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Thrillers and Suspense July 2020
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The Carrow haunt
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Darcy Coates
"Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she's asked to host guests for a week-long stay, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for. Thena storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly become twisted. But it isn't until one of the guests dies under strange circumstances that Remy is forced to consider the possibility that the ghost of the house's original owner, a twisted serial killer, still walks the halls. And by then it's too late to escape.."
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Keep him close
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Emily Koch
Alice's son is dead. Indigo's son is accused of murder. Indigo is determined to prove her beloved Kane is innocent. Searching for evidence, she is helped by a kind stranger who takes an interest in her situation. Little does she know that her new friend has her own agenda... Alice can't tell Indigo who she really is. She wants to understand why her son was killed - and she needs to make sure that Indigo's efforts to free Kane don't put her remaining family at risk. But how long will it take for Indigo to discover her identity? And what other secrets will come out as she digs deeper? No one knows a son like his mother. But neither Alice nor Indigo know the whole truth about their boys, and what happened between them on that fateful night.
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Fifty-fifty
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Steve Cavanagh
Alexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is still in the house with a knife. Sofia Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body and needs the police right away. She believes her sister, Alexandra did it, and that she is still in the house, locked in the bathroom. Both women are to go on trial at the same time. A joint trial in front of one jury. But one of these women is lying. One of them is a murderer. Sitting in a jail cell, about to go on trial with her sister for murder, you might think that this is the last place she expected to be. You'd be wrong.
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One Dark, Two Light
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Ruth Mancini
New Year's Eve, London. Outside the Hope & Glory pub, a man has been left to die. A victim of extraordinary violence, he will never walk or speak again. He remains in hospital, nameless, until criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman walks onto his ward. Sarah barely recognises the man she once worked with - he was honourable and kind - what was he involved in? Who wanted him dead? But in her race to uncover the truth, Sarah comes to realise there are two men in her life that she never really knew at all.
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After You Fell
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J. S. Lark
Louise Lovett’s death was a tragedy. But questions still swirl about exactly what happened to Louise that day. Did she fall … or was she pushed? A new life starts... Helen Matthews’ donor heart saves her life. But as her new heart beats inside her, Helen feels the pull of its previous owner – despite what everyone is telling her, Helen is certain she has one final message to pass on. And a dark obsession begins...
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Imposter 13
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Rob Sinclair
Against all odds, Aydin Torkal - aka Sleeper 13 - broke free from the terrorist group that took him as a child and raised him into a life of violence and hate. In the two years since, he's been tracking and killing those responsible. But he's not done yet. Now living a secret life in London, MI6 needs his help infiltrating a sinister new terrorist cell. In order to halt their deadly ambitions, he must convince the world's most dangerous terrorists that he's one of them. He must do it before the world suffers another deadly attack. And he must do it alone. He is IMPOSTER 13.
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Watching from the dark
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Gytha Lodge
Aidan Poole logs onto his laptop late at night to Skype his girlfriend, Zoe. To his horror, he realizes that there is someone else in her flat, and Aidan can only listen to the sounds of a violent struggle taking place in the bathroom--and then the sound of silence. Aidan is desperate to find out if Zoe is okay. But then why is he so hesitant to call the police? When his messages finally reach them, Detective Jonah Sheens and his team take the case--and discover the body. They soon find that no one has a bad word to say about Zoe, a big-hearted young woman at the center of a curious web of waifs and strays, each relying on her for support, each hiding dark secrets and buried resentments. Has one of her so-called "friends" been driven to murder? Or does Aidan have the biggest secret of them all?
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If she were dead
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J. P. Smith
A successful novelist pursues an obsessive affair with a married man before the line between the fiction she writes and the reality she lives begins to blur, in a psychologically twisted thriller by the author of The Drowning.
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The Visitors by Catherine Burns What it's about: Middle-aged Miriam Zetland lives a reclusive life in a tumbledown seaside mansion with her cruel and overbearing brother John, a former school teacher who spends most of his time in the cellar building model airplanes -- and occasionally receiving visitors whom Miriam never gets to meet.
Read it for: the atmospheric and creepy tone, which builds tension slowly and deliberately until circumstances force Miriam to get closer to the disturbing secrets her brother has been hiding behind the (locked) cellar door. | | With You Always by Rena Olsen The premise: Julia Hawthorne has never been especially religious, but when she begins dating handsome lawyer Bryce Covington and learns that his parents run a church, she starts attending services with him. Unexpectedly she has a profound spiritual experience, and soon she's becoming increasingly committed to both her faith and her relationship.
The problem: Julia's sister Kate is suspicious of Bryce and of the church almost immediately but Julia won't hear of it. As she grows increasingly isolated from her old life and more dependent on the church, Julia learns the Bryce isn't who she thought he was. Now Julia can't see a way out, especially once the church services start to take a turn for the bizarre. | | Baby Doll by Hollie Overton What it is: an intricately plotted story of survival in which a woman held captive since her teenage years fights to rebuild her life and keep her kidnapper behind bars.
Starring: Lily Riser, who has spent the last eight years trapped in a basement; Rick Hanson, a high school English teacher and Lily's kidnapper who is determined to punish her for escaping; Abby Riser, Lily's twin sister who faced her own struggles while Lily was missing; and Sky, Lily's young daughter who has never lived in the outside world. | | The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware Too good to be true: On the surface Rowan Caine's new nanny job seems great -- the girls are charming, the parents seem nice, and she'll be living with them in a beautiful house in the Scottish countryside
What happens next: Once Rowan takes off her rose-colored glasses she starts noticing creepy things about her employers and their house, and when one of the children is found dead, Rowan becomes the prime suspect.
Why you might like it: This homage to the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw is framed as a letter Rowan is writing to her lawyer from prison as she tries to defend herself and figure out what really happened. | | Visit the library website for news, information and more great reads |
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