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Thrillers and Suspense April 2024
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| Kingpin by Michael LawsonVeteran political fixer Joe DeMarco returns in the gritty and action-packed follow-up to Alligator Alley. This time, his well-connected erstwhile employer tasks Joe with uncovering the truth behind the mysterious death of one of his interns, where he'll find a complex web of corruption, assassins, and unanticipated ties to the Albanian mafia. |
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The Defector
by Chris Hadfield
In 1973 Israel, as the Yom Kippur War erupts and a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter makes an unexpected landing, NASA Flight Controller and former U.S. test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is drawn into a high-stakes game of spies, lies and secrets that hold the key to Cold War air and space supremacy.
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Kennedy 35
by Charles Cumming
When an old friend relays shocking information about a failed mission in Senegal years earlier, veteran agent Lachlan Kite must use all his resources to protect his former partner from a criminalnetwork with links to international terror. network with links to international terror.
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The Helsinki Affair
by Anna Pitoniak
Career ambitions clash harshly with personal concerns when CIA agent Amanda Cole's newest assignment leads her to discover shocking information about her retired agent father and his activities during the Cold War, which she must decide whether or not to reveal to her superiors.
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Keep Your Friends Close
by Lucinda Berry
When the president of the elite West Hollywood Moms' Club is murdered, three mothers find themselves at the center of the investigation and, with everything at stake, try to hold on to their seemingly perfect lives amidst secrets, betrayal and deceit.
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The Manor House
by Gilly Macmillan
When her husband Tom is found dead, Nicole, whose life has been forever changed after a massive lottery win, finds her dream world turning into a nightmare, realizing that big money can bring big problems and big threats, making her wonder if Tom's death was really a tragic accident -- and if she's next.
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Five Bad Deeds
by Caz Frear
Harried wife and mother Ellen Walsh is just managing to juggle her family, social commitments, and thriving tutoring business, but only just. Then she starts to receive menacing anonymous messages, followed by the spread of reputation-ruining rumors that could destroy the comfortable life she worked so hard to create for herself.
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Tomás Nevinson
by Javier Marâias
The British Embassy, Madrid, 1997. Against his better judgment, Tomás Nevinson re-enters the Secret Service and is sent to a small town to identify a suspect behind several deadly terrorist attacks carried out by the IRA and ETA. Nevinson must decide which of three women is the mastermind and kill her before it's too late. The assignment smacks of his former boss Bertram Tupra and his questionable methods-but Nevinson can't see a way out. Tomás Nevinson is the story of a man who has stretched the limits of what a person can bear, but then is asked to go beyond them.
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Only If You're Lucky
by Stacy Willingham
Moving into an off-campus house with magnetic and addictive Lucy Sharpe and two other girls, shy and quiet Margot finally comes out of the shell she's been in since her best friend Eliza died until one of the fraternity boys next door is murdered and Lucy goes missing.
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American Girl
by Wendy Walker
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Hudson is desperate to escape her small Pennsylvania town, working as many shifts as she can at a local sandwich shop. But when the shop owner is found dead, the shop's employees all become viable suspects, including Charlie herself.
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First Lie Wins
by Ashley Elston
A likeable con artist going by the name Evie Porter develops feelings for Ryan Summer, her latest mark, and contemplates going straight. Any plans for a new life are put on hold after Evie meets a woman calling herself Lucca Marino -- Evie's fairly uncommon original name.
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The Heiress
by Rachel Hawkins
After North Carolina's richest -- and most notorious -- heiress dies, her adopted son, Camden, rejects his inheritance until 10 years later, when his uncle's death pulls him and his wife back into the family fold at Ashby House where he realizes the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.
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The Fury of Beijing : The Triad Years
by Ian Hamilton
Still reeling from the brutal murder of her close associates, Lau Lau and Chen, Ava Lee embarks on a quest for revenge that takes her from Toronto to Los Angeles to Beijing. Along the way, Ava is aided by some familiar faces and old comrades-in-arms, including Sonny Kwon, Jimmy Li, Lop, and Xu, the mountain master of Shanghai. The search leads first to Ava's old opponent, Mo, the chairman of the China Movie Syndicate, and then to a shadowy figure at the very top of the Chinese Security Service -- the man who gave the order to kill her friends. Events reach a deadly climax in front of the Tianqiao Theatre in Beijing, but exacting her revenge is only half the battle -- getting out of China alive is another matter entirely...
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Argylle
by Elly Conway
A CIA spymaster, Frances Coffey, must prevent a Russian magnate from restoring his nation to greatness and setting in motion a chain of events that will take the world to the edge of war and chaos.
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The Fury
by Alex Michaelides
Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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