Christine Lakin
4) The 6:20 man
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After a cryptic murder, a former soldier-turned-entry-level analyst, who boards the 6:20 commuter train like clockwork, is forced into a clandestine investigation into his firm that takes him to the darkest corners of the country’s economic halls of power, rife with corruption, where a killer awaits.
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The Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. It's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care...
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Inheriting a wellness center deep in the Mexican jungle that’s home to an ardent spiritual group devoted to her late uncle, Sveta falls in love with this secluded paradise until she discovers its violent secrets, and, to survive, turns to the very person she trusts the least.
8) The Royal we
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Unexpectedly falling for prince Nicholas while attending Oxford, practical-minded Bex endures ritzy society gatherings, fashionable outings, and unwelcome publicity as well as jealous ex-girlfriends and dark royal family secrets.
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2023.
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With the help of his half-brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, defense attorney Mickey Haller sets out to prove the innocence of a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, putting Mickey in the crosshairs of a killer who doesn’t want the case reopened—or the truth coming to light.
10) Life's too short
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2021
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Gaining an unexpected online following after quitting her job to travel the world, a woman anticipating a short life becomes the guardian of her infant niece before her resolve to avoid relationships is tested by a baby-savvy lawyer.
11) Broken Monsters
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Detective Gabriella Versado investigates after disturbing displays that fuse the bodies of murder victims with those of animals are uncovered in abandoned Detroit buildings.