The Readers’ Room
Antoine Laurain
Benjamin Boulden
Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:54
Benjamin Boulden

The Readers’ Room, by French author Antoine Laurain, is a brilliant, charming, at times humorous mystery with a bit of everything: intrigue, murder, psychological suspense, an unreliable narrator, a

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The Readers’ Room
1910477966
Laurain
Three Perfect Liars
Heidi Perks
Jean Gazis
Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:47
Jean Gazis

Three Perfect Liars opens on the scene of a building burning down in a small town in the south of England, as an unidentified person is taken away by ambulance. The beautiful, tall glass building was erected

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three-perfect-liars
Three Perfect Liars
1982139935
Perks
The Daughters of Foxcote Manor
Eve Chase
Robert Allen Papinchak
Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:43
Robert Allen Papinchak

Eve Chase’s psychological suspense thriller The Daughters of Foxcote Manor is an alluring patchwork quilt of guilt and misery. Its convoluted narrative seesaws back and forth between August 1971 and 40

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The Daughters of Foxcote Manor
0525542388
Chase
Someone’s Listening
Seraphina Nova Glass
Sarah Prindle
Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:34
Sarah Prindle

Faith Finley is a respected psychiatrist and author with a bright future ahead of her. Then she is falsely accused of sexually abusing one of her patients and is forced to live under a cloud of suspicion, wh

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someone-s-listening
Someone’s Listening
1525836749
Glass
Mortmain Hall
Martin Edwards
Brian Skupin
Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:30
Brian Skupin

Mortmain Hall is the second book in Martin Edwards’ historical series about amateur criminologist Rachel Savernake and reporter Jacob Flint, the admirer she keeps at arm’s length. In this outing, onc

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mortmain-hall
Mortmain Hall
1464214050
Edwards
Puppies for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
Maurizio de Giovanni
Trey Strecker
Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:19
Trey Strecker

A baby girl is found buried in a pile of trash, all the stray animals have disappeared from the quarter, and someone has been murdering depressed people who have once contemplated suicide. In the wake of

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Puppies for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
1609456041
de Giovanni
The Bright Lands
John Fram
Craig Sisterson
Tuesday, 15 September 2020 13:47
Craig Sisterson

A former star returns to the hometown he tried to move on from, finding trouble. A small Texas town is dangerously obsessed with high school football. Two familiar tropes—the latter thanks recently to

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the-bright-lands
The Bright Lands
1335836624
Fram
The Comeback
Ella Berman
Vanessa Orr
Tuesday, 15 September 2020 13:35
Vanessa Orr

It seems like a glamorous life for Grace Turner, a 14-year-old girl whisked from school and plopped into the lead role of a blockbuster movie series. She thought it was a dream come true—until it tu

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the-comeback
The Comeback
0593099516
Berman
A Private Cathedral
James Lee Burke
Craig Sisterson
Tuesday, 15 September 2020 13:29
Craig Sisterson

In his 40th novel, legendary storyteller James Lee Burke showcases all of the things that have seen him called not only the greatest living crime writer, but America’s best novelist over the decades. A

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a-private-cathedral
A Private Cathedral
1982151684
Burke
The Silent Conspiracy
L.C. Shaw
Eileen Brady
Tuesday, 15 September 2020 13:25
Eileen Brady

In The Silent Conspiracy, author L.C. Shaw (one of Lynn Constantine’s pseudonyms) tosses everything into her plot but the proverbial kitchen sink. This is the follow-up to The Network, which features inves

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the-silent-conspiracy
The Silent Conspiracy
0062950940
Shaw