Lady in the Lake
Laura Lippman
Craig Sisterson
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:11
Craig Sisterson

It’s a wondrous feeling when you read the first pages of a new book and can instantly tell you’re in the hands of a master storyteller. Not because of any grab-you-by-the-throat incident or hashtaggable se

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lady-in-the-lake
Lady in the Lake
0062390015
Lippman
Wherever She Goes
Kelley Armstrong
Jean Gazis
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:06
Jean Gazis

A survivor of childhood trauma, recently separated Aubrey “Bree” Finch doesn’t fit in with the other suburban mommies. Her three-year-old daughter, Charlotte, lives with her ex, Paul, a defense at

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wherever-she-goes
Wherever She Goes
1250181356
Armstrong
Never Look Back
Alison Gaylin
Margaret Agnew
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:58
Margaret Agnew

The latest book from Alison Gaylin, a standalone thriller, draws the reader in at once by presenting a letter written by a young girl who we soon learn is a murderer. The narrative then transitions to

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never-look-back
Never Look Back
0062884352
Gaylin
A Nearly Normal Family
M.T. Edvardsson
Eileen Brady
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:46
Eileen Brady

Anger issues, said some of her teachers, or possibly ADD or ADHD. Her mother, Ulrika, and father, Adam, have always dismissed such comments as nonsense; Stella Sandell is a very bright and individualistic ch

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a-nearly-normal-family
A Nearly Normal Family
1250204437
Edvardsson
The Right Sort of Man
Allison Montclair
Joseph Scarpato, Jr.
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:34
Joseph Scarpato, Jr.

This is one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in several years.

It’s bomb-ravaged London in 1946, and the building housing The Right Sort of Marriage Bureau is the only one left standing on its st

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the-right-sort-of-man
The Right Sort of Man
1250178363
Montclair
One More Lie
Amy Lloyd
Margaret Agnew
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:28
Margaret Agnew

English author Amy Lloyd returns with her second novel, One More Lie, a page-turning thriller about a young woman recently released from prison. Known only by her government-bestowed name, “Charlott

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one-more-lie
One More Lie
1335007709
Lloyd
Bone Deep
Sandra Ireland
Ben Boulden
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:23
Ben Boulden

Bone Deep, British writer Sandra Ireland’s first appearance in the United States, is a brooding psychological thriller set in rural Scotland. Margarita Muir, who is “Mac” to anyone that wants her t

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Bone Deep
1982105070
Ireland
Dead Big Dawg
Victoria Houston
Sharon Magee
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:17
Sharon Magee

In the 19th installment of Victoria Houston’s Loon Lake Mystery series set in Northern Wisconsin, retired dentist and acting coroner (the “real” one is usually too drunk to function), Doc Osborne an

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dead-big-dawg
Dead Big Dawg
1440598835
Houston
Conviction
Denise Mina
Craig Sisterson
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:09
Craig Sisterson

Scotland’s Denise Mina burnished her “Crown Princess of Crime” reputation with her previous novel, the historic inspired-by-a-true-story tale The Long Drop, wowing readers, critics, and awards judg

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Conviction
0316528501
Mina
Borrowed Time
Tracy Clark
Kevin Burton Smith
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:03
Kevin Burton Smith

Rookie private eye Cass Raines was a proud member of the Chicago police force until she got shot, courtesy of an excitable, less-than-competent fellow officer. Now she runs a one-woman investigation ag

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Borrowed Time
1496714903
Clark