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Elevator Pitch

Linwood Barclay

"By late afternoon, just about everything anyone could want to know about the elevator accident at the Lansing Tower was available."


His Hideous Heart

Emily Lloyd Jones, edited by Dahlia Adler

"My first words were always a lie."


Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark

Lucia Peters

"Risk Level: High. Additional Warnings: Fire. Objective: Summon Bloody Mary. Reward: Proof of your bravery"


The Titanic Secret

Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul

"When staying over in Denver, Isaac Bell always roomed at the Brown Palace, the city’s premiere hotel."


Tinfoil Butterfly

Rachel Eve Moulton

"“When did you last see her, your ­mother?”"


Akin

Emma Donoghue

"He tried to remember whether Amber's uniform had been exactly like those of the other inmates."


Nobody Move

Philip Elliott

"Something was off. Everything was off. Eddie could feel it."


Missing Persons

Sarah Lotz

"Alerted by the slam of the front door, Ellie slid her laptop to the side of the breakfast bar and covered it with a copy of Us Weekly."


Cold Storage

David Koepp

"Hero just looked at her, still puzzled by these soldiers and their inexperience with the very sort of event they’d been sent to investigate."


Three Minutes

Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström

"The man lying next to me died two days ago."



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