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The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles
A lawyer returns to his hometown to defend a man accused of murder, uncovering dark secrets and corruption.
The novel is of investigative crime fiction genre, entailing the main character of Penn Cage . Cage travels back to his home town of Natchez, Mississippi with his young daughter after the death of ... (Wikipedia)
Turning Angel
by Greg Iles
A small town lawyer investigates the murder of a high school girl, uncovering dark secrets and corruption.
Greg Iles, the #1, New York Times, bestselling author of, Mississippi Blood, keeps the secrets of the South alive in this “powerful…heartfelt…entirely gripping” (,The Washington Post,) novel of ... (Barnes & Noble)
Dead Sleep
by Greg Iles
A forensic dentist is haunted by a serial killer who wants her dead. She must race against time to uncover the killer's identity before it's too late.
Jordan Glass, a photojournalist on a well-earned vacation, wanders into a Hong Kong art museum and is puzzled to find fellow patrons eyeing her with curiosity. Minutes later, she stumbles upon a ... (Goodreads)
The Survivors Club
by Lisa Gardner
Three survivors of different tragedies come together to solve a murder and confront their past traumas.
One of today's most electrifying suspense novelists, "New York Times" bestselling author Lisa Gardner returns with a shattering thriller that dares to play on our deepest vulnerabilities. In this ... (Goodreads)
Run for Your Life
by James Patterson
A detective investigates a series of murders that seem to be connected to a popular health and fitness program. Fast-paced thriller with unexpected twists.
A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, ... (Goodreads)
61 Hours
by Lee Child
An ex-military cop races against the clock to uncover a sinister plot and protect a witness in small-town South Dakota.
Jack Reacher is hitching a ride on a senior citizen's tour through South Dakota in the middle of winter when the bus skids out on the interstate, disabling it. Together with the bus driver and the ... (Wikipedia)
The Gate House
by Nelson DeMille
John Sutter returns to his Long Island hometown to confront his past and solve a murder mystery.
After John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her Mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years ... (Wikipedia)
The Sleeping Doll
by Jeffery Deaver
A retired detective is called back to solve a case involving a notorious killer and his only surviving victim. Twists and turns abound.
When Special Agent Kathryn Dance – a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation -- is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as ... (Goodreads)
The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly
A defense attorney navigates the legal system and unravels a conspiracy that could destroy him.
Moderately successful criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates around Los Angeles County out of a Lincoln Town Car (hence the title) driven by a former client working off his legal fees. ... (Wikipedia)
Night Over Water
by Ken Follett
A gripping tale of suspense, set in the midst of WWII.
September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most luxurious airliner—the legendary Pan Am clipper—takes off for its final flight to neutral America. Aboard are the ... (Goodreads)
The Panther
by Nelson DeMille
A US government operative attempts to locate a terrorist leader in the Middle East.
Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen-one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they ... (Goodreads)
Bleachers
by John Grisham
A former high school football star returns to his hometown to confront the past.
Neely Crenshaw, born in 1969, is a high school All-American quarterback , who has been Messina High School's 'golden boy,' expected to lead them to the state title. Neely is a highly recruited ... (Wikipedia)
Blindsighted
by Karin Slaughter
A small Georgia town is rocked by a series of gruesome murders, and it's up to a female detective to solve the case.
A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it’s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that ... (Barnes & Noble)
Love You More
by Lisa Gardner
Detective D.D. Warren investigates a murder case involving a mother who claims to love her daughter more than anything in the world.
One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to ... (Goodreads)
The Poet
by Michael Connelly
A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's descent into darkness, as he unravels a web of deceit and murder.
Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how–he decides to write the story. But ... (Goodreads)
Echo Burning
by Lee Child
A former military man is hired for a dangerous job to protect a woman and her daughter from an abusive husband.
Jack Reacher breaks a bully's nose and finger after being repeatedly provoked in a Texas saloon, so when the bully turns out to be a local cop and shows up with three of his colleagues the following ... (Wikipedia)
Fallen
by Karin Slaughter
A small town is rocked by a brutal crime that exposes long-held secrets and threatens to tear the community apart.
Agent Faith Mitchell is late leaving a training workshop with the GBI. She was supposed to pick up her baby at noon, but there's no answer at her mother's house. Retired Atlanta Police Captain Evelyn ... (Wikipedia)
Six Years
by Harlan Coben
A man's search for the truth of his lost love, uncovering secrets of a mysterious past.
Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six ... (Goodreads)
Magic Hour
by Kristin Hannah
A woman's journey of self-discovery and healing, finding strength and courage to confront her past.
Dr. Julia Cates was one of the country's preeminent child psychiatrists until a shocking tragedy ruined her career. Retreating to her small western Washington hometown, Julia meets an extraordinary ... (Goodreads)
Gone Tomorrow
by Lee Child
Detective Jack Reacher uncovers a deadly conspiracy while on the hunt for a missing woman.
It's 2am, and Jack Reacher is travelling on the New York City Subway . He notices a suspicious looking passenger who matches many of the specifications for a potential suicide bomber. When he ... (Wikipedia)
The Drop
by Michael Connelly
A Los Angeles Police detective investigates a case of lost money and a missing girl.
The book was mentioned in a February 2011 interview, where Connelly explained that Bosch would be "handling two cases at once, a cold case that turns hot and the politically charged investigation ... (Wikipedia)
The Confession
by John Grisham
An innocent man is framed for murder and must fight to prove his innocence.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER First time in paperback An innocent man is about to be executed.,Only a guilty man can save him. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, ... (Goodreads)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
An epic tale of family and loyalty set in a rural Wisconsin landscape.
Forte's Children Edgar comes from a line of dog breeders. After buying a farm, his grandfather, John Sawtelle, rents out the farmland and starts dog breeding . He and his wife have two sons, Edgar's ... (Wikipedia)
The Witching Hour
by Anne Rice
A dark and mysterious tale of secret families and supernatural forces.
From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding ... (Goodreads)
End of Watch
by Stephen King
A retired detective confronts a powerful and mysterious force that has returned to terrorize a small town.
Retired detective Bill Hodges, who now with his sidekick Holly runs the private investigation agency Finders Keepers, is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer . Given only months to live, he finds himself ... (Wikipedia)
Altered Carbon
by Richard K. Morgan
A futuristic sci-fi noir set in a world where death is no longer permanent.
On the colony planet of Harlan’s World, Takeshi Kovacs and his partner Sarah Sachilowski, former Envoys who had returned to a life of crime, are killed by a U.N. colonial commando unit. Kovacs is ... (Wikipedia)
The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
A journey through a web of intertwining stories, searching for the meaning of love.
Approximately 70 years before the present, the 10-year-old Polish-Jewish Leopold (Leo) Gursky falls in love with his neighbor Alma Mereminski. The two begin a relationship that develops over the ... (Wikipedia)
Plum Island
by Nelson DeMille
A mysterious investigation into a series of strange, unexplained events on a remote island.
In 1997, NYPD detective John Corey is on the back porch of his uncle's waterfront home on the North Fork of Long Island recovering from three gunshot wounds while working in his town of Manhattan, ... (Wikipedia)
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
Exploration of the timeless struggle between good and evil, set against a backdrop of a family saga.
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas ... (Goodreads)
Smash Cut
by Sandra Brown
A wealthy businessman's life is turned upside down when his actress wife is brutally murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes this thrilling new novel full of jarring, cinematic twists and breathless suspense that will have you on the edge of your seat. When ... (Goodreads)
