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    Open Your Eyes

    Paula Daly

    "Another year of my life . . . wasted. All that work. All that time I’d devoted when I could have been doing something else. Something more productive."

    November 1, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    In The House In The Dark Of The Woods

    Laird Hunt

    "After what felt like many minutes of walking, I stopped. I thought of calling out to Captain Jane or the first-folk man or anyone at all but could not make my lips move."

    October 31, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Lady Killer

    Masako Togawa, Translated by Simon Grove

    "Last of all, the calloused finger that should one day have worn a wedding ring slipped and lost its grip. All contact with reality lost, she plunged to the earth below."

    October 30, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Someone Like Me

    M. R. Carey

    "The second time was different."

    October 29, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Delayed Justice

    Cara Putnam

    "Her words froze in her throat at the sound she would recognize anywhere—her uncle’s laughter echoing through the room."

    October 26, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    “The Murder Ballad of Samuel J. McCarthy”

    Eryk Pruitt

    "Only faraway were there sounds—probably miles off, at the freeway—but they were as significant as shushes from a seashell."

    October 25, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Wrecked

    Joe Ide

    "Isaiah was meeting Dodson at the Coffee Cup, a neighborhood institution stuck between a dry cleaners and a Mexican market. He was nervous about it.  They were going to talk about partnering up, the conversation long overdue. "

    October 24, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Lies We Told

    Camilla Way

    "You think it’s going to be so simple, starting a family, and then when it’s taken from you, the future you’d imagined snatched away, it feels like a death."

    October 23, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Alice Isn't Dead

    Joseph Fink

    "The funeral was strange because Alice’s death had been strange. No cause of death. No body. No certainty."

    October 22, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Reckoning

    John Grisham

    "The truth had slowly been revealed, and once he had the full grasp of it, the killing became as inevitable as the sunrise."

    October 19, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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