Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

"A chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders."

"Harry, a Harvard football star, is murdered in an alley. Detectives “Bark” Jones and Tommy Dillon are assigned to the case. They find heartbreaking loss, sordid characters, and metaphysical conspiracies. Even on the rough streets of 1970s Boston, Jones and Dillon have never had a case like this."

"It’s Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama follows neighborhood families and a mysterious, lurking evil on one Halloween day."

"The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream...an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all."

"Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder. She and Willa are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse that reveals corruption in Amherst that is generations deep."

"As Mac delves into the decades-old mystery with the help of librarian Flo and her book group, she discovers a story of star-crossed lovers and feuding families worthy of the bard himself."

"Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most."

"Will Rees accompanies his wife to Boston to help clear her estranged father's name in this gripping mystery set in the early nineteenth century."

"Emma McCarthy, is a thirty year old failed actress who moves home to Plymouth, MA when she and her mother, Cindy, inherit a private detective agency."

"Fans of Ruth Ware and B.A. Paris won’t want to miss this complex psychological thriller from an acclaimed author about a powerful Boston family desperate to keep their darkest secrets from coming to light."

"When a stranger’s picture sends Liza’s schizophrenic mother deeper into psychosis, Liza does a reverse-image search to identify him. Upon discovering he is a trauma surgeon at a Massachusetts teaching hospital, she impulsively changes her pathology residency program of choice to his center."

"Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. Plunged into the trauma that has defined her life, Maya heads to her Berkshires hometown to relive that fateful summer."

"Will Connor returns to his hometown, a village north of Boston, to care for his injured mother. As Will looks deeper into his family’s history he discovers that her practices weren’t so much a passing fad but the latest link in a long tradition of New England witchcraft, which still seems to hold a strange power over the town."

"When a body is discovered at Step Above, the sprawling Murphy house near Steps Beach, Nantucket police detective Meredith Folger is called in to investigate."

"A family patriarch’s dying proclamation, an enigmatic disappearance, and a century-old curse converge in the shadows of a majestic home on Cape Cod’s craggy coast."

"A middle-aged musician, is back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer/best friend, when she finds herself freezing on stage at the sight of a face in the crowd."

"It's wedding season on Nantucket, and two unwelcome guests are crashing the party...Has someone come back to the island with a sinister grudge to settle?"

"A true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard, of obsession and love for a girl who dreamt of rising among men."

"Though Tony Costa’s gruesome case made screaming headlines in 1969 and beyond, Liza never made the connection between her friendly babysitter and the infamous killer of numerous women, including four in Massachusetts, until decades later."

The Last Word by Taylor Adams

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