**“This electrifying novel…[is] a gripping mystery with a timely, unnerving message—you won’t be able to look away.”—People, "Book of the Week"“A book so good you can’t look away.”--O Magazine, “Best Books of Summer”Two-time Edgar Award–winning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century’s worth of hate.**On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flye...

Set in the 1950s, this thriller by Edgar Award–winning author Lori Roy reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, tying her fate to a dreamy teenager whose boyfriend runs afoul of the mob.Desperate to break free of small-town Florida, Addie Anne Buckley dreams of following in the path of her glamorous aunt Jean—known to the world as Marilyn Monroe. When Aunt Jean plans a trip to Hollywood for Addie’s eighteenth birthday, Addie sees her chance to escape.One thin...

**Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Best Books of 2018Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy spins a twisted, atmospheric tale about a small Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away.**When Lane Fielding fled her isolated Florida hometown after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she swore she'd never return. But twenty years later, newly divorced and with two daughters in tow, she finds herself tending bar at the local dive and living with...

When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father…and herself.Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will finally turn eleven. She hopes to gain the “second sight” foretold by family legend and fulfill her destiny. Instead, the swamp serves up dangers greater than the gators lurking on Halfway Creek....

Nominated for a 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel“You won’t be able to put [it] down.” —Ladies Home JournalLori Roy follows her Edgar® Award-winning debut novel, Bent Road, with a spellbinding tale of suspense set against the crumbling façade of a once-respectable Detroit neighborhood in 1958.The ladies of Alder Avenue—Grace, Julia, and Malina—struggle to care for one another amidst a city ripe with conflict, but lif...

**Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel"Don't be fooled by the novel's apparent simplicity: What emerges from the surface is a tale of extraordinary emotional power, one of longstanding pain set against the pulsating drumbeat of social change."-Sarah Weinman, NPR.org**For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. But when the 1967 Detroit riots frighten him even more than his Kansas p...

'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN'[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL-------------------------------------------------------The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago....

Broken Promise is the first book in the epic Promise Falls Trilogy from master of the thriller, Linwood Barclay.When David Harwood is asked to look in on his cousin Marla, who is still traumatised after losing her baby, he thinks it will be some temporary relief from his dead-end life. But when he arrives, he's disturbed to find blood on Marla's front door. He's even more disturbed to find Marla looking after a baby, a baby she claims was delivered to her ...

The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller.'The slow, murderous disintegration of a marriage is all too believable... As the novel advances into treacherous territory, Harrison's elegant, incisive prose gets dirtier, more dangerous' ObserverFans of Into the Water and The Couple Next Door will love The Silent Wife.Having nothing left to lose changes everyt...

The seventeenth novel in the bestselling series that inspired BBC's LynleyThe suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? And why is there a link between the young man's death and an horrific poisoning in Cambridge?Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, DS Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with best...

#1 New York Times BestsellerAvailable in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline’s smash bestseller, a captivating historical novel that is “a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history” (Ann Packer).Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of aband...

An NPR and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA Library Journal Best Thriller of the Year“A gamechanger. Nick Mason is one of the best main characters I've read in years.”—Harlan CobenFrom New York Times-bestselling, two-time Edgar-award-winning author Steve Hamilton comes an unforgettable new hero, a man who will walk out of prison and into a harrowing double life that is anything but free.