David Bell. NAL, $14 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-23467-4
Set in a small Ohio college town, Bell’s suspenseful, disquieting debut thriller gets off to a strong start. The disappearance of 12-year-old Caitlin Stuart, last seen four years earlier walking the family dog in a park near her home, has severely...
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David Bell. NAL, $15 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-23796-5
Bell follows his 2011 debut, Cemetery Girl, with an artfully constructed tale that charts the devastating, life-changing effects over 25 years on the people most affected by the murder of a four-year-old boy, Justin Manning, in Dove Point, Ohio....
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David Bell. Berkley, $16 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-58444-2
Bell’s (Since She Went Away) fraught family thriller puts a number of people through an emotional wringer, but none more than widower Bill Price, who lost his wife to a home accident less than two years earlier. Now he rushes to the Jakesville...
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David Bell. Berkley, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-58446-6
Michael Frazier, the hero of this riveting thriller from Bell (Bring Her Home), has a nearly ideal life in his hometown of Cottonsville, Ky., until the evening his frantic ex-wife, Erica, appears at his door and pleads for his help in finding her...
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David Bell. NAL, $15 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-41751-0
Despite working on a PhD in history, Elizabeth Hampton proves to be dangerously ignorant about her own—as the Dover, Ohio, grad student discovers after her widowed 69-year-old mother’s murder in this page-turner from Bell (The Hiding Place)....
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David Bell. NAL, $15 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-41752-7
Jason Danvers, the hero of this tense, cleverly plotted thriller from Bell (Never Come Back), has relocated with his wife to his hometown of Ednaville, Ohio, where he’s making a fresh start after losing a job in New York City. The couple are...
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David Bell. NAL, $15 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-47420-9
At the start of this satisfying thriller set in a small Ohio college town from Bell (The Forgotten Girl), housing authority caseworker Nick Hansen spots a young woman in a grocery store who bears a startling resemblance to Marissa Minor, the love of
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David Bell. NAL, $15 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-47421-6
In this tantalizing thriller from Bell (Somebody I Used to Know), the small Kentucky town of Hawks Mill makes the news when Celia Walters disappears near Caldwell Park, where she was supposed to be meeting her friend Jenna Barron late one night....
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David Bell. Berkley, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-440-00087-7
Frequent business traveler Joshua Fields, the nice guy narrator of this fast-paced thriller from Bell (Somebody’s Daughter), is in the Atlanta airport when he bumps into an attractive woman, Morgan Reynolds, who, after a second encounter, agrees to...
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David Bell. Berkley, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-44000-089-1
One evening after work, happily married businessman Ryan Francis, the narrator of this tense if unsubtle thriller from Bell (Layover), runs into his best friend from college, Blake Norton, whom he hasn’t seen in some months. Blake, “Butch Cassidy...
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David Bell. Berkley, $17 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-19867-4
At the start of this brisk suspense novel from Bell (The Request), Connor Nye, an English professor at Kentucky’s Commonwealth University, is visited by a former student, Madeline O’Brien, who disappeared two years earlier and was presumed dead....
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David Bell. Berkley, $17 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-19870-4
In this lackluster mash-up of Clue and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None from Bell (Kill All Your Darlings), six students compete for a lucrative scholarship at Kentucky’s small, family-funded Hyde College. They must relinquish all...
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David Bell. Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99 paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-7282-5420-3
In this absorbing thriller by Bell (The Finalists, for adults), Kentucky high school senior Hunter endeavors to find his missing girlfriend, Chloe, and clear his name as a suspect in her disappearance. After leaving their school’s homecoming dance,...
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