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Very Bad People: Exclusive Cover Reveal

Kit Frick

"We are the Bolan sisters. Calliope, Lorelei, and Serafina."


Murder at Keyhaven Castle

Clara McKenna

"Unable to bear the stench of bananas, horse dung, smoke, and salty air, Jesse James Prescott pulled the red bandanna up over his nose."


Last Flight to Stalingrad

Graham Hurley

"The joint twenty-three-man team rose early, an hour before dawn."


Tell Me The Truth

Matthew Farrell

"The moment Noel Moore stepped through the front door and put his bags down, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up."


Murder at Sunrise Lake

Christine Feehan

"Stella leaned on the railing and stared out over the lake."


Two Boys At Breakwater

Boston Teran

"You ever hear of the Pirates of Pelham Parkway? They were a headline once. Front page stuff for about five minutes in the Bronx newspapers of the day. Murder and death, death and murder."


The Godmothers

Camille Aubray

"When Petrina arrived at Coney Island, she headed straight for the Cyclone roller coaster."


Ivory Shoals

John Brandon

"'Lion ain’t cross chasin a deer.'"


The Bullet

Iris Johansen

"'You were right, Nalam,' Ralph Daniels said as soon as Joshua Nalam picked up his call."


City on the Edge

David Swinson

"It was painstaking work, creating that fort out of a large thicket at the bottom of the hill."



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