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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. After that night

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Author:
Slaughter, Karin, 1971-
Series:
Will Trent series volume 11.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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After that night, everything changed . . . Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But...

3. The black ice

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Author:
Connelly, Michael, 1956-
Series:
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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When an LAPD narcotics officer is found with a fatal bullet wound and a suicide note, Detective Harry Bosch follows a bloody trail of drug murders across the Mexico border. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string...

4. The brass verdict

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Author:
Connelly, Michael, 1956-
Series:
Mickey Haller novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller and Detective Harry Bosch must either work together or die as they investigate a Hollywood lawyer's murder in this "epic page-turner" (Library Journal). Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio...

5. 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...

6. 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...

7. Dark sacred night

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Author:
Connelly, Michael, 1956-
Series:
Renee Ballard novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Detective Renee Ballard is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets.The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help and she relents. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old...

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. 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?"--

11. 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...

12. 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.

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. 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."--

19. 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"--

20. The late show

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Author:
Connelly, Michael, 1956-
Series:
Renee Ballard novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing...