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Thrillers and Suspense March 2024
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Wolf Trap
by Connor Sullivan
From Publishers WeeklyIn this exhilarating thriller, U.S. president Angela Buchanan is on the brink of a major political victory with the imminent signing of a sweeping international climate-change agreement. But when "the world's seven experimental 'clean energy' thorium molten salt reactors" simultaneously melt down, a special group of U.S. intelligence officials and operatives from multiple agencies must try to find the conspirators responsible. Brian "Lobo" Rhome, once a paramilitary officer with Ground Branch, the CIA's most elite covert ops force, and the haunted lone survivor of an al-Qaeda ambush in Pakistan finds himself in the center of the battle to save Buchanan and prevent a global war over fossil fuels.
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The boy who cried bear
by Kelley Armstrong
In The Boy Who Cried Bear, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong keeps readers on the edge of their seats while detective Casey Duncan tries to locate the threat before it's too late ... Haven's Rock is a well-hidden town surrounded by forest, and it's supposed to be, being that it's a refuge for those who need to disappear. When Max, the town's youngest resident fears a bear is stalking a hiking party, alarms are raised. Even stranger, the ten-year-old swears the bear had human eyes. As odd occurrences start happening all around, including a dead body, Casey's not sure what they're up against.
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| Two Dead Wives by Adele ParksThis atmospheric sequel to Woman Last Seen (see below) picks up where the last story left off, during the most claustrophobic parts of the COVID lockdown in 2020. DCI Clements returns in a new chapter of the investigation into the disappearance of two seemingly unconnected women, only to discover a shocking secret that blows the case wide open. |
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Woman last seen
by Adele Parks
When two very different happily married women disappear without a trace, leaving their families behind, DC Clements searches for the connection between these two cases to find the truth, no matter how shocking and devastating it may be.
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| The Ascent by Adam PlantingaIn this fast-paced debut novel, ex-cop Kurt Argento is mistakenly arrested during a cross-country drive and held at a maximum security prison during a catastrophic failure of the facility's automated security system. Kurt bands together with some of the staff and a group of visiting civilians, and together they must make a dangerous trek to the roof, their only hope for a safe escape. |
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Village in the dark
by Iris Yamashita
When shocking clues emerge, revealing her husband and son were possibly murdered, potentially connected to a string of other deaths and disappearances, Detective Cara Kennedy will stop at nothing to find the truth, placing her own life and the lives of those around her in mortal danger. Book 2, after City Under One Roof (see Below)
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City under one roof
by Iris Yamashita
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone winters in the same high-rise building, in this gripping debut by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Iris Yamashita. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own reasons for investigating the possible murder in this isolated place, which can be accessed only by a tunnel. After an avalanche causes the tunnel to close indefinitely, Cara is stuck among the odd and suspicious residents of the town--all 205 of whom live in the same high-rise building, Cara soon discovers that everyone in this town is keeping secrets.
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| Midnight by Amy McCullochDespite her own antipathy to sea travel, Olivia Campbell agrees to accompany her art dealer boyfriend Aaron on a cruise where he's set to hold an important auction, hoping some relaxation might help her recovery from a recent breakdown. But when Aaron fails to board the ship, Olivia is left trying to manage Aaron's art works while dealing with debilitating seasickness and a strange pattern of accidental deaths onboard. |
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One Left Alive
by Helen Phifer
When the body of a woman is found hanging from a tree in her front garden, rookie Detective Morgan Brookes is first on the scene. But Olivia Potter is past saving. And when her husband and daughters cannot be traced, Morgan knows there is more to this tragedy. And then she finds them. But as Morgan kneels beside the family, she realises that one of the girls is still breathing . As she holds Bronte's fragile hand in hers, begging her to hold on, she vows to find out who has done this. But every clue about the murdered family leads to a dead end. Until, trawling through old files, she discovers a link to a cold case from years ago.
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The Killer's Girl
by Helen Phifer
'Mama, wake up.' The little girl reached for her mother's face with one pudgy hand. But the eyes stayed closed, and the blood continued to trickle across the floor. When the body of a young woman is found, the victim of a brutal attack in her own home, Detective Morgan Brookes is sickened by what she finds as she searches the house. And unprepared for the nightmares it inspires about her childhood. When the DNA collected gives a positive ID, Morgan can't wait to put the attacker behind bars. But the person it matches to is already in prison. And then they make another close match. To Morgan herself. Faced with the impossible proof that she is somehow connected to this case, Morgan delves deep into the crimes of a killer who stalked the Lake District two decades ago. To find this killer, it's clear she must confront the nightmares in her past...
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