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The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

Joyce Carol Oates

"I can play sane, like you."


Task Lyst

Scott Hylbert

"The suspense ended for Elliott Tuesday night when a Task Lyst alert sounded on his smartphone."


The Possession

Michael Rutger

"When I woke it was cold."


The Two Lila Bennetts

Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke

"'On the count of murder in the first degree, we find the defendant, Jeremiah Taylor, not guilty,' a slender woman says softly."


Good Girl, Bad Girl

Michael Robotham

"The semidetached house has a single bay window on the lower floor and a small square of soggy front garden surrounded on three sides by a heavily pruned knee-high hedge."


The Babysitter

Sheryl Browne

"Mark!"


The Night of Rome

Carlo Bonini & Giancarlo De Cataldo, translated by Antony Shugaar

"A large gate loomed up before the Audi A6."


Murder in the Crooked House

Soji Shimada, translated by Louise Heal Kawai

"In the village of Hauterives in the south of France, there’s a curious building known as Cheval’s Palais Idéal."


The Heart Keeper

Alex Dahl

"Every cell in the human body holds a person's complete genetic material."


“The Getaway”

Paul Tremblay

"There’s this thing about living in Wormtown my older brother Joe doesn’t get, or he does get it and doesn’t want to admit it."



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