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  The Lantern Man

  Jon Bassoff

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  Shortly after her brother, Stormy, is convicted of the brutal murder of a classmate, seventeen-year-old Lizzy Greiner is found dead in an abandoned mountain shack, the result of an apparent suicide by fire. Next to Lizzy’s charred body, investigators find several of her journals, safely stored inside a fireproof box. It soon becomes evident that these journals contain a narrative that Lizzy wanted the police to read, the truth that she wanted them to know. 
  Detective Russ Buchanan is tasked with determining the veracity of her narrative, including Lizzy’s belief and obsession that the mysterious and murderous Lantern Man is haunting the mountains near her family’s house. He interviews family members, teachers, and classmates; he studies her psychologist’s extensive case notes. And he learns that Lizzy wasn’t the only one who believed in the Lantern Man. After generations of ghost stories, is it possible that the Lantern Man actually does exist, a real-life boogeyman? Did he have something to do with the murder? Or is he simply a figment of Lizzie’s deluded imagination, an attempt to rationalize her brother’s brutality? The further into the investigation he delves, the more Buchanan questions everything he thought he knew about Lizzy’s death and the murder for which her brother was convicted.

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  Three Barks for Murder

  Susie Gayle

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  Sometimes quaint, cozy towns . . .  
   
   
   
  Can set the scene for awkward encounters. 
   
   
   
  In the small town of Seaview Rock, Maine, local pet shop owner, Will Sullivan, brings a shelter dog to the gracious home of one of the town's wealthiest families, for what should just be a routine meet-and-greet. 
   
   
   
  Things get more than a bit awkward when he discovers that his ex-wife Karen is there, and the tense situation goes from bad to worse when a body is found in the shed. 
   
   
   
  With five possible suspects, Will is desperate to figure out who among them was the killer. Time is ticking as he puts himself in grave danger to clear not only his own name, but that of his girlfriend as well. 
   
   
   
  Can he find the culprit and live to tell the tale?

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  Grail Protocol

  Douglas W. Jones

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  What happens when a husband suddenly returns to youthful vigor while his wife remains in a nursing home? What happens when a grandmother is suddenly younger than her grandchildren? Over the millennia many have sought the secret of immortality. But be careful what you wish for, you just might get it...and it might not be what you think.  
  Geneticist, Simon Barstow, stumbles on the secret to immortality. Billionaire Gregory Noble, who has planned decades for precisely this event, ruthlessly strikes to steal this world-changing breakthrough and eliminate the few who know of its existence. His goal—keep the discovery secret and sell eternal life only to those who will pledge fealty and pay a king’s ransom for the privilege. If he succeeds, he will place all of humanity at his feet. Barstow has two options, stop the obsessed billionaire, or die. Noble has planned years for every contingency, forcing Barstow to take an insane gamble.

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  Monsieur Pain

  Roberto Bolaño

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  “The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges—he’s that visceral and erudite—but this wouldn’t do justice to his ambition.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh Air 
  In 1938 Paris, Monsieur Pierre Pain, a beleaguered mesmerist and a lonely bachelor, receives a telegram from his friend and unrequited love, Madame Reynaud: an acquaintance of hers lies in a hospital bed beset with a mysterious, and apparently terminal, case of the hiccups. She entreats Pain to use his peculiar skill set to cure him, and buoyed by her confidence, he agrees. But nothing about this case turns out to be ordinary, and soon Pain finds himself entangled in a dark and indecipherable sequence of events that sends him racing through the umbrous streets of Paris, lost and delirious. He attempts to visit the patient—none other than the exiled Peruvian poet César Vallejo—only to be barred from his bedside. He is stalked by a ghostly pair of men who emerge from the shadows to bribe him not to treat the poet. He encounters a former peer, now working across the border in war-torn Spain, whose career has taken a shockingly sinister turn, one which may explain this entire nightmare—or prove just another coincidence. A hypnotic and surreal noir, Roberto Bolaño’s Monsieur Pain takes us on a labyrinthine journey through conspiracy, occultism, and the unfathomable evil looming in our midst. 
  A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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  Waste of a Life

  Simon Brett

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  Declutterer Ellen Curtis has been working to bring order into the life of Cedric Waites, a recluse in his eighties who hasn't left his house or let anyone inside it since his wife died. On one of her regular visits, Ellen finds the old man dead. It's sad but, given his age, perhaps not unexpected, and nothing to get worked up about...until the police raise the suspicion that Cedric might have been poisoned! The cause seems be something he ate, and since Ellen cleared away the old man's food containers, she is under suspicion. As is Dodge, who works for Ellen and has unhelpfully done a runner and disappeared... Meanwhile, Ellen's life has taken on a chaotic turn of its own: a rival declutterer is out to sabotage her reputable business, her two grown-up children are back home and in crisis, and she has a potential love interest. Can she uncover the killer and bring order back to her own life?

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  Storm's Target

  Mary Stone, Amy Wilson

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  Hunting season is open, and humans are the game. 
  In her new role with the Bureau’s Violent Crime Unit, Special Agent Amelia Storm is ready to focus on new types of crimes—ones that aren’t mob related. She didn’t, however, expect her first case to take her to rural Illinois, where the tranquil waters of Lake Henry have been guarding a grim secret. 
  Three corpses...and that’s just the beginning. 
  Among the deceased are two recent victims, a young couple last seen camping in the nearby wilderness preserve. A third, a grim echo from years past, is a set of bones picked clean and left to whisper secrets of an older, darker crime. The only connection between the victims, besides the location of their bodies, is the ancient rune carved into their skull. Shockingly, a ViCAP search of the distinctive symbol reveals eighteen sets of linked murders occurring over the past decade. 
  All murdered in pairs. 
  As Amelia and her partner delve deeper into the case, a disturbing realization dawns—they aren’t hunting a lone serial killer but two. Working in tandem, these predators stalk their victims under the veil of darkness. 
  Now the interval between murders is shortening, and the killers are escalating. Amelia must turn the hunter into the hunted...before they target their next victims. 
  From the wickedly dark minds of Mary Stone and Amy Wilson comes Storm’s Target, book eleven of the Amelia Storm Series. But be forewarned. You may never go camping again.

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