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The Syndicate

Clarence Cooper, Jr.

"Hollisworth is no burg; it’s a solid little city, with the exception that it belongs to the syndicate, lock, stock and barrel."


Never Alone

Elizabeth Haynes

"Not for the first time, Sarah Carpenter stands at the top of the hill and thinks that this would be a good place to die."


Run For Your Life

Silvana Gandolfi

"Two days after the race a friend of his father’s arrived in Tanduzzo: Pasquale."


Splinter in the Blood

Ashley Dyer

"The woman held Greg Carver’s front door open for the paramedics."


Something in the Water

Catherine Steadman

"We woke up before sunrise this morning."


A Stone’s Throw

James W. Ziskin

". Impossible to say for sure in black and white, but the likelihood of Johnny Dornan climbing up into the saddle ever again was growing dimmer by the minute."


Island of the Mad

Laurie R. King

"Sherlock Holmes and I stood shoulder to shoulder, gazing down sadly at the tiny charred corpse."


Last Girl Gone

J. G. Hetherton

"If there was an art to running away, Patty Finch didn’t know it."


“Possessed”

Naomi Hirahara

"It was cabin time: sharing and praying. "


Sand

Wolfgang Herrndorf, translated by Tim Mohr

" Every single piece of evidence went against him, and the sum of the evidence was a death sentence."



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