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#1

One of the Best Books of the Year

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In 2017, a routi... View details

For Weinstein, the months before the 2016 presidential election looked like business as usual. There he was, at a cocktail party for William J. Bratton, the former New York City police commissioner. T...
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#2

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A legal thriller that's comparable to classics such as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent . . . tragic and shocking."-Associated Press

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Mr. Logiudice: State your name, please. Witness: Andrew Barber. Mr. Logiudice: What do you do for work, Mr. Barber? Witness: I was an assistant district attorney in this county for 22 years. Mr. Logiu...
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#3

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU CAN'T MISS!

The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?

"A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive...A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long int... View details

Taking my hand, he leads me to where our guests are waiting. As we go through the hall, I see the flowering lily Diane and Adam brought us for our garden. It’s such a beautiful pink that I hope Jack w...
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#4

A MODERN CLASSIC AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a h... View details

Academic study and the steady, mindful practice of religion slowly brought me back to life. I have kept up what some people would consider my strange religious practices. After one year of high school...
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#5

Alex Delaware is back! And in Jonathan Kellerman's riveting and ingenious new novel, Monster, he faces one of the most grisly and baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for hom... View details

Towering, yellow-haired, grizzled, a listing mountain in khaki twill, he limped closer, and Milo tightened up. I looked to Frank Dollard for a cue. Dollard appeared untroubled, meaty arms at his sides...
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Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, this second book in the Millennium series is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the mag... View details

Lisbeth Salander pulled her sunglasses down to the tip of her nose and squinted from beneath the brim of her sun hat. She saw the woman from room 32 come out of the hotel side entrance and walk to one...
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#7

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Named a most-anticipated summer book by USA Today , People , E! News, Cosmopolitan , PureWow , CNN.com, New York Post , CrimeReads, POPSUGAR , and more

The bestselling author of Final Girls and Surviv... View details

But the motion in the water now has my full attention. Rising from the rocking chair onto legs unsteady after three (or four) day drinks, I watch the lake’s glassy surface again break into sun-dappled...
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A brilliantly conceived, deeply unsettling psychological thriller- already an international sensation-about a woman haunted by secrets, the consuming desire for revenge, and the terrible price we pay when we try to hide the truth.

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Catherine stumbles, blaming her high heels, but knowing it’s because she’s had too much to drink. Robert reaches his hand to grab her elbow, in time to stop her falling backwards down the concrete ste...
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#9

The instant New York Times bestselling thriller from the "master of ticking bomb suspense" (People) who created Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance is "a tour de force…the suspense never flags" (Kirkus Reviews).

When a night-time call to 911 from a seclu... View details

Emma Feldman, in her early thirties, set down her martini on the kitchen table, where she sat across from her husband. She tucked a strand of curly black hair behind her ear and walked to one of the g...
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#10

A cutting edge technothriller from the bestselling author of Angel Killer and Public Enemy Zero.

Astronaut David Dixon's first mission to space goes horribly wrong when shots are fired on a Russian space station. He finds himself making an emergency... View details

I tell myself I'm the crazy one. This is Commander Halston Bennet we're talking about. I've known him for years. Yet, a second ago I saw him in the prep room mirror slipping a gun into the side pocket...
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