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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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Fractured by Jason Melby

Grim, atmospheric, and impossible to put down. Steeped in dread, Melby’s latest is a gothic tale of grief, obsession, and the dangerous power of storytelling. Still reeling from personal tragedy, novelist Stu Harvey takes on the task of telling Simon…
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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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Knock Out by Jaden Noble

A fierce, affecting debut that lands its blows with both power and heart. An abused young woman refuses to remain a victim in Noble’s taut, emotionally charged debut. Zena James has spent years running from a brutal father and the…
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Fractured by Jason Melby

Grim, atmospheric, and impossible to put down. Steeped in dread, Melby’s latest is a gothic tale of grief, obsession, and the dangerous power of storytelling. Still reeling from personal tragedy, novelist Stu Harvey takes on the task of telling Simon…
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We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter

A relentless, gripping, and atmospheric thriller. In Slaughter’s series kicker in the North Falls series, the disappearance of two girls turns a festive night into a reckoning for an entire town. North Falls looks like any other small town, built…
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Island Endgame by Rebecca Hodge

Taut, sharp-edged, and impossible to forget. Hodge delivers a chilling hostage drama where survival and redemption collide. Guilt-ridden over the drowning death of her nine-year-old nephew, Kenzie Adams leaves her city hospital job for what she hopes will be a…
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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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Fade In: A Thriller by Kyle Mills

A searing, cerebral, high-stakes knockout. Mills’s latest is a taut, cerebral thriller steeped in espionage and existential threat. A bullet to the chest should’ve ended ex–Navy SEAL Salam “Fade” al-Fayed. Instead, he wakes up paralyzed, forgotten, and offered a second…
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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…
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Death and His Brother (Urquhart & MacDonald Murder Mysteries Book 6) by D.E. Ring

A richly textured procedural with heart, brains, and a surprisingly poetic soul… Ring’s sixth Urquhart & MacDonald novel digs beneath the cheerful surface of a holiday weekend to uncover a taut, unsettling story of buried grief and moral compromise.It’s a…
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Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief by Sheila Sharpe

Dark, elegant, and emotionally exacting… Sharpe dives headlong into the murky waters of identity, obsession, and deception in her smart, psychologically charged thriller. Nick McCoy is trying to walk away from a long career in art forgery, but not before…
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Stampede City (A Detective Cam Clay Novel, #2) by M.K. Pachan

A tightly wound procedural that balances emotional depth with street-level realism.  In his second Cam Clay novel, Pachan blends the sunbaked chaos of Stampede with a bloody, slow-burning gang war. The Calgary Stampede is in full swing when a young…
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Series review: Detective Cam Clay Novels (2 books) by M. K. Pachan

A raw and psychologically complex crime series that digs deep into the personal cost of justice… Pachan, a former officer turned novelist, pulls no punches in his gritty Cam Clay series, which opens with Revoked and deepens in Stampede City.…