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New & Coming-Soon THRILLERS AND SUSPENSE September 2019
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A family of strangers
by Emilie Richards
In the wake of a shocking murder accusation, a misfit crime podcaster struggles to clear the name of the perfect older sibling who has overshadowed her life. By the best-selling author of The Swallow's Nest. 10,000 first printing
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A nearly normal family
by M. T. Edvardsson
A legal thriller told in three acts follows the trial of a 18-year-old girl from an upstanding family who has been implicated in the murder of a shady businessman, testing the limits of her father's faith and mother's ethics.
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Paranoid
by Lisa Jackson
Struggling with traumatic memories of the shooting accident that ended her half-brother's life 20 years earlier, guilt-ridden Rachael Gaston prepares for her high-school reunion in Edgewater, Oregon, and begins to doubt her sanity when things in her home start moving by themselves.
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Layover
by David Bell
In a high-concept psychological suspense tale by the award-winning author of Somebody's Daughter, a chance meeting with a missing woman in an airport catapults a business traveler on a heart-racing search for answers
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Lock every door : a novel
by Riley Sager
Jules takes a job as an apartment sitter at a posh Manhattan building to escape heartbreak and earn some cash, but when a fellow apartment sitter disappears, Jules digs into the building's past and what she finds sends her racing to unmask a killer
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Bad Axe County : a novel
by John Galligan
The first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents 20 years ago—all as a winter storm rages. 60,000 first printing.
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The sum of all shadows
by Eric Lustbader
Bravo and Emma Shaw desperately search for the lost treasure of King Solomon's alchemical gold to stop Lucifer's heaven-destroying infernal army
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Knife : A New Harry Hole Novel
by Jo Nesbø
Harry Hole is working cold cases, but he is more worried about the rapist and murderer, Svein Finne, who will soon be out of prison, and when he wakes up from a drunken blackout with blood on his hands, it marks the start of a waking nightmare
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Hideaway
by Nicole Lundrigan
A seemingly normal suburban mother and wife unleashes a series of dark events caused when her emotional abuse of her children and husband leads her son to take refuge with a dangerous homeless man. Original.
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The substitution order
by Martin Clark
A disbarred attorney takes a job in a run-down sandwich shop before an offer by a gang of con artists challenges the extent of his legal savvy. By the award-winning author of The Legal Limit
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One little secret : a novel
by Cate Holahan
When a woman is discovered dead on a private beach, town detective Gabby Watkins uncovers motives for everyone in the glass beach house
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The heart keeper
by Alex Dahl
Succumbing to despair during a bleak Norwegian winter in the aftermath of her daughter's drowning death, Alison forges a controversial and increasingly obsessive bond with the struggling family of her daughter's heart recipient. Original.
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The other Mrs. Miller
by Allison M. Dickson
A lonely suburban housewife finds her life entangled with that of her picture-perfect new neighbors across the street at the same time she becomes convinced that someone is watching her. A first novel.
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Tell me everything : a novel
by Cambria Brockman
A college senior on the cusp of graduation uses her extraordinary insights to uncover her friends' closest-held secrets before a devastating chain of events culminates in a murder that tests the limits of her capabilities
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Red metal
by Mark Greaney
A Marine lieutenant colonel joins an international group of fighters that includes a French Special Forces captain, and a Polish partisan fighter, to battle a Russian strike against Europe that could change the balance of power in the West
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Beijing payback : a novel
by Daniel Nieh
Shocked to discover that his murdered restaurateur father was actually a member of a vast crime syndicate with ties to communist China, Victor Li is confronted by decades-old grudges, escalating rivalries and an ambitious new plot. 75,000 first printing.
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Lady in the lake : a novel
by Laura Lippman
A divorced reporter in racially torn 1966 Baltimore triggers unanticipated consequences for vulnerable community members while investigating the murder of an African-American party girl. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Sunburn. 125,000 first printing
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A stranger on the beach
by Michele Campbell
Sharing a vengeance-driven fling with an alluring stranger after an embarrassing public breakup, Caroline finds herself the target of the man's increasingly obsessive stalking, before her ex goes missing and she is implicated in his murder.
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Theme music
by T. Marie. Vandelly
An only survivor of her family's massacre, Dixie impulsively moves into her early childhood home, where she begins to question her sanity and the haunted shadows of the past that threaten her future. A first novel.
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The two Lila Bennetts
by Liz Fenton
When a fateful choice splits her life into two realities, Lila Bennett endures one existence as a vengeful kidnapper's hostage and another as a decorated criminal defense attorney who is targeted by a mysterious assailant. Original.
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The arrangement
by Robyn Harding
"A Pretty Woman tale turns toxic and deadly in this provocative and riveting thriller of sex, obsession, and murder from Robyn Harding, the "master of domestic suspense" (Kathleen Barber) and the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Party and Her Pretty Face"
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Game of snipers
by Stephen Hunter
Obsessively tracking a sniper with skills that match his own, Bob Lee Swagger teams up with the Mossad, the FBI and local law enforcement to identify the killer's next target. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Point of Impact
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The Russian
by Ben Coes
When criminals from the former Soviet Union establish a vicious underworld in the U.S., former Navy SEAL and CIA agent Rob Tacoma conducts a top-secret mission to neutralize the mob boss behind the murder of a CIA Special Ops leader.
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Someone we know
by Shari Lapeña
In a quiet suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses—and into the owners’ computers—and causing a stir by learning and sharing the residents secrets.
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The escape room
by Megan Goldin
Ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, four ruthless Wall Street high-flyers struggle to put aside rivalries shaped by workplace intimidation, deception and sexual harassment.
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