Mystery & Thriller

When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she's more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn't be fair--not after twenty years of marriage to a truly terrible man. But Sally isn't the only woman in town reaching the brink. Soon, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group, and among them there are four bodies to hide. Can they all figure out the perfect way to bury their husbands . . . and get away with it?

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Isabel Dalhousie is once again called on to help navigate a decidedly delicate dispute with all of the insight and compassion she has become known for. Meanwhile, Isabel and her husband Jamie will together be dealing with tricky personal issues of their own. Print run 40,000.

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A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies floating in the bright blue water: Gio Aggiunta, the playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire, and a gorgeous, even wealthier neighbour named Meagin March. Chasing down the answers leads Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis on an exploration of L.A.'s darkest side as they contend with one of the most shocking cases of their careers and learn that some secrets are best left buried in the past.

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No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. In fact, Margo is a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. Then Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo's subtly sinister edge, and watches her carefully. When a patron's death in the library bathroom gives her a hint of Margo's mysterious past, Patricia can't resist digging deeper - even as this new fixation becomes all-consuming.

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It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at a country fair with her friends. But the night takes a hairpin turn with a fortune-teller's bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is already dead. Annie starts to fear she might inherit her aunt's fate instead of her fortune.

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The young English narrator dreams of pretending to be someone else. Then she meets charismatic and mysterious Marcus. Marcus reveals there is something she can do for him - a plan is in place and she can help with "a favour." This turns out to be posing as an art advisor to a family on Cap Ferret, where she's to simply "listen." Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset.

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Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by. The father-daughter duo are "food detectives." Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.

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Traversing the Big Brother generation, this cautionary tale follows Mélanie, a social media superstar who broadcasts her children's daily lives on a family YouTube channel, and Clara, the young police officer assigned to the case after Mélanie’s daughter is kidnapped.

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One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up in a quiet, quaint cul de sac. During the night, someone had taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, Ethan begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. The mysterious occurrences prompt Ethan to investigate what really happened that night, a quest that leads him into the woods that surround Hemlock Circle. The closer Ethan gets to the truth, the more he realizes that the past has a way of haunting the present.

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"From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multigenerational Indian American family marooned in a house with a murderer during Hurricane Harvey"-- Provided by publisher.

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Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother hears a noise. This sound is disturbingly familiar. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender. Then she catches another glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once she knows her situation is even more dire than she'd feared, because she knows exactly who he is - and what he wants.

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In the summer of 2020, small-town public defender Andy Hughes is assigned to a grotesque murder case that brings national media focus to rural Patrick County, Virginia. The accused killer is a cunning felon who has confessed to the police. But a simple typographical error and a shocking discovery begin to complicate the state's case. Duty-bound to give his client a thorough defense, Andy - despite his misgivings - agrees to fight for a not-guilty verdict, a decision that will ultimately force him to make profound, life-and-death choices, both inside and outside the courtroom.

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"An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel"-- Provided by publisher.

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When a prominent art patron goes missing, the investigation zeroes in on Annie Shaw. Under mounting police scrutiny, she begins to question her own involvement in the disappearance. Terrified for the safety of her family and friends, Annie pushes everyone away, only to wake up in a hotel room - naked, next to a lifeless body. The police have more questions, but with her mind increasingly fractured, Annie doesn't have answers. All she knows is this: she will do anything to protect her daughter - even if it means losing herself.

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