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Sunburn
by Laura Lippman
A sultry and suspenseful noir novel about a woman who comes to a small town with a secret and falls in love with a man who has secrets of his own.
“Suspenseful as hell, and she writes like a dream [...] Lippman’s always good, but this is a cut above.” —STEPHEN KING They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is ... (Barnes & Noble)
What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
A woman claiming to be a long-missing girl reopens a cold case, forcing detectives to unravel the truth.
Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two ... (Goodreads)
Every Secret Thing
by Laura Lippman
Two girls convicted of killing a baby are released years later, but another child goes missing. Who is responsible?
Stepping away from her acclaimed, award-winning mystery series featuring Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan, author Laura Lippman has delivered a novel of psychological suspense that will ... (Goodreads)
Two Girls Down
by Louisa Luna
When two young girls go missing, a bounty hunter and a former cop team up to find them before it's too late.
When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately ... (Goodreads)
Bad Monkey
by Carl Hiaasen
A comedic mystery involving crime, corruption, and a talking dead monkey.
In mid-July, a sportfisherman tourist off the Florida Keys reels in a severed human arm. The Monroe County Sheriff Sonny Summers, who is hyper-sensitive to any publicity threat to the Keys' tourist ... (Wikipedia)
The Stranger
by Harlan Coben
A man's life is turned upside down when he discovers his wife's shocking secret. He must navigate a dangerous web of lies and deceit to uncover the truth.
The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a ... (Goodreads)
Fool Me Once
by Harlan Coben
A woman's search for justice and the truth behind her husband's death.
Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who had been ... (Goodreads)
The Life We Bury
by Allen Eskens
College student Joe Talbert investigates a 30-year-old murder case for an English assignment, but uncovers more than he bargained for.
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines ... (Goodreads)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
A widower finds love and acceptance in an unlikely place, challenging social conventions.
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as ... (Goodreads)
How the Light Gets In
by Louise Penny
Detective Armand Gamache investigates a murder in a small Canadian town, uncovering secrets and lies.
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive ... (Goodreads)
Sycamore Row
by John Grisham
A lawyer in Mississippi must unravel a mysterious will and its secrets.
The title refers to a row of sycamore trees in the countryside near the fictional town of Clanton, in fictional Ford County, Mississippi . The trees play an important role in the book's plot, though ... (Wikipedia)
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
A multigenerational saga tracing the journey of an African American family in the U.S.
Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte —a young man taken from the Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slave—and seven generations of his descendants in the United States. Kunta, a Mandinka ... (Wikipedia)
All Is Not Forgotten
by Wendy Walker
After a brutal assault, a teenage girl undergoes a controversial treatment to erase her memory of the event, but the truth cannot be forgotten.
"An assured, powerful novel that blends suspense and rich family drama...it is, in a word, unforgettable." —William Landay, author of DEFENDING JACOB Wendy Walker's All Is Not Forgotten begins in the ... (Barnes & Noble)
Dying for Chocolate
by Diane Mott Davidson
Caterer Goldy Schulz investigates a murder at a chocolate-themed party. Recipes included.
The Caterer Meet Goldy Bear: a bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life has become a recipe for disaster. She's got an abusive ex-husband who's into making tasteless threats, ... (Goodreads)
The Leaving
by Tara Altebrando
Six kindergarteners disappeared without a trace, and eleven years later, five of them return with no memory of where they've been.
Six were taken. Eleven years later, five come back—with no idea of where they've been. A riveting mystery for fans of, We Were Liars,. Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a ... (Barnes & Noble)
Body Movers
by Stephanie Bond
Carlotta Wren's life is turned upside down when her mother is accused of murder and she must use her skills as a former crime-scene cleaner to clear her name.
Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned. She didn't plan for her parents to skip bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her to raise her brother. She didn't plan on having the silver ... (Goodreads)
Try Not to Breathe
by Holly Seddon
A journalist investigates a 15-year-old coma case, uncovering secrets and putting her own life at risk. Gripping and suspenseful.
For fans of Lianne Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Tana French, an arresting debut novel of psychological suspense: a young journalist struggles to keep the demons of her alcoholism at bay as she finds ... (Goodreads)
The Beach Trees
by Karen White
A woman travels to Biloxi, Mississippi to uncover the truth about her sister's disappearance and finds herself drawn to a family with a tragic past.
From the bestselling author of, After the Rain,, Sea Change, and The Color of Light... From the time she was twelve, Julie Holt knew what a random tragedy can do to a family. At that tender age, her ... (Goodreads)
The Compound
by S.A. Bodeen
After a nuclear attack, a family is forced to live in an underground bunker for 6 years. But secrets and lies threaten their survival.
Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they've become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy. For Eli, no amount of ... (Goodreads)
The Taxidermist's Daughter
by Kate Mosse
A young woman in a small English village uncovers dark secrets about her family's past and the town's history.
A chilling and spooky Gothic historical thriller reminiscent of Rebecca and The Turn of the Screw , dripping with the dark twists and eerie surprises that are the hallmarks of Edgar Allan Poe, from ... (Barnes & Noble)
Do Not Become Alarmed
by Maile Meloy
Two families on a cruise ship lose their children in Central America, leading to a frantic search and a test of their relationships.
From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation - and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their ... (Goodreads)
Coffin Road
by Peter May
A man wakes up on a beach with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must uncover the truth about his past and a murder on a remote Scottish island.
The master of crime brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides. A man is washed up on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris, barely alive and borderline hypothermic. He has no idea who he is ... (Goodreads)
Don't Look Back
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Samantha is haunted by her past and falls for the mysterious Carson, but secrets threaten to tear them apart.
Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all - popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Sam has resurfaced, but ... (Goodreads)
Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan
by Noelle Stevenson
Five friends embark on an epic adventure in search of a missing friend, facing supernatural threats.
If you got it, haunt it! Trying to take advantage of the first quiet day at camp in a while, Mal and Molly's date takes a bizarre turn with the appearance of the bear woman! Back at camp, Jo, April, ... (Barnes & Noble)
World Gone By
by Dennis Lehane
A former gangster navigates the criminal underworld of 1940s Florida while trying to protect his family. Loyalties are tested and secrets are revealed.
Ten years after the events chronicled in the prior novel,, Live by Night, , Joe Coughlin is working as the consigliere to the crime family headed by his former partner Dion Bartolo. Outwardly, Joe is ... (Wikipedia)
The Steel Kiss
by Jeffery Deaver
A tragic accident caused by a malfunctioning escalator leads to a series of murders. Can forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme solve the case before it's too late?
Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She’s chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. ... (Goodreads)
Supernova
by Marissa Meyer
Two teens on a space mission fall in love as they race against time to save their ship from a deadly supernova.
All's fair in love and anarchy... The epic conclusion to Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades Trilogy finds Nova and Adrian fighting to keep their identities secret. While the battle rages on between ... (Goodreads)
The Professor
by Robert Bailey
A law professor takes on a wrongful death case, uncovering corruption and facing personal demons along the way.
Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student ... (Barnes & Noble)
Pretty Baby
by Mary Kubica
Psychological thriller of a mysterious woman and her hidden past, and the family that takes her in.
“Thrilling and illuminating…[,Pretty Baby,] raises the ante on the genre and announces the welcome second coming of a talent well worth watching.” —,LA Times,Heidi Wood has always been a charitable ... (Barnes & Noble)
Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
A middle-aged woman questions her life choices and identity after inheriting her deceased husband's family business.
Tyler's 15th novel, like most of her work, is set in Baltimore, Maryland . It opens with the sentence, "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person." The ... (Wikipedia)
