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Thrillers and Suspense January 2019
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| Find Me Gone by Sarah MeulemanStarring: successful journalist Hannah, who decides to quit her glamorous magazine job to write a book about a topic that's always obsessed her -- the disappearances of novelists Agatha Christie, Barbara Follett, and Virginia Woolf.
Parallel narratives: Half the story is told from the perspective of 12 year old Sophie, Hannah's childhood friend who vanished during a wave of child snatchings in their Belgian hometown.
Is it for you? There are many significant details to keep track of as the narrative unfolds and the two separate narratives converge. |
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The Three Beths
by Jeff Abbott
Glimpsing her devoted mother, who went missing and was presumed dead two years earlier, Mariah discovers that two other women who share her mother's name have also disappeared.
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Paris in the Dark
by Robert Olen Butler
Working undercover for the U.S. government in World War I Paris, reporter Kit Cobb tests the limits of his skills and principles to investigate a string of dynamite bombings possibly linked to a German operative.
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Someone Like Me
by M. R. Carey
A gentle, devoted mother hides the dark and malicious side of her personality until it takes control, triggering devastating consequences.
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Pandemic
by Robin Cook
When a heart-transplant recipient abruptly dies under suspicious circumstances, veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton follows leads to a gene-editing biotechnology and the unethical requirements of a megalomaniacal businessman.
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The Fox
by Frederick Forsyth
When America's intelligence agencies are breached by a teen hacker, a British MI6 leader endeavors to use the boy's talents to safeguard both nations from unseen enemies.
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The Bouncer
by David Gordon
A strip-club bouncer who was expelled from Harvard crosses paths with a beleaguered FBI agent over a terrorist plot that sends them to a high-stakes perfume heist.
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Absolute Proof
by Peter James
What would it take to prove the existence of God? This question and the consequences of its answer lies at the heart of Absolute Proof, the new international thriller from bestselling author Peter James. To provide absolute proof of a divine existence would trigger worldwide instability, with every one of the major faiths laying claim to such evidence by whatever means necessary. Promising intrigue, action and conspiracy on a global scale this electrifying novel will have you hooked from the first page to last.
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Those Who Knew
by Idra Novey
On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating.
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Go to My Grave
by Catriona McPherson
A group of cousins staying at a refurbished bed and breakfast in Galloway realize they had stayed there decades ago for a birthday party that started with schnapps and ended with a girl walking into the sea to her death.
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