Mysteries

Ghost Writer
by Alison Bruce
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Jen Kirby has seen ghosts since she was a child, but she can’t talk to them or help them cross over. And, after a violent death in the family, she doesn’t want to see them anymore.

In her role as ghostwriter, Jen joins a Canadian Arctic expedition to document and help solve a forty-year-old mystery involving an American submarine station lost during the Cold War. The trouble is, there are people—living and dead—who don’t want the story told, and they’ll do anything to stop her.

Hollow Bones
by Jodi Picoult
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On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world.

Faith Hunter
by William Pickrel
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Daniel Rowan used to find things for a living. Then he found something that cost too many people too much, and he disappeared to a cottage at the end of a dirt road. Now a foundation director has tracked him down with a clay jar from a dead collector’s estate.

Inside is a scroll written by a man who calls himself the son of Jesse. It tells where he laid down the sword of Goliath, and why he wrapped it in cloth: his own men had started turning on each other around it.

Blink of an Eye
by Roy Johansen and Iris Johansen
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Delilah Winter is one of the hottest pop stars on the planet, so how in the world was she kidnapped right in the middle of a show at the famous Hollywood Bowl? If anyone can figure it out, it’s Dr. Kendra Michaels, who works with local and federal authorities on only the most impossible cases.

Blind for the first twenty years of her life until a revolutionary surgical procedure allowed her to regain her sight, Kendra uses her powers of observation—honed during her years in the dark—to detect what other investigators don’t.

Lethal Prey
by John Sandford
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Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death . . . but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found. Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all.

Shadowed Lives
by Vikki Corowa
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Rick never expected to survive prison, especially not after the knife meant to silence him. As darkness closes in, he hears words that chill him deeper than the blade. “She is ours. We are coming for her.”

When Rick wakes chained to a hospital bed and under guard, he knows the woman he once hurt is in grave danger. Steph, the woman he never stopped loving, the woman he swore he would protect, is being hunted by a ruthless international trafficking syndicate with ties to Sydney’s underworld.

Murder in Bologna
by T A Williams
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A grieving father asks Dan to uncover the truth behind the death of his gifted son, a student at Bologna’s prestigious Art Institute. Accompanied by his loyal Labrador, Oscar, Dan heads north from Florence to investigate. The student’s former girlfriend is consumed by grief and the Art Institute is mourning one of its brightest talents.

But beneath the surface, Dan senses that someone is hiding the truth. Doing a favour for his friend, Commissario Virgilio Pisano of the Florence murder squad, Dan soon finds himself caught up in the shady world of drug dealing, organised crime and fraud on a grand scale.

The Taken Ones
by J. A. Jance
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Despite her name, Twinkle Winkleman is as tough as nails. A skilled mechanic and certified spitfire, she has a nose for trouble. So when a young woman from Anchorage disappears after heading to Seattle for an internship that seems too good to be true, Twinkle is convinced that something dangerous is happening. But both the Anchorage and Seattle authorities dismiss her out of hand.

With nowhere else to turn, Twinkle calls on an old friend: private investigator and former homicide cop J. P. Beaumont.

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.