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Two students are murdered near an elite boarding school, and disturbing deaths follow.
The Suicide House
Mystery
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Two students are murdered near an elite boarding school, and disturbing deaths follow. Forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore and psychologist Lane Phillips revisit the case, looking for what everyone missed. This second Rory Moore/Lane Phillips novel has a 4.12-star Goodreads rating from more than 37,000 readers.
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An Apple Books Best of the Month Selection
A Publishers WeeklySummer Reads 2020 Editors’ Pick
A Library Journal “12 Novels Featuring Protagonists on the Autism Spectrum” Selection
A chilling murder in a prestigious prep school is at the heart of this riveting novel from acclaimed author Charlie Donlea, featuring forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore and her psychologist partner, Lane Phillips.
Inside the walls of Indiana’s elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced. But in the woods beyond the manicured campus sits an abandoned boarding house, infamous among Westmont’s students as a late-night hangout. Here, only one rule applies: don’t let your candle go out—unless you want the Man in the Mirror to find you . . .
One year ago, two students were killed there in a grisly slaughter. The case has become the focus of a hit podcast, The Suicide House. Though a teacher was convicted of the murders, questions remain. The most urgent: why so many students who survived that horrific night have returned to the boarding house—to kill themselves. Rory is working on the podcast with Lane, recreating the night of the killings in order to find the elusive answers. But the more they learn, the more convinced they are that the sinister game inside Westmont Prep hasn’t ended. It thrives on secrecy and silence. And for its players, there may be no way to win—or to survive . . .
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A strong match for readers who like psychological thrillers with cold cases, dual timelines, serial-killer investigations, and puzzle-like clues.
Some Choose Darkness
Mystery · Police Procedural
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Forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore is drawn into a decades-old case involving five missing women, a serial killer known as The Thief, and Angela Mitchell, the woman who may have uncovered his identity before she disappeared. Forty years later, The Thief is nearing parole, and a file in Rory’s late father’s office suggests there is more to the case, with a 4.2-star average from more than 50,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers who like psychological thrillers with cold cases, dual timelines, serial-killer investigations, and puzzle-like clues.
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From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Twenty Years Later, a twisting, impossible-to-put-down novel about the deadly secrets hiding in plain sight . . .
Some choose darkness.
Others are chosen by it.
Forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore sheds light on cold-case homicides by piecing together crime scene details others fail to see. Cleaning out her late father’s law office after his burial, she receives a call that plunges her into a decades-old case . . .
In the summer of 1979, five Chicago women went missing. The predator, nicknamed The Thief, left no bodies or clues behind—until police received a package from a mysterious woman named Angela Mitchell, whose unorthodox investigations appeared to unmask the killer. Then Angela disappeared without a trace. Forty years later, The Thief is about to be paroled for Angela’s murder. But the cryptic file Rory finds in her father’s law office suggests there is more to the case.
Making one startling discovery after another, Rory becomes helplessly entangled in the enigma of Angela Mitchell and what happened to her. As she continues to dig, even Rory can’t be prepared for the full, terrifying truth that is emerging . . .
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Ideal for readers looking for mystery thrillers with a sardonic detective, a double murder, and secrets tied to a government research facility.
Plum Island
Mystery · Medical Thriller
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, wounded NYPD homicide detective John Corey is recuperating on Long Island when a couple he knows, both Plum Island scientists, are murdered and he is pulled into the investigation, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 16,200 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for mystery thrillers with a sardonic detective, a double murder, and secrets tied to a government research facility.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell, wants Corey's big-city expertise, but Maxwell gets more than he bargained for.
John Corey doesn't like mysteries, which is why he likes to solve them. His investigations lead him into the lore, legends, and ancient secrets of northern Long Island -- more deadly and more dangerous than he could ever have imagined. During his journey of discovery, he meets two remarkable women, Detective Beth Penrose and Mayflower descendant Emma Whitestone, both of whom change his life irrevocably. Ultimately, through his understanding of the murders, John Corey comes to understand himself.
Fast-paced and atmospheric, marked by entrancing characters, incandescent storytelling, and brilliant comic touches, Plum Island is Nelson DeMille at his thrill-inducing best.
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This will appeal to readers who want dark police procedurals, psychological suspense, violent crimes, and complicated personal connections.
The Kept Woman
Thriller · Police Procedural
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Will Trent investigates the murder of an ex-cop at an abandoned Atlanta construction site, where bloody evidence points to a second victim who has disappeared and a case tied to his own troubled past, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 29,600 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want dark police procedurals, psychological suspense, violent crimes, and complicated personal connections.
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“Part True Detective, part The Girl on the Train. All parts gripping.” — TheSkimm
From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Karin Slaughter, comes an electrifying, emotionally complex crime thriller that plunges GBI Inspector Will Trent into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him.
Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.
Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.
With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site in Atlanta, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop.
Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a missing woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn’t found.
Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world’s most expensive lawyers—a man who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away.
But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will’s troubled past to the case, threatening to expose the secrets and lies that bind them . . . and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends—and even the suspects he pursues.
Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller — a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to Cold War espionage, international chases, political intrigue, and conspiracy-driven thrillers.
A Matter of Honor
Mystery
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Adam Scott inherits a mysterious letter from his disgraced father and soon finds himself running across Europe after his lover is murdered, pursued by the KGB, CIA, and his own countrymen, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 3,500 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to Cold War espionage, international chases, political intrigue, and conspiracy-driven thrillers.
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International bestseller Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles with A Matter of Honor--featuring a bonus interview with author.
It seems innocent enough. A disgraced British colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. But the moment Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, he sets into motion a deadly chain of events that threatens to shake the very foundations of the free world.
Within days, Adam's lover is brutally murdered and he's running for his life through the great cities of Europe, pursued not only by the KGB, but by the CIA and his own countrymen as well. Their common intent is to kill him before the truth comes out. While powerful men in smoke-filled rooms plot ever more ingenious means of destroying him, Adam finds himself betrayed and abandoned even by those he holds most dear.
When at last he comes to understand what he is in possession of, he's even more determined to protect it, for it's more than a matter of life and death-it's a matter of honor.
Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw. When Bradshaw dies in the night, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past and assumes his identity.
On landing in America, however, Bradshaw quickly learns the mistake he has made, when he discovers what is awaiting him in New York. Without any way of proving his true identity, Harry Clifton is now chained to a past that could be far worse than the one he had hoped to escape.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to gritty detective fiction, Boston crime, political corruption, and hard-edged investigations.
A Drink Before the War
Mystery
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Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find a missing woman and recover stolen documents, but the case draws them into gang violence, corruption, and murder, with a 3.9-star average from more than 47,900 Goodreads ratings. A sharp fit for readers drawn to gritty detective fiction, Boston crime, political corruption, and hard-edged investigations.
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The mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.
A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find a missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about justice, about right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn’t just a dirty business . . . it’s deadly.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to cozy mysteries with tech-savvy heroines, workplace intrigue, humor, and romantic tension.
No One to Trust
Mystery
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Former NSA hacker Lexi Carmichael has left government work behind when Darren Greening, a brilliant researcher at her new employer's first client, disappears and suspicion falls on Lexi. She must uncover what happened while navigating complications with her new boss, Finn Shaughnessy, with a 4.5-star average from more than 70 Goodreads ratings for this Kindle edition. A sharp fit for readers drawn to cozy mysteries with tech-savvy heroines, workplace intrigue, humor, and romantic tension.
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A reformed NSA agent must solve the next case before she becomes the next victim in this beloved cozy mystery rom-com by Julie Moffett!
SWFG: Single, White, Female, Geek.
That's me, Lexi Carmichael. But a series of extraordinary events led me to leave government life behind for a fresh start with a brand-new. It may not be cool to have the hots for your new boss, but Finn Shaughnessy seems to have the hots for me, too. If only things didn't get so complicated...
Darren Greening, a genius researcher from Flow Technologies (our first client!) is missing, and his bosses think I'm involved. And they aren't the only ones—the man who nearly snapped my neck in the parking garage thinks so, too.
Now I'm caught in the middle of a complex and dangerous case. I'll have to use all my geek skills and a little help from my friends to solve the mystery of Darren's disappearance before Neck-Snapping-Man makes a return visit...
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to historical conspiracy thrillers, WWII secrets, international investigations, and morally complicated questions of justice.
The Final Reckoning
Mystery · Thriller · Political Thriller · Spy Thriller
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The Final Reckoning begins with a fatal shooting at the United Nations that pulls lawyer Tom Byrne into a decades-old quest for justice connected to Holocaust survivors and wartime vengeance. A sharp fit for readers drawn to historical conspiracy thrillers, WWII secrets, international investigations, and morally complicated questions of justice.
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"The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown." —Mirror (UK)
When a man's death at the United Nations turns out to be more than just an accidental shooting, unsuspecting Tom Byrne is plunged headlong into a deadly world of hidden fellowships, unforgivable crimes, and a 60-year quest for justice. From Sam Bourne—the #1 international bestselling author of The Righteous Men and The Last Testament—comes this fast-paced, gripping, and provocative thriller exposing the last great mystery of the Second World War. Perfect for fans of Raymond Khoury, Jo Nesbø, and James Rollins, Bourne's The Final Solution is a tense and twisting tale of Nazi soldiers and Jewish Avengers, based on the true story of WWII survivors taking vengeance for the Holocaust into their own hands.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy atmospheric psychological suspense, fraught friendships, and dark secrets resurfacing.
The Lying Game
Mystery · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Seventeen years after four boarding-school friends made an art of deception, a grim discovery in Salten summons them back to confront a secret they thought was buried. This instant New York Times, USA TODAY, and Los Angeles Times bestseller has a 4.0-star rating from more than 18,000 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers who enjoy atmospheric psychological suspense, fraught friendships, and dark secrets resurfacing.
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Praise for Ruth Ware’s instant New York Times, USA TODAY, and Los Angeles Times bestseller:
“So many questions....Until the very last page! Needless to say, I could not put this book down!” —Reese Witherspoon
“Once again the author of The Woman in Cabin 10 delivers mega-chills.” —People
“Missing Big Little Lies? Dig into this psychological thriller about whether you can really trust your nearest and dearest.” —Cosmopolitan
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes a chilling new novel of friendship, dark secrets, and the dangerous games teenage girls play.
On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic English coastal village of Salten, along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister…
The next morning, three women in and around London—Fatima, Thea, and Isa—receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from the fourth in their formerly inseparable clique, Kate, that says only, “I need you.”
The four girls were best friends at Salten, a second-rate boarding school set near the cliffs of the English Channel. Each different in their own way, the four became inseparable and were notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies at every turn to both fellow boarders and faculty. But their little game had consequences, and as the four converge in present-day Salten, they realize their shared past was not as safely buried as they had once hoped…
Atmospheric, twisty, and with just the right amount of chill to keep you wrong-footed, The Lying Game is told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, lending itself to becoming another unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.
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A good pick for readers who enjoy cozy mysteries with amateur sleuthing, country-club circles, social secrets, and murder arriving in the middle of ordinary plans.
Evil Ways
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Historical Mystery
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Ellison agrees to fill in for one afternoon of bridge, only for Lavinia Denton to die at the table. Convinced the death was murder, Ellison is pulled into an investigation by the information people keep giving her, and those unwanted clues may put her in danger. A good pick for readers who enjoy cozy mysteries with amateur sleuthing, country-club circles, social secrets, and murder arriving in the middle of ordinary plans.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
Ellison agreed to one afternoon of bridge, one favor for a woman whose husband is having a heart attack. She doesn't ask who else is playing. She should have.
When Lavinia Denton dies at the bridge table, Ellison is sure she’s been murdered.
Ellison doesn’t mean to investigate. Really, she doesn’t. But people keep telling her things.
And all that information she didn’t ask for? It just might get her killed.
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A strong match for readers who enjoy techno-thrillers built around ambitious engineering, maritime danger, remote expeditions, and scientific mystery.
The Ice Limit
Mystery
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From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and called a “techno-thriller of a high order” by Rapport, The Ice Limit follows billionaire Palmer Lloyd’s attempt to recover a 4,000-ton meteorite from an island off southern Chile and transport it to New York. As the expedition moves toward Antarctic waters, deaths and questions about the object’s true nature turn the mission increasingly dangerous, with a 4.4-star average from more than 830 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers who enjoy techno-thrillers built around ambitious engineering, maritime danger, remote expeditions, and scientific mystery.
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In this “techno-thriller of a high order” (Rapport) #1 New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child follow a crew as they attempt to transport an ancient meteor—only to unearth something much more dangerous.
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking them.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to crime thrillers with flawed investigators, missing-person cases, equestrian settings, corruption, and romantic suspense.
Dark Horse
Mystery · Cozy Mystery
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Praised by The Wall Street Journal for its “hard-boiled view of equine society,” Dark Horse introduces former cop Elena Estes, whose past mistakes have cost her career and confidence. When twelve-year-old Molly Seabright asks for help finding her missing older sister, Elena is pulled into the wealthy Palm Beach horse world and its drugs, payoffs, dirty deals, and killer, with a 3.9-star average from more than 11,900 Goodreads ratings. A sharp fit for readers drawn to crime thrillers with flawed investigators, missing-person cases, equestrian settings, corruption, and romantic suspense.
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In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner--and the losers die trying.
In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is running out for eighteen year-old Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidnapper's terrifying game for a ransom no one can pay, her last hope is a washed-up ex-cop who has already lost it all-not once, but twice.
The wealthy world of the Palm Beach horse set seems a long way from a cop's world in the narcotics division. A lifetime ago, undercover sheriff's detective Elena Estes worked the mean streets and BackTop alleys, living by her wits and playing the long odds until she took one risk too many. Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope and self-hatred, hiding from the past and believing she doesn't deserve to have a future. But the past is about to come back with a vengeance, and the future is about to become a race between life and death.
A young woman is missing and her twelve year-old stepsister comes to Estes for help. No one but serious, studious Molly Seabright seems concerned about what's happened to her troubled older sister. But Molly is convinced Erin is in danger. Estes has no P.I. license, no interest in a new career, and no desire to break her self-imposed exile. But the more she learns about the people Erin Seabright was involved with, the more her long-dormant cop instincts come back to life.
One trip to the show grounds where Erin worked as a groom, and Estes is quickly pulled to the dark side of a glamorous sport. Behind the glittering, ultra-rich facade is an ultra-ruthless world of drugs, payoffs, and dirty deals. A world of dissolute playboys and crooked horse-dealers, of royalty and rabble, of rivals and enemies. An obscenely wealthy world where anything can be had for a price--including a life.
And in that world stalks a killer who will lead Estes down a dark, twisted trail of decadence and deceit, mayhem and murder--from the gilded life of Palm Beach to the darkest corners of the Florida swamps, to a final show-down that could cost her everything. A race against time and evil. A race in which Estes is the dark horse--and no one is betting on her to win.
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