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Where the Truth Lies: A Mystery

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All Good People Here

Ashley Flowers · 336 pages

You can’t ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors. Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city j

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The Cinderella Murder

Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke · 320 pages

"Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program--a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected--is off to a fantastic start when it helps solve an infamous murder in the very first episode. Now Laurie has the ideal case to feature in the next episode of Under Suspici

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Dream Town

David Baldacci · 421 pages

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The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Amanda Quick, Jayne Ann Krentz · 448 pages

When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool. The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't resist--especially

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How to Solve Your Own Murder

Kristen Perrin · 358 pages

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Notorious

Allison Brennan · 326 pages

"When Maxine Revere was a high school senior, her best friend was murdered and their mutual friend, Kevin O'Neal, was accused of the crime. Kevin's guilt wasn't proven, but Max and Kevin's friendship never recovered and Max moved across the country shortly afterward. She never looked back. Thirteen years later, Max, now a successful investigative reporter, returns home to attend Kevin's funeral. T

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The Fade Out: Act Three

Ed Brubaker · 360 pages

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The Book of Cold Cases

Simone St. James · 353 pages

A Most Anticipated Novel by PopSugar * Crime Reads * Goodreads * A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the sa

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The Girl with Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson · 678 pages

Berisi cerita pengungkapan pembunuh Harriet Vanger, putri salah satu keluarga paling berpengaruh di Swedia, yang hilang 40 tahun yang lalu ?.

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg/ Vance Larsson (Simon (NRT)) · 656 pages

It?s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden ... and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It?s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet?s disappearance ... and about Lisbeth S

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The Bullet That Missed

Richard Osman · 385 pages

The third installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders “The quartet of aging amateur sleuths…remain wonderful company.” —The New York Times Book Review It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold c

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera · 336 pages

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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

Joel Dicker · 649 pages

Joel Dicker's phenomenal European bestseller is a brilliantly intricate murder mystery, a hymn to the boundless reaches of the imagination, and a love story like no other. August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Aurora, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer Harry Quebert fell in love with 15-year-old Nola Kellergan. 33 years later, her body is dug up from his yard along wit

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The Lake House

Kate Morton · 495 pages

Living on her family's gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. One midsummer's eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace. What follows is a tr

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The Nothing Man

Catherine Ryan Howard · 288 pages

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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

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The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler · 220 pages

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

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Death in the Garden

Elizabeth Ironside · 294 pages

In 1925, Diana Pollexfen was found innocent of killing her husband, but the accusation shadowed the rest of her life. Sixty years later, Diana's grandniece resolves to determine just who did kill George Pollexfen in that sunlit garden between the wars.

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Snow White Must Die

Nele Neuhaus · 491 pages

On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years earl

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Guilty by Definition

Susie Dent · 384 pages

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The Harry Bosch Novels, Volume 2: The Last Coyote / Trunk Music / Angels Flight

Michael Connelly · 832 pages

The Last Coyote: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute. Trunk Music: Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties. Up against both the LAPD's organized crime unit and the mob, Harry follows the money tr

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 400 pages

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of w

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The Death of Lucy Kyte

Nicola Upson · 346 pages

When bestselling crime author Josephine Tey inherits a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full of secrets. Sorting through the artefacts of her godmother's life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous murder committed near the cottage a century before and still casting a shadow over the village. And there was Lucy Kyte, the mysterious beneficiary of her godmother's will. As Josephin

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The Overnight Guest

Heather Gudenkauf · 316 pages

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