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When a teenage girl goes missing, Nicola Miller fears for her own daughter. Not for Abby's mental health or safety, but that she might have had something to do with it. She worries her daughter is a killer. Just like her. Nicola has never told the truth about what happened with Abby's father. But now as the search for Cara continues, Nicola, risks her secret coming to light. And she's not the only one with something to hide. Her mother, Joyce, and her daughter also have secrets of their own.

After Nessa is widowed and her daughters leave for college, she’s left alone in her house near the ocean. In the quiet hours, she hears voices belonging to the dead—who will only speak to her. On the cusp of 50, Harriett’s marriage and career imploded, and she hasn’t left her house in months. But her life is far from over—in fact, she’s undergone a stunning metamorphosis. Jo spent 30 years at war with her body. The rage that arrived with menopause felt like the last straw—until she discovers she’s able to channel it.

When two security guards are gunned down during a brazen cannabis cash heist, all signs point to the third man on the job—Chip Bowman, a former soldier and employee of Hardshell Security. With millions stolen and the city on edge, Bowman turns to Brad Madison for help. But this case won't be won in the courtroom alone. Hardshell moves cash and product for California's booming legal weed industry—an industry forced to run off the books due to federal law.

Hazel has everything she wants. Business is booming at her boutique private investigation firm. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed. Then the NYPD finds a beloved neighborhood priest dead along with a mysterious red letter. Hazel investigates the murder as a favor to an old friend and discovers that the priest wasn’t the only recent murder victim to receive a red letter...and one victim has ties to a psychopath from a past life that Hazel thought she had buried.

The Goldenacre—a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh—has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery. Thomas Tallis, an art expert with a trouble past, is trying to uncover the truth about the painting's complex history, while dogged newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is investigating a series of shocking murders in Edinburgh.

New York Times best-selling author Phillip Margolin returns to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., with an exciting thriller about a ghost ship and the President's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sarah Woodruff, on death row in Oregon for murdering her lover, John Finley, has appealed her case to the Supreme Court just when a prominent justice resigns, leaving a vacancy.

Before we begin there are some things you should know. This is our story - hers and mine. It could have been so different if it weren't for him. There are some secrets you can't take to the grave, and once the ugly truth is out there's no going back. I had to act, I had no choice. But I didn't mean for it to go this far.

In the beautiful and dangerous landscape of Lake Geneva, in the shadow of the Swiss Alps, renowned writer Marceau Miller is found dead. In the wake of the tragedy, his wife Sarah discovers a manuscript he’s left behind, entitled The Story of Marceau Miller. With the support of close friends, Sarah struggles to hold herself together while caring for her two children and coping with the mounting questions surrounding her famous husband’s death. Was it an accident or part of some darker game?

At first glance, Heather Gordon's death looks like suicide. But a single clue points to something far darker—and it leads straight to her ex-boyfriend, Dwayne Fogle. With a history of controlling behavior and jealous outbursts, even Dwayne's own mother doubts his innocence. Still, she turns to criminal defense attorney Brad Madison to give her son a fighting chance.

Thirty days off-grid. No contact with the outside world. No way to call for help. Zara leaves home to take part in a challenge sweeping the nation–no technology for one month. A body is found in the woods. Right by the Safe House where Zara was meant to check in. And she hasn’t checked in.

On the Fourth of July, a teenager dies at an exclusive country club. Twenty years later, her cousin returns to her hometown, seeking answers behind closed gates in this rich, atmospheric thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Liz Moore and Ruth Ware.

Hurt feelings severed the relationship between Mari and her sister following the tragic deaths of their parents. A single mom, Mari has dedicated her life to her daughter and avoided her sister since the reading of her parents' will. In desperate need of rest and relaxation, Mari decides to use the beach house she inherited for the first time since her parents' deaths, which is located on the island Mari loved so much that she named her daughter after it.

What's left of humanity has withdrawn behind massive walls. Behind those walls, Kane's luck is running out. His son grows closer to rampancy every day and he is almost out of time to save him. He is a single mishap away from losing it all in a city full of half humans. Which is exactly when fate decides to stab him in the back. With something awakening inside him, Kane will have to discover why someone is trying to kill him, but that discovery could leave him little more than a bloody stain on the floor.

Washington, D.C., 1861: As the United States teeters on the brink of civil war, Colonel Charles P. Rook organizes security in the nation’s capital and monitors the death threats pouring into the White House. He surrounds Abraham Lincoln with bodyguards, covers rooftops with sharpshooters, and investigates rumors of conspiracy fomented by secessionists. Yet amid the chaos and confusion, a mysterious killer slips into the teeming city.

In this historical mystery, set in Arkansas in 1961 when the mob still ruled Hot Springs, babies are being kidnapped, and the local sheriff has to put this case to bed before the bosses come down from Chicago. They don't need the heat, and they have the leverage with the sheriff to make him do whatever they want. It seems like a good move to arrest Leslie Richards, the new woman in town, even though there is only thin circumstantial evidence against her.

As the sequel to The Sixth Lobe, Danny Wilson returns to America after a long separation meant to keep him out of harm's way. The gutsy retired detective who risked life and limb caring for him for more than a decade grudgingly allows him the chance to fulfill childhood dreams to avenge murdered parents. Knowing this day would come, the father expended considerable effort over many years ensuring his adopted son is prepared.

Worried parents learn their son is unique in ways that frighten them, terrify townspeople, threaten local and national powers, and pose deadly risks to a famous doctor and anyone associated with the case. Grudgingly accepting the hurdle that befalls her, a noted psychiatrist is humbled and shocked when Danny Wilson reveals past events that shatter core medical beliefs. Efforts protecting Danny from numerous predators who will exploit his difference erode as information leaks.

Sophie Diem's boss has skipped town, abandoning their counseling firm and taking her investment money with him. As she seeks to rebuild her professional career, she is distressed by the appearance of a stranger. The man keeps to the shadows, but he is definitely stalking her. In an attempt to flee him, she accepts a job offer...in London. Surely, crossing the Atlantic would be enough to deter her shadow. When Sophie spots her shadow in London, she is shocked to learn that Glenn, the shadow, is not a stalker but rather her only protection.

A private plane with a family spanning three generations disappears in the mountains. After a desperate plea for help, a major search and rescue mission is launched. Meanwhile, a hiker sets out to climb a 9,415-foot mountain on his own. He fails to return, causing his fiancée to report him lost. Another search and rescue is launched on his behalf. With help from the stratosphere, the two search missions each make unexpected discoveries, leading to a dramatic change in circumstances and ending.

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. John Savage realized that too late. Following the biggest job of their lives, John and his small crew think they've got it made. But a lawyer, a junkie, a crooked cop, Savage, and his girlfriend have unknowingly opened Pandora's Box. And they won't know it until it's too late. As the brutally tortured bodies of their partners come to light, tensions rise all the way to the screaming, chaotic conclusion of this bloody crime thriller.