Tag: Mystery-Thriller
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Heartwood delves deep into a search and rescue mission
“Heartwood explores the many components of what a hunt for a missing person entails, pulling all the threads of the multiple facets of the investigation together to tell a fascinating story . . .” “We’ve searched over 4000 acres so far. At about 5000 acres, give or take, we start to get into what’s called…
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All the Other Mothers Hate Me
Florence Grimes is a mess. Once part of a popular girl rock band, after a brief interlude with the manager who is really in love with another of the women in the group, she’s cast out and left with a baby to raise courtesy of the man who fired her. Sure, he pays for their…
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Letters from the Dead: A Q & A with Isabella Valeri
Mesmerizing, atmospheric, Gothic, and lyrical, Isabella Valeri’s first novel in a trilogy, took me into an opaque and lawless world of ancestral and deadly family dynasties beholden to no nation and no one but themselves. Valeri, who writes and lives under an assumed name and in an undisclosed Alpine location, is described as an avid…
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Gothictown
In 1832, at the height of the Georgia gold rush, gold had been discovered on the banks of the Etowah River on land owned by Alfred Minette. As men flocked to work in the mine and others to supply their needs, a small town arose and Minette named it after his firstborn, a beautiful but…
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Trust Issues: A Mystery That Asks Who You Going to Trust?
“a tense, well-plotted mystery with enough twists and turns to keep the reader engaged . . .” “Something strange happened when Hazel and Kagan showed up. Ava had begun hearing her father’s voice so clearly that it sounds like he’s crawled inside her head. This isn’t the first time in her life she’s been haunted…
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“City Under One Roof” by Iris Yamashita
Point Mettier, Alaska is no one’s idea of paradise. Its inhabitants—all 205 of them—live in the same high-rise apartment building and the only access to town is by a tunnel or the sea. But Point Mettier is perfect for many of those who live there. It’s a chance to invent new names, identities, and lives.…
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Disturbing the Bones
It’s an archaeological dig so finding human remains shouldn’t be a surprise, but Dr. Molly Moore immediately recognizes that the skeleton they’ve unearthed is much more recent than what you’d find on a site dating back 12,000 years. Indeed, the body is that of a young Black reporter who disappeared just decades ago when covering…
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Article: The Most Borrowed Books in New York City Libraries in 2024
The Most Borrowed Books in New York City Libraries in 2024 https://flip.it/M0gnHE
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Article: 2024’s Best Mysteries, Thrillers, and True Crime
2024’s Best Mysteries, Thrillers, and True Crime https://flip.it/aSD.2m
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