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W is for Wasted
by Sue Grafton
Detective Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of a young woman whose life was ruined by drugs and alcohol.
The narrative is set in Santa Teresa, a small fictional town near the California coast where Kinsey lives and spends time with her elderly landlord. The story, however, takes place in the very real ... (Wikipedia)
U is for Undertow
by Sue Grafton
Private detective Kinsey Millhone investigates a cold case that leads to dark secrets and a deadly game of revenge.
In April 1988, Kinsey Millhone is hired by a young man named Michael Sutton to investigate a memory that he claims to have recovered of two people burying a body in the woods in the exclusive Horton ... (Wikipedia)
T is for Trespass
by Sue Grafton
Detective Kinsey Millhone investigates the disappearance of a client's daughter, uncovering a web of secrets and lies.
Kinsey's cantankerous neighbor Gus is badly injured in a fall and hires Solana Rojas, a private nurse, to help him while he recuperates. Kinsey becomes suspicious when Gus becomes isolated and ... (Wikipedia)
Stay Close
by Harlan Coben
Thriller involving a family caught in a web of secrets and lies.
Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now she’s got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a ... (Goodreads)
Caught
by Harlan Coben
A man's search to uncover the truth behind his wife's disappearance and his own involvement.
17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents ... (Wikipedia)
Delusion in Death
by J.D. Robb
Detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder shrouded in virtual reality, uncovering a web of secrets.
After years on the force, Eve Dallas didn't think she could be shocked anymore... until now. It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few ... (Goodreads)
The Search
by Nora Roberts
A romantic suspense novel about a woman who must confront her past to save her future.
To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life: a quaint house on an island off Seattle's coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search ... (Goodreads)
Taken
by Robert Crais
A private investigator and an ex-Marine team up to solve a kidnapping case.
When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter, she isn’t afraid, even though she’s gotten a phone call asking for ransom. She knows it’s a fake, that her daughter is off with ... (Goodreads)
The Innocent
by David Baldacci
A former assassin risks life and limb to uncover a vast conspiracy and protect a child.
America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and ... (Goodreads)
Summer Rental
by Mary Kay Andrews
Three friends rent a beach house for the summer, navigating love, friendship, and secrets in a charming coastal town.
Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction… Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, ... (Goodreads)
Bad Luck and Trouble
by Lee Child
Jack Reacher and his team join forces to solve a dangerous mystery that threatens their lives.
A man with two broken legs is thrown out of a corporate helicopter from 3,000 feet above the California desert. Seventeen days after that, Reacher is roaming alone with no objectives, no phone, no ... (Wikipedia)
Alex Cross, Run
by James Patterson
Detective Alex Cross is on the run from the law and a dangerous killer, while trying to clear his name and protect his family.
Metropolitan Police Department officer Alex Cross, John Sampson, and others, invade plastic surgeon Elijah Creem's penthouse where he is illegally giving drugs and having sex (while making ... (Wikipedia)
Stolen Prey
by John Sandford
A crime thriller involving a former cop's pursuit of a criminal mastermind.
Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed—husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There’s ... (Goodreads)
Live Wire
by Harlan Coben
An ex-marine tries to protect his family from a dangerous and unknown threat.
When Myron's client, former tennis star Suzze T, and her rock star husband, Lex Ryder, encounter an anonymous Facebook post questioning the paternity of their unborn child, Lex runs off. Suzze – at ... (Wikipedia)
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)
Mad River
by John Sandford
A crime thriller featuring a detective's investigation into a series of gruesome murders.
They thought they were Bonnie and Clyde. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a woman during a ... (Goodreads)
The Affair
by Lee Child
An ex-military cop investigates a murder that leads him to uncover a deeper conspiracy.
In March 1997, Maj. Jack Reacher is briefed by his superior Leon Garber on a troubling development in Carter's Crossing, Mississippi : a woman has been found murdered, her throat slit, with signs of ... (Wikipedia)
Carved in Bone
by Jefferson Bass
Forensic anthropologist explores a murder in the Smoky Mountains.
The Body Farm is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent ... (Barnes & Noble)
Sizzling Sixteen
by Janet Evanovich
A fast-paced mystery, following Stephanie Plum as she investigates a missing businessman.
Stephanie's boss, her cousin Vinnie, has been abducted by his bookie , who demands that Vinnie pay back his gambling losses (more than a million dollars) in five days, or he's dead. Stephanie, Connie ... (Wikipedia)
Top Secret Twenty-One
by Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter, is on the hunt for a used-car dealer who has skipped bail. But things get complicated when dead bodies start showing up.
Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy ... (Goodreads)
The Lost Years
by Mary Higgins Clark
A woman searches for her missing son, uncovering secrets and danger along the way.
Now in mass market, the latest suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, where a biblical scholar is found murdered shortly after discovering the ... (Barnes & Noble)
Tricky Twenty-Two
by Janet Evanovich
A crime-fighting team must work together to solve a series of baffling cases.
Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka ... (Goodreads)
The Enemy
by Lee Child
A retired military cop is tasked with finding a missing American soldier in Iraq.
In the last hours of 1989, Major Gen. Kenneth Kramer dies of a heart attack in a seedy North Carolina motel, apparently while in the company of a prostitute. MP Maj. Jack Reacher investigates and ... (Wikipedia)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
A touching story of the intersection of love, family, and culture during World War II.
Henry Lee, the son of Chinese parents in Seattle , Washington, is the only Asian child at his elementary school. His father makes him wear an "I Am Chinese" button so he will not be mistaken for a ... (Wikipedia)
Final Jeopardy
by Linda Fairstein
Alexandra Cooper investigates the murder of a contestant on the TV show "Jeopardy!" while also dealing with personal struggles.
This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner ... (Goodreads)
The Witness
by Nora Roberts
A woman's quest to uncover the truth about her family's past, uncovering a sinister conspiracy.
Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The ... (Goodreads)
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
by Joshilyn Jackson
Three generations of women confront secrets and tragedies in a small Mississippi town. A story of love, family, and redemption.
A Grown Up Kind of Pretty, is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old ... (Barnes & Noble)
Murder is Binding
by Lorna Barrett
Tricia Miles, mystery bookstore owner, solves a murder mystery in her small town.
The streets of Stoneham, New Hampshire, are lined with bookstores...and paved with murder. When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened ... (Goodreads)
The Fifth Witness
by Michael Connelly
A lawyer must defend an innocent man accused of murder, uncovering a complicated web of deceit.
Haller is called on to defend a long-standing client, Lisa Trammel, when she is suspected of murdering wealthy Mitchell Bondurant. , According to forensic evidence, the victim, who was six-foot-two, ... (Wikipedia)
Gone
by Jonathan Kellerman
A psychologist investigates the disappearance of a young patient, uncovering dark secrets and danger.
It’s a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them ... (Goodreads)
