Mysteries

He Sweetens My Bitter Waters
by Cheryl Hoover-Kelley
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A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel.

But Joel has a lot more on his mind than simply protecting the riches that have apparently rained down from heaven.

Agents of Dreamland
by Caitlín R. Kiernan
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A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman.

In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible—the Children of the Next Level—and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in.

Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman
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Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the world that she sometimes feels is passing her by.

When Mrs. Blossom booked her cruise through France on the MS Solitaire, she did not expect to meet Allan on her transatlantic flight. He is the first man who’s sparked something inside her since her beloved husband passed.

A Noise Downstairs
by Linwood Barclay
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College professor Paul Davis is a normal guy with a normal life. Until, driving along a deserted road late one night, he surprises a murderer disposing of a couple of bodies. That’s when Paul’s “normal” existence is turned upside down. After nearly losing his own life in that encounter, he finds himself battling PTSD, depression, and severe problems at work.

His wife, Charlotte, desperate to cheer him up, brings home a vintage typewriter—complete with ink ribbons and heavy round keys—to encourage him to get started on that novel he’s always intended to write.

The Dying Light
by Ann Cleeves
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A scorching heatwave marks the start of the summer in Devon. Detective Matthew Venn is called in to investigate a puzzling death, when the body of a young woman, Lottie, is found in the swimming pool of a luxurious holiday home.

The girl’s best friend, Hannah, whose family owns the house, is missing. The girls had arrived a few days earlier to celebrate the end of their school exams, quickly stirring unrest in the small community with incendiary social media videos mocking the place as parochial.

Being Goldie (In a “just-right’)
by Michele Olson
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It’s autumn1984 and twins Goldie and Gilda Locks are on the move. Once again, they’re headed to a hotel in a new location, they know nothing about awaiting further instructions from their overbearing Granny.

The only parent they’ve ever known, the young ladies in their twenties, still struggle to break free from her influence. Neither is willing to give up the lifestyle Granny’s millions afford even though her erratic behavior is becoming more questionable by the day.

Solomon’s Ring (The Unseen Truth Series)
by William Pickrel
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The ring was never a weapon. It was a receipt. For twenty years Dr. Elias Brock dug the Ophel in Jerusalem on money he never questioned. Then, live on air, with Solomon’s Ring on a velvet pedestal in front of the cameras, nine figures stepped out of nowhere and asked for it back.

Nine seconds later the ring was gone and the feed was dead. Within days, everyone who had been in that tent remembered a power surge. Everyone except Brock.

Colton’s Mate
by Anastasia Wilde
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After he survived helping his old friend Brandon take down a criminal biker gang, Colt pretty much has it all. A place for him and his twin brother in Brandon’s new crew, the chance to start his own construction company, and maybe a potential thing with Callie, the pretty lynx shifter he helped save when the gang sent her bar up in flames.

What he doesn’t want: A forever-type relationship, more people trying to kill him, and a new, grumpy, uncooperative shifter owl inside him, waging war with his leopard.

The Witch
by Freida McFadden
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When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family’s sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she’s there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she’s hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear. Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her.

Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia’s bedroom door.

High Bluffs (High Bluffs Trilogy: Book One)
Sally Royer-Derr
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In a picture-perfect Maine town, grief is only the beginning—and someone is always watching.

Joanna Dresden has built an idyllic life in High Bluffs, Maine, running her family inn alongside her husband and daughter. But when a devastating car accident takes her husband’s life, Joanna is left emotionally adrift. The inn that once meant everything to her now feels like a painful reminder of all she has lost. Then unsettling incidents begin to disturb the town’s quiet surface. As Joanna struggles to rebuild her life, an unexpected connection offers her a glimpse of hope.

Breathe for Me
Donna B. Comeaux
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At the edge of the raging Colorado River, Robert Jaeger stands ready to end his life. He is in mourning over his dead wife and having a hard time picking up the pieces to care for their four-year-old daughter.

Lilly Radford hasn’t been the same since her baby died. Unable to cope, she drives for days and ends up at the Colorado River and falls in. Before Robert can execute his heinous act, he is catapulted into rescue mode to save another. In his zealous attempt, he soon realizes this stranger may have saved him.

Joburg Zen (Alex Lago Dying City Book 2)
Sandro Martini
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The past never dies in Johannesburg. It just waits for you to come back.

Journalist Alex Lago once knew how to survive Joburg’s secrets, spies, and violence. He got out decades ago. And stayed gone. Now he’s drawn back by a new project-uncovering what really happened to Bobby Locke, the legendary golfer who clawed his way out of the city’s gutters to achieve global stardom, only to lose it all and vanish into obscurity in a cottage called Sandwich. Half a century later, Locke resurfaces in international headlines for a final, unspeakable act.

A Trick of the Light
Louise Penny
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With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.

“Hearts are broken,” Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. “Sweet relationships are dead.” But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow’s garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara’s solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal.

What She Did
Lauren Dykovitz
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Liz has been watching the neighbors. One of them has noticed.

Liz McAdams knows a lot about her neighbors. Recently divorced, with time on her hands, she amuses herself by observing them as she walks her dog past their houses. And no life looks more wonderful than Sabrina Thompson’s. Beautiful, wealthy, married to a gorgeous husband, Sabrina seems to have it all. But one day Liz sees something through Sabrina’s bedroom window – something that could blow her seemingly perfect marriage apart. Liz is shocked and intrigued.

The September House
Carissa Orlando
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A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel.

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee. Margaret is not most people. Margaret is staying.

Being Wendy
Michele Olson
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1982 could be the end for Wendy T. Bell. Blowing out the candles at her 50th LA birthday party, all she feels is betrayal – wondering if someone in the room is behind the threats that could bring her glamorous life as a best-selling author to an end, not to mention her engagement to a wealthy English Baron.

Recalling a tiny Midwest island touted in a tossed aside Christmas card from an old boarding school chum, Wendy decides to head to there, incognito. When blackmailing notes begin to show up under her door in her seclusion, she is terrified.

Adam and Eve
Jeffrey Archer
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THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER

November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the First World War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd’s son. Yet from their first meeting they form an extraordinary bond that neither privilege nor prejudice can break. Then on a single September night in 1940, as Hitler prepares to invade the British Isles, their actions will change his mind. Determining not just their own futures but the fate of a nation. They will show extraordinary courage. They will make unimaginable sacrifices.

Not What It Seems
by Lisa Jackson
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New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson brings her own brand of Southern Gothic back to the Spanish moss-draped shade of Savannah and the swampy marshes of Lowcountry Georgia, as crime writer Nikki Gillette and her husband, Detective Pierce Reed, race to expose an obsessive killer with an enigmatic M.O. . . .

The stone is small and round, easy to miss among the junk surrounding Billy Huber’s body. The man was a hoarder for sure. At first, police assume he fell from a ladder, injuring his throat and smashing his head in the process. Only on closer inspection do they see the polished stone nearby, with a number on one side etched in blood, and a strange symbol on the other.

Ironwood
by Michael Connelly
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in.

Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully separated—by twenty-two miles of ocean—from the troubles of Los Angeles County. But now a threat is coming to his safe haven.