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The Lying Room by Nicci French

  Predictable but suspenseful… In the pseudonymous French’s (the husband-wife writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) latest standalone, a married woman finds her lover killed and pushes herself into a tangled web of lies. When Neve Jennifer Connolly…
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A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #15) by Louise Penny

  A brilliant mystery… Former chief superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec Armand Gamache investigates murder of a pregnant woman at Three Pines as he returns to work after a nine-month suspension and demotion in Penny’s latest marvelous mystery. Armand…
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Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

  Entertaining and twisty… After Amanda Pierce went missing, no one in the neighborhood thought much about it. But after rumors of a teenager breaking into people’s homes and hacking into their computers start circulating, the lives of neighborhood residents…
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Nature is Unlimited Broadcasting Station: Flowers She Wore on Her Feet by Bertha Mkwelele, Edward Mkwelele

  A short, beautiful account of a young life gone too soon… Bertha Mkwelele and Edward Mkwelele chronicle the short life span of their only daughter and first child Neema Mkwelele in this short biography. After graduating in BA (Hons)…
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Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir by Lewis Kempfer

  A candid, bare-it-all, and highly engrossing memoir… With unsparing candor, Lewis Kempfer chronicles decades of his drug and sex addicted life in intimate detail in Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir. Kempfer started struggling…
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DEAD BEFORE MORNING (Rafferty and Llewellyn Police Procedural Series #1) by Geraldine Evans

  A lively and highly engrossing British mystery… Evans’s first installment in Rafferty and Llewellyn Police Procedural Series see DI Rafferty and Sergeant Llewellyn investigating vicious murder of a young woman at an unlikely place. Recently promoted Detective Inspector Joe…
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The Legend of Decimus Croome: A Halloween Carol by Kevin Purdy

  A spooky, delightful Halloween read… A happy, content Decimus Croome changed for worst after his wife’s untimely demise and is a bitter old man now who despises every festival, especially Halloween. A cranky recluse, he lives in his gloomy…
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Cold Woods: Northampton County, Book 2 by Karen Katchur

  A well-done mystery… When the long-buried bones of a man surface in the middle of chilling winter in a small Pennsylvania town, it becomes imperative for the homicide detective Parker Reed to solve the crime at the earliest possible.…
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The Patient by Steena Holmes

  A lackluster work… Holmes explores a cat-and-mouse game between a psychotherapist and a killer in this psychological thriller. Fighting with her own past demons, Danielle Rycroft is trying to set her psychotherapist’s practice in the small town of Cheshire.…
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Deserve to Die by Miranda Rijks

  Absorbing domestic thriller… Dom and Stacey are living happily with their two young children until beautiful and vicious Tamara arrives in their lives. Oblivious to Tamara’s sinister motive, the young couple welcome her in their lives, but as things…
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Call Me Crash by Michael Bronte

  A thrilling ride packed with speedy action… What starts as missing backup orders in logbooks in Rosenbloom Starr’s flagship store takes a deadly turn after murders of top-ranking executives one after another. A hostile takeover attempt by a leading…
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Family Heartbreak by Jenny Phillips

  A though-provoking, engrossing novel… Phillips spins a briskly paced, keenly observed story in which a broken, abusive marriage impacts a child’s life in devastating ways. Set in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe and Australia, Jenny Phillips’s narrative of young Jessie’s life over…
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Cracked Mirror, Clear Reflection: Shatter an Illusion of Perfection by Julie Barbera

  Remarkable, highly inspirational… Julie Barbera, a life coach and author, beautifully blends inspiration and religion in Cracked Mirror, Clear Reflection. In short snippets, Barbera shares her own personal history of finding her life path. A champion for balanced life,…
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Serpents Underfoot (A Military Action Thriller) by D.C. Gilbert

  Full of Navy Seal action, the book will enthrall fans of action thrillers… Gilbert’s impressive debut features a Navy Seal on the trail of an international terrorism conspiracy. Rahman Atta, leader of a high-profile Muslim terrorist organization, has planned…