Hardcover Fiction

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#1 KILL SHOT

Vince Flynn

Mitch Rapp, a C.I.A. super-agent hunting down perpetrators of the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, finds himself caught in a dangerous trap.

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#2 CATCH ME

Lisa Gardner

A woman asks the Boston detective D.D. Warren to prevent her being murdered in four days’ time.

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#3 DEFENDING JACOB

William Landay

An assistant district attorney’s life is shaken when his 14-year-old son is accused of murder.

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#4 PRIVATE: #1 SUSPECT

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.

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#5 11/22/63

Stephen King

An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald.

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#6 DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY

P D James

Elizabeth Bennet and her husband, Darcy, of "Pride and Prejudice," must deal with a murder.

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#7 HOME FRONT

Kristin Hannah

A woman’s husband and children are challenged when she is deployed to Iraq.

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#8 TAKEN

Robert Crais

It’s Joe Pike to the rescue when Elvis Cole is seized by human traffickers.

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#9 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST

Stieg Larsson

The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

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#10 LEFT FOR DEAD

J A Jance

Ali Reynolds seeks justice for an old friend and an unidentified woman, both victims of brutal attacks.

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#11 RAYLAN

Elmore Leonard

A United States marshal sent to Harlan County, Ky., confronts organ trafficking, strip mining and bank robberies.

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#12 NO MARK UPON HER

Deborah Crombie

The drowning of a detective — and accomplished rower — on the Thames creates wide ripples.

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#13 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

George R R Martin

After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

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#14 THE LITIGATORS

John Grisham

Partners in a small law firm take on a big case.

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#15 THE FEAR INDEX

Robert Harris

A billionaire hedge fund manager in Geneva who uses an algorithm to predict the movements of financial markets discovers that his computer program is misbehaving.

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#16 THE PARIS WIFE

Paula McLain

Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, narrates this novel set in Paris.

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#17 THE BEST OF ME

Nicholas Sparks

Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman return to their North Carolina town.

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#18 THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON

Adam Johnson

A young North Korean is both victim and perpetrator of countless crimes.

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#19 LOCKED ON

Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney

Jack Ryan Jr. must stop an emerging threat from a Pakistani general.

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#20 EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN

Janet Evanovich

After a disastrous vacation in Hawaii, Stephanie Plum becomes the target of an international killer.

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