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Dare Me: A Novel

Megan Abbott · Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books
Format: Book

"I dare you not to love this book. You lucky reader."---Tom Franklin, New York Times bestselling author ofCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established...
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Charlatans

ROBIN COOK · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 435
Format: Hardcover

The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from...
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Baby Doll

Hollie Overton · Redhook
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"What a compulsive read A brilliant first novel that kept me transfixed and entertained until the very last page. " -- Tess Gerritsen, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Die Again" Escape was just the beginning. Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown...
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Cat Shout for Joy: A Joe Grey Mystery

Shirley Rousseau Murphy · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Awaiting the birth of his first kittens, feline P. I. Joe Grey, his companion Dulcie, and their furry sleuthing pals must unmask a killer preying on some of the most vulnerable citizens in the charming California coastal community of Molena Point.For Joe Grey and Dulcie, life is a bittersweet...
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Sleeping with Fear

Kay Hooper · Bantam; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Fear has never been so close. ... New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies . . . and evil.Riley...
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Murder at the Brightwell: A Mystery

Ashley Weaver · Minotaur Books
Pages: 325
Format: Paperback

Shortlisted for the Edgar AwardsAshley Weaver's debut mystery, Murder at the Brightwell, is a delicious, stylish novel in which murder invades British polite society and romance springs in unexpected places, and a wonderful testament to the enduring delight of the traditional mystery."An...
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Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

DONNA LEON · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral...
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Little Girl Gone: An Afton Tangler Thriller

Gerry Schmitt · Berkley Books
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

In the first Afton Tangler thriller, the unforgiving cold of a Minnesota winter hides the truth behind an even more chilling crime... On a frozen night in an affluent neighborhood of Minneapolis, a baby is abducted from her home after her teenage babysitter is violently assaulted. The parents...
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The Drama Teacher: A Novel

KOREN ZAILCKAS · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Mother, Mother and Smashed comes a propulsive new thriller: the story of a desperate and devious woman who will do anything to give her family a better life Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy...
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The Innocents

Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 367
Format: Print book

"She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is up to Sheriff Quinn Colson, back on the job after a year away,...
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Heat Storm

Richard Castle · Kingswell
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese...
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The Semester of Our Discontent

Cynthia G Kuhn · Henery Press
Pages: 227
Format: Print book

"The best cozy debut I've read this year. An engaging heroine, a college setting that will have you aching to go back to school, and a puzzler of a mystery make this a must-read for cozy lovers." - Laura DiSilverio, National Bestselling Author of the Readaholics Book Club...
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Blackout: A Novel

Marc Elsberg · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Fast, tense, thrilling -- and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended." -- Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesWhen the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely...
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House Witness

Mike Lawson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In House Witness, the twelfth novel in the Joe DeMarco series, Mike Lawson puts his likable protagonist on the trail of a different kind of fixer -- one whose job is to influence, and sometimes disappear, witnesses in seemingly airtight criminal cases. Minority Leader of the House and DeMarco's...
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No Man's Land

David Baldacci · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 420
Format: Print book

Special Agent John Puller, combat veteran and the army's most tenacious investigator, is back in this action-packed thriller from worldwide #1 bestselling author David Baldacci. NO MAN'S LAND Two men. Thirty years. John Puller's mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe,...
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