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Gone by Midnight

Candice Fox

"I was marched through a foyer packed with police officers standing in groups, looking at maps and talking on phones, the seating area and a huddle of tall tables completely swamped by blue uniforms."


A Reasonable Doubt

Philip Margolin

"For her fifth birthday, Robin Lockwood received a magic kit with one hundred easy-to-learn tricks and proceeded to “astonish” her parents and brothers whenever she could trap them."


The Animals at Lockwood Manor

Jane Healey

"It was the night of the ball and Lockwood had come alive."


Foul is Fair

Hannah Capin

"'You chose the perfect boy,' says Summer, after school."


Depraved Indifference

Gary Indiana

"By the time of this third encounter with Evelyn Carson, Warren had studied a rap sheet Styles Janowski had dug up for him, Styles being a retired Oceanside investigator who owed Warren many favors and creamed his pants sniffing into other people’s business."


The Rock Blaster

Henning Mankell

"A lamp on the bedside table casts a faint, pale light through its shade."


The Body Double

Emily Beyda

"The plane is small, and I am the only one in it."


She Lover of Death

Boris Akunin

"She spent several hours preparing for her meeting with Harlequin and left the house in good time, in order to make her first gala promenade through the streets of Moscow without hurrying and give the city a chance to admire its new inhabitant."


VICTIM 2117

Jussi Adler-Olsen

"'NO, YOU CAN’T have your travel expenses covered as a freelancer if it isn’t agreed beforehand. How often do we need to tell you, Joan?'"


The Last Day

Andrew Hunter Murray

"xxxx"



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