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The Lady of Zamalek

Ashraf El-Ashmawi, translated by Peter Daniel

"The gardener had left the gate ajar as planned."


Goblin

Josh Malerman

"If Tom hadn’t left his sweater in his locker, if he hadn’t gone back to get it, and if he hadn’t passed the main office on the way, the whole dark night might’ve been avoided."


Local Woman Missing

Mary Kubica

"To be straight, I never thought they were going to find you."


Nameless: Season Two

Dean Koontz

"Every night lacks a moon and stars."


Deceptions

Anna Porter

"The Place de la Cathédrale was packed with tourists."


The Secret Talker

Geling Yan, translated by Jeremy Tiang

"Qiao Hongmei stood before the mirror, posing the way he’d described her, with her weight on one leg."


Find You First

Linwood Barclay

"As an adult, Miles had always lived alone."


The Girl Who Died 

Ragnar Jónasson

"As she was approaching Skálar, fog rolled in without warning, blotting out the landscape and merging sea with sky."


The Listening House

Mabel Seeley

"She limped a little as she went down the hall."


Sunday in the Ville D’Avray

Dominique Barbéris, translated by John Cullen

"'In fact,' my sister murmured without looking my way, 'it made me think of someone. I had an...encounter, years ago, didn’t I ever tell you? Something happened to me.'"



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