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All Dressed in White
by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
The third Under Suspicion novel: five years after bride-to-be Amanda Pierce vanished the night of her pre-wedding celebration at a luxury Palm Beach resort, television producer Laurie Moran reopens the cold case for her cold-case show - reuniting the wedding party, including the fiance who has since married one of Amanda's own bridesmaids, to find out whether the runaway bride ran or was made to disappear.

A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that weaves together interconnected stories about a group of characters connected to the music industry, exploring themes of time, memory, and aging through an innovative narrative structure.

Nemesis
by Philip Roth
In the summer of 1944, a polio epidemic sweeps through Newark's Jewish community. Playground director Bucky Cantor watches helplessly as children in his care fall ill - then flees to a mountain camp where he believes he brings the disease with him, destroying his life with guilt.

Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
On the night a famous actor dies performing King Lear in Toronto, a deadly flu pandemic begins. Twenty years later, a traveling theater troupe performs Shakespeare for scattered survivors - and one of them carries a mysterious comic book given to her by the actor the night he died.

Skeleton Canyon
by J.A. Jance
When high school valedictorian Brianna O'Brien is found murdered in remote Skeleton Canyon, her wealthy parents blame her forbidden Hispanic boyfriend - but Sheriff Joanna Brady suspects the family racism masks darker secrets involving smugglers using their land.

Dead to Rights
by J.A. Jance
When the town veterinarian who killed a woman while driving drunk is found murdered by pitchfork in his burning barn, Sheriff Joanna Brady must prove that the obvious suspect - the victim grieving widower - is innocent while juggling multiple crises including a hostage situation involving her own daughter.