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A quiet college campus becomes dangerous when a body surfaces in its lake.
Murder Made Her Wicked
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Historical Mystery
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A quiet college campus becomes dangerous when a body surfaces in its lake. In Murder Made Her Wicked, Marigold Manners returns to Wellesley determined to rebuild her life, only to confront rivalries and resentments simmering beneath the surface of her cloistered academic world. As suspicion spreads through the tight-knit community, this historical mystery blends sharp intellect, social tension, and the resolve of an unconventional heroine.
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Bicycle-riding, aspiring archaeologist Marigold Manners is back and ready for adventure in Elizabeth Hobbs’s next mesmerizing historical mystery.
“A humdinger…whose characters bring to mind those of both Emily Brontë and L. M. Montgomery” (Kirkus), this second installment is perfect for fans of Deanna Rayborn.
1894, Boston. Penniless Boston heiress and accomplished modern woman Marigold Manners has put her past to good use, selling the story of the Great Misery Island Murders to earn enough money to resume the life she was always meant to have and return to her studies at Wellesley College. But her carefully laid plans for academic excellence are thrown into disarray when she stumbles across the body of a young woman in the campus lake.
When the peace of the bucolic campus is shattered by the murder, the cloistered world of a women’s college that Marigold finds so comforting proves it is not immune to the malice and wickedness of the world. The closed community becomes a hothouse where disparagement blooms into insult and small slights that have festered for years blossom into academic rivalries that could spill over into something far more sinister. Marigold must use every ounce of her logic and enlist her eccentric, colorful cast of fellow students and found family to identify the girl and find the murderer—before they kill again.
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A dying mother sends her twelve-year-old son on a journey no child should have to take.
The Talisman
Horror · Dark Fantasy
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A dying mother sends her twelve-year-old son on a journey no child should have to take. In The Talisman, Jack Sawyer crosses America and a parallel realm known as the Territories in search of a mystical object that can save her life. As he moves between worlds shadowed by violence and dark magic, this epic fantasy thriller explores courage, sacrifice, and the cost of growing up too soon.
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The iconic, “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy thriller about a young boy’s quest to save his mother’s life.
Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the only thing that can save Jack’s dying mother. But to reach his goal, Jack must make his way not only across the breadth of the United States but also through the wondrous and menacing parallel world of the Territories.
In the Territories, Jack finds another realm, where the air is so sweet and clear a man can smell a radish being pulled from the ground a mile away—and a life can be snuffed out instantly in the continuing struggle between good and evil. Here Jack discovers “Twinners,” reflections of the people he knows on earth—most notably Queen Laura DeLoessian, the Twinner of Jack’s own imperiled mother. As Jack “flips” between worlds, making his way westward toward the redemptive Talisman, a sequence of heart-stopping encounters challenges him at every step.
An unforgettable epic of adventure and resounding triumph, The Talisman is one of the most influential and highly praised works of fantasy ever written.
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Best for readers who like epic romantic fantasy with political intrigue, forbidden love, and slow-burn spice.
Daughter of the Drowned Empire
Romantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Lady Lyriana Batavia has spent years hiding her sisters’ forbidden magic, but when her own power brings a sentence of exile, she accepts a deadly contract: seven months to train without magic and pass the Emperor’s brutal test. It has a 3.8-star average from more than 9,200 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like epic romantic fantasy with political intrigue, forbidden love, and slow-burn spice.
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Cleopatra meets Throne of Glass in this romantic fantasy series with forbidden romance, political intrigue, and slow burn spice.
Lady Lyriana Batavia is third in line to the Seat of Power in Bamaria: a position of wealth and privilege, but not safety. Bamaria falls under the rule of the Lumerian Empire, survivors of a celestial war whose island sank in the Drowning. Now all Lumerians submit to the Emperor and his strict laws about magic. He decides what magic can be practiced and what powers remain forbidden. He decides who will die for possession of forbidden magic.
Lyr’s own cousin was executed for wielding the wrong kind. And for years, Lyr has sworn to protect her older sisters, helping them conceal their own illicit magic.
But when Lyr must participate in the ceremony that reveals her power, she uncovers something else entirely. Something that means banishment from the Empire.
Faced with death in exile, and leaving her sisters behind, Lyr has no choice but to accept a deadly contract. She has seven months to train as a warrior and pass the Emperor’s brutal test of strength, without magic.
But when she’s forced to train with Lord Rhyan Hart, the man she’s secretly loved since she was a girl—a feared warrior in exile himself, forbidden to her in every way—she’s in danger of losing far more than her family, life, and country.
Rebel forces, and an invading army, are destabilizing Bamaria, just as her family’s secrets threaten to reveal themselves.
Surviving the training, and saving her sisters may mean sacrificing her own heart.
'One fantastical world. One fierce heroine to take it down! Daughter of the Drowned Empire is sexy, thrilling, and pure magic!' Cecy Robson, author of Bloodguard
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An aircraft known for killing its own crews becomes the proving ground for six young airmen.
Widow Maker
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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An aircraft known for killing its own crews becomes the proving ground for six young airmen. In Widow Maker, newly assigned pilots and crew members must master the controversial B-26 Marauder while confronting the fear that their greatest threat may be mechanical failure as much as enemy fire. Set in World War II Europe, this historical novel examines courage, camaraderie, and the cost of survival in combat.
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Six young Americans have been assigned to fly the Martin B-26 Marauder in combat during World War II. The B-26--dubbed Widow Maker by the press and the aircrews who flew her--was one of the most controversial aircraft produced in the United States during the war. These young men find themselves confronted not only with doubts about the airplane they are given to fly, but also the sometimes fatal choices made by a military organization unprepared to employ them in combat.
Against the setting of World War II Europe, the heart and minds of these young men are revealed as they are forces to make a swift and frequently terrifying journey into manhood. The differences between them, seemingly irreconcilable at first, fade away as they form the ancient bond between men whose lives must depend upon one another in combat. But even after these young Americans make the transition into seasoned warriors, they are still faced with the grim reality that some of them will survive--and some will not.
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A career setback sends a professional hockey player into the wilderness, where attraction complicates his plans for escape.
Barn Burner
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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A career setback sends a professional hockey player into the wilderness, where attraction complicates his plans for escape. In Barn Burner, a trip to rural Alberta brings him face to face with a guarded cowboy whose life revolves around the ranch. As identities blur and desire deepens, this MM sports romance explores vulnerability, pride, and the risks of loving across different worlds.
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I’ve ridden a Zamboni, but never a cowboy…
Missing out on my first Stanley Cup has left me more torn up than I expected. It was in my sights. So close, I could almost touch it.
With my brother back in England, I’m facing nothing but an empty house and my thoughts, and there’s only two ways to soothe my mind:
The ice and nature.
But when I pack up my car and head out into the Alberta wilderness, my bad luck lands me in the reluctant hands of a grumpy cowboy with a perpetual scowl.
I shouldn’t get involved with Jesse.
His life is the ranch, whereas my life is hockey.
So why do I allow myself to fall for him so hard?
And why do I keep my real identity a secret?
I live for barn burners, but this is one I might not survive.
Barn Burner is a part of Love the Game, a multi-author MM sports romance shared world.
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A staged murder mystery becomes an unexpected reckoning with grief.
Welcome to Murder Week
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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A staged murder mystery becomes an unexpected reckoning with grief. In Welcome to Murder Week, Cath travels to the English countryside after discovering her late mother booked tickets for a weeklong fake crime in a small village. As she teams up with fellow guests to solve the “case,” she uncovers hidden truths about her mother and herself in this character-driven mystery with romantic and emotional depth.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER
In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the “bittersweet page-turner” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.
When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated.
Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers—Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband’s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels—Cath sets about solving the “crime” and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives.
Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter’s reckoning with her grief, her past—and her own budding sense of adventure.
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A closed case refuses to stay buried as questions linger beneath a killer’s confession.
The Ultimate Evil
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A closed case refuses to stay buried as questions linger beneath a killer’s confession. In The Ultimate Evil, journalist Maury Terry reexamines the Son of Sam murders, tracing inconsistencies and overlooked evidence that suggest a wider conspiracy. Blending investigative reporting with true crime analysis, this unsettling account explores the possibility of cult involvement and the long shadow cast by violence.
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THE TRUE CRIME CULT CLASSIC: Follow journalist Maury Terry’s decades-long investigation into the terrifying truth behind the murders of serial killer Son of Sam.
Inspired the Netflix docuseries The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness!
On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the Son of Sam murders that had terrorized New York City for over a year. Berkowitz confessed to shooting sixteen people and killing six with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver, and the case was officially closed.
Journalist Maury Terry was suspicious of Berkowitz’s confession. Spurred by conflicting witness descriptions of the killer and clues overlooked in the investigation, Terry was convinced Berkowitz didn’t act alone. Meticulously gathering evidence for a decade, he released his findings in the first edition of The Ultimate Evil. Based upon the evidence he had uncovered, Terry theorized that the Son of Sam attacks were masterminded by a Yonkers-based cult that was responsible for other ritual murders across the country.
After Terry’s death in 2015, documentary filmmaker Josh Zeman (Cropsey, The Killing Season, Murder Mountain) was given access to Terry’s files, which form the basis of his docuseries with Netflix and a companion podcast. Taken together with The Ultimate Evil, which includes a new introduction by Zeman, these works reveal the stunning intersections of power, wealth, privilege, and evil in America—from the Summer of Sam until today.
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A city built to survive the end of the world begins to fracture from within.
Blackfish City
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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A city built to survive the end of the world begins to fracture from within. In Blackfish City, a floating Arctic refuge struggles under corruption, inequality, and a spreading disease until a mysterious woman arrives riding an orca and quietly unites four outsiders. This climate dystopian thriller blends political unrest, found family, and speculative technology in a story of resistance and fragile hope.
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A team of outsiders unite to save a city of refugees and elites on a drowned Earth in this "action-packed science fiction thriller" (Washington Post).
A Best Book of the Month: Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, Tor.com, B&N Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog, Amazon
"An ambitious, imaginative, and big-hearted dystopian ensemble. . . . Miller has crafted a thriller that unflinchingly examines the ills of urban capitalism. . . . Rendered in poetic interludes." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city's denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges—crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population.
When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side—the city is entranced. The "orcamancer," as she's known, very subtly brings together four people—each living on the periphery—to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.
Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent—and ultimately very hopeful—novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection.
"Miller's poetic prose gives this dystopian story a taut, lyrical edge." —Entertainment Weekly
"An incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of a family in a scarily plausible future." —Ann Leckie
"I haven't been this swept away by imagination and worldbuilding since Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials." —Carmen Maria Machado
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A desperate act of revenge opens a door that will not close.
King Sorrow
Horror · Occult Horror · Supernatural Horror
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A desperate act of revenge opens a door that will not close. In King Sorrow, six college friends at an insular Maine campus use an occult text to summon a dragon, hoping to solve one friend’s crisis, only to bind themselves to a creature that demands yearly human sacrifice. This dark academia horror explores loyalty, guilt, and the cost of bargains that grow bloodier with time.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, a chilling tale of modern-world dangers, dark academia, and the unexpected consequences of revenge as six friends dabble in the occult and are tragically, horrifyingly successful… calling forth an evil entity that demands regular human sacrifice.
“A brilliantly Faustian fable with a heart as huge as a dragon’s, and a stinging twist in its tail. I devoured it.” —Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Suite 11
Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when a local drug dealer and her partner corner him into one of the worst crimes he can imagine: stealing rare books from the college library.
Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for comfort and help. Together they dream up a wild, fantastical scheme to free Arthur from the cruel trap in which he finds himself. Wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren suggests using the unnerving Crane journal (bound in the skin of its author) to summon a dragon to do their bidding. The others—brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride; and brainy, bold Gwen—don’t hesitate to join Colin in an effort to smash reality and bring a creature of the impossible into our world.
But there’s nothing simple about dealing with dragons, and their pact to save Arthur becomes a terrifying bargain in which the six must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow every year—or become his next meal.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark romance, slasher horror, vigilante killers, and twisted family games.
Love & Other Killers
Romance · Horror · Slasher
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A #1 Best Seller in Slasher Horrors, Love & Other Killers follows Sloane and her vigilante family of serial killers as their annual hunt targets Allan Munster, a churchgoing chicken farmer with a brutal body count, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 17,800 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark romance, slasher horror, vigilante killers, and twisted family games.
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Serial killers versus serial killer in a hot and twisted novella about family games, true love, and competitive carnage by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ruinous Love Trilogy.
It’s the annual hunt for Sloane and her vigilante family of serial killers. Track the most cold-blooded psychos imaginable and take them down. This summer’s prey is Allan Munster, a churchgoing chicken farmer who slaughters more than fowl. The rules of the game: Divide into teams, devise a strategy, and make a move—the more cutthroat the better. May the best team win. The players are closing in. All eyes are on Munster. But there’s a hitch in the family sport this year. Someone might be watching them.
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A city builds a monument to progress while a killer builds a monument to death.
The Devil in the White City
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A city builds a monument to progress while a killer builds a monument to death. In The Devil in the White City, architect Daniel Burnham races to create the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair as Henry H. Holmes constructs a hotel designed for murder. This narrative nonfiction work interweaves ambition and atrocity, revealing how spectacle and violence coexisted at the dawn of modern America.
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years
Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.
Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into the enchantment of the Guilded Age, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
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When priceless artifacts vanish and a banking executive faces prison, the hunt becomes personal.
The King’s Ransom
Thriller
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When priceless artifacts vanish and a banking executive faces prison, the hunt becomes personal. Recovery agent Gabriela Rose must team up with her infuriating ex-husband to track stolen masterpieces across the globe and uncover who engineered the fraud. As corruption, murder, and a wider conspiracy surface, The King's Ransom delivers high-stakes action, romantic tension, and a fast-moving international adventure.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER
“Thriller master” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine) Janet Evanovich takes you on a global hunt to track down missing masterpieces in this action-packed and steamy follow up to the instant New York Times bestseller The Recovery Agent.
Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she can’t seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble…big trouble.
As the president of a too-big-to-fail bank, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. It seemed like a low-risk, high-reward business move, so he jumped in with both feet. But recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there’s no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail as the fall guy for an ingenious crime.
Gabriela knows what she must do: travel around the world with Rafer to find the missing works of art, keep Harley out of jail, and save both his skin and his bank. Along the way, she’ll encounter corruption, threats, murder, mysterious dark forces behind a global conspiracy to destroy the world’s wealth, and a nefarious villain who will stop at nothing to bring the world to the brink of ruin.
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