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1201) The orphan's guilt
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John Rust is arrested for drunk driving by a Vermont state trooper. Looking to find mitigating circumstances, John’s lawyer hires private eye Sally Kravitz to look into the recent death of John’s younger brother, purportedly from a childhood brain injury years earlier. But what was the nature of that injury, and might its mechanism point more to murder than to natural causes? That debate brings in Joe Gunther and his team. Gunther’s efforts...
1202) The last good guy
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When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman to find her missing younger sister, private investigator Roland Ford immediately senses that the case is not what it seems. He is soon swept up in a web of lies and secrets as he searches for the teenager, and even his new client cannot be trusted. His investigation leads him to a secretive charter school, skinhead thugs, a cadre of American Nazis hidden in a desert compound, an arch-conservative celebrity...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex, eleven at the time, found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. After their mother's suicide, the girls' father shut down emotionally, leaving Alex responsible for caring for Colleen, then eight, and little Riley, just four. Now the girls are grown and navigating different directions. Alex, a nurse, has been traveling in India and grieving her struggle to have a child;...
1204) No bad deed: a novel
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Driving home one rainy night, Cassie Larkin sees a man and woman fighting on the side of the road. After calling 911, the veterinarian makes a split-second decision that will throw her sedate suburban life into chaos. Against all reason and advice, she gets out of her minivan and chases after the violent man, trying to help his victim. When Cassie physically tries to stop him, he suddenly turns on her and spits out an ominous threat: "Let her die,...
1205) Every waking hour
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Ellery Hathaway novels volume 4
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"After surviving a serial killer's abduction as a young teenager, Ellery Hathaway is finally attempting a normal life. She has a new job as a rookie Boston detective and a fledgling relationship with Reed Markham, the FBI agent who rescued her years ago. But when a twelve-year-old girl disappears on Ellery's watch, the troubling case opens deep wounds that never fully healed. Chloe Lockhart walked away from a busy street fair and vanished into the...
1206) Death in the family
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Shana Merchant volume 1
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A storm-struck island. A blood-soaked bed. A missing man. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant believes it all adds up to a killer in their midst--and that murder is a family affair. Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Now hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she's taken a job in her fiancé's sleepy hometown in the Thousand Islands region of Upstate New York. But as a...
1207) Wrong alibi
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Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his isolated mountain home. But her bright hopes for the future are shattered when Donald White disappears, leaving her to face charges of theft, embezzlement—and a brutal double murder. Her protestations of innocence count for nothing. Convicted, she faces life in prison…until fate sends her on the run. Evie's escape leaves her scarred and in hiding, isolated...
1208) A suspicion of silver
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Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 9
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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Middle English
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Sir Robert Carey has just foiled a double plot against King James. He rides for Leith hunting the would-be assassin now identified as Joachim Hochstetter, also known as Jonathan Hepburn. Has he taken ship for the Continent, or ridden nearly 130 miles south and west into England? There at Keswick, his family, originally from Augsburg, runs a mining operation that pays a royalty to Queen Elizabeth in gold. It's ruled by the widow Radagunda Hochstetter,...
1209) All dressed in white
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"In present-day New York City, Laurie Moran realizes a missing bride is the perfect cold case for her investigative television series, Under Suspicion. She and her team set out to recreate the night of the disappearance at the Florida resort with Amanda's friends and family in attendance, hoping to shed new light on the mystery as the series has done in past episodes. With a jealous sister, playboy groomsmen, Amanda's former fiancé now married to...
1210) The night swimmers
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Soho Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. Peter Rock's stunning auto-biographical novel begins in the 90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin, where the narrator, a man recently graduated from college, and a young widow, Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, making their way across miles of open water, navigating the currents and...
1211) House of ashes
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Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A young painter's ancestral mansion is threatened by her scheming ex-husband, mounting debt, and a generations-old curse tied to family secrets that some will kill to protect.
Thirty-seven-year-old painter Cassandra Mitchell is fourth-generation to live in the majestic Battersea Bluffs, a brooding Queen Anne home originally built by her great-grandparents, Percy and Celeste Mitchell, and still standing despite tragedies that have swept the generations....
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Lumen/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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"En una oscura y brumosa noche, en el pequeño pueblo inglés de Radcot, los lugareños se reúnen en la taberna Swan para compartir un trago e historias llenas de sabiduría popular. La taberna es famosa por reunir a los mejores narradores de cuentos populares, pero esa noche la tertulia nocturna se ve interrumpida por la llegada de un hombre misterioso empapado en sangre que carga en brazos a una niña inconsciente. Antes de que el hombre pueda...
1213) Gone to the wolves
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A story of young friendship, musical obsession, and a missing person, set in the metal scene of the late eighties and early nineties"--
Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers--even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening to metal can get you arrested, but for the three of them the risk is well worth it, because metal is what leads them to one another. Different as they are, Kip, Leslie,...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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After leaving her cheating husband in New York City and returning to her family's historic Florida plantation, Lane Fielding's oldest daughter disappears, reigniting her memories and fears of a serial killer who traumatized the area in the 1970s.
When Lane Fielding fled her isolated Florida hometown after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she swore she'd never return. But twenty years later, newly divorced and with two daughters in...
1215) The next time you see me
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Thorndike Press
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©2013.
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn't have many friends. She finds more comfort playing make-believe in the woods near her house in Roma, Kentucky, than with her classmates, who find her strange and awkward. When she happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discovery -- a choice that begins to haunt her. Susanna Mitchell has always been a good girl, the dutiful daughter and wife. While her...
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Laetitia Rodd mystery volume 2
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return....
1217) Kill the king: a novel
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Caselli and Torre novels volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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From thriller master Sandrone Dazieri, here is the startling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Caselli and Torre trilogy in which two damaged but deductively brilliant detectives must sort out what is real and what is imagined. Reeling from a deadly bombing in Venice and her investigative partner Dante's disappearance, Detective Colomba Caselli retreats to the rural countryside outside Rome to nurse her wounds. When an apparently autistic...
1218) Paradise city
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Bloomsbury Circus
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits. Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Yet self-doubt still snaps at his heels and his life is shadowed by the...
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Umbriel
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Travis Wren tiene un talento inusual para localizar a gente perdida. Contratado como último recurso por familiares desesperados, tan solo necesita un objeto para encontrar a la persona que ha desaparecido. Cuando acepta el caso de Maggie St. James, una conocida autora de libros infantiles oscuros y macabros, termina en un lugar que muchos creían que era tan solo leyenda. Conocida como Pastoral, esta comunidad solitaria fue fundada por personas...
1220) The deception
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After searching for her sister for two years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she's called to the morgue to identify Chrissy's body. Guilt and grief compel Kate to find her sister's killer, even if it means following a lethal bounty hunter into danger. Maximum Security's Jason Maddox has never worked for a client he's so drawn to, or for a case so monstrous. As clues lead the pair deeper into the city's underbelly, connections to human trafficking...
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