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In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who's come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an unmentionable act.
It is a time of awakenings and corruptions, of tragedy and loss, as Jamie slowly discovers the extent to which Fawn will use anything and anyone to further her own ends-and recognizes, perhaps too late, her own complicity...
22) Winter's Child
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Edgar Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Margaret Maron has earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly for this small town saga starring Judge Deborah Knott and her new husband Dwight Bryant, chief deputy of Colleton County, NC. When local handyman J.D. Rouse is found dead in his pickup truck with a bullet in his head, the mayhem-and the body count-grows. But Dwight launches his own investigation after his son and ex-wife turn...
23) Scat
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Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing
24) Missing Persons
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Missing Persons is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times best-selling author, Michael Brandman. Steel...smart, aggressive, ironic, spare and cynical...has been content working homicide at the LAPD until his father, the legendary Sheriff Burton Steel, falls ill with Lou Gehrig's disease. Sheriff Steel is headquartered in Freedom, a privileged coastal community located a hundred miles north of Los Angeles. His health...
25) Don't you cry
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An electrifying tale of deceit and obsession from New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl Mary Kubica
In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her roommate Quinn Collins to question how well she really knew her friend. Meanwhile, in a small town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee...
26) Come and find me
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"It takes a lot of chutzpah for a book reviewer to write books of her own…. But Hallie Ephron…can hold her head high: She does it, and very well, too. "-Seattle TimesA recluse who works and lives online must brave the "real world" when her sister goes missing in Come and Find Me-a gripping and ingenious novel of mystery and psychological suspense from Hallie Ephron, author of Never Tell a Lie. Writing about her sensational debut, USA Today noted,...
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A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris
Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . .
When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris.
Hoping to uncover clues—and her husband—Leah sets off for France with her girls. Upon their...
A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris
Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . .
When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris.
Hoping to uncover clues—and her husband—Leah sets off for France with her girls. Upon their...
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Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda's Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.
It's summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see.
And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the...
30) Shadow of death
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When Amy Larson and her partner Hunter Forrest investigate a missing persons case in a series of caves outside Denver, Colorado, they discover a muddy pit littered with corpses that are covered in human bite marks and find the case leading them to a cult.
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'What do you think happened to your husband, Mrs. Keller?' The Sunday morning starts like any other, aside from the slight hangover. Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat, a headache building behind her eyes from the wine she drank at a party the night before. But on this particular Sunday morning, she's surprised to see that her husband, Ian, is not home. As the hours pass, Dani fills her day with small things. But still, Ian does not return....
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Zack is a workaholic computer expert who created his friend Turing. Turing is a sentient artificial-intelligence personality who has thousands of mystery novels downloaded to her database. With a self-improvement feature, Turing and Zack have taken on numerous challenges together. But when Zack disappears, Turing suspects foul play. She'll have to utilize her personality, her knowledge, and her unique abilities in order to find out what happened to...
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From the bestselling author of If You Knew Her comes this harrowing tale of suspense-a story ripped from today's headlines-of a tight-knit English community, who's rocked by the murder of a mother and the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, and the secrets that lie concealed beneath a carefully constructed facade.
A small town's beloved family.
A shocking, senseless crime-and the dark secret at the heart of it all.
Everyone in Ashford,...
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"Jessie Mihalik is an author to watch."--Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author
To save her brother and protect her family's future, a powerful princess must join forces with a dashing man from her past in this thrilling space adventure, the second novel in the Consortium Rebellion trilogy.
As the dutiful daughter of High House von Hasenberg, Bianca set aside her personal feelings and agreed to a political match arranged by her family,...
40) The fell
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"From the author of Summerwater, a riveting novel of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and the nearness of disaster"--
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