory, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs a

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Reasonable Fear

Scott Pratt · 294 pages

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The Affair

Lee Child · 543 pages

Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover to find out everything he can and

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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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Waiting for You

Shey Stahl · 372 pages

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Trigger Mortis

Anthony Horowitz · 320 pages

It's 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. And SMERSH is back. The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in

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The Plantation

Chris Kuzneski · 434 pages

Across the country, people are being kidnapped. Jonathon Payne is following the clues from his girlfriend’s disappearance to a New Orleans plantation—and the South’s most violent and shocking secret.

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A Time to Kill

John Grisham · 515 pages

Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in the small southern town of Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by tw

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The Way to Dusty Death

Alistair MacLean · 223 pages

After the death of his brother on the race track, the number one Grand Prix driver has turned to alcohol and has lost his nerve. It not all things are as they seem. With the spotlight off him he now can now focus on an international diabolical scheme. But is it worth it.

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Kiss the Girls

James Patterson · 466 pages

First came the stunning number-one bestseller Along Came a Spider. Now comes the scariest, most unforgettable novel in several years. In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever patter

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Going Home

A. American · 440 pages

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Die Easy

Zoe Sharp · 431 pages

Professionally, Charlie Fox is at the top of her game, but her personal life is in ruins. Her lover, bodyguard Sean Meyer, has woken from a coma with his memory in tatters. Working with Sean again was never going to be easy, but a celebrity fundraising event in New Orleans should have been the ideal opportunity for them both to take things nice and slow - but then an ambitious robbery explodes int

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The General's Daughter

Nelson DeMille · 464 pages

Here is an intriguing and sophisticated murder mystery of an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life.When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is relu

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14

J.T. Ellison · 410 pages

Ten victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair. All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips.In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the murders stopped. A letter from the killer to the police stated that his work was done.Now four more bodies are found, marked with his fatal signature. Th

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Altar of Eden

James Rollins · 398 pages

Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked—and something even more horrific is set free.Seven years later, Louisiana sta

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#Junkie

Cambria Hebert · 542 pages

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The Summer House

James Patterson, Brendan DuBois · 448 pages

Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers—known as the Night Ninjas—recently returned from Afghanistan. To ensure that justice is done, the Army sends Major Jeremiah Cook, a veteran and former NYPD cop, to investigate. But the major and

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House

Frank E. Peretti, Ted Dekker · 400 pages

The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman―or worse―could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn. *A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Saint. Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker―two of the

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Gone South

Robert McCammon · 384 pages

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The Empress File

John Camp, John Sandford · 321 pages

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Hover Car Racer

Matthew Reilly · 432 pages

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Initial D

しげの秀一 · 226 pages

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Mercy

Julie Garwood · 454 pages

Attorney Theo Buchanan-brother of seasoned FBI agent Nick Buchanan, the hero of HEARTBREAKER-is in New Orleans to receive an award for his work with the Department of Justice. When he becomes unexpectedly ill at the gala ceremony, a beautiful stranger rushes him to the hospital and ultimately saves his life. The woman-a brilliant surgeon named Michelle Renard-intrigues Theo, but before he can lear

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