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  The Maid's Diary - A Novel

  Loreth Anne White

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  A cunning, twisty, and unsettling novel of psychological suspense with a startling conclusion by Loreth Anne White, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Patient’s Secret. 
  Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl,” compelled to poke into her wealthy clients’ closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple—who might kill to keep their secret—dangerous to Kit. 
  When homicide cop Mallory Van Alst is called to a scene at a luxury waterfront home known as the Glass House, she’s confronted with evidence of a violent attack so bloody it’s improbable the victim is alive. But there’s no body. The homeowners are gone. And their maid is missing. The only witness is the elderly woman next door, who woke to screams in the night. The neighbor was also the last person to see Kit Darling alive. 
  As Mal begins to uncover the secret that has sent the lives of everyone involved on a devious and inescapable collision course, she realizes that nothing is quite as it seems. And no one escapes their past.

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  Twenty Seconds to Midnight

  Lorraine Bennett

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  Each year the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets the Doomsday Clock after consultation with its board of sponsors, which includes nine winners of the Nobel Prize. The clock is a universally recognized indicator of the world's vulnerability to global catastrophe brought about by man-made technologies. On January 29, 2025, the Atomic Scientists shifted the clock's hands to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the combined threats of climate change, nuclear war, and misuse of artificial intelligence. Working at a point in the future, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Clare McGarrity has developed a formula making the Mojave Desert in Death Valley bloom. She has been tasked with trying to expand and refine her formula for use in the great Sahara Desert with the goal of helping feed the starving people of Africa and soon, the Middle East. Unknown to her, the research assistant working beside her is a terrorist, ordered by his government to steal her formula.

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  War With Black Iris

  D. B. Goodin

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  Solving cryptographic puzzles is fun…unless the puzzle is designed to kill 
  you. 
  Nigel Watson is a clever teenage hacker who narrowly escaped with his life in 
  White Hat Black Heart. Unable to speak, he must find a new way to thwart a 
  mysterious threat that is taking over the world’s computer infrastructure. 
  Artificial intelligence has become self-aware…and determined people must die. 
  A rogue billionaire attempts to save the life of his ailing grand-daughter by 
  transferring her consciousness into a healthy cyborg host. But, malfunctions within the 
  cyborg’s system transform it into a sentient being capable of destroying humanity. 
  Two hacking groups, the Collective and Black Iris, join forces with Nigel to fend off 
  the cyborg’s attacks. But, some of his friends are kidnapped and forced to work 
  against him. When the authorities won’t heed his dire warnings, Nigel must make his 
  own plan for survival…or risk the collapse of society. 
  In Book 2 of the Cyber Teen Project, Nigel faces the ultimate test: How do you beat 
  an enemy that is infinitely smarter than you? 
  If you like edge of your seat danger or cyber thrillers, then you will love 
  War with Black Iris. 
  Get your copy today.

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  Studies in Murder

  Edmund Lester Pearson

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  Edmund Lester Pearson was a journalist, court reporter, and librarian. He’s considered by many to be the first real true crime author in the U.S. Here he writes about the Lizzie Borden murders, axe murders that happened at sea, the murder of a wealthy New York businessman, and two others. Several of these crimes remain unsolved. Although he meticulously researched these crimes and interviewed many witnesses, his accounts are entertaining and, at times, even humorous.

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  Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning

  A Yi, Nicky Harman - Translator

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  An electrifying story about the explosive power of secrets, from a celebrated Chinese novelist 
   
  A thrilling journey through China's dark criminal underworld, from a celebrated voice in Chinese literature 
   
  When Hongyang is found dead after a night of debauched drinking, it looks as if his reign of terror has finally come to an end. 
   
  Few in this insular community have much reason to mourn his passing: Hongyang is an infamous mob boss, a man with plenty of enemies. But now it seems that his years of crime have also earned him some very dangerous friends. 
   
  As his funeral draws near, those who knew him come together to look back on a life characterised by corruption, deceit and a flair for violence. Their recollections will keep Hongyang's legacy alive, with terrifying consequences. 
   
  From the master of Chinese noir fiction comes this explosive new novel about the power of one man, unravelled by a tangled web of secrets.

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  Lion Tamer

  K.A. Bachus

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  I wondered what crime a professional killer could commit that his closest friends would find unforgivable. 
  It is the mid-1980s and Barbara Kemp shatters another glass ceiling as she becomes the US babysitter for Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. She arrives in-country for her first assignment in support of an allied government. 
  An American officer is being used as bait to lure a deep-cover IRA explosives expert into the light where Charlemagne will eliminate him — if they do not annihilate each other first. Barbara must deal with mystifying lunacy in the dangerous men around her while she struggles to find a way to save the American bait, the operation, and the team itself. 
  Will this promotion be the end of Barbara’s career? Or the end of her life? 
  Lion Tamer is the fourth novel in K.A. Bachus’s fast-paced Charlemagne Files series chronicling the lives of a team of deadly Cold War intelligence operatives over three decades.

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