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A Reckoning in Mercy: A Classic Western Ghost Story by T. E. MacArthur

Atmospheric, morally complex, and steeped in Southwestern folklore. MacArthur’s latest sets a murder investigation against the backdrop of a flood-stricken frontier community where folklore, prejudice, and competing claims of justice collide. A violent storm strands drifter Eli Mercer in the…
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The Weight of Cold Things: A Psychological Thriller by Lisa Towles

An elegant fusion of Arctic noir and psychological suspense… A Wyoming deputy sheriff’s search for her missing boss leads her into a deadly Arctic conspiracy in Towles’ haunting psychological thriller. After her husband vanishes in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, Wyoming deputy…
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The Guardian: The Women of Strength, Courage, and Hope Series #4 by Jordan Standridge

Dark, immersive, and psychologically incisive… Standridge’s fourth installment in the Women of Strength, Courage, and Hope series takes readers on an emotionally charged journey through love, loss, and betrayal. Nearly twenty years after the presumed death of her first husband,…
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Eye Spied Serenity Acres: The Prequel (Serenity Acres: Where Secrets Barely Stay Hidden Book 3) by Crystal Quast

Brooding, intense, and hypnotic… In Quast’s latest installment in the Serenity Acres series, rebuilding a life after war reveals something far more dangerous beneath the surface. After nearly a decade on the run, Zosia and her husband find refuge as…
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Nevermore: Book Two of the Poetic Justice Series by Findlay Ward

Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically driven; a quiet thriller with bite. A disappearance on a remote island forces the past to surface—and refuse silence in Ward’s second entry in the Poetic Justice Series.Schoolteacher Rachael McKenzie convinces her abusive husband, Brandon, to…
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The ICE Murders (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond, Book 10) by Geoffrey M Cooper

Lean, tense, and politically charged; a page-turner. In the tenth entry in the Brad Parker and Karen Richmond series, Cooper takes readers on a tense, morally urgent investigation where political power, institutional secrecy, and murder collide.  Dr. Abina Owusu, a…
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Nevermore: Book Two of the Poetic Justice Series by Findlay Ward

Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically driven; a quiet thriller with bite. A disappearance on a remote island forces the past to surface—and refuse silence in Ward’s second entry in the Poetic Justice Series.Schoolteacher Rachael McKenzie convinces her abusive husband, Brandon, to…
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Plausible in Parts by James Dunlop

A tense, intelligent thriller that balances razor-edged wit with moral depth. When a brutal crime pulls him back into Europe’s underworld, a battle-worn mercenary must confront betrayal, conscience, and the ghosts of his past in Dunlop’s taut thriller. When private…
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The Boutique Hotel by Melissa D. MacKinnon

A glamorous, twist-filled mystery brimming with romance, danger, and irresistible suspense. A determined travel agent sets out to unravel a chilling murder hidden beneath the glittering façade of the French Riviera in MacKinnon’s compelling novel. Sent to Nice to negotiate…
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CARPE Ski ’em: A Murder on Skis Mystery by Phil Bayly

Intelligent, atmospheric, and slyly funny. Bayly spins a brisk, witty mountain mystery that pairs Denver TV reporter JC Snow with his cameraman and longtime sidekick Bip Peters. When a stylish skier calmly steps off a high Colorado chairlift and plummets…
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The Mystery of Healing by A P McGrath

Tense, taut, and unforgettable. A healer to the empire’s most celebrated fighters is drawn into a deadly puzzle that threatens both his heart and the imperial order in McGrath’s excellent mystery. Solon of Pergamon, physician to Rome’s prized gladiators, lives…
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The Thirty-Fifth Page by Lya Badgley

Layered, moody, and deeply immersive. In Badgley’s taut literary thriller, an art conservator’s research draws her into a deadly game of history and myth. With war creeping toward Sarajevo, American conservator Miri Adler sets out to document the fabled Sarajevo…
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Wednesday Night Whites by Marci Lin Melvin

Haunting, incisive, and unflinching… A quiet lawyer in a picturesque town finds herself entangled in a decades-old web of disappearances, deception, and inherited darkness in Melvin’s gripping thriller. Azalea “Zale” Augustine is a capable, quietly ambitious attorney in Chester, Nova…
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Breath Play (A Dan Burnett Mystery Thriller) by Larry Terhaar

Quiet, deliberate, and deeply human… A retired NYPD detective finds himself circling the edges of a chilling murder spree in Terhaar’s measured, character-driven thriller. Dan Burnett’s life on the Long Island Sound has a gentle rhythm with his girlfriend, Mia—until…
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The UFO Gambit: The Praetorius Agency Files, #4 by T.E. MacArthur

Edgy, suspenseful, and addictive: the kind of book that keeps you up at night. Paranormal intrigue and buried conspiracies drive MacArthur’s outstanding latest in The Praetorius Agency Files series. In the shadow of Northern California’s Mt. Shasta, cowboy-turned-operative Jack de…
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Confusion Has Its Cost by Jim Lively

Haunting, cerebral, and unsettling… Lively’s latest is a slow-burn psychological mystery that explores the blurry line between reality and delusion. When Dallas attorney Simon Steed is hired by a mysterious woman, Neva Storm, to probate her father’s will, he’s drawn…
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Memoir of an Innocent Brat by Aaron Wang

Bracing, darkly funny, and deeply felt. In Wang’s blistering debut, a queer millennial’s search for freedom spirals into chaos, fame, and a murder charge. When Pete Chan, a self-aware and pop-savvy Chinese American in his late twenties, impulsively quits his…
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An Ocean Life: An oceanic thriller  by T.R. Cotwell

Quiet, introspective, and elegantly written. Cotwell’s striking debut blends emotional intensity with psychological insight, tracing a man’s physical and emotional drift toward reckoning and renewal. Mark, a middle-aged tech entrepreneur, has spent years chasing the elusive promise of startup success,…
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To Know Good and Evil: Frank Adams Detective Series #2 by Daniel V. Meier Jr.

A patient, intelligent mystery that lands with quiet force… A fiery plane crash, a dead professor, and a buried research breakthrough ignite a slow-burning investigation into corruption, complicity, and conscience in Meier’s morally complex mystery. When a small plane crashes…
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Betrayal of Trust (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 9) by Geoffrey M. Cooper

A tense thriller with bite and brains… Cooper’s ninth Brad Parker and Karen Richmond thriller blends scientific intrigue with a chilling revenge plot. Dr. Eric Salton, praised for a breakthrough lung cancer drug, is savagely murdered. Another dies in a…