Mysteries

In the Valley of Shadows
by David Dingess
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What if your greatest enemy wasn’t someone else, but the darkness hidden within your own soul?

Some battles are fought in the world we can see. Others take place in the shadows, where faith is tested, temptation takes hold, and evil knows exactly where to strike.

In In the Valley of Shadows, the line between the natural and supernatural begins to blur as a sinister presence invades the dreams of Mason James. A demon becomes an unexpected adversary, bringing a terrifying spiritual battle face-to-face with the one thing people spend their lives trying to avoid: their own sin.

Killer View
by Roy Johansen
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Kendra Michaels, blind before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, offers her razor-sharp senses to assist her friend Jessie Mercado in a baffling case. An army vet and former bodyguard for the rich and famous, Jessie has faced all kinds of danger but one thing the motorcycle-riding private investigator has never encountered before is an incarceration consultant.

Preparing wealthy people to go to prison is big business. When Owen Blake of Mamertine Consulting hires Mercado to find his missing partner, their suspect list is filled with recently released white-collar criminals, a few drug kingpins, and a couple of murderers to keep things interesting.

The Blindsight of Grace
by R.A. Williams
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Suffering is a refining fire for the soul. And twenty-two-year-old Grace Sinclair knows what it means to suffer. At the age of eleven, a brain injury from a tragic car accident left her unable to see. Then, her father was murdered in front of her older brother, and her mother lost her life to COVID-19.

But although her world was shrouded in darkness, Grace chose to persevere and walk by faith—as any blind person must learn to do. If only her brother shared her reliance on God.

Mutation
by Kevin Hardman
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Having saved the planet and earned a place with the world’s premier superhero team, Jim (aka Kid Sensation) is preparing to attend the prestigious Academy, where teen supers from every corner of the globe learn to master their abilities.

At the same time, however, he is approached by a mysterious government organization that wants Jim to work for them – and they won’t take “No” for an answer. Moreover, at the Academy itself, an insidious and highly contagious virus is running amok through the student population, striking at the heart of their abilities.

The Glades
by Angela Hunt
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When Katherine Armstrong arranges a birthday weekend on her husband’s private island in the Everglades, she plans for everything: the guest list, the menu, the flowers, the careful distance between herself and the dark water beyond the dock.

She does not plan for the storm.

By nightfall, the power is gone, the mainland is unreachable, and something in the mangrove shadows has begun to move. Katherine has spent years building a life that looks flawless from the outside. Now, with her children beside her and the water on every side, she will have to decide what that life was actually worth.

EMP
by William Stone
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The passengers were still clapping when she turned on her phone. “Meghan, we have a problem. Call me immediately.” The texts from her lawyer kept coming. Her husband never signed the papers. Nobody could find him. Captain Meghan Prescott had just landed a dead jet blind in the fog.

Soon after, the EMP hit. Now the grid is gone, the phones are bricks, and Scott has their daughter. When the power dies, there’s no rescue. No police. Just a mother and a frozen road into the mountains.

The Cape Refuge Collection
by Terri Blackstock
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Cape Refuge
When Thelma and Wayne Owens are found murdered in the warehouse where they held their church services, their son-in-law Jonathan is arrested for the crime—but his wife Morgan and her sister Blair, Thelma and Wayne’s daughters, are confident that he didn’t do it and set out to find the real killer.

Southern Storm
Police Chief Cade disappears after hitting and killing a man with his car. Without a trace, without a note, without taking clothes or his car or money—he is gone.

Death at the Deep End
by Patricia Wentworth
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Anna Ball has disappeared. For a year she has moved from one job as a nanny to another, unable to settle or make friends. After just a month with her last family, she walks down the road, steps onto a bus, and is never seen again. No one notices she has gone.

Almost no one. There is one woman who cares about Anna: a long-ago school pal named Thomasina, with whom she would trade a weekly letter. When the letters stop, she panics, knowing that if she doesn’t help the girl, no one will.

All In
by David Baldacci
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When fearless war correspondent Theresa Lee is shot on a storm-swept Manhattan street and the man she was meeting, Bill Walker, vanishes, the 6:20 Man, aka former Army Ranger turned federal investigator Travis Devine, is called in.

Theresa is an investigative journalist, Walker a legendary analyst for the Five Eyes alliance that gathers intelligence that could topple governments around the world. A professional hit team has tried to silence one and snatched the other—and Devine has to find out why.

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.