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The Good Sister

Sally Hepworth · 352 pages

"Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law, delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters. From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom t

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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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Sister, Psychopath

Maggie James · 344 pages

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Identical

Ellen Hopkins · 624 pages

Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place? Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family—on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences begin. For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a

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Poison in Their Hearts

Laura Sebastian · 544 pages

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Please Don't Tell

Laura Tims

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The Image of You

Adele Parks · 440 pages

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For the Wolf

Hannah Whitten · 437 pages

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Beside Myself

Ann Morgan · 336 pages

6-year-old twins Ellie and Helen switch identities for a day -- but when Ellie refuses to change back, Helen loses her self-confidence and her identity. 25 years later, Helen risks being pulled into her sister's dangerous orbit once more.

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Phantom Limb

Lucinda Berry · 258 pages

Emily and Elizabeth spend their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drinks too much and disappears for days. The identical twins are rescued by a family determined to be their saviors. But there’s some horrors love can’t erase… Elizabeth wakes in a hospital, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak. The last thing she remembers is finding Emily’s body in their bat

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Circle of Fire

Michelle Zink · 368 pages

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson · 187 pages

Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jo

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Think Twice

Lisa Scottoline · 374 pages

Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin and sets herself on a course to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.

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My Sister

Michelle Adams

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The Heiress

Rachel Hawkins · 294 pages

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The Whispers in the Walls

Sophie Cleverly · 278 pages

When possessions and food start going missing at Rookwood Academy, suspect Scarlet launches an investigation with her twin sister, Ivy, that turns up old mysteries and new threats.

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The Fallout

S.A. Bodeen · 328 pages

Eli and his family lived in an underground shelter they called the Compound for six years. Now, the family must readjust to the real world. Their ordeal has made them so famous, they must stay in hiding - everyone from doomsday preppers to the tabloid media wants a piece of them. Even worse, their father's former adviser continues to control the company Eli and his brother inherited. As Eli tries

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See What I Have Done

Sarah Schmidt · 328 pages

When her father and stepmother are found brutally murdered on a summer morning in 1892, Lizzie Borden - thirty-two years old and still living at home - immediately becomes a suspect. But after a notorious trial, she is found innocent, and no one is ever convicted of the crime. Meanwhile, others in the claustrophobic Borden household have their own motives and their own stories to tell: Lizzie's un

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A Crown of Ivy and Glass

Claire Legrand · 560 pages

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Covenant Child: A Story of Promises Kept

Terri Blackstock · 368 pages

They grew up in squalor, never guessing the riches held in trust for them or the love that lived to call them home. Twins Kara and Lizzie know they are heirs to a fortune -- "billion dollar babies" deprived of their inheritance and forced to live with uncaring relatives in a ramshackle trailer and a seedy, stinking, one-stop town. They've been told all their lives that their stepmother, Amanda, ha

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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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The Water's Lovely

Ruth Rendell · 340 pages

When Ismay and Heather's stepfather was discovered dead in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded the drowning was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have had something to do with it. Now they're older and their lives seem to be moving happily forward. But when Heather becomes seriously involved with a man for the first time, Ismay's long-repressed me

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That Night

Chevy Stevens · 384 pages

"Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy--not Ryan, who is convinced he can figu

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