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The Hunting Party

Lucy Foley · 406 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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Murder on the Christmas Express

Alexandra Benedict · 272 pages

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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton · 458 pages

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The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji · 228 pages

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming. The Decagon House Murders is a milestone in the

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The Listening House

Mabel Seeley · 368 pages

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Green for Danger

Christianna Brand · 256 pages

A murder takes place in a make-shift hospital during the second world war. Inspector Cockrill is asked to investigate even as the murderer strikes again. A nice twist in the end makes this worth a read.

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One by One

Ruth Ware · 372 pages

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Blue Lightning

Ann Cleeves · 368 pages

In the fourth book of Ann Cleeves' critically acclaimed series set in the Shetland Islands, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez brings his fiancée home to Fair Isle, a birder's paradise, where strangers are viewed with suspicions and distrust. When a woman's body is discovered at the island's bird observatory, the investigation is hampered by a raging storm that renders the island totally isolated. Ji

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Not Quite Dead Yet: A GMA Book Club Pick

Holly Jackson · 439 pages

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, t

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The Fury

Alex Michaelides · 298 pages

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Benjamin Stevenson · 384 pages

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Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty · 482 pages

Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead. Was it a murder, a tragic accident or just good parents gone bad? As the parents at Pirriwee Public are about to discover

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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

Benjamin Stevenson · 320 pages

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The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin · 192 pages

Sixteen people were invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they played the game. The not-quite-perfect heirs were paired, and each pair was given $10,000 and a set of clues (no two sets of clues were alike). All they had to do was find the answer, but the answer to what? The Westing game was tricky and da

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One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus · 360 pages

Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcas

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Pretty Little Liars

Sara Shepard · 304 pages

Everyone has something to hide—especially high school juniors Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna. Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay beautiful. But they've all kept an even bigger secret since their friend Alison vanished. How do I know? Because I know everything about the

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Ward D

Freida McFadden · 320 pages

**All she has do is make it through the night shift...** Ward D is the hospital's mental health unit and as a medical student, Amy is required to gain experience on the floor. But little do her colleagues know it may force her to confront a past she's fought hard to forget. The night starts. The countdown begins. As the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible i

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The Greek Coffin Mystery

Ellery Queen · 370 pages

After the death of an elderly Greek man who is an internationally famous art dealer and collector, his attorney discovers that his will is missing and notifies the district attorney. When Inspector Richard Queen of the New York Police Force's Homicide Squad and his amateur detective son Ellery are called in, Ellery narrows down the possible location of the will to a single location: the dead man's

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How to Solve Your Own Murder

Kristen Perrin · 358 pages

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The Three Coffins

John Dickson Carr · 240 pages

Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient superstition about men leaving their coffins when a stranger entered and challenged Grimaud's skepticism. The stranger asserted that he had risen from his own coffin and that four walls meant nothing to him. He added, 'My brother can do more... he wants your life and will call on you!' The brother came du

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The Last Party

Clare Mackintosh · 432 pages

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Still Life

Louise Penny · 380 pages

The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own pol

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