The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. When star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, fear grips this small Texas town. Joel Whitley, shamed out of Bentley ten years ago, returns from New York to confront his past and help find his brother. Alongside Sheriff’s Deputy Starsha Clark and Dylan’s…
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Inside Man
If you know me, you know I love my police procedurals and I’ve been craving a strong detective/police procedural lately. I’ve been looking for something to tie me over until the next Karin Slaughter book comes out, and John McHahon’s upcoming release Inside Man was just what I wanted. In this sequel to Head Cases, John…
The Briars
Sarah Crouch returns with a lush, atmospheric thriller set deep in the misty mountains of the Pacific Northwest. The story follows Annie Heston, a young woman escaping a broken relationship who takes a job as a game warden in the secluded town of Lake Lumin. As she warns the community about a roaming cougar, Annie…
A Box Full of Darkness
Violet, Vail, and Dodie return to the home they fled eighteen years earlier, summoned by the ghost of their long-missing brother, Ben, and his unsettling plea to “come home.” Fell, New York has always been a place where strange things happen: a mysterious drowning at the local motel, a young girl found dead by the…
Beast of the North Woods
Set in the shadowy forests of Wisconsin, Northwoods introduces readers to Eli North, a war veteran barely keeping it together. Struggling with PTSD, alcoholism, and the wreckage of his personal life, Eli works under his mother, the small-town sheriff, in Shaky Lake. When the body of a teenage boy is discovered, Eli is pulled into…
Wildwood
Return to the rugged beauty and hidden darkness of small-town Wisconsin, delivering a compelling story of crime, grief, and redemption. Deputy Sheriff Eli North, a recovering alcoholic and veteran battling PTSD, is determined to rebuild his life and repair the bond with his mother, the town sheriff. But when an undercover informant vanishes and a…
Adrift
Peggy and Drew, two struggling writers, move with their teenage son onto a narrow canal boat hoping for a simpler, more peaceful life. But when Peggy’s writing career takes off and Drew’s doesn’t, jealousy festers, and he begins isolating their family deeper into the waterways. As Drew’s control tightens and his behavior turns manipulative and…
Where He Left Me
Sadie Sheridan and her husband Felix have just settled into Felix’s childhood home in the North Cascades mountains, for their year-long sabbatical. But when Felix leaves for a quick work trip and never comes back, Sadie finds herself completely isolated. She has no car, no phone service, and a storm is rolling in. As she…
The Burning Library
Set against the stark beauty of Scotland’s Western Hebrides, The Burning Library begins with the discovery of Eleanor Bruton’s body on a cold, windswept shore. To her family, Eleanor was an unremarkable woman; quiet, helpful at church, fond of flowers but she carried a dark secret: a scrap of medieval embroidery linked to a centuries-old…
Keep This for Me
Jennifer Fawcett weaves together a haunting and emotional mystery about grief, family legacy, and what we inherit from the past. In 1993, Fiona Green’s mother vanished after being abducted by a truck driver, who was later convicted as a serial killer. Decades later, with the killer on his deathbed claiming innocence in her mother’s case,…