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Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she's pretty sure they won't extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren't going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
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""You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi’s #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity.
Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career.
That’s when Penney makes a bold decision....
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition, First international edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
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339 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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How would you react in a life-or-death situation?
It’s a question everyone asks themselves, but few have to face in real life. 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...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date"--
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Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls.
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Language
English
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Called back to the Office of Special Investigations for a highly specialized assignment, school guidance counselor Melanie Drake must pose as an escort to infiltrate a dangerous international group of billionaires during a decadent dinner to collect information vital to national security.
Author
Series
Danny Ryan trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny...
Author
Series
Scarpetta novel volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fianc�e, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case--an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
13) Darling girls
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
15) The fury
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Language
English
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Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
16) The last sinner
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a victim surfaces bearing the signature of serial killer Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, Detectives Bentz and Montoya are convinced the monster is back and he will not be stopped until the last sinner has paid the ultimate price.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their...
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade.
At first, the building and its eclectic...
19) Nightwatching
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English
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"A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by a stranger"--
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....