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Thrillers and Suspense December 2021
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All her little secrets : a novel
by Wanda M. Morris
The lone black female corporate attorney in midtown Manhattan discovers her white boss, and lover, dead with a gunshot wound to his head, and must deal with office suspicions and gossip when she is promoted as his successor.
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Autopsy : a Scarpetta novel
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
New chief medical examiner and forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta is given a highly classified case involving two scientists who were found dead on a private space laboratory in the latest addition to the series following Chaos.
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Blood on the table
by Gerry Spence
An 11-year-old boy in back country Wyoming must take the witness stand against corrupt forces to keep his family safe in the new noir legal thriller from the author of How to Argue and Win Every Time.
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Chasing the lion
by A. J. Tata
Army Lieutenant General Garrett Sinclair and his special ops team race to stop the viral spread of a deadly psychoactive nerve agent released by Iranians on the even of the inauguration of the first woman president.
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The devil's sea
by Dirk Cussler
Dirk Pitt discovers a 60-year-old, forgotten plane crash in the Philippe Sea while recovering a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait in the latest addition to the long running series.
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Fear no evil
by James Patterson
Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson are attacked by two rival teams of assassins in the rugged Montana wilderness, in the latest addition to the popular, long-running series following Deadly Cross.
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The First Mistake
by Sandie Jones
Through the ups and downs of life, from celebratory nights out to comforting each other through loss, Alice knows that with her best friend Beth by her side, they can survive anything together. So when her husband,starts acting strangely, Alice turns to Beth for help. But soon, Alice begins to wonder whether her trust has been misplaced... The first mistake could be her last.
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The kill box
by Hunter Ripley Rawlings
In an America occupied by Russian forces, Marine Corps officer Tyce Asher, who will never surrender, assembles a ragtag team of long-haul truckers and citizen soldiers to stop the invaders from seizing cargo that will bring the country to its knees.
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The left-handed twin
by Thomas Perry
When Jane, who helps disappear people, agrees to help a woman escape a crazed ex-boyfriend who is friends with members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood, thus begins a bloodthirsty chase through the northeast where nothing—and no one—can be trusted.
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Mercy
by David Baldacci
As the long search for her twin sister, Mercy, reaches its conclusion, FBI agent Atlee Pine, when the truth is finally revealed, will face the greatest danger yet, one that could cost her everything.
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The midnight lock
by Jeffery Deaver
When he is fired as a consultant for the NYPD, Lincoln Rhyme decides to risk jail to solve a case involving “the Locksmith”—a sociopathic intruder who can break through any lock or security system ever devised, terrorizing the entire city.
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My Darling Husband
by Kimberly Belle
When she and her children are held hostage by a masked home invader, Jade Lansky, as she tries to understand why this man has targeted their home, soon realizes that this wasn’t a random attack—and that the endgame is nothing she could have ever predicted.
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Never
by Ken Follett
Navigating terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading and smear campaigns, Pauline Green, the country’s first women president, is caught in a complex web of alliances with the most powerful counties that are being orchestrated by the enemy, and only those with the most elite skills can stop the inevitable.
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Out of the rain
by V. C. Andrews
When she finally finds the father who abandoned her, 13-year-old Saffron Faith Andrews is shocked when he insists she pretend to be his niece to he can continue to con his new wife’s new family, making her wonder if it is better to face the world alone.
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Over my dead body
by Jeffrey Archer
At the heart of three murder investigations--one in London involving a cold case, one in Geneva involving a millionaire art collector, and one in New York involving a wealthy dynasty--Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick must catch the killers before it's too late.
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Ready or Not
by Alex Lake
Alice and Tom Sark seem to have it all -- a wonderful marriage, a gorgeous baby, a beautiful home. And now Alice, a journalist, starts investigating a story which could make her career -- a serial killer in their town. Very quickly though, the murder case takes its toll. Alice and Tom begin fighting all the time. Their baby daughter just won't stop crying. And sometimes it feels almost as if they're being followed... The killer has found a new family to target. And the clock is ticking for Alice and Tom to stop their worlds being destroyed forever.
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The Suicide House
by Charlie Donlea
Inside the walls of Indiana's elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced. But in the woods beyond the manicured campus and playing fields sits an abandoned boarding house that is infamous among Westmont's students as a late-night hangout. Here, only one rule applies: don't let your candle go out--unless you want the Man in the Mirror to find you...
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This Eden
by Ed O'Loughlin
Michael Atarian is out of his depth. The closest he ever came to working in tech was when he rode a delivery bike for a food app in Vancouver. Yet when his coder girlfriend dies, he is inexplicably headhunted by a sinister tech mogul and transplanted to Silicon Valley. There, a reluctant spy named Aoife lures him into the hands of an enigmatic war-gamer who tricks them both into joining his quest to save the world.
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