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Alam, Rumaan

• Leave The World Behind
• Rich and Pretty
• That Kind of Mother

Andrews, V.C.

• Heaven (Casteel, #1)
• Dark Angel (Casteel, #2)
• Fallen Hearts (Casteel, #3)
• Gates of Paradise (Casteel, #4)
• Web of Dreams (Casteel, #5)
• Dawn (Cutler, #1)
• Secrets of the Morning (Cutler, #2)
• Twilight's Child (Cutler, #3)
• Midnight Whispers (Cutler, #4)
• Darkest Hour (Cutler, #5)

Ballis, Stacey

• Good Enough to Eat
• Off the Menu
• Out to Lunch
• Recipe for Disaster

Barton, Fiona

• The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)
• The Child (Kate Waters, #2)
• The Suspect (Kate Waters, #3)

Caine, Rachel

• Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1) 
• Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake, #2) 
• Wolfhunter River (Stillhouse Lake, #3) 
• Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake, #4)
• Heartbreak Bay (Stillhouse Lake, #5)
• Exile, Texas
• Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)
• The Dead Girls' Dance (The Morganville Vampires, #2)
• Midnight Alley (The Morganville Vampires, #3)
• Feast of Fools (The Morganville Vampires, #4)
• Lord of Misrule (The Morganville Vampires, #5)
• Carpe Corpus (The Morganville Vampires, #6)
• Fade Out (The Morganville Vampires, #7)
• Kiss of Death (The Morganville Vampires, #8)
• Ghost Town (The Morganville Vampires, #9)
• Bite Club (The Morganville Vampires, #10)
• Last Breath (The Morganville Vampires, #11)
• Black Dawn (The Morganville Vampires, #12)
• Bitter Blood (The Morganville Vampires, #13)
• Fall of Night (The Morganville Vampires, #14)
• Daylighters (The Morganville Vampires, #15)

Christie, Agatha

• Crooked House 
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
• The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
  
• Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

Clark, Mary Higgins

• All Around The Town
• Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry
• Where Are The Children?

Coben, Harlan

• Fool Me Once
• Tell No One
• The Boy From The Woods
• The Stranger

Corcoran, Caroline

• Five Days Missing
• The Baby Group
• Through The Wall
• What Happened On Floor 34?

Cosimano, Elle

• Finlay Donovan is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
• Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead (Finlay Donovan, #2)
• Finlay Donovan Jumps The Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3)

Crabtree, Elisabeth

• The St. Valentine's Day Cookie Massacre (Hatter's Cove Gazette Mystery, #1)
• Revenge of the Pieman (Hatter's Cove Gazette Mystery, #2)
• The Mad Hatter's Haunted Castle (Hatter's Cove Gazette Mystery, #3)
• Two Dead Love Birds (Hatter's Cove Gazette Mystery, #4)
• Bad Kitty (Hatter's Cove Gazette Mystery, #5)

Crawford, Isis

• A Catered Murder (A Mystery with Recipes, #1)
• A Catered Wedding (A Mystery with Recipes, #2)
• A Catered Christmas (A Mystery with Recipes, #3)
• A Catered Valentine's Day (A Mystery with Recipes, #4)

Day, Wendy

• Mexico, Margaritas, and Murder (A Sally and Pearl Adventure, #1)
• Christmas, Cabernet, and Chaos (A Sally and Pearl Adventure, #2)
• Killing Cupid (Gods On Earth, #1)
• Hera's Revenge (Gods On Earth, #2)

Dobbs, Leighann

• Killer Cupcakes (Lexy Baker, #1)
• Dying for Danish (Lexy Baker, #2)
• Murder, Money and Marzipan (Lexy Baker, #3)
• 3 Bodies and a Biscotti(Lexy Baker, #4)
• Brownies, Bodies and Bad Guys (Lexy Baker, #5)
• Bake, Battle and Roll (Lexy Baker, #6)
• Wedding Blintz (Lexy Baker, #7)
• Scones, Skulls and Scams (Lexy Baker, #8)
• Ice Cream Murder (Lexy Baker, #9)
• Mummified Meringues (Lexy Baker, #10)
• Brutal Brûlée (Lexy Baker, #11)
• A Partridge in a Poison Pear Tart (Lexy Baker, #11.5)
• No Scone Unturned (Lexy Baker, #12)
• Cream Puff Killer (Lexy Baker, #13)
• Never Say Pie (Lexy Baker, #14)
• Ain't Seen Muffin Yet (Lexy Baker, #15)
• Halloween Party Murder (Juniper Holiday, #1)
• Thanksgiving Dinner Death (Juniper Holiday, #2)
• Who Slayed the Santas? (Juniper Holiday, #3)
• Masquerade Party Murder (Juniper Holiday, #4)

Donoghue, Emma

• Frog Music
• Room
• The Wonder

Evanovich, Janet

• One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) 
• Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2) 
• Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)
• Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, #4)
• High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5)
• Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, #6)
• Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7)
• Hard Eight (Stephanie Plum, #8)
• Visions of Sugar Plums (Stephanie Plum, #8.5)
• To The Nines (Stephanie Plum, #9)
• Ten Big Ones (Stephanie Plum, #10)
  
• Eleven On Top (Stephanie Plum, #11) 
• Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum, #12)
  
• Plum Lovin' (Stephanie Plum, #12.5) 
• Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, #13) 
• Plum Lucky (Stephanie Plum, #13.5)
  
• Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum, #14) 
• Plum Spooky (Stephanie Plum, #14.5) 
• Finger Lickin' Good (Stephanie Plum, #15) 
• Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum, #16)
• Smokin' Seventeen (Stepanie Plum, #17)
• Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)
• Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, #19)
• Takedown Twenty (Stephanie Plum, #20) 
• Top Secret Twenty-One (Stephanie Plum, #21)
• Tricky Twenty-Two (Stephanie Plum, #22)
• Turbo Twenty-Three (Stephanie Plum, #23)
• Hardcore Twenty-Four (Stephanie Plum, #24)
• Look Alive Twenty-Five (Stephanie Plum, #25)
• Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum, #26)
• Fortune And Glory, Tantalizing Twenty-Seven (Stephanie Plum, #27)
• Game On,  Tempting Twenty-Eight (Stephanie Plum, #28)
• Going Rogue, Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (Stephanie Plum, #29)
• The Heist (Fox and O'Hare, #1)
• The Chase (Fox and O'Hare, #2)
• The Job (Fox and O'Hare, #3)
• The Scam (Fox and O'Hare, #4)
• The Pursuit (Fox and O'Hare, #5)
• The Big Kahuna (Fox and O'Hare, #6)
• The Bounty (Fox and O'Hare, #7)

Fifield, Christy

• Murder Buys A T-Shirt (A Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery # 1) 
• Murder Hooks A Mermaid (A Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery #2)
• Murder Sends A Postcard (A Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery, #3)
  
• Murder Ties the Knot (A Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery, #4)

Finder, Joseph

• Suspicion
• The Switch
  

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

• The Great Gatsby

Foley, Lucy

• Last Letter from Istanbul
• The Book of Lost and Found
• The Guest List
• The Hunting Party
• The Invitation
• The Paris Apartment

Flynn, Gillian

• Dark Places 
• Gone Girl
• The Grownup
  

French, Tana

• In the Woods

Galbraith, Robert

• The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
• The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
• Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
• Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
• Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

Giffin, Emily

• All We Ever Wanted
• First Comes Love
• The Lies That Bind
• Something Borrowed (Darcy & Rachel, #1)
• Something Blue (Darcy & Rachel, #2)
• Where We Belong

Halliday, Gemma

• Spying In High Heels (High Heels, #1) 
• Killer in High Heels (High Heels, #2) 
• Undercover in High Heels (High Heels, #3)
• Christmas in High Heels (High Heels, #3.5)
  
• Alibi in High Heels (High Heels, #4)
  
• A High Heels Haunting (High Heels, #4.5) 
• Mayhem in High Heels (High Heels, #5)
• Honeymoon in High Heels (High Heels, #5.5)
• Sweetheart in High Heels (High Heels, #5.75)
  
• Fearless in High Heels (High Heels, #6)
• Danger in High Heels (High Heels, #7)
• Homicide in High Heels (High Heels, #8)
• Deadly in High Heels (High Heels, #9)
  
• Suspect In High Heels (High Heels, #10) 
• Peril In High Heels (High Heels, #11)
• Jeopardy in High Heels (High Heels, #12)
  

Harkness, Deborah

• A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy # 1) 
• Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy # 2) 
• The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, # 3) 
• Time's Convert (All Souls Universe, #1)
  

Hawkins, Paula

• A Slow Fire Burning
• Into the Water 
• The Girl on the Train
  

Hawkins, Rachel

• Reckless Girls
• The Villa
• The Wife Upstairs

Heath, Rebecca

• The Summer Party

Hechtman, Betty

• Yarn to Go (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #1)
• Silence of the Lamb's Wool (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #2)
• Wound Up in Murder (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #3)
• Gone with the Wool (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #4)
• A Tangled Yarn (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #5)
• Inherit the Wool (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #6)
• Knot on Your Life (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #7)
• But Knot for Me (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #8)
• Knot a Game (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #9)

Hepworth, Sally

• The Family Next Door
• The Good Sister
• The Mother-in-Law
• The Mother's Promise
• The Secrets of Midwives
• The Things We Keep
• The Younger Wife

Hoover, Colleen

• It Ends With Us

James, P.D.

• Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8)

Jewell, Lisa

• Before I Met You
• The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)
• The Family Remains (The Family Upstairs, #2)
• The Girls in the Garden
• Watching You

Johansen, Iris

• Mind Game (Eve Duncan, #22) 
• No Easy Target
  

King, Stephen

• 11/22/63 
• Desperation 
• It 
• Misery 
• Salem's Lot
  
• The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
  
• The Institute
  
• The Shining (The Shining, #1)
• The Stand 
  

Lapena, Shari

• A Stranger in the House 
• An Unwanted Guest
• Not A Happy Family
• Someone We Know
• The Couple Next Door
  
• The End of Her

Lutz, Lisa

• The Spellman Files (The Spellmans #1) 
• Curse of the Spellmans (The Spellmans #2) 
• Revenge of the Spellmans (The Spellmans #3)  
• The Spellmans Strike Again (The Spellmans, #4)
• Trail of the Spellmans (The Spellmans, #5)
• The Last Word (The Spellmans, #6)
• Heads You Lose
  
• How to Start a Fire 
• The Passenger
  
• The Swallows
  

 

Martin, George R.R.

• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
• A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
• A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

Meier, Leslie

• Mistletoe Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #1)
• Tippy Toe Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #2)
• Trick or Treat Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #3)
• Back to School Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #4)
• Valentine Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #5)
• Christmas Cookie Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #6)
• Turkey Day Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #7)
• Wedding Day Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #8)
• Birthday Party Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #9)
• Father's Day Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #10)
• Star Spangled Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #11)
• New Year's Eve Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #12)
• Bake Sale Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #13)
• St. Patrick's Day Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #14)

Mendelson, Charlotte

• Almost English
• Daughters of Jerusalem
• Love in Idleness
• The Exhibitionist
• When We Were Bad

Meyer, Stephenie

• Twilight (Twilight, #1)
• New Moon (Twilight, #2)
• Eclipse (Twilight, #3)
• Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4)
• Midnight Sun (Twilight, #5)
• The Host

Minix, Sue

• Murder at the Bookstore (The Bookstore Mystery, #1)
• The Murderous Type (The Bookstore Mystery, #2)
• A Chapter On Murder (The Bookstore Mystery, #3)

Mitchell, David

• Cloud Atlas

Miranda, Megan

• All the Missing Girls
• The Girl from Widow Hills
• The Last House Guest
• The Perfect Stranger
• The Safest Lies

Morgenstern, Erin

• The Night Circus
• The Starless Sea

Morton, Kate

• The Clockmaker's Daughter
• The Forgotten Garden
• The House at Riverton
• The Lake House
• The Secret Keeper

Moyes, Jojo

• Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
• After You (Me Before You, #2)
• Still Me (Me Before You, #3)

Nagel, Leslie

• The Book Club Murders (Oakwood Mystery #1)
• The Antique House Murders (Oakwood Mystery, #2)
• The Advice Column Murders (Oakwood Mystery, #3)
• The Codebook Murders (Oakwood Mystery, #4)

Paris, B.A.

• Behind Closed Doors
• Bring Me Back
• The Breakdown
• The Dilemma
• The Prisoner
• The Therapist

Patterson, James

• Against Medical Advice
• Beach Road
• Black Friday
• Cradle and All
• Don't Blink
• Guilty Wives
• Hide and Seek
• Judge & Jury
• Kill Me If You Can
• Lifeguard
• Lost
• Mistress
• Murder, Interrupted
• Now You See Her
• See How They Run
• Swimsuit
• The Beach House
• The Chef
• The Coast-to-Coast Murders
• The First Lady
• The Inn
• The Jester
• The Midnight Club
• The Midwife Murders
• The Murder House
• The Noise
• The Postcard Killers
• The Quickie
• The Summer House
• Toys
• Truth or Die
• You've Been Warned
• Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
• Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)
• Jack & Jill (Alex Cross, #3)
• Cat & Mouse (Alex Cross, #4)
• Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross, #5)
• Roses Are Red (Alex Cross, #6)
• Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7)
• Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross, #8)
• The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross, #9)
• London Bridges (Alex Cross, #10)
• Mary, Mary (Alex Cross, #11)
• Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
• Double Cross (Alex Cross, #13)
• Cross Country (Alex Cross, #14)
• Alex Cross's Trial (Alex Cross, #15)
• I, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #16)
• Cross Fire (Alex Cross, #17)
• Kill Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #18)
• Merry Christmas, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #19)
• Alex Cross, Run (Alex Cross, #20)
• Cross My Heart (Alex Cross, #21)
• Hope to Die (Alex Cross, #22)
• Cross Justice (Alex Cross, #23)
• Cross the Line (Alex Cross, #24)
• Cross Kill (Alex Cross, #24.4)
• Detective Cross (Alex Cross, #24.5)
• The People vs. Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #25)
• Target: Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #26)
• Criss Cross (Alex Cross, #27)
• Deadly Cross (Alex Cross, #28)
• Fear No Evil (Alex Cross, #29)
• When the Wind Blows (When the Wind Blows, #1)
• The Lake House (When the Wind Blows, #2)

Pavone, Chris

• The Expats (Kate Moore, #1)
• The Paris Diversion (Kate Moore, #2)
• The Accident
• The Travelers
• Two Nights in Lisbon

Quick, Matthew

• Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
• Sorta Like a Rockstar
• The Good Luck of Right Now
• The Silver Linings Playbook

Reichert, Amy E.

• Luck, Love & Lemon Pie
• The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
• The Kindred Spirits Supper Club
• The Simplicity of Cider

Ross, Jennifer

• The Icing on the Cupcake

Steadman, Catherine

• Mr. Nobody
• Something in the Water
• The Disappearing Act
• The Family Game

Stevens, Chevy

• Always Watching
• Dark Roads
• Never Knowing
• Never Let You Go
• Still Missing
• That Night
• The Other Side
• Those Girls

Stockett, Kathryn

• The Help

Swanson, Cynthia

• The Bookseller
• The Glass Forest

Swanson, Peter

• All The Beautiful Lies
• Before She Knew Him
• Eight Perfect Murders
• Every Vow You Break
• Her Every Fear
• Nine Lives
• The Girl with a Clock for a Heart
• The Kind Worth Killing

Tremblay, Paul

• A Head Full of Ghosts
• Disappearance at Devil's Rock
• In the Mean Time
• Survivor Song
• The Cabin at the End of the World
• The Last Conversation

Tyler, Anne

• A Patchwork Planet
• A Spool of Blue Thread
• Breathing Lessons
• Clock Dance
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
• Ladder of Years
• Redhead by the Side of the Road
• The Accidental Tourist
• The Amateur Marriage
• Vinegar Girl

Unger, Lisa

• Black Out
• Confessions on the 7:45
• Crazy Love You
• Darkness, My Old Friend
• Die for You
• Heartbroken
• In the Blood
• Ink and Bone
• Last Girl Ghosted
• Let Her Be
• The Red Hunter
• The Sleep Tight Motel
• The Stranger Inside
• The Whispering Hollows
• Under My Skin

Upson, Nicola

• An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)
• Angel with Two Faces (Josephine Tey, #2)
• Two for Sorrow (Josephine Tey, #3)
• Fear in the Sunlight (Josephine Tey, #4)
• The Death of Lucy Kyte (Josephine Tey, #5)
• London Rain (Josephine Tey, #6)
• Nine Lessons (Josephine Tey, #7)
• Sorry for the Dead (Josephine Tey, #8)
• The Dead of Winter (Josephine Tey, #9)

Ware, Ruth

• In A Dark, Dark Wood
• One by One
• Snowflakes
• The Death of Mrs. Westaway
• The Lying Game
• The Turn of the Key
• The Woman in Cabin 10

Watson, S.J.

• Before I Go to Sleep
• Final Cut
• Flashback
• Second Life

Weisberger, Lauren

• Chasing Harry Winston
• Everyone Worth Knowing
• Last Night at Chateau Marmont
• The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
• Revenge Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #2)
• When Live Gives You Lululemons (The Devil Wears Prada, #3)

 
Wells, Rebecca

• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Ya Ya's, #1)
• Little Altars Everywhere (Ya Ya's, #2)
• Ya Yas in Bloom (Ya Ya's, #3)

Williams, Amanda Kyle

• The Stranger You Seek (Keye Street, #1)
• Stranger in the Room (Keye Street, #2)
• Don't Talk to Strangers (Keye Street, #3)

Wilson, Teri

• Christmas Actually
• Christmas Charms
• The Accidental Beauty Queen
• Unleashing Mr. Darcy
• Unmasking Juliet

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz

• The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
• The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
• The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)