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Pour something strong and lock the doors. This week's picks are packed with island secrets, high-stakes cons and the kind of twists that keep you turning pages past midnight. Here's what's waiting in the shadows.

She was supposed to deliver a package. Not uncover a murder. Dr. Julia Fairchild's trip to St. Martin comes with one simple favor, until the man she's delivering to turns up dead in an underwater cave. Julia is a diver and a scientist, and the facts say this was no accident. Now someone is watching, and they don't want that envelope opened.
Why I picked it: A doctor who dives, a Caribbean island and a death everyone wants to call an accident. It's the perfect escape with a body in it.

Pro golfer Davis Stansbury III wins the Masters and pays off his six-figure poker debt. Someone still wants him dead. PI Lindsay Carter and her partner Boyd Parker follow the money from smoky backroom card games to a billion-dollar tech company that silences anyone who gets too close.
Bad Lie is written by The Thrillery's founder.

Eve has spent a year tracking the man who can help her take down Andrew Reed, the man who tried to kill her sister. Then someone searches her apartment. Her landlady knows too much, the neighbor has almost no past, and Eve realizes she didn't find this town by accident.

Mila Kovalenko comes home to teach ancient history at her old university in Ukraine. Days after she signs her contract, a rare manuscript vanishes from the library, and the detective on the case has one suspect: Mila.


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