The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay: In this charming novel about the eccentricities and passions of booksellers and collectors, a captivating young Australian woman takes a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare books in New York City and finds herself caught up in the search for a lost Melville manuscript.
What The Dead Know by Laura Lippman: A 30-year-old missing person's case becomes more mysterious when a woman, claiming to be one of a pair of missing sisters, suddenly reappears.
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham: When the bacteriologist husband of Kitty Fane learns of her infidelity, he forces her to accompany him into the festering center of a Chinese cholera epidemic. She suffers another jolt when he dies, leaving her bereft and alone. Fane's difficult passage transforms this unlikely heroine into a character demanding our sympathy.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy: Unfolding in a terrifying future where Armageddon has been waged and lost, The Road traces the odyssey of a father and his young son through a desolate landscape of devastation and danger.

Beyond Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury: Three years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York City. FDNY widow Jamie Bryan has found meaning in her season of loss by volunteering at St. Paul's, the memorial chapel across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood. Here she meets a daily stream of people touched by the tragedy of that awful day, including two men with whom she connects. Sequel to One Tuesday Morning.
The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen: Medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli investigate a gruesome murder that looks to have connections to a prominent celebrity psychiatrist and satanic cult. The search will take the two women across the globe and pits them against a diabolical organization that may be harboring a murderer.
Ladies' Man by Suzanne Brockmann: Embarking on a thrilling romantic fling, Ellen Layne jumps into a relationship with NYPD officer Sam Schaefer. Soon the two are fighting for survival as a killer zeroes in on Ellen and Sam's the only one who can keep her safe.

Crisis by Robin Cook: Craig Bowman is delivered an ego-shattering blow when he is sued for malpractice by the husband of one of his patients, hypochondriac Patience Stanhope, who died while under his care. Bowman's wife asks her brother, medical examiner Dr. Jack Stapleton, to use his expertise to help with her husband's defense. Stapleton agrees, but what should be a routine forensic exercise quickly turns into a dangerous trail of lies, deception and murder.
Golden Threads by Kay Hooper: Lara Callahan has come to the small town of Pinewood to start over-and to hide. Devon Shane has come looking for answers. When the wary woman and mysterious man take roles in a community theater production, they risk far more than the judgment of an audience. They risk their very lives.
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