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Goldman, Matt
Summary: Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Green's short-term memory has all but evaporated, but, as if in compensation, his oldest memories are more vivid than ever. His mind keeps slipping backwards in time, retreating into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her youth and the prom date who destroyed everything she was reaching for. Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIPHoward, Catherine Ryan
Summary: I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him ... At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker -- the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man--the true-crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HOWMichallon, Clemence
Summary: Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate town where he lives. He's the kind of man who always lends a hand and has a good word for everyone. But Aidan has a dark secret he's been keeping from everyone in town and those closest to him. He's a kidnapper and serial killer. Aidan has murdered eight women and there's a ninth he has earmarked for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller with this action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue. "A world-class practitioner of spy fiction."--Washington Post Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with twenty-two thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring the "much-loved Gabriel Allon" (Booklist). Silvas ingenious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SILQuirk, Matthew
Summary: In this electrifying thriller from the author of Red Warning and The Night Agent, an attack on the White House sends the President and his top aides to take shelter in a top-secret government facility buried deep underground--but they soon discover the threat is locked inside with them. Assume the worst. Code Black. The day that every secret service agent trains for has arrived. The White House...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: For fans of Lucy Foley and Liane Moriarty, She Started It is a hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a group of young women whose Caribbean bachelorette party takes a sinister turn. Its Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends--or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GILRoberts, Nora
Summary: A thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life. Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party--attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball's office asking him to investigate her husband, he can't help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: he knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy. Now Joan needs his help in proving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SWAMakkai, Rebecca
Summary: A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalias death and the conviction of the schools athletic trainer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MAKHepworth, Sally
Summary: Gabe and Pippa Gerard have just moved into their dream house: a cliffside cottage in a sleepy coastal town outside Melbourne. It's a fresh start to their marriage, and the perfect place to raise their two young daughters. But the houses perfect facade hides something more sinister: The Spot, where the tall cliffs have become a popular place for those wishing to end their lives. After talking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HEPGrippando, James
Summary: Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRITudor, C. J.
Summary: Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They'll need to work together to escape, with their sanity and secrets intact. Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She's in a cable car stranded high above snowy mountains, with five strangers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Secrets abound in Lorna's family. Her mother Marika, who survived the Nazi occupation of Holland, abandoned the family when Lorna and her brother Wade were just seven and twelve years old. The reason she left, and her whereabouts afterward, were shrouded in mystery. As is a darker secret Marika has repressed for nearly seventy years. Now that Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, has a child of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BERJohnson, Maureen
Summary: Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain, questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JOHKane, Darby
Summary: They meet the second Tuesday of every month and vote, and then someone dies. Over the last few years, prominent people, a retired diplomat, beloved basketball coach, the CEO of an empire, have died in a series of fluke accidents and shocking suicides. There's no apparent connection, no signs of foul play. Behind it all is a powerful group of women, the Sophie Foundation, who meet over wine and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KANMichaels, Fern
Summary: "Even though Luna and her brother Cullen seem like complete opposites, they're identical in two ways: they'll never let injustice stand and they always have each other's back. #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels blends mystery, drama, and a touch of romance for the second Lost and Found novel, as the siblings set out to uncover the secrets behind a long-lost diary. Every antique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MICKrueger, William Kent
Summary: "Cork O'Connor, the retired sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota, is in a race against time to save the people he loves from ruthless mercenaries in this riveting new novel from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KRUChatagnier, Ethan
Summary: The odds of the planet next door hosting intelligent life are-that's not luck. That's a miracle. It means something. In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CHAHannah, Sophie
Summary: "Honeymooners at a posh resort receive an ominous warning with deadly consequences in the latest thriller from Sophie Hannah. Jane and William are enjoying their honeymoon at an exclusive couples-only resort... ...until Jane receives a chilling note warning her to "Beware of the couple at the table nearest to yours." At dinner that night, five other couples are present, and none of their tables...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HANMcAllister, Gillian
Summary: "From Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCABox, C. J.
Summary: "C. J. Box's Treasure State finds Cassie Dewell in Montana on the trail of a con man. Private Investigator Cassie Dewells business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who's disappeared somewhere in the "treasure state". A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BALHenry, April
Summary: A group of teens are trapped in an old motel with a murderer in this chilling YA mystery by New York Times bestselling author April Henry. Nell has always wanted to be an actor, but doubts her ability. As a member of her schools theater program, she prefers working backstage. On the way to a contest, an unexpected blizzard strands her acting troupe in a creepy motel. Soon they meet a group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022