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Sadie Hawkins thought her toughest challenge was keeping her small freight business afloat-until her best friend, Tanya Woods, is arrested for murder. With the police convinced Tanya is guilty, Sadie attempts to prove her friend's innocence before it's too late.As Sadie launches her own investigation with her crew, they use their special skills and step outside the law to uncover dark secrets tied to StreetSmart; Tanya's workplace that provides a support system for rehabilitated young adult offenders. While her search for the truth intensifies, Sadie and her associates find themselves in a dangerous web of betrayal, lies, hidden motives, and vengeance.With her business at risk, her trust tested and best friend on the line, Sadie must rely on both her instincts and the loyalty of those around her as she strives to find the killer. However, in a world full of secrets, even friends can become enemies and the truth might be more than she can handle.

A new, jaw-dropping thriller from the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boyfriend and The Housemaid!There's no place like home...Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he's desperate to make ends meet.Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she?Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets...Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late. The trap is already set.#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden knocks at your door with a gripping story of revenge, privilege, and secrets turned sour...

"A FASCINATING GLIMPSE INTO COMPLEX CHARACTERS ON BOTH RIGHT AND WRONG SIDES OF THE LAW, BY AUTHOR AND RETIRED JUDGE JACK BILLINGS, WHO UNDOUBTEDLY HAS SEEN BOTH UP-CLOSE." Randi Bjornstad, career journalist, founder, EUGENE SCENE, e-magazine~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Police always encounter people they never forget. For Megan O'Brian, one was Chad Mitchell, a scared, mistreated little boy she encountered while working as a juvenile corrections officer. She always wondered what happened to him. Then they met again.By then a sheriff's detective, O'Brian was lead investigator for the disappearance of talented Cassie Edwards, who failed to return home from her regular bus trip to and from a piano lesson after her 15th birthday party. She wore as always her favorite gift, a beautiful and unusual necklace, given to her by her grandmother.The trail goes frustratingly cold as O'Brian and fellow investigators, Cal Underwood and Herman Jackson, search in vain for clues to her whereabouts and her fate, until a deer poacher finds Cassie's body in a remote area.But finding her killer eludes them, until O'Brian has a sudden, middle-of-the-night realization: a photograph Jackson had taken of recovered stolen property in another case. One of those photos shows an unusual necklace, identical to the one Cassie wore in a picture from her birthday party.Did Cassie's killer take the necklace as a trophy? How did it get into a trove of stolen property? Did the killer try to get rid of it? Or was it stolen from the killer? And who were they looking for? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "WELL-DEVELOPED CHARACTERS, ENGAGING STORY, PROFESSIONAL POLICE WORK. A GOOD READ." Kurt Wuest, Lane County Sheriff's Detective (ret.)"UNTREATED AUTISM, METHAMPHETAMINE ADDICTION, INTERSTATE FENCING OF STOLEN PROPERTY PROPEL THIS STORY OF MURDER AND APPREHENSION TO A CONCLUSION." Chuck Tilby, Captain, Eugene Police Department (ret.)"BILLINGS' WRITING EVOKES MICHAEL CONNELLY. A BUS SYSTEM'S OPERATION IS CLEVERLY WOVEN INTO THE PLOT." Mark Pangborn, General Manager, Lane Transit District (ret.)

Illustrated Edition: Includes illustrations, summary, author biography, and character list.The Rome Express is a captivating Victorian mystery that immerses readers in the suspenseful journey aboard the famous train traveling from London to Rome. As a diverse group of passengers embarks on the long journey, a shocking crime occurs, and it becomes clear that one of the travelers is guilty.In this thrilling tale, the investigation unfolds amidst a backdrop of high tension and complex personalities, each passenger hiding their own secrets. The story takes readers through a series of unexpected twists and turns as a determined detective uncovers motives, deceptions, and hidden truths. The compelling plot and vivid characters keep readers guessing until the very end.This illustrated edition brings the world of The Rome Express to life with beautifully rendered illustrations, while also offering a helpful summary and an insightful biography of the author. A character list is included to guide readers through the key figures, making this edition both informative and engaging.For fans of classic crime fiction and historical mysteries, The Rome Express is an essential read, filled with intrigue, drama, and suspense that will leave readers hooked from start to finish.

For fans of Louise Penny and Robert Dugoni, Illusionist is a contemporary crime thriller where PI McPherson must choose between killing an author at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest or letting a college student die.When an illusionist joins the Pines & Quill writing retreat, one of the owners vanishes without a trace in the middle of everyone, but the surrounding would-be witnesses don’t see or hear a thing. That’s when crime boss Georgio Gambino makes a checkmate move against his nemesis, Sean McPherson. He forces a writer in residence to kill another writer and frame McPherson. In a video call, Gambino warns the writer, “If you don’t follow orders, your daughter will die.” Then, he pans the camera to prove access to her college dorm room.McPherson discovers that Carmine Fiore, Gambino’s second in command, covets his boss' role and is staging a coup. As Gambino’s soldiers traffic drugs, weapons, and humans, Fiore plants incriminating evidence against the notorious Sureños gang. Can McPherson leverage that knowledge for a temporary truce and the gang’s help?The writers in residence—a former NASCAR driver, a professional triathlete, an architect turned house flipper, and a world-renowned magician who may not be who she appears to be—band together with McPherson to create the illusion of a lifetime.

Inspired by a real-life antiquities scandal in Pakistan, this gripping series debut introduces archaeologist Dr. Gul Delani, whose investigation into the discovery of a mummy gets complicated—and personal—when it collides with her years-long search for a missing family member. Perfect for fans of Sue Grafton and Elsa Hart.When Dr. Gul Delani receives a call in the middle of the night from the Sindh police, she thinks they may have finally found her niece, Mahnaz—a precocious, politically conscious teenage girl who went missing three years prior. Gul has been racked with grief since Mahnaz’s disappearance and distracts herself through work: a talented curator at the Museum of Heritage and History in Karachi, she is one of the country’s leading experts in archaeology and ancient civilizations, a hard-won position for a woman.But there is no news of Mahnaz. Instead, Gul is summoned to a narcotics investigation in a remote desert region in western Pakistan. In her wildest dreams, Gul couldn’t have imagined what she’d find there: amid a drug bust gone wrong, there is a mummy—life-size, seemingly authentic, its sarcophagus decorated with symbols from Persepolis, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. The discovery confounds everyone. It is both too good to be true, and for Gul, too precious to leave in careless or corrupt hands.Aided by her team of unlikely misfits, Gul will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of it, even as her quest for the truth puts her in the throes of a dangerous conspiracy and threatens to collide with her ongoing search for Mahnaz. A portrait of a city fueled by corruption and a woman relentlessly in pursuit of justice, The Museum Detective is an exciting, gritty new crime thriller that announces a whip-smart and brilliant sleuth and builds to a stunning, emotional conclusion that readers won’t soon forget.

A spine-tingling new suspense-thriller from bestselling author Daniel G. Miller that will keep your heart racing to the last page.A DEAD BODY. A MYSTERIOUS RED LETTER.Hazel has everything she wants.Business is booming at her boutique private investigation firm. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed. Then the NYPD finds a beloved neighborhood priest dead along with a mysterious red letter.Hazel investigates the murder as a favor to an old friend and discovers that the priest wasn't the only recent murder victim to receive a red letter...and one victim has ties to a psychopath from a past life that Hazel thought she had buried. One by one, the red letters continue to appear, and with every letter, another killing, each more mysterious than the last.As Hazel closes in on the killer, the killer closes in on her, and Hazel begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the people around her. Even worse, Hazel discovers that the only way to find the truth is to open one more...RED LETTERFans of Freida McFadden's The Locked Door, Charlie Donlea's The Girl Who Was Taken, and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone will love this suspense-filled thrill ride.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a riveting story of psychological suspense set in a run-down motel... Can you survive the night?

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