Mysteries

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.

Shroud for a Nightingale
by P.D. James
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The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed.

Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.

WAR
by Sebastian Junger
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Sebastian Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat—the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley.

Through the experiences of these young men at war, he shows what it means to fight, to serve, and to face down mortal danger on a daily basis.

The Dreadnought Court Complete Series Boxed Set
by A.T. Michaels and Michael Anderle
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Stripped of rank but not her oath, former military judge Josephine Givens crashes into a frozen wasteland—and discovers something that shouldn’t exist. Something massive. Something waiting. The AI calls itself JUDGEMENT. It recognizes her authority. It obeys her verdicts.

In a world where the Meridian Corporation controls life through elevator licenses and oxygen quotas, one woman holds the key to a weapon that fires only when the law allows. Someone buried this warship for a reason. Someone powerful enough to rewrite history itself.

The Collector
by Daniel Silva
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In this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a search for a stolen Vermeer masterpiece and uncovers a conspiracy that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world’s most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.

The Samuel Paradox
by John Westley Turnbull
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Arthur Hale only wanted a little help around the house. Devoted to his family and hell-bent on making the most of retirement, Arthur impulsively buys Samuel, an advanced domestic robot designed to serve, obey and make life easier. His grandson is delighted. His wife is considerably less certain.

At first, Samuel is everything they were promised. But as he observes the Hale family, something unexpected begins to happen. He learns more than his programming requires. He develops his own understanding of loyalty, justice—and right and wrong.

I’ll Be Awesome Tomorrow
by Marian Sandmaier
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From the time she was eight years old, Marian Sandmaier was fixated on one shining goal—to make herself perfect. She had no interest in tweaks or enhancements: Her ambition was to achieve a full-on personality transplant, exchanging an awkward, uncertain girl for a young goddess who was wildly charming and totally immune to rejection.

Over the next fifteen years, Sandmaier’s ceaseless efforts to hold herself to this impossible standard led to a destructive intimate relationship and an ever-deepening sense of failure. She would be perfect, damn it—or die trying.

Going Back
by Peter Robinson
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In the novella “Going Back,” never before published in the United States, Banks returns home for a family reunion, only to find it taking a decidedly sinister turn.

In “Like a Virgin,” written especially for this volume, Banks revisits the period in his life and the terrible crime that led him to leave London for Eastvale. And in between, the disparate motives that move us to harm one another, from love and jealousy to greed and despair, are all explored with fascinating depth.

D: Heavy Water
by Neal Stephenson
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Europe, 1934. British journalist Owen Crisp-Upjohn is dispatched to Moscow, where his assignments quickly escalate from cultural reporting to international espionage. Before long, Owen finds himself pulled into the orbit of the enigmatic Earl of Suffolk, a maverick aristocrat, and Aurora, a curiously compelling woman with a shadowy past rooted in Soviet intelligence.

Their mission soon becomes clear: secure the earth’s only supply of deuterium—”heavy water”—before it falls into Nazi hands. The high-stakes pursuit takes them from London’s plush drawing rooms to Barcelona, ravaged by the Spanish Civil War; from far-flung Soviet aerodromes to the perilous, icy landscapes of occupied Norway.

He Who Does Not Exist
by Victoria W Thomson
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God allows the devil to temporarily make a few demons mortal.

The devil does this to improve those demons at getting souls and to select a lead soul catcher, an elite position in Hell. The demons, while on earth are mortal, meeting on a college campus, and explaining the deadly sins. Each demon is the embodiment of a deadly sin and most want to be lead soul catcher.

An angel points out the risk of making demons mortal, even for a short time; while a demon never gets the choice, a mortal can choose salvation.

Island Extraction
by Stacy Angell Curtis
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Lena Ashworth arrived at a billionaire’s island estate with a fake name and a desperate prayer, determined to rescue a cousin who doesn’t realize she needs saving.

Lena has not heard from her cousin Cassidy in a week, and the silence is deafening. Convinced that Cassidy’s charming billionaire boyfriend is hiding something dangerous, Lena flies to a remote Caribbean island under a false name, posing as a dog-sitter to gain access to his sprawling estate. What she finds is Cassidy missing, a suspicious house manager, a stolen cache of jewels, and Nash Stone, an undercover security agent who is as protective as he is impossible to ignore. Lena has learned not to trust anyone, but with Cassidy’s life on the line, she may not have a choice…