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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
Isabelle Drake's son went missing exactly one year ago. Since then, she hasn't slept for more than a few minutes at a time. But she won't let that stop her from looking for her son. She is constantly trying to draw attention to his case, although it quickly went cold, but she's always said no to doing podcasts. Until now.
Jun 20
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Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Lucy's life is ruined (again) when a podcaster starts to investigate the murder of her best friend. The prime suspect is Lucy and she can't remember anything from that night, could she have murdered Savvy?
Jun 13
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The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
Maggie is going to be able to meet her favorite author and her personal hero, Eleanor, but things get crazy when Eleanor suddenly disappears without a trace. Maggie needs to work with her arch nemesis Ethan to find Eleanor quickly. Poor Ethan doesn't even realize they're enemies.
May 23
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Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
After seeing each other for the first time in twenty years, can sisters Claire and Lydia put aside their differences for long enough to solve their sister's cold case.
May 5
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Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Daunis Fontaine is thrown into a high stakes investigation that leads her to unearth the secrets of her community and the people she loves.
May 2
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Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena
When a girl goes missing, the cops question everyone who lives on her street and expose the secrets of everyone in this small community.
Apr 11
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
What really happened to Anita de Monte when she fell out of a 33rd floor window, and why haven't we heard about her?
Jan 24
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The Xibalba Murders by Lyn Hamilton
Lara McClintoch travels to Mexico to help a friend with a mystery he's working on, and finds herself a suspect in his murder.
Jan 17
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The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Theo thinks that he can work with infamous murderer Alicia Berenson and might just get her to break her years long silence.
Jan 13
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