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Mystery
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism. However, in more general usage "mystery" may be used to describe any form of crime fiction, even if there is no mystery to be solved
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The Darkling Bride
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date: Mar 06, 2018
What better time for gothic castle libraries, a doomed romance, and a gorgeous Irish viscount than summer? In honor of my own upcoming beach vacation,
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Giveaway dates: Aug 04 - Aug 17, 2018
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On Grove Street
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date: Aug 26, 2018
Two men are brutally murdered two days apart, twenty years after they last saw each other. Coincidence? Who killed them, with what weapons, and why? A
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Giveaway dates: Aug 04 - Aug 25, 2018
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End of Innocence
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date: Nov 15, 2017
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Beautifully dark and honest." "A gripping thriller which I couldn’t put down." Goodreads reviews
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Beautifully dark and honest." "A gripping thriller which I couldn’t put down." Goodreads reviews
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Giveaway dates: May 26 - Aug 23, 2018
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Linwood Barclay
Author of No Time for Goodbye
Linwood Barclay is the #1 internationally bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Trust Your Eyes, A Tap on the Window, No Time for Goodbye and that novel's followup, No Safe House.
This summer, his thriller Broken Promise, the first of three linked novels about his fictional upstate New York town Promise Falls, will be released. Book two will come nine months later, and another nine months after that, the conclusion will be released.
Over the years, several of Barclay's novels have been optioned for film and television. Most recently, No Time for Goodbye has been optioned for television in France, and in 2012, Trust Your Eyes was the object of a film rights bidding war between Universal and Warner Bros.
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Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.
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― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
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