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When 17-year-old Haley McWaid’s mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Caught is a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive.

A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s seventy-three private notebooks, including illustrations and two unpublished Poirot stories.

Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood reporter Liam Mulligan grew up in. People he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic. With the whole city of Providence on his back, Mulligan must weed through a wildly colorful array of characters to find the truth.

Doiron’s strong debut features Mike Bowditch, a newbie game warden, who hears that his estranged father, a hard-living poacher, has been accused of murdering two men and has escaped into a wilderness area. Ignoring the orders of both his superior and the police, Bowditch sets out to find his father and prove his innocence.

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town. An extraordinary novel that seamlessly blends elements of crime and Southern literary fiction.

The time is 1985 and Frank Mackey is nineteen. He lives in one of Dublin’s inner city flats with his family on Faithful Place, but he has his sights set on a lot more. He and his girlfriend Rosie were all ready to run away to London together, but on the winter night when they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn’t show.

Traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers the one thing he can somehow do better than anyone else. Whether it’s a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight hundred-pound safe…he can open them all.

It was the mystery of 2001: the sudden disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young, promising intern, and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. By 2007, reporters had long since abandoned the story and Chandra’s parents tried to resume their daily lives, desperately hoping that someday there might be a break in the investigation.

Eliza Benedict cherishes her peaceful, ordinary suburban life with her successful husband and children. But her tranquility is shattered when she receives a letter from the last person she ever expects—or wants—to hear from: Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped her when she was fifteen and held her hostage for almost six weeks.

Frank Allcroft, a television news anchor, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis. Beneath a corny on-screen persona, Frank is haunted by loss: the mysterious hit-and-run that killed his predecessor, Phil, and the demolition of his architect father’s monumental buildings. As Frank uncovers the truth behind Phil’s death, he begins to come to terms with his father’s domineering legacy.

With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel when the drifter catches up with his prey.

At the end of the 19th century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era’s most renowned criminologist.

It is called kaamos – two weeks of unrelenting darkness and cold that falls upon the Finnish Lapland just before Christmas. Some get through it with the help of cheap alcohol; some sink into depression. This year, it may have driven someone to commit murder. The brutalized body of a beautiful Somali woman has been found in the snow, and Inspector Vaara must find a killer.