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Release Date:  January 18, 2019 Publisher:  Mysterious Press Format:  ebook Pages:  304 pages Genre:   Mystery/Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Audio Synopsis: Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief - with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, she can easily stroll through ritzy Bel Air neighborhoods and pick out the perfect home for plucking the most valuable items. This is how Elle has always gotten by - she is good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. But after stumbling upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from the home of a wealthy art dealer, Elle discovers that she is no longer the only one sneaking around. Somebody is searching for her. As Elle realizes that her knowledge of the high-profile murder has made her a target, she races to solve the case before becoming the next casualty, using her breaking-and-entering skills to uncover the truth about exactly who the victims we

Release Date:  January 22, 2019 Publisher:  Random House Format:  ebook Pages:  373 pages Genre:   Mystery/Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Audio Synopsis: Aidan Waits is back on the night shift, the Manchester PD dumping ground for those too screwed-up for more glamorous work. But the monotony of petty crimes and lonesome nights is shattered when he and his partner are called to investigate a break-in The Palace, an immense, empty hotel in the center of the city. There they find the body of a man. He is dead. The tags have been cut from his clothes, his teeth have been filed down, and even his fingertips have been replaced… And he is smiling. But as Waits begins to unravel the mystery of the smiling man, he becomes a target. Someone wants very badly to make this case disappear, and as their threats escalate, Aidan realizes that the answers may lie not only with the wealthy families and organized criminals connected to the Palace, but with a far greater evil from hi

Release Date:  March 6, 2018 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  3 hours 53 minutes Narrator:  Sean Crisden & Bailey Carr Genre:  Fantasy, paranormal, mystery Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  When Cassidy begins painting her visions, she has no idea that she actually opens a door to the past. And behind that door are ghosts, ghosts that want to be seen and remembered. As the rookie member of the Gulf Coast Paranormal investigation team, Cassidy is eager to prove she has the skills required to make the cut, but will her eagerness to fit in place the team in supernatural danger? When a new client hires GCP to settle the spirits in the Crescent Theater, Midas, Sierra, Joshua and Cassidy are put to the test. Will a century-old tragedy force the new owner to shutter the doors forever? Review: This book is a bit different than the other two in that the ghost that the Gulf Coast Paranormal team is investigating isn't so much looking for closure but for the

Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Genre:  Fantasy, YA Buy:   Flight | Focus | Found Synopsis:  Flight:  Sometimes you just have to take flight. A summer in New Orleans is exactly what Allie needs before starting college. Accepting her dad’s invitation to work at his hotel offers an escape from her ex-boyfriend and the chance to spend the summer with her best friend. Meeting a guy is the last thing on her mind—until she sees Levi. Unable to resist the infuriating yet alluring Levi, Allie finds herself at the center of a supernatural society and forced to decide between following the path she has always trusted or saving a city that might just save her. Focus:  Freshman year of college is hard even when you're not tied to the future king of a supernatural society. Allie dives into college head first with Hailey as her roommate and the city of New Orleans as her backyard. As things within The Society heat up, Allie realizes that whether she's with Levi or no

Release Date:  January 15, 2019 Publisher:  St. Martin's Press Format:  ebook Pages:  288 pages Genre:   Suspense / Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Audio Synopsis: A seemingly perfect marriage is threatened by the deadly secrets husband and wife keep from each other. Susannah, a young widow and single mother, has remarried well: to Max, a charismatic artist and popular speaker whose career took her and her fifteen-year-old son out of New York City and to a quiet Vermont university town. Strong-willed and attractive, Susannah expects that her life is perfectly in place again. Then one quiet morning she finds a note on her door: I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Max dismisses the note as a prank. But days after a neighborhood couple comes to dinner, the husband mysteriously dies in a tragic accident while on a run with Max. Soon thereafter, a second note appears on their door: DID YOU GET AWAY WITH IT? Both Susannah and Max are keeping secrets from the world and from each o

Release Date:  December 29, 2017 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  4 hours 20 minutes Narrator:  Sean Crisden & Bailey Carr Genre:  Fantasy, paranormal, mystery Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  The paranormal investigators at Gulf Coast Paranormal thought they knew what they were doing. Midas, Sierra, Sara, Josh, and Peter had over 20 combined years of experience investigating supernatural activity on the Gulf Coast. But when they meet Cassidy, a young artist with a strange gift, they realize there's more to learn. And time is running out for Cassidy. When Gulf Coast Paranormal begins investigating the ghosts of Kali Oka Road, they find an entity far scarier than a few ghosts. Add in the deserted Oak Grove Plantation, and you have a recipe for a night of terror. Review: Cassidy is just discovering her strange ability to paint events that happened in the past.  She gets a compulsion to paint and can't settle until she has put the feelings

Release Date:  April 12, 2006 Publisher:  Random House Audio Format:  Audio Length:  5 hours 32 minutes Narrator:  Cupcake Brown Genre:  memoir Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Eleven-year-old Cupcake Brown woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and called her aunt Lori. "Lori, my momma's dead." Here is the threshold of a hell for young Cupcake. Rather than being allowed to live with the man she believed to be her father--who turns out to have been her stepfather--she is forced into a foster home where the kids were terrorized, the refrigerator padlocked, and Cupcake sexually abused. She eventually fled the house, only to find herself wandering from misadventure to misadventure in th

Release Date:  March 27, 2018 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  3 hours 24 minutes Narrator:  Sean Crisden & Bailey Carr Genre:  Fantasy, paranormal, mystery Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Cassidy Wright hunts ghosts with the Gulf Coast Paranormal team, but she may be in over her head when she's tasked with confronting a ghost who refuses to leave Bloodgood Row. With the power to paint scenes from the past, Cassidy dives into her art to find clues that will lead her to the truth about the life and death of Sabrina Elizabeth. But Sabrina isn't the only spirit haunting Bloodgood Row. The malevolent ghost of a jealous, cruel doctor doesn't want to set Sabrina free, and now he's interested in claiming someone on the team. Sierra and Joshua come to a crossroads in their relationship when a secret comes out. Midas ponders a future with Cassidy, but new clues about Kylie's disappearance force him to take things slow. Together the paran

Release Date:  May 1, 2013 Publisher:  Scholastic Audio Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 58 minutes Narrator:  Kate Reinders Genre:  Fantasy, paranormal, YA Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Camden Fisher arrives at boarding school haunted by a falling-out with her best friend back home. But the manicured grounds of Lethe Academy are like nothing Cam has ever known. There are gorgeous, preppy boys wielding tennis rackets, and circles of girls with secrets to spare. Only...something is not quite right. One of Cam's new friends mysteriously disappears, but the teachers don't seem too concerned. Cam wakes up to strangers in her room, who then melt into the night. She is suddenly plagued by odd memories, and senses there might be something dark and terrible brewing. But what? Review: This is the debut novel from Anne Applegate and its a really great story.  There is a bit too much teenage angst but given that this is a YA book geared toward that audience I can let it

Release Date:  January 8, 2019 Publisher:  Gallery Books Format:  ebook Pages:  321 pages Genre:   Suspense / Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Audio Synopsis:  What should have been a fun-filled, carefree day takes a tragic turn for the worse for one mother when her best friend’s child goes missing in this suspenseful, compulsively readable, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.  It all started at the school fair… Charlotte was supposed to be looking after the children, and she swears she was. She only took her eyes off of them for one second. But when her three kids are all safe and sound at the school fair, and Alice, her best friend Harriet’s daughter, is nowhere to be found, Charlotte panics. Frantically searching everywhere, Charlotte knows she must find the courage to tell Harriet that her beloved only child is missing. And admit that she has only herself to blame. Harriet, devastated by this unthinkable, unbearable loss, can no longer bring herself to