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As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?

Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.

Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . .

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape mentioned
Drugging
Blood depiction
Murder
Kidnapping
Wrongful incarceration
Stalking
Animal death

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.

But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh.

The police won’t do anything about it. And if they won’t look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town’s dark secrets along the way… and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it’s too late?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape recounted
Nonconsensual drugging
Death of a sibling recounted
Death of a child
Murder
Gun violence
Disappearance of a sibling

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Sexual assault
Statutory rape
Rape recounted
Student-teacher relationship
Suicide
Disordered eating mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Nonconsensual drugging (roofies)
Death of a parent recounted
Murder
Car accident recounted
Kidnapping
Blackmail
Animal death
Bullying

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

The underground population of witches, vampires, werewolves has lived beside humans for centuries, hiding their powers. But after a genetically engineered virus wipes out a large part of humanity, many of the “Inderlanders” reveal themselves, changing everything.

Rachel Morgan, with and bounty hunter with the Inderland Runner Services, is one of the best at apprehending supernatural lawbreakers throughout Cincinnati, but when it comes to following the rules, she falls desperately short. Determined to buck the system, she quits and takes off on the run with an I.S. contract on her head and is reluctantly forced to team up with Ivy, Inderland’s best runner…and a living vampire. But this witch is way out of her league, and to clear her name, Rachel must evade shape-changing assassins, outwit a powerful businessman/crime lord, and survive a vicious underground fight-to-the-death…not to mention her own roommate.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Murder
Physical assault
Animal abuse
Animal fighting rings

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

I wasn’t free of my past, not yet.

Sydney’s blood is special. That’s because she’s an alchemist – one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets – and human lives. But the last encounter Sydney had with vampires got her in deep trouble with the other alchemists. And now with her allegiances in question, her future is on the line.

When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she’s still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. But what unfolds is far worse. Jill Dragomir – the sister of Moroi Queen Lissa Dragomir – is in mortal danger, and the Moroi must send her into hiding… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape mentioned
Disordered body & weight thoughts
Alcoholism mentioned
Blood depiction
Murder
Bullying

Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks

Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks

Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her “touched.” Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn’t speak. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot hear. Content with her life of seclusion, Eveline has taught herself to read lips and allows the outside world to view her as daft. But when an arranged marriage into a rival clan makes Graeme Montgomery her husband, Eveline accepts her duty—unprepared for the delights to come. Graeme is a rugged warrior with a voice so deep and powerful that his new bride can hear it, and hands and kisses so tender and… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Threats of rape & sexual harassment
Forced marriage
Loss of hearing in an horse-riding accident recounted, off-page
Death of a parent
Attempted murder, on-page
Kidnapping

Until April by Aurora Rose Reynolds

Until April by Aurora Rose Reynolds

With happily ever after being something that happens to other people, April Mayson has decided to put all her energy into her career and living her best life, and things are better than ever. Little does she know that her world is about to be turned upside down when she’s asked to help out a family friend, Maxim Kauwe.

Now, she’s dealing with a man unlike any she’s ever met before, her ex—a famous musician who’s decided he wants her back—and a possible serial killer.

With all the drama suddenly swirling around her, she will have to figure out if she is brave enough to trust Maxim with her heart and maybe even her life.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Abelism (r slur)
Cheating mentioned
Drugging
Blood depiction
Murder
Gun violence
Kidnapping

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.

They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead. The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Cheating
Alcohol consumption
Drug abuse
Pregnancy
Emesis
Murder
Gun violence
Stalking
Animal death

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.

An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.

Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexism
Victim blaming discussed
Rape recounted
Parental abandonment mentioned
Depression & psychotic depression
Panic attacks, on-page
Abortion recounted
Infertility mentioned
Needles
Graphic dead bodies, on-page
Emesis mentioned
Amputation of fingers, off-page
Medical experimentation & inhumane procedures discussed
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from cancer recounted
Death of a mother in a hit-and-run accident mentioned
Death of a brother by drowning recounted
Death of a colleague by drowning
Murder & attempted murder, on-page
Drowning & attempted drowning
Knife violence & stabbing, on-page
Kidnapping, on-page
Physical assault
Disappearance of a wife
Avalanche, on-page

Dark Age by Pierce Brown

Dark Age by Pierce Brown

For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place?

Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Classism
Child abuse
Rape mentioned
Murder
Sword violence
Poisoning
Torture
Explosion
War themes & battle scenes
Animal abuse