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The real question
Fisher Brown, a sixteen-year-old over-achiever, is on the verge of academic burnout when he impulsively decides to stop cramming for the SATs for one weekend and accompany his ne'er-do-well neighbor to an out-of-town job repairing a roof.
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The true tale of the monster Billy Dean
Billy Dean is a secret child, growing up in the dark heart of Blinkbonny. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrives at night carrying the smell of incense and cigarettes. His world is just a bed, some pictures of the holy island and a single locked door, but his father fills his dreams with mysterious tales and dreadful warnings. When his father disappears, Billy's mum brings him…
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The Unknown Devil: A C.T. Ferguson Private Investigator Mystery
The Unknown Devil: A C.T. Ferguson Private Investigator Mystery
A gray hat hacker. A dark-hearted crime boss. Baltimore isn't big enough for both of them. C.T. Ferguson uses his illicit digital skills as a private investigator. When a teenaged boy wants to find his missing older brother, C.T. takes the case. He soon discovers the missing brother is a fellow keyboard wizard, which piques his interest. Then shadowy figures turn up wherever C.T.…
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The Lies We Bury
The Lies We Bury
It’s the case that has tormented him for years…
Detective Cage Foster’s past has come back to haunt him. It’s been seven years since two girls disappeared because of his rookie mistake, and since then he’s lived under the weight of guilt. Now Annabeth, one of the girls, has been found, but with her comes more unanswered questions. Cage realizes this time there’s no room for error because the…
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The Lovely Wicked Rain
The Lovely Wicked Rain
They find him on the beach, shooting bullets into the sand.His name? Jeremiah Cooper, the son of the bullheaded high school football coach. Slight of build, soft of voice, he's got all kinds of torment lurking behind his eyes. But despite Garrison Gage's best efforts, he can't pull the kid out of his shell. Then someone turns up dead at the local community college, and Jeremiah's fragile world…
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EASY TO KILL (Jack Reacher's Special Investigators)
EASY TO KILL (Jack Reacher's Special Investigators)
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Hell and Ice
Hell and Ice
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The Program
The Program
The series that started it all!In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice.Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with…
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A Deadly Shade of Gold
A Deadly Shade of Gold
“John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen KingWith an Introduction by Lee ChildWhen Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can’t help it: He has to meddle. Especially when he has the chance to reunite Sam Taggart, a reckless, restless man like himself, with the woman who’s still waiting for him. But what begins as…
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The Hadacol Boogie
The Hadacol Boogie
Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke’s iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayouWhen a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux’s property, he knows his world and family are about to change.With Valerie Benoit, a detective new to the Iberia Parish…
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The Kill Clause
The Kill Clause
The series that started it all!A riveting and explosive novel, The Kill Clause is a brilliantly inventive tour de force by a powerful new master of suspense.Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is very good at his job—until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter.Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches…
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More Perfect Union, A
More Perfect Union, A
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Cinnamon Skin
Cinnamon Skin
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Inside Cut: A C.T. Ferguson Crime Novel
Inside Cut: A C.T. Ferguson Crime Novel
College basketball star Calvin Murray always played to win.This time, losing could cost him his life. It's March. The most important time of the year in college hoops. John Hanson College is breezing through their conference en route to the NCAA tournament. But are they? Games they should win going away turn out to be close contests. Calvin's mother hires private investigator C.T.…
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Skeleton's Key (Delta Crossroads Mystery Romance)
Skeleton's Key (Delta Crossroads Mystery Romance)
With the right motive, anyone can be a killer.
Caring for Ironwood Plantation is a dream come true for Cage Foster. The dream doesn't last long when a skeleton is found buried beneath the antebellum home. The unearthing of two additional fresh bodies quickly turns into a nightmare which could land him on Mississippi's death row. 
Newcomer Dani Evans, a pushy Yankee specialist in historical…
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The Stepson
The Stepson
‘An intensely dark thriller’ Ross GreenwoodWhen your whole life becomes one big lie…The night my mum disappeared, after a panicked 3am phonecall, I knew something was wrong.The police tried to reassure me. There had to be a logical explanation, they said – perhaps she’s taking a break after the tragic death of my father.But I know my mum.Or do I?She would never leave without telling me.Or would…
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The Silent Boy
The Silent Boy
Private Investigator Sloane Monroe is about to face the most challenging case of her life, and this time, it hits a little too close to home.In the dirty hallway of a local tavern, six-year-old Louie Alvarez plays with his race cars, waiting for his mother to take him home. A scream rips through the air. Louie freezes, then turns, staring at the room at the end of the hallway where the sound had…
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