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Thrillers and Suspense January 2018
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| Insidious Intent by Val McDermidWhat it's about: Val McDermid is back with the latest installment in her series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan as they are on the hunt for a serial killer who victimizes women at weddings without a date--and forces the duo to confront their most haunting moral dilemma so far.
Why you might like it: A plethora of police procedural details and the complicated relationship between the self-destructive DCI and the profiler who cares for her makes this a complex, rewarding read.
Reviewers say: "...this story's true center is the evolution of Tony and Carol's relationship as the pair questions each other's strong interdependence. The final twist is both shocking and fitting, a must-read for series fans"--Tran, Christine Copyright 2017 Booklist |
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City of Endless Night
by Douglas Preston
What it's about: When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found.
Why you might like it: This gritty, intermittently gruesome thriller series stars polymath FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. Smart, strong, and erudite, Pendergast hunts serial killers, Amazonian monsters, and ancient evil.
Reviewers say: One of the best in the series-tense and tightly wound, with death relentlessly circling, stalking, lurking behind every shadow. "Kirkus Reviews"
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Unbound
by Stuart Woods
What it's about: Former CIA operative travel to Santa Fe and unexpectedly found the opportunity to exact quiet revenge for his recent loss, from a man who helped to cover up the crime.
Why you might like it: Terrorist threats, and the courtroom in these fast-paced and suspenseful thrillers connected by a cast of characters that includes cops, CIA agents, and several U.S. presidents.
Series alert: This number 44 in the Stone Barrington series is violent, sexy and featuring glitzy high life.
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The whispering room : a Jane Hawk novel
by Dean R. Koontz
What it's about: In the wake of her husband's inexplicable suicide, and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals, Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment.
Why you might like it: Jane Hawk has impressive skill set that combines tech-savviness with physical prowess becoming an unstoppable predator who pursues the people behind the conspiracy with the kind of single-minded relentlessness that makes the book absolutely spellbinding.
Series alert: Jane Hawk--fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine--it's more like a continuation, part two of an ongoing story against a murderous conspiracy.
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| Dark Spies: A Spycatcher Novel by Matthew DunnWhat it's about: After choosing to disobey orders to let a fellow operative die, intelligence agent Will Cochrane is the focus of a massive CIA manhunt -- but why?
Why you might like it: Plenty of action, a complex plot, and the perspective of the author's real-life experience as an MI6 insider means the novel moves with "relentless momentum" (Kirkus Reviews).
Series alert: Dark Spies is the 4th in the action-packed Spycatcher series. The 8th and most recent, Act of Betrayal, published just a few months ago, but newcomers should start with Spycatcher. |
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| No Easy Target by Iris JohansenWhat it's about: When an enemy from her past threatens to return, Margaret Douglas must go on the run. But danger is in hot pursuit, and Margaret finds herself matching wits with a man who refuses to be stopped. Turning from the hunted to the hunter, Margaret must use everything she has to not only survive, but defeat evil.
Why you might like it: Fans of the author's Eve Duncan series will recognize Margaret, who turns out to be a strong and capable heroine in her own right. The fractious partnership and share of sexual tension with Lassiter adds spice.
Reviewers say: “Thrilling, emotional and down-right riveting certainly sum up this incredible tale!” –RT Book Reviews |
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| The Accident: A Novel by Chris PavoneWhat it's about: A New York literary agent, Isabel Reed is the recipient of an anonymous manuscript that could make a lot of money -- racing through the explosive revelations about powerful people, as well as long-hidden secrets about her own past. The Accident, will begin its dangerous march toward publication and threatening empires and lives.
Why you might like it: "The dark eruption of long-buried secrets and the complex betrayals is crafty, stylish, satisfying." - Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife
Series alert: While The Accident is not part of a series, familiar faces from the author's 2012 debut (The Expats) appear.
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| The Old Man by Thomas PerryWhat it's about: Thirty-five years ago, Dan Chase, a loyal American operative was branded a criminal by the NSA. Off the grid, he started life anew -- but several burned identities later, people are still trying to kill him, and it's time to neutralize the threat once and for all.
Why you might like it: The most compelling thrillers effectively explore how old missteps and a violent past can shatter the life of an apparently ordinary person, but he's kept up his training and his fitness regimen and is more than capable of out-thinking and outfighting his adversaries.
Reviewers say: Suspenseful and cleverly plotted, The Old Man is "swift, unsentimental, and deeply satisfying" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| War Hawk: A Tucker Wayne Novel by James Rollins and Grant BlackwoodWhat it's about: Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog Kane are thrust into a global conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of American. Tucker and Kane must discover the truth behind a mystery that leads back to World War II and to a true event that is even now changing the world.
Is it for you? Set all over the world and co-starring a beautifully depicted dog, this fast-paced and action-packed book is a great match for fans of author James Rollins' Sigma Force novels.
Series Alert: In this second exciting Tucker Wayne series, Tucker, Kane and their friends must solve the mystery that can change the world. |
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