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1. The 6:20 man: a thriller

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Author:
Baldacci, David
Series:
6:20 man novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uber-wealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling...

2. Camino Island

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Author:
Grisham, John
Series:
Camino Island novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...

3. Camino winds

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Author:
Grisham, John
Series:
Camino Island novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island ... The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson's injuries...

4. The couple next door

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Author:
Lapena, Shari, 1960-
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents--but the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something....

5. The death of Mrs. Westaway

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Author:
Ware, Ruth
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person--but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased, where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance...

6. Don't open the door

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Author:
Brennan, Allison
Series:
Regan Merritt novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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US Marshal Regan Merritt never bought the FBI's theory that her ten-year-old son's murder was tied to her job. Yet as leads went cold, she'd had to walk away from the marshals, the case and her now ex-husband, Grant, who blamed her for Chase's death. After Regan receives a chilling voice mail from her former boss, Tommy, claiming new information about Chase's murder, she can no longer stay away from her pain-filled past. Especially when Tommy's murdered...

7. The edge

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Author:
Baldacci, David
Series:
6:20 man novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets -- can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless...

8. Everyone here is lying

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Author:
Lapena, Shari, 1960-
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Who took Avery Wooler?"--

9. The fallen

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Author:
Baldacci, David
Series:
Amos Decker novels volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes-- obscure bible verses, odd symbols --have the police stumped. Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex's sister and her family. It's a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there...

10. Find me: a novel

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Author:
Burke, Alafair
Series:
Ellie Hatcher novels volume 6.
Average Rating:
2.4 stars
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Hope Miller suffers from amnesia and seeks a fresh beginning. When her best friend Lindsay Kelly discovers Hope has vanished, the only lead is a drop of blood that connects to a notorious murderer out of Kansas. With nowhere else to turn, Lindsay calls NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher, the daughter of the cop who dedicated his life to hunting the Kansas killer.

11. The golden couple

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Author:
Hendricks, Greer
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"If Avery Chambers can't fix you in 10 sessions, she won't take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal--she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault--and almost absorb the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband's death. Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple--until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and for the sake of their 8-year-old son. After...

12. Gone tonight

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Author:
Pekkanen, Sarah
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening. ... Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's past or background. But when Ruth's desperate quest to keep her daughter by her side...

13. The Guardians

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Author:
Grisham, John
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young Black man who was once a client of Russos. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one...

14. The guest list: a novel

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Author:
Foley, Lucy (Novelist)
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one... The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed. But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes....

15. The house across the lake: a novel

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Author:
Sager, Riley
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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"Casey Fletcher has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family's lake house in Vermont. She passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the couple living in the house across the lake. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a friendship. But the more they get to know each other--and the longer Casey watches--it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom's marriage isn't as perfect as it appears. When Katherine...

16. The house in the pines: a novel

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Author:
Reyes, Ana, 1982-
Average Rating:
3.1 stars
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A "psychological suspense debut about a young woman still haunted by her teenage best friend's death who learns of an eerily similar death and must find her way back to a cabin in the New England woods, armed only with hazy memories, to finally find out the truth that has eluded her"--

17. Inheritance

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Author:
Roberts, Nora
Series:
Lost bride trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about--and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth-and why it was all kept secret...

18. I've got my eyes on you: a novel

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Author:
Clark, Mary Higgins
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn't invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who has not yet been seen on the radar? Kerry's older sister Aline, a twenty-eight-year-old guidance counselor,...

19. The judge's list

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Author:
Grisham, John
Series:
Lacy Stoltz novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"A novel"--Jacket. As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench. In The whistler, she took on a crime syndicate that was paying millions to a crooked judge. Now, in The judge's list, the crimes are even worse. The man hiding behind the black robe is not taking bribes-but he may be taking lives."--

20. The last thing he told me: a novel

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Author:
Dave, Laura
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her"--