Adult Fiction

"Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound."

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From the outside, Alicia, Jessica, and Norah might seem like ordinary women. But these three have a bond that takes them back decades, to when they were girls, and they lived on a farm with a foster mother named Miss Fairchild. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild, and they thought they were free. But the reach of someone with such power is long. When bones are discovered buried under the farmhouse of their childhood, they are called in by the police to tell what they know. Against their will, they are brought back to the past, and to Miss Fairchild herself.

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When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town - and people - she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge - including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance.

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Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.

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In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. As her notoriety grows, she will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive - even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

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Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mainly avoid one another until one night, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. Miles believes Daphne deserves the chance to build a life here, her own life. As she begins to fall for the town, Daphne wonders what this summer is supposed to mean.

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The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way - until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. Years later, the estranged twins may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to reinvestigate their parents' murder. But as the Under Suspicion crew gets closer to the truth, the danger that was assumed to be left in the past finds its way into the present.

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The Inn at Gloucester is the lone structure on a rocky Massachusetts shoreline. Former Boston police detective Bill Robinson runs the place as a refuge from life's cruel disappointments. When two strangers arrive for a temporary stay among the permanent residents, they're welcomed with no questions asked. There's another new resident in town. A crime boss. And he doesn't like the close watch Robinson and Spears keep over Gloucester. Local criminals are turning up dead. Teaming up with Sheriff Spears and three fearless residents, Robinson begins a risky defense of his town, his chosen family, and his home.

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Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history. Stymied by writer's block, Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't graduate until she does. But Summer's research uncovers startling facts about Waterford Historical Society's past, prompting unsettling questions about racism, economic injustice, and political corruption within their community, past and present. As controversy threatens the quilt exhibit's success, Summer fears that her pursuit of the truth might cost the Society their last chance to save Union Hall.

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As Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia Alexander concerned, Sophia becomes increasingly involved in the resistance. Circumstances become increasingly dangerous and personal when Sophia assists her sister's daring escape from Germany. As the political tensions rise and the brutal oppression continues, Sophia is undeterred, risking it all, even her own freedom, as she rises to the challenge of helping those in need - no matter the cost.

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While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient, Caitlin, arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Nurse Meghan Michaels mistakenly lets herself get too close until she's deeply entangled in Caitlin's and her family's lives. Only when it's too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.

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The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages.

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