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Thrillers and Suspense November 2020
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Total Power (series)
by Vince Flynn
When an ISIS plot devastates America’s power grid, Mitch Rapp and his CIA team race to find the responsible cyberterrorists to prevent the nation from succumbing to total collapse. By the best-selling author of Red War. 500,000 first printing.
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A Time for Mercy (also on ebook)
by John Grisham
Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career and the safety of his family on the line to defend a 16-year-old murder suspect who is facing the death penalty. By the best-selling author of A Time to Kill. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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| The Second Mother (ebook) by Jenny MilchmanWhat it's about: Grieving the loss of her daughter, recovering alcoholic Julie Weathers is hoping for a fresh start after accepting a teaching job on an island off the coast of Maine, in a quaint town called Mercy. But beneath Mercy's charming surface is a knotty web of secrets, and Julie's arrival in town risks unearthing everything.
Read it for: The well-rendered atmosphere, which alternates between appealing small-town scenes, gothic-tinged moments of building suspense, and the ever-present menace of the open sea. |
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| Once Two Sisters (ebook and Audiobook) by Sarah WarburtonWhat it is: a compelling, high-drama debut novel about family ties, identity, and the power of storytelling.
The setup: Cutting off a dysfunctional family is already tough, but it's even harder for Zoe Hallett, whose elder sister Ava writes bestselling novels with characters meant to make Zoe look bad. Things get even worse when Ava goes missing and suspicion falls on Zoe, and soon the court of public opinion swiftly and viciously turns against her. |
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Three Women Disappear
by James Patterson
When three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing, Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection to the case, discovers why the women have to stay hidden from both the law and each other. 500,000 first printing.
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| The Perfect Wife (also on ebook) by JP DelaneyWhat it's about: Abbie Cullen-Scott doesn't remember why she's in the hospital, although her high-profile tech innovator husband tells says she's been in a coma for five years after a major accident. But while she rebuilds her life, Abbie starts to notice other things she can't account for, including her mysterious inability to taste or smell anything.
Why you might like it: Evoking elements of classic thrillers like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, this novel raises compelling, troubling questions about the intersection between advanced technology and humanity's most primitive impulses. |
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| Perfect Little Children (audiobook) by Sophie HannahThe premise: More than a decade after it happened, Beth Leeson still feels pangs of guilt about the way things ended with her closest friend Flora. After hearing that Flora has returned to town with her husband and children, Beth follows an impulse and drives to their upmarket neighborhood to see how life is treating her friend.
The problem: Beth times it perfectly and gets to catch a glance them returning home. Flora looks good, but instead of the teenagers she expects, she sees two small children that appear not to have aged a day in the last 12 years. |
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| Nine Perfect Strangers (ebook and Audiobook) by Liane MoriartyWhat it is: a character-driven, witty take on the suspense trope of a group of strangers thrown together by circumstances, this time at a chichi wellness retreat that may be more than it seems.
Featuring: wealthy but unhappy people like a couple whose marriage is suffering after winning the lottery, a young woman haunted by the death of her twin, a washed-up romance novelist, and an out-of-shape former Olympian. And overseeing it all is a preternaturally beautiful fitness guru with an unorthodox new regime to test out on her clients. |
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| One Perfect Lie (ebook and Audiobook) by Lisa ScottolineWhat it's about: Living undercover as a high school baseball coach, ATF agent Curt Abbott is investigating a potential domestic terror plot inspired by the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. But he didn't anticipate the complex web of connections underpinning the school's picturesque little town, nor the forces waiting to reel him into it.
Who it's for: young adult readers looking for sophisticated thrillers; anyone who enjoys parallel narratives; readers curious about the pitfalls of modern technology and its ability to radicalize vulnerable and disaffected young people. |
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| The Perfect Nanny (also on ebook) by Leïla SlimaniWhat it is: a twisted, compelling psychological thriller first published in France, which is told from multiple perspectives and raises troubling questions about the demands of modern motherhood.
Back to work: Attorney Myriam is returning to her career after taking time off to spend with her young children, so she and her husband begin to search for a nanny. Forty-something Louise seems perfect and the children take to her immediately, but what role will Louise play in the tragedy revealed in the story's first pages? |
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