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Tripwire by Lee Child

Tripwire by Lee Child

For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn’t want to be found. But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. It’s time to head north and work out who is trying to find him and why.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Rape
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent mentioned
Murder
Torture
Gun violence
Car accident
Fire

Persuader by Lee Child

Persuader by Lee Child

Never forgive, never forget. That’s Jack Reachers standard operating procedure. And Francis Xavier Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. He had done truly unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him, alive and well, riding in a limousine outside Boston’s Symphony Hall. Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal attempt to kidnap a terrified young student on a New England campus, he takes the law into his own hands. That’s his way, after all. Only this time, a cop die, and Reacher doesnt stick around to explain. Has he lost his sense of right and wrong? Just because this time, it’s personal?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape & sexual assault
Blood & gore depiction
Emesis
Murder
Torture
Gun violence
Kidnapping
Military service

Killing Floor by Lee Child

Killing Floor by Lee Child

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he’s about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Hate crime
Military service recounted
Murder
Torture

Echo Burning by Lee Child

Echo Burning by Lee Child

Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That’s Jack Reacher’s conclusion. He’s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The last thing he’s worried about is exactly who picks him up. He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She’s alone, driving a Cadillac. She’s beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Sexism
Hate crime
Sexual assault
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Gun violence

Die Trying by Lee Child

Die Trying by Lee Child

Jack Reacher, alone, strolling nowhere. A Chicago street in bright sunshine. A young woman, struggling on crutches. He offers her a steadying arm. And turns to see a handgun aimed at his stomach. Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn’t know why they’ve been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI. She’s certainly tough enough. But at their remote destination, will raw courage be enough to overcome the hopeless odds?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Antisemitism
Sexual assault
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Kidnapping

The Game by Linsey Miller

The Game by Linsey Miller

Every year the senior class at Lincoln High plays assassin. Lia Prince has been planning her strategy for years and she’s psyched that not only does she finally get to play, she’s on a team with Devon Diaz. But this year, the game isn’t any fun–it’s real. Abby Ascher, Ben Barnard, and Cassidy Clarke have all turned up… dead. Can Lia stop the ABC killer before he reaches D?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child neglect
Panic attack
Murder

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class—and the nobles who destroyed their home. When Sal steals a flyer for an audition to become a member of The Left Hand—the Queen’s personal assassins, named after the rings she wears—Sal jumps at the chance to infiltrate the court and get revenge. But the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. A childhood as a common crim… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misgendering
Self harm
Blood & injury depiction
Death of a parent mentioned
Death of a sibling mentioned
Murder & mass murder
Poisoning
Skinning

Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller

Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller

Emilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work. Annette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. So when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts. Emilie and Annette swap lives—Annette attends finishing school as a noble lady to be trained in the ways of divination… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Amisia
Blood & gore depiction
Graphic physical injuries
Body horror
Medical procedures & treatment
Beheading
Starvation & food insecurity mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a sibling, on- & off-page
Execution
Drowning mentioned
War & military themes

Ruin of Stars by Linsey Miller

Ruin of Stars by Linsey Miller

As one of the Queen’s elite assassins, Sal finally has the power, prestige, and permission to hunt down the lords who killed their family. But Sal still has to figure out who the culprits are. They must enlist the help of some old friends and enemies while ignoring a growing distaste for the queen and that the charming Elise is being held prisoner by her father. But there’s something terribly wrong in the north. Talk of the return of shadows, missing children, and magic abounds. As Sal takes out the people responsible for their ruined homeland, Sal learns secrets and truths that can’t be forgotten.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misgendering
Misogyny
Child abuse mentioned
Graphic dead bodies
Medical experimentation
Panic attack
Death of a friend mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Skinning
Torture
Physical assault
Immolation
Kidnapping

The Deed by Lynsay Sands

The Deed by Lynsay Sands

An innocent young beauty finds herself the fulcrum of a struggle for feudal power. Along with her ample dowry, Emma finds herself promised to Amaury de Aneford, a landless knight whose able sword has preserved the King’s crown-and whose rugged good looks make her heart skip a beat. But on the wedding day, as a rival knight gallops toward the bridal chamber, Amaury will find that making love to his naive new bride will take consummate skill. For in the conjugal bed, Emma is astonished to learn there is more to a wedding night than just a sound sleep-and more to true love than she’s ever imagined.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child neglect
Drugging
Murder
Kidnapping