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#1 A LEGACY OF SPIES
John le Carré
Peter Guillam, formerly of the British Secret Service, is pulled out of retirement to defend intelligence operations during the cold war that resulted in the deaths of people close to him.
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#2 SECRETS IN DEATH
JD Robb
Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a professional gossip who dabbled in blackmail; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
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#3 ENEMY OF THE STATE
Kyle Mills
Vince Flynn's character Mitch Rapp leaves the C.I.A. to go on a manhunt when the nephew of a Saudi King finances a terrorist group.
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#4 Y IS FOR YESTERDAY
Sue Grafton
The 25th Kinsey Millhone mystery novel. A former student from an elite private school is released from prison and a sociopath returns to haunt the detective.
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#5 GLASS HOUSES
Louise Penny
When a body is discovered in Three Pines, Chief Superintendent Gamache regrets not acting on a hunch.
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#6 THE RIGHT TIME
Danielle Steel
The author Alexandra Winslow, writing under the pseudonym Alexander Green, creates a double life that isolates her.
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#7 THE WESTERN STAR
Craig Johnson
The 13th Walt Longmire novel. A parole hearing of a serial killer and the decades-old memory of a train ride with Wyoming sheriffs put Longmire on a collision course between past and present.
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#8 CAMINO ISLAND
John Grisham
A search for stolen rare manuscripts leads to a Florida island.
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#9 DARK LEGACY
Christine Feehan
Emeline Sanchez fights to recover from exchanging blood with a master vampire, even as she tries to heal the children she saved from him. A Carpathian novel.
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#10 THE STORE
James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
Two New York writers go undercover to expose the secrets of a powerful retailer.
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#11 SEEING RED
Sandra Brown
The TV journalist Kerra Bailey and former federal agent John Trapper join forces to expose a web of conspiracy behind a hotel bombing in Dallas.
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#12 PROOF OF LIFE
J A Jance
When J. P. Beaumont is asked to investigate the death of his nemesis, it leads to an old case once thought solved.
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#13 MY ABSOLUTE DARLING
Gabriel Tallent
A remarkably self-sufficient 14-year-old girl must fight to save herself from her abusive survivalist father.
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#14 BEFORE WE WERE YOURS
Lisa Wingate
A South Carolina lawyer, researching her grandmother’s past, learns about a Tennessee orphanage that kidnapped children and placed them for adoption with wealthy people.
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#15 THE GOLDEN HOUSE
Salman Rushdie
The septuagenarian billionaire Nero Golden moves into Greenwich Village with his three sons and gets entangled with a sleek Russian expat.
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