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The Girls in The Snow by Stacy Green – Defintely Putdownable

Special Agent Nicole “Nikki” Hunt returns to her hometown Stillwater, Minnesota for the first time in twenty years. The last time she was here was when she discovered her parents’ dead bodies in their home one night and she was the primary witness in the case. She had seen Mark Todd that night and following her testimony, Mark was arrested. This time Nikki was invited to visit a crime scene in Stillwater, where the local police had found the dead bodies of two young girls dumped in the snow. Since she is the expert in the serial killer Frost cases, she was informed, but this is not how Frost behaves; there are several differences. Will she be able to find who killed these girls? Shockingly, new evidence reevals that Mark Todd is innocent. Is this case somehow connected to her parents’ murders?

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A Murder of Crows – Not your Average Thriller Novel but A Rare Treat for Fiction Lovers

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A Murder of Crows is a promising, feel-good page-turner. The author’s writing is so good that you don’t notice how time passes by or pause to see how many more pages are left. Starting from the smart word play in the title to the ability to beautifully blend in details of ecology with a murder mystery, the storytelling is almost perfect. The narration also smoothly alternates between light moments and the more serious ones, as we experience spontaneous, witty humour, romance that feels deep, and the curiousity to learn what happens next. Sarah Yarwood-Lovett delivers the complete package, not just another thriller story.

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The Roommate by Andrea Mara – A Gripping, Short Thriller Story

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The Roommate is a short story, a psychological thriller written by Andrea Mara, published recently as part of the Deadly Ambition collection by Amazon Original Stories. Elena lives with her husband Richard and two kids in Dublin. She is grateful for all the luxury and peace they have. Richard is the perfect husband, but he does not know about a dark incident from her past. When the two sit down to watch a crime show on TV, Elena is shocked to learn that the show is an exact narrative of what happened in her past, what she has tried to forget and has told nobody about. Her past comes back to haunt her? But who is behind this and what do they want?

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Silenced Girls by Roger Stelljes: An Engaging Serial killer Thriller Novel

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Silenced Girls is a page-turning thriller novel, so it is no wonder that the book has been a best-seller that is loved by lots of thriller fans. This is only the first book in the Agent Tori Hunter series. Here and there, the pace may slow down a bit, but mostly, Roger Stelljes keeps the reader engaged with a fast or at least even pace. If you like serial killer plots that have complete stories with writing that keeps you effortlessly interested and if you can overlook some logical flaws, you should give this a try.

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These Cold Strangers by J. T. Ellison – A Dark Short Story

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Addison Blake has moved far away from the home and the town she grew up in after her entire family and her boyfriend were murdered in their own home when she was a young girl, out partying with her friends. Initially, even the police blamed her. Even though she is far away now, she is still under medication and therapy and carries a massive survivor’s guilt. Call it fate or coincidence, but she is made to visit her past. How will that turn out?

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Slow Burner by Laura Lippman – Forgiving a Gaslighting, Cheating Partner Again?

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Liz Kelsey is a high-school teacher, married to her partner Phil Kelsey, who is a venture capitalist for nearly twenty-five years. Nearly eighteen months before, Liz caught Phil in an emotional affair with a woman much younger than him, as he tried to use his power at work to give her career opportunities. After therapy and working on herself, she is convinced that their marriage is healthy, until she catches him trying to reconnect with that same woman again. Is there anything she can do to end that extramarital affair, especially when she can’t even confront him because she had promised not to check his phone?

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The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious Part-2) by Maureen Johnson – Is The Mystery Finally Solved?

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In The Vanishing Stair, Stevie Bell reunites with her friends at Ellingham, he boyfriend and she break the awkwardness and their romance grows further, but she is still as anxious as she was earlier, still having to take medicines for anxiety when she needs. With the dark reality of one classmate who had died and one other classmate who went missing still looming in the air, she is still thinking about crime, like a determined detective would. Who is responsible for the Ellingham murders and who killed her classmate?

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Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – A Strong Feminist Fiction Short Story

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In this short story, Zikora, an African American woman is a lawyer in Washington DC, in a relationship with the perfect man – Kwame. When she gets pregnant, her life unexpectedly falls apart. As she survives all those difficulties with nothing but the support of her mother and her female cousin in Nigeria, she comes to realize how unjust life is for women and unlearns internalized misogyny.

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The Woman in The Cabin by Becca Day – An Unputdownable Psychological Thriller

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Mary is stuck in a marriage with an abusive, controlling man, Cal. The problem is that she cannot leave him because they live in a remote place with no contact with the outside world, and she does not even know whom to go to or how to leave. And that’s when she discovers something chilling about his past and something important happens in her life. Nothing is really what it seems like.

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Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson – Part 2 of AGGGTM Series

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In part 2 of “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder”, Pip has given up working on solving cases after all the pain it caused her and her family last time, so she runs a podcast with her boyfriend’s support. But a friend’s brother goes missing and out of empathy and consideration, Pip starts playing detective again. As she starts digging, more and more questions arise.

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