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• Better the Blood

  Bennett, Michael

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  Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s Central Investigation Branch. When she’s led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a secret room.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Talking Bone

  Denfeld, Rene

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  Ruby Spencer, known as “the exonerator,” investigates wrongful convictions while secretly searching for missing women who have been failed by the system. When she travels to Georgia to investigate a man facing execution, the case leads her down an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Whisper House

  Green, Cass

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  Gregory knows something is wrong with his house. His parents don’t believe him, but he can feel it – and he’s frightened. DC Rose Gifford is called out after neighbours report a series of disturbances at the property, and she can feel it too. She…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Seen Alone

  Griffin, Laura

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  An abandoned car on a desolate road. A pool of blood in the nearby woods suggests a brutal homicide. But where is the victim? When they face the most baffling missing person's case of their careers, a fiercely ambitious lawyer and a homicide…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Without a Trace

  Hannah, Mari

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  A plane on route from London to New York City has disappeared out of the sky. The love of DCI Kate Daniels' life was on that aircraft, but she has no authority to investigate. But Kate can't let it lie. She has to find out what happened to that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Darkrooms

  Hannigan, Rebecca

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  On the night of the Summer Solstice in 1999, nine-year-old Roisin O’Halloran disappears into the mysterious Hanging Woods, leaving her small Irish town haunted by unanswered questions. Twenty years later, her sister Deedee, now a struggling police…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brought in Dead

  Higgins, Jack, 1929-2022

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  When a young woman dies of suicide, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller follows a hazardous trail to find the powerful man responsible for the girl's fate, only to watch him walk out of court a free man. But the dead girl's father swears to exact…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wrecked

  Ide, Joe

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  When a young painter approaches private investigator Isaiah Quintabe (IQ for short) for help tracking down her missing mother, it's not just the case Isaiah's looking for, but the human connection. And when his new confidant turns out to be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Missing

  Jackson, E. A.

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  In 1990, baby Bella Carpenter is abducted from a London hotel, but appears to be found when a young woman arrives at the police station with a baby she claims to have discovered. Thirty years later, Detective Superintendent Martha Allen, who never…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Smiling Man

  Knox, Joseph

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  Detective Aidan Waits and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter ‘Sutty’ Sutcliffe, are summoned to The Palace, a vast disused hotel in the centre of a restless, simmering city. There they find the body of a man. He is dead. And he is smiling. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Keep Him Close

  Koch, Emily

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  Indigo is determined to prove her son is innocent of murder. She is helped by a kind stranger who takes an interest in her situation. Little does she know that her new friend has her own agenda. Alice can't tell Indigo who she really is. She wants…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Save Me From Dangerous Men

  Lelchuk, Saul

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  When a regular job for PI Nikki Griffin tailing Karen, a tech company's disgruntled employee who might be selling secrets, turns ugly, Nikki has to break cover and intervene. Karen tells Nikki that there are people after her. Dangerous men. She says…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rising Tide

  Lloyd, Sam

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  Lucy has everything she could wish a beautiful home high on the clifftops, a devoted husband and two beloved children. Then one morning, the family yacht is recovered, abandoned far out at sea. Lucy's husband is nowhere to be found As a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Burning Library

  Macmillan, Gilly

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  Eleanor Bruton’s mysterious death on a remote Scottish island exposes a centuries-old struggle between two secretive women’s organizations seeking a priceless fragment of a medieval manuscript. When scholar Anya Brown is recruited to translate the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beyond Danger

  Martin, Kat

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  Texas mogul Beau Reese is furious when he finds out his father, a former senator, has been involved in a scandal and has moved another woman, Cassidy Jones, into his house. Those concerns take a backseat when he finds his father in a pool of blood.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shadow Carver

  Matheson, Nadine

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  DI Henley investigates a series of gruesome murders in which the victims are brutally scalped, suggesting a vigilante killer is targeting them. As she uncovers connections between the victims, Henley is forced to confront demons from her own past…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Can Run

  Mosby, Steve

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  When a car crashes into a garage and reveals a crime scene, police believe they have caught a serial killer. Now the suspect is on the run and Detective Inspector Will Turner finds himself fighting to stay involved in the investigation. The killings…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Endless Night

  Preston, Douglas

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  Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast must stop a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City with a trail of headless victims. As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Say No More

  Rose, Karen

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  Mercy Callahan thought she'd escaped the cult decades ago, but its long fingers are reaching out for her again. When her brother Gideon discovers new evidence of the cult's whereabouts, Mercy goes to Sacramento to reconnect with him. There, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Drowned Girls

  White, Loreth Anne

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  Detective Angie Pallorino never forgot the violent rapist who left a distinctive calling card—crosses etched into the flesh of his victim’s foreheads. Then the body of a drowned young woman surfaces, also bearing the marks of the serial rapist, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation