Run, Rose, Run
James Patterson and Dolly Parton
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A new singer arrives in Nashville. She calls herself AnnieLee Keyes, and she has more beauty, talent, and ambition than most—and a dangerous past that she’s running from. Her performance of original songs at open-mic night at the Cat’s Paw Saloon downtown transfixes Ethan Blake, back-up musician for country star Ruthanna Ryder.

Ruthanna may have retired—for deeply personal reasons—but that doesn’t mean she’s stopped writing music. Every day, she records songs she’ll never release. When Ruthanna hears AnnieLee sing, the legend decides to help the ingenue. But a boost from a mega-star like Ruthanna may spotlight the talented newcomer’s secret.

You Can’t Always Get What You Haunt
Ellen Riggs
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Janelle Brighton’s psychic gifts are more nuisance than talent. After 15 years of running from her powers and her family’s tangled legacy, she comes home to Wyldwood Springs for a fresh start. She’s barely signed the lease on a haunted storefront when a body turns up out back.

Guess who’s getting framed? Her mother is missing, the family ghost has amnesia, and the town’s most powerful warlock wants her gone. Luckily, Janelle has support. Sassy sidekick Mr. Bixby crossed back from the dead because he believes in her, even when she doesn’t.

The Albert Samson Mysteries Volume One
Michael Z. Lewin
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Ask the Right Question: Private investigator Albert Samson gets a shake-up with his new client: sixteen-year-old Eloise Crystal is desperate to find her biological father. What the detective unearths is the kind of dirt that makes people do desperate things. Thrust into a moneyed clan of old secrets and killer deceptions, Samson discovers that the first lie may be Eloise’s.

The Way We Die Now: When Vietnam veteran Ralph Tomanek is charged with manslaughter, Samson believes there’s more to the story. But why was a man with a history of PTSD hired as an armed guard in the first place?

Ink and Bone
Lisa Unger
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Twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery is rarely alone. Visited by people whom others can’t see and haunted by prophetic dreams she has never been able to control or understand, Finley is terrified by the things that happen to her.

When Finley’s abilities start to become too strong for her to handle–and even the roar of her motorcycle or another dazzling tattoo can’t drown out the voices–she turns to the only person she knows who can help her: her grandmother Eloise Montgomery, a renowned psychic living in The Hollows, New York.

Hard News
Jeffery Deaver
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Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she’s got her eyes on the prize, the network’s hot newsmagazine, Current Events—and she’s got the story she knows will get her there.

Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview with Randy Boggs, who’s doing hard time in Attica for a murder he claims he didn’t commit. Rune can’t say exactly why, but she’s sure he’s innocent. If she can prove it, Current Events won’t merely report the news, it’ll make news—and Rune’s career.

When the Bough Breaks
Jonathan Kellerman
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Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.

It’s child psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware’s job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody’s memory. But as the sinister shadows in the girl’s mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past.

Witch Trial
Harriet Tyce
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When eighteen-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in a park, the city of Edinburgh is stunned—and the shock only deepens when police charge her best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with the murder.

As social media explodes in a tizzy of theories and headlines scream for justice, rumors of bullying are overshadowed by something more wicked and frightening: whispers of dark rituals, feverish obsession, and a teenage pact gone wrong. When the trial begins, everyone in Edinburgh clamors for a front-row ticket to the show: to look upon the murderous Eliza and Isobel with their own eyes.

Ice Vector
Aiden Bailey
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Beneath the Antarctic ice, a weapon that could change the world. Stranded in the brutal hellscape of Antarctica after being seconded to the Australian Defence Force, CIA paramilitary officer Mark Pierce—the Trigger Man—stumbles upon a terrifying global conspiracy. A Russian research vessel is drifting, powerless, towards an iceberg.

When Pierce boards the ship to investigate, he discovers the entire crew has vanished. A final message names the thing they were running from—a deadly, fast-acting biological weapon capable of wiping out half a billion lives in three months.

Billion-Dollar Ransom
James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski
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In this New York Times bestseller from James Patterson, six kidnappers pursue a whopping ten-figure payout in this thrilling novel. Five members of a billionaire’s family. In different locations. All kidnapped at the same moment. Two children taken from a private-school bus. A film producer and a movie star grabbed at a hideaway resort.

A beautiful wife whisked off the streets of Beverly Hills. A patriarch wants his family back. The cash, gold, jewels, and crypto are all ready. There’s only one problem: a brilliant, very stubborn FBI agent. Special Agent Nicky Gordon doesn’t want to pay the kidnappers. Not a dime.

Robert B. Parker’s Showdown
Mike Lupica
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Spenser may have uncovered an explosive secret that threatens the career of a controversial figure, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series. Vic Hale isn’t anyone’s idea of a father figure.

He is one of the biggest – and loudest — podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric that’s reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of “entertainment” is so successful, he’s about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting.

Finders Keepers
Jessica Huntley
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They stumbled on a fortune. Now they’re paying the price. Mel, Liv, and Jennie have been best friends forever. There’s nothing they wouldn’t do for each other. When Mel’s mother dies, a hidden key leads the three of them to a storage unit—and a discovery that will change their lives.

Over £100,000 in cash. And a body. They desperately need the money so they agree to keep it and say nothing about the dead man. At first, it seems their plan is working. Then the messages start.

Deadly Trio
Emma Jameson
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Lord Anthony Hetheridge, Chief Superintendent for Scotland Yard, has made a name for himself catching killers—a name all his own, apart from his hereditary title. On the cusp of his sixtieth birthday, the wealthy lifelong bachelor has it all—until DS Kate Wakefield upends his elegantly ordered world.

The divide should be insurmountable—age gap, wealth gap, and a class gap wider than the Thames. But as Hetheridge, Kate, and his protege, DS Deepal “Paul” Bhar, investigate the brutal murder of a financier, he finds himself falling in love with Kate—even as the clues lead to a secret from his own past.

Crash Landed with My Weredragon
Celeste Raye
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Crash-landing on an alien planet was never part of Marina Livingstone’s mission. Falling for the Weredragon who comes to her rescue definitely wasn’t. Toren is powerful, protective—and secretly a prince. He needs Marina’s help to save his dying world. She needs him to keep her crew alive on a planet filled with deadly creatures.

As danger forces them closer, an unexpected attraction becomes something neither can deny. But when their ancient Weredragon bond awakens, Marina must decide if she’s willing to leave everything she knows behind for the alien male who has claimed her heart.

The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
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Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . .

Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.

25 Alive
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas investigate the shocking murder of a former SFPD chief in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, in this thriller from the world’s #1 bestselling author.

“Those who haven’t read any of the novels in the Women’s Murder Club series are cheating themselves.” —BookReporter SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay’s onetime partner who rose to chief of police.