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Thrillers and Suspense August 2021
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Black ice : a thriller
by Brad Thor
When a man he killed years ago shows up in Norway, Scot Harvath, America’s top spy, is tested in ways he has never imagined as he races against time to stop one of world’s most dangerous actors from taking down the United States and its allies.
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The cellist : a novel
by Daniel Silva
After the fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire, art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is led to a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth as well as to secret channels of money and influence that threaten the very stability of the global order.
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False witness
by Karin Slaughter
Defense attorney Leigh Collier is taken aback when she discovers her new, high profile case will be defending her childhood abuser in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Pieces of Her. 250,000 first printing.
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For your own good
by Samantha Downing
Belmont Academy’s Teacher of the Year, Teddy Crutcher is frustrated by his colleagues and endlessly meddlesome parents who begin digging a bit too deeply into his affairs after the death of an Academy parent and his seemingly missing wife.
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The husbands
by Chandler Baker
When Nora meets a group of high-powered women whose husbands’ are supportive unlike her own, she discovers that the women use an unorthodox method of couples’ therapy that has transformed their lives — one that is worth killing for..
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Not a happy family
by Shari Lapeña
When their parents are brutally murdered the night after Easter dinner, three siblings, who stand to inherit millions, are devastated but also wonder if one of them is capable of murder or if a stranger was responsible for tearing this not-so-happy family apart.
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The other passenger : a novel
by Louise Candlish
When his neighbor and fellow commuter, Kit, goes missing, a man becomes a suspect in his disappearance after another passenger saw them arguing and the police believe he had a reason to want Kit dead.
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The perfect ruin
by Shanora Williams
Infiltrating a mega-wealthy socialite’s inner circle, Ivy, severely troubled, sets in motion a plan of revenge against this woman who destroyed her world – one that plunges her into a nightmare of deception, secrets and betrayal that she may never wake up from.
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The retreat
by Elisabeth De Mariaffi
A woman makes a long-awaited visit to a mountain arts retreat—where she soon finds herself in a race to survive.
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The Shadow
by James Patterson
Waking up a century and a half later after being ambushed by Shiwan Khan in the 1930s, Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, finds himself in a world both unknown and disturbingly familiar as Khan’s power continues to be felt over the city and its people.
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Steel fear
by Brandon Webb
Discovering that there is a serial killer onboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, disgraced Navy SEAL sniper Finn finds suspicion falling on him as a newcomer and must expose the real killer while searching for redemption.
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The stranger in the mirror : a novel
by Liv Constantine
Hiding the fact that she has no memory of her past from her fiancé, Addison, a survivor of a tragic accident, cannot shake the notion that she may have done something very, very bad.
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Such a quiet place : a novel
by Megan Miranda
When the woman implicated in the murder of a couple in their formerly idyllic and close-knit neighborhood returns to Hollow’s Edge, suspicion spreads like a virus and it soon becomes apparent to Harper Nash that not everyone told the truth about the night of the murder.
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The therapist
by B. A. Paris
When a mysterious man turns up on her doorstep, claiming that a murder took place 18 months before in her new home, Alice becomes obsessed with finding the truth.
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The Therapist
by Helene Flood
Sara runs a private psychology practice for troubled youth in the large, newly inherited house she is refurbishing with her husband, Sigurd. One morning, a voicemail from Sigurd tells Sara he's arrived at a holiday cabin for a weekend away with the guys. A couple of hours later, Sigurd's friends call from the cabin asking where he is -- according to them, Sigurd never arrived. Sara is irritated by what she thinks is a practical joke. But as the hours stretch out, Sara's anger turns to fear, and the large empty house where every room is half-finished starts to feel less like a home and increasingly threatening.
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