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Top 10 Adult Fiction Books for 2024
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The top 10 checkouts from our Adult Fiction collection in 2024
Updated January 24, 2025
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1
A calamity of souls
Baldacci, David
Paper Book
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times ...
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Crosshairs
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
"Turn. Up. The. Heat" (New York Times) with this psychological thriller. New York City detective Michael Bennett faces his most terrifying killer ever. It could be anyone. They could be anywhere. A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible...
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The Murder Inn: From the Author of the Summer House Hardcover
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
It's the perfect getaway. But the past will always find you . . . When ex-cop Bill Robinson takes over The Inn by the Sea, all he wants is a quiet escape from the city. But when a crime boss moves into town...
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Eruption Hardcover
Crichton, Michael.
Paper Book
The biggest thriller of the year: A history-making eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the US military is far more terrifying than any volcano. "The book is a classic summer beach read...Eruption will...
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Camino Ghosts Hardcover
Grisham, John
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Escape to Camino Island, where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise. Don't miss John Grisham's upcoming Framed, his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man!
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Holmes, Miss Marple & Poe Investigations Hardcover
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
In this thrilling story of crime and corruption, three detectives keep their identities secret, and NYPD's Det. Helene Grey is on a mission to unmask them--no matter who gets killed along the way. In New York City, three intriguing, smart, and stylish private...
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Private: Missing Persons Paperback
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
In Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. Finding the connection between the two will lead the Private team right into a deadly trap. A wealthy...
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Confessions of the dead
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Don't rent a summer house in Hollow's Bend this year! Patterson's scariest thrills since Death of the Black Widow. Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at...
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9
Think Twice
COBEN, HARLAN.
Paper Book
A man presumed dead is suddenly wanted for murder in this thriller of secrets, lies, and dangerous conspiracies that threaten to cover up the truth. Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball...
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It Had to Be You
Clark, Mary Higgins
Paper Book
In the latest thrilling entry of the bestselling Under Suspicion series by Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran investigates the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons.
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