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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

Small Town SecretsWhodunitSmall TownCharacter-Driven
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Mystic River

Dennis Lehane · 487 pages

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to

Small Town SecretsFriendship and BetrayalWorking-Class ProtagonistWhodunit
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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera · 336 pages

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Deluxe Paperback Boxed Set

HOLLY. JACKSON · 402 pages

A stunning boxed set featuring special editions of the three books in the multimillion-copy bestselling series, featuring gorgeous sprayed edges and exclusive content from the author! Holly Jackson's #1 New York Times bestselling series has won the hearts of millions of readers and inspired a hit Netflix adaptation. Now this stunning boxed set collects all three addictive novels: A Good Girl's Gui

Friendship and BetrayalSmall Town SecretsSmall TownWhodunit
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Flawless

Sara Shepard · 330 pages

**Spencer stole her sister's boyfriend. *Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher*.** ***Emily likes her new friend Maya...as much more than a friend.*** Hanna's obsession with looking flawless is making her sick. And their most horrible secret yet is so scandalous that the truth would ruin them forever. And why shouldn't I tell? They deserve to lose it all. With every crumpled note, wicked

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Dark Places

Gillian Flynn · 349 pages

Libby Day tinha apenas sete anos quando testemunhou o brutal assassinato da mãe e das duas irmãs na fazenda da família. O acusado do crime foi seu irmão mais velho, que acabou condenado à prisão perpétua. Desde aquele dia, Libby passou a viver sem rumo. Uma vida paralisada no tempo, sem amigos, família ou trabalho. Mas, vinte e quatro anos depois, quando é procurada por um grupo de pessoas conv

Small Town SecretsWorking-Class ProtagonistSmall TownFirst Person Narrator
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Little Monsters

Kara Thomas · 346 pages

Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-new life. A life with a stepbrother, a stepmother, and strangest of all, an adoring younger half sister. Kacey s new life is eerily charming compared with the wild highs and lows of the old one she lived with her volatile mother. And everyone is so nice in Broken Falls she s even been welcomed into a

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The Heirs

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé · 336 pages

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The Story of a New Name

Elena Ferrante · 480 pages

In 2012, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker’s James Wood described as “large, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal,” F

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Shakespeare's Trollop

Charlaine Harris · 210 pages

Book no. 4 in the must-have Lily Bard Mystery series, from the bestselling author behind TRUE BLOOD Shakespeare, Arkansas, is home to endless back roads, historic buildings, colourful residents - and the occasional murder. It's also home to Lily Bard, karate expert and cleaning lady, who has a particular knack for finding skeletons in closets. When Deedra Dean - a local woman of ill repute - is mu

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How to Solve Your Own Murder

Kristen Perrin · 358 pages

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When You Reach Me

Rebecca Stead · 199 pages

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Tom Franklin · 305 pages

"In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas '32' Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and sh

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Hangman's Root

Susan Wittig Albert · 260 pages

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Guidebook to Murder

Lynn Cahoon · 226 pages

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Starling House

Alix E. Harrow · 347 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’23 Pick) Starling House is a gorgeous, modern gothic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of Jan

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The Cabin

Natasha Preston · 336 pages

There may only be one killer, but no one is innocent. When Mackenzie treks to a secluded cabin in the woods with six friends, she expects a fun weekend of partying, drinking, and hookups. But when they wake to find two of their own dead and covered in blood, it's clear there's a killer among them.

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The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James · 338 pages

Upstate NY, 1982. Viv Delaney knows something isn't right at the Sun Down motel, where she works as a night clerk, and she's determined find out what. Upstate NY, 2017. Carly Kirk has always been fascinated by her aunt Viv who disappeared from the Sun Down before Carly was born. Using a small inheritance from when her mom dies, Carly leaves college to figure out what happened to her aunt thirty-fi

Small Town SecretsSmall TownMysteryFirst Person Narrator
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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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The Maid

Nita Prose · 336 pages

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Murder Before Evensong

Richard Coles · 352 pages

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Shooting at Loons

Margaret Maron · 243 pages

book #3 of "A Deborah Knott Mystery" series: Publisher's Note Judge Knott agrees to fill in for a colleague in Beaufort, North Carolina, a picturesque fishing village replete with a corpse. Before she can find out if the fisherman's death is an accident or murder, Deborah is confronted with some business from her own past--when another murder occurs and a former lover is accused..

Small Town SecretsWhodunitFirst Person NarratorSmall Town
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In a Dark, Dark Wood

Ruth Ware · 352 pages

Nora is a reclusive crime writer, content with the routine of life in her apartment in London. She hasn't seen her friend Clare in years - not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back. So she's surprised to receive an invitation to Clare's hen do. Perhaps it's a chance to reconnect with her best friend. But something goes terribly wrong in the eerie glass house deep in the Engli

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Bonfire

Krysten Ritter · 328 pages

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