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Two mixed-race girls grow up together in north London, bonded by a love of dance. One becomes a global pop star's assistant; the other, a dancer who never quite makes it. Smith's fifth novel weaves together questions of race, ambition, fame, and what it means to be the supporting character in someone else's story.

The President of the United States is assassinated, plunging Washington into chaos and crisis. Alex Cross is drafted onto the high-pressure task force hunting the killer — but as the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that Cross himself is somehow at the center of a far larger conspiracy.

Someone is murdering San Francisco's homeless, and the case leads Lindsay Boxer somewhere she never expected. As a mysterious illness saps her strength and Yuki Castellano takes a bold new turn in her career, the club confronts a killer whose identity overturns every assumption.

Three schoolteachers vanish on their way home, and one turns up dead. Meanwhile a witness insists she has seen a man who should not exist: a Serbian war criminal long believed dead, now walking the streets of San Francisco. Lindsay Boxer and Joe pursue two hauntings of the present and the past.

As San Francisco prepares for the holidays, a whisper reaches the police: a criminal mastermind known only as Loman is planning something enormous for Christmas. With the clock ticking toward the big day, Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to uncover a plot that keeps shifting shape.

On a single morning, drug kingpins are gunned down by snipers in three different cities at once. As Lindsay Boxer works the San Francisco killing and Cindy Thomas chases the story nationwide, the club uncovers a coordinated network of vigilante assassins — and a moral question with no easy answer.

Detective Lindsay Boxer leads the Women's Murder Club into the high-profile murder investigation of a wealthy San Francisco couple, a case that draws intense scrutiny and personal danger. As the pressure mounts, the question is whether Lindsay, Cindy, Claire, and Yuki will all be standing when it's over.

A glittering San Francisco socialite couple is found dead with no apparent cause — no wound, no poison the lab can name. As Lindsay Boxer chases a killer who leaves no trace, Cindy Thomas pursues a story everyone else ignores: the murder of a beloved homeless street preacher known as Bagman Jesus.

Alex-Li Tandem is a Jewish-Chinese autograph dealer in North London, obsessed with celebrity signatures and with the Hollywood actress Kitty Alexander. His quest for her autograph takes him to New York, but the novel is really about grief, celebrity culture, Jewish identity, and the surfaces we mistake for reality.

A young man follows a girl he loves into a walled city surrounded by a golden forest, where shadows are detached at the gate and a Dream Reader works in a library reading the dreams stored in unicorn skulls. Decades later, the same man takes a job in a small library in a mountain town in Japan — and the walled city returns. An expanded and deepened return to the world of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

R. M. Ballantyne's classic Victorian adventure. Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, three British boys — Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin — build an idyllic life in paradise, facing sharks, pirates, and cannibals. The hugely influential book that inspired Golding's Lord of the Flies.

Fifteen years after fleeing the mob-run firm, Mitch McDeere is a partner at the world's largest law firm in New York. A complex international case in Libya turns lethal when a colleague is kidnapped and a colossal ransom is demanded, plunging Mitch into a global nightmare.

An overworked public defender gets a tip that turns him into a mass-tort superstar overnight, filing class actions against pharmaceutical giants and reaping staggering fees. As the private jets and mansions pile up, Clay Carter learns how quickly easy money curdles into a trap.

Twelve-year-old Harriet Cleve Dufresnes sets out to solve the murder of her brother Robin, who was hanged from a tree in the family's backyard when she was a baby. Tartt's second novel is a Mississippi Gothic that explores childhood, violence, and the limits of the stories we tell ourselves.

On the rugged Scottish coast near Cruden Bay, Archibald Hunter is drawn into a web of mystery involving second sight, hidden treasure connected to the Spanish Armada, and dangerous conspirators — as well as a romance with the spirited American Marjory Drake.

A doctor is found executed at a scenic overlook above Los Angeles, and the discovery that he had access to radioactive cesium turns a murder into a potential terrorism crisis overnight. Harry Bosch must solve the case before federal agents take it over — and before the missing material can be used to kill thousands.

Days before his long-awaited wedding to Mary Catherine, Michael Bennett's life is upended by a series of grisly murders that announce the arrival of a methodical assassin known only as the Russian. As the killings mount, Bennett must hunt a ghost — and protect the future he has finally let himself imagine.

A law professor returns to his Mississippi hometown at his dying father's summons and finds three million dollars in unexplained cash hidden in the old judge's study. The discovery forces an agonizing choice between honesty, family loyalty, and the simplest temptation of all: keeping quiet.

Three interconnected narratives in Manila — a British drug dealer, a Filipino family, and a psychologist — converge in a single violent night. Garland's second novel, more structurally ambitious than The Beach.

Set on a small Greek island before the birth of Christ, the novel follows a courtesan named Chrysis whose philosophical wisdom shapes all those around her, and a young man who loves her.

A world-famous author — unmistakably Coelho himself — wakes one day to find that his war-correspondent wife Esther has disappeared, seemingly of her own will. His obsessive search for her, and for the meaning behind her departure, takes him from Paris to the steppes of Central Asia.

A killer is recreating New York's most infamous murders, staging copycat crimes that pay homage to the city's darkest history. With a family vacation shattered and the body count rising, Michael Bennett must decode the pattern — and reckon with FBI agent Emily Parker — before the killer's grand finale.

People are dying horribly after eating tainted fast food, an act of terror with no obvious motive, just as a killer from Lindsay Boxer's past resurfaces with a personal grudge. Then a honeymoon cruise turns into a trap, and the Women's Murder Club faces danger on more than one front.

A successful novelist named Henry encounters a taxidermist obsessed with his unfinished play, in which a donkey named Beatrice and a howler monkey named Virgil enact an allegory about survival and the limits of language in representing atrocity.