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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.

Bad Things by Michael Marshall Smith

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Also by Michael Marshall Smith:

Killer Move, March 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Killer Move, July 2011
Hardcover
Bad Things, December 2010
Mass Market Paperback
Bad Things, May 2009
Hardcover
The Intruders, January 2009
Mass Market Paperback
The Intruders, August 2007
Hardcover

BAD THINGS
By: Michael Marshall Smith

They don't just happen to other people.

Harper
December 2010
On Sale: November 30, 2010
Featuring: John Henderson
374 pages
ISBN: 0061434418
EAN: 9780061434419
Mass Market Paperback
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Mystery | Thriller

A bad thing occurred three years ago. A little boy died for no discernable reason, shattering lawyer John Henderson's world. Today he's a different man, living in solitary, simple existence in an Oregon beach house - until the night he receives a short e-mail from a stranger:

I know what happened.

With just four words, Henderson is pulled back to Black Ridge, Washington, the one place he'd hoped never to see again. It seems that bad things have always happened in this small town of generations-old secrets - and the shadows here seem even darker now than when tragedy first drove John Henderson away. The deeper he digs for answers, the more danger he draws toward himself and his estranged, helpless family...and he's not the only one who'e been called home.

And that's a very bad thing...