Seventeen
Hideo Yokoyama, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
"By six o'clock that evening, all the editorial staff were in turmoil."
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Look Alive Twenty-Five
Janet Evanovich
"My name is Stephanie Plum, and my official title is bond enforcement agent. I’m assisted by Lula. We’re not sure exactly what Lula does, and we’ve never been able to come up with a title for her."
The Moscow Sleepers
Stella Rimington
"In London the rain was steady and unceasing, as it had been for much of the preceding week, and it remained unseasonably cold."
River Bodies
Karen Katchur
"He stripped the body of its clothes, his mind tricking him into believing it was just another skinning."
Long Road to Mercy
David Baldacci
"It was a vastly important branch, in some ways the most important branch of the FBI right now, as it took on myriad global threats against the United States. And here was its head guy dumped in a cc list on a case involving a dead mule."
An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good
Helene Tursten, translated by Marlaine Delargy
"Even if that smile was heartfelt, there wasn’t the slightest hint of warmth in his eyes; Maud saw only cold calculation. That little goblet had aroused his greed."
Top Dog
Jens Lapidus, translated by Alice Menzies
"There was something off about the closet. Roksana didn’t know what it was, but it gave her bad vibes."
Madame Victoria
Catherine Leroux
"And yet, while nothing else disgusts him, neither blood nor gangrene nor shit nor vomit, Germain can hardly bear the sight of a corpse."
City of Ash and Red
Hye-young Pyun, Translated by Sora Kim-Russell
"Having finished his clumsy detective work, the man shook his head. Regardless of whether he or Yujin was the culprit, there was no way he could have blacked it out so completely, no matter how much he’d drunk that night."
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