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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."


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."



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