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TARA LASKOWSKI is the author of the suspense novels The Weekend Retreat, The Mother Next Door, and One Night Gone, which won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award. She also wrote two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders. She has won the Agatha Award and Thriller Award for her short fiction and was the longtime editor of the online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. Follow her on Instagram, @TaraLWrites.

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	The Weekend Retreat 3.45 avg rating — 6,650 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mother Next Door 3.52 avg rating — 4,913 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Night Gone 3.58 avg rating — 4,142 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World by James Thomas (Editor), Robert Shapard (Editor), Christopher Merrill (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Black by Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laird Barron (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Brian Evenson (Contributor) 4.12 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Small Fictions 2017 by Amy Hempel (Guest Editor), Tara Lynn Masih (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Maria Calabretta Cancio-Bella (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons 4.02 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bystanders 4.05 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SmokeLong Quarterly: The Best of the First Ten Years, 2003-2013 4.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman Unbecoming by Rachel A. Brune (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carol Gyzander (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carina Bissett (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Born in Pittsburgh, Keith Donohue is the author of six novels, including The New York Times bestseller The Stolen Child, and Angels of Destruction, Centuries of June, The Boy Who Drew Monsters, The Motion of Puppets, and most recently The Girl in the Bog. He also edited and wrote the introduction to the Everyman edition of The Complete Novels of Flann O’Brien. His work has been translated int

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I’m not sure I can adequately express how much I loved this book. It’s a legal thriller, sure, but also so much more. I loved this cast of characters, the plot moves at a delicious breathtaking pace, and yet everything is so richly drawn and emotiona ...more
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I can’t decide what I love more about this book—the beautiful descriptions of nature and wildlife, the terrifying action sequences that kept me turning pages too late into the night, or our heroine herself— Alex Carter—a super bad-ass with a heart. I ...more
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“I never want to go back to Maurville, to the house with dripping ceilings and worn-out carpet. I never want to become my dad, running a pawnshop in a fading downtown, or my mother, growing more and more bitter about the way her life has shaken out every year.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

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“We trust people to be good and decent. We trust our food, our drinks, to be safe. We trust our friends, our family, our partners, to have our backs and do the right thing. Honor their word. And we should not. People are selfish. They will lie and cheat if they think they can get away with it, if they think it will gain them fortune and fame. These traits are inherited and taught, passed down from generation to generation, a family tree of deceit and lies.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

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“I don’t correct Elle and let the conversation continue around me. Maurville is about as different from Tuscany as you can get. I couldn’t wait to leave, and I can’t wait to never go back.”
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He Was A Liar: A twisty psychological thriller with a shock ending by Daniel Hurst

30 votes, 22.7%

The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski

27 votes, 20.5%

The Body on the Beach (Fethering Mystery #1) by Simon Brett

17 votes, 12.9%

The Naturalist (The Naturalist #1) by Andrew Mayne

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The Butcher's Boy (Butcher's Boy #1) by Thomas Perry

16 votes, 12.1%

The Wicked Bible by Sharon L. Dean

14 votes, 10.6%

The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1) by Faye Kellerman

11 votes, 8.3%

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