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Three excursions through time, outer space, and imaginary worlds from "one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation" (The Washington Post). Michael Swanwick is a legend in the science fiction and fantasy universe, having won five Hugos, a Nebula, a World Fantasy Award, and many more honors for his mind-bending work. This trio of acclaimed sci-fi thrillers showcases the versatility of an author who can build a world, foresee a...
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Alison Marshall has drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. When she reaches Palmetto Island, she thinks it could be the right place to settle down. She contacts the island's only realtor, and learns that an old beach house is on the market. It's in her budget, and Alison takes it as another sign that she's in the right place. As days turn into weeks, she uncovers a...
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"Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, Manhunter, and Miami Vice, teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel--an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat--an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the iconic film"--
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A mother's secret got her killed.
Now they must protect her baby...
After the shock of finding her best friend murdered, Kellyanne Avery's focused on caring for her friend's sweet baby—until the killer returns, determined to kidnap the child. Now Kellyanne needs the one man she trusts with her life: her ex-flame, Deputy Sheriff Zeke Tyler. But as they hide on her family's ranch, can Zeke unravel deadly secrets and shield them from harm?
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"Can an Englisch city girl ever become one of the Plain People? She needed a safe place to hide. Instead she found a place to call home... Television journalist Leah Porte never imagined her career would end with her witnessing a murder. Now she's temporarily living among the Amish in witness protection. Instead of feeling alone and adrift, Leah is warmly welcomed by the close-knit community -- and Amish bachelor Isaac Sommer. But caught between two...
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“Full of surprises and captivating plot twists all the way until the very last page.” —Examiner
An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception.
Twenty years after pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child.
CeeCee Wilkes knows how...
An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception.
Twenty years after pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child.
CeeCee Wilkes knows how...
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"Once, he had to leave her behind... Will she now trust him with her life? The woman he just rescued is the one "Buck" Graham Buckner lost when he had to pull a vanishing act. Now the navy SEAL has to get Angela Vega out of Africa before the warlord he came to the continent to find kills them both. But the beautiful physician has children in her care, so they embark on a treacherous journey to protect them. Now Buck has a new mission--rekindling...
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A young woman starts having doubts about her dream man in this unsettling thriller from the bestselling author of Girl in Bed Three . Nineteen-year-old Ellen is thrilled to have Jack Bryant as a best friend and roommate. She would be even happier to have him as a boyfriend. Ellen doesn't just love Jack, she loves his entire family--so perfect, so wealthy, so envied by the neighbours. Then, one terrible Saturday morning, Ellen and Jack visit his family...
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When Iran's deadly nuclear game is revealed, CIA agent Frank Williams realizes there is only one man made for the job of traveling to the other side of the world to neutralize this threat--his disgraced former partner, agent Jim Duffy. Williams travels to Duffy's quiet Maine hideaway and presents the facts of the case: The world's largest heroin dealers have carved a path straight to America's doorsteps and may possess six of the deadliest weapons...
11) Better the blood
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"An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand's indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Māori screenwriter and director. A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription....
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Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend's wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow, his one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak—until a brilliant neurologist offers a radical approach to "unlock"...
13) She's Gone
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A new page-turning thriller from USA Today bestselling author David Bell.
When a girl disappears, who do you suspect?
When 17-year-old Hunter Gifford wakes in the hospital on the night of homecoming, he's shocked to learn he and his girlfriend, Chloe Summers, have been in a terrible car accident. Hunter has no memory of the crash, and his shock turns to horror when he is told Chloe's blood has been found in the car-but she has disappeared.
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"This heartfelt story grabs the reader from the very start and doesn't let go. Psychological thrillers fans won't want to miss this one."-Publishers Weekly
She has to time to save one of her daughters. Only one. Can she choose?
When Lizzie's car crashes with her two daughters inside, she faces a terrible choice. And when she recovers from her injuries, she must deal with the impact of that tragedy and the police investigation into it. As Lizzie...
15) Protector
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A teenager goes missing after surviving the massacre of her family, in this fast-paced novel of corruption and conspiracy from the author of Vigilante . . . James Ryker and his protégé, Henrik Svenson, travel to the small alpine town of St Vincent, recently rocked by the triple murder of a prominent family. The sole survivor of the horrific crime, teenager Sophie Thibaud, has since been cared for by her aunt. Upon their arrival, however, Ryker...
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"Two desperate criminals. Something she never saw coming. A searing suspense thriller from bestselling author Nick Louth In Manchester, two hardened gang members on the run take Catherine Blake and her one-year-old son hostage at gunpoint. She is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Held in a Transit van, Catherine needs a plan fast. But it means diving into her captors' risk-drenched world, and playing them at their own game. Catherine has been...
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Mortician "Zig" Zigarowski, while working on the body of a successful military man, discovers something he was never meant to see, and, to get the answers he needs, sets out to find military artist Nola Brown--a search that reveals one of the U.S. government's most intensely guarded secrets.
When Archie Mint is killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family learns that his life, so perfect on the surface, held criminal secrets...
18) Shadow Hill
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"How far would someone go to protect corporate profits? Just days before Morris Cutter, a retired powerful oil executive, is scheduled to give a pseudo-scientific report to Congress that will delay crucial action on climate change for decades, he and his wife are found shot to death in their Greenwich, Connecticut, home. The police call it murder-suicide. The couple's son refuses to accept the official conclusion and hires Geneva Chase, crime reporter...
19) After she'd gone
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An irresistible read... A truly revealing book about the disgusting side of the modelling world, but [Dahl's] powerful messaging never bogs the plot down' DAILY MAIL Unsettling, gripping and glamorous. A timely psychological thriller about the danger of beauty, the lure of power, and the fierce love of a mother for her son. Liv keeps a low profile in Sandefjord, Norway: she's just another tired single mother, trying to make ends meet. She has never...
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Those eyes. Wide. Ice blue. A swath of blond hair illuminated in headlights. Then, blackness.
Thump!
"We hit something."
Lennox Oliver is loving her new life in California. For the first time, she feels normal. She has friends, and a maybe boyfriend and best of all no one knows the truth about her past and what happened to her mom.
But everything changes the night after a party when a drive on the supposedly haunted Hicks Road turns deadly...
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