Mystery & Thriller

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“Church’s characters are strong and believable, and the plot keeps the pages turning.”

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“Across the decades of the narrator’s life, Black Souls becomes as mysterious as a set of cave paintings or yesterday’s ‘tags’ on a building.”

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“A slow, rich novel of a distant time and a man who is ‘Othered’ in most aspects of his life.”

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“A debut novel, written with insight and empathy as well as hair-raising suspense, After the Eclipse is sure to pique the reader's interest.”

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“a compulsively readable psychological thriller with so many twists and turns you'll need a roadmap to keep track of where you are.”

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“Macallister’s exploration of both the public and the personal takes this novel to a higher level.”

“This is Natt Och Dag’s first published novel, but it seems too skillful and too assured to be his first writing.

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77 is, among other things, a potent reminder of the gruesome paths of totalitarian dictators.”

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“The characters are well-drawn and compelling, the story dark and disturbing, but also redeeming.

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“Hunting Game is variously a dark, brooding Swedish noir crime novel, a titillating romance, and an outdoorsman-type hunting adventure.

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“What is wrong and what is right these days? It was getting awfully hard to tell in California.”

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Spoiler alert: The new Joanne Fluke mystery provides answers to the last few. Read the others first, or plunge into this one and suffer the consequences.

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“Marc Cameron is a crackerjack writer who knows how to evoke character, place, and action.”

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This tale commences with 18-year-old Joshua Mayo sneaking into his Cedar Rapids, Iowa, residence one night after being involved in a horrible accident that took a man's life.

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“Marcantonio really does an excellent job of keeping her protagonist one step ahead of the reader, . . .”

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“Tim Johnston has given us the gold standard of lush narrative description—captivating, mesmerizing, stunning.”

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“A hybrid tale of legal thriller, psychological suspense, and ghastly murder . . . dark and twisted, it will keep readers awake well into the wee hours.”

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“a fascinating and gripping tale of suspense, and there’s even a hint of romance here.”

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“Gregg Hurwitz has steadily blasted his way to the top of the thriller world, and Out of the Dark is a book you don’t dare lend to your friends, because you’ll never see it again.”

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“a riveting description of what really happens behind those closed doors of Washington’s flawed and dysfunctional traditions.”

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“dramatically proves no man is an island and whatever happens in one person’s life may in turn affect another, for better or worse.”

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Evil Things introduces the readers to a small country where the winter snow hides a cataclysmic crime. It’s a chilling entry in this three-part series.”

It’s springtime and Wisteria are blooming in the rugged Blue Ridge Mountains, the setting for Past Due for Murder, book three in Victoria Gilbert’s Blue Ridge Library series.

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“Any Means Necessary is a compelling modern day thriller with a brilliant twist. . . .

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“the story holds water and reads well from beginning to end.”

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