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"Deliciously unputdownable." —The Washington Post
"A stunning, disturbing thriller that will have your mind and heart racing." —Samantha Downing
From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost.
While in college
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Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mother thought...
7) Badlands
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Gabriel Du Pre mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 22 cm.
8) Split Image
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 9
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Family ties prove deadly in this brilliant Jesse Stone novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert B. Parker.
The body in the trunk was just the beginning.
Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie,...
The body in the trunk was just the beginning.
Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie,...
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
c1999
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375 p. ; 24 cm.
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Detective Peter Decker of Los Angeles police investigates a series of murders within a religious cult. An attempt to storm the cult's compound has to be abandoned when the cult leader threatens to blow it up, along with scores of children.
11) The incendiaries
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2018.
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214 pages ; 22 cm
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A young Korean-American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea and then disappears, leading a fellow student into an obsessive search for her.
12) Last Days
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To find a cult leader's killer, a former detective must literally give up his body in this award-winning work of literary horror—"A dark treat" (AV Club).
Nominated for the Shirley Jackson award and winner of the ALA/RUSA Best Horror novel, Brian Evenson's Last Days is an intense, profoundly unsettling down-the-rabbit-hole detective noir. Kline is a former detective who's cool head in the face of a brutal amputation...
Nominated for the Shirley Jackson award and winner of the ALA/RUSA Best Horror novel, Brian Evenson's Last Days is an intense, profoundly unsettling down-the-rabbit-hole detective noir. Kline is a former detective who's cool head in the face of a brutal amputation...
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The award-winning novel that’s “a foreboding, compelling story of humanity’s uneasy relationship with nature and with each other . . . a gripping read” (St.Louis Post-Dispatch).
It has been twenty years since Lucie Bowen left the islands—when the May Day Quake shattered thousands of lives; when Lucie’s father disappeared in an explosion at the Marrow Island...
It has been twenty years since Lucie Bowen left the islands—when the May Day Quake shattered thousands of lives; when Lucie’s father disappeared in an explosion at the Marrow Island...
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[2016]
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255 pages ; 22 cm.
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"About an aging writer in Montana who's at the stage of his career when his work is increasingly discussed in terms of his legacy. He indulges his lifelong dream of raising pigs, struggles to write the "big novel" he's rashly promised his editor, and attempts to rekindle the long marriage that has sustained him."--[Cover]
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2023.
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"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community -- an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...
19) A darker place
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c1999
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384 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Theology professor Anne Waverly is sent undercover by the FBI to infiltrate a religious cult in California. Initially ill-disposed to cults--her husband and daughter died in a mass suicide in Texas--Waverly discovers an organization genuinely devoted to rehabilitating troubled youth and even finds love. But as she rises to a top post in the cult's administration, an unpleasant surprise awaits her. By the author of With Child.
20) One last chance
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[2022]
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293 pages ; 24 cm
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When former Green Beret Edge Logan offers to help fellow agent Skye Delaney with a case involving her missing sister and a mysterious cult, they infiltrate the cult's compound, working against the clock to unmask the face of evil--and their feelings for each other--before time runs out.
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