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Thrillers and Suspense March 2020
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The other people : a novel
by C. J. Tudor
A man obsessed with tracking down the person responsible for his daughter’s abduction is forced to reckon with events from his distant past, while a mother on the run desperately protects her own daughter from dangerous adversaries.
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You are not alone
by Greer Hendricks
A lonely misfit with a dead-end job quietly envies a circle of popular sisters who hide dangerous vengeful truths beneath a veneer of friendship, glamour and accomplishments. By the authors of The Wife Between Us.
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The sun down motel
by Simone St. James
A young woman takes a night-clerk job at the same roadside motel from where her aunt went missing decades earlier before uncovering the work of a serial killer. By the award-winning author of The Broken Girls.
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The Holdout
by Graham Moore
What it's about: the long-simmering consequences of a highly charged trial, in which Maya Seale convinced her fellow jurors to acquit an African American teacher accused of murdering a white 15-year-old.
Ten years later: A true crime documentary about the case gathers the former jury together again, and revisiting the trial dredges up secrets and resentments that everyone is hiding, with fatal consequences and another person wrongly accused of murder.
You might also like: other fast-paced legal thrillers like Confessions of an Innocent Man by David R. Dow and Invisible by Andrew Grant, which also deal with revenge.
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Eight Perfect Murders
by Peter Swanson
Years after establishing a literary career through his compilation of the mystery genre’s most unsolvable classics, an unsuspecting bookseller is tapped by the FBI for help solving murders that eerily mimic the books on his list.
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Lies
by T.M. Logan
The 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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In a dark, dark wood
by Ruth Ware
Reluctantly accepting an old friend's invitation to spend a weekend on the English countryside, reclusive writer Leonora awakens in a hospital badly injured, unable to recall what happened and confronting a growing certainty that someone involved has died.
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| The Good Liar by Nicholas SearleWhat it is: a compelling and intricately plotted psychological thriller that's part character study and part cat-and-mouse game.
Starring: veteran con man Roy Courtnay, who's out to make one last big score; well-off widow Betty McLeish, who Roy sees as an easy target but who is cannier than she seems; and Betty's protective grandson Stephen, who isn't shy about his distrust of his grandmother's new boyfriend.
Media buzz: The Good Liar was adapted into a film of the same name in 2019, starring Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen. |
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| The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen WhiteWhat it is: the suspenseful and atmospheric story of long-buried secrets (and crimes) hiding behind the veneer of gentility in Atlanta suburb Sweet Apple, where newly divorced Merilee Dunlap moves with her children.
Read it for: the unlikely and dynamic bond Merilee forms with her 93-year-old neighbor Sugar Prescott, whose family once owned the land that Sweet Apple was built on and who is much more than the gossipy curmudgeon she appears to be.
Who it's for: fans of Kate Morton and Liane Moriarty who don't mind a little Mary Kay Andrews now and then. |
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