Category: Thriller/Mystery
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2009 Synopsis: To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an…
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 1992 Synopsis: Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the…
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The Grandest Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2024 Synopsis: Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime. Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune,…
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Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2014 Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother’s…
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 1938 Synopsis: The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they…
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Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala: Content Warnings
Publication Date: May 2021 Synopsis: When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked with saving her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower…
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The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton: Content Warnings
Publication Date: March 2018 Synopsis: In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately…
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Murder In Highbury by Vanessa Kelly: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: Less than one year into her marriage to respected magistrate George Knightley, Emma has grown unusually content in her newfound partnership and refreshed sense of independence. The height of summer sees the former Miss Woodhouse gracefully balancing the meticulous management of her elegant family estate…
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Target Acquired by Lynette Eason: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Aug 2024 Synopsis: Tough-as-nails Kenzie King has finally earned her place as a tactical medic on a SWAT team. But not everyone on the all-male team accepts her. Rumor is, she didn’t get the position because of what she could do but because of who she knew. Which…
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Last Girl Breathing by Court Stevens: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Nov 2023 Synopsis: When the answers to a present-day murder lie in the past, one teen girl must examine a tragic event to prevent more lives from being lost. No one expected it to rain that much. But the rain kept coming, the dam broke, and lives were…
