Mystery & Thriller

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“Great storytellers do more than entertain. They educate, they provoke, and they challenge our preconceived notions. Stephen King is Exhibit A.”

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“Despite the magnetic pull of eagerly described physical attraction, there’s never a moment when Alex Walton yields control over her own heart and life.”

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“Action is the attraction, with dollops of sex and romance.”

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“Just like Halloween has a hint of menace underneath the festivities, life in Swann’s Sunset Hall mandates coming closer to grim death.”

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“Lloyd’s story has myriad twists and turns—enough to keep the reader entranced.”

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“Allow this novel to float its ideas and its just—if not legal—solutions with its philosophy, and accept an end-of-summer blessing.”

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“The sense of place and the dynamics of a small town of that era are convincing and give us a glimpse of the history and culture of that period in South America.”

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“Murder on the Vine is a delightful local color mystery that will earn its place on your bookshelf next to Donna Leon and Louise Penny . . .”

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“a chilling read in which the art of the cinema very often reflects the drama of the actors’ actual lives.”

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In her most recent book, Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld, author Catherine Lloyd sets the stage for a fast paced, well-written walk through London’s high society in 1838.

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“A deep-probing, layered story undulating through the shadows of domestic violence, Tell Me What I Am is a finely wrought psychological thriller . . .”

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“a horror tale designed to scare the dickens out of the reader.”

When viewed from a distance, it all begins harmlessly enough.

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How do you con a con man? If you read this book, you will learn how. But then again this is a novel, and the author’s methods may not work in real life.

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“The tales that populate Cleveland Noir are essentially about the haves, the have-nots, and the never-wills.”

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“Berta’s murder, the public display of her mutilated body all this was meant to be a deterrent.” And it was! Yes, the people in and around the Tuscan hills were truly mortified.

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Chris Quarembo’s new mystery/suspense novel runs the gamut of what makes good thrillers. She combines the ingredients of a memorable protagonist/narrator, a complex plot with numerous twists and tu

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The Girl from the Papers is a well-told story and well written.”

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“This book belongs on the shelf until the next library book sale.”

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“a very polite and well-mannered tale of greed and murder.”

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“a brilliant work, beautiful in its language and descriptions, but probably best read in its original language.”

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Field’s Crossing in Northern Indiana is farm country, and in the winter, with the snow drifting across the open flat lands, a body lies hidden under a 15-foot pile of ice and snow.

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Eugenics, seances, disappearances, and multiple murders. What more could one want in a mystery?

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“Between the careful plotting, the clever twists, and the colorful descriptions, Birder, She Wrote fills a nice slot for summer beach reading.”

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“Total Control is difficult to put down. The clarification of who’s who at the end is beyond satisfying.”

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“The perfect start to a pulp fiction series brought into the 21st century.”

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