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Thrillers and Suspense February 2017
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Liberty's last stand
by Stephen Coonts
In the wake of an assassination attempt by a decorated sniper on the eve of a presidential election, Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini risk everything to uncover a massive conspiracy while helping a new resistance movement rise up against a new enemy. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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| The Nowhere Man by Gregg HurwitzThriller. In this sequel to Orphan X, former assassin Evan Smoak (now a freelance vigilante delivering justice) is being pursued by his ex-colleagues from the Orphan Program. They taught him everything he knows about killing, escaping, and disappearing, and they consider him a huge threat to their shadowy organization. Kidnapped and held hostage as his enemies get closer, the story really picks up when his captors realize that though they've trapped him, they're also trapped with him. Moving at a blistering pace, this white-hot read combines the moves of Jack Reacher, the skills of Jason Bourne, and the brains and money of Tony Stark. |
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Curtain of death : a clandestine operations novel
by W. E. B Griffin
When two WACs are accosted by Soviet NKGB agents from an officers' club in 1946 Munich and kill three of their attackers to escape, the incident triggers shock waves that have major repercussions throughout a fledgling CIA.
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The seventh plague
by James Rollins
When a British archaeologist who had been missing for two years reappears and dies amid findings that his body was being mummified while he was still alive, Sigma Force must stop an ancient plague with ties to some of history's most innovative minds. 500,000 first printing.
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| Her Every Fear: A Novel by Peter SwansonPsychological Suspense. With a stalker ex-boyfriend in the none-too-distant past, London artist Kate Priddy agrees to a six-month apartment swap with a Boston-based cousin she's never met. Already anxious, her fears escalate when she discovers her new apartment building was the site of a recent homicide. Distrusting her cousin's professions of innocence as well as the attentions of a handsome new acquaintance, Kate begins to second-guess everything, including her own doubts. There's a "delicious monster-under-the-bed creepiness" (Booklist) in this second novel from the author of The Kind Worth Killing. |
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| XO by Jeffery DeaverSuspense Fiction. In this 3rd of four books starring Special Agent Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation body-language expert is on hand to aid an investigation into the death of the chief roadie for popular singer Kayleigh Towne, who's got a stalker she can't seem to ditch. While the investigation focuses on the stalker, no one can get a really good read on him -- and he seems to sidestep every effort to block, capture, or pin him down. A twisty read full of red herrings (and with character cameos from author Jeffery Deaver's popular Lincoln Rhyme series), this is a page-turning tale of obsession perfect for fans of John Katzenbach's The Wrong Man. |
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Obsession : an Alex Delaware novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
Grieving over the death of her aunt, the woman who had raised her, and haunted by her aunt's deathbed confession of murder, young Tanya enlists the assistance of her former counselor, Dr. Alex Delaware, and LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis to unravel the truth about a dark secret from the past that could have deadly repercussions in the present. 350,000 first printing.
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| The Book of You: A Novel by Claire KendalPsychological Suspense. After a disturbing evening with a colleague about which she remembers little but suspects plenty, university administrator Clarissa Bourne becomes the unwilling target of this man's constant texts, calls, visits, and gifts. Jury duty comes as a relief, until Clarissa realizes that the violent crime unfolding in front of the jury box has parallels to her own life -- and demonstrates just how easily her experiences could be discredited. As she begins friendships with the other jurors, her colleague's obsession with her crosses the line between fantasy and reality, and his threats escalate. "Troubling, raw, and gripping" says Publishers Weekly of this suspenseful debut. |
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| You: A Novel by Caroline KepnesPsychological Suspense. Guinevere Beck is an aspiring writer new to New York. She's young, beautiful, creative. Bookstore clerk Joe Goldberg spots her one day at his East Village store, and knows instantly that she's the one for him. Beck takes more convincing. Told from Joe's perspective (and addressed to "you") as their relationship picks up speed, You is a creepy, claustrophobic read as Joe's interest and desire to protect Beck clearly lives in stalker territory. Yet even as passion becomes obsession (and worse), this "mesmerizing" (Booklist) debut is sure to appeal to fans of Elizabeth Haynes or Nicci French; a sequel called Hidden Bodies is now available too. |
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| Finders Keepers: A Novel by Stephen KingSuspense Fiction. In this follow-up to Mr. Mercedes, an obsessive fan disappointed in his literary idol kills reclusive writer John Rothstein, stealing and hiding notebooks containing his unpublished work. This fan -- Morris Bellamy -- is then jailed for a completely unrelated crime. While he's behind bars for 35 years, high school student Peter Staubers, who has grown up with Rothstein's work, finds the notebooks, putting him in the direct path of the soon-to-be-paroled Bellamy. Though it's the middle act of a trilogy, starring the cop tasked with protecting Peter, Finders Keepers is a menacing story that stands just fine on its own. |
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