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    The Mirror Man

    Lars Kepler, translated by Alice Menzies

    "Through the classroom’s grimy  windows, Eleonor watches the bushes and trees bend in the stiff breeze as dust is blown along the road."

    February 2, 2022  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Undermoney

    Jay Newman

    "In a world of excess, nothing exceeded expectations like Elias Vicker’s Fire Rites of Beltane, the legendary stag party he held every year on the first Tuesday of May, just as spring buds were bursting into the brightness of just-opened leaves, lending midtown streets a transitory illusion of innocence."

    January 31, 2022  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    One Step Too Far

    Lisa Gardner

    "The three men came stumbling into town shortly after ten a.m., babbling of dark shapes and eerie screams and their missing buddy Scott and other missing buddy Tim."

    January 14, 2022  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    My Annihilation

    Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Sam Bett

    "A cramped room in a rundown mountain lodge, and on the desk a manuscript, left open to page one, as if it had been waiting here for ages to be read."

    January 11, 2022  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    City of the Dead

    Jonathan Kellerman

    "Four fifty-three in the morning was too early for anything."

    January 7, 2022  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    "Rebecca"

    Story by Daphne du Maurier, art/adaptation by Emily Rose Dixon

    "She's dead. And one should not have thoughts about the dead."

    December 22, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Love & Bullets: Megabomb Edition

    Nick Kolakowski

    "Bill knew the bastards were following him."

    December 16, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Winter Water

    Susanne Jansson

    "A pale sun was shining outside, and Martin hadn’t bothered to clean up the breakfast dishes."

    December 10, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    No Beauties or Monsters

    Tara Goedjen

    "Her stepbrother’s voice isn’t as soft as the hypnosis record­ing, but when he counts down slowly—five, four, three, two, one—an image comes to Rylie: a boulder, gray in the moonlight."

    December 9, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    From A Dark Horizon

    Luke McCallin

    "It had been Russia, and she had not been a farmer’s daughter, but she had been flaxen."

    December 7, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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