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The Likeness

Tana French · 466 pages

In the follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, itʼs six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad with no plans to go back—until an urgent telephone call summons her to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Cassie must

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Among the Wicked

Linda Castillo · 348 pages

"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities, the sheriff asks Kate to travel to New York, pose as an Amish woman, and infiltrate the community. Kat

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The Silent Scream

Diane Hoh · 229 pages

Jess arrives at her room in the off-campus dorm only to find that the previous occupant supposedly committed suicide by hanging herself.

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Suicide Med

Freida McFadden · 522 pages

Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med. *One suicide. Every year.* Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her. But **after Heather’s longtime boyfriend dumps her and she finds herself failing anatomy, her world starts to crumble**. The pressure is intense. People

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The Matlock Paper

Robert Ludlum · 368 pages

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Death in a Tenured Position

Amanda Cross, Carolyn G. Heilbrun · 165 pages

It's only because Janet Mandelbaum is no feminist that the stuffy old boys of Harvard agree to make her the first female professor in the English department. But they're not happy about it. At a sedate and proper afternoon tea, someone slips a mickey into Janet's Campari and she's found by the police in a most compromising position—drunk on the floor in the ladies' room. That's when so

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With No Remorse

Cindy Gerard · 342 pages

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Dead Politician Society

Robin Spano · 240 pages

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Breach of Trust

DiAnn Mills · 302 pages

Paige Rogers is a former CIA agent who lost all she treasured seven years ago when her entire team was killed in a covert mission. She blames their leader--Daniel Keary--whom Paige believes betrayed them. Disillusioned and afraid for her life, she disappeared and started a new life as a small-town librarian. But when Keary announces his candidacy for governor of her state, he comes after Paige to

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Return to Me

Christy Reece · 352 pages

DESIRED TO DEATHPosing as an underage teenager, Samara Lyons is out to trap an online predator. Smart, fiery, and fresh off a broken engagement, Samara is up for the challenge. But this challenge might not be so easy. Her boss, Noah McCall, head of a private international corporation called Last Chance Rescue, can't disguise his raw, physical desire for Samara--and she's going crazy battling her o

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The Theory of Death

Faye Kellerman · 416 pages

Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus series. Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of his new job with the Greenbury police departmen

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The Cove

Catherine Coulter · 327 pages

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The Summer Children

Dot Hutchison · 300 pages

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Dash of Peril

Lori Foster · 480 pages

To bring down a sleazy abduction ring, Lieutenant Margaret “Margo” Peterson has set herself up as bait. But recruiting Dashiel Riske as her unofficial partner is a whole other kind of danger. Dash is 6’4″ of laid-back masculine charm, a man who loves life—and women—to the limit. Until Margo is threatened, and he reveals a dark side that may just match her own… Beneath Margo’s tough façade is a

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The Devil's Daughter

Katee Robert · 304 pages

When the bodies of murdered young women appear with ties to her mother's cult, FBI agent Eden Collins has to go undercover in the tight-lipped group to catch the killer.

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Becoming Rain

K.A. Tucker · 384 pages

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The Cuckoo's Calling

J.K. Rowling · 480 pages

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the

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Mr. Mercedes

Stephen King · 496 pages

In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop n

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Hard Knocks

Zoe Sharp · 320 pages

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The Circle

Bernard Minier · 482 pages

"They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface. Inside the house, his teacher lies dead. But he claims to remember nothing. June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match, Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A few miles away in the town of Marsac, Classics professor Claire Diemar has been brutally murdered. As if that weren't disturbing enough, Servaz recei

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The Black Ice

Michael Connelly · 448 pages

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Casino Royale

Ian Fleming · 194 pages

Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless and licensed to kill. This, the first of Ian Fleming's tales of secret agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply "le Chiffre" -- by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to "retire" him. It seems that lady luck is taken with 007

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Red Sparrow

Jason Matthews · 434 pages

Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.

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The Life We Bury

Allen Eskens · 303 pages

"An ordinary writing assignment for a college English class brings Joe face-to-face with a dying Vietnam veteran, who is also a convicted murderer."--

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