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Murder List
By: Julie Garwood

As a favor, Regan attends a seminar given by a psychologist with a shady reputation. At the reception, the doctor asks guests to make a list of people who have hurt them over the years. At the end of the cleansing ceremony, they’re asked to throw their lists in the fireplace. Regan leaves instead. Soon after the people whose names appeared on Regan’s list begin to disappear. Shock turns to horror when the bodies start to surface. Mystery.

 

  The Zero Game
By: Brad Meltzer

Matthew and Harris, congressional staffers, are bored after a decade in Washington. Then one of them learns of the clandestine Zero Game. It starts out as a simple wager between friends but turns out deadly when someone dies. And they’re about to be it’s next victims. On the run, they turn to a teenage page who can move undetected around the Capitol. As a ruthless page creeps closer, the idealistic page not only holds the key to saving their lives, but is determined to redeem them as well. Mystery.

 

  Rape: A Love Story
By: Joyce Carol Oates

A victim of gang rape, left for dead in a park boathouse, the once vital and sexy Teena can now only regret that she survived. And her pre-teen daughter Bethie can barely remember a childhood uncolored by fear. For the men Teena identified as her attackers live nearby. Oates unfolds the story of Teena and Bethie, their assailants, and their unexpected silent champion, a man who knows the meaning of justice. And love

 

 

 

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