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Thrillers and Suspense May 2017
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The Ninth Grave
by Stefan Ahnhem
On a cold winter evening, the Swedish minister of justice disappears without a trace from the short walk between the house of Parliament and his car. At the same time the wife of a famous Danish TV-star is found brutally murdered in her luxury home north of Copenhagen. Soon more bodies are discovered, all missing different body parts. As criminal investigator Fabian Risk and Danish counterpart Dunja Hougaard race to put the pieces together, they are dragged into a conspiracy worse than anyone could imagine.
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Broken glass
by V. C. Andrews
"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series, now Lifetime movies, comes book two of the haunting saga of identical twin sisters tortured by their perfectionist mother--until one of them snaps. Haylee and Kaylee Fitzgerald are twin sisters who have been forced to be identical in every way by their domineering mother. She insists they wear the same clothes, eat the same food, get the same grades, and have all the same friends. But both are growing weary of her obsession with their similarities, so when they finally attend high school, they find little ways to highlight their independence. The transition isn't as easy as expected, however, and soon both sisters are thrust into a world that their mothernever prepared them for--a world with far more dangerous consequences than just upsetting Mother"
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| Find Me by J.S. MonroeSuspense Fiction. Five years ago, Jar Costello's girlfriend Rosa jumped to her death, though Jar has never believed that she died (her body was never recovered, and he swears he's since seen her in London). His suspicions are rewarded when he gets his hands on her highly encrypted diary, which relates the story of their relationship -- and her recruitment by a shadowy spy program. Aided by a journalist who'd investigated the program, Jar embarks on a desperate quest to find (and save?) Rosa. With a clever protagonist and realistic investigative details, this "debut" from a pseudonymous author is "smart, well written, and tangled in unpredictable twists" (Booklist). |
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The twilight wife
by A. J. Banner
Remembering nothing about the diving accident that left her with a complex form of memory loss and only glimpses of her life with her devoted husband, Kyra begins to have unsettling memories of a rocky marriage and disturbing interactions with people she believes to be her friends. By the author of The Good Neighbor.
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The devil's triangle
by Catherine Coulter
Recently appointed Covert Eyes team heads Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine tackle a dangerous first case when an artifact is stolen from Istanbul and they receive a warning that a series of fatal Gobi sandstorms are actually manmade phenomena.
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If You Like: Dennis Lehane
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| Brighton: A Novel by Michael HarveyCrime Fiction. Before he became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Kevin Pearce grew up in gritty Brighton, MA, where he committed a horrible act of violence -- one that he got away with. Nearly three decades on, having avoided Brighton ever since, he's returned to a neighborhood embroiled in a series of murders that could bring to light his own bloody past. Told from multiple points of view, this intense and descriptive novel is sure to appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane's Boston-based crime novels. |
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| Rise the Dark by Michael KorytaSuspense Fiction. The powerfully evoked setting, relatable characters, and fast-moving plot may draw Dennis Lehane's fans to this frightening multi-strand story, which mixes a revenge-driven road-trip with a plan to destroy Montana's electric grid. First, revenge: former private investigator Marcus Novak (first introduced in Last Words) is determined to hunt down the man who killed his wife. Cut to Montana: under the command of a cult leader, the same fanatical killer has kidnapped the wife of a high-voltage lineworker, step one in a fiendish plan. "First-rate entertainment," says The Washington Post. |
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| Pleasantville by Attica LockeLegal Thriller. Fifteen years have passed since the events in Black Water Rising (which was the first book selected for Dennis Lehane's new imprint with HarperCollins). Then, lawyer Jay Porter was anticipating the birth of his first child; now, he's grieving for his wife, caring for two kids while his law practice falls apart, and barely scraping by. Under pressure, he agrees to represent murder suspect Neal Hathorne, the nephew and campaign manager of a black mayoral candidate whose opponent just happens to be the DA whose office is prosecuting Neal. With nuanced characters, shifting and manipulative political allegiances, and a powerful black community, this is a sophisticated and satisfying legal thriller. |
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| Visitation Street by Ivy PochodaPsychological Suspense. On a hot summer night in Red Hook, Brooklyn, two bored 15-year-old girls take a pink inflatable raft into the bay for an adventure. But it's desolate and dark out, and only one of them makes it back. With June and the raft missing -- and Val's faulty memory no help -- the entire neighborhood is drawn into the mystery of what happened, from Fadi, an immigrant bodega owner, to wary Cree, an African American loner mourning his murdered father, to Jonathan, a music teacher who once attended Julliard but now spends most of his time at a bar. Racially and ethnically diverse Red Hook is as much a character as any of the people, making this a great choice for fans of similarly evocative yet gritty tales, like those by Dennis Lehane. |
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A reliable wife : a novel
by Robert Goolrick
Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town, has advertised for a reliable wife; and his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets
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