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Thrillers and Suspense November 2022
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| A Tidy Ending by Joanna CannonWhat it's about: British housewife Linda Hammett lives a quiet (if unfulfilling) life with her husband Terry in a house she keeps spotless. Things start to get messy when she receives a fancy catalog addressed to the home's previous owner, her husband starts working odd hours, and local women start to disappear.
For fans of: unreliable narrators, suburban malaise, and sardonic humor.
Reviewers say: A Tidy Ending is "sublimely structured and darkly witty" (Publishers Weekly) and "chock-a-block with punch-in-the gut twists, wry humor, tragedy, and heartbreak" (Booklist). |
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| Three Assassins by Kōtarō IsakaWhat it is: a fast-paced and compelling story of revenge served very, very cold.
The premise: Former math teacher Suzuki takes a job at a front company for the organized crime syndicate he holds responsible for killing his wife two years ago, where he gets pulled into Tokyo's criminal underworld and meets two assassins whose personalities are as surprising as their professional skills are deadly.
About the author: Award-winning Japanese writer Kōtarō Isaka is best known in the English speaking world for Bullet Train, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Brad Pitt. |
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| Such A Good Mother (OverDrive)by Helen Monks TakharWhat it's about: As much as her son doesn't fit in with his peers at his fancy new private school, working mother Rose O'Connell knows she doesn't fit in with the other moms. That's until glamorous Amala Kaur reaches out to her, drawing Rose into an intoxicating, Instagram-ready world where nothing is as it seems.
About the author: Such A Good Mother is the second novel by Britain-based journalist Helen Monks Takhar, who debuted with workplace thriller Precious You. |
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The Swell (OverDrive)by Allie ReynoldsFeaturing: former surfer Kenna, who swore off the waves after her boyfriend's drowning death years earlier; her best friend Mikki, who introduces Kenna to her alluring new group of surfing-obsessed friends.
One last ride: Worried about the company Mikki has been keeping, Kenna agrees to return to the waves temporarily to serve as a counterbalance. But the more Kenna learns about the group the less she trusts them, especially after finding out about their ties to a tourist who recently disappeared under very mysterious circumstances.
Reviewers say: The Swell is an "exhilarating, adrenaline-filled tale" (Kirkus Reviews) full of "twists and turns keep readers guessing until the end" (Booklist).
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