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The Farm

Max Annas

"'You’re already asleep,' Lettie said quietly."


The Constant Rabbit

Jasper Fforde

"Rabbits always had trouble differentiating between humans."


Next To Last Stand

Craig Johnson

"'Russians.'"


The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman

"Killing someone is easy. Hiding the body, now, that’s usually the hard part. That’s how you get caught."


The Last Agent

Robert Dugoni

"Freedom did not come the day a jury exonerated Charles Jenkins of espionage and federal judge Joseph B. Harden declared him “free to go.”"


Funeral for a Friend

Brian Freeman

"Drip. Drip. Drip. Water falling."


And Now She’s Gone

Rachel Howzell Hall

"Last year, a day before the Fourth of July, Ian and Isabel had a meet cute."


Stone

Ho Che Anderson

"La Paz, barely visible behind the boxes of detergent, is giving herself a bath."


Arsenic and Adobo

Mia P. Manansala

"My name is Lila Macapagal and my life has become a rom-com cliché."


The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

Sophie Hannah

"After making her astonishing announcement, the woman with the unfinished face clammed up so determinedly that further debate proved impossible. Ignoring the outraged splutterings of Alfred Bixby (“The very idea, M. Poirot! A murder on a Kingfisher Coach Company motor-coach? Such a thing would never happen!”), Poirot ordered the driver to stop so that he could take the unhappy woman outside and attempt to get to the bottom of it all."



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