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Crocodile Tears

Mercedes Rosende, translated by Tim Gutteridge

"In prison, everything is dense"


Estranged

Charles Lamar Phillips

"Kid Guthrie—I’m sorry, Andrew Guthrie—my pint-sized young protégé at the paper and I went to the memorial auditorium for Larry McKnight’s speech in November."


Shoot the Moonlight Out: Exclusive Preview

William Boyle

"Once a week this summer, Bobby Santovasco and his best pal Zeke head down by the Belt Parkway to throw things at the cars getting off at the Bay Parkway exit near Ceasar’s Bay shopping center."


Gift of Diamonds

Roberta Seret

"I escaped Romania in the middle of the night, by bike, on February 2, 1965."


The Shadow

Melanie Raabe

"Vienna was giving Norah the cold shoulder."


Spoils of the Dead

Dana Stabenow

"'Come on, Erik!' Josh's sneakers disappeared over a mussel-encrusted rock ridge left exposed by the low tide."


The Absolute Book

Elizabeth Knox

"When Taryn Cornick’s sister was killed, she was carrying a book."


Water Memory

Daniel Pyne

"The fifth-floor hallway was darker than reported, and there was an awkward dogleg near the stairwell that their local recon hadn’t bothered to map; it smelled of garlic, mold, and dry rot even though the hotel was billed as a Byzantine five-star."


Blink of an Eye

Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen

"Lynch leaned back in his chair after he slipped his phone back in his jacket pocket."


Tropic of Stupid

Tim Dorsey

"Pontoons crashed across ocean swells."



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