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Sunburn
by Laura Lippman
A sultry and suspenseful noir novel about a woman who comes to a small town with a secret and falls in love with a man who has secrets of his own.
“Suspenseful as hell, and she writes like a dream [...] Lippman’s always good, but this is a cut above.” —STEPHEN KING They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is ... (Barnes & Noble)
Big Sky
by Kate Atkinson
Private investigator Jackson Brodie investigates a human trafficking ring in Yorkshire. A dark and twisty mystery with unexpected connections.
Jackson Brodie, ex-military police, ex-Cambridge Constabulary, currently working as a private investigator, makes a highly anticipated return, nine years after the last Brodie, Started Early, Took My ... (Goodreads)
Baltimore Blues
by Laura Lippman
Private investigator Tess Monaghan investigates the disappearance of a wealthy businessman's mistress in Baltimore.
In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his taste for illicit midday ... (Goodreads)
Every Secret Thing
by Laura Lippman
Two girls convicted of killing a baby are released years later, but another child goes missing. Who is responsible?
Stepping away from her acclaimed, award-winning mystery series featuring Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan, author Laura Lippman has delivered a novel of psychological suspense that will ... (Goodreads)
Middle England
by Jonathan Coe
A satirical novel exploring the political and social landscape of modern Britain through the lives of a diverse cast of characters.
Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change and disruption in Britain. There are the early ... (Goodreads)
With the Fire on High
by Elizabeth Acevedo
A teenage mother navigates her senior year while pursuing her passion for cooking and dreams of attending culinary school.
From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps ... (Barnes & Noble)
Elizabeth Street
by Laurie Fabiano
A historical novel about an Italian family's journey to America and their struggles to survive in the early 1900s.
Based on true events, Elizabeth Street is a multigenerational saga that opens in an Italian village in the 1900's, and crosses the ocean to New York's Lower East Side. At the heart of the novel is ... (Goodreads)
Lock Every Door
by Riley Sager
A young woman takes a job as an apartment sitter in a luxurious building, but soon discovers dark secrets lurking within its walls.
No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment ... (Goodreads)
The Psychology of Time Travel
by Kate Mascarenhas
Four women invent time travel in the 1960s and their actions have unforeseen consequences. A murder mystery that spans decades and timelines.
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole ... (Goodreads)
The Thread
by Victoria Hislop
A journey of two families through 20th century Greece, facing hardships & tragedy.
A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes and upheavals of the twentieth ... (Goodreads)
A Noise Downstairs
by Linwood Barclay
After a college professor hears a strange noise in his garage, he discovers a connection to a murder case from years ago.
Duration: 9 hours, 9 minutes The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye returns with a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists and turns of Gillian Flynn with the ... (Goodreads)
Juliet Takes a Breath
by Gabby Rivera
A young Puerto Rican woman's journey of self-discovery, exploring her identity and sexuality.
Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn’t sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, ... (Goodreads)
The Dollhouse
by Fiona Davis
A woman unravels the secrets of a historic New York City apartment building and confronts dark secrets from the past.
Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where in the 1950s a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and ... (Goodreads)
Scarlet Feather
by Maeve Binchy
Two friends start a catering business in Dublin, facing challenges and personal struggles along the way.
Set in contemporary Ireland, filled with warmth, wit, and drama, Scarlet Feather is the story of Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, their spouses, families, and friends, and the struggling new catering ... (Goodreads)
My Name Is Memory
by Ann Brashares
A romantic story of two star-crossed lovers, connected through past lives.
Daniel can remember things from his past lives going back to a life that started near Antioch in 520 A.D. In that early life he joins his brother to raid a village in North Africa. During the raid ... (Wikipedia)
Swimming Home
by Deborah Levy
A haunting tale of a poet's family vacation in the French Riviera, disrupted by the arrival of a disturbed young woman.
In the summer of 1994 the poet Joe Jacobs (Polish émigré Jozef Nowogrodzki) is on vacation in a summer home in the south of France with his wife Isabel, his daughter Nina, and their friends, the ... (Wikipedia)
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
A story of interconnected lives, spanning three summers of joy, sadness and self-discovery.
A luminous first novel, set in Greece, Scotland, Greenwich Village, and Long Island, that traces the members of a Scottish family as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of ... (Goodreads)
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
A brother and sister navigate their lives after being exiled from their childhood home, the opulent Dutch House.
New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 Named one of the Best Books of the ... (Barnes & Noble)
Summerland
by Michael Chabon
An imaginative adventure of a young boy, uncovering the secrets of the magical town of Summerland.
The story begins on a small island off the coast of Washington called Clam Island. The central character, Ethan Feld, is on one of the island's baseball teams despite being terrible at the game. He ... (Wikipedia)
The Address
by Fiona Davis
A historical fiction novel that explores the secrets and scandals of The Dakota, a famous New York City apartment building.
After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she’d make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore ... (Goodreads)
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
by Alexander McCall Smith
A humorous and heartwarming tale of an African family's daily life, tackling the issues of modern society.
Mma Ramotswe meets her second cousin, who comes to the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency for help. Tati Monyena works for the hospital in Mochudi, where a series of three deaths in the same bed in the ... (Wikipedia)
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
by Helene Tursten
Maud is an elderly lady with a dark side, who uses her intelligence and wit to commit murder.
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781641290111 Content: - An elderly lady has accommodation problems - An elderly lady on her travels - An elderly lady seeks peace at Christmas time - The antique ... (Goodreads)
The Postmistress
by Sarah Blake
Three women's lives intersect during WWII as a postmistress decides whether to deliver a letter that could change everything.
CDs, 9 CDs, 11 hours What would happen if someone did the unthinkable-and didn't deliver a letter? Filled with stunning parallels to today, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of ... (Goodreads)
White Nights
by Ann Cleeves
A murder mystery set in the isolated and eerie Shetland Islands, where secrets and lies are uncovered.
The electrifying follow up to the award-winning, Raven Black,Raven Black, received crime fiction's highest monetary honor, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Long Call
by Ann Cleeves
Detective Matthew Venn investigates a murder in a small town, uncovering secrets and facing his own past.
AN INSTANT, NEW YORK TIMES, BESTSELLER!, A USA TODAY, BESTSELLER,WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY NOVEL A PEOPLE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF FALL 2019, The Long Call, from Ann ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
A graduate student uncovers a family secret and a mysterious book, leading her on a journey to uncover the truth about her ancestors and their involvement in the Salem witch trials.
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned ... (Wikipedia)
Trouble Is My Business
by Raymond Chandler
Private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a series of cases that lead him into the dark underworld of Los Angeles.
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, ... (Goodreads)
Time and Again
by Jack Finney
A man travels back in time to the past to explore its secrets and mysteries.
In November 1970, Simon Morley, an advertising sketch artist, is approached by U.S. Army Major Ruben Prien to participate in a secret government project. He is taken to a huge warehouse on the West ... (Wikipedia)
The Big Nowhere
by James Ellroy
A crime noir set in 1950s Los Angeles, unraveling a web of corruption and violence.
The plot is about three characters; L.A. Deputy Sheriff Danny Upshaw investigates a brutal sex murder which becomes a string of killings, working outside the law in his efforts to catch him. Turner ... (Wikipedia)
