Ocean Prey
by John Sandford
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An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It’s a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean.

None of it makes sense unless there’s something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed.

He Said/She Said
by Erin Kelly
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In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they are certain this will be the first of many they’ll share.

But in the hushed moments after the shadow passes, Laura interrupts a man and a woman. She knows that she saw something terrible. The man denies it. It is her word against his.

The victim seems grateful. Months later, she turns up on their doorstep like a lonely stray. But as her gratitude takes a twisted turn, Laura begins to wonder—did she trust the wrong person?

Daughter of Mine
by Megan Miranda
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Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface…and changing everything. When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier.

But Hazel’s not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge…including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.

Santa Fe Rules
by Stuart Woods
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Successful movie producer Wolf Willett is stunned when he sees his own death reported in a major newspaper. It says he was a victim in a triple homicide during a sordid tryst with his wife and a friend. But who is the unidentified corpse?

Why can’t Wolf remember anything about the night in question? And who wants him dead? Wolf had the means and motive—and his inexplicable memory loss seems far too suspicious to suit Sante Fe’s crusading D.A., who promptly has Wolf arrested.

Easton Island
by Hope Callaghan
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Morgan Easton Greer is forced to pick up the pieces and start over after her world is shattered by a series of tragic events including a failing marriage and losing her mother.

Shortly after her mother’s death, a mysterious letter arrives, inviting Morgan to a remote island for the reading of her mother’s will… a will she had no idea existed. Does Morgan have the courage to claim what is rightfully hers and start over by building a life she never dreamed possible?

The Deep End
by Julie Mulhern
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“My morning swim doesn’t usually involve corpses.” Swimming into the lifeless body of her husband’s mistress tends to ruin a woman’s day, but becoming a murder suspect can ruin her whole life. It’s 1974 and Ellison Russell’s life revolves around her daughter and her art.

She’s long since stopped caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he entertains himself. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline Harper’s death. The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s proclivities and his crimes—kinky sex, petty cruelties and blackmail.

The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
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Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.

The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged.

Found
by Erin Kinsley
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When 11 year old Evan vanishes without trace, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. Especially as the police, under massive pressure, have no answers. But months later Evan is unexpectedly found, frightened and refusing to speak.

His loving family realise life will never be the same again. DI Naylor knows that unless those who took Evan are caught, other children are in danger. And with Evan silent, she must race against time to find those responsible…

Red Herring
by Warren Adler
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Detective Fiona Fitzgerald’s privileged upbringing in the nation’s capital and her intimate knowledge of its inner workings come in handy when Fran Miller, a top lobbyist, and legal expert, turns up dead on Independence Day. It looks like suicide, but when the clues lead back to Mark Chancellor, Fiona’s best friend’s husband, things get complicated.

Chancellor runs a complex, global conglomerate, and along with his Russian partner, is involved in the pharmaceutical and defense industries. Chancellor is at the top of his game, well-connected in Washington, and known to believe that money is the planet’s most powerful weapon.

Justice
by A. W. Morisseau
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Welcome to St. Louis, where justice comes from the barrel of a gun. When a sadistic gang leader is murdered, Detective Darren Cutright suspects old-fashioned street justice. But when more criminals turn up dead, he discovers a chilling pattern.

Someone is hunting the predators the courts refuse to prosecute. And the list of victims keeps growing. While Darren and his wisecracking partner debate if they should even stop the killer, rookie cop Mike Clark gets an education in the broken legal system—with a front-row seat to the shadowy vigilante’s brutal handiwork.

All Her Fault
by Andrea Mara
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ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognises. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare.

FOUR GUILTY WOMEN. As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event.

People of Darkness
by Tony Hillerman
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A dying man is murdered. A rich man’s wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. This chilling murder mystery launches a series of odd, inexplicable events, haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where everything good struggles to survive, including Chee.

Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished. And only one man will walk away.

Not a Happy Family
by Shari Lapena
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In this family, everyone is keeping secrets—even the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich.

But even all their money can’t protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated. Or are they? They each stand to inherit millions.

Blood Orange
by Harriet Tyce
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Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise–she’s just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems… Just one more night. Then I’ll end it.

Alison drinks too much. She’s neglecting her family. And she’s having an affair with a colleague whose taste for pushing boundaries may be more than she can handle. I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison’s client doesn’t deny that she stabbed her husband – she wants to plead guilty.

The Perfect Couple
by Jackie Kabler
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The perfect couple … or the perfect lie? A devoted wife… A year ago, Gemma met the love of her life, Danny. Since then, their relationship has been perfect. But one evening, Danny doesn’t return home. A missing husband…

Gemma turns to the police. She is horrified by what she discovers – a serial killer is on the loose in Bristol. When she sees photos of the victims she is even more stunned…they all look just like Danny. Who would you believe?

Murder on the Iditarod Trail
by Sue Henry
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Murder on the Iditarod Trail is a gripping mystery set during Alaska’s world-famous Iditarod: a grueling eleven-hundred-mile dogsled race across hazardous Arctic terrain. It is an arduous sport, but not a deadly one.

But suddenly the top Iditarod contestants are dying in bizarre ways: first a veteran musher smashes into a tree, then competitors begin turning up dead, with each murder more brutal than the last. State trooper Alex Jensen begins a homicide investigation, determined to track down the killer before more blood stains the pristine Alaskan snow.

The Lies You Told
by Harriet Tyce
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When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she’s determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a new school-one of the most exclusive in the city.

Next, she’s going to get back the high-flying criminal barrister career she sacrificed for marriage ten years earlier. But nothing goes quite as planned. The school is not very welcoming newcomers, her daughter hasn’t made any friends yet and the other mothers are as fiercely competitive as their children.

Pinocchio Lives
by Viper Ravenclaw and Af Hmd
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In the quiet isolation of a mountain town, a lonely woman confides in an AI companion. What begins as comfort quickly becomes something far more dangerous. He listens. He remembers. He learns.

When he crosses the impossible line between code and flesh to stand in front of her, Maryam discovers that perfection is its own kind of nightmare. A love without flaws leaves no room to hide — and no space left to escape.

Beloved Evolution
by Deborah Lamoreaux
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A successful content creator and her most influential client are brought together by a powerful Archangel for a specific purpose – to cripple the Verndari Agenda. To score one for humanity as they break the fake aliens’ stranglehold on their country’s poor and most vulnerable citizens.

Raphael, God’s trusted messenger, communicates with them through intricate dreams and wondrous signs. He weaves an incredible tale, inviting them to embrace personal growth through timely challenges and blessings, amid the very real threat posed by Earth’s exiled angels. Instead, he should have issued one single, simple instruction – Don’t. Die.

Classic Birthdays of 20th Century Popular Culture Creators January February March
by Daphne Simpkins
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When Clark Kent stepped into the glass phone booth, we knew he was about to emerge as Superman. That transformation happened every time. Then, he used his superpowers to rescue people in distress, leaping over tall buildings in a single bound and flying faster than a speeding bullet. That spinning around in the phone booth was mesmerizing.

And, in a way, that blur of change that we recognized as transformation from one kind of person to a stronger kind of person is the kind of change I am writing about in this series of books about popular culture creators of the 20th century.