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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski - Pantheon; 2nd edition
Format: Hardcover

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting...
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Breed: A Novel

Chase Novak - Mulholland Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Critically celebrated novelist Scott Spencer delivers a Rosemarys Baby-like novel of gothic horror, set against the backdrop of modern-day Upper East Side Manhattan. Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives-fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattans Upper East Side, a passionate...
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The Ridge

Michael Koryta - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse that illuminates nothing but the surrounding woods. For years the lighthouse has been considered no more than an eccentric local landmark-until its builder is found dead at the top of the light,...
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The Trickster

Muriel Gray
Format: Book

While strange murders spread throughout a remote ski resort town high in the Canadian Rockies, Sam Hunt, a Native American, begins suffering black-outs, waking up miles away from home with no memory of his actions. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.
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The Descent: A Novel

Jeff Long
Format: Book

Hell exists.In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth....In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali von Sc
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Little Star: A Novel

John Ajvide Lindqvist - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"Establishes Lindqvist as Sweden's Stephen King."--The Washington Post on HarborJohn Ajvide Lindqvist has been crowned the heir apparent to Stephen King by numerous sources, and he is heralded around the globe as one of the most spectacularly talented horror writers...
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The Hollow City

Dan Wells - Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Dan Wells won instant acclaim for his three-novel debut about the adventures of John Wayne Cleaver, a heroic young man who is a potential serial killer. All who read the trilogy were struck by the distinctive and believable voice Wells created for John.Now he returns with another innovative...
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A Dark Matter

Peter Straub - Doubleday; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The incomparable master of horror and suspense returns with a powerful, brilliantly terrifying novel that redefines the genre in original and unexpected ways.The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young...
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Vanish

Tom Pawlik - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Christy Award winnerThree strangers each encounter the same mysterious storm and awake the next day to find that everyone else has vanished Theres Conner Hayden a successful but unscrupulous trial lawyer who has forsaken his family for his career Helen Krause a middle-aged model struggling...
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The Ruins

Scott Smith - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Eerie, terrifying, unputdownable - Scott Smiths first novel since his best-selling A Simple Plan ("Simply the best suspense novel of this year - hell, of the 1990s" - Stephen King) . The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach...
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Pretty Girls: A Novel

Karin Slaughter - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

Lee Child says it's "stunning ... certain to be a book of the year." Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary ... a major achievement."Jeffery Deaver says that "fiction doesn't get any better than this." Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: "I'd...
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Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname-Buffalo Bill-is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief...
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In the Woods

Tana French - Viking
Format: Hardcover

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing...
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The Widow

Fiona Barton - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A twisted psychological thriller you'll have trouble putting down." - People"If you liked Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, you might want to pick up The Widow by Fiona Barton. Engrossing. Suspenseful."...
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Sphere : a novel

Michael Crichton - Knopf
Format: Book

In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What...
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Dark Matter: A Novel

Blake Crouch - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Format: Hardcover

A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy-"Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped...
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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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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn
Format: Paperback

Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chic
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You: A Novel

Caroline Kepnes - Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Format: Print book

Praise for Caroline Kepnes and You: "Hypnotic and scary." - Stephen King "I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious." - Lena Dunham From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense...
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Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel

S. J. Watson - HarperCollins Publishers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me. . . ." Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your...
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The Good Girl

Mary Kubica - Mira Books
Format: Hardcover

"I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will." Born to a prominent Chicago judge and his stifled...
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Behind Closed Doors

B A PARIS - GRIFFIN
Format: Print book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU CAN'T MISS!The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?"A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive...A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night." -- Mary Kubica, New York Times and USA Today...
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Shutter Island: A Novel

Dennis Lehane - William Morrow; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing...
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I Let You Go

Clare Mackintosh - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Crime Novels of 2016!The next blockbuster thriller for those who loved The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl..."a finely crafted novel with a killer twist."(#1 New York Times...
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We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel

Lionel Shriver - Counterpoint; export ed edition
Format: Print book

A stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family, for readers of Rosellen Brown's Before and After and Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World . That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child's character is self-evident. But such...
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