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The Starter Wife

Nina Laurin · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Local police have announced that they're closing the investigation of the suspected drowning of 37-year-old painter Colleen Westcott. She disappeared on April 11, 2010, and her car was found parked near the waterfront in Cleveland two days later, but her body has never been found. The chief...
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Fatal Inheritance: A Novel

Rachel Rhys · Washington Square Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Get swept away to the enchanting South of France with this "exquisite and shimmering" (Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone) suspenseful historical novel, where perilous secrets lurk under the glitz and glam of seaside wealth. She didn't have...
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Gone Too Long: A Novel

Lori Roy · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century's worth of hate. On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville,...
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A Nearly Normal Family: A Novel

M. T. Edvardsson · Celadon Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

M.T. Edvardsson's A Nearly Normal Family is a gripping psychological thriller that forces the reader to consider: how far would you go to protect the ones you love? In this twisted narrative of love and murder, a horrific crime makes a seemingly normal family question everything they thought...
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Rogue Strike

David Ricciardi · Berkley
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Jake Keller finds himself in a familiar position - on the run for his life and desperate to find the shadowy figures behind a global conspiracy.CIA agent Jake Keller and his partner, Curt Roach, are in Yemen on an important mission. They've been tipped off to a secret meeting of top al Qaeda...
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Dear Wife: A Novel

Kimberly Belle · Park Row
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Marriage Lie and Three Days Missing comes a riveting new novel of suspense about a woman who, in a fight for survival, must decide just how far she'll go to escape the person she once lovedBeth Murphy is on the run ... For nearly a year, Beth has been...
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A Long Way Down

Randall Silvis · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

The third book in the acclaimed Ryan DeMarco mystery series finds DeMarco returning to Erie, Pennsylvania after his estranged wife attempts suicide and beginning an investigation into three recent murders in a nearby Ohio town that may be related to a cold case dating back to DeMarco's...
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Sweet Tea and Secrets: A Tea and a Read Mystery

Joy Avon · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Sleuth Callie Aspen wants to light up the Fourth of July tea party by solving a celebrity's decades-old disappearance, but her digging results in more fireworks than she expects.Last Christmas, Callie Aspen left her tour guide job and settled in Heart's Harbor, Maine. Now, she helps out at Book...
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A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder

Dianne Freeman · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

How far will some go to safeguard a secret? In the latest novel in Dianne Freeman's witty and delightful historical mystery series, the adventurous Countess Harleigh finds out . . . Though American by birth, Frances Wynn, the now-widowed Countess of Harleigh, has adapted admirably to the quirks...
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One Small Sacrifice

Hilary Davidson · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover

An apparent suicide. A mysterious disappearance. Did one man get away with murder - twice?NYPD detective Sheryn Sterling has had her eye on Alex Traynor ever since his friend Cori fell to her death under suspicious circumstances a year ago. Cori's death was ruled a suicide, but Sheryn thinks...
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All the Lost Things: A Novel

Michelle Sacks · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Room and The Lovely Bones, an unforgettable young girl goes on a road trip adventure through the American south with her dad-- but what they're leaving behind is as important as what lies ahead. Dolly is 7 years old. Her number-one all-time most-best friend is her stuffed...
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The Good Sister

Gillian McAllister · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

An electrifying novel about the unyielding bond between two sisters, which is severely tested when one of them is accused of the worst imaginable crime. Martha and Becky Blackwater are more than sisters--they're each other's lifelines. When Martha finds herself struggling to balance early...
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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

Felicity McLean · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The Virgin Suicides meets Picnic at Hanging Rock in this stunning international debut. "A smart, classy thriller that blazes with the heat of Australia and slowly reveals its many layers." - Fiona Mozley, author of Man Booker Prize finalist Elmet "We lost all three girls...
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Her Daughter's Mother

Daniela Petrova · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

She befriended the one woman she was never supposed to meet. Now she's the key suspect in her disappearance. For fans of The Perfect Mother and The Wife Between Us comes a gripping psychological suspense debut about two strangers, one incredible connection, and the steep price of obsession.Lana...
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The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits

Alys Clare · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

London, 1880. "I'm dreadfully afraid someone is threatening to kill my wife ... " When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her,...
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Bone Deep

Sandra Ireland · Gallery Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A twisty and propulsive read, this dark psychological thriller of sibling rivalry, love, betrayal, and the dire consequences of family fallout brilliantly plays on our fears of loneliness and abandonment, harkening to the modern gothic bestsellers by Ruth Ware and Liz Nugent. Is a story...
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Blood Relations

Jonathan Moore · Mariner Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

A new thriller from a writer who's been compared to Michael Crichton, Alfred Hitchcock, Raymond Chandler, Blake Crouch, and David Cronenberg takes us to the most menacing core of California's upper crust, a class of billionaires with more money than they could spend in eternity.Who is Claire...
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The Snakes: A Novel

Sadie Jones · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins," she said. She didn't feel afraid standing in the darkness, imagining snakes, even with the smell of death in the air."Recently married, psychologist Bea and Dan, a mixed-race artist, rent out their tiny flat to escape London...
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Rules of Engagement: A Novel

David Bruns · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"In Rules of Engagement, David Bruns and J. R. Olson deliver a captivating and utterly authentic portrayal of modern day combat that compares with the best of the timeless classics by Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, and Stephen Coonts. This one must not be missed!" -- Mark Greaney, #1 New York...
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Memo from Turner

Tim Willocks · Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

During a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His companions who do know leave the girl to die. The driver's mother, a self-made mining magnate called Margot Le Roux,...
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The Man With No Face

Peter May · Quercus
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist for Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale--a professional assassin.A classic early Peter May novel situated among the political intrigue of 1979....
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The Policewomen's Bureau: A Novel

Ed Conlon · Arcade
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning novel about the inner workings of the NYPD, based on the true story of a young officer's decades-long fight for respect in the male-dominated world. The Bronx, 1958. The Policewomen's Bureau isn't respected within the Department, even when it handles cases the men can't...
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Just One Bite: A Novel

Jack Heath · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Timothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body disposal for a local crime lord. One night he stumbles across a body he wasn't supposed to find and is forced to hide it. When the FBI calls Blake in to investigate a missing university professor, Blake recognizes him as the dead...
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Her Fugitive Heart: The Ravi PI Series

Adi Tantimedh · Atria/Leopoldo & Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The Ravi PI series comes to its exciting conclusion with newlywed Ravi Chandra Singh and the secret agency Golden Sentinels having to save themselves from going under after the sudden arrest of their mysterious founder. Being a private investigator at the Golden Sentinels Agency never gets...
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A Philosophy of Ruin: A Novel

Nicholas Mancusi · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"An unforgettable debut. Mancusi is a writer to watch." -- Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel A young philosophy professor finds himself in the middle of a drug-running operation after his personal life derails in this taut, white-knuckle debut for fans...
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Fake Like Me

Barbara Bourland · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

At once a twisted psychological portrait of a woman crumbling under unimaginable pressure and a razor-sharp satire of the contemporary art scene, FAKE LIKE ME is a dark, glamorous, and addictive story of good intentions gone awry, from the critically acclaimed author of I'll Eat When I'm Dead.Cary...
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