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City of Dragons
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February, 1940. In San Francisco’s Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a 33-year-old private investigator who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Ta…
Tell No One
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For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. David Beck’s wife was murdered by a serial killer, or so the police told him. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw …
The Plantation
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Across the country, people are being kidnapped. Jonathon Payne is following the clues from his girlfriend’s disappearance to a New Orleans plantation-and the South’s most violent and shocking secret.
212
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In New York City, Nights Are Dangerous. Days Are Numbered.
When New York University sophomore Megan Gunther finds personal threats posted to a Web site specializing in campus gossip, she’s taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone knows her daily routine down to the minute and is watching her—but thanks to th…
The Virgin of Small Plains
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Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father’s pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl, her skin as white as the snow around her. Even dead, she is the mo…
Curse-Maker
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When Roman physician Arcturus and his stunning wife Gwyna arrive at Bath for a holiday, a dead body is floating in the sacred spring. It turns out that the murdered man is a curse maker whose curses actually come true, and as murder follows murder, it looks like there’s now a curse on Arcturus.
An exciting and exotic…
Angel's Tip
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In a city full of victims . . . it’s hard to choose just one.
Indiana college student Chelsea Hart’s wild evening with affluent young party boys in an elite Manhattan club was the most exhilarating and glamorous night of her life. It was also the last.
Now NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher’s obsessive hunt for th…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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A sensation across Europe—millions of copies sold
A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.
It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determine…
Mystic River
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""There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.""
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled tip to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened something that ended their …
The Choirboys
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Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch-shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap-each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends-he is af…
