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The Stranger You Seek

Amanda Kyle Williams · 360 pages

When she is offered the chance to catch a serial killer who has eluded the police for years, former FBI profiler and alcoholic Keye Street begins a cat-and-mouse chase with an adversary who has taken a personal interest in her.

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Judgment Calls

Alafair Burke · 337 pages

Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid walks into her office in Portland's Drug and Vice Division one Monday morning to find three police officers waiting for her. A thirteen-year-old girl has been brutally attacked and left for dead on the city's outskirts. Given the lack of evidence, most lawyers would settle for an assault charge; Samantha, unnerved by the viciousness of the crime, decides t

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Death Dance

Linda Fairstein · 485 pages

While investigating a doctor accused of drug-facilitated sexual assaults, Manhattan Assistant DA Alex Cooper learns of the grisly death of a world-class ballerina at Lincoln Center.

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Legal Tender

Lisa Scottoline · 256 pages

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Executive Privilege

Phillip Margolin · 360 pages

New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is back, this time with a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth.When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college studen

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The Blind Goddess

Anne Holt · 343 pages

Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk.

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The Coroner

M.R. Hall · 436 pages

When lawyer, Jenny Cooper, is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she's hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected files hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence.

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The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins · 336 pages

A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason

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Blood Defense

Marcia Clark · 389 pages

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Bum Rap

Paul Levine · 341 pages

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The Advocate

Teresa Burrell · 233 pages

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The House Across the Lake

Riley Sager · 392 pages

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and

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A Matter of Trust

Lis Wiehl · 311 pages

When she investigates the death of her best friend and coworker, Colleen, and its connections to the murder of another Seattle prosecutor four years earlier, Mia Quinn finds that many people could have wanted Colleen dead.

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Hidden Pictures

Jason Rekulak · 372 pages

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The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn · 456 pages

"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening ... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies ... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What

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Not a Sound

Heather Gudenkauf · 376 pages

When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything that matters -- her job, her husband, David, and her stepdaughter, Nora. Now, two years later and with the help of her hearing dog, Stitch, she is finally getting back on her feet. But when she discovers the body of a fellow nurse in the dense bush by the river, deep in

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The Black Path

Asa Larsson

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Secret Sanction

Brian Haig · 416 pages

Army lawyer Sean Drummond investigates the massacre of thirty-five civilians in Kosovo that is being pinned on a team of Green Berets. He slowly uncovers a huge conspiracy.

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The Neon Rain

James Lee Burke · 275 pages

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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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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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False Witness

Karin Slaughter · 448 pages

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The Abbey

Chris Culver · 334 pages

Ash Rashid is a former homicide detective who can't stand the thought of handling another death investigation. In a year's time, he'll be out of the department completely. That's the plan, at least, until his niece's body is found in the property of one of the city's wealthiest citizens.

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A Certain Justice

John Lescroart · 527 pages

When the angry white mob poured out of the bar on San Francisco's Geary Street and surrounded an innocent black man, Kevin Shea was the only one who tried to stop them. He failed, and now, thanks to a deceptive news photo taken during the melee, he is wanted for the murder himself-and the real culprits have threatened his life if he says a word. As riots rage and politicians posture, Lieutenant

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