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The Replacement Child

The Replacement Child
  • Author(s): Christine Barber
  • Location(s): New Mexico, Santa Fe
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Late on a Monday night editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the Capital Tribune newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady – an anonymous tipster whose hobby is to phone the newspaper with tips from her police...

The Roanoke Girls

The Roanoke Girls
  • Author(s): Amy Engel
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to childhood

Beautiful. Rich. Mysterious. The Roanoke girls seem to have it all. But there’s a dark truth about them which is never spoken. Every girl either runs away, or dies. Lane is one of the lucky ones. When she was...

The Round House

The Round House
  • Author(s): Louise Erdrich
  • Location(s): North Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone – including...

The Saint of Lost Things

The Saint of Lost Things
  • Author(s): Christopher Castellani
  • Location(s): Wilmington
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

It is 1953 in the tight-knit Italian neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware. Maddalena Grasso has lost her country, her family, and the man she loved by coming to America: her mercurial husband, Antonio, has lost his opportunity to realize the...

The Samaritan

The Samaritan
  • Author(s): Mason Cross
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the Santa Monica Mountains, LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows this isn’t the work of a first-time killer. She’s seen this MO before – two and a half years...

The Santa Shop

The Santa Shop
  • Author(s): Tim Greaton
  • Location(s): New York State, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A poignant and uplifting story. Skip Ralstat loses his wife and baby son on a Christmas Eve fire, Skip’s palpable guilt that he wasn’t there for them causes him to lose his job as a lawyer: and he becomes...

The Savannah Project

The Savannah Project
  • Author(s): Chuck Barrett
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland, Savannah
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

“An intense, heart-pounding St. Patrick’s Day thriller!” An NTSB investigator is called to Savannah to investigate what appears to be a routine aircraft accident during the St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Ensuing suspicions of sabotage launch a deadly chain of...

The Scent of Death

The Scent of Death
  • Author(s): Andrew Taylor
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1700s

From the No.1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the American War of Independence. For fans of Sarah Waters. ‘This is the story of a woman and a city. I saw...

The Sea Sisters

The Sea Sisters
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Bali, California, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Two sisters, one life-changing journey… There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what’s beneath . . . Katie’s...

The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees
  • Author(s): Sue Monk Kidd
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father’s account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother,...

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