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Macabre murders plague a rural town as a scam-artist psychic races to find the answers in this haunting thriller from award-winning author Jen Williams, perfect for fans of Camilla Sten and Alex North. As a child, Ashley Whitelam could often see odd things nobody else could: quiet, watchful figures she called the Heedful Ones kept a strange vigil wherever she went. As an adult, she keeps these visions to herself, but she's turned her taste of the...
82) Final Appeal
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A charismatic defense lawyer faces a horrific case where nothing is as it seems in this international bestselling thriller perfect for fans of Steve Cavanaugh and John Grisham. Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and PBS as The Defence. When whip-smart criminal defense lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of her law firm's biggest client, she is stumped for the first time in her career. Her client, Piotr Langer Jr, does not admit...
83) Invisible Woman
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Other people kill their husbands. Not her.
"Absolutely a novel of its time–and a novel of women's stories across time."-Kirkus (starred review)
In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences.
Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the...
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A lavish engagement party turns deadly and the bride-to-be is the primary suspect in this heart-stopping thriller exploring the dark underbelly of the uber wealthy and just how far people will go for revenge, in the vein of Sarah Pinborough and Ruth Ware. Kass Baptiste is newly engaged to her fiancé Murray Sedgemont after a whirlwind romance. Before they even get to share the news, an invitation arrives via messenger - to an engagement party hosted...
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Twenty years ago, she survived. This time she may not be so lucky.
On the night that changed everything, Amy Brewer walked out of a house party, trudging angrily away from the friends who made her feel like she didn't belong. Within the next hour, all five of those friends would be dead.
The Memorial Day Massacre, as it came to be called, rocked their small California community and Amy-the girl who had walked away just in time-couldn't escape...
86) The Last App
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Mick wants to know when he's going to die. Luckily-or unluckily-there's an app for that . . .
Dr. Mick Strong has bought himself something unusual for his seventy-fifth birthday: a LifeTime projection. This new tech crunches data including your medical history, diet, and lifestyle to predict how much-or little-time you've got left.
That's all well and good, but he's also bought them for his daughter, his grandchildren, and even his eleven-year-old...
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Cassie Edwards swore she'd never fall in love…then she met Jamie. He changed everything, and Cassie's never been happier. But with less than one month to go to their wedding, she discovers he's cheating on her with his colleague. Blinded by rage, Cassie makes it her mission to seek revenge on the pair. But when she looks deeper into her fiancé's life, she soon realizes being faithful isn't the only thing he's lying about. As her hunt for the truth...
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Sixty-four-year-old Joe has known violence his entire life. For forty years, he's worked as an enforcer for loan shark and close friend Maxie Smith, breaking more than a few bones along the way. When Maxie abruptly fires him, Joe isn't sure where to lay the blame-- on Maxie, the man he once considered his brother, or on the early-onset Alzheimer's that made Maxie lose faith in him in the first place. To keep his head above water, he begins to operate...
89) Diavola
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Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: Tread lightly and survive. It isn't easy when she's the only one in the family who doesn't quite fit in. Her twin brother, Benny, goes with the flow so much he's practically dissolved, and her older sister, Nicole, is so used to everyone--including her blandly docile husband and two kids--falling in line that Anna often ends up in trouble for simply asking a question. Mom seizes...
90) Dead and gone
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Detective Annalisa Vega novels volume 3
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For Chicago police detective Annalisa Vega, Sam Tran's death presents an ominous puzzle. The ex-cop turned PI is found hanging from a cemetery tree with a message across his chest that suggests someone holds a murderous grudge against the police. Annalisa suspects the real answer lies in one of Tran's open cases. She believes he stumbled on a dark secret during his investigations and someone killed him to keep him quiet. Her own family harbors plenty...
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An action-filled coming of age novel about love, vengeance, corruption, and justice by the acclaimed author of Six Days of the Condor.
"Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell's novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row.'"-Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post
"Grady is a master of intrigue."-John Grisham
Set in 1959, the "year the music died," The Smoke in Our Eyes is a cinematic,...
92) Need for Speed
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Framed by an ex-partner for a murder he did not commit, Tobey Marshall, a financially struggling custom-car builder and street-racer, spends two years in jail thinking about one moment. Fresh out of prison, he reacquires the fastest car his workshop ever built and seeks to enter a secretive and extremely high-stakes race known as The DeLeon. His purpose? Redemption, recognition from the world of racing, and a solution to his problems. Yet all that...
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"Gentill nimbly balances the plausible with the outlandish in this sly thriller set in the publishing world." -Publishers Weekly
From 2023 Edgar Award nominee and bestselling author Sulari Gentill comes a literary thriller about an aspiring writer who meets and falls in love with her literary idol-only to find him murdered the day after she gave him her manuscript to read.
There's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory-until it turns...
94) The Dead Husband
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A mysterious disappearance escalates into a murder case, in this riveting new thriller by the author of The Accident.
Not long after receiving a devastating medical diagnosis, Amy Cooper is at the police station-reporting the disappearance of her husband, Callum.
A few miles away, a mother and her children are outdoors enjoying a day in the snow when they discover a dead man in a ditch nearby. The mother calls the police, whose initial investigation...
95) Earth Mother
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Once every 100 years, Earth Mother rises from the depths and walks the planet for a single day, bringing together four elementals and sharing her story. Set in Austin, Texas, this film takes viewers on a thrilling yet comical journey as secrets about a woman who has risen from the deep woods are unveiled.
96) Saving Noah
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Meet Noah—an A-honor roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren't any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim-team practice. He's sentenced to eighteen months in a juvenile sexual-rehabilitation center. His mother Adrianne refuses to turn her back on him despite his horrific crimes, but her husband won't allow Noah back into their home....
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A missing child, a small town's secrets, and a desperate killer set the stage for a darkly wrought debut novel that will haunt readers long after the last page. Perfect for fans of Julia Heaberlin and Chevy Stevens. It's not that they've been all that close in the past few years, but sisters Willa and Sawyer Stannard are bonded by the ups and downs of the life they've lived with their mercurial single mother. When Willa is found dead in her apartment...
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This astonishing crime novel-inspired by the Tudor era-takes the reader into the world of Kate Parker, who has just married billionaire Hank Tudor when a headless body is discovered near their summer home . . .
Kate Parker knows what she's getting into when she marries billionaire businessman Hank Tudor-she's his sixth wife, after all, and was by his side (as his assistant) when his fifth marriage to actress Caitlyn Howard fell apart.
But honeymoon...
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A true-crime podcaster investigates a decades-old suspected abduction, in this powerful psychological suspense novel.
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Sixteen-year-old Carolyn Russell grows increasingly infatuated with her school mathematics teacher who is also giving her private lessons. Then she disappears.
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Struggling journalist Stephanie Brett creates a true-crime podcast focused on the disappearance of Carolyn Russell. By digging deep into this mysterious...
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An advice columnist's own problems reach crisis level, in this compelling blend of suspense, romance, and family drama by the author of The Dead Husband.
Laura Green dispenses life advice to readers of a London magazine, but now she could use some help herself. Her teenage daughter will barely speak to her and is hiding birth control pills in her room. Her elderly mother is in a home suffering from Alzheimer's. And her ex is about to become a...
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