Books Read in 2012
List created by kathyk on Jan 1, 2012
List Votes: 4 Books: 160 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 3 List Type: Closed
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Free Fall (Elvis Cole, Bk 4) by Robert Crais
Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies. Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he's in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Cole can... more
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Berlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence... more
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UR (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Stephen King & Holter Graham (Narrator)
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else? He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse... more
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn't happen.
In the sweet, untroubled voice... more
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Voodoo River (Elvis Cole, Bk 5) by Robert Crais
Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor, an actress in a hit TV show, Elvis leaves his native Los Angeles to head for Louisiana in search of Jodi's biological parents. But before he can tackle the mystery of the actress's background, he is up against a whole host of eccentrics, including a... more
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Secrets to the Grave (Oak Knoll, Bk 2) by Tami Hoag
Marissa Fordham had a past full of secrets, a present full of lies. Everyone knew of her, but no one knew her.
When Marissa is found brutally murdered, with her young daughter, Haley, resting her head on her mother's bloody breast, she sends the idyllic California town of Oak Knoll into... more
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Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James
Who is Katherine Patterson? It is a question she hopes no one can answer. To erase her past, Katherine has moved to a new city, enrolled in a new school, and even changed her name. She's done the next best thing to disappearing altogether. Now, wary and alone, she seeks nothing more than... more
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Sophie by Guy Burt
“[Sophie] combines the creepy narrative power of a young William Golding with the disturbingly accurate memory of what it is like to be a child. . . . So good that one can only wonder what [Burt] will do next.”—The Times (London)In a dark room of a dilapidated house, as a storm... more
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Against the Wind (Candlelight Ecstasy Supreme, No 84) by Anne Stuart
Puente del Norte -- the last place on earth Maddy Lambert had expected to find herself. Yet here she was in the middle of Central America in an embattled guerrilla camp on a mission impossible. She'd come to get her dying father, whose ideals had carried him far from home and won... more
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The Year of the Intern by Robin Cook
Originally published by Signet in 1973, this startling novel reveals what happens to a young intern as he goes through the year that promises to make him into a doctor-and threatens to destroy him as a human being.
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The Hanging Tree (Starvation Lake, Bk 2) by Bryan Gruley
When Gracie McBride, the wild girl who had left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent suicide shortly after her homecoming, it sends shock waves through her native Starvation Lake. Gus Carpenter, executive editor of the Pine County Pilot, sets out to solve the mystery with... more
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A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Dugard
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.
For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse.
For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak... more
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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the eyes of the Romanovs' young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims... more
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Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, Bk 6) (Audio CD) (Abridged) by Robert Crais & David S...
Elvis Cole, wisecracking private eye, finds himself embroiled in a controversial LA murder case. A wealthy WASP entrepreneur appears to have murdered his wife. A hot-shot defense attorney takes the case and hires Elvis to find proof that the L.A. detective -- rumored to be dirty -- fooled around... more
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The Man with a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury) by Martha Grimes
Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers, but the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of The Man With A Load Of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of the mechanical man above the door of the Jack... more
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Live to Tell (D.D. Warren, Bk 4) by Lisa Gardner
He knows everything about you—including the first place you’ll hide.
On a warm summer night in one of Boston’s working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father—and possible... more
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Love You More (D. D. Warren, Bk 5) by Lisa Gardner
WHO DO YOU LOVE?
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 back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an... more
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Private (Jack Morgan, Bk 1) by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
The police can't help you
Former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come... more
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The Third Victim (FBI Profiler, Bk 2) by Lisa Gardner
The past isn't over....
An unspeakable act has ripped apart the idyllic town of Bakersville, Oregon, and its once-peaceful residents are demanding quick justice. But though a boy has confessed to the horrific crime, evidence shows he may not be guilty.
Officer Rainie Conner,... more
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Amnesia by Andrew Neiderman
What would you do if you couldn't remember... who you were? where you lived? or what you might have done? Rush hour, Grand Central Station. Aaron Clifford stops dead in his tracks, commuters swirling around him -- but he doesn't know he's Aaron Clifford. He doesn't know who he is at all. No... more
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Deceit by James Siegel
It looks like just another car crash: a head-on collision on a lonely stretch of desert highway that leaves one driver dead. But Tom Valle, the local newspaperman assigned to the story, is damned good at spotting lies. He should know -- once a star reporter at America's most prestigious daily,... more
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Don't Tell a Soul by David Rosenfelt
Tim Wallace's wife was killed in a boating accident several months ago -- and one New Jersey cop is sure he did it. He didn’t. But even if the police eventually clear his name, he’ll never get over this terrible tragedy...
It’s New Year’s Eve. Tim's buddies... more
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Night Work by Steve Hamilton
Meet Joe Trumbull. Two years ago his fiancee, Laurel, was brutally murdered...and the killer was never caught. Joe, a juvenile probation officer in Kingston, New York, won't ever forget his first true love. But as time passes, he is willing to give another woman, Marlene Frost, a chance--and... more
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Scavenger by Tom Savage
Mark Stevenson has just published a bestselling novel inspired by "The Family Man," a serial killer whose ghastly crimes were never solved. It has garnered the New York author critical praise, financial success, a beautiful fiancee -- and the macabre attention of a devoted fan....
He calls... more
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Audio CD) (Abridged) by John ...
When Ron Williamson signed with the Oakland A’s in 1971, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big-league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her... more
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Hearts and Bones (Hannah Trevor, Bk 1) by Margaret Lawrence
Independent Hannah Trevor is a midwife in the small Maine town of Rufford several years after the end of the Revolutionary War. In the dead of a particularly brutal winter, an horrific act -- the rape and murder of a young wife -- draws Hannah into the constabulary's investigation and... more
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Blood Red Roses (Hannah Trevor, Bk 2) by Margaret Lawrence
As a young widow, midwife Hannah Trevor is regarded by the law as unable to support her daughter, Jennet, and at any minute, the eight-year-old may be taken away from her and sold as an indentured servant. When she becomes the suspect in a murder, Hannah must save not only her own life, but that... more
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The Burning Bride (Hannah Trevor, Bk 3) by Margaret Lawrence
It is Muster Day in Rufford, Maine, when the local militia is massed to drill in anticipaiton of new conflicts that may threaten the newborn American nation. In this chilly Autumn, violent passions and tempers inflamed in the wake of the recent war of independence still burn white hot. Now two... more
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The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller, Bk 1) by Michael Connelly
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car,... more
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Now You See Her by Joy Fielding
New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding tells an unforgettable story of a newly divorced woman attempting to heal her heartache, only to find herself on a desperate search for her daughter. Fifty-year-old Marcy Taggart?s life is in shambles. Two years ago, her twenty-one-year-old... more
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Vanished (Nick Heller, Bk 1) by Joseph Finder
Nick Heller is tough, smart, and stubborn. And in his line of work, it's essential. Trained in the Special Forces, Nick is a high-powered intelligence investigator -- exposing secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. He's a guy you don't want to mess... more
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Guilt by Association by Susan R. Sloan
December 22, 1962: A pretty coed is brutally beaten and raped by her date, a handsome, wealthy Harvard student. No one sees him do it. The police don't believe her story. Her life is ruined. His flourishes. Now he's running for president, and a desperate woman decides to do the unthinkable. Get... more
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Winter Garden (Audio CD) (Abridged) by Kristin Hannah & Susan Ericksen (Narrator)
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family business; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist.
But when their beloved father falls ill, these two estranged sisters... more
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Wicked Break (Noah Braddock, Bk 2) by Jeff Shelby
Noah Braddock is just living from wave to wave, catching a nice break from his private eye business. So when Peter Pluto asks Noah to look for his missing younger brother, Linc, Noah takes the case reluctantly-and quickly finds out that Linc is not your average undergrad.
Aided by his friend... more
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The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
From the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the liberation of her concentration camp in 1945, the author chronicles an adolescence shaped by the horrors of the Holocaust but strengthened by the force of her own will.
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The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar, Bk 6) by Harlan Coben
His heart is broken. His partner is in jail. And someone is trying to kill him.
Then Myron Bolitar gets some really bad news....
For sports agent Myron Bolitar, it seemed like the perfect vacation. A tropical beach. A warm breeze. A little uncomplicated passion with a woman he barely... more
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Mortal Memory by Thomas H. Cook
Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximately four in the afternoon. It was almost two hours later that Mrs. Hamilton, a neighbor from across the street, saw my father drive away. During those long two hours in which he remained in the house, my father washed my mother's body... more
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The Serpent Club by Tom Coffey
Tom Coffey delivers a gut-wrenching debut, a sensational thriller that could be torn from today's headlines. Plunging deep into the morality of a city renowned for sin -- Los Angeles -- this edgy, piercing novel will carve its way into your psyche. Her name is Megan Wright. Pretty. Thirteen.... more
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Killer Swell (Noah Braddock, Bk 1) by Jeff Shelby
San Diego P.I. Noah Braddock has a six-pack in the fridge, a solid beach view, and a killer past that's come knocking. The snobby mother of Kate, his old high school girlfriend, claims that her daughter is missing, and mom thinks Noah can find her for old time's sake. But what Noah... more
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Blood of Angels by Reed Arvin
An honest and dedicated public servant, Thomas Dennehy helplessly let the pressures of his job destroy his marriage and separate him from his adored young daughter. Now he's shattered by the revelation that, as a result of a case he prosecuted, an innocent man may have been executed. In the... more
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Out of the Night That Covers Me by Unknown Author
An orphaned white boy and an eccentric black man forge an unlikely friendship in the segregated world of 1950s Alabama. The boy, John, whose beloved mother has died, now faces a loveless future with his alcoholic uncle on a sharecropper's farm in the Alabama Black Belt-an abusive life he soon... more
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Liquid Smoke by Jeff Shelby
Private eye Noah Braddock has finally found peace in his once tumultuous relationship with Detective Liz Santangelo and has called a tentative truce with his alcoholic mother, Carolina. So when lawyer Darcy Gill demands that he look into a hopeless death row case, he's more interested in... more
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Rat Life by Tedd Arnold
The dead body found in the Chemanga River has nothing to do with Todd. He's been busy making beds at the family motel and writing alien stories to entertain his friends. Sure, a murder is big news, but what would really interest him? A paying job and a story line free of UFOs and poop jokes. And... more
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The Accident by Linwood Barclay
It’s the new normal at the Garber household in Connecticut: Glen, a contractor, has seen his business shaken by the housing crisis, and now his wife, Sheila, is taking a business course at night to increase her chances of landing a good-paying job.
But she should have been home by... more
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Chains (Seeds of America, Bk 1) by Laurie Halse Anderson
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight... for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the... more
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Zoo Station (John Russell, Bk 1) by David Downing
By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent fifteen years in Berlin, where his German-born son lives. He writes human-interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported. But as war approaches, he faces the prospect of... more
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Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, Bk 18) by Janet Evanovich
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, Before Stephanie can even step off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee-deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, she’s flying... more
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The Poisoned Rose (Declan MacManus, Bk 1) by D. Daniel Judson
The rich don’t have more secrets -- they just bury them deeper
Trouble always seems to find Declan MacManus . . . and it finds him again one rain-swept October night when the part-time P.I. -- and full-time outsider -- gets caught in the middle of a brutal homicide. To the rich and... more
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Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas
Somewhere between love and forgiveness lies redemption. 1920, Swandyke, Colorado. A large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path, including nine children. Only four children survive. Whiter Than Snow takes readers into... more
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The Ruins (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Scott Smith & Patrick Wilson (Narrator)
The Ruins follows two American couples enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group -- the young German, who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled... more
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The Bone Orchard (Gin Palace, Bk 2) by D. Daniel Judson
A TOWN GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER
Beneath the glamour of a trendy Hamptons summer town lies another world -- one of dark lives and desperate secrets. And when Labor Day arrives and the beautiful people depart, locals like Declan MacManus are left behind to make a living out of just surviving.... more
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Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
At thirty-four Sara Gallagher is finally happy. Her antique furniture restoration business is taking off and she?s engaged to a wonderful man. But there?s one big question that still haunts her ? who are her birth parents? Sara is finally ready to find out. Some questions are better left... more
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Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant... more
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Sleeping Beauty by Phillip Margolin
Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in... more
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Forget You by Jennifer Echols
Zoey’s life in her Florida beach resort town is happy and organized. She’s the captain of her high school swim team, and she works for her dad at his popular water park. Then her dad has an affair with one of his employees, and her mother has a breakdown. But Zoey begins a committed... more
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Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols
All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from her backwater town. Away from her parents who seem determined to keep her imprisoned in their dead-end lives. But one crazy evening involving a dare and forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far...and almost... more
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Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry, Bk 1) by Simone Elkeles
When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about... more
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Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
With her father imprisoned, 15-year-old Meredith thinks she could live out her high-school days safely, but when he is released early for good behavior, her security is shattered. A popular youth baseball coach, her father has abused Mer as well as other boys and girls. With strict orders that... more
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Leftovers by Laura Wiess
A devastating novel of desperation and revenge from one of today's most compelling new voices in fiction. In this follow-up to her heartbreaking debut, Such a Pretty Girl, Laura Wiess once again spins a shattering tale of the tragedies that befall young women who are considered society's... more
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Home Another Way by Christa Parrish
"If you wake up tomorrow and realize that you just might be worth something to someone, give me a call."
"I don't have a phone," I told Jack. I was being a jerk, but I couldn't help needling him closer to the breaking point. I wanted to crush the tiny, insistent longing that whispered,... more
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The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, Bk 4) by Agatha Christie
The inhabitants of Lymstock are being plagued by threats, rumors, and sordid accusations. And it's Miss Marple's duty to finger the guilty.
"That's my expert," said Mrs. Dane Calthrop. "Jane Marple. Look at her well. I tell you, that woman knows more about the different kinds of human... more
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The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, Bk 1) by Anne Perry
While the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their household was strangled to death.
The quiet and young Inspector Pitt investigates the scene and finds no one above suspicion. As his intense questioning causes many a composed facade... more
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Julian's House by Judith Hawkes
Already compared to Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Stephen King, first novelist Judith Hawkes' Julian's House features a haunted house--but is no ordinary ghost story. Newly wed parapsychologists David and Sally are not afraid to move into a haunted house, until they find that there... more
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My Soul to Keep by Judith Hawkes
After the collapse of her marriage, a woman returns to the rural mountains of Tennessee with her child. But when her own shadowy childhood memories take on a new life for her young son and eerily compels him toward destruction, she must pierce the mysterious veil of her past and uncover the... more
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Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi & Stuart Woolf (Translator)
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story... more
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Serenade by James M. Cain
James M. Cain's mother was a singer, and his first ambition was to be an opera singer. Although he dropped that later in favor of journalism and writing, his knowledge and feeling for the musical world is clearly evident in this chilling story of a famous opera singer, a young conductor and a... more
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The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of... more
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Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by James M. Cain
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed S...
A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London--and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.
The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner with a real-life... more
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Married to a Stranger by Patricia MacDonald
A psychologist in an adolescent crisis center, Emma Hollis loves her work; she also loves charming journalist David Webster, who swept her off her feet at a dinner party six months ago. Now she's carrying David's child and half expecting him to flee -- but David surprises and delights her... more
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Missing, Maybe Dead (Paul Fischer, Bk 3) by Tom Mitcheltree
The lure of a decades-old mystery finds vacationing professor Paul Fischer in a small Oregon town, where a dying colleague persuades him to follow a cold trail to a missing wife. Irene Drexler simply vanished one July night while on a milk run to the local grocery. Her husband, terminally ill,... more
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The King of Torts (Audio CD) (Abridged) by John Grisham & Dennis Boutsikaris (Nar...
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he... more
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The Darkest Place by Daniel Judson
The cold of winter has come to the far reaches of Long Island, New York. The summer people are gone. So is the sunshine. And in the dark, a man carries a body to the water’s edge. It’s not his first—and he’s not done yet… The police are talking about suicides. But a... more
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Stay Close by Harlan Coben
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 talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing... more
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Projection (Frank Clevenger, Bk 2) by Keith Ablow
Once an accomplished plastic surgeon, Trevor Lucas started using his scalpel to do very bad things...
Locked in a Boston psychiatric hospital, Lucas is holding the ward hostage-and performing grisly "operations" on his prisoners...
Lucas, calling for forensic psychiatrist... more
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Compulsion (Frank Clevenger, Bk 3) by Keith Ablow
Burdened by his own psychological scars, brilliant forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Clevenger, has weathered the most extreme twists of the human mind. Then he receives a disturbing call from Nantucket's Chief of Police. The five-month-old daughter of prominent billionaire, Darwin Bishop, has... more
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Suspicious Origin by Patricia MacDonald
When her estranged sister, Greta, is killed in a fire, Boston news producer Britt Andersen heads straight for her sister's Vermont town where, for the first time, she meets her handsome brother-in-law, Alec Lynch, and her eleven-year-old niece, Zoe -- who narrowly escaped the blaze. Surprised by... more
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Serial (Frank Quinn, Bk 6) by John Lutz
The Killer Becomes The Hunted
She was gagged. Violated. Tortured. Nailing the killer is priority number one and only the best will do-that means Frank Quinn. And Quinn wouldn't want it any other way. Because he recognizes the victim. Years ago, as a homicide detective, he saved her young... more
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Gap Creek (Oprah book of the month) by Robert Morgan & Jill Hill
The National Bestseller A New York Times Notable BookThere is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her.She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The... more
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Secret Admirer by Patricia MacDonald
Laura Reed feels safe and happy in Cape Christian, a little jewel of Victorian architecture and quiet streets on New Jersey's southern tip. The children's books she writes are earning her modest fame; her husband Jimmy's art gallery is flourishing; and Cape Christian is the right kind of small... more
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The Skeleton Box (Starvation Lake, Bk 3) by Bryan Gruley
Does Gus Carpenter really want to know what’s inside the skeleton box? In Anthony- and Barry Award-winning author Bryan Gruley’s gripping new novel, Gus must decide if the truth is better off dead and buried.
Mysterious break-ins are plaguing the small town of Starvation Lake.... more
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Proof Positive (Amanda Jaffe, Bk 3) (Audio CD) (Abridged) by Phillip Margolin & M...
Doug Weaver is a defense attorney who always believes the best of his clients, and Jacob Cohen, on trial for murder, is no exception. Jacob may be homeless and mentally ill, but Doug can't believe that this meek and intensely religious man could have killed and dismembered a woman. Yet... more
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Fragile (Hollows, Bk 1) by Lisa Unger
Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It's a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another's kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child, Maggie... more
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The Dead Tracks (David Raker, Bk 2) by Tim Weaver
Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight-A student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Yet six months on, she still hasn’t been found.
Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it’s like to grieve. He knows the... more
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Damaged Goods by Heather Sharfeddin
In this stirring new novel, Heather Sharfeddin reveals an unforgettable portrait of two people scarred by life and healed by each other.
Hershel Swift remembers nothing from the night of his accident, or the days leading up to it. Now, three months later, he's back at work at his... more
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Three Weeks to Say Goodbye by C. J. Box
Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: Angelina's birth father, a teenager, never... more
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The 13th Hour: by Richard Doetsch
A thriller in reverse.
A man is given the chance to go back in time in one hour increments to prevent the murder of his wife, a crime that the police think he committed.
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The Shadow Killer (Rapid Reads) by Gail Bowen
It's Father's Day weekend?a tough time for Charlie D, host of a late-night radio call-in show that offers supportive advice to troubled listeners. For years Charlie has been alienated from his father?a retired politician who was always too busy for his son when Charlie was growing up. The... more
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A Perfect Evil (Maggie O'Dell, Bk 1) by Alex Kava
On July 17, convicted serial killer Ronald Jeffreys was executed for three heinous murders. He went to his grave with a terrible truth no one would listen to.
Three months later, another body is found, killed in the same style as Jeffreys' victims.
Is there a copycat killer on the loose?... more
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No Way Home by Patricia MacDonald
With chilling echoes of a notorious, real-life murder in Connecticut, Patricia MacDonald's gripping novel unwraps the layers of fear and guilt in a small town where nothing bad ever happens -- until a pretty teenager disappears....
Founder's Day in Felton, Tennessee, should be a joyous... more
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One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the... more
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Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
"As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I’m still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ... "
Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?... more
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Living Dead Girl by Tod Goldberg
A gripping tale of psychological suspense.There is no trace of Paul Luden's ex-wife at his old home, a two-bedroom log cabin on the shores of Granite Lake. It's fall. The summer people are long gone. The year-round population is sparse. No one in the small community has seen her for days. A... more
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City of the Sun (Frank Behr, Bk 1) by David Levien
Paul and Carol Gabriel are devastated when their 12-year-old son, Jamie, disappears on his paper delivery route one morning. Fourteen months later and with the police no closer to finding Jamie, they hire PI Frank Behr, an imposing ex-cop with a checkered past. Behr soon discovers that... more
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The Up and Comer by Howard Roughan
Philip Randall has it all: youth, looks, wealth. He's got a successful career with a prestigious Manhattan law firm, a luxurious downtown loft, a filthy-rich wife, and a gorgeous mistress who also happens to be his best friend's wife. Self-satisfaction suddenly turns deadly, however, when a prep... more
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Swimsuit by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears. Fearing the worst, her parents travel to Hawaii to investigate for themselves, never expecting the horror that awaits them.LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins is conducting his own research into the case, hoping to help... more
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Miami Twilight by Tom Coffey
Tom Coffey's The Serpent Club was hailed as "hypnotic" (Publishers Weekly). Now, he returns with this sultry tale of sudden violence, overpowering lust, and brutal retribution -- all under the shadows of a Miami Twilight. Slick public-relations executive Garrett Doherty is jeopardizing his... more
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The Last Good Day by Peter Blauner
Lynn and Barry Schulman moved their family to the leafy suburb of Riverside, New York, to be surrounded by family and old friends and escape the danger of city life. But when a headless body--which turns out to belong to Lynn's oldest friend--floats to the surface of the river, they realize... more
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Casey Anthony What REALLY Happened to Caylee and Why Truth Matters by Wendy Murphy &a...
This is a must-read for anyone who believes in justice for children. The authors go below the surface to explore what really happened to Caylee. With a century of combined experience in child advocacy law, psychiatry, psychology, grief counseling and natural spirituality, the authors give us a... more
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A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson on any other day, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the prosecution witnesses happen to be a group of four upper-crust college friends -a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and... more
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The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy
What If You Had to Choose Between Your Life and Someone Else's?
Ben Bradford has it all: a beautiful wife and two healthy sons, a big house in an affluent Connecticut suburb, partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm. But scratch the surface and you'll find a deeply unhappy... more
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The Promise of a Lie by Howard Roughan
Nothing can prepare Dr. David Remler for the shocking phone call he receives from a patient named Samantha Kent. Stunned and anxious to help, he rushes out into the Manhattan night to keep a bloody act of violence from spinning further out of control.
He knows he is too involved, that... more
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Where Are You Now? (Audio CD) (Abridged) by Mary Higgins Clark & Jan Maxwell (Nar...
It has been ten years since 21-year-old Kevin MacKenzie, Jr. ("Mac"), has been missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already enrolled in Duke University Law School, he walked out of his room in Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word to his college... more
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Killer Instinct (Audio CD) (Abridged) by Joseph Finder & Scott Brick (Narrator)
Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for an electronics giant, a competitor to Sony and Panasonic. He's a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office, but he lacks the killer instinct necessary to move up the corporate ladder. To the... more
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A Twist in the Tale (Selections: Dusk, The Necklace, An Occurance at Owl Creek, The G...
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Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder : Pioneer Girl by Megan Stine
When Laura Ingalls Wilder was a little girl in the late 1800's, her family moved nine times in three years. The Wilders faced great hardships on the prairie. The crops they planted were destroyed by grasshoppers. Brutal snowstorms brought them close to starvation. But for Laura, who was born... more
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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Sarah Byrnes and Eric have been friends for years. When they were children, his fat and her terrible scars made them both outcasts. Later, although swimming slimmed Eric, she stayed his closest friend. Now Sarah Byrnes -- the smartest, toughest person Eric has ever known -- sits silent in a... more
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Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
There?s bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don?t have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant), the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to find their... more
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Shelter (Mickey Bolitar, Bk 1) by Harlan Coben
A young adult debut from internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben
Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his mom to rehab, he's forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.
A new... more
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Birdman (Jack Caffery, Bk 1) by Mo Hayder
With the forensic acumen of Patricia Cornwell and the atmosphere of Lynda La Plante's Prime Suspect series, Birdman -- already an international sensation prior to publication -- introduces a troubled homicide detective battling the demons of his past while facing the psychopath... more
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The Treatment by Mo Hayder
The suspense is relentless, an emotional powerhouse of a thriller that brings back Jack Caffery, the detective from Mo Hayder's acclaimed novel Birdman.
It is a perfect summer day in London's up-market Brockwell Park. Yet, behind the elegant facade of one house, a man and his wife have been... more
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The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Bk 1) by Val McDermid
This was the summer he discovered what he wanted--at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling.
The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of... more
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Darkest Fear (Myron Bolitar, Bk 7) by Harlan Coben
Myron never saw it coming. A surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend is unsettling enough. But Emily Downing's news brings him to his knees. Her son Jeremy is dying and needs a bone-marrow transplant -- from a donor who has vanished without a trace. Then comes the real shocker: The boy is... more
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Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, Bk 3) by Harlan Coben
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating heroes in suspense fiction: the wisecracking, tenderhearted sports agent Myron Bolitar. In this gripping third novel in the acclaimed series, Myron must confront a past that is dead and buried?and... more
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Back Spin (Myron Bolitar, Bk 4) by Harlan Coben
Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters'... more
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One False Move (Myron Bolitar, Bk 5) by Harlan Coben
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.
Twenty years before, Brenda's mother... more
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Singing Songs by Meg Tilly
Originally published in 1994 to critical acclaim, Singing Songs still resonates as a profound statement about the secrets families keep from the rest of the world, as Anna, the resilient young narrator, journeys through childhood trapped in a fragmented family caught in a cycle of abuse, denial,... more
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Long Lost (Myron Bolitar, Bk 9) by Harlan Coben
It begins with an early morning phone call to Myron Bolitar. His old flame Terese Collins is in Paris, and she needs his help. In her debt, Myron makes the trip, and learns of a decade-long secret: Terese once had a daughter who died in a car accident. Now it seems as though that daughter may be... more
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Deviant Ways by Chris Mooney
Punctuated with one blisteringly violent and unpredictable twist after another, this pitch-perfect study of psychological terror spotlights two magnificent minds opposed in a no-holds-barred duel of cunning and depravity.A master killer calling himself the Sandman is out for revenge. He's... more
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The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bike through Vermont's back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins working at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental... more
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House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
"Elegant and powerful...an unusual and volatile...literary thriller." --Washington Post Book WorldIn this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in... more
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Gentlemen and Players (Malbry, Bk 1) by Joanne Harris
Audere, agere, auferre.
To dare, to strive, to conquer.
For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald’s School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric classics teacher who has been a revered fixture for more than 30 years. But this year,... more
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Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
When eleven-year-old Jack Martel crawls out of his pup tent on the first morning of his camping trip with his mom in Acadia National Park, he notices right away that something isn?t right. Where is his mom?s tent, and their rental car? And where is his mom? Any other kid might panic, might even... more
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hille...
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was... more
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East of the Arch (Joe Keough, Bk 4) by Robert J. Randisi
Keough has been at his job in the Mayor's office for a year and he's not happy. He's been involved in more political functions and fund raisers than investigations. But when bodies of pregnant women begin to pile up on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, the Mayor of East St. Louis... more
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The Manhattan Hunt Club : A Novel by John Saul
The acknowledged master of psychological suspense and heart-stopping terror, New York Times bestselling author John Saul now invites you to descend to chilling new depths of darkness--and discover a secret, savage world that exists beneath our very feet. The promising future of New York City... more
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Simple Justice (Benjamin Justice, Bk 1) by John Morgan Wilson
Simple Justice is the first in a series featuring crime reporter Benjamin Justice. His investigations into crime and passion on the mean and violent streets of West Hollywood are sure to appeal to the fans of such enormously popular series detectives as Joe Hansens's Dave Brandstetter and Sandra... more
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Traveling Light by Katrina Kittle
"I kept a big notebook in my file cabinet crammed with little pieces of paper, postcards, and letters my brother sent to me from college and his travels. "Today I picked a postcard from Grenoble, France, and copied it onto the chalkboard. 'Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face' ... more
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A Crack in Forever by Jeannie Brewer
When Eric Moro first enters Alexandra Taylor's life, he is a medical student eager to earn fast money modeling; she is an artist quite accustomed to drawing men's nude bodies. Nothing, however, has prepared her for his reckless sensuality -- the wayward smile that speaks of mischief and... more
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A Thousand Cuts: A Novel by Simon Lelic
"In his powerful, wrenching debut, Lelic takes a sadly familiar crime and delves into the equally familiar menace at its root: bullying." -People
In this riveting debut novel about sexism, bullying, and the horrific effects of random acts of violence, Detective Inspector Lucia May... more
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Beat the Reaper (Peter Brown, Bk 1) by Josh Bazell
Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden. Whether it's a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of... more
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Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole, Bk 7) by Robert Crais
Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole -- until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes.
Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by three kids to find their missing father,... more
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L. A. Requiem (Elvis Cole, Bk 8) by Robert Crais
The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a gun shot to the... more
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Silesian Station (John Russell, Bk 2) by David Downing
Summer, 1939. British journalist John Russell has just been granted American citizenship in exchange for agreeing to work for American intelligence when his girlfriend Effi is arrested by the Gestapo. Russell hoped his new nationality would let him safely stay in Berlin with Effi and his son,... more
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Stettin Station (John Russell, Bk 3) by David Downing
In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old son, Paul, and his longtime girlfriend, Effi. Forced to work for both German and American Intelligence, he's... more
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Guilty Wives by James Patterson & David Ellis
No husbands allowed
Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun... more
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Confessions of a Murder Suspect (Confessions, Bk 1) by James Patterson & Maxine P...
I'M NOT SURE I LOVED MY PARENTS.
On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, is one of the last people to see her powerful parents alive.
I'M NOT SURE THEY LOVED ME.
Tandy and her brothers are the only suspects, and as she begins to remember flashes... more
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Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay
Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never so much as stepping out the door. He pores over and memorizes the streets of the world. He... more
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, Bk 1) by C. J. Sansom
The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery on the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s... more
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Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. Her little... more
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Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation.... more
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Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Island of Lost Girls and Promise Not to Tell returns with a chilling novel in which the secrets of the past come back to haunt a group of friends in terrifying ways.
Dismantlement = Freedom
Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz banded... more
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to... more
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The Last Detective by Robert Crais
Elvis Cole, Book 9
Elvis Cole is once again coming to terms with his life as a PI on the streets of LA. He loves his girlfriend, Lucy Chenier, but his constant exposure to the Californian underclasses has stretched their relationship to the limit especially when Cole's job brings danger too... more
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The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole, Bk 10) by Robert Crais
In his major New York Times bestseller, The Last Detective, Robert Crais returned to his signature characters, private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike. Now Crais delivers a stunning, edge-of-your-seat suspense novel that leads Elvis to the very thing... more
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The Burning Edge (Jack Gannon, Bk 4) by Rick Mofina
A SINGLE MOTHER BECOMES AN EYEWITNESS TO MURDER
Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an armored car heist. Four men are executed... more
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski & Barbara Vedder (...
Published in Poland after World War II, Tadeusz Borowski's concentration-camp stories show atrocious crimes becoming an unremarkable part of a daily routine. Prisoners eat, work, sleep, and fall in love a few yards from where other prisoners are systematically slaughtered. The will to... more
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Sister by A. Manette Ansay
"When my brother disappeared in 1984, I began to see myself in the third person as if my life were a story being told to someone else."Abigail Schiller lives a seemingly normal childhood in a rural Catholic commuinity in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother, Sam,... more
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Defending Jacob by William Landay
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town,... more
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Stolen Season, A: An Alex McKnight Novel (Alex McKnight) by Steve Hamilton
On a cold, miserable night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat runs full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. When Alex McKnight helps rescue the passengers, he... more
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The Hiding Place by David Bell
Sometimes it's easier to believe a lie.
Twenty-five-years ago, the disappearance of four-year-old Justin Manning rocked the small town of Dove Point, Ohio. After his body was found in a shallow grave in the woods two months later, the repercussions were felt for years. Janet Manning... more
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One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, Bk 2) (Audio CD) (Abridged) by Kate Atkinson & Ro...
Two years after the events of Case Histories left him a retired millionaire, former detective Jackson Brodie has followed Julia, his occasional girlfriend and former client, to Edinburgh for its famous summer arts festival. But when he watches a man brutally attacked in a traffic jam--the... more
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A Christmas Carol (Radio Theatre) by Charles Dickens
Value priced! Adapted from Charles Dickens' A Christmas CarolCapture the wonder of the holiday season year-round with A Christmas Carol. Remaining true to Dickens' original Christian tale, this dramatization presents the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the ghosts of Christmases past, present, and... more
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What Happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles
Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unusual revenge on Cass McBride, the most popular girl in school, for the death of his brother David. He digs a hole. Drugs Cass. Kidnaps her. Puts her in a box-underground. He buries her alive. But Kyle makes a fatal error: Cass knows the power of words.... more
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Right Behind You by Gail Giles
When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret. How can Kip tell anyone that he really is--or was--a murderer?
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Hound of the Baskervilles (Aladdin Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of master mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most accomplished stories. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson confront one of their most difficult cases ever: is there truly a curse on the old Baskerville estate? Is there truly a ghostly beast... more
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Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog (Audio CD) (Abridged) by John ...
John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wriggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.
Marley quickly grew into a barreling,... more
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Drift Away by Jeff Shelby
Forced to leave San Diego after his life is destroyed by tragedy, P.I. Noah Braddock is hiding and trying to heal on the Florida Panhandle. Paralyzed by fear and the pain of loss, he?s isolated himself and given up everything that meant anything to him. When a young boy comes to him on the... more
