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The Name of the Dog

Elmer Mendoza

"He hated going to bed without a drink because it made him sleep in."


Feared

Lisa Scottoline

"Machiavelli has been circling us for too long, and it’s time that we finished him off, for good."


“I Killed Her Because I Loved Her”

Muhsin al-Ramli, translated by Jonathan Wright

"We found Qamar’s body in the courtyard."


Hollywood Ending

Kellye Garrett

"I definitely needed a new battery."


Babylon

Yasmina Reza, Translated by Linda Asher

"I was nearly asleep when I heard a noise that sounded like a doorbell. "


12 Crime Books Set In Suburbia

Inside the Gilded Suburban Cage, Where Nothing Ever Changes


Only to Sleep

Lawrence Osborne

"One dry morning a few days later I drove up to San Diego and checked into a little hotel I knew in Hillcrest that long ago used to be charming."


One Deadly Summer

Sebastian Japrisot, Translated by Alan Sheridan

"I said OK."


Freefall

Adam Hamdy

"They’d started burrowing the moment he’d come out of the coma, and the depressions they dug deepened every day."


The Washington Decree

Jussi Adler-Olsen

" Apparently, some kind of threat had been made against Jansen, and Sunderland wanted to gather the troops."



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