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Thrillers and Suspense May 2019
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| Confessions of an Innocent Man by David R. DowStarring: Rafael Zhettah, an Austin-based chef and son of immigrant parents who is wrongfully convicted of his wealthy wife's murder.
Life behind bars: Rafael spends six years on death row, until he is exonerated by DNA evidence and freed. But his time in prison has changed him, and now all Rafael wants is vengeance.
About the author: David R. Dow is the founder of the Texas Innocence Network, an organization that investigates wrongful conviction claims and represents death row inmates through the appeals process. |
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Killer thriller
by Lee Goldberg
What it's about: A sequel to the best-selling True Fiction finds a hapless writer researching his latest action thriller in Hong Kong only to stumble on a deadly Chinese intelligence conspiracy to topple the United States.
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Crucible : a thriller
by James Rollins
What it's about: A Christmas Eve attack on his home and the abduction of his pregnant girlfriend prompts Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force to confront deep spiritual mysteries tracing back to the Spanish Inquisition.
Series note: This is book 14 in the Sigma Force series.
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Black and blue
by David Rosenfelt
What it's about: Struggling with amnesia after surviving a shooting, Doug Brock reinvestigates a cold case involving the DNA of a man he eliminated as a suspect, but can no longer remember. By the national best-selling author of Blackout.
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The burglar : a novel
by Thomas Perry
Juvenile boosl I
What it's about: An elite young burglar stumbles upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from a wealthy art dealer and must solve the crime to prevent becoming a next victim. By the best-selling author of the Jane Whitefield series.
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Science Fiction Thrillers
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| The Lightning Stones by Jack Du BrulWhat it's about: Geologist Philip Mercer vows to discover the truth when his mentor is killed by a group of gunmen while doing fieldwork. Soon Mercer learns who ordered the attack, and what lengths his adversary will go to in order to protect his business interests.
Science fiction elements: a crystal found deep underground that has the power to interrupt and control electronic equipment -- such as Amelia Earhart's navigation instruments, a prominent conspiracy theory in the novel.
Series alert:The Lightning Stones is the 8th of Jack Du Brul's Philip Mercer novels. |
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| The Rising by Heather Graham and Jon LandFeaturing: Alex Chin, a star high school athlete; Samantha Dixon, his fellow student and science tutor who has an irrepressible curious streak.
What happens: Alex goes to the hospital after a football injury, where tests reveal he's something other than human. He goes on the run with Samantha, and together they discover his origins, government secrets, and a massive threat to the future of humanity.
Science fiction elements: plasma guns, aliens among us, superhuman breeding programs. |
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| Sleeping Giants by Sylvain NeuvelThe premise: When Rose Franklin was a little girl, she stumbled across a massive metal artifact near her South Dakota town. Now an adult, she's working with a team of fellow scientists to figure out what it is, how it got there, and what the markings on it mean. And the clock is ticking.
Science fiction elements: giant robot parts hidden across the earth, inscrutable extraterrestrial contact.
Series alert: Sleeping Giants is book one of three in the Themis Files series, followed by Waking Gods and Only Human. |
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| Invasion of Privacy by Christopher ReichStarring: Mary Grant, a canny and tenacious widow who doesn't quite buy the story of her FBI agent husband's death; Jessie Grant, Mary's equally suspicious teenage daughter whose hacking skills will come in handy for discovering the truth.
Science fiction elements: unbreakable computer code and advanced, untraceable surveillance technology.
Read it for: the amoral, creepy villain(s), strong family ties, and an exploration of privacy concerns that may be just around the corner for us all. |
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Head on
by John Scalzi
What it's about: A follow-up to Lock In finds the near-future world reveling in a violent but seemingly harmless, robot-bodied sport until a star athlete dies unexpectedly on the field, prompting an investigation by two FBI agents into the game's increasingly lucrative competition. By the award-winning author of Redshirts.
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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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