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A dead body. A terrible secret. And a past that threatens the living. Private investigator Iris Raines thought she’d seen everything—until she was staring into the face of a dead woman who looked exactly like her. The discovery sends Iris into a maze of hidden identities, long-buried secrets, and a conspiracy that stretches back decades. Someone is searching for a treasure connected to the past, and they’re willing to kill to get it. Now Iris isn’t just on the case—she’s...

FOUR HOURS ARE MISSING FROM HIS LIFE. FINDING THEM COULD COST HIM HIS SANITY. Professor James Lowry is a man of science and reason. An ethnologist and university professor, he dismisses spirits, witches and demons as superstition. Then, on an ordinary spring evening, his hat disappears—and with it, four hours of his life. Where did he go? What did he do? And why can’t he remember? As Lowry searches for the missing hours, the quiet university town of Atworthy begins...

Historian Cameron Thorne uncovers Civil War era letters that reveal a centuries-long plot by leading New England shipping families to splinter the Union. With close ties to both Freemasonry and Yale's Skull and Bones Society, these so-called Essex Junta families made their money selling opium to China and used their power to foment discord between the North and South, sparking the Civil War. Astoundingly, that was not enough: Cam finds historical sources revealing that the families orchestrated World Wars I...

What if Sherlock Holmes encountered a mystery in which no true crime had actually been committed?In The Bird That Fished at Dawn, Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to a quiet garden beside the Thames, where valuable koi carp are disappearing from dark ponds surrounded by mist and Japanese bridges. No footprints point to a thief — and yet the fish vanish one by one.The investigation leads Holmes through London’s fog-covered docklands, old Eastern traditions, and strange patterns connecting animals,...

A twisty psychological thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of Every Body Has a Secret.The next body on the embalming table may be hers.Preparing bodies for burial wasn't on Ashley's career list until a horrifying accident left her to inherit Fallon's Funeral Home. She spends her days applying final touches and ensuring the departed look more peaceful than they ever did in life.When a crash echoes from the embalming room late one night, she expects to find a fallen tray...

Twisted Lies.Psychotic Love.And campus god intent on punishing me.In the darkness, he’s always there.Silently watching. Waiting. My stalker.The masked figure that looms over my bed and sets my pulse racing.He showed up after my boyfriend died, and I wonder if it’s his ghost haunting me. But the masked man is all too real, and when he touches me, I crave dark things I’d never admit to anyone...According to him, I have to pay for what I’ve done. And what have...

On a remote island where every favor is a debt, and every debt is eventually collected. Henrik Aalto has run the butcher shop his father left him for twelve years, in the same unhurried, unremarkable way his father ran it before him. He asks no questions about what happens in the delivery room. He never has. On Sillgrund — population three hundred and forty, one ferry a day, no anonymity to speak of — that kind of discretion has always...

Some hometowns welcome you back. Others still think you're a killer.Forty-five years ago, Myrtle Glubber left Muscatine with a broken heart and a cloud of suspicion hanging over her. Returning for her class reunion should have been a chance to reconnect with old friends. Instead, Myrtle discovers many of her former classmates still believe she murdered her best friend.Determined to clear her name once and for all, Myrtle follows a trail of forgotten clues leading from the legendary Blue Angel...

They Built A Cage Of Fear & Called It Salvation. Adrian Ward Wrote The Code To Burn It Down. After surviving a childhood ruled by religious fanaticism, Adrian Ward learned to trust only what could be proven. Mathematics was predictable. Computer code never demanded faith. And buried inside logic, the brilliant MIT-trained computational linguist believed he had finally found safety. Then he deciphers the Ars Goetia. What humanity dismissed as an ancient catalogue of demons is actually something far more...

After a violent hit-and-run shatters Mira Harris's life, she finds herself at a crossroads. Before the accident, Mira, haunted by a childhood shaped by dysfunction and the recent return of her estranged father, has always sought order to cope. Her relationship with Joseph Oliver, a young man with a troubled past, provided a semblance of balance. But now, with her trust broken and her body battered, to find out who wanted to harm her, she must peel back layers of...