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A DI with a complicated past. A ragtag team of investigators. A vicious killer. An adorable, food-obsessed corgi. Bury the Truth is a contemporary police procedural/crime thriller set in Chesterfield, England. It follows DI Ryan Hale’s first case in Chesterfield in 12 years, as he returns from London and is thrown headfirst into a ritualistic
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A dystopian novel depicting a society in a not so distant future, where people are so desperate for order that they willingly embrace surveillance, government control, and the slow but steady replacement of human interaction, accountability, and sensibility with machines and algorithms. Democracy and freedom are long-lost ideals, sacrificed on the altar of innovation and
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Book 4 in the Agents of the Abyss series. Being a teenager isnt easy. Being a monster teenage spy is even more difficult. Fifteen-year old Agatha is a descendant of Dr. Jekyl, with monster DNA in her blood, and an M17 spy in training at Dame Sanctum’s Boarding School. Her team includes Lily, a genetically
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Book 1 in the Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #1 series. Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be “alienated” not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental pathologies were therefore known as alienists. A dark, historical, psychological thriller exposing the
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When scientists prepare to investigate a sunken ship off the coast of Deal in Kent, they end up salvaging a lot more than they bargained for. The military becomes unvolved, and an unnatural monster is unwittingly let loose after a long hibernation. Fueled by a burning desire for human flesh, the deadly creature stalks the
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Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century, a place in the grips of a Puritan wave of violence and punishment as suspected sinners, witches and blasphemers were tortured and killed in the name of righteous persecution. Boston, present day. Detective Martina “Marti” Zucco is following in her late father’s footsteps, working on the force.
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Book 1 in the Aaron Falk series. In the small farming town of Kiewarra in Australia, the Hadler family is found brutally murdered, with the infant daughter being the only survivor. Aaron Falk, Federal Police investigator in Melbourne, is called back to town for the Hadler funeral. As a child, Aaron was best friends with
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The creation of a serial killer is described in a strangely poetic fashion in My Men, written in Norwegian by Victoria Kielland and translated into English by Damion Searls. When the young Brynhilde is forsaken by her lover, she embarks on a journey from her homeland of Norway to America, hoping to find a new
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The Summer Party by Rebecca Heath is a mystery/thriller set on the coast of South Australia. The Dry by Jane Harper takes place in Australia in a small farming town suffering under the drought. The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager features a summer camp where girls go missing. A Flicker in the Dark
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Book 1 in the Killers of a Certain Age series. Billie, Helen, Mary Alice and Natalie are all women in their sixties. All of them are retired. And all of them are killers. For forty years the four women have assassinated drug lords, dictators, arms dealers and human traffickers, dishing out punishment when the law
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