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Thrillers and Suspense September 2019
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The Warehouse
by Rob Hart
What it is: A darkly satirical thriller set in a near-future America wracked by violence, unemployment and climate change finds two employees of a world-saving global giant discovering their employers' true agenda.
Why you might like it: The Warehouse is a near-future thriller about what happens when Big Brother meets Big Business--and who will pay the ultimate price.
About the author: Rob Hart is the author of the Ash McKenna crime series and the short-story collection Take-Out.
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The murder list
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
What it is about: A bright, hard-working law student married to a faithful and devoted husband discovers that everything she believes about her life is false and is caught up in a game of cat-and-mouse for her very survival.
About the author: Hank Phillippi Ryan is the investigative reporter for Boston's NBC affiliate. She has won many awards, including; two Agatha Awards for her bestselling mystery novels.
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| The Escape Room by Megan GoldinWhat it is: a twist on the traditional locked-room thriller; a story about the team-building exercise from hell.
Starring: Wall Street colleagues Sylvie, Sam, Jules, and Vincent, who share a tangled web of connections, rivalries, and dark secrets.
What goes down: The four investment bankers share an elevator on their way to a training exercise, only to find that the elevator is the exercise and that they'll have to work together if they want to survive. |
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The wolf wants in : a novel
by Laura McHugh
What it is: A woman confronts a dark secret about her brother’s death while a teen becomes increasingly desperate to escape their opioid-ravaged community.
Why you might like it: The Wolf Wants In is an atmospheric, beautifully told novel that barrels toward a twisting, chilling end and keeps us turning the page to find out how these small-town secrets will unravel--and who will survive.
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A stranger on the beach
by Michele Campbell
What it is about: 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.
Why you might like it: A Stranger on the Beach is an edge-of-your seat story of passion and intrigue that will keep you guessing until the very end.
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| Bearskin by James A. McLaughlinWhat it's about: Poachers are killing bears on an Appalachian nature preserve where Rice Moore is working as a caretaker, but his attempts to stop them bring up secrets from his past and reveal his location to the members of the drug cartel that he came to Virginia to hide from.
Why you might like it: Lush writing and an atmospheric tone almost turn the natural world into a character itself.
For fans of: Paul Doiron, Nevada Barr, and C.J. Box. |
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| The Perfect Stranger by Megan MirandaWhat it is: the menacing and fast-paced story of Leah Stevens, who leaves the big city (and career failure) behind to move in with her friend Emmy in rural Pennsylvania. But when Emmy suddenly goes missing, Leah is unable to convince the police that her friend ever existed.
Try this next: Tangerine by Christine Mangan; A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell; The Lying Game by Ruth Ware.
About the author: After primarily writing young adult fiction, Megan Miranda published adult suspense novels such as All the Missing Girls and The Last House Guest. |
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| Barbed Wire Heart by Tess SharpeWhat it's about: In Northern California, 22-year-old Harley McKenna wants to get out of the family business, and if that means igniting a blood feud between her drug kingpin father and his rivals, so be it.
Why you might like it: With flawed but likeable Harley at the helm, this hard-bitten crime novel is both intense and affecting; there's plenty of violence as well as an intriguing father-daughter dynamic.
For fans of: the atmosphere and star character in Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone. |
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| The Blinds by Adam SternberghThe premise: Caesura looks like any other middle-of-nowhere Texas town, but it's actually an experimental new kind of witness protection program, designed to encourage criminals to turn state's evidence.
The problem: In a town where not even the sheriff is supposed to be armed, why were two residents just found shot to death? And how is the sheriff supposed to investigate when everyone's memories have been altered?
Why you might like it: The characters in this modern western are complex and human, with as many redeeming qualities as flaws. |
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