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New & Coming-Soon Thrillers and Suspense Novels MAY 2017
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Dragon Teeth by Michael CrichtonA recently discovered novel by the ER creator and best-selling author of Jurassic Park is set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting and follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.
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The red hunter
by Lisa Unger
Tackling a house restoration project and blog in the hopes of escaping a traumatic event that ended her marriage, Claudia uncovers an ugly history in the crumbling house, where another woman, Zoey, survived a home invasion and pursued the martial arts to find security and healing.
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Enemy of the good
by Matthew Palmer
"A tense, complex, and twisting diplomatic thriller in which one woman must choose between morality and compromise--and in either case, the consequences may be deadly. Katarina "Kate" Wallander is a second-generation Foreign Service officer, recently assigned to Kyrgyzstan. She's not there by chance. Kate is a Foreign Service brat who attended high school in the region; her uncle is the U.S. ambassador to the country, and he pulled a few strings to get her assigned to his mission. U.S.-Kyrgyz relationsare at a critical juncture. U.S. authorities have been negotiating with the Kyrgyz president on the lease of a massive airbase that would significantly expand the American footprint in Central Asia and could tip the scale in "the Great Game," the competition among Russia, China, and the United States for influence in the region. The negotiations are controversial in the United States because of the Kyrgyz regime's abysmal human-rights record. The fate of the airbase is balanced on a razor's edge. Amid these events, Kate's uncle assigns her to infiltrate an underground democracy movement that has been sabotaging Kyrgyz security services and regime supporters. Washington has taken an interest in the movement, her uncle conveys, and may find it worth supporting if they understand more about the aims and leadership. And Kate has an in--many followers of the movement were high school classmates of hers. But it soon becomes clear that nothing about Kate's mission is as it seems. and that she might need to lay her life on the line for what she knows is right"
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Ominous
by Lisa Jackson
After a shattering tragedy in their youth, Shiloh, Kat and Ruth vow to keep the event secret—until a missing teenager in their adult life brings them back together. By a trio of New York Times best-selling authors.
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The Finishing School
by Joanna Goodman
When she is invited as a guest to her former finishing school, Lycee International Suisse, best-selling writer Kersti Kuusk—who is determined to, once and for all, find the truth surrounding her best friend Cressida’s death long ago—probes the cover-up, unearthing a frightening underbelly of lies and abuse at the prestigious establishment. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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Gone without a trace
by Mary Torjussen
"A jaw-dropping novel of psychological suspense that asks, If the love of your life disappeared without a trace, how far would you go to find out why? Hannah Monroe's boyfriend, Matt, is gone. His belongings have disappeared from their house. Every callshe ever made to him, every text she ever sent, every photo of him and any sign of him on social media have vanished. It's as though their last four years together never happened. As Hannah struggles to get through the next few days, with humiliation and recriminations whirring through her head, she knows that she'll do whatever it takes to find him again and get answers. But as soon as her search starts, she realizes she is being led into a maze of madness and obsession. Step by suspenseful step, Hannah discovers her only way out is to come face to face with the shocking truth."
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The perfect stranger
by Megan Miranda
Failed journalist Leah Stevens sets out to find a missing friend—a friend who may never have existed at all. By the author of the best-selling All the Missing Girls. Tour
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Three envelopes
by Nir Hezroni
After a top Israeli intelligence agent receives a disturbing notebook written by a rogue agent and assassin, supposedly dead for years, he begins to investigate whether he was a psychopath or actually part of lethal, top secret operation.
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Long black veil : a novel
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
When the body of a college friend is discovered 20 years after her disappearance, Judith, the only witness who can testify to the innocence of the chief suspect, is forced to confront dark secrets from her past that compromise the healthy life she has built for her family. By the best-selling author of She's Not There.
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The book of mirrors : a novel
by Eugen-Ovidiu Chirovici
Intrigued by the original voice of a partial book submission, literary agent Peter Katz wonders if its dying writer is revealing the truth about a long-unsolved murder and becomes obsessed with discovering the manuscript's final pages. By the author of The Massacre.
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The cutaway
by Christina Kovac
A young television producer lands in a deadly, tangled web of corruption and cover-up in Washington, D.C., when she investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Georgetown lawyer. A first novel.
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This is not over
by Holly Brown
Clashing over exchanged insults that compromise their reputations, a woman running from her sordid past and a doctor's wife who depends on tenant income risk everything to protect shattering secrets. 25,000 first printing.
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