| The Plea by Steve CavanaghStarring: former con man Eddie Flynn, who's now a defense lawyer presented with an impossible choice, courtesy of federal agents: either he gets a (potentially innocent) client to agree to a plea bargain, or his estranged wife goes to jail.
Read it for: action-packed scenes (like a car chase orchestrated by cell phone), courtroom thrills, and a clever, knotty plot. Not to mention Eddie's con man instincts.
Series alert: this is the 2nd Eddie Flynn novel, after The Defense.
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Insidious Intent
by Val McDermid
Why you might like it: Number one bestseller, Val McDermid returns with her pulse-pounding, suspenseful new novel featuring two of the most distinctive and iconic characters in crime fiction: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan.
A Sneak Peak: In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away – only to leave the victims’ bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations.
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The Silent Corner
by Dean Koontz
What it's about: "I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why.
What Reviewers are saying: “In this era of stingy text-message prose, Mr. Koontz is practically Shakespeare. . . . The Silent Corner brims with both action and emotion.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The Binding Song
by Elodie Harper
Why you might like it: A chilling debut for fans of Mo Hayder and Sharon Bolton, The binding song takes you on a trip to Halvergate Prison. If you're lucky, you'll get to leave... Dr Janet Palmer is the new lead psychologist at HMP Halvergate in a remote, bleak area of Norfolk. At first, she was excited by the promotion. Then she starts to see how many secrets are hiding behind the high walls. A string of inmates have committed suicide, leaving no reasons why, and her predecessor has disappeared - along with his notes.
What Reviewers are saying: 'This book is creepy and moody in tone throughout and is certainly the kind of book you want to read with the lights on!' Goodreads
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Broken River
by J. Robert Lennon
What it's about: Following a string of affairs, Karl and Eleanor are giving their marriage one last shot by moving with their twelve-year old daughter Irina from Brooklyn to a newly renovated, apparently charming old house outside the upstate New York town of Broken River. Before their arrival, the house stood empty for over a decade, the reason why no secret. Twelve years previously, a brutal double murder took place there, a young couple killed in front of their daughter. The crime was never solved, but theories have always swirled, and most locals consider the house cursed...
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My Sister's Bones
by Nuala Ellwood
Why you might like it: In this gripping, timely debut, Nuala Ellwood brings us an unforgettable damaged character, a haunting , humanizing look at the Syrian conflict, and a deeply harrowing psychological thriller that readers won't be able to put down.
What it's about: When her mother dies, Kate returns home from Syria for the funeral. But an incident with a young Syrian boy haunts her dreams, and when Kate sees a boy in the garden of the house next door--a house inhabited by an Iraqi refugee who claims her husband is away and she has no children--Kate becomes convinced that something is very wrong.
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Look Behind You
by Iris & Roy Johansen
Starring: Kendra Michaels and her "dream team" of agent-for-hire Adam Lynch and private investigator Jessie Mercado. They must risk everything to defeat a psychopath whose terrifying plan is years in the making.
What it's about: A serial killer is on the loose in San Diego, and he has a most unusual M.O.: With each kill, he leaves behind objects with unclear meanings. The investigators soon make a startling discovery: the left-behind objects are actually souvenirs of other unsolved serial murder cases in various U.S. cities.
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The Midnight Line
by Lee Child
What it's about: Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005.Reacher's a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. All he wants is to find the woman. If she's OK, he'll walk away. If she's not... he'll stop at nothing.
What Reviewers are Saying: "[A] multifaceted novel about dealing with the unthinkable ... It's automatic: Reacher gets off a bus, and Child lands on the New York Times bestseller list."—ALA Booklist
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And into the Fire
by Robert Gleason
What it's About: The threat of a nuclear holocaust hangs over this meandering thriller from Gleason (End of Days). Prince Shaiq ibn Ishaq, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States and the richest man on earth, joins forces with Lt. Gen. Jari ibn Hamza, head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. Their plan is to steal three nuclear devices and detonate them in the U.S.
Starring: Elias Edito, a former marine and self-described bipolar castrato psychopath, and Hasad ibn Ghazi, a terrorist in the employ of Pakistan’s ISI. Also Jules Meredith, foreign correspondent for the New York Journal–World (a newspaper owned by Shaiq ibn Ishaq), and her closest friend, Elena Moreno.
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