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• The Last Flight

  a Novel

  Clark, Julie, 1971-

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  Two women, each at a crossroad, meet by chance in an airport and decide to swap lives. Claire takes Eva’s flight to Oakland, California, and Eva gets on Claire’s flight to Puerto Rico, both hoping they’ll get a head start on a new life. When one of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Temple House Vanishing

  a Novel

  Donohue, Rachel, 1975-

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  Donahue’s atmospheric debut, set at a prestigious boarding school, stands among the best of the current modern gothic trend. With shades of Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Secret History, and My Dark Vanessa, it has a creeping pace, melancholic tone,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is How I Lied

  a Novel

  Gudenkauf, Heather,

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  The past rushes into the present when the long lost bloody shoe of 16-year-old murder victim Eve Knox turns up after twenty-five years. Her best friend Maggie, who found her body, is now a police detective reinvestigating the case. Everyone has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Appeal

  a Novel

  Hallett, Janice,

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  In a provincial English town, a murder has been committed and a suspect convicted. But who was the victim, who was the murderer and what was the motive? "It is best you know nothing before you read the enclosed," a lawyer writes to two colleagues,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 56 Days

  Howard, Catherine Ryan,

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  As Dublin locks down in the spring of 2020, a young couple who've just met decide to move in together. They seem perfect for each other but is one of them a murderer? As the POV shifts, you'll be rooting for both of these flawed characters no matter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Saw Me Coming

  a Novel

  Kurian, Vera,

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  Set in a fictional university, a group of diagnosed psychopaths are receiving free tuition and board in exchange for participating in a study to see whether they can become noncriminal members of society, but someone is killing them, one by one. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Island

  a Thriller

  McKinty, Adrian,

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  McKinty twists a family vacation into an all-out struggle for survival between an Australian family and a group of American interlopers. With a compulsively readable plot and characters you'll root for, this one's a bonafide summer thrill ride.

• I Am Not Who You Think I Am

  Rickstad, Eric

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  Wayland Maynard was just eight years old when he saw his father kill himself, and he’s kept the note he found, with the message “I am not who you think I am”, a secret. Now, at sixteen, he’s questioning everything he’s believed about his father’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Disappearing Act

  a Novel

  Steadman, Catherine,

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  British actress Mia Eliot, fresh from a rough breakup and a star turn as Jane Eyre, arrives in Los Angeles, ready for her big break, but soon discovers the sinister side of Hollywood when she becomes the last person to see her newfound friend Emily.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Broken Summer

  a Novel

  Yi, Chŏng-myŏng (Novelist),

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  On his forty-third birthday, Lee Hanjo awakens to find his wife has disappeared, leaving behind a soon-to-be-published novel about an artist with a trajectory similar to Hanjo's. A study of guilt, deception and revenge, this one's quiet and…Read moreRead more of this annotation