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#1

A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months afte... More details on The Winter People

I was up exploring in the woods, near the Devil’s Hand, where Papa had forbidden us to play. The trees were leafing out, making a lush green canopy overhead. The sun had warmed the soil, giving the da...
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Winner of the RUSA Award for Best Horror

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother's home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Bla... More details on The Twisted Ones

It’s okay. I wouldn’t believe me either. Everything I have to say sounds completely barking mad. I’ve run it through my mind over and over, trying to find a way to turn it around so that it all sounds...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of K... More details on Dark Places

Ihave a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it. It’s the Day blood. Something’s wrong with it. I w...
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Now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas

"Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again..."

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim ... More details on Rebecca

Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and ...
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#5

Winner of the Andre Norton Award

Return to New York Times bestselling author Holly Black's enthralling realm of faerie in the second Modern Faerie Tales novel, where danger and magic come hand-in-hand in the dark underground of New York City.

When se... More details on Valiant

Valerie Russell felt something cold touch the small of her back and spun around, striking without thinking. Her slap connected with flesh. A can of soda hit the concrete floor of the locker room and r...
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"Beautifully written, and just so much to experience..." - Maryse's Book Blog She doesn't remember her past, only her training. She can't talk, not that a good slave should speak out of turn. None of that matters when she wakes up in the warm, rustic... More details on Hear Me

Even the earth conspired to keep her. Branches grabbed at her skin like talons; the beach was quicksand, dragging her down. Hope was too abstract to compete with the sound of men shouting behind her. ...
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Criminal profiler Sadie Bonds knows blood. Her affair with the gruesome, dark world of killers began long before she started applying her analytical skills to investigate gory crime scenes.

She gets inside the killers' heads, breaks them down, relate... More details on With Visions of Red

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#8

Forgive and forget? The past and present collide for two sisters who survived a tragedy-and must now survive the truth behind it.

It's been twenty years since Cara's boyfriend died in a horrible accident and her sister, Anna, went to prison. The trag... More details on Rapid Falls

Anna’s drinking problem started the day she was released from prison sixteen years ago. She stops once in a while, sometimes long enough to make it seem like it will stick, but it never does. There wa...
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#9

The YA fantasy romance saga continues with "vampires with bite and girls who bite back. A witty, exhilarating and fresh take on an old tale" (Kelley Armstrong).

The day Isabeau St. Croix was turned into a vampire, she was buried alive and left for... More details on Blood Feud

Cleaning up after a psychotic vampire queen wasn’t easy at the best of times. It was much worse when your mother was the one who’d dispatched the old queen, you and your brothers were suddenly princes...
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#10

From Edgar® -nominated novelist Megan Abbott, who makes "devotees of Cain and Chandler fall down and beg for mercy" (The Hollywood Reporter), The Song Is You imagines a thrilling conclusion to the still unsolved since 1949 Black Dahlia murder case.

O... More details on The Song Is You

They were both talking to Peggy’s cousin, Jean, the tall brunette girl, the one pulling on a pair of crisp gloves and not meeting either woman’s gaze. The girl, well, she was beautiful in a toothy, sh...
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