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He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him. The more you know, the more there is to fear... Three years ago, sixteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing from the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her--until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a deep grave by the...
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Investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, journalist Carl Streator finds the same anthology of poems and rhymes at each child's bedside. The book is always opened to a specific African chant--a culling song that kills when recited, whether silently or aloud. Suddenly, Carl's knowledge of the chant makes him an involuntary serial murderer and he must learn to control himself, then remove all copies of the book from libraries across the country.
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Grim reaper mysteries volume 3
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2011 - Mississippi Author Award Winner
"Evans has written a fascinating tale linking the history of New Orleans' levee system to the present and weaving into the story aspects of the city's widely diverse cultures." -Booklist STARRED review
Centuries of tragedy shadow New Orleans: wars, slavery, and a monumental flood that killed a thousand people and still threatens to wash all that history away.
Faye Longchamp and her team of archaeologists,...
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The Haunted Bookshop (1919) is a novel by Christopher Morley. Although less popular than Kitty Foyle (1939), a novel adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, The Haunted Bookshop is a fast-paced thriller that deserves a modern audience. From unassuming beginnings as a tale about a lovelorn advertising salesman who visits a charming bookstore, The Haunted Bookshop quickly morphs into a story of paranoia, stalking, and kidnapping. "If you are ever...
5) The Chalet
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**The Sunday Times Top 5 bestseller** Longlisted for the CWA New Blood Award Four friends. One luxury getaway. The perfect murder. 'Pure adrenaline' ERIN KELLY 'An intense thriller' HEAT 'Agatha Christie meets the glamour of après-ski' SUNDAY TIMES French Alps, 1998 Two young men ski into a blizzard... but only one returns. 20 years later Four people connected to the missing man find themselves in that same resort. Each has a secret. Two may have...
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In these gripping tales of terror, suspense, and the supernatural, a citizen reporter and her determined cousin face off against horrifying threats. Will our heroic pair put an end to these horrors before their town is forever damaged?
Slenderman
When children disappear and citizens are murdered in a Lake Michigan resort town, will a citizen reporter and her quirky sidekick cousin be able to stop what witnesses describe as a faceless, tall skinny...
7) Hornet
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A citizen reporter must stop hummingbird-sized hornets from destroying a resort town before the government unleashes its own devious scheme to eliminate them. When a swarm of murder hornets invades a Lake Michigan resort town, citizen reporter Pacie Rose and her sidekick cousin struggle to find what is causing mutant stinging wasps, now grown to the size of hummingbirds, from attacking the residents of Black Water, while also working against an aggressive,...
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A man awakens in a strange forest.
No memories. No identity. Alone.
What secret haunts a nameless man in a nameless place?
Rohoshita summons the stories of old to craft a new folklore. Mysterious strangers wander the lands. Lands where oddities possess nature to haunt the living. In a world where hearts glow and wither. A supernatural realm hides below.
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Deep MatterA Detective Story MacabreThere's something alluring about criminal forensics. The niggling little details that make the search for truth so much more fascinating. From the fingerprints on the windowsill to the footprints outside the frame, even to the tiny hairs in the shower drain, there is a world of evidence that all come together to get at the truth.
Everyone knows that science is on our side, right?
Meet Darby Lefflin, the forensic...
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"(A Black Deeper Than Death)…has all the gritty, urban noir elements - crime scenes, dark streets and darker intentions. But we also have a few typical elements from YA Paranormal too…I didn't guess the killer - there were so many twists and turns in this though, I'm not surprised!" - Vee Bookish, YA Book Blogger "Have you ever had an author that no matter what they write you just can't wait to devour it? I have had only a handful of authors that...
11) Jericho's Razor
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A riveting and original debut thriller from a crime writer you won't want to miss, featuring a protagonist you won't be able to forget. Horror writer Jericho Sands has had a hell of a month. He's endured a bitter break up with his punk rocker girlfriend, learned that his lungs are blacker than a coal mine, and served time in county jail for throwing a United States Congressman in a dumpster. He's heartbroken, sleep deprived and suffering from a debilitating...
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Jericho Sands has spent the past nine months in Mexico getting in bar fights with shark poachers, drinking tequila and listening to wolves howl outside the walls of the beachfront shack he's been calling home. He's living completely `off the grid'; no power, no phone, nothing but nagging questions about who he is and how far he allowed himself to fall for a woman who proved to be a serial killer hell-bent on revenge. He's struggled with his decision...
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Pluto's Snitch mystery volume 03
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Waverley Mansion, a unique and lovely antebellum home in northeast Mississippi, offers the most dangerous challenge yet to Raissa James and her partner in the Pluto's Snitch private detective agency. They specialize in hauntings, possessions, and the occult.In the isolation of Waverley, Raissa's special gift, her ability to see and communicate with the dead, puts a target on her back. The entity that resides at Waverley Mansion covets Raissa's sensitivity....
14) Camp Pleasant
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This is a tale of summer camp horror and mystery by the author of I Am Legend.
Camp Pleasant is a place of natural beauty and campfire singalongs. But when Matt Harper arrives there to work as a counselor, he discovers it is also a place of unrelenting abuse and brutality. The new camp director "Big Ed" Nolan is such a bully that the bucolic paradise feels more like a miniature Third Reich . . . until someone finally has enough and kills Big Ed....
15) The Chateau
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The twisty new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalet They thought it was perfect. They were wrong...A glamorous chateau Aura and Nick don't talk about what happened in England. They've bought a chateau in France to make a fresh start, and their kids need them to stay together, whatever it costs. A couple on the brink The expat community are welcoming, but when a neighbor is murdered at a lavish party, Aura and Nick don't...
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Savannah, Georgia, 1922 A heartbroken Becky relents to her mother's matchmaking efforts and agrees to go on a date with the successful businessman Herbert Coleman. Despite her cousin Fanny's attempts to steal him away, Becky is surprised to find she enjoys Herbert's company. But when a string of murders in Savannah hits too close to home, Becky is witness to the gruesome acts when she finds a mutilated dead body on her family's tobacco field. She...
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When the hamburgers all disappeared, along with the buns I was warming, I thought I was seeing things.
But when my spatula went through the cast-iron grill top - I had to let it go out of reflex. No way was I going after it. I'd been burned too many times.
It wasn't like I had a choice after that. Because the grill itself dropped out through the bottom of the rolling coach we were cooking out of that summer.
I looked up at Hami, my order-taker,...
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Alice Liddell and Dorothy Gale team up once again to fight a new evil terrorizing Edwardian London in this dark fantasy by the author of The Red King.
A grisly death in the Tower of London and a deadly attack on an ocean liner in the mid-Atlantic signal the arrival of the Raven, a creature that seeks to reshape the universe. Alice Liddell and Dorothy Gale, fresh from defeating the Red King, must try to prevent it. But even their childhood adventures...
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A powerful and emotional debut thriller perfect for fans of It by Stephen King, The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor and the TV show Stranger Things.
SOMETHING IS HIDING IN THE SHADOWS...
We were so young when it all happened. Just 13-years-old, making the most of the long, hot, lazy days of summer, thinking we had the world at our feet. That was us - me, Fat Bobby, Jim and Tara - the four members of the Outsiders' Club.
The day we found a burnt-out car in...
20) Little bones
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"I have three names: I was born Leigh-Ann. I became Cherrie. When I was a child, they called me Little Bones ... My father was Mr Bones - the notorious serial killer of 20 years ago. As a child I witnessed his crimes. Everything is different now. I have a new identity. I'm a mother. I am finally free. Until that podcast. I should never have listened. They're linking a recent kidnapping to the crimes of the past. They know who I am. They're calling...
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