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Sept. 8: Megan Miranda, The Last to Vanish. ISBN 978-1982147327. “He arrived at night in the middle of a downpour, one of the conditions more suitable for a disappearance.” Thus begins Miranda’s psychological thriller, which Booklist has compared to the works of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. A resort town near the Appalachian Trail has been plagued by a series of vanishings, and a journalist who has arrived to investigate them vanishes as well. It is up to the protagonist, inn manager Abigail Lovett, to uncover the secrets that will solve the mystery. Oct. 6: Ann Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread. ISBN 978-0553394399. “Late one July evening in 1994, Red and Abby Whitshank had a phone call from their son Denny.” An adult son calling his parents, even late in the evening, would hardly be an unusual event in most families, but Denny is the problem child whose psychological issues one reader describes as “triggering.” He and his three siblings are heirs to a legacy that includes the typica