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How To Be a Good Wife: A Novel

Emma Chapman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

How To Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman is a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions that make her question everything she knowsMarta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; through raising a son and sending him off to life after university....
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The Longings of Wayward Girls: A Novel

Karen Brown - Washington Square Press; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Its an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence. It seems like July and August will pass lazily by, just as they have every year before. But one day, Sadie and her best friend play a seemingly harmless prank on a neighborhood girl. Soon...
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Those Girls: A Novel

Chevy Stevens - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father's temper. One night, a fight gets out of hand and the sisters are forced to go on the run,...
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Finding Jake: A Novel

Bryan Reardon - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Now a New York Times Best Seller - Finding Jake is a heart-wrenching yet ultimately uplifting story of psychological suspense in which a parent is forced to confront what he does--and does not--know about his teenage son, in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia, Defending Jacob, and We Need...
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The Girl Before

Rena Olsen - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman's life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true . . . wasn't? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed...
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The Book of You: A Novel

Claire Kendal - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A mesmerizing tale of psychological suspense about a woman who must fight to escape an expert manipulator determined to possess her, Claire Kendal's debut novel is a sophisticated and disturbing portrait of compulsion, control, and terror that will appeal to fans of Before I Go to Sleep,...
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Close My Eyes

Sophie McKenzie - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Gone Girl meets Before I Go to Sleep in Sophie McKenzies Close My Eyes, a riveting psychological thriller about a grieving mother who finds out years after her daughters death that her child may still be aliveWhen Geniver Loxley lost her daughter at birth eight years ago, her world stopped...
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Dear Mr. M: A Novel

Herman Koch - Hogarth
Format: Print book

Once a celebrated writer, M had his greatest success with a suspense novel based on a real-life disappearance: a history teacher who went missing one winter after having a brief affair with a beautiful student of his. The teacher was never found. Upon publication, M's novel was a runaway...
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You Should Have Known

Jean Hanff Korelitz - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York...
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Her: A Novel

Harriet Lane - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. Nina--sophisticated, generous, effortlessly in control--seems to have all the answers. It's easy to see why Emma is drawn to Nina....
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Beside Myself

Ann Morgan - Bloomsbury, 2016.
Format: Print book

Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins, but Helen is smarter, more popular, and their mother's favorite. Ellie, on the other hand, requires special instruction at school, is friendless, and is punished at every turn. Until they decide to swap places--just for fun, and just for one day--and...
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Elizabeth Is Missing

Emma Healey - Harper
Format: Hardcover

HOW DO YOU SOLVE A MYSTERY WHEN YOU CAN'T REMEMBER THE CLUES?In this darkly riveting debut novel - a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging - an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest...
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Cover of Snow: A Novel

Jenny Milchman - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARDJenny Milchman's Cover of Snow is a remarkable debut, a gripping tale of suspense in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard.Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York,...
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The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShari Lapena's new thriller, A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE, is available now from Viking Books!"The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages." - People"Provocative and shocking." - Lisa Gardner, New York Times...
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The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN A DARK, DARK WOOD Featured in TheSkimm An Entertainment Weekly "Summer Must List" Pick A New York Post "Summer Must-Read" Pick Included in Summer Book Guides...
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