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Thrillers and Suspense October 2018
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| Red, White, Blue by Lea CarpenterWhat it is: The author of Eleven Days presents another haunting and surprisingly subtle take on the traditional thriller, as much about family and memory as it is about subterfuge.
What happens: When Anna's banker father dies in a skiing accident just before her wedding, she decides to go through with the ceremony. While in France on her honeymoon, she meets a stranger who reveals her father's true employer -- the CIA -- calling into question everything she knows about her father, including the "accident" that killed him. |
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Promise Not to Tell
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Having spent years battling demons stemming from her childhood in a cult and a fire that ended her mother's life, a Seattle gallery owner is devastated when one of her artists commits suicide after sending her a mysterious picture that compels her to team up with a fellow cult survivor, a private investigator who uncovers the work of a determined killer.
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| The Other Woman by Sandie JonesThe premise: After meeting him one night at a London bar, Emily Havistock falls head over heels for Adam Banks, who is everything she has ever wanted in a man.
The problem: Emily is not what Adam's mother Pammie wants in a daughter-in law. In fact, Pammie would rather have no daughter-in-law at all, and will stop at absolutely nothing to get her way.
For fans of: Christobel Kent, Clare Mackintosh, and Karen Perry. |
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Keep Her Safe: A Novel
by K. A. Tucker
"Making a Murderer meets Scandal in this story of police corruption, family secrets, and illicit affairs from bestselling author K.A. Tucker, celebrated for her "dark, twisty tale[s]" (Lisa Gardner) filled with "clever twists and turns" (Publishers Weekly). Noah Marshall has had a privileged life thanks to his mother, the highly decorated chief of the Austin Police Department. But all that changes the night she reveals a skeleton that's been rattling in her closet for years: she doesn't deserve her commendations or her medals--in fact, she deserves to be locked behind bars. When she finally succumbs to the guilt of destroying an innocent family's life, she leaves Noah alone to carry the burden of this shocking secret. Gracie Richards wasn't born into trailer park life, but after fourteen years of learning how to survive in The Hollow, it's all she knows anymore. At least here people don't care that she has a white mother and a black father. And they certainly don't care that her dad was a corrupt Austin cop. Here, she and her mother are just another family struggling to survive...until a man who clearly doesn't belong shows up on her doorstep one night. Together, Noah and Gracie set out to uncover the truth about the Austin Police Department's dark and messy past--but the scandal they uncover is bigger than they bargained for, and goes far higher up than they ever imagined. Complex, gritty, sexy, and suspenseful, Keep Her Safe solidifies K.A. Tucker's reputation as one of today's most talented new writers of romantic suspense"
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The Burial Society
by Nina Sadowsky
Discovering her father dead in a luxury hotel room in Paris, Natalie is forced to confront the violent events that led to her mother's disappearance years earlier and finds herself on a collision course with her brother, a mysterious woman and dangerous family secrets.
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| Lies by T.M. LoganThe premise: Joe Lynch leads an unremarkable life as a happily married London teacher. One afternoon he spots his wife Mel in traffic, and thinking it might be nice to surprise her, he decides to follow her car.
The problem: It turns out that Mel was meeting their neighbor Ben at a hotel, and when a later confrontation ends with violence, Ben's subsequent disappearance casts suspicion on Joe. Meanwhile, an affair isn't the only secret Mel has been keeping from her husband. |
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The Woman Left Behind: A Novel
by Linda Howard
A gruff, no-nonsense GO-Team leader who relies on the sensual voice of the team's communication expert to guide him through dangerous assignments becomes her rescuer in the aftermath of an attack that leaves her stranded on a deserted station.
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| Man of War by Sean ParnellWhat it's about: When a nuclear weapon disappears deep into hostile territory, elite intelligence agent Eric Steele is sent to track it down and deal with those responsible. But what happens when the thief (and potential terrorist) is someone from Steele's Special Forces past?
Reviewers say: "will certainly please fans of Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, and Vince Flynn" (Booklist).
Try this next: Although Man of War is his first novel, Sean Parnell also wrote Outlaw Platoon, a bestselling memoir of his time in the military. |
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Trenton Makes: A Novel
by Tadzio Koelb
Decades after a World War II factory worker kills her army veteran husband in a domestic brawl and assumes his identity to secure a fair job and an independent life, she builds a family that begins to crumble under the intolerable pressure of her long ruse.
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| Trigger Mortis by Anthony HorowitzStarring: Bond. James Bond. At his glamorous 1950s best.
What it's about: Besides fast cars and beautiful women? There's also a Soviet plot to sabotage the Grand Prix, which 007 learns is only the beginning of an international conspiracy to undermine Western progress in the Space Race.
Why it's unique: This fast-paced, engaging early Bond story contains never-before-seen material from Ian Fleming himself, lovingly incorporated by Anthony Horowitz. |
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| Leaving Berlin by Joseph KanonFeaturing: Celebrated Jewish writer Alex Meier, who returns to his native Berlin in 1948 when the rise of McCarthyism makes him a pariah in the U.S.
What happens: The CIA offers him a chance to come back to America if he agrees to spy on the Soviets, but the stakes skyrocket when his assignment leads him right to the woman he loved and left behind during the war.
Try this next: For more atmospheric historical spy fiction, look for Alan Furst’s Night Soldiers series. |
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The Wild Inside
by Jamey Bradbury
Spending her days tracking and running with her dogs in the Alaskan wilderness, Iditarod contender Tracy survives a mysterious encounter in the woods and begins to question the agenda of a stranger who she fears may be targeting her family.
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| A Legacy of Spies by John Le CarréWhat happens: Former intelligence agent Peter Guillam is called out of retirement when the current government in London begins probing the activities of British operatives during the Cold War. This prompts Guillam to do some personal reflection on his past actions and missions, making for a bleak but also moving take on the typical spy thriller.
Series alert: Le Carré fans may recognize the name Peter Guillam -- yes, this really is the long-awaited next entry in the George Smiley series of novels, the first since 1991. |
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| An Honorable Man by Paul VidichWhat it's about: CIA agent George Mueller is tasked with finding a mole in the highest levels of the agency, but in the paranoid McCarthy era, the closer he gets to his target the more suspicious his colleagues grow of him. Can Mueller find the double agent in time to clear his own name?
Inspired by: The complicated life and mysterious death of real-life spy James Speyer Kronthal, a protégé of long-serving CIA director Allen Dulles.
For fans of: John Le Carré and Charles Cumming. |
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