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Myron Bolitar is back.  His fiancé is in Angola, his parents have retired to Florida, and he now owns his childhood home.  Life is going well.  Enter Suzze T. – former tennis star, now married to Lex the rock star who is Myron’s client.  Suzze is 8 months pregnant and distressed about a Facebook posting that claims Lex is not the father of her child.  Myron tries to help and gets a lot more than he bargained for.  While talking with Lex in a nightclub he glimpses his long-lost sister-in-law.  Myron tries in vain to see her because he’s eager to make things right with his younger brother who he

Down River is a two fer one mystery. When Adam Chase leaves town, the murder for which he has been found “not guilty” remains unsolved. Summoned home five years later by his best friend, Adam finds his friend gone and “killer” etched in his car hood. Guilty after proven innocent.

With pit bull intensity, Adam searches for clues as to where his friend is and who is trying to intimidate his father into selling the ranch. And with each step he incriminates himself in a variety of brutal crimes, including the discovery of his friends’ murder. Adam and his father have unresolved issues regarding

Belgian novelist Georges Simenon is best known for his detective series featuring Parisian policeman Jules Maigret. But he also wrote a number of bleak psychological novels that deal with people whose lives are disrupted by seemingly random happenings or impulses. The Engagement, published in 1933 is about a middle-aged, overweight loner named Mr. Hire who finds social interaction difficult. A prostitute has recently been found murdered in a vacant lot close to Mr. Hire's apartment building and because Mr. Hire is "unusual", he becomes a suspect in the minds of his concierge and the other

Christopher’s goal is “to become a spy or at least a spyish-type figure”. Therefore, he is quite happy to accept a part-time summer job in a hospital morgue and hopes to learn something about forensic pathology before starting college. He expects an easy job. However, he accidently discovers a murder cover up and some of the town’s most influential people seem to be involved – the mayor, the sheriff, the local lawyer and of course the medical examiner. Moreover, Christopher’s best friend starts acting very strangely and Christopher’s role model, a young local policeman, appears to be mixed up

The Pact, a Love Story by Jodi Picoult
Meet Chris and Emily, two kids who have known each other since birth, grown up next door to each other, and now have fallen in love. Everything is perfect for both families until Emily is discovered shot to death. Picoult masterfully unfolds her story as two families who were best friends for the last eighteen years are torn apart by murder, suicide, and unanswerable questions. The authors tackles teen fears and anxieties, the bonds of friendship and love and just what will destroy those bonds. Though one of Picoult’s earlier works (as evidenced by the

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders is an interesting mystery set in Japan. The introductory portion of the book contains some heavy imagery, so be forewarned. This is not a 'cozy' mystery. While reading the introductory chapter, I couldn't figure out where the mystery was going to come in to play. Afterall, here the book is laying out what is going to happen. Or so I thought. The author writes the book in portions and lays out all the clues to the murder mystery for the reader. You are supposed to try and solve it before the book tells you who committed the crimes. In fact, the author breaks in a couple

From the beginning, Ralph Truitt knew Catherine Land was not who she pretended to be. Expecting the “simple, honest woman” from the picture she had sent after answering his advertisement for “a reliable wife”, beautiful Catherine came as something of a shock. Thinking her act wholly convincing, Catherine plays the role of simplicity and innocence in hopes of accomplishing a deadly deception.

As Ralph and Catherine begin to live parallel lives in which they each punish themselves for their pasts, they find that in forgiving themselves they can find the happiness that has proven so elusive