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361) Ruthless
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For fans of Jo Nesbø and Katrine Engberg, international bestselling author Anne Mette Hancock's third thrilling novel in the series Harlan Coben calls "the best series I've read this year," is a pulse-pounding Scandinavian noir about secrets, buried truths, and what happens when we go digging into the past. When Jan Frischof, a dying elderly man, gives a deathbed confession too unbelievable to be true, journalist Heloise Kaldan immediately knows...
362) Forget Me Not
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'AMAZING' Marian KeyesI disappeared on a Tuesday afternoon. I was there one minute and the next I was gone. They've never found my body... It's six in the morning during the hottest summer on record when Elizabeth O'Loughlin, out walking her dog, comes across Clare, a victim of a horrific knife attack, clinging onto life at the side of the road. Clare dies minutes later, but not before whispering her haunting last words to Elizabeth. When it becomes...
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Rebecca Connolly series volume 4
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A gritty page-turner, "fast-paced and straight to the point-like a well-aimed . . . projectile" (Times Scotland)
Set amid the dramatic beauty of the Scottish Highlands and threaded with Highland history and lore, the latest Rebecca Connolly thriller is another stellar crime novel from "a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly).
Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death. When her body is found in the center of a pentagram on a lonely moor in the...
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An intriguing and twisty domestic suspense about loyalty and deceit in a tight-knit Texas community where parents are known to behave badly and people are not always who they appear to be.
Emily, a popular but bookish prep school senior, goes missing after a night out with friends. She was last seen leaving a party with Alex, a football player with a dubious reputation. But no one is talking.
Now three mothers, Catherine, Leslie and Morgan, friends...
365) Twenty-seven Minutes
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In this stunning and propulsive debut, a town grieves the loss of a young girl-but some fight to keep the truth about her death a secret. For fans of Jane Harper, Ashley Flowers, and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.
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For the last ten years, the small, claustrophobic town of West Wilmer has been struggling to understand one thing: Why did it take young Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to call for help on the fateful night of...
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"Rome, 1965. Aspiring actress Silvia Whitford arrives at Rome's famed Cinecittà Studios ready for her big break. Instead, she learns that the movie in which she was cast has been canceled. Desperate for money, Silvia has only one choice: seek out the Italian aunt she has never met. Gabriella Conti lives in a crumbling castello on the edge of a volcanic lake. The castle inspires Silvia's second chance when it becomes the location for a new horror...
367) Time Is Running Out
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You're a survivor, aren't you, Matilda? But what's the point in surviving when everyone around you is dead? When DCI Matilda Darke receives a mysterious telephone call, she immediately dismisses the threat. Afterall the Homicide and Major Enquiries team are a regular target for prank calls. But ignoring this warning might soon be the biggest regret of Matilda Darke's life. A lone gunman is on a deadly rampage around Sheffield, leaving a bloody trail...
368) Final Call
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The explosive new psychological crime thriller that will keep you up all night from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author They thought it was a simple flight home. The pilot had other plans… A moment of calmHeading home after a conference, the senior leadership of a global corporation relax on their private jet ahead of their Christmas break. A flash of fearBut their peace is shattered when they realise their jet isn't taking them home. Instead,...
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When looking back on the Before and the events leading up to the After, it was impossible to say precisely when everything went to shit. There were just two points in time, with a hazy space in between, leaving the carcass of the Before to be picked over by those in the After.
Having lost everything to Weeps, Trader fled the fire-ravaged California foothills to settle in the flooded capitol. To find purpose and escape the oppressive loneliness of...
370) Ready or Not
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Ready or not...here I come
Alice and Tom Sark seem to have it all. The perfect marriage, the perfect baby, the perfect life. And now, Alice, an up-and-coming journalist, starts investigating a story which could make her career, a serial killer operating in her hometown.
But soon, the case starts to hit a little too close to home. Alice and Tom begin fighting all the time. Their beautiful baby daughter, normally so calm, just won't stop crying.
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371) Odd Exam
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Odd Exam is a novella from Piers Anthony about an unusual college entrance examination. Entrance exams are taken in the form of a multi-player online game in a semi-virtual reality, with portals to other worlds and alien monsters. For those who qualify, board and tuition will be free. Can this be serious?
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Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, and others!In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who's been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group...
373) Warped Influences
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Mitchi Conrad, a sixteen-year-old rising tennis star's world falls apart when she vanishes on her way home from a school dance. After eleven days, she is found with no memory of her missing time. Once home, she becomes plagued with eerie visions and mysterious blackouts. After a bizarre incident at school, her mother places her into a special program to help her cope with her trauma. Meanwhile, two more vanishings spark the interest of local celebrity...
374) Stiletto: A Novel
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Stiletto is a timely, fast-paced, feminine mystery told in two diverse voices-a tense, erotic duet between the sharp, intuitive Detective Anna Crane and her prime suspect, the brilliant biochemist Eleanor Kiernan. Both women are haunted by the tragic loss of a sibling, but Kiernan's twin brother died of an overdose of the opiate she helped to create.
When a Big Pharma exec, Leo Cushman, is fatally stabbed, there are many other suspects: Obliterate...
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Her family's secrets might literally drown her.
Susana Prather wants one thing: to avoid becoming like the mother who abandoned her, no matter the cost. But when her eighteenth birthday triggers a generational curse, prompting Susana to sleepwalk into the Okefenokee Swamp behind her grandparents' house, she realizes the roots of her family tree run deeper than she believed . . .
And they won't let her go without a fight.
To put a stop to the sleepwalking,...
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"Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen Ellen is juggling nonstop commitments, from raising a teen and two toddlers to job hunting to renovating her dream home, the Meadowhouse. Amid the chaos, an ominous note arrives in the mail, declaring: People have to learn there are consequences. Why would someone send her this? Ellen has no clue. She's no angel--a white lie here, an occasional sharp tongue there--but she's done nothing to incur...
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