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Thrillers and Suspense May 2024
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| The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia CasaleAfter 20 years of abuse, one day Sally snaps and kills her husband Jim with an iron skillet. While devising a strategy to cover up Jim's death, Sally discovers that her neighbors Ruth, Samira, and Janey might benefit from her experience, and the 4 women become an unusual, unbreakable unit. For fans of the dark humor of C.J. Skuse and Helene Tursten. |
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| Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve CavanaghMeeting in a Manhattan bar rather than the train of Patricia Highsmith's classic thriller, two strangers meet, drink, and commiserate over their problems and agree to exchange murders: Wendy will take out a well-connected sex offender for Amanda and Amanda will go after the man who Wendy says killed her daughter. What could possibly go wrong? |
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
by Stuart Turton
On an isolated island where 122 villagers and three scientists live in peaceful harmony, one of the scientists is found brutally murdered, which triggers a security system, giving the islanders only 107 hours to solve the murder or be smothered by the fog that destroyed the planet.
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One Perfect Couple
by Ruth Ware
Landing on a tropical paradise where they'll compete against four other couples to win a cash prize, Lyla and Nico, starring on the new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, find themselves trapped on a storm-swept island where they all must band together for survival as a killer walks among them.
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The Paris Widow
by Kimberly Belle
Adam and Stella's vacation in Paris takes a dark turn when Adam goes missing after a violent explosion. With no sign of Adam's body, Stella teams up with an old flame with a shady past and uncovers more secrets than anyone bargained for.
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| Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-JuradoSpanish journalist and author Juan Gómez-Jurado returns readers to the world of gifted (but deeply traumatized) investigator Antonia Scott in this gritty and action-packed sequel to Red Queen. Teaming up once again with her erstwhile partner Jon Gutiérrez, she'll have to evade an assassin (whose alias provides the novel's title) as she investigates the case of 9 women found dead in a shipping container. |
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| The Year of the Locust by Terry HayesAfter a tip-off from an informant reveals that the presumed-dead founder of a major terrorist group still lives and plans to launch a major attack, CIA agent Ridley "Kane" Walker is dispatched to Iran to investigate, only to find a dead informant, a deadly trap, and a threat on the horizon that could endanger the entire world. |
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| Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead by Jenny HollanderAlthough journalist Charlotte "Charlie" Colbert has built a good life for herself since, being the sole survivor of a violent attack at her grad school's campus still haunts her. When plans for a feature film to mark the event's 10-year anniversary are announced, Charlie, who can't remember everything that happened that night, decides she needs to stop the production -- by any means necessary. |
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A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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| A Step Past Darkness by Vera KurianIn 1995, a group of teens working on a local history project accidentally discovered a dark connection between an abandoned mine and the megachurch that dominates their small town. Twenty years later, a member of the group turns up dead, pulling the survivors back together for a long, long overdue reckoning. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Lambton County Library 787 Broadway St. Wyoming, Ontario N0N1T0 519-845-3324www.lclibrary.ca |
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