Mysteries

The Tristan Betrayal
by Robert Ludlum
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Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family, is a well-known man about town in occupied Paris. He’s also a minor asset in the U.S.’s secret intelligence forces in Europe.

Through a wild twist of fate, it falls to Metcalfe to instigate a bold plan that may be the only hope for what remains of the free world. Now he must travel to wartime Moscow to find, and possibly betray, a former love—a fiery ballerina whose own loyalties are in question—in a delicate dance that could destroy all he loves and honors.

Under Currents
by Nora Roberts
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For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they’ve come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under?

Years later, Zane returns to his hometown determined to reconnect with the place and people that mean so much to him, despite the painful memories. As he resumes life in the colorful town, he meets a gifted landscape artist named Darby, who is on the run from ghosts of her own.

Crossed Fire
by Baccellia Kim
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Stephanie Stewart is a typical sixteen-year-old girl—she loves hanging out with her friends, going to concerts, and sipping mocha lattes. Yup. Just your average teenager . . . Except for one difference—she can see and talk to the dead.

In fact, Stephanie helps dead girls who who’ve been murdered or killed, cross over. Just as Stephanie is getting used to her unique “gift”, her mom stumbles into some dangerous witchcraft that backfires and triggers similar abilities in Stephanie’s best friend Cura, and nemesis Hillary.

It Should Have Been You
by Andrea Mara
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You press send and your message disappears. Full of secrets about your neighbors, it’s meant for your sister. But it doesn’t reach her – it goes to the entire local community WhatsApp group instead. As rumor spreads like wildfire through the picture-perfect neighborhood, you convince yourself that people will move on, that this will quickly be forgotten. But then you receive the first death threat.

The next day, a woman has been murdered. And what’s even more chilling is that she had the same address as you – 26 Oakpark – but in a different part of town.

The Fate of Mercy Alban
by Wendy Webb
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Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons.

Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace’s aunt disappeared without a trace.

The House of Secrets
by Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg
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When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel’s father is Jack Nash, the host of America’s favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad’s tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse.

Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own name. She’s told she’s been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother.

Madness Made in Mayhem
by Claire O’Sullivan
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MURDER, MAYHEM, AND THE COST OF LOYALTY.

In Central Oregon, Detectives Luke Barritt and Dakota Littlebear fight crime—and sometimes each other. Their new chief is one part brilliant and two parts absurd, keeping the department on edge. As if they don’t already have enough to deal with.

Luke’s world splinters when the PD’s anthropologist enters his life. But when murders rock Shallows Creek, a killer sets their sights on Dakota, forcing Luke to watch the people he cares about become targets.

Dakota fights the dark battles of racism with the stoicism she’s mastered—except in front of her best friend. Her partner.

Together, they navigate Shallows Creek’s ugliest war yet, with a killer always one step ahead.

The Man They Freed
by William Black
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Southeastern Arizona is drowning in blood. Ranches are burned, travelers vanish, and whole settlements live in fear of one name: Luis Mateo, the ruthless outlaw known to the Apache as Wicked Warrior. Cruel even to his own men, Mateo rules through terror, leaving a trail of bodies across the territory and humiliating every posse and army patrol sent after him.

There is only one man who knows how to hunt him. Former army scout Jess Larkin. The problem is, Larkin is serving time in prison.

The Bone Hacker
by Kathy Reichs
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Called in to examine what is left of a person thought to have been struck by lightning, Tempe traces an unusual tattoo to its source and is soon embroiled in something much larger. Young male tourists have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos.

Seven years earlier, the first victim was found in a strange location with his left hand hacked off; subsequently, two other visitors vanished without a trace. But recently, tantalizing leads have emerged…

Loose Arrows
by Lynn Horton
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CIA operative Nina Abrams is an invaluable asset to the Moscow office—an American who can think like a Russian. As the daughter of Stalin’s favorite portraitist, she never underestimates the Kremlin’s lethal games. But when her four-year-old daughter, Katie, disappears in a bloody kidnapping, grief paralyzes Nina, and the Agency sends her home.

Seven tough years later, her heavily medicated father’s shocking last words link Katie’s disappearance to missing nuclear warheads powerful enough to start World War III. Nina is doubtful—until vandals ransack her father’s studio and leave a grisly reminder of that horrific night in Moscow.

Trouble in Mind
by Jeffery Deaver
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In these twelve electrifying tales (including six written just for this anthology) Deaver proves once again his genius for the unexpected-in his world, appearances are always deceiving.

A devoted housekeeper embarks on a quest to find the truth behind her employer’s murder. A washed-up Hollywood actor gets one last, high-stakes chance to revive his career. A man makes an impulsive visit to his hometown, and learns more about his past than he bargained for. Two Olympic track hopefuls receive terrorist threats.

The Greatest Threat
by Christopher Walker
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After Kaigen discovers a map proclaiming it leads to “The Greatest Threat to Mhorelia,” he and John decide to follow its path and vanquish whatever threatens the peace they just fought so hard to achieve. But what they uncover is worse than they could’ve ever imagined.

As danger comes at them from all sides and everyone is pushed to their breaking point, John must work quickly to rally his new companions and defend Mhorelia from the greatest threat it’s ever faced.

All the Demons Are Here
by Jake Tapper
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It’s 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up—and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong.

Now he’s off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling in with the wealthy, shady British family that owns the newspaper.

The Jaded Warrior
by Jennifer Youngblood
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From the moment sassy Alabama travel writer Nikki Sterling meets retired Navy SEAL Luke Ellis, sparks fly hot and fast. Nikki knew getting involved with a complicated man would come with challenges, but his controlling nature is suffocating.

Luke is disciplined … a man who’s fought his way back from addiction. Control isn’t just who he is—it’s how he keeps going. Nikki has never stayed around long enough to answer to anyone. After walking away from a prince—and a future that felt more like a gilded cage than a dream—she’s not about to trade her freedom for someone else’s expectations.

Where Memories Lie
by Deborah Crombie
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A lifetime ago, Erika Rosenthal and her late husband, David, fled to England to escape the Nazis—which is all Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Gemma James truly knows about her secretive friend’s past. But Erika needs Gemma’s help now. A family heirloom, stolen during their flight, is being sold at a prestigious London auction house. Who has had it all these years? And was Erika’s husband’s death more sinister than it appeared?

Hidden somewhere in the shadowy, exclusive world of London’s monied society are answers to these questions, and to a shocking new murder—one which kicks the enquiries into high gear and brings Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, Gemma’s partner and colleague, into the case.