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Publication Date:  September 6, 2021 Format:  Hardcover Genre:   Coming of Age Publisher:  Boyle & Dalton  Length:   377 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Told by a tart-tongued young woman with a love of Bruce Springsteen,  Lies in Bone  is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age tale fueled by dark secrets involving love, murder, and the truths worth lying for.  On Halloween 1963, 11-year-old Chuck Coolidge and his brother, Danny, are lost in a toxic smog covering the steel town of Slippery Elm, Pennsylvania. When the smog lifts, half the town is sick, and 20 people are dead. And Danny is missing. Now, more than 20 years later, Chuck's teenage daughter, Frank,...

Release Date:  March 12, 2019 Publisher:  Mulholland Books Format:  ebook Pages:  320 pages Genre:   Mystery/Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: Even as her father lies dying in a hospital north of New York City, FBI Agent Elsa Myers can't ignore a call for help. A teenage girl has disappeared from Forest Hills, Queens, and during the critical first hours of the case, a series of false leads obscures the fact that she did not go willingly. As the hours tick by, the hunt for the girl deepens into a search for a man--who may have been killing for years. Elsa's carefully compartmentalized world begins to collapse around her. She can find missing people, but she knows too well how it feels to be lost. Everything she has buried--her fraught relationship with her sister and niece, her self-destructive past, her mother's death--threatens to resurface, with devastating consequences. Review:  This is the first book in the serie...

Title : The Last Child by John Hart Publisher  Minotaur Books 417 pages Summary: (from publishers weekly)   A year after 12-year-old Alyssa Merrimon disappeared on her way home from the library in an unnamed rural North Carolina town, her twin brother, Johnny, continues to search the town, street by street, even visiting the homes of known sex offenders, in this chilling novel from Edgar-winner Hart (Down River). Det. Clyde Hunt, the lead cop on Alyssa's case, keeps a watchful eye on Johnny and his mother, who has deteriorated since Alyssa's abduction and her husband's departure soon afterward. When a second girl is snatched, Johnny is even more determined to find his sister, convinced that the perpetrator is the same person who took Alyssa. But what he unearths is more sinister than anyone imagined, sending shock waves through the community and putting Johnny's own life in danger. Review: I loved this book.  Its a quick read but keeps you on the edge of your sea...