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2) Briarpatch
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"America's best storyteller." -The New York Times Book Review
From Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comes Briarpatch, a thrilling mystery of one man's personal mission to find justice for his family. Now the basis for the USA Network television series executive produced by Sam Esmail, creator of Mr. Robot.
A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicity-born on the same...
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She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him.
Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there―or who she is. A passing officer takes her to the police station, and not long after, a frantic man arrives. He's been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos. He is her father. Her name is Mary. Or so he says.
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4) Calico
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"There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert... The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge--and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for...
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Wyatt Green is convinced that the annual spate of violence striking her small Vermont town is caused by a shared sickness, but she begins questioning her assumptions--and her memories about the night of her mother's murder--as she is drawn to her classmate Porter and away from her best friend Cash.
Every November, every teen in Wolf Ridge is overwhelmed with a hunger for violence. At least, that's the urban legend. After her mother was murdered last...
6) The silence
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"A man is savagely murdered outside Portland, and Detective Mason Callahan finds blood-spatter evidence that tells a troubling story. Files reveal the murder victim, Reuben Braswell, was a radical conspiracist. In his home, investigators find pages of diatribes against law enforcement as well as ties to Mason's fiancě, FBI special agent Ava McLane. The victim was her informant--and had strong reasons to be paranoid. To Ava, Braswell's rants were...
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Successful environmental lawyer Abby Williams is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home.
Abby Williams left Barrens, Indiana and is working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago. When a new case takes her back home, the successful life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins...
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"Hawaii-born Makani Young's new life in Nebraska is thrown into chaos when a serial killer begins to target her fellow high school students"--
It's been almost a year since Makani Young came to live with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska, and she's still adjusting to her new life. And still haunted by her past in Hawaii. Then, one by one, the students of her small town high school begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasing...
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"Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound."
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll,...
10) None shall sleep
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Eighteen-year-olds Emma Lewis and Travis Bell, recruited by the FBI to interview juvenile serial killers, must turn to a notorious teenage sociopath to help track down a new murderer.
11) Finders keepers
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Finders Keepers is a spine-tingling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about an alarming spree of kidnappings in the southwest of England. The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and--as if by slick, sick magic--had been replaced by a note on the steering wheel: "You don't love him." At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor, as children begin to disappear, with each disappearance marked only by a terse, accusatory note. There are...
12) Some shall break
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Travis Bell and Emma Lewis reunite to help the FBI capture a serial killer in Pittsburgh, and they must again turn to a notorious teenage sociopath and his twin sister for help finding the murderer.
1982. Junior FBI consultant Emma Lewis rejected the offer to attend Quantico; US Marshal candidate Travis Bell stayed to train within a new unit of the FBI Behavioral Science division. But the unit's latest case is feeling eerily familiar and Kristin...
13) Girl on the hill
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"Dana Gray never expected to see FBI agent Jake Shepard again. Let alone be working with him on another high-profile case in her backyard. But when a missing person turns out to be her former best friend, she finds herself pulled from the safety of her research library at the Smithsonian into the dark political underbelly of D.C. ... Will she and Shepard be able to unravel the tangled web of crimes before another person vanishes in the night?" --...
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"Dana Gray never thought she'd find herself knee deep in bodies-literally. But after visiting yet another strange D.C. crime scene at Jake's behest that's exactly where the occult specialist finds herself. To help FBI Agent Jake Shepard crack the string of violent mob crimes, she'll need to prove what she knows about death can put together the missing pieces of her victims' lives ... With no other choice Dana throws herself into the dark and dangerous...
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Sisters Stella and Ellie Steckler are both determined to win a scholarship and escape their stifling small town, but their plans are upset when a new girl joins the cross country team and then disappears.
Cross-country running is Stella Steckler's life and she won't let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too, but she has friends, goes to parties, has a life off the course. Their lives are upended when...
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When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead.
17) Missing
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When fledgling singer Roxy Raines vanishes from the tiny resort of Sandown, the island's locals refuse to talk about it to any outsiders, dismissing Roxy as a teenage runaway. Thirty years later, seventeen-year-old Mona Perry is convinced there's something more sinister at play. Armed with a suitcase and a microphone - to record her findings for her podcast's listeners - the troubled teen is on a deadline: one hot summer is all she has to get to the...
18) Last night
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"A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes...
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When the answers to a present-day murder lie in the past, seventeen-year-old Lucy must examine a tragic event to prevent more lives from being lost.
The rain kept coming, the dam broke, and lives were lost. One was Lucy Michaels's little brother. She was there and while she saved the lives of many young boy scouts, despite being a child herself, she couldn't save him. Eight years later Lucy is graduating from high school. She will compete in an air...
20) Belladonna
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Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death--and her own deathly powers--when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.
Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being-- and each meeting an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate both glittering and gloomy. Its patriarch mourns...
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