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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."


Part of the Family

Charlotte Philby

"here is no going back now. The taxi glides away from the house, down the street towards South End Green, retreating effortlessly from my family home, away from the expensive brickwork and tended gardens I will never see again."


A House at the Bottom of the Lake

Josh Malerman

"The third lake felt inhabited. Or like it once was."


Before She Disappeared

Lisa Gardner

"The Boston public school system is a mystery to me."


To Cook a Bear

Mikael Niemi

"One evening the pastor and i were in his study, pressing our latest finds."


The Scorpion’s Tail

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

"Nora slapped the dust off her jeans with a sinking feeling as she watched Corrie Swanson approach."


Twenty

James Grippando

"At nine p.m. the criminal courthouse was dark, but the lights were burning across the street—Lucky Thirteenth Street, as it was known—at the pretrial detention center."


Bone Canyon

Lee Goldberg

"The dead were rising in the fire-blackened Santa Monica Mountains and Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the history of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, was on her way to examine one of them."


The Butterfly House

Katrine Engberg

"Frederik wiped the water off his forehead and put the cap back on his head."



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