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Thrillers and Suspense April 2018
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A Reading & Conversation with Brad Smith
Saturday, April 28, 2:00 p.m.
Cobourg Library - Rotary Room
Join us for a visit by author Brad Smith, in conversation with Kelly Beers & Julie Maynard about his new book "The Return of Kid Cooper". Adults Welcome. Registration required.
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| The Sandman by Lars KeplerWhat it's about: A terrifying, manipulative serial killer imprisoned in a high-security psychiatric ward may hold the key to saving the life of a young woman believed dead for 13 years.
Is it for you? Blood-soaked and fast-paced, this 4th in the series starring Det. Insp. Joona Linna highlights his intuition and strategic sense -- and his willingness to dangle his colleagues as bait.
For fans of: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter. |
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Cemetery girl
by David Bell
Tom's investigation into the disappearance of his young daughter, Caitlin, her return four years later, and her refusal to testify against the man thought to be responsible or discuss what happened leads to a shocking discovery
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Act of revenge : a novel
by Dale Brown
When Boston is hit by a coordinated string of terrorist attacks, robotics innovator Louis Massina leads a team of tech geniuses to deploy every bot, drone and cyberweapon at their disposal to save the city and bring the plot's mastermind to justice. By a pair of New York Times best-selling authors. 30,000 first printing.
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| Chicago by David MametAuthor alert: Though better known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright or an Oscar-nominated screenwriter (take your pick), this is not David Mamet's first novel -- just his first in nearly 20 years.
What it's about: Set in 1920s Chicago and featuring a whole crew of unsavory gangsters, the novel stars former WWI pilot Mike Hodge, who's now a reporter. When his girlfriend is gunned down in his own home, he's immediately on the hunt for those responsible.
Read it for: real-life gangsters; evocative dialogue; fast-paced action. |
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Almost dead
by Lisa Jackson
When a mysterious killer bent on revenge begins targeting members of her family, Cissy Cahill must unravel a deadly mystery linked to her family's secret past before she becomes the next victim
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Books You Might Have Missed
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| The Beautiful Dead by Belinda BauerWhat it's about: When television reporter Eve Singer arrives at the scene of a savage, fatal stabbing in a London office building, she attracts the attention of the serial killer behind it, who's staging his murders to look like artwork.
Why you might like it: With multiple perspectives (Eve's, the killer's, and even some victims) this gripping novels blends the details of a police procedural with the intensifying strain of a psychological suspense novel. |
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| It's Always the Husband by Michele CampbellWhat it's about: The events that led to the death of a friend will always link the three very different former college roommates featured in this twisty debut. As adults, they find themselves thrown together once more -- and the result is yet another death under suspicious circumstances.
Reviewers say: The "edge-of-your-seat pace and dark atmosphere" (Booklist) and depiction of complex female friendship will appeal to fans of domestic suspense novels like Rebecca Drake's recent Just Between Us. |
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This fallen prey : a Rockton novel
by Kelley Armstrong
A follow-up to A Darkness Absolute finds police detective Casey Duncan navigating the activities of a dangerous criminal whose arrival has coincided with a spate of murders throughout off-the-grid Rockton, where someone else is working in secret as a killer's accomplice.
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The undertaker's daughter
by Sara Blædel
Receiving an unexpected inheritance from the father who abandoned her, 40-year-old widow Ilka Nichols Jenson impulsively travels from Copenhagen to her late father's mortuary in Wisconsin and begins to comb through his estate before stumbling on an unsolved murder. By the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Forgotten Girls. 50,000 first printing.
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Down the river unto the sea
by Walter Mosley
Framed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black radical journalist who has been wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops. 100,000 first printing.
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