Brian James Freeman

Stephen King

Dean Koontz

This new anthology, edited by horror writer Brian James Freeman, is a collection of what he calls “rare and lost material” written by his favorite authors. They include an uncollected short story, an essay written for an obscure venue, and chapters that were deleted from books prior to publication.

Freeman writes: “‘Detours’” is meant to gather some of the fun and unusual material I’ve found over the years, along with a couple of original pieces that have never seen the light of day before now.“

The authors include Stephen King, Owen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, Ray Bradbury, and William Peter Blatty. If you are a Stephen King enthusiast, you will enjoy his short story “Memory,” which you’ve likely never read before. Another highlight: Blatty writes about the origins of his blockbuster novel, “The Exorcist.”

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Every now and then your favorite author takes a detour while writing a new novel: a chapter gets chopped, a connected short story is dreamed up, an essay about the book's origins is composed, or an oddity is created on a day off. Collected here together for the first time are detours by Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Kelley Armstrong, Michael Koryta, David Morrell, Michael Marshall Smith, Chet Williamson, Poppy Z. Brite, Stewart O'Nan, and Owen King. Join these bestselling authors as they share the other works they wrote while they were writing the books you already know and love! The paperback features additional artwork by Mark Edward Geyer, Donn Albright, Erin S. Wells, Glenn Chadbourne, Will Renfro, Jill Bauman, Chris Odgers, Steve Gilberts, Alex McVey, and Keith Minnion!

Detours

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Jo Nesbø

Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo’s biggest crime lord: The Fisherman.

Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary among a local religious sect.

Hiding out in a shepherd’s cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother, and her young son, Knut.

But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential supplies, the midnight sun is slowly driving Jon to insanity.

And then he discovers that the Fisherman’s men are getting closer… 

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In a remote corner of Norway - a mountain town so far north the sun never sets - a man is running for his life in the sequel to bestseller Jo Nesbo's Blood on Snow.

Jon is on the run. he has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman.
Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect.
Hiding out in a shepherd's cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother, and her son, Knut.
But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential supplies, the midnight sun is slowly driving Jon to insanity.
And then he discovers that The Fisherman's men are getting closer...

Midnight Sun

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Matt Haig

(There is some yellowing on the top of the book caused by the sun.)

This book was on the NY Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks!


Between life and death there is a library.

Up until now, Nora Deed’s life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. When she finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora I to live as if she had done things differently. Each one contains a different life, a possible world in which she made different choices that played out in an infinite number of ways, affecting everyone she knew, as well as many people she never met. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every decision she regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be and soon her choices place the library and herself and extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?


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'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

The Midnight Library

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Ruth Ware

Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company.… each with something to gain, something to lose and something to hide.

When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech startup, organizers a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other: PowerPoint presentations and strategy sessions, broken up by mandatory bonding on the slopes. But as soon as one shareholder upends the agenda by pushing a lucrative, but contentious buyout offer, tensions simmer, and loyalties are tested. The storm brewing inside the chalet is no match for the one brewing outside, however, and a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world. Even worse one Snooper hadn’t made it back from the slopes when the avalanche hit.

As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles further… one by one.

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“The Agatha Christie of our generation.” —David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Diabolically clever.” —Riley Sager, author of Final Girls The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain. Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide. When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech startup, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other: PowerPoint presentations and strategy sessions broken up by mandatory bonding on the slopes. But as soon as one shareholder upends the agenda by pushing a lucrative but contentious buyout offer, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. The storm brewing inside the chalet is no match for the one outside, however, and a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world. Even worse, one Snooper hadn’t made it back from the slopes when the avalanche hit. As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles further…one by one.

One by One

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A. J. Finn

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, “The Woman in the Window”:

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”

So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nikki Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nikki to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story…while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddie; and his protective daughter, Madeline. Soon Nikki finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real life “detective fever.”

“You and I might even solve an old mystery or two.”

Twenty years earlier, on New Year’s Eve 1999, Sebastian‘s first wife and teenage son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why had he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past?

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

As Nikki attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian‘s life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth… while Madeline begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the family’s Koi pound, both women are shocked to find that the past isn’t gone … It’s just waiting.

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window returns with a mesmerizing thriller - part Knives Out, part Agatha Christie . . . yet utterly unlike anything you've ever read. "I'll be dead in three months. Come tell my story." So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life "detective fever." "You and I might even solve an old mystery or two." Twenty years earlier--on New Year's Eve 1999--Sebastian's first wife and teenaged son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past? "Life is hard. After all, it kills you." As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian's life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth . . . while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the family's koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isn't gone--it's just waiting.

End of Story

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They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in a small town in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortunate they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner, and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language and spoke it very well.

But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Then one cold winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death. When he was buried his casket held nothing more than his ashes. 

From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial. Then he fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his ex-law firm’s offshore account. And Patrick fled some more. But they found him.

The Partner

Half a ton of dead man’s gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.

Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. Beautiful, marked by war, she catches the eye of Hans-Peter, as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.

Cari Mora

Danya Kukafka

When a beloved high schooler ￼name Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is untouched — not the boy who loved her too much, not the girl who wanted her perfect life, not the officer assigned to investigate her murder.

In this stunning debut, Danya Kukafka brilliantly explores identity, and the razor-sharp line between love and obsession, between watching and seeing, between truth and memory. Compulsively readable and powerfully moving. ￼

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“A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller…and an incredibly accomplished debut” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water), about a beloved high schooler found murdered in her sleepy Colorado suburb and the secret lives of three people connected to her. How can you love someone who’s done something horribly, horribly wrong? When a beloved high schooler named Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her community is untouched—not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the officer assigned to investigate her murder. In the aftermath of the tragedy, these three indelible characters—Cameron, Jade, and Russ—must each confront their darkest secrets in an effort to find solace, the truth, or both. In crystalline prose, Danya Kukafka offers a brilliant exploration of identity and of the razor-sharp line between love and obsession, between watching and seeing, between truth and memory. “A sensational debut—great characters, mysteries within mysteries, and page-turning pace. Highly recommended” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels). Hailed as “Gillian Flynn of 2017” (Yahoo! Style), compulsively readable and powerfully moving, Girl in Snow is “engagingly told… its endearing characters’ struggles linger in memory after this affecting work is done” (The Wall Street Journal).

Girl in Snow

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Debbie Macomber

After her marriage ends, one woman’s struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads ￼to a new beginning — but is the past truly behind her? In this poignant novel, #1 New York Times best selling author Debbie Macomber explores the powerful intersection of love and family. I’m

"After divorce shatters her family, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning--but is the past truly behind her? #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber explores the powerful intersections of love and family in this poignant novel"--

It's Better This Way

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Knitting and life. They both about beginnings — and endings. That’s why it makes sense for Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle Blossom Street, offer a class called Knit to Quit. It’s for people who want to quit something — or someone! — and start a new phase of their lives.

Upbeat cancer survivor Lydia and her pragmatic sister, Margaret, start a "Knit to Quit" group in their Blossom Street yarn store in Seattle, bringing in a delightful assortment of customers for weekly self-help sessions, including a local baker who wantsa

Summer on Blossom Street

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Michelle Richmond

This is what I know: I was walking on the beach with Emma. It was cold and very foggy. She let go of my hand. I stopped to photograph a baby seal, then glanced up toward the Great Highway. When I looked back, Emma was gone.

From this moment, unfolds the spellbinding story of Abby Mason. — photographer, fiancé, soon-to-be-stepmother — and the consequences of her greatest error. A riveting drama of how life can change in an instant, of a family torn apart by the search for the truth behind a child’s disappearance, and of one woman’s unwavering faith in the power of love.

Photographer Abby Mason's life is changed forever by the disappearance of the young girl with whom she had been walking on a cold and foggy beach, her desperate search for the truth behind the child's vanishing, and her unwavering faith in the redemptive power of love. By the author of Dream of the Blue Room. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

The Year of Fog

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Brian Murphy

Toula Vlahou

“Adrift” is the dramatic story of Thomas W. Nye, the soul survivor ￼of the John Rutledge’s tragic encounter with an iceberg in 1856. It is beautifully rendered, gripping and emotionally engaging from beginning to end. The story magically transports readers to another era, enabling them to see and feel what it is like to travel across the ice-choked North Atlantic in the depth of winter, and confront the ultimate nightmare scenario — a sinking  in the middle of the ocean, with no help in sight. “Adrift” is a chilling and searingly memorable tale of unimaginable suffering and one man’s bittersweet triumph over the odds. ￼o

A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It

In the tradition of bestsellers such as Dead Wake and In the Heart of the Sea, Adrift tells of thirteen victims and a tragedy at sea where every desperate act could mean life or death The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only one would survive. This is his story. As they started their nine days adrift more than four hundred miles off Newfoundland, the castaways--an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen, including Thomas W. Nye from Bedford, Massachusetts--began fighting over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died. Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only Nye and his journal survived. Using Nye's journal and his later newspaper accounts, ship's logs, assorted diaries, and family archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold gray Atlantic sea. In the tradition of bestsellers such as Into Thin Air and In the Heart of the Sea, Adrift brings readers to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and every desperate act is a potential life saver or life taker.

Adrift

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Todd Burpo

Lynn Vincent

This is a beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe. Colton Burpo, 3, underwent an emergency appendectomy and died. But he eventually came back to life, and told his parents he left his body during the surgery. He describes ￼ exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was gone. He then relays stories told to him by people in heaven, tells of events that happened before he was born, and shared descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned to read.

A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Heaven Is for Real

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Mary C. Neal

A Kayak accident in 1999 during a South American adventure takes a woman to heaven. She experiences God’s peace, joy, and even communicates with angels.

Then she realizes that it’s not yet her time, and experiences a deep sense of sadness. She reluctantly returns to earth, but finds her new awareness of God has forever changed her life.

Want to know what she saw in heaven? Check out this little gem of a book!

A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: a True Story

Recounts the author's life, including her death and experiences in Heaven.

To Heaven and Back

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William P. Young

A small girl has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered, is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.

Four years later, the missing girl’s dad receives a suspicious note during a great snowstorm, apparently from God, inviting him back to the shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. ￼

Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity

After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions -- and finds unexpected answers -- in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller. When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

The Shack

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Ann Brashares

In the town of Waterby on Fire  Island, the rhythms and rituals of summer are sacrosanct: the ceremonial arrivals and departures by ferry; yet club dinners with terrible food and breathtaking views; the virtual decree against shoes; and the generational parade of sandy, suntanned kids￼, running, swimming, squealing, and coming of age on the beach. ￼

Against this backdrop, is the enchanting, heartrending story of a friendship triangle from three young women to whom summer in this place have meant everything.

This is the latest from NY Times best selling author Ann Brashares, who lit up the charts with the blockbuster series, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.”

Sisters Alice and Riley reunite with their childhood friend, Paul, at the beach community where they spent summers growing up, but a blossoming romance between Alice and Paul, a serious illness, and a dark family secret force the trio to leave their innoc

The Last Summer (of You & Me)

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Andrew Morton

The sudden and tragic death of Princess Diana has caused the entire world to reflect on how much this singular woman meant to us all. From her fairy-tale courtship, her wedding to Prince Charles, and the birth of her two boys to the stunning collapse of her marriage and the revelation of her psychological and physical trauma, we witness and shared in the wide range of emotions in he  life. In her last few years, Diana’s dedication to the downtrodden and unloved and commitment as a mother have only strengthened her hold on our hearts.


Her True Story in Her Own Words

An intimate portrait of the late Princess of Wales describes her public and private life, discusses her attitudes toward motherhood and public service, and includes her direct comments on the events of her life

Diana

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Burden of Proof

#hardcover #fiction #suspensethrillers #paulahawkins #intothewater #suspense #thriller #mystery 

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense. A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from--a place to which she vowed she'd never return. With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present. Beware a calm surface--you never know what lies beneath.

Into the Water

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A Jack McMorrow Mystery

Jack is back in this dynamic rerelease of best-selling crime writer Gerry Boyle's first novel. Meet Jack McMorrow, a hard-hitting crime reporter for the New York Times now living in the backwoods of Maine, near the paper plant in Rumford. Jack's there to run the local paper, but when a unpopular photographer is found drowned in a nearby canal, Jack gets drawn into a complicated game that has kept members of the town silenced and in fear for their lives. Maine may be the place where life is as it should be, but McMorrow finds out staying alive may be harder than he thought.

Deadline

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#hardcover #fiction #johngrisham #testament #court #legalsuspense #supense 

A suicidal billionaire, a burnt-out Washington litigator, and a woman who has forsaken technology to work in the wilds of Brazil are all brought together by an astounding mystery of the testament

The Testament

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#hardcover #johngrisham #fiction #suspensethrillers #legalthriller #greatread 

When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.

Sycamore Row

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#hardcover #fiction #johngrisham #drama #law #mystery 

Goes behind the doors of a jury room to reveal what happens among members of a jury in the middle of deliberations as one powerful leader of the jury works to sway the verdict

The Runaway Jury

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#hardcover #fiction #detective #johngrisham #suspensethrillers #law #drama 

Twenty-two years after the bombing of a Mississippi law office in which Marvin Kramer's two sons died, Klan member Sam Cayhill, the accused killer, has nearly exhausted his death row appeals, until young lawyer Adam Hall takes the case

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Detours

Jo Nesbø

Midnight Sun

Matt Haig

The Midnight Library

Ruth Ware

One by One

A. J. Finn

End of Story

John Grisham

The Partner

Thomas Harris

Cari Mora

Danya Kukafka

Girl in Snow

Debbie Macomber

It's Better This Way

Debbie Macomber

Summer on Blossom Street

Michelle Richmond

The Year of Fog

Brian Murphy; Toula Vlahou

Adrift

Todd Burpo; Lynn Vincent

Heaven Is for Real

Mary C. Neal

To Heaven and Back

William P. Young

The Shack

Ann Brashares

The Last Summer (of You & Me)

Andrew Morton

Diana

Scott Turow

Burden of Proof

Paula Hawkins

Into the Water

Gerry Boyle

Deadline

John Grisham

The Testament

John Grisham

Sycamore Row

John Grisham

The Runaway Jury

John Grisham

The Chamber

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