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Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 297 pages

WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her legSince she left town eight years a

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None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell · 384 pages

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Over 1 million copies sold! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, p

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You

Caroline Kepnes · 424 pages

"Love hurts... When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe works, he's instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: She's gorgeous, tough, razor-smart, and as sexy as his wildest dreams. Beck doesn't know it yet, but she's perfect for him, and soon she can't resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom made for her. But there's more to Joe

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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

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The Hollow City

Dan Wells · 333 pages

Paranoid schizophrenic Michael Shipman has hallucinations and complex horror fantasies that are complicated by his discovery of what may or may not be real monsters.

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Trust No One

Paul Cleave · 340 pages

"In the exciting new psychological thriller by the Edgar-nominated author of Joe Victim, a famous crime writer struggles to differentiate between his own reality and the frightening plot lines he's created for the page. Jerry Grey is known to most of the world by his crime writing pseudonym, Henry Cutter--a name that has been keeping readers at the edge of their seats for more than a decade. Recen

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Allegedly

Tiffany D. Jackson · 400 pages

When Mary, a teenager living in a group home, becomes pregnant, authorities take another look at the crime for which Mary was convicted when she was nine years old.

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The Heiress

Rachel Hawkins · 294 pages

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The Boyfriend

Freida McFadden · 368 pages

**She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.** Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's ch

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Mother, Mother

Koren Zailckas · 366 pages

Josephine Hurst has her family under control: two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home. But living in this matriarch's determinedly cheerful, yet subtly controlling domain hasn't been easy for her family. When her oldest daughter, Rose, runs off with a mysterious boyfriend, Josephine tightens her grip, gradually turning her fla

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The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks · 184 pages

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The Silent Wife

A.S.A. Harrison · 331 pages

Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They've been together for twenty-eight years, and with no children to worry about there has been little to disrupt their affluent Chicago lifestyle. But there has also been little to hold it together, and beneath the surface lie ever-widening cracks. When it becomes clear that their precarious world could disintegrate at any mo

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The Poison Artist

Jonathan Moore · 275 pages

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Dying For Christmas

Tammy Cohen · 392 pages

Dominic Lacey kidnaps Jessica Gould during December Christmas shopping and plans to hold her captive for the Twelve Days of Christmas, but what follows may not go according to Dominic's plan.

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid · 224 pages

*I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.* *Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”* *And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.* In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Ia

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver · 424 pages

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry. "Eva never really wanted to be a mother -- and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with mar

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Lying in Wait

Liz Nugent · 336 pages

"From the international bestselling author of Unraveling Oliver, an "unputdownable psychological thriller with an ending that lingers long after turning the final page" (The Irish Times) about a Dublin family whose dark secrets and twisted relationships are suddenly revealed. My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it. On the surface, Lydia Fitzsimons has the perf

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The Basement

Stephen Leather · 128 pages

Torturing and murdering beautiful young women in New York City-- it's easy to remain anonymous. And there's another victim in the basement right now-- Detectives Turner and Marcinko are trying to narrow their list of suspects. Only time will tell if screenwriter wannabe Marvin Waller is their man-- and time is one thing they do not have.

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The Farm

Tom Rob Smith · 353 pages

After learning his mother was committed to a mental hospital, Daniel receives a call from her, claiming that his lying father is part of a crime conspiracy.

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VERITY- A NOVEL: COLLEEN HOOVER.

Hoover Colleen Hoover

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Love Letters to a Serial Killer

Tasha Coryell · 320 pages

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera · 336 pages

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Verity

Colleen Hoover

Lowen Ashleigh is hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular series and uncovers a horrifying truth; the basis of the movie. Read by Vanessa Johansson and Amy Landon. 8 hours, 10 minutes unabridged.

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