Mysteries

In the Crosshairs
by Jack Coughlin and Donald A. Davis
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When a grave is blown up during a funeral attended by CIA operative Kyle Swanson, it’s clear that the former Marine Corps gunnery sergeant is under attack. A week later, Kyle narrowly survives a grenade attack in Berlin, and he realizes that someone wants him dead.

Partnered with skilled operative Luke Gibson, Kyle is tasked with finding the assassin Nicky Marks, who now works for a shadowy power broker known as The Prince. As they uncover a global drug empire using CIA planes to transport opium and heroin, Kyle and Luke must identify the man behind the threats before it’s too late.

The Dark
by James Herbert
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A spine-chilling tale of ancient evil unleashed, James Herbert’s The Dark is a chilling masterpiece of supernatural horror.

It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. Somewhere in the night, a small girl smiled as her mother burned. Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants, while in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered. Madness rages as the lights begin to fade and humanity is attacked by an unstoppable evil.

Uncovered
by Rich J.B. Martin
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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. And someone else is determined to keep the truth buried.

The Delivery
by Gregg Hurwitz
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Rebecca and Mark Higgins are doing their best to hold their family together. She’s healing from the pain of a miscarriage, he’s drowning in pressure at work, and their neurodivergent daughter, Maddy, needs all the care she can get. So when a cutting-edge tech company offers the perfect solution, they jump at the chance. And they welcome “Mr. Man”—a humanoid AI companion—into their home.

Designed to anticipate their needs, he’s like a miracle at first. The house runs like clockwork. Meals appear on the table. And Maddy thrives under his patient attention.

First Explorer
by John Walker
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Kyle Russ signed up for Mars. He got the galaxy instead. Chosen for humanity’s first attempt to colonize another world, he expects adventure, danger, and a new life. Then twenty-seven ships leave Earth, and the Explorer Program reveals its true purpose: investigate a mysterious extraterrestrial warning before whatever sent it reaches humanity.

Kyle’s mission goes wrong almost immediately. Stranded on an alien world, he has no way home, no understanding of the civilization around him, and no idea what might be waiting at the coordinates he was sent to investigate.

Rings of the Fallen
by William Pickrel
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Don Holler has never met a puzzle he couldn’t solve. He does it blindfolded, in hotel ballrooms, for crowds. Then he opens a relic in a Texas museum that nobody had opened in forty-five years, and a donor he has never met sends for him.

The job is in the Golan Heights. Five rings of black stone, five thousand years old. The Arabic name is Rujm el-Hiri. The Hebrew name is Gilgal Refaim. The wheel of the giants. Or the wheel of the dead.

Your Heart Belongs to Me
by Dean Koontz
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At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life.

One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear—a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant.

What Al Left Behind
by Daphne Simpkins
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Did you know that history is being rewritten in your neighborhood? And it’s happening in surprising ways. People without dementia are taking care of people who have dementia. And they are experiencing that time differently and telling those stories differently than they were initially told over twenty years ago when the subject began to grab the national consciousness.

Inside neighborhood homes traditions and long-held opinions are being questioned. Minds are being changed and lives improved because of the shift in thinking about dementia care and how to react to the diagnosis that someone you love has it.

Awakening Series Box Set
by Jacqueline Brown
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Siena starts life like every other girl … every other girl who is massively wealthy and completely adored. She has nothing to fear until her mom is killed, and she is locked away in her family’s expansive estate. But she is happy there, and she is safe … until Luca moves next door.

Luca lives in a world that is in between. A world where good and evil cannot be denied. He is gifted … he sees what the rest of us don’t and feels what the rest of us can’t.

As his connection to Siena grows, the world she knows begins to fade away. What begins as a prayer uttered without thought, turns her life upside down. She too is gifted, but with her, the past is brought into the present with the slightest touch. A past filled with secrets …

I, Sniper
by Stephen Hunter
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Four famed ‘60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. All the evidence—timeline, ballistics, forensics, motive, means, and opportunity—points to Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock. Even his suicide. The case is almost too perfect.

Recruited by the FBI to examine the data, retired Marine sharpshooter Bob Lee Swagger penetrates the new technology of the secretive sniper world to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy run by his most ruthless adversary yet—a marksman whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rival his own.

Walls Crumbling
by Alicia Gilliam
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Hiding from the world brought them all together.

Facing it might tear them apart. Can they survive beyond the walls of the white clapboard house?

Can Seth endure the exposure of a state agent investigating their newly-buried past, including the grave he dug with his bare hands?

Will they find the missing redhead needed to exonerate Seth from suspicion? It all depends on little Benji. Government intrusion could force the boy even further into his silent bubble — or empower him to reveal his darkest secret.

The Swarm
by Andy Marino
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It begins with cicadas. It will end with the swarm. When a bizarre murder case lands on the desk of Detective Vicky Paterson, it’s just the start of her nightmare. On the same day, her young daughter, Sadie, is swarmed by cicadas emerging off-cycle from their seventeen-year pattern. Sadie barely survives, and her condition is critical.

Across town, Will and Alicia, two dysfunctional private investigators, are on the trail of a missing girl and the shadowy cult involved in her disappearance.

Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
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What would you do if you suddenly received a phone call from your daughter who has been missing for years? And then discovered you now have an orphaned granddaughter named Glory you never knew existed? What do you do when you realize her silence hides a dangerous secret?

Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California.

House of Lords
by Philip Rosenberg
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Jeffrey Blaine is a good man, a wealthy and powerful Wall Street broker with impeccable social standing. But his wife—who supports charitable foundations from their Park Avenue townhouse—seems to have lost interest in their marriage, and his daughter, a beautiful debutante ready for Yale University in the fall, has turned sullen and rebellious.

Having achieved everything he’d ever dreamed of, Blaine now feels unsettled, stagnant, hungry for a new challenge—a challenge that presents itself suddenly in the person of Chet Fiore, an ambitious entrepreneur rumored to be tied to organized crime.

Persons of Interest
by Peter Grainger
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In the peace and tranquility of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone begins to ring. The phone belongs to DC Smith, and it isn’t unusual that the call is from Kings Lake Central police station; what is unusual is the fact that he seems to be the subject of an investigation rather than taking part in one.

What can the links be between a prisoner’s violent death in another county, the disappearance of two teenagers and the highest profile case in Kings Lake for many years?

Grave Peril
by Emily Jane Trent
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Lela Cabelo discovers evidence that could get her killed. Her boss is a Texas senator in the cartel’s pocket. She will testify at his criminal trial. But before she is safe in witness protection, disaster strikes. Alone and on the run, she is forced to trust a bodyguard, the Navy SEAL she is falling in love with.

Ripley McConnell is the security analyst for Stealth Security. A media story from his home town of Houston alerts him to an innocent woman’s peril. He is the only man with a hope of finding Lela before the cartel tortures and interrogates her.

Murder on Threadneedle Street
by Andrea Penrose
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Lord Wrexford and Charlotte’s growing family ensures that life is a source of constant adventure. The addition of Wrexford’s half-sister to their household is proving an unexpected delight. But some surprises are less welcome—and trouble strikes when Hawk, one of the young boys in their care, arrives home distraught after learning that his new drawing teacher has been found murdered on Threadneedle Street.

Fletcher Campbell’s death could be dismissed as a random robbery turned violent. But as an artist herself, Charlotte suspects there’s more to the case than meets the eye.

Royal Witch
by Philippa Gregory
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1420. Eleanor Cobham arrives at the court of Henry V. Pretty but not highborn, she hopes for nothing more than to marry well. It is a golden age for England, its royal family’s dynasty stretching across Europe. But chaos waits in the shadows. Betrayals and shifts of power change the flourishing world Eleanor has stepped into.

Working in the household of a Countess who commands her own army, Eleanor begins to see for the first time what a woman is capable of…what men’s promises are truly worth.