Mysteries

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.

A Perfect Flock
by Mike Bogue
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Tuck Jameson’s brother Clay has vanished, lured into The Body—a religious cult wielding cutting-edge nanotechnology to transform members into devout automatons. With just three days until Clay’s conversion is irreversible, Tuck is desperate.

Joining forces with Adam Shimura, a former mentor turned black ops agent with ambiguous allegiances, Tuck plunges into a perilous quest to rescue his brother. But Chief Elder Brother Moody and his zealous followers are determined to thwart Tuck at every turn. As the tension escalates, a stunning prophecy reveals that the crisis transcends personal struggle—it threatens the very soul of America and perhaps the entire world.

Black Out
by Lisa Unger
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On the surface, Annie Powers’s life in a wealthy Florida beach neighborhood is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her.

These are demons she can’t fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget. Disturbing events trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future…and her daughter.

I Know What I Saw
by Kathryn Croft
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When Ria moves with her husband to Silverleaf Heights, she hopes to recover from the incident that nearly took her life. Everything seems perfect – the houses are beautiful, the neighbours welcoming and the locked gate keeps the danger out. Or does it?

Late one night, Ria sees a woman being attacked. When she raises the alarm, there’s no evidence. No crime. No victim. But Ria knows what she saw – and she won’t let it go. Then an anonymous text appears on her phone, a video of another woman being murdered. Looking closer, Ria realises the woman is her.

Uncovered
by Rich J.B. Martin
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A CLASS RING. A HUMAN BONE. A CASE THAT WOULDN’T STAY CLOSED. When construction crews rebuilding the Harborview waterfront uncover a gold class ring beside human remains, Detective Sarah Sloane recognizes the initials inside. N.H. Nathan Hollis disappeared eleven years ago. At the time, his death was ruled an accidental drowning.

Sarah signed the report. Now Nathan’s remains have surfaced, raising troubling questions about what really happened that night. As Sarah reopens the investigation, she must uncover the truth about Nathan’s disappearance while confronting questions about her own life that she has buried beneath a job she loves.

Missing
by Erin Kinsley
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One perfect summer day, mother of two Alice walks into the sea . . . and never returns. Her daughters – loyal but fragile Lily, and headstrong, long-absent Marietta – are forcibly reunited by her disappearance.

Meanwhile, with retirement looming, DI Fox investigates cold cases long since forgotten. And there’s one obsession he won’t let go: a tragic death twenty years before. Can Lily and Marietta uncover what happened to their mother? Will Fox solve a mystery that has haunted him for decades? As their stories unexpectedly collide, long-buried secrets will change their lives in unimaginable ways.

Murder by the Book
by M. R. G. Davies
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Nothing is deadlier than angry readers… especially when you murder one of their own. When the manager of The Quaint Bookshop is found slumped between the shelves, the four members of the shop’s reading group decide to put into action all the skills they’ve picked up from their favourite fictional detectives.

If anyone knows how to solve a killer of a crime, it’s a team of murder-mystery superfans. The police might be investigating but the reading group are on the case…

He Feeds Dinosaurs
by Daniel Dow and Kristan Dow
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Elijah Dow did not breathe on his own for the first seven minutes of his life. His father stood watching the team try to keep him alive until he finally made a sound. Before his parents left the hospital, the doctors warned them that autism was possible.

They warned them the day he was born — about a boy who would grow up to run toward strangers with his arms open. Elijah is nine. He draws chalk maps up and down his street, runs to meet every passing golf cart, and takes archery classes on Saturday.

The Heights
by Ian Rankin
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Facing Hyde Park, The Heights is London’s most coveted luxury high-rise apartment—designed to satisfy every need, with a gym, infinity pool, cinema, and more, where self-made owner-developer Allan Franklyn himself has claimed the penthouse duplex. His neighbors include some of “Money London’s” biggest personalities: a wealthy art dealer, a young heartthrob pop star, a foreign heiress, a gangster’s wife.

The residents are used to service, deference, and privacy, all on their terms. But when nighttime concierge Dwayne Hogarth is found dead in the lobby, none of that is in their control anymore, and everyone’s under the unwelcome scrutiny of Detective Sergeant Gillian Gish.