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Book of the Week December 4, 2025 Veteran YA author Marissa Meyer and up-and-comer Tamara Moss (Lintang and the Pirate Queen) deliver a fast-moving …
This 12th in the “Rachel Ryder” series has shades of Silence of the Lambs to it, in that a serial killer becomes obsessed with …
Even as a long time fan of Chris Bohjalian, whose work ranges from historical suspense to contemporary crime fiction to literary tales (and plenty …
Death has gone on vacation here and there, but after she hears about a sabbatical while on a trip across the River Styx, the …
A missing brother, the Russian mob, a sick child, and a kill-order all add up to just another typical day in Hart’s latest thriller. …
A group of sorority sisters gets together to celebrate queen bee Roxy’s son’s engagement to Celeste, the daughter of her Theta Mu sister Beth—or …