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A woman survives a horrific attempt on her life, only to feel like a stranger in her own home, in the electrifying new novel from New York Times -bestselling author Karen Robards. The house is all wrong. Her clothes are all wrong. When Katharine Lawrence recovers consciousness on the kitchen floor, staggers to her feet and looks at herself in the mirror, the beautiful face staring back at her is familiar-but... (more)

Edilean: Book 1

Lavender Morning: A Novel

by Jude Deveraux

Jocelyn Minton is a woman torn between two worlds. Her mother grew up attending private schools and afternoon teas, but she married the local handyman. After her mother died when Joce was only five years old, her father remarried into his own class, and Joce became an outsider -- until she met Edilean Harcourt. Although she was sixty years Joce's senior, Miss Edi was a kindred soul who understood her like no one... (more)

Last Look: A Novel of Suspense

by Mariah Stewart

THE TRUTH WON’T STAY BURIED. News that the body of a recently murdered prostitute–stabbed repeatedly and dumped on Georgia’s Shelter Island–has been identified as Shannon Randall stuns the FBI, particularly special agent Dorsey Collins. Twenty-four years ago, nineteen-year-old Eric Louis Beale was convicted and later executed for Shannon’s murder–and the agent in charge of the case was Dorsey’s father. Now Dorsey... (more)

Dead On The Dance Floor

by Heather Graham

Private investigator Quinn O'Casey thinks Lara Trudeau's overdose is a simple case of death by misadventure--until he goes undercover at the Moonlight Sonata dance studio and discovers that everyone who knew the accomplished dancer had good reason to want her dead. Shannon MacKay is equally suspicious of Lara's death--and equally concerned as the deadly events at the studio start to mutiply. But she's asked... (more)

What the Dead Know: A Novel

by Laura Lippman

Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls ? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run... (more)

Pearl Moon

by Katherine Stone

Publishers Weekly called it a "vivid narrative" with "glamorous settings." Booklist said it's a "can't-miss combination of multigenerational romance and international suspense, financial rivalry and family secrets." Now updated in this tenth-anniversary edition, Pearl Moon is the book thousands of readers have been asking for! It's the year before Hong Kong's reversion to Chinese control -- a year of... (more)

Last Breath: A Sherry Moore Novel

by George D. Shuman

Following close on the heels of his celebrated debut 18 Seconds, George Shuman returns with yet another remarkable thriller featuring investigative consultant Sherry Moore -- a blind woman with an uncanny ability to view the final living moments of any dead body she encounters. A ruthless serial killer with an unthinkable MO has left a trail of tortured, murdered women in western Maryland and seems to have gone... (more)

Another Man's Son (Stone, Katherine)

by Katherine Stone

A novel by the bestselling author of The Other Twin and Star Light, Star Bright . If Sam Collier's life has taught him anything, it's that promises can't be trusted . . . Sam was a wanderer for years. Now he's finally settled down in small-town Oregon, where he's bought himself an apple orchard and is living a quiet life -- until the day he learns the shocking news: Ian Collier, the man who abandoned... (more)

Full: Book 6

Full Scoop

by Charlotte Hughes, Charlotte Hughes, Janet Evanovich

Dear Reader: Mercury's in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina are dealing with gossip, scandal, misunderstandings, and more secrets than ever. Local pediatrician Maggie Farnsworth has even bigger worries. Her wild-girl past has caught up with her in the form of her ex-boyfriend, a jailbird who just flew the coop--and is bent on tracking down Maggie and her daughter. Fortunately, FBI agent Zack... (more)

Full: Book 5

Full Bloom

by Charlotte Hughes, Charlotte Hughes, Janet Evanovich

Dear Reader, The temperature's on "sizzle" again in Beaumont, South Carolina, where peach trees are in season and ripe for the picking. So is its newest entrepreneur, Annie Fortenberry, who has inherited her grandmother's B&B (and its eccentric handyman Erdle Thorney). According to a local psychic she also inherited a spirit from its glory days as a brothel-not the kind of publicity the Peach Tree Bed &... (more)

Imperfect Strangers

by Stuart Woods

Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a threat; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution to his money and marriage problems. If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violent -- and mutually advantageous -... (more)

The Other Twin

by Katherine Stone

Thirty-one years ago, after an accident on a California highway, a woman goes into labor. Her baby survives. But her husband dies. Today Paige Forrester is a doctor, like the father she never knew. But Paige herself has medical problems, which she's been keeping a secret. Her life becomes even more complicated when she meets Gwen St. James, a woman with secrets of her own. Gwen is an accomplished makeup... (more)

No Way Out

by Andrea Kane

New York Times bestselling author Andrea Kane creates a sizzling mix of emotions, white heat, and pulse-pounding suspense in one of the biggest knockout thrillers of the season. With a child's life at stake, a woman's deepest fears and desires careen toward an explosive climax where there is no time to hesitate, no going back, and NO WAY OUT Something is wrong with teacher Julia Talbot's favorite... (more)

Play Dirty

by Sandra Brown

After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. Foster Speakman and his wife Laura lived a charmed life before fate denied them the one thing they wanted most -- a child. Fresh out of prison and out of prospects, Griff agrees to do a job for the Speakmans that demands secrecy. But he... (more)

Dear Irene, : An Irene kelly Novel

by Jan Burke

When a strange letter signed "Thanatos" -- the ancient Greek name for death -- lands on Irene Kelly's desk, the intrepid reporter doesn't think much of it; she gets crazy mail all the time. A less cryptic message is sent when a body turns up the next morning. As more letters roll in, the death toll mounts...and Irene fears that her mysterious pen pal has cast her in his own private Greek tragedy as Cassandra, the... (more)

The Widow (MIRA Single Title Hardbacks)

by Carla Neggers

Four days after Abigail Browning's wedding, her life changed unimaginably: her husband was fatally shot along the rocky Mount Desert Island coast. Was it a random act of violence, or could someone have wanted Christopher dead? That's the question that has haunted Abigail, now a homicide detective, for the past seven years. Determined to find her husband's killer, she returns to the foggy Maine island after... (more)

The Bay At Midnight

by Diane Chamberlain

Her family's cottage on the New Jersey shore was a place of freedom and innocence for Julie Bauer -- until her seventeen-year-old sister, Isabel, was murdered. It's been more than forty years since that August night, but Julie's memories of her sister's death still shape her world. Now someone from her past is raising questions about what really happened that night. About Julie's own complicity. About a... (more)

The Vision

by Heather Graham

The gift of sight comes at a dangerous price When Deep Down Salvage begins the hunt for the Josephine Marie , it seems like any other dive . . . until Genevieve Wallace sees the vision of a dead woman in the water, her vacant eyes boring into Genevieve's very soul. Terrified and confused by what she saw, Genevieve is haunted by the memory, but no one -- including her diving partner Thor Thompson --... (more)

The Relatives Came

by Cynthia Rylant

In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars. When they finally had to leave, they were sad, but not for long. They all knew they would be together next summer.

The Midnight Club

by James Patterson

A stunningly brilliant psychopathic killer who has skillfully eluded the police from London to Paris to New York. A beautiful woman journalist suddenly in grave danger. An unorthodox New York detective whose motive for stopping the killer couldn't be more personal or emotional.

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by Karen Robards

by Jude Deveraux

by Mariah Stewart

by Heather Graham

by Laura Lippman

by Katherine Stone

by George D. Shuman

by Katherine Stone

by Charlotte Hughes, Charlotte Hughes, Janet Evanovich

by Charlotte Hughes, Charlotte Hughes, Janet Evanovich

by Stuart Woods

by Katherine Stone

by Andrea Kane

by Sandra Brown

by Jan Burke

by Carla Neggers

by Diane Chamberlain

by Heather Graham

by Cynthia Rylant

by James Patterson