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A Novel
by Gillian Flynn
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by Alice Feeney
Published Oct 2018
Read ReviewsMy name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me:
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by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
Published Oct 2018
Read ReviewsA novel of suspense that explores the complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.
by Wendy Walker
Published Aug 2018
Read ReviewsA searing psychological thriller.
by Emily Ruskovich
Published Nov 2017
Read ReviewsFrom O. Henry Prizewinning author Emily Ruskovich comes a stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss.
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by Lauren Holmes
Published Aug 2016
Read ReviewsA fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make us most human.
by Cara Hoffman
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsA novel about war and homecoming, love and duty, and an impassioned look at the effects of war on womenas soldiers and caregivers, both at home and on the front lines.
by Nell Zink
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsA downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again; but it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is.
by Marisha Pessl
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsBrilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
by Herman Koch
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsAn internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives - all over the course of one meal.
by S.J. Watson
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsMemories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Welcome to Christine's life.
by Michael Connelly
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsMore than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here?
by Dennis Lehane
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsThe closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane.
by Harlan Coben
Published Feb 2002
Read Reviews"Begins at a run and in no time is moving at an all-out sprint.... The characters are engaging and the strange goings-on will leave readers rapidly turning pages in search of fresh clues.... [Coben] writes with wit and a shrewd sense of plotting."
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