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Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Inti Flynn leads the charge to reintroduce wolves to the forests of Scotland. When a farmer is found dead, she knows exactly who the locals will blame. Inti becomes desperate to save the animals that she loves, not all of which are wolves.
Jun 11
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Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan, actually, is not killing it at all. She's stressed out, struggling with writing her new book, and watching her philandering ex-husband and his new glamorous fiance win over the affections of her two kids. While discussing her (nonexistent) next book with her (quickly losing patience) literary agent, a woman overhears her and assumes she is a murderer for hire. This lady needs her husband gone and Finlay kind of really needs the money.
Jun 8
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The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Mia Dennett goes to meet her boyfriend at a bar, but he doesn’t show. After leaving the bar that night, she is not seen again. But in a twist, the man who kidnaps her has a change of heart, hiding her in rural Minnesota instead of handing her off to the man that paid him.
May 11
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The 7-1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Aiden Bishop keeps reliving the same day. But more than just a Groundhogs Day situation, he only has eight days to find out who keeps murdering Evelyn Hardcastle and 11 pm. If he can unmask the murderer, then the cycle is broken. Until then, he will wake up as a different guest at Blackheath Manor.
Apr 13
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Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Perry Firekeeper-Birch expected to have a chill, lazy summer. But that all comes to an end when she has to pay her aunt back for some car repairs and is enrolled in the tribe's intern program instead. But the last thing she expected was to find a job that she cared about and a mentor who taught her about taking care of her ancestors.
Mar 19
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A Ruse of Shadows by Sherry Thomas
Charlotte Holmes is forced to take on a new case when Lord Bancroft Ashburton's most loyal man has gone missing. Of course, Charlotte has no interest in helping Lord Bancroft who she has previously helped to put behind bars, but he makes sure she knows that she has no choice.
Mar 12
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Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
When Grady's wife Abby goes missing, his life falls apart. Then his literary agent gives him a real gift, the opportunity to stay in a cabin (free of charge) with minimal outside distractions so he can focus on writing his next book. It's exactly what he needs! But as he stays in the remote cabin he begins to wonder if there's something weird going on or if he's just starting to lose his mind.
Feb 26
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Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Tragedy shook the small town of Miracle Creek when a local business exploded, killing Henry, an eight-year-old child and Kitt, a mother of five. Unravel the mystery of what happened as Henry's mother stands trial.
Jan 12
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Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
Mrs. Blossom accidentally wins the lottery and decides to take the trip of a lifetime with her best friend. While waiting to meet Muriel, she meets a kind, friendly, and handsome man that she believes is just as interested in her and gets swept off her feet. Too bad the next day he's found dead.
Dec 25, 2025
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The Dark Locket: Secrets of the Sanatorium by Chris Witt
Harold's girlfriend (and hopefully soon, fiance), Emily, disappears while doing research for her dissertation. He finds evidence that she was last at Lyaeus Sanatorium and he sets out to find her. But as he searches, he starts to uncover memories that he'd unknowingly buried and pieces of himself that he didn't know existed. Because this is not the first time Harold has been in Lyaeus, he spent his whole childhood inside its walls.
Dec 8, 2025
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The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
When the cops show up at Adam Morgan's door, arresting him while telling him that he was the last person to see his mistress alive before she was brutally murdered, Adam can think of only one person capable of taking on his case and proving his innocence: Sarah. His wife.
Nov 27, 2025
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What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
Twenty-two years ago, Naomi and her best friends Olivia and Cassidy lived through an unimaginable horror when Naomi was attacked and stabbed seventeen times while the girls played in the woods. Miraculously, Naomi survived the attack and they were able to lock her serial killer attacker in prison. When they get the call that the attacker has died in prison, Olivia asks for the three of them to get together again. To their surprise, Oliviia thinks the time has come to tell the
Nov 10, 2025
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The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
In 1906, a terrible earthquake hits San Francisco. Both the earthquake and the following aftershocks caused immense damage, destroyed water lines, and fires swept through the city. At that moment, four women find themselves thrown together in a situation that could easily end in tragedy. A down on her luck soprano, a skilled embroideress desperate to escape an unwanted arranged marriage, a free-spirited author who has been missing for months, and a headstrong botanist must ba
Oct 9, 2025
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The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
Students from a fiction mystery club take a trip to an island on which a terrible triple murder/suicide occurred the year before. Alone on the island, they begin to die one by one under questionable circumstances. Is there a connection to the last tragedy? Or is one of the students the murderer?
Oct 6, 2025
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The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
A small, upstate New York community is shaken when a Bear Van Laar goes missing from his family's home and he is never found. Years later, the community comes back together again, this time to find Bear's sister Barbara, who has gone missing from the sleepaway camp on the family's property. Are the two disappearances related? Can they find Barbara before it's too late?
Sep 18, 2025
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Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
August never wanted to go back to the island of Saiorse after he and his mother snuck away, not after everything happened and they were driven out. But after his mother died, her will requested that she be buried on the island, so August travels back to the one place he never wanted to go back to and the one person that he never wanted to leave.
Aug 18, 2025
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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Someone robs a bank. They don't want to, but they are out of other options. Unfortunately for them, they choose to rob a bank that doesn't actually carry cash and the calamity that follows changes their life and the lives of all the people they accidentally take hostage.
Jul 25, 2025
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I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
When Bodie Kane is invited to teach a short class on podcasting at her high school alma mater, she asks her students to come to the first class with an idea for what they would like to report on. One of those students decides to investigate the murder of a student in the 90's, who happened to be Bodie's roommate junior year.
Jul 21, 2025
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Pike Island by Tony Wirt
When Krista's boss, the young and promising congressman from Minnesota Harrison Leonard, begins to receive strange and vaguely threatening postcards, Krista feels compelled to investigate and finds that the congressman hasn't been completely honest with her. But what does that mean for his career, or for hers?
Jul 14, 2025
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Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
When Beth's brother-in-law shoots the animal that is killing their sheep, she has no idea that it will usher in the reintroduction of her first love and foreshadow the catastrophe that awaits them all.
Jul 11, 2025
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