Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher finds himself in Margrave, Georgia, where he is almost immediately arrested for murder; after being released, he joins with a straight-arrow detective and a beautiful lady cop to unearth a conspiracy that stretches through the small town and beyond.

It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. Her latest customer, a bearded stranger, drains his cup and heads to his car. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger understands more about it than he wants to admit. And the beat-up bread truck careening around the corner with its radio blaring is about to...

"When seven murder victims are found in a small town, the homicide investigation shakes a small-town sheriff to her core"-- Provided by publisher.

"Saturday night dates at the skating rink have long been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, the medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver find themselves entangled in a terrible tragedy. Then a young girl is abducted, and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime, one more shocking than anyone could have imagined....

An Atlanta apartment serves as the sight of four people's own personal 'Downton Abbey' as they share in the joys and tragedies of life during weekly get-togethers to watch the show. (Original), 384pp.

Fifteenth summer: Fifteen-year-old Chelsea and her family are spending the summer at a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan where Chelsea meets and falls for Josh--the cute and shy employee at the new bookstore in town. -- Sixteenth summer: Sixteen-year-old Anna falls for Will, a New Yorker visiting her resort island for the summer, but she isn't sure if one summer of love will be worth her heart breaking when he leaves at the end of August.

Destines collide at a gas station when a strapping man steps between a gun and 21-year-old Shandi Pierce's son during a stick-up. Shandi has enough on her plate with her still-feuding Christian mother and Jewish father, who divorced long ago. When the geneticist who saved her son's life reveals his own take on destiny, Shandi knows her life will never be the same. 352pp., 150K, Auth res: GA, Tour

"The roots of the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency reach back to the 1980s in the little town of McGill, Georgia - where Stella Reid and her seven grandkids enjoy some spooky Halloween fun and stumble into murder...It doesn't take cash, just some good old-fashioned creativity, to turn a pillowcase into a ghost costume or a trashcan into a suit of armor. So even if she has to stick to a budget, Stella Reid always makes holidays like Halloween memorable...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man
When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, he journeys to his native Georgia with a renewed

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"The author of The Good Detective delivers a gripping and atmospheric new novel in which a cop takes on a harrowing new case and confronts old personal demons. What if the one good thing you did in your life doomed you to die?"--