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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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| Deep War: The War With China and North Korea, the Nuclear Precipice by David PoyerWhat it's about: a near-future America disabled by the Chinese war machine and desperately trying to fight on in the wake of devastating cyber attacks and nuclear strikes.
The biggest threat? A sophisticated artificial intelligence system, which gives the Chinese the ability to prepare for possible American countermeasures before U.S. forces can even finish creating them.
Series alert: this is the 18th entry in Poyer's long-running Tales of the Modern Navy series. |
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| Jack of Spies by David DowningStarring: Jack McColl, a luxury car salesman whose attention to detail and facility with languages might make him a good spy -- at least if the still-fledgling British intelligence service can keep itself together long enough to support his work.
Why you might like it: Jack's business takes him all over the world, providing a panoramic view of the complex and competing international interests that led to World War I.
Series alert: This is the 1st book in the Jack McColl series, followed by One Man's Flag and Lenin's Roller Coaster. |
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| I, Ripper by Stephen HunterWhat it is: the descriptive, intricately plotted story of Jack the Ripper, told in chapters alternating between the perspective of the killer himself and that of an Irish journalist who is trying to track him down.
Is it for you? The author doesn't shy away from the gruesome aspects of Jack's murderous desires, so this is not a book for the faint of heart.
You might also like: The Alienist by Caleb Carr and The Bedlam Detective by Stephen Gallagher, both of which are historical mysteries that explore the criminal psyche and the drive to commit violent crimes. |
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Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett
Introducing: Ken Follett's magnificent historical epic (the Century Trilogy) begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
What it's about: A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution.
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Midnight in Europe : a novel
by Alan Furst
What it's about: Failing to secure American support for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War in 1938, a minor Spanish noble travels to Paris, where he promotes the Republic cause before undertaking a mission to infiltrate the Spanish government.
About the author: By the best-selling author of Mission to Paris.
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Los Alamos : a novel
by Joseph Kanon
What it's about: A thriller set in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during the final years of World War II follows a murder investigation that leads into the top-secret heart of the Manhattan Project.
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The alienist
by Caleb Carr
What it's about: In 1896 New York, psychologist--or in period terminology, an alienist--Laszlo Kreizler joins forces with journalist John Schuyler Moore to track a vicious serial killer.
About the author: A first novel.
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The technologists : a novel
by Matthew Pearl
What it's about: A first graduating class at a post-Civil War Massachusetts Institute of Technology is thrown into turmoil by bizarre phenomena that cause period instruments to inexplicably spin out of control, challenging a quiet machinist and three enterprising students to protect lives while combating Harvard rivals, labor unions and a sensation-driven media.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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