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1) The 24th Hour

Author

Patterson, James

Series

Women's Murder Club volume 24

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“Tough-but-tender cop Lindsay Boxer” (People) leads the Women’s Murder Club in the high-profile murder investigation of a billionaire San Francisco couple. As enemies lurk in the shadows, will Cindy, Claire, Yuki, and Lindsay still be standing when the clock strikes midnight?

SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano,...

2) Butcher

Author

Oates, Joyce Carol

3) A calamity of souls

Author

Baldacci, David

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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...

4) Camino Ghosts

Author

Grisham, John

Series

Camino Island novels volume 3

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#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you back to Camino Island where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise.
In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between...

5) Circle in the Water

Author

Muller, Marcia

Series

Sharon McCone mysteries volume 35

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In this twisting mystery in a New York Times bestselling series, pranks escalate into a deadly scheme that Private Investigator Sharon McCone must unravel—before they claim her life.
San Francisco is home to more than 200 privately owned streets. Most are alleyways, but a select few look torn straight from the pages of a magazine. Lined with mansions and elaborate gardens, the properties are luxurious

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6) Clete

Author

Burke, James Lee

Series

Part of the Dave Robicheaux

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Book, Audiobook CD

7) Control

Author

Tyree, Omar

8) A daughter of fair Verona

Author

Dodd, Christina

9) Death behind every door

Author

Graham, Heather

Series

Blackbird files (Heather Graham) volume 1

10) Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone

Author

Graves, Sarah

Series

Death by chocolate mysteries volume 7

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Summer guests are eager to sink their teeth into tantalizing desserts at The Chocolate Moose, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and Ellie White's bakeshop in the island village of Eastport, Maine. But attracting the wrong kind of attention can be deadly . . .
With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never...

11) The Devil's Fortress

Author

Brown, Dale

Series

Nick Flynn novels volume 4

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Book, Audiobook CD

12) Don't Let the Devil Ride

Author

Atkins, Ace

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

13) Eruption

Author

Crichton, Michael

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The biggest thriller of 2024: A history-making eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the US military is far more terrifying than any volcano. Michael Crichton, creator of Jurassic Park and Westworld, had a passion project he'd been pursuing for years ahead of his untimely death. Knowing how special it was, his widow held back his notes and the partial manuscript till she found the right author to...

14) Extinction

Author

Preston, Douglas

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With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths,

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15) Farewell, Amethystine

Author

Mosley, Walter

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Book, Large Print

16) Flashback

Author

Johansen, Iris

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Book, Large Print

17) For the love of summer

Author

Mallery, Susan

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Book, Large Print

18) Funny story

Author

Henry, Emily

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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, 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...

19) Husbands & Lovers

Author

Williams, Beatriz

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Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom—reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives.

New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute...

20) It had to be you

Author

Clark, Mary Higgin

Series

Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 8

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The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way, handsome, intelligent, popular, until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the...