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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.'"


Monsters

Barry Windsor-Smith

"From Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith."


Bone Rattle

Marc Cameron

"A single bone—or even a bone shard—wouldn’t just slow work down. It would stop everything."


Meet Me In Another Life

Catriona Silvey

"Santi is lost."


The Anatomy of Desire

L.R. Dorn

"What was going through your mind that night in the tent with Sandy?"


An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed

Helene Tursten, translated by Marlaine Delargy

"Maud let out a loud sigh of relief as she sank into her comfortable seat on the plane."


Young Blood

Sifiso Mzobe

"Almost all the people I called my peers were second-generation township dwellers."


The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral

M.L. Longworth

"'I’d forgotten how beautiful this drive is,' Marine said to her best friend, Sylvie."



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