Mysteries

Don’t Let Go
by Harlan Coben
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With unmatched suspense and emotional insight, Harlan Coben explores the big secrets and little lies that can destroy a relationship, a family, and even a town in this powerful new thriller.

Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon “Nap” Dumas hasn’t been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo’s girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks—and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation.

For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother’s death. And now, it looks as though he may finally find what he’s been looking for. 

I Will Ruin You
by Linwood Barclay
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English teacher Richard Boyle certainly never thought he would find himself talking down a former student intent on harming others, but when Mark LeDrew shows up at Richard’s school with a bomb strapped to his chest, Richard immediately jumps into action.

Thanks to some quick thinking, he averts a major tragedy and is hailed as a hero, but not all the attention focused on him is positive. Richard’s brief moment in the spotlight puts him in the sights of a deranged blackmailer with a score to settle.

City of Spirits
by Eric Wilder
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In the haunted French Quarter, where Creole spirits drift through Mardi Gras chaos, a malicious voodoo curse sparks mayhem in the Crescent City’s underground world. When a crew boat sinks, releasing sociopathic assassin Jacque Leguerre, the vengeful killer storms into New Orleans, hell-bent on making Catholic priest Father Alphonso pay for past sins in a chilling New Orleans noir story of paranormal crime.

N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia hunts the ruthless mob murderer responsible for a brutal killing, while grappling with a new partner and a passionate affair with the mysterious Venus Hernandez.

Blood, Stars, & Fortune
by Bradford Bates and Michael Anderle
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The void of space is dark and full of pirates. Humanity pushed past Mars, and the corporations followed—racing to claim a new galaxy the way settlers once claimed the West.

Then a blinking red light reveals an ore deposit that eclipses them all. Brothers Edward and Christian Zakarian are about to learn how dangerous space really is.

The Bodyguard’s Fake Bride
by Elle E. Kay
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Amy’s life is spiraling out of control. A stalker lurks in the shadows, determined to claim her as his own. Desperate for safety, she turns to Seamus, a former Special Forces operative turned bodyguard. His solution? A marriage of convenience—a ruse meant to flush out her tormentor and end the nightmare once and for all.

But pretending to be husband and wife comes with unexpected complications. The forced proximity makes it impossible to ignore the growing tension between them.

Deadly Peril
by Emily Jane Trent
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Navy SEAL Thaddeus Jonsson is the strong, silent type. He’s assigned as bodyguard to Jana, a fiercely independent and outspoken woman with a secret worth a lot of money. And she’s not pleased that her overprotective grandmother hired protection for her – even if he is the image of a Viking. She fights against his intrusion into her life.

Thaddeus was trained to be alone, and after years of deployment can’t envision losing his heart to a woman. He’s clear on one thing: he’s not marriage material. But Jana affects him as no woman has.

She’s the Missing Sister Complete Series Box Set, Volume 2, Books 1 – 9
by Jacie Middlemann
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Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother.

How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of finding a missing sister was going to be either simple or free of complications.

The Body in the Bookstore
by Ellie Alexander
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Welcome to The Secret Bookcase, a quirky bookstore in a grand, converted manor house, where the selection of crime fiction is dangerously good. The store has been bookseller and events manager Annie Murray’s sanctuary ever since her dreams of starting a detective agency with her best friend died, literally, when Scarlet was murdered.

Annie has never stopped trying to solve the mystery of her friend’s death, but her quiet life in leafy Redwood Grove, with its warm community of likeminded local business-owners and book-lovers, has provided the solace she needed. Until now.

Hindsight
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
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Investigator Kendra Michaels—once blind and known for her sharp skills—puts her life on the line to catch a killer in this electrifying novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning duo.

Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses—honed during her years in the dark—and keen deductive abilities.

Shanghai
by Joseph Kanon
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After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety.

Daniel Lohr was one of the lucky ones—lucky enough to have escaped the Gestapo when his colleagues in the resistance were caught, lucky enough to have an uncle waiting in Shanghai, lucky to find a casual shipboard flirtation that turns unexpectedly passionate.

A Soldier Finds His Way
by Irene Onorato
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Gruff and tough, Edward Giordano’s success as an elite Special Forces soldier doesn’t carry over to his personal life. Emotionally scarred from a painful childhood, he’s built a wall around his heart that he lets very few penetrate.

Audra Lorenzo, a first-year school teacher, is on a road trip with her niece during the holidays. A storm that was supposed to pass, instead crosses her path. Lost, with her GPS cutting in and out, her car skids off a road, down an embankment, and into an icy river. Everything goes black.

The Tally
by Christian Kay
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Every soul is born with a hundred. Spend it, and you’re worth nothing. In the sealed city of Galcyon, a number on your wrist is the measure of your soul. It buys your food, your shelter, your right to exist. When it hits zero, the iron cuff goes on, and the city works you until the Reckoning, the holy day when the worthless are executed in front of everyone and it’s called an act of mercy.

Micah has spent eighteen years believing the number is fair. He has to believe it, because it’s the only thing keeping his twin brother safe.

Broken Cross
by Bill Byrnes
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Priest. Scholar. Fugitive. Tom Lache never imagined fleeing through Cappadocia, but now he’s running for his life. He’s wanted for the murder of a brilliant Muslim archaeologist, whose discovery could shatter Christianity. His only ally is Rachel Goldman, a New York Times reporter and rabbi’s daughter.

Tom must decipher the Gospel of Longinus, an ancient text stating that Christ planned and survived his crucifixion. He faces the unthinkable dilemma-is his faith based on a lie, or will a lie destroy his faith?

Notes on an Execution
by Danya Kukafka
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Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.

Through a kaleidoscope of women—a mother, a sister, a homicide detective—we learn the story of Ansel’s life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation; Hazel, twin sister to Ansel’s wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister’s relationship threatens to devour them all; and finally, Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly.

The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito
by Erle Stanley Gardner, Otto Penzler
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Perry Mason solves a murder in a mining town in this whodunit from one of the bestselling authors of all time.

When a millionaire enlists Perry Mason to protect his mining interests, the sleuthing attorney and his tireless secretary Della Street trade the Los Angeles streets for the fresh mountain air of San Bernardino. As soon as they arrive at the property, however, things start to go sideways, first with the introduction of an eccentric cast of characters, and then with deception, poisoning, and gunfire. When one of the group falls dead, Mason must throw his deductive powers into overdrive, sorting through red herrings and puzzling clues to reveal whodunit. At the end, his dazzling explanation will hinge on an oddly lazy insect.