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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
2) Murder road
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"A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long...
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"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped -- so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing -- proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
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Pearl River volume 2
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2024.
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"Although she witnessed the murder of her parents 25 years ago, Dani Bennett has no memory of the event. However, it's clear that the killer remembers her when she returns to Pearl Springs in search of answers. Local K-9 Deputy Mark Lassiter is determined to protect her but who will protect her heart?"--
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2024
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"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
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Hogarth
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[2024]
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English
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"On a cold November night in 1994, a farmhouse burns to the ground. Inside, a young woman is found dead--murdered. To the people in the rural community of Marbäck, it becomes a reference point: a before and after. For ten-year-old Isak Nyqvist, the fire sets in motion something he cannot control, as if a stray spark has found its way inside him, igniting his future into an inferno. The police quickly focus their attention on Edvard Christensson,...
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Everyman's library volume 417
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A one-volume selection of four novels in a legendary detective series—blistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's criminal underworld—by master crime writer Chester Himes A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin—and every bit their equal—Chester Himes is the acclaimed author of literary novels, stories, and essays, as well as the classic crime fiction series for which he is best known, featuring detectives Coffin...
8) The vein
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Dark Matter Ink
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2023.
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It's 1989 and failed detective Syl Dixon has returned to her childhood home in Idaho to sell the old place she grew up in. But when a shriveled corpse is discovered inside an old silver mine, she is unexpectedly asked to help investigate.
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
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2024
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English
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"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
10) Deadly game
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DCI Harry Taylor volume 1
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2023.
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"DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations - but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid. With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's Harry and his unconventional team who...
12) Ruthless
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Crooked Lane
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2023.
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"When Jan Frischof, a dying elderly man, gives a deathbed confession too unbelievable to be true, journalist Heloise Kaldan immediately knows there's a deeper story to uncover. Her gut soon proves to be right--Jan immediately backtracks and warns her that they will both be in danger if she asks any more questions. Could this kind and elderly man really be a cold-blooded killer? Heloise quickly realizes that this is a darker, and far more complicated,...
13) It had to be you
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Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
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Run with the wolf volume 2
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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[2024]
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English
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Dylan Powers is on a mission in Silver Town to catch four men hunting illegally. With this heightened wolf senses, he's on their trail, but the hunters know he's coming. Dylan is nearly drowned and left to die, but he's rescued by local ski lodge owner Roxie Wolff. Things start to heat up between them when she takes him into her home to help him recover. Roxie and Dylan team up with the Silver Town sheriff's...
15) At the river
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Columbia River novels volume 5
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Montlake
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[2024]
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English
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"While investigating the murder of a true crime podcaster, FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick and her police chief husband uncover a connection to a decades-old cold case kidnapping"--
16) Missing
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Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When fledgling singer Roxy Raines vanishes from the tiny resort of Sandown, the island's locals refuse to talk about it to any outsiders, dismissing Roxy as a teenage runaway. Thirty years later, seventeen-year-old Mona Perry is convinced there's something more sinister at play. Armed with a suitcase and a microphone - to record her findings for her podcast's listeners - the troubled teen is on a deadline: one hot summer is all she has to get to the...
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Acorn
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[2023]
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English
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Back from leave in the wake of his wife's unexplained disappearance, DI David Bradford (Hugo Speer) just wanted to embrace his workload as head of London's elite homicide investigation unit. It isn't long before his subordinates start questioning whether he was ready for active duty-or if he knew more about his spouse's fate than he was letting on. Intense, largely ad-libbed procedural from Paul Marquess ("Suspects") co-stars Sharon Small, Bailey...
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"Daisy has a lot to celebrate this summer, but the main event is her upcoming wedding to her fiancé Jonas. Somehow Daisy still finds time to be a guest on local journalist Trevor Lundquist's crime podcast to discuss the last murder she solved. After the podcast, Trevor receives an anonymous tip from a caller who claims a travel chest that's about to be auctioned holds a clue to a twenty-year-old unsolved murder. When a body turns up in Willow Creek,...
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Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At the cliff's edge, nobody is who they seem. Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast, relishing the respite from the noise, drama, and relentless careerism that curdled his relationship and mental health. Leonora has made the same move for similar reasons. She's living a short walk from Cole's seaside cottage, preparing...
20) The blue bar
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Thomas & Mercer
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[2022]
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English
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On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge in an evocative thriller about lost love and murderous obsession. After years of dancing in Mumbai's bars, Tara Mondal was desperate for a new start. So when a client offered her a life-changing payout to indulge a harmless, if odd, fantasy, she accepted. The setup was simple: wear a blue-sequined saree, enter a crowded railway...
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