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Two of these are about sisters. The third is about a woman who hauls dead bodies for a living. My mail carrier has range.

Thank you William Morrow, Thomas & Mercer, Kathleen Carter Communications, and Henry Holt and Co. for the gifted books!

This stack is a genre whiplash in the best sense. 

My Sister Is Going to Kill Me by Nina Simon puts two opposite sisters on a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, and then a fellow traveler turns up dead. It's from the author of Mother-Daughter Murder Night, so you know the family dynamics are going to do half the work. Out now.

She Dies in the End by Elle Marr really caught my eye. Penny Lin is a body broker in Portland, transporting donated cadavers to labs and universities. Then she finds her ex-lover among the deceased with an anonymous note attached: don't tell a soul. Whoever sent it knows exactly what she's been running from. First in a new series, out Oct. 20.

Between You a River by Kimberly Garza is my literary pick of the three. Two estranged sisters get called back to their home in the Philippines to settle family business. What they find is their mother's buried history and a fight over ancestral land. Garza wrote The Last Karankawas, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice. Out Dec. 1.

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