★★★★★ The daughter of a convicted serial killer has kept her identity a secret for 20 years, but someone has found out and is determined to expose her.

★★★☆☆ A woman returns to her hometown in South Carolina, only to be confronted with clues that help her unravel her sister's disappearance twenty years prior.

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★★★☆☆ Robert Langdon is back for another romp through an international city—this time, Prague—and a secret about human consciousness that could rock the world.

★★★★★ A woman returns to the elite boarding school she attended after 20+ years to search for answers about the murder of her roommate senior year.

★★★★☆ When a lawyer starts to dig into the murder of his best friend, all signs seem to point to conspiracies involving his own law firm.

★★★★☆ A novel premise gives way to a well-structured mystery in which a young woman must solve her own murder before an aneurysm kills her.

★★★☆☆ A serial killer returns to Portland after almost twenty years to terrorize a local radio host, targeting the one person who saw him and lived.

★★★★☆ A woman returns home to ghostwrite her estranged father's memoir while trying to unravel if he was responsible for the 50-year-old murder of his siblings.

★★★★☆ A local publican is found dead with a crown of antlers on his head in this multi-layered mystery taking place in a small English town.

★★☆☆☆ A serial killer targeting Asian women during the pandemic combines with a ghost story to form one of the more racist books I've read.

★★★★☆ Our assassins hell-bent on *not* killing return in a sequel to Assassins Anonymous that is satisfying but falls short of the original.

★★☆☆☆ A cyber thief is forced to flee from Homeland Security when her crimes finally come to light in this poorly-plotted mess of a book.

★★★★☆ A girl grows up in a remote cabin with just her father, whose distrust of technology and government snowballs with each passing year.

★★★★☆ A nun leaves her convent to investigate the disappearance of her friend, only to encounter multiple murders at her boarding house.

★★★★☆ A woman who was part of a secret society while at Princeton investigates her sister's death, who was also part of the same society.

★★★☆☆ A B-52 bomber that has been missing for over 60 years suddenly returns to U.S. airspace in 2025...and it's carrying a nuclear bomb.

★★☆☆☆ Part international espionage, part man on the run, a novel that suffers from plot holes big enough to drive a Russian tank through.

★★★★☆ When her husband goes off the rails, taking three people hostage, his wife tries to save him while unraveling the why behind his act.

★★★★☆ Author Raybourn runs it back with everyone's favorite female assassins in their 60s in a sequel that's just as good as the original.