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Here and Gone: A Novel
Here and Gone: A Novel

HAYLEN BECK · CROWN
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Here and Gone is a gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother's desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities.. It begins with a woman fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she's pulled over by an unsettling...
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Love Like Blood: A Tom Thorne Novel
Love Like Blood: A Tom Thorne Novel

MARK BILLINGHAM · ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham's riveting new novel Love Like Blood marks the return of series character Tom Thorne, "the next superstar detective" (Lee Child) , as he pairs up with perfectionist detective inspector Nicola Tanner of Die of Shame on an investigation...
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MatchUp
MatchUp

Lee Child · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology.MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender....
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No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories
No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

Lee Child · Bantam
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

This hard-hitting collection of Jack Reacher fiction includes an original novella leading into The Midnight Line alongside eleven reader favorites: Small Wars, Not a Drill, High Heat, Second Son, Deep Down, Guy Walks into a Bar, James Penney's New Identity, Everyone Talks, The Picture of the Lonely...
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Full Wolf Moon
Full Wolf Moon

LINCOLN CHILD · DOUBLEDAY
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist...featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic. Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often...
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Trap the Devil
Trap the Devil

BEN COES · ST MARTIN'S PRESS
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A group of some of the most powerful people in the government, the military, and the private sector, has begun a brutal plan to quietly take over the reins of the U.S. government. They've begun to remove the people who stand in their way -- and replace them with their own sympathizers and puppets....
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The Wanted
The Wanted

ROBERT CRAIS · PUTNAM
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

It seemed like a simple case - before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives, in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author When single mother Devon Connor hires private...
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Hello, Sunshine
Hello, Sunshine

Laura Dave · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From Laura Dave - the author of the "addictive" (Us Weekly) , "winning" (Publishers Weekly) and critically acclaimed bestseller Eight Hundred Grapes - comes a new novel about the secrets we keep ... even from ourselves.Sunshine Mackenzie truly is living the dream....
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The Marsh King's Daughter
The Marsh King's Daughter

Karen Dionne · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Praised by Lee Child and Karin Slaughter, and sure to thrill fans of The Girl on the Train and The Widow, The Marsh King's Daughter is mesmerizing psychological suspense, the story of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal...
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Blackout: A Novel
Blackout: A Novel

Marc Elsberg · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Book

When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There...

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You'll Never Know, Dear: A Novel of Suspense
You'll Never Know, Dear: A Novel of Suspense

HALLIE EPHRON · WILLIAM MORROW
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight, about three generations of women haunted by a little girl's disappearance, and the porcelain doll that may hold the key to the truth . . .

Seven-year-old Lissie Steger and her four-year-old...

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Dangerous Minds: A Knight and Moon Novel
Dangerous Minds: A Knight and Moon Novel

JANET EVANOVICH · BANTAM
Pages: 320
Format: Book

The perfectly mismatched crime-fighting duo - Emerson Knight and Riley Moon - return in the second electrifying mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.

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The Switch
The Switch

Joseph Finder · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Book

Michael Tanner is on his way home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong MacBook in the TSA security line at LAX. He doesn't notice the mix-up until he arrives home in Boston, but by then it's too late. Tanner's curiosity gets the better of him when...

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Marathon
Marathon

Brian Freeman · Quercus Books
Pages: 408
Format: Print book

On a rainy June morning, tens of thousands of people crowd into Duluth for the city's biggest annual event: the Duluth Marathon. Exhausted runners push to reach the finish line and spectators line the streets to cheer them on. Then, in a terrifying echo of the Boston bombing, there is an explosion...
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Quiet Until the Thaw: A Novel
Quiet Until the Thaw: A Novel

Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel.

Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications...
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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

DIANA GABALDON · DELACORTE
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

Featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more from Diana Gabaldon's unforgettable cast of characters, this brilliant collection of Outlander novellas includes two never-before-published works - Besieged and A Fugitive Green - as well as Virgins,...
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UNSUB: A Novel
UNSUB: A Novel

Meg Gardiner · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier.

Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months...
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Hunger: A Memoir of
Hunger: A Memoir of

Roxane Gay · Harpercollins
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

"I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried...

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The Little French Bistro: A Novel
The Little French Bistro: A Novel

NINA GEORGE · CROWN
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an extraordinary novel about self-discovery and new beginnings

Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit,...
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Grief Cottage
Grief Cottage

Gail Godwin · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.

After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great...

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The Chalk Artist: A Novel
The Chalk Artist: A Novel

Allegra Goodman · The Dial Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The lives of a gifted artist, an idealistic teacher, and a troubled young videogamer intersect in this compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cookbook Collector and Intuition.
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Shiver Hitch
Shiver Hitch

Linda Greenlaw · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Book

Jane Bunker thought she’d escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she’s...

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Indigo
Indigo

Charlaine Harris · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo...

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I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

KEVIN HART · 37 INK
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt,...
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Magpie Murders: A Novel
Magpie Murders: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript...

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You Will Pay
You Will Pay

LISA JACKSON · KENSINGTON PUB CORP
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

In a fast-paced, brilliantly twisted novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the deadly secrets of a long-ago summer stir to life once more.

It starts as a prank - a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among...
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Defectors: A Novel
Defectors: A Novel

JOSEPH KANON · ATRIA BOOKS
Pages: 384
Format: Book

From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and The Good German comes a fast-paced and richly imagined novel about an American spy, the Cold War's most notorious defector, who gave up his country for the safety - and prison - of Moscow, but never lost his gift...

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He Said/She Said
He Said/She Said

Erin Kelly · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they are certain this will be the first of many they'll share.

But in the hushed moments after...

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Lockdown: A Novel of Suspense
Lockdown: A Novel of Suspense

LAURIE R KING · BANTAM
Pages: 336
Format: Book

A classroom is held hostage by someone with a thirst for revenge in this stunningly intricate, ripped-from-the-headlines novel of rich psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell mysteries.

Career Day at Guadalupe...

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The Silent Corner: A Novel
The Silent Corner: A Novel

Dean R Koontz · Bantam Books
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

A dazzling new series debuts with a remarkable heroine certain to become a new icon of suspense, propelled by the singular narrative genius of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.

"I very much need to be dead."

These are the chilling...
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Every Last Lie
Every Last Lie

Mary Kubica · Park Row Books
Pages: 336
Format: Book

New York Times bestselling author of THE GOOD GIRL, Mary Kubica is back with another exhilarating thriller as a widow's pursuit of the truth leads her to the darkest corners of the psyche.

"The bad man, Daddy. The bad man is after us."

Clara...

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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Initiative
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Initiative

ERIC VAN LUSTBADER · GRAND CENTRAL PUB
Pages: 432
Format: Book

Jason Bourne returns in this stunning new thriller from Eric Van Lustbader, continuing Robert Ludlum's classic series.

General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But Karpov has reached out from the grave with an unstoppable cyber operation...

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Tom Clancy Point of Contact
Tom Clancy Point of Contact

MIKE MADEN · PUTNAM
Pages: 688
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy created a world of indelible characters who live on this electrifying thriller.


Jack Ryan, Jr. is going out on an ordinary audit. Hendley and Associates, the investment firm that acts as cover for The Campus is looking...
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Take Out
Take Out

Margaret Maron · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Following the heartwarming conclusion to her Deborah Knott series, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new mystery featuring NYPD detective Sigrid Harald.
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The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist

BRAD MELTZER · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Book

In #1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer's new thriller, death is just another way to disappear.

Two hours outside of Washington, DC is the mortuary for the U.S. government's most top-secret and high profile cases. America's most important funeral...

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The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues: A Novel
The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues: A Novel

Edward Kelsey Moore · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues is an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness

When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne,...

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DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense

JOYCE CAROL OATES · GROVE
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most disturbing corners" (Seattle Times) . That genius is on full display in her new collection of seven feverishly unsettling works, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense.

In...
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The Breakdown: A Novel
The Breakdown: A Novel

B A PARIS · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels Of 2017 by Bustle!

THE NEW CHILLING, PROPULSIVE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?

Cass...

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Dr. Death
Dr. Death

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover


The next hand he deals you...may be your last.

A serial killer is loose on the streets of Manhattan. His victims appear to be total strangers. The only clue that unites the crimes is the playing card left behind at each scene that hints at the next target. The killer,...
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The Only Child
The Only Child

Andrew Pyper · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The #1 internationally bestselling author of The Demonologist radically reimagines the origins of gothic literature's founding masterpieces - Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula - in a contemporary novel driven by relentless suspense...
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The Right Side: A Novel
The Right Side: A Novel

SPENCER QUINN · ATRIA Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In this riveting new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie mystery series, a deeply damaged female soldier home from the war in Afghanistan becomes obsessed with finding a missing girl, gains an unlikely ally in a stray dog, and encounters new perils...
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The Ultimatum
The Ultimatum

Karen Robards · MIRA
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will - Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business.

Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters...

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Come Sundown
Come Sundown

NORA ROBERTS · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

A novel of suspense, family ties, and twisted passions from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obsession...

The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand...

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Theft by Finding: Diaries
Theft by Finding: Diaries

DAVID SEDARIS · LITTLE
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", Bustle

From bestselling author David Sedaris, for the first time in print: selections from the diaries that are the source of his remarkable autobiographical essays.

For...
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The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War
The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War

JEFF SHAARA · BALLANTINE
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting new novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat: the Battle of Chosin Reservoir,...
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River Under the Road
River Under the Road

SCOTT SPENCER · ECCO
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Man in the Woods and Endless Love, a stunning, stinging portrait of class and creativity-and the double-edged sword of success

Thirteen parties over the course of two decades-an opium infused barbeque, a reception for a doomed...

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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel

Neal Stephenson · William Morrow
Pages: 800
Format: Book

From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations...

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Saints for All Occasions: A novel
Saints for All Occasions: A novel

J Courtney Sullivan · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Book

A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart.

Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when...

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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel

MATTHEW SULLIVAN · SCRIBNER
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer.

Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps...
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Secrets in Summer: A Novel
Secrets in Summer: A Novel

NANCY THAYER · BALLANTINE
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"The queen of beach books" (The Star-Ledger) returns to the shores of Nantucket in a novel about one memorable summer when flirtations flourish, family dramas play out, and scandalous secrets surface.

Memorial Day weekend means that seasonal visitors have...
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Everybody's Son: A Novel
Everybody's Son: A Novel

THRITY UMRIGAR · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores issues of race, class, privilege, and power and asks us to consider uncomfortable moral questions in this probing, ambitious, emotionally wrenching novel of two families - one black,...

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The Force: A Novel
The Force: A Novel

DON WINSLOW · WILLIAM MORROW
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cartel - voted one of the Best Books of the Year by more than sixty publications, including the New York Times - makes his William Morrow debut with a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as Mystic River and The Wire.

Our...

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Indecent Exposure
Indecent Exposure

STUART WOODS · PUTNAM
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Trouble always seems to find Stone Barrington, but with his debonair charm, unflappable composure, and cunning foresight, he always gets his man (and his lady....) .
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