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Snowblind
by Ragnar Jónasson
A small Icelandic town is hit by a snowstorm, trapping its inhabitants and revealing dark secrets.
Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first ... (Goodreads)
Ragdoll
by Daniel Cole
A serial killer is on the loose, leaving behind a trail of dismembered bodies. Detective William Fawkes must race against time to catch the killer before he strikes again.
William Fawkes, a controversial detective known as The Wolf, has just been reinstated to his post after he was suspended for assaulting a vindicated suspect. Still under psychological evaluation, ... (Goodreads)
The Only Story
by Julian Barnes
A love story between a young man and an older woman, exploring the complexities of relationships and the impact of memory on love.
The short (273 pp.) novel is the life story of Paul Roberts, who we first meet as a 19-year-old Sussex University undergraduate returning to his parents' house in the leafy southern suburbs of London ... (Wikipedia)
Behind Her Eyes
by Sarah Pinborough
Psychological suspense novel following a woman's tangled web of secrets, lies and relationships.
Why is everyone talking about the ending of Sarah Pinborough's, Behind Her Eyes?, Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and ... (Goodreads)
The Chalk Man
by C.J. Tudor
A group of friends in 1986 use chalk figures to communicate, but when a murder occurs, their past comes back to haunt them.
In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The ... (Goodreads)
Fat Chance
by Nick Spalding
A humorous and heartwarming story of a man's journey to lose weight and find love.
Meet Zoe and Greg Milton, a married couple who have let themselves go a bit. Zoe was a stunner in her college days, but the intervening decades have added five stone, and removed most of her ... (Goodreads)
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
A post-apocalyptic tale of survival, as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
The novel is broken into 11 parts of varying lengths. The story itself is broken into two sections: the first and shorter section covers the origins of the virus and its outbreak, while the second is ... (Wikipedia)
The Best Friend
by Shalini Boland
A psychological thriller about a woman whose best friend disappears, leading her to question everything she thought she knew about their friendship.
Toxic school mums, money worries, paranoia, and murder ... The Best Friend is a chilling psychological thriller from the Bestselling Author of The Girl from the Sea. They say to keep your friends ... (Goodreads)
The Devil's Work
by Mark Edwards
A woman starts a new job, but soon realizes that her boss is not what he seems. A psychological thriller that will keep you on edge.
A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of, Follow You Home, and, The Magpies,., It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving ... (Goodreads)
The Golden Cage
by Camilla Läckberg
A wealthy woman's perfect life is shattered when her husband is found dead, and she becomes the prime suspect.
An exhilarating new novel from a global superstar–a sexy, over-the-top psychological thriller that tells the story of the scorned wife of a billionaire and her delicious plot to get her revenge and ... (Goodreads)
The Plea
by Steve Cavanagh
A lawyer must defend his guilty client or face deadly consequences. Twists and turns abound in this legal thriller.
When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure Child as his client and force him to testify ... (Goodreads)
Before the Storm
by Diane Chamberlain
A family tragedy forces a woman to confront secrets from her past and the truth about her daughter's father.
Fifteen-year-old Andy Lockwood is special. Others notice the way he blurts out anything that comes into his mind, how he cannot foresee consequences, that he's more child than teenager. But his ... (Goodreads)
Whiskey Sour
by J.A. Konrath
A serial killer is on the loose and Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels must catch him before he strikes again.
First in an explosive series, millions sold worldwide... Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has ... (Barnes & Noble)
Look Behind You
by Sibel Hodge
A psychological thriller about a woman who wakes up with no memory of the previous night, and must uncover the truth before it's too late.
Chloe Benson wakes up kidnapped and bound in an underground tomb with no memory of how she got there. She escapes through deserted woods with her life, but no one believes her story. And when she ... (Goodreads)
High Force
by L.J. Ross
DCI Ryan investigates a murder at a remote waterfall, uncovering secrets and danger in the rugged Northumberland landscape.
Detective Chief Inspector Ryan’s worst nightmare has just become a reality. Notorious serial killer The Hacker has escaped prison and kidnapped one of his best detectives from her own home. His ... (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)
Your Perfect Year
by Charlotte Lucas
A man receives a diary from a stranger, which leads him on a journey of self-discovery and unexpected love.
A man consumed by a meaningless life is going to do something he’s never considered doing before. He’s going to enjoy the day…, For hyper-particular publishing heir Jonathan Grief, the day starts ... (Barnes & Noble)
Christy
by Catherine Marshall
A young woman from the city becomes a teacher in a rural Appalachian community, learning about life, love, and faith.
While attending a 1912 Christian revival meeting, 19-year-old Christy Huddleson is fascinated to learn about an Appalachian mission program when the founder describes the work his group is doing and ... (Wikipedia)
A Nearly Normal Family
by M.T. Edvardsson
A family is torn apart when their daughter is accused of murder. Each member must confront their own secrets and loyalty to each other.
"...A compulsively readable tour de force." —,The Wall Street Journal,, New York Times Book Review, recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s, A Nearly, Normal Family, and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces ... (Barnes & Noble)
Demon Dentist
by David Walliams
A new dentist arrives in town and strange things start happening. Can a young boy and his friends uncover the truth behind the demon dentist?
Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find… a ... (Goodreads)
Lying in Wait
by Liz Nugent
A twisted tale of a family's dark secrets and the consequences of their actions.
My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it. On the surface, Lydia Fitzsimons has the perfect life—wife of a respected, successful judge, mother to a beloved son, ... (Goodreads)
The One That Got Away
by Simon Wood
A woman is kidnapped and held captive for years, but manages to escape. She must confront her captor and the trauma she endured.
Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoë sees her, Holli is in the ... (Goodreads)
Nutcracker
by E.T.A. Hoffmann
A young girl's Christmas toy comes to life and takes her on a magical journey through a world of sweets and adventure.
The tale of Nutcracker , written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, composers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. It has retained its freshness because it ... (Goodreads)
The Night Stalker
by Robert Bryndza
A gripping crime thriller following a detective's pursuit of a serial killer.
The #1, Wall Street Journal, bestselling breakout detective Erika Foster series—with over two million copies sold—is back again to find a serial killer with a motive shrouded in secrecy. If the Night ... (Barnes & Noble)
One by One
by Chris Carter
A serial killer is on the loose, and detective Robert Hunter must race against time to catch them before they strike again.
'I need your help, Detective. Fire or water?' Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private ... (Goodreads)
Follow You Home
by Mark Edwards
A couple's European vacation takes a dark turn when they are haunted by a mysterious figure from their past.
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down. After a perfect start, Daniel and Laura’s travels end abruptly when they are thrown off a night train in the ... (Goodreads)
Black-Eyed Susans
by Julia Heaberlin
A woman's quest for justice when she is the sole survivor of a serial killer.
For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense. I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories. I am one of the four ... (Goodreads)
After the Crash
by Michel Bussi
A lone survivor of a plane crash, a baby girl, becomes the center of a mystery as two families claim her as their own.
On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a ... (Goodreads)
Thin Air
by Ann Cleeves
A gripping murder mystery set in the remote and unforgiving landscape of the Shetland Islands.
A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander. But late ... (Goodreads)
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
by Deborah Rodriguez
Five women from different backgrounds find solace and friendship in a coffee shop in war-torn Kabul.
From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet ... (Goodreads)
