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The Last Sister

Kendra Elliot · 328 pages

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Midnight Secrets

Ella Grace · 440 pages

"On a hot southern night, with a storm on the horizon, a family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters--Savannah, Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde--go on with their lives, each significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight calls them home. Savannah is the first one back, when a gru

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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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Dead Silence

Brenda Novak · 448 pages

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Cold Truth

Mariah Stewart · 373 pages

TRUTH HAS DEADLY CONSEQUENCESTwenty-six years ago, even before a series of brutal murders rocked the idyllic town of Bowers Inlet, Cassie Burke lost her parents, her sister, and nearly her own life to a transient befriended by her father. Back then, Cassie was a scared kid--now she's a homicide cop. Back then, the suspect was caught and convicted--he died in prison. But now the killing has started

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The Quiet Game

Greg Iles · 564 pages

Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forces, the FBI, and his own past.

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Sinister

Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, Rosalind Noonan · 448 pages

In this novel three best-selling authors unite their talents in a story of family secrets, obsession, and murder. Twenty years ago, a fire ravaged the Dillinger family's old homestead, killing Judd Dillinger and crippling his girlfriend. Most people blamed a serial arsonist who'd been around town. But strange things are happening in Prairie Creek, Wyoming, again. Ira Dillinger, the family's wealth

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Blood Red

Wendy Corsi Staub · 400 pages

When she receives an anonymous gift that is linked to a century-old string of gruesome unsolved murders--and her own troubled past--Rowan soon discovers that the town's violent history was only the beginning as a twisted killer sets out to make sure everyone pays for their sins--in blood.

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Wild Hearts

Sharon Sala · 378 pages

"Dallas Phillips refuses to believe her father committed suicide, even though things were tough on his farm and he was deeply in debt. When she hears he'd told a neighbor about an upcoming windfall, she grows suspicious, and her suspicion only deepens when she realizes someone is lurking in the nearby mountains after dark. For help, she turns to Trey Jakes, local police chief--and her former lover

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The Slow Burn of Silence

Loreth Anne White · 422 pages

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Midnight Exposure

Melinda Leigh

When two hikers disappear from their hometown in Maine, everyone blames the blinding storms. But the truth is far more sinister. Unaware of the danger, tabloid photographer Jayne Sullivan follows an anonymous tip to find the most reclusive sculptor in the art world. Instead, she finds mysterious handyman Reed Kimball―and a small town full of fatal secrets. Five years ago, Reed buried his homici

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Deadly Sins

Lora Leigh · 378 pages

Witnesses to a shocking crime, three men must face the dangers of the past to unlock the passion in their hearts.

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The Dark Lake

Sarah Bailey · 384 pages

The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability exerted a magnetic pull on Smithson High School, first during Rosalind's student years and then again when she returned to teach drama. As mu

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Omens

Kelley Armstrong · 491 pages

After learning that she is the daughter of accused serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen, privileged 24-year-old Olivia Taylor ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, to prove her birthparents' innocence. But as she and Gabriel, her mother's lawyer, start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make her

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My Sister's Grave

Robert Dugoni · 410 pages

Seattle police officer Tracy Crosswhite lost her sister Sarah over 20 years ago, and she has never forgiven herself. With no corpse discovered, there was still enough evidence to convict the man thought responsible for Sarah's disappearance. Now a body has been found and Tracy learns the remains are of her sister. Tracy has had her doubts about the guilt of the man behind bars, and she's absolutel

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Best Kept Secrets

Sandra Brown · 458 pages

From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Texas Sage! and A Whole New Light comes a sizzling tale of a love that bridges two different worlds. Out-of-print for over four years, Temperature's Rising tells a story of love and passion set in the contemporary South Pacific.

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How to Solve Your Own Murder

Kristen Perrin · 358 pages

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A Killing in the Hills

Julia Keller · 400 pages

"When three elderly men are gunned down over coffee at a local diner, the town of Acker's Gap is shaken. But a pattern of violence is taking shape that prosecutor Bell Elkins is becoming all too familiar with. Bell's daughter, Carly, a witness to the crime and desperate to prove that she is an adult, decides to help her mother work the case. As Bell's investigation unfolds, one thing is certain: t

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All the Beautiful Brides

Rita Herron · 295 pages

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It Takes One

Kate Kessler · 426 pages

"They say there are no secrets in a small town... Criminal psychologist Audrey Harte is returning home after seven years. She'll have to face the whispers and the rumors that have haunted her family since she left. Because when Audrey was thirteen, she and her best friend Maggie killed Maggie's abusive father. Her first night back in town ends in a fight with a drunken Maggie, with her old crush J

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Murder in Plain Sight

Marta Perry

There are secrets buried in Amish country. Did a sweet-faced Amish teenager brutally murder a young woman? To save her career, big city lawyer Jessica Langdon is determined to defend him--against the community's bitter and even violent outrage. Yet without an understanding of Amish culture, Jessica must rely on local businessman Trey Morgan, who has ties to the Amish community...and believes in th

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We Are All Guilty Here

Karin Slaughter · 439 pages

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Justice for Sara

Erica Spindler · 341 pages

This is a chilling suspense novel about a woman who goes home ten years after her sister's murder to find the true killer. When seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her beloved sister, Sara, brutally murdered, her whole life changed in the blink of an eye. Kat was named the prime suspect and, on a string of circumstantial evidence, charged and tried. While the jury foun

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City Under One Roof

Iris Yamashita · 298 pages

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