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Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 by Lisa Unger; Steph Cha
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Best American Ser.
“This form has a special kind of magic, the ability to transport you quickly, intensely, to capture character, time, place, and story with immediacy,” writes guest editor Lisa Unger in her introduction. The transporting stories in this year’s The Best American Mystery and Suspense are populated by those ...Show more
Black Out by Lisa Unger
Category: Fiction
Annie Powers seems to live a happy, pampered life in a wealthy Florida suburb with a husband who loves her fiercely and a beautiful young daughter they named Victory. But that happiness suddenly starts to fade when Annie feels the demons of her past creeping up on her. It's a past that she can't even re ...Show more
Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger
Category: Fiction
Ian Paine has spent his life running away. He's drunk too much booze, taken too many reality warping drugs, gotten high too often to numb the painful memories of his horrific childhood. Gorging himself on food until he was unrecognizable, he hid inside himself, and to the world he was just a lonely fat ...Show more
Darkness, My Old Friend by Lisa Unger
Category: Fiction
Willow acts tough, but when she cuts school and sees a man digging up a body while she's in the woods, she takes off running and drops her cell phone. The man brings the phone back and introduces himself as Michael to Willow's mother, who finds herself intrigued despite her daughter's overactive imagina ...Show more
Die for You by Lisa Unger
Category: Fiction
Isabel and Marcus Raines are the perfect couple. She is a well-known novelist; he is a brilliant inventor of high-tech games and they have been happily married for five years. But one morning, Marcus leaves for work, and disappears into thin air. Isabel tries to reach him when he doesn't return home. Bu ...Show more
Die for You by Lisa Unger
Category: Fiction
Isabel and Marcus Raines are the perfect couple. She is a well-known novelist; he is a brilliant inventor of high-tech games and they have been happily married for five years. But one morning, Marcus leaves for work, and disappears into thin air. Isabel tries to reach him when he doesn't return home. Bu ...Show more
In the Blood by Lisa Unger
Category: Young Adult
About to graduate from university in upstate New York, Lana Granger takes a job in town looking after eleven year old Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, manipulative Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. He likes to play games. But in Lana he may have met his match. Or ...Show more
In the Blood by Lisa Unger
Category: Young Adult
Lana Granger is a liar. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is, that the truth seems like a nightmare she can't quite remember. But she knows one thing for certain: she needs a job. About to graduate from a small college in upstate New York, her trust fund is going to run ou ...Show more
Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
Category: Crime Fiction
Twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery is rarely alone. Visited by people whom others can’t see and haunted by prophetic dreams, she has never been able to control or understand the things that happen to her. When Finley’s abilities start to become too strong for her to handle — and even the roar of her moto ...Show more
Last Girl Ghosted by Lisa Unger
Category: Fiction
An online dating match turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse game in this riveting and utterly original thriller She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a meeting at a downtown bar. What she thought might be just a quick hookup quickly became much more. She fell for him -- hard ...Show more