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The latest thriller from the Twin Cities author of “Esther” (and Loft Literary Center teacher) begins with a bang. Narrator Hannah is in a car that’s speeding toward northern Minnesota with a possible maniac in the driver’s seat, severe memory issues and the fear that she has just committed a murder. (Crooked Lane/TNS)

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In what’s being described as the most ambitious novel by the author of “The Heart’s Invisible Furies‚” “Elements” begins as four stories of four separate groups of characters, but the strands are woven together by Boyne’s themes of crime and morality. (Henry Holt/TNS)

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Herron, meanwhile, is way ahead of the series — “Clown Town” is the ninth of his “Slow Horses” books, which are every bit as funny, exciting and surp

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