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The Girl Who Played with Fire

Stieg Larsson · 677 pages

On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.

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Reviving Izabel

J.A. Redmerski · 314 pages

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Haunting Adeline

H D Carlton · 624 pages

**The Manipulator** I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him to come closer. **The Shadow** I didn't mean to fall in love. But now that

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The Butterfly Garden

Dot Hutchison · 333 pages

"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious butterflies -- young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is

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Mask Market

Andrew Vachss · 241 pages

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Rumble Tumble

Joe R. Lansdale · 239 pages

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Blood & Roses Volume 1

Callie Hart · 388 pages

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Debt Inheritance

Pepper Winters · 222 pages

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Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup · 228 pages

Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

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Epilogue

C.J. Roberts · 216 pages

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Money Shot

Christa Faust · 250 pages

THEY THOUGHT SHE'D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she'd been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she'll get to the bottom of what's been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way...

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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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Mr. Monster

Dan Wells · 320 pages

Mr. Monster is a young adult horror novel by Dan Wells, published in 2010 by Tor Books and by Headline. It is the sequel to I Am Not A Serial Killer and the second book in the John Wayne Cleaver series. John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies. But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one ha

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Zero Hour

Andy McNab · 416 pages

When the beautiful 20-year-old daughter of a Moldovan businessman goes missing from her university, British Intelligence will do anything in its power to track her down. A terrorist group is on the brink of obtaining a code that will jam every item of military hardware from Washington to Kabul. Jets and helicopters will fall from the sky. Communications and weapons systems will fail. The West will

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Taken

Robert Crais · 341 pages

When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stea

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Enigma

RuNyx · 463 pages

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Patient Zero

Jonathan Maberry · 421 pages

"When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills ... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems t

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The Khmer Kill

Barry Eisler

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Without Remorse

Tom Clancy · 750 pages

Clancy shows how an ordinary man crossed the lines of justice and morality to become the CIA legend Mr. Clark. John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, ass

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Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel)

Suzanne Collins · 382 pages

The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series! When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard ab

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Stalkers

Paul Finch · 464 pages

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Rain Gods

James Lee Burke · 562 pages

ELDERLY TEXAS LAWYER-TURNED-BORDER-SHERIFF HACKBERRY HOLLAND UNCOVERS THE MASS GRAVE OF NINE ILLEGAL ASIAN ALIENS. IRAQI VETERAN PETE FLORES REPORTED THE MURDERS TO AUTHORITIES AND THEN FLED WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND VIKKI. DEPUTY SHERIFF PAM TIBBS, THE FBI, ICE, AND THE KILLERS ALL SEARCH FOR THE COUPLE. VIOLENCE AND STRONG LANGUAGE. 2009.

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Worth Dying For

Lee Child · 480 pages

There’s deadly trouble in the corn county of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can’t let go. The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. For as dangerous as the

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Choosers of the Slain

John Ringo · 448 pages

Former SEAL Michael Harmon ("Ghost") has settled down in the country of Georgia and built a commando-quality militia out of local tribesmen. The Keldara have an ancient history as mountain warriors and only needed modern weapons and training to bring them up to speed. Now, with the area safe from Chechen raiders and the various other terrorists that want Ghost's head, he can settle back and relax

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