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1) Nearer home
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The irresistible, razor-sharp second book in the post-Katrina New Orleans-set crime series featuring unforgettable and gutsy reporter Nola Céspedes
Early one morning, Times-Picayune crime reporter Nola Céspedes goes for her regular run in Audubon Park. More than the heat of the dawning New Orleans day, she's trying to outrun her growing unease with the man she's seeing, who is pushing her to get more serious. Instead, Nola finds herself at the...
2) Dakota
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Lola Wicks mysteries volume 2
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"The writing is top-notch, and the action builds at just the right pace . . . [Amateur sleuth] Lola Wicks is going to be around for a long, long time." -Kirkus Reviews
For a foreign correspondent used to the high stakes of war zones in Afghanistan, Lola Wicks is getting restless working the local news beat in the small town of Magpie, Montana. So when Judith Calf Looking, a Blackfeet woman who has been missing for months, is found frozen in a snowbank,...
3) Dead ends
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Main Street Mysteries #2 A small lake town tucked into the mountains of North Carolina, picturesque Sutherton charms tourists and locals alike-though Sutherton may have more sinister secrets hiding behind its gentle Southern comfort… Back home to care for her help her mother with her main street restaurant, Annalise Griggs is mortified to run into her former lover-and his family. Driven to distraction worrying that small town mouths are wagging…tragedy...
4) Reservations
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Lola Wicks mysteries volume 4
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"Captures the culture and poverty on reservations still suffering from greed and mismanagement . . . A ripped-from-the-headlines story with a shocking ending." -Kirkus Reviews
Now that journalist Lola Wicks finally decided to settle down and marry small-town sheriff Charlie Laurendeau, she's long overdue to meet her in-laws. But shortly after arriving at the Arizona Navajo reservation where they live, an eco-terrorist attack leaves a tribal elder...
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Someone is assassinating the financial industry's most powerful players-in cold blood and in broad daylight-in intricate, eerily relevant new thriller from Alan Glynn, the award-winning author of Bloodland and Limitless.
On a bright Saturday morning, a Wall Street investment banker is shot dead while jogging in Central Park. Hours later, one of New York City's savviest hedge-fund managers is gunned down outside a restaurant. Are these killings a...
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If You Were Here is a thrilling novel of suspense from Alafair Burke, the author Dennis Lehane calls "one of the finest young crime writers working today."
Manhattan journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks. When she locates a video that captures part of the incident, she thinks she has an edge on the competition scrambling to identify the mystery heroine,...
8) Montana
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Lola Wicks mysteries volume 1
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"Outstanding . . . Believable action complements razor-sharp observations of people and scenery." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
Foreign correspondent Lola Wicks feels at home in the war zones of Afghanistan-so when her editor reassigns her from Kabul to a suburban stateside beat, she's a fish out of water. To blow off some steam, Lola heads to Montana for some downtime at a friend's cabin. But when she arrives, she discovers her friend has...
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Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters' Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline's The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson's mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past-where two women, decades apart, are drawn into a dark game of truth and lies that still haunts the shifting sea marshes.
Traveling to Faro, Portugal, journalist Joanna Millard hopes to escape an unsatisfying...
10) Gilding Lily
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"With crackling humor and spot-on detail, Boncompagni captures the rarified world of New York society-and the juggling act of modern motherhood." - Bridie Clark, author of Because She Can
Only a true insider could dish…the way Tatiana Boncompagni has in this smartly written tale…" - Karen Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Ivy Chronicles
"A fun society read that will keep you intrigued in the rise and fall of its glossy characters."...
11) Since we fell
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After journalist Rachel Childs suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable...
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Belinda Bauer is an award-winning British crime writer of the highest caliber, whose smart, stylish novels have captivated readers and reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic and earned her a reputation. Her latest, The Beautiful Dead, is a riveting narrative centered on a down-on-her-luck journalist and a serial killer desperate for the spotlight. TV crime reporter Eve Singer's career is flagging, but that starts to change when she covers a spate...
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A psychological thriller in the vein of Kate Atkinson and Tana French that introduces Nola Céspedes, an intense and spellbinding protagonist
Nola Céspedes, an ambitious young reporter at the Times-Picayune, catches a break: An assignment to write her first full-length feature. While researching her story, she also becomes fixated on the search for a missing tourist in New Orleans. As Nola's work leads her into darker corners of the city, a singular...
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From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman's dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find.
The key to her missing memories could bring relief-or unlock her worst nightmares.
On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives early to work in her Manhattan office, only to find that she's forgotten her keycard and needs to have a colleague she's never met...
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From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson-author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France-comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start a new life an ocean away from her past.
In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on...
18) High risk
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A novel of betrayal and passion in a frozen landscape far from the city lights, by the bestselling author of All In and Falling...
Ambra Vinter dreams of making it to the top of her chosen field. But instead, the beautiful young journalist is sent on assignment to Kiruna, a tiny mining town far north of Stockholm, chasing after yesterday's news. In December, this is a place on the edge of darkness-and Ambra's memories of it are just as bleak, for...
19) Exposure
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When your worst fear comes true. Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she's a little crazy. Kaycee's popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home-then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory...
20) Dark Sky Island
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**Dark Sky Island, Lara Dearman's follow-up to the first Jennifer Dorey mystery is sure to find fans in readers of Susie Steiner and Sharon Bolton. An inspector and journalist join forces to uncover long-buried secrets, simmering resentments, and a chilling murder in a tiny, remote island in the English Channel.** The tiny island of Sark lies isolated in the dark waters of the Channel Islands. No cars are allowed. No streetlamps light its paths. It...
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