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"Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is...
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Deanna Madden novels volume 1
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"I haven't touched a human in three years. That seems like it would be a difficult task, but it's not. Not anymore, thanks to the internet. I am, quite possibly, the most popular recluse ever. Not many shut-ins have a 200-member fan club, a bank account in the seven-figure range, and hundreds of men lining up to pay for undivided attention. They get satisfaction, I get a distraction. Their secret desires are nothing compared to why I hide... my lust...
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"Yi Ling receives a call one day from a lawyer informing her that her aunt-- Aunt Lang has decided to transfer her property to Yi Ling and her two sisters. Yi Ling who has not seen Aunt Lang since her childhood days finds the transfer a bit abrupt and unusual. The sisters decide to take a trip to visit this bungalow and land that their aunt wants them to take. There they meet Aunt Lang who shares the dark history of the property with them. A series...
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THE JUDAS TREE
Fifty-six men have been killed in a Montana town, dozens of stagecoaches have been robbed, and a fanatical vigilante leader is threatening to blow everything to bits. Luke Starbuck, hired to stop the epidemic, arrives in town only to find a tough sheriff already hanging outlaws as fast as he can, a mystery swirling around a young woman's murder, and a bunch of people with blood on their hands. Now, working undercover with the help of...
5) Whispers
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A chilling novel that explores a family's legacy of lies and murder "with a final, dizzying twist" from the #1 New York Times bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).
Even a man as powerful as Dutch Holland can't keep a scandal buried forever. That's why he's summoned his children home to Oregon before announcing his run for governor. Sixteen years ago, his rival's son, Harley Taggert, drowned in the murky waters of...
Even a man as powerful as Dutch Holland can't keep a scandal buried forever. That's why he's summoned his children home to Oregon before announcing his run for governor. Sixteen years ago, his rival's son, Harley Taggert, drowned in the murky waters of...
6) Scream
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"25 years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, Calif., a new killer dons the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past"--From www.imdb.com.
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Alex Cross novels volume 2
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Join Alex Cross on his most terrifying murder case yet in this #1 New York Times bestseller and one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads."
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In the sequel to Along Came a Spider, Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever....
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In the sequel to Along Came a Spider, Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever....
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An edgy female police detective… An ambitious FBI special agent. Together they are at the heart of the ticking-clock investigation for a psychopathic serial killer. The bond they forge in this crucible sets the stage for high-stakes suspense.
Detective Kara Quinn, on leave from the LAPD, is on an early morning jog in her hometown of Liberty Lake when she comes upon the body of a young nurse. The manner of death shows a pattern of highly controlled...
10) Vicious
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No Motive
For more than two years, he held Seattle in a terror grip. A cold-blooded killer who abducted young mothers right in front of their sons and murdered them execution style. Then, as suddenly as the killings began, they seemed to stop.
No Mercy
Susan Blanchette is looking forward to a relaxing weekend getaway with her fiancé, Allen, and young son, Matthew. But something about the remote lake house doesn't feel right. A woman vanished...
11) As good as dead
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Good girl's guide to murder volume 3
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Pippa Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the two murder cases she solved, by the victims, by the attention her crime podcast garnered, and by the survivors, which is bad enough--but then it starts to feel like someone is watching her.
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CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH . . .
He's their secret admirer, wooing them with phone calls, love letters, and special gifts. From a distance, he admires them. Desires them. Despises them. And when he gets close enough, he kills them all.
CLOSE ENOUGH TO KISS . . .
Adams County, Alabama, is a small, friendly place where everyone knows each other-but not well enough, it seems, because Sheriff Bernie Granger has a serial killer on her hands, a total psycho...
13) Vantage point
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MacNeice mysteries volume 4
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Detective Superintendent MacNeice hunts a serial killer who draws his inspiration from classic works of art.
14) Wicked game
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ONE BY ONE, THEY'LL DIE . . .
Twenty years ago, wild child Jessie Brentwood vanished from St. Elizabeth's high school. Most in Jessie's tight circle of friends believed she simply ran away. Few suspected that Jessie was hiding a shocking secret—one that brought her into the crosshairs of a vicious killer . . .
UNTIL THERE'S NO ONE LEFT . . .
Two decades pass before a body is unearthed on school grounds...
Twenty years ago, wild child Jessie Brentwood vanished from St. Elizabeth's high school. Most in Jessie's tight circle of friends believed she simply ran away. Few suspected that Jessie was hiding a shocking secret—one that brought her into the crosshairs of a vicious killer . . .
UNTIL THERE'S NO ONE LEFT . . .
Two decades pass before a body is unearthed on school grounds...
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John Cardinal series volume 1
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Detective John Cardinal investigates when four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay.
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When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women - seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces...
18) Most wanted
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"When a woman and her husband, desperate for a baby, find themselves unable to conceive, they decide to take further steps. Since it is the husband who is infertile, the heroine decides to use a donor. And all seems to be well. Three months pass and she is happily pregnant. But a shocking revelation occurs when she discovers that a man arrested for a series of brutal murders is her donor - the biological father of the child she is carrying. Delving...
19) Swift vengeance
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Roland Ford volume 2
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Roland Ford is hunting down a mysterious killer, jockeying for position with the FBI, and risking everything to save a friend in terrible jeopardy.
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"A story about a series of horrendous murders. It appears the murderer wants to collect human skin. What is his motive? How could he do it? Why every woman who saw him remove his hat had to die? Why did he tell his girlfriend about his killing and end up killing her as well?"--Provided by vendor.
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