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“The Murder Ballad of Samuel J. McCarthy”

Eryk Pruitt

"Only faraway were there sounds—probably miles off, at the freeway—but they were as significant as shushes from a seashell."


Wrecked

Joe Ide

"Isaiah was meeting Dodson at the Coffee Cup, a neighborhood institution stuck between a dry cleaners and a Mexican market. He was nervous about it.  They were going to talk about partnering up, the conversation long overdue. "


The Lies We Told

Camilla Way

"You think it’s going to be so simple, starting a family, and then when it’s taken from you, the future you’d imagined snatched away, it feels like a death."


Alice Isn’t Dead

Joseph Fink

"The funeral was strange because Alice’s death had been strange. No cause of death. No body. No certainty."


The Reckoning

John Grisham

"The truth had slowly been revealed, and once he had the full grasp of it, the killing became as inevitable as the sunrise."


Riddance

Shelley Jackson

"I owe my discovery of the Sybil Joines Vocational School to a bookstore and a ghost."


Under My Skin

Lisa Unger

"The words burrow into my sleep, taking on urgency, growing louder, until the sound of my own frightened shout wakes me."


The Collector’s Apprentice

B. A. Shapiro

"Paulien was so engrossed in her work that she never heard him approach and only slowly became aware that someone was standing behind her."


The Fox

Frederick Forsyth

"The most secret database in the United States, probably in the world, had apparently been hacked."


Blood Communion

Anne Rice

"Since time immemorial, immortals had tormented other immortals by destroying human beings under their protection."



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