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Thrillers and Suspense September 2019
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| Lost You by Haylen BeckWhat it is: a moving psychological thriller in which the tension is ratcheted up by the shared anguish of two sympathetic characters who claim to be the mother of a three-year-old boy named Ethan.
For fans of: Allison Brennan, Megan Abbott, and Karen Ellis.
About the author: Haylen Beck is a pseudonym of Stuart Neville, best known for Belfast-set crime fiction. |
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| Thirteen by Steve CavanaghWhat it's about: A Hollywood star is charged with a double murder that looks open and shut, but things get complicated when the actor's defense attorney realizes that the killer may actually be on the jury.
Featuring: conman-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn; movie star and defendant Bobby Solomon; an audacious and frighteningly clever serial killer that the FBI can't seem to catch.
Read it for: the intricate plotting, compelling writing, and well-developed characters. |
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The warehouse : a novel
by Rob Hart
What it's about: 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. By the author of the Ash McKenna series.
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Looker : a novel
by Laura Sims
What it's about: A first novel. In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation spirals quickly, and lethally, into a frightening and irretrievable madness.
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The Silhouette Girl [downloadable audio]
by Andrews, V. C.
What it's about: Pru has the perfect life—a successful boyfriend and thriving nursing career. There is one dark spot, however: the repeated, and increasingly intrusive, voicemails of a stalker named Scarletta. Not only doesn’t Pru know anyone with that name, but she can’t recognize the voice.
What happens: Even as she begins to investigate, she’s determined to keep these horrifying messages a secret. Lewd and filled with details that no stranger could possibly know, Pru worries that these messages may paint her in a darker light and ruin the life she’s built for herself. But as she digs deeper, it becomes clear that something is going on that is altogether stranger than Pru could ever imagine—and these poisonous messages could silence all the beauty in Pru’s perfect life once and for all…
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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 lost man
by Jane Harper
What it's about: Meeting at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches on an isolated belt of the Australian outback, two brothers navigate the haunting realities of the isolation that ended their third brother's life. By the best-selling author of The Dry
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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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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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