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Pulsing with the dark obsession of Radiohead's song "Creep," Jennifer Hillier's superb debut thriller is a terrifying cat-and-mouse game between a woman with everything to lose and the lover she couldn't resist — who's now the monster who won't let her go. A popular psychology professor in Seattle, Sheila works hard to keep her secrets hidden. On the surface, she's an expert in human behavior and a well-liked educator, but nobody knows she's a recovering sex addict in therapy — not even the love of her life, Morris.

A New York Times best mystery novel of 2021 Set in 1944 Chicago, Edgar Award-winner Naomi Hirahara’s eye-opening and poignant new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II.

An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller. "I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn't let go until the final page. This is a terrific read." — Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author. A Marie Claire Book Club Pick. Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning.

Winner of the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising. The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it.

Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage, career and now the death of her father, from whom she had long been estranged. She is faced with the daunting task of clearing his house, believing he had removed all traces of her mother. Yet hidden away in a barely used top-floor room, she finds he had secretly kept a cupboard full of her possessions. Sifting through the ancient papers, Ruth discovers the diary and letters written by her ancestor from the eighteenth century, Thomas Erskine.

After solving her first big murder case in the small town of Celosia, North Carolina, Madeline Maclin hopes at last to be taken seriously as a private investigator. She has opened an office in the home of her best friend, Jerry Fairweather, a man haunted by his past who enjoys running harmless scams. Jerry doesn't feel worthy of anyone's love, which is bad news for Madeline. Secretly, Madeline has questions about the accident that killed Jerry's parents and suspects that Jerry's sister Harriet knows more than she's willing to admit.

Murder by witchcraft? Private investigator and former beauty queen Madeline Maclin thought she'd seen it all in her small North Carolina town of Celosia. Yet Evil Turns, fifth in the lively series by Jane Tesh, opens with a young man's body covered in strange occult symbols found in a local vineyard, putting Mac on notice that there is more than one witch in the neighborhood.

When Wendall Clarke announces plans to open a new art gallery downtown, it's both the talk of Celosia, North Carolina and the envy of its residents. But the news is upstaged when Clarke is found murdered, prompting beauty queen turned private investigator Madeline Maclin to take on the case. Faced with a laundry list of suspects—including a furious ex-wife, a competing business owner, and jealous local artists—Madeline's also struggling to keep her con man husband, Jerry Fairweather, out of handcuffs.

The icon of a Scottish distilling family has opened a bourbon distillery near Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Only days before his much-anticipated first release, he's found dead inside Lincoln's Birthplace National Historic Site. Because of the victim's notoriety, Doug and Jill Fletcher are asked to assist the local police with the investigation. The mystery becomes even more intriguing when a homeless man seems to know more about the victim and his business than the police.

A watch goes missing from a changeroom at a gym—an expensive watch with a loud, arrogant owner. The theft connects three yogis in a way full lotus never could. As the search for a thief unfolds, so do seemingly unrelated questions. Why does Lexie have such an intense interest in a much-younger trainer at the gym? Who is the unnamed, unknown man who keeps leaving Charlene messages? Why does no one know Woo Woo lives in a mansion?