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This dark, twisting work of digital-age noir is "a riveting mystery . . . An incredibly daring novel and a complete success" ( Booklist, starred review).On a winter night in Boston, a man falls to his death in front of a train. The sole witness, a shaken young woman, explains to the police how the man shoved her aside as he made his way to the tracks. But when her blog turns up on the dead man's computer, the cops begin to look for other connections betwee...
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"Boston's historic, multicultural neighborhood of Dorchester provides the backdrop for this engrossing crime novel" from the author of Fickle ( Publishers Weekly).Years ago, after a criminally negligent driver ran down a church lady in Dorchester, an angry group of five people flipped his car over, leaving him disfigured and brain damaged.Now, a playboy lawyer has plunged from the roof of a Boston hotel, and a Rhode Island strip club owner...
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Compulsion
An Alex Delaware Novel
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2008
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The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!**A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer’s use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lac...
2010
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This brutally honest memoir explores one man's journey through life and the secrets, shame, and trauma that his addiction revealed.Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life.
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- A Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery
2009
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**An antiques dealer browses for suspects: “Lively…**this bubbly tongue-in-cheek cozy also includes flea market shopping tips and a recipe.”—Publishers WeeklyWinner of a Romantic Times Award for Most Humorous MysteryAs the Christmas season gets into full swing in the Mississippi River town of Serenity, Iowa, antiques connoisseur Brandy Borne finds herself in the midst of holiday mayhem when Walter Yeager, an old flame of her mother’s—and a...
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He Said, She Said
A Mystery
2016
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For state prosecutor Bradlee Aames, psychosis is a fact of life, a waking nightmare from which modern medicine’s soulless jargon and mind-numbing meds have offered little relief. Bradlee stays focused by winning trial after trial, even while she’s self-medicating with booze, dope, and midnight surfing sessions at a classic LA point break. But when a thick fog of delusions engulfs her, she blows a case, and her reputation and competence are called into question. To rehabilitate her career, ...
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2012
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From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs—and a master of contemporary American fiction—comes “a funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories" (The New York Times Book Review).In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyfu...
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2018
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Joanna Nadin's first novel for adults, The Queen of Bloody Everything, is about mothers, daughters and how we can make many choices in life but can't choose where we come from.As Edie Jones lies in a bed on the fourteenth floor of a Cambridge hospital, her adult daughter Dido tells their story, starting with the day that changed everything.That was the day Dido – aged exactly six years and twenty-seven days old – met the next door neighbours and fe...
2004
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With all the humor, passion, and soul his fans have come to expect, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey has written a novel with enough spice to warm even the coldest winter nights....“Just in time for the holidays...a very funny and engrossing novel...laugh-out-loud humor.”—BooklistEach of the McBroom sisters has her own problems. Frankie, the oldest, is never satisfied. Can anyone give her what she wants...
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2013
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A chilling psychological tale of mistaken identity inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. After the worst ice storm in living memory, Elizabeth Hill begins a perilous trek across a frozen city to her Grandmother’s house in search of company and comfort. A chance encounter leaves Elizabeth terrified and in a greater rush to safety that she could have ever imagined. From the nationally bestselling author of The Witch of Babylon, and the new sequel, The Book of Stol...
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Leave Myself Behind
A Coming of Age Novel with Sharp Wit
2012
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“Noah’s voice is more than just honest or original; it’s real.” --The Plain DealerTHE WORLD ACCORDING TO NOAH YORK:*“Anybody who tells you he doesn’t have mixed feelings about his mother is either stupid or a liar.”“Real life seldom makes me cry. The only thing that gets to me is the occasional Kodak commercial.”“Sometimes I feel like Michelangelo, chiseling away at all the crap until nothing is left but the exquisite thing in the m...
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Blame It On Bianca Del Rio
The Expert On Nothing With An Opinion On Everything
2018
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Uproarious advice and never-before-seen color photos from drag queen extraordinaire Bianca Del RioThe cheeky, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic—"The Joan Rivers of the Drag World," (New York Times)—who isn’t afraid to shock or offend brings her trademark acerbic wit and sharp commentary to the page in an illustrated collection of advice.When it comes to insult comics, Bianca Del Rio is in a class by herself. Fierce, funny, and fabulo...











