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Megan Abbott
The stunning, unputdownable new psychological thriller from acclaimed author Megan Abbott.
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Plotted with all the brilliance of Dare Me, and written with the compassion of The Fever, the astonishing You Will Know Me - dark and tender by turns - is…
An NPR Best Book of the Year
By the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is…
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From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott, a chilling and compulsive novel about a family holiday that takes a terrifying turn.
Jim Thomsen
The Puget Sound region is beautiful, lush with green trees, sun-sparkled waters, wide-open spaces and white-capped mountains. It's also rich with darkness, gunmetal gray skies, rain-slicked streets, and deep shadows…
This is no ordinary tale of innocence lost …
Queenpinputs a feminine twist on a classic story of underworld greed and betrayal, and is a must for fans of mob classics such as Goodfellas.
The high school cheerleading squad has a new coach: Colette French, perfect in every way, a cool and commanding presence. When a suicide hits close to home, and the police…
A perfect daughter. A tragic accident. A deadly secret… You Will Know Me is Megan Abbott’s most sensational psychological thriller yet.
How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles’ hard-boiled underworld?
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In this impossible-to-put-down novel, a small-town high school becomes the breeding ground for a mysterious illness. The Fever holds true to its title: It’s dark, disturbing, strangely beautiful and utterly…
After a suspicious suicide, the members of a high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation.
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2018 by Cosmopolitan and Entertainment Weekly ) this mesmerizing thriller examines how a secret can bind two friends together or tear them…
Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott’s revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio –
For fans of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Fever is Megan Abbott’s dark and thrilling novel about a mysterious illness that sweeps through a high school.
From the bestselling author of The End of Everything, a searing new novel about the dark heart of adolescence.
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott, an eerie and prescient novel about a family holiday that takes a terrifying turn.
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The new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the multi-award-winning writer Megan Abbott, ‘the perfect storyteller - compelling, confounding and unconventional’ (VAL MCDERMID).
Megan Abbott,Megan Abbott
7 octobre 1949. Jean Spangler, une actrice de second plan, embrasse sa fille et quitte son domicile pour un tournage de nuit dans un studio de Hollywood. On ne la…
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Megan Abbott,Alison Gaylin
Sex, violence and corruption collide in this gritty vigilante thriller set in 1970s Washington DC. When her younger sister is found at the center of a brutal murder investigation, tough-as-nails…
Vicki Hendricks
Originally published by Pantheon Books in 1995.
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Megan E. Abbott
An Edgar] nominee for Die a Little, Abbotts latest mystery puts a feminine twist on a classic story of underworld seduction.
How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles' hard-boiled underworld? Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott's debut, Die a…
Megan E Abbott
Dorothy B. Hughes
Dix Steele is back in town, and ‘town’ is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs…
Gothic, in the sense of Southern Gothic, these eleven stories emphasize the grotesque and take place in various Florida environments. Some involve crime and violence, most involve sex; and animals…
Matt Zoller Seitz
This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s celebrated Mad Men recaps-as featured on New York magazine’s Vulture blog-for the first time, including never-before-published essays on the show’s…
Scott Romine,Megan Abbott,Jacob Agner
Examines the often-overlooked and undervalued impact of the US South on the origins and development of the detective genre and film noir. This wide-ranging collection engages with ongoing discussions about…
Literary crime fiction master Tom Franklin curates this volume of stellar noir from the Deep South.
