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New & Coming-Soon Thrillers and Suspense Novels MARCH 2017
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We are now offering a "Noteworthy Nonfiction" LibraryAware booklist! This list will be available beginning in February. Please click here to subscribe or ask a second floor library staff member for assistance. |
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Rush of blood
by Mark Billingham
After meeting while vacationing in Florida, three British couples stay in touch and discover in each other increasingly unsavory secrets, kinks and vices, which may have something to do with the murder of a teenager who stayed at the same resort.
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The freedom broker
by K. J. Howe
Kidnap-and-rescue negotiator Thea Paris' worst nightmare comes true when her father is kidnapped and the only way to rescue him may involve an unthinkable sacrifice
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The possessions : a novel
by Sara Flannery Murphy
A young woman who conveys messages from the dead to support herself crosses a dangerous line when she falls in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
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What you don't know : a novel
by JoAnn Chaney
Years after helping convict a serial killer who had been regarded as a successful pillar of the community, Detective Paul Hoskins and his larger-than-life partner are bafflingly relegated to mediocre jobs before discovering that the man they once arrested has been sabotaging their careers. A first novel.
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The undesired : a thriller
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Decades after two boys go missing from a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland, a single father investigates alleged abuse at the center before discovering baffling links between the long-ago disappearance and the accident that killed his ex-wife. By an international best-selling author.
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Dead letters : a novel
by Caite Dolan-Leach
Receiving cryptic clues from the wild twin she believed was dead, a woman embarks on a scavenger-hunt-like quest to learn what actually happened. A first novel.
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I see you
by Clare Mackintosh
Spotting her own picture in a classified ad referencing a mysterious website, Zoe discovers that other women who have appeared in the ad have become the victims of increasingly violent crimes. Discussion guide available online. By the international best-selling author of I Let You Go.
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Most dangerous place
by James Grippando
When an old school friend's wife is accused of murdering the man who had assaulted her, Jack Swyteck finds the case unexpectedly complicated, in a thriller based on true events. By the New York Times best-selling author of Gone Again. 40,000 first printing.
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Shining city
by Tom Rosenstiel
Hired by the President to vet a nominee for the Supreme Court, fixer Peter Rena and his partner, Randi Brooks, scour the candidate's past and outmaneuver ambitious adversaries, only to discover that a killer is murdering random victims to cover up an assassination plot. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.
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Quicksand
by Malin Persson Giolito
"QUICKSAND is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb.Maja Norberg is eighteen years old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where her boyfriend and best friend were killed. When the novel opens, Maja has spent nine excruciating months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. But how did Maja, the good girl next door who was popular and excelled at school, become the most hated teenager in the country? What did Maja do? Or is it what she didn't do that brought her here?"
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The trophy child
by Paula Daly
An ambitious wife and mother who expects her family to achieve high goals no matter the cost is forced to confront her impossible standards as her husband and children rebel, exposing deep cracks in the family's foundation. By the author of Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
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A simple favor : a novel
by Darcey Bell
A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, an inexplicable event that prompts her to reach out to her blog readers and the missing woman's handsome husband before nightmarish realities come to light. 100,000 first printing.
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Dead man switch
by Matthew Quirk
The suspicious deaths of two members of an elite undercover military team are investigated by Special Ops legend Captain John Hayes, who is horrified to discover that his protégé, a brilliant assassin, is the prime suspect. By the best-selling author of The 500. 35,000 first printing.
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Mississippi blood : a novel
by Greg Iles
A conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that includes The Bone Tree finds a shattered Penn Cage shut out by his once-revered Southern doctor father, who is about to be tried for murder in the wake of revelations about a mixed-race child and KKK associations. 400,000 first printing.
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The Widow's House
by Carol Goodman
Moving to a Hudson River valley community to revitalize their marriage and literary ambitions, Jess and Clare confront a dark pall that hangs over the crumbling estate where they work as caretakers before Clare begins to have hallucinations about the house's anguished past. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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