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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton

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Also by Fiona Barton:

Repeat After Me, March 2027
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Talking to Strangers, July 2025
Trade Paperback
Talking to Strangers, September 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Local Gone Missing, May 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Local Gone Missing, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Suspect, March 2020
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Suspect, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Child, March 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
The Child, July 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Widow, February 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

LOCAL GONE MISSING
By: Fiona Barton

Berkley
July 2022
On Sale: June 21, 2022
Featuring: Elise King
384 pages
ISBN: 1984803042
EAN: 9781984803047
Kindle: B09GW1Z9G6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Psychological | Suspense Women Sleuth


Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective—or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing—the weekenders renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes. 
 
Elise can only guess what really happens behind closed doors. But Dee Eastwood, her house cleaner, often knows. She’s an invisible presence in many of the houses in town, but she sees and hears everything. 
 
The conflicts boil over when a newcomer wants to put the town on the map with a giant music festival, and two teenagers overdose on drugs. When a man disappears the first night of the festival, Elise is drawn back into her detective work and starts digging for answers. Ebbing is a small town, but it's full of secrets and hidden connections that run deeper and darker than Elise could have ever imagined.