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The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything: A Novel

Dror Mishani · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

Inspector Avraham Avraham is back in this sequel to the acclaimed thrillers A Possibility of Violence and The Missing File - internationally bestselling author D. A. Mishani's The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything is a hauntingly psychological domestic noir, perfect for fans of Alafair...
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The Believer: A Novel

Joakim Zander · Harper
Pages: 378
Format: Print book

An intricately plotted and brilliantly conceived stand-alone sequel to the international bestseller The Swimmer that turns the hottest political topics of our times into a complex, resonant thriller in the vein of John LeCarré.Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough...
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The Child Garden: A Novel

Catriona McPherson
Format: Hardcover

Eden was its name. "An alternative school for happy children." But it closed in disgrace after a student's suicide. Now it's a care home, the grounds neglected and overgrown. Gloria Harkness is its only neighbor, staying close to her son who lives in the home, li
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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 and surprising emotion....
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The Postman Always Purls Twice

Anne Canadeo · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

In the seventh installment in the "entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews) Black Sheep Knitting Mystery series, the knitters see the darker side of Hollywood when Maggie's shop is used as a set for a big budget, star-studded movie.When the cast and crew of a Hollywood movie arrive...
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Brood

Chase Novak · Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

Two teenagers struggle with a horrific family legacy in the sequel to Chase Novak's novel, Breed. Thirteen years ago, a radical fertility doctor helped bring Adam and Alice Twisden into the world. The treatment came at a great cost: it turned the twins' parents into barbarous animals...
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Blood on the Water: A William Monk Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

As her New York Times bestselling novels always remind us, Anne Perry is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth William Monk mystery, she brings us to London's grand Mayfair mansions, where the arrogant...
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Blue Light Yokohama

Nicolas Obregon · Minotaur Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Newly reinstated to the Homicide Division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself,...
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Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil

Melina Marchetta · Mulholland Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"More than a crime story; it's jam-packed with family drama and heartbreak. Highly recommended for suspense and mystery fans." --Library JournalIn the wake of a devastating bombing, a father risks everything to find out who was responsible.When Bish Ortley, a recently suspended...
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The Madness of Mercury

Connie Di Marco · Midnight Ink, 2016.
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti's life is turned upside down when she becomes the target of the city's newest cult leader, Reverend Roy of the Prophet's Tabernacle. Driven out of her apartment in the midst of a disastrous Mercury retrograde period, she takes shelter with...
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Listen to Me

Hannah Pittard · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A modern gothic about a marriage and road trip gone hauntingly awry Mark and Maggie's annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they're on the road, it's late, a storm is brewing, and they are no longer speaking to one another. Adding to the stress,...
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Night School: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child · Delacorte Press
Pages: 369
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incomparable hero of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back takes readers to school in his most explosive novel yet. After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, discover the thrillers that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive." It's 1996, and Reacher...
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The Substitute

NICOLE LUNDRIGAN · Spiderline
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback

Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D., taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his backyard, and Warren, shocked, flees the scene.As the small...
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The Unraveling of Mercy Louis: A Novel

Keija Parssinen · Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In this intricate novel of psychological suspense, a fatal discovery near the high school ignites a witch-hunt in a Southeast Texas refinery town, unearthing communal and family secrets that threaten the lives of the town's girls.In Port Sabine, the air is thick with oil, superstition reigns,...
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