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Lea

by Pascal Mercier

3.8

A man searches for his estranged daughter Lea, a violinist who has disappeared, travelling across Europe following the traces she has left — a meditation on parenthood, music, and the distances we create between those we love.

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London Bridges

by James Patterson

3.8

A town in the Nevada desert is wiped off the map as a demonstration of power, and a mastermind threatens to destroy the world's great cities unless he is paid billions. Alex Cross joins forces with MI6 and Interpol to stop the Wolf — and the returning Weasel — in a globe-spanning race against catastrophe.

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Lust

by Elfriede Jelinek

3.8

A factory director in rural Austria uses his wife Gerti as a sexual object, while Gerti seeks an escape through a brief affair with a student. Jelinek's most controversial novel uses pornographic imagery and flat, repetitive prose to expose the mechanics of male power over female bodies—a feminist provocation that repelled and fascinated in equal measure.

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Mary, Mary

by James Patterson

3.8

A killer who signs emails 'Mary Smith' is murdering Hollywood stars and sending taunting accounts of each crime to a celebrity reporter. Alex Cross, pulled from a family vacation, hunts a murderer whose motive proves more painful and personal than the glamorous victims suggest.

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Meet Me in Atlantis

by Mark Adams

3.8

Mark Adams travels the world in search of the lost city of Atlantis — interviewing scholars, crackpots, archaeologists, and believers — in a witty and surprisingly serious investigation of one of history's most persistent myths.

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N Is for Noose

by Sue Grafton

3.8

A widow hires Kinsey Millhone to find out what was troubling her husband, a respected detective, in the weeks before he died. The job takes Kinsey to the small Sierra town of Nota Lake, where the questions she asks are not welcome — and where someone is willing to hurt her badly to keep the answers buried.

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Of Permanent Value

by Andrew Kilpatrick

3.8

Andrew Kilpatrick's sprawling, encyclopedic biography of Warren Buffett chronicles the investor's life from childhood in Omaha through the building of Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's most valuable companies. Updated across multiple editions, it serves as the most comprehensive single-volume reference on Buffett's personal and professional history.

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P Is for Peril

by Sue Grafton

3.8

A respected doctor vanishes nine weeks before Kinsey Millhone is hired to find him, his nursing-home empire already under investigation for Medicare fraud. As Kinsey untangles his disappearance, a separate danger creeps in from a charming new acquaintance whose interest in her turns out to be anything but innocent.

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Peerless Flats

by Esther Freud

3.8

Lisa, sixteen, arrives in London from the country with her mother and younger sister, and tries to make sense of the city, boys, and her own desires. Esther Freud's second novel — a coming-of-age story set in Hackney.

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Phantom Prey

by John Sandford

3.8

A wealthy woman's daughter vanishes, and soon young people in the Twin Cities Goth scene begin turning up dead. The only witness describes a shadowy figure no one else can find — a phantom. Lucas Davenport must determine whether the killer is real, imagined, or something stranger still.

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R Is for Ricochet

by Sue Grafton

3.8

A wealthy father hires Kinsey Millhone for a simple job: collect his wayward daughter Reba from prison and ease her back into respectable life. But Reba is wild, loyal to the wrong people, and tangled with a married money launderer — and Kinsey finds herself caught between minding her client and helping the woman she's come to like.

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Ripley Under Water

by Patricia Highsmith

3.8

The fifth and final Ripley novel. An American couple, David and Janice Pritchard, move to the village near Ripley's Belle Ombre and begin investigating the disappearance of Dickie Greenleaf — whose killing, thirty years earlier, is the foundational crime of the entire series. Ripley must manage this threat with the same composure he has brought to every crisis, in a novel that is both a thriller and a late meditation on how long a constructed life can hold.

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Run for Your Life

by James Patterson

3.8

A meticulous killer who calls himself the Teacher is murdering New York's rich and entitled, punishing the rude and the privileged in a campaign of class rage. Detective Michael Bennett must stop him before the lessons turn into a citywide bloodbath — all while raising ten children at home.

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Running Blind

by Lee Child

3.8

Women Jack Reacher once knew in the army are turning up dead — no wounds, no poison, no cause of death the experts can name, just a chilling signature. When the FBI's profile of the killer points squarely at Reacher himself, he must catch the real murderer to clear his own name.

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Magyk

by Angie Sage

3.8

On the night the seventh son of the seventh son is born to the Heap family, the baby is presumed dead — but Septimus Heap's story is only beginning, as a decade later a young girl with a mysterious past arrives to turn the magical world upside down.

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Son of a Witch

by Gregory Maguire

3.8

Ten years after the events of Wicked, Liir — possibly Elphaba's son — stumbles out of the wilderness near death and must piece together what happened to him and what he is meant to do. The Wicked Years sequence continues as Oz descends further into political darkness.

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The 5th Horseman

by James Patterson

3.8

Patients are dying at a San Francisco hospital under circumstances that look less like misfortune than murder, each death marked by a strange symbolic token. As Lindsay Boxer hunts a killer hiding behind a white coat, Yuki Castellano fights a wrenching malpractice trial with the hospital — and the truth — on the line.

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The 6th Target

by James Patterson

3.8

A gunman opens fire on a crowded San Francisco commuter ferry, and one of the wounded is someone Lindsay Boxer loves. As the club races to understand the shooter, a separate horror unfolds: children are vanishing from wealthy neighborhoods, taken by someone who knows exactly how to disappear.

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The 9th Judgment

by James Patterson

3.8

A killer is murdering young mothers and their children in San Francisco parking garages, terrorizing the city. At the same time, a brazen jewel thief is robbing the rich and famous — and the two cases pull Lindsay Boxer in directions that test her judgment, and Yuki's, to the breaking point.

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3.8

A MIT graduate student accidentally builds a time machine that can only travel forward — each jump taking him exponentially further into the future — and must find a way back or keep jumping into an ever more distant Earth.

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The Bangkok Asset

by John Burdett

3.8

Sonchai encounters a man of extraordinary physical capability — an American military asset, a product of a black-ops enhancement programme — whose presence in Bangkok is connected to CIA operations that go back to the Vietnam War and forward into a disturbing future of human augmentation. The sixth Sonchai novel, the darkest and most politically charged.

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The Big Bad Wolf

by James Patterson

3.8

Alex Cross's first case as an FBI agent pits him against the Wolf, a Russian crime lord running a business that abducts people to order and sells them to the highest bidder. As Cross learns the Bureau's ropes, a custody battle over his youngest son threatens the family he is fighting to protect.

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The Brethren

by John Grisham

3.8

Three disgraced former judges run a blackmail scam from inside a Florida prison, extorting closeted, wealthy men through fake letters. When one of their marks turns out to be a CIA-backed presidential candidate, their petty hustle collides with the most ruthless power players in Washington.

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The House of Cross

by James Patterson

3.8

A string of murders — a federal judge, a lawyer, others who should have had nothing in common — draws Alex Cross and John Sampson into a conspiracy that reaches toward the highest levels of power. As Cross weighs a life-changing career decision, a familiar shadow returns to test him one more time.

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