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Thrillers and Suspense April 2018
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| The Sandman by Lars KeplerWhat it's about: A terrifying, manipulative serial killer imprisoned in a high-security psychiatric ward may hold the key to saving the life of a young woman believed dead for 13 years.
Is it for you? Blood-soaked and fast-paced, this 4th in the series starring Det. Insp. Joona Linna highlights his intuition and strategic sense -- and his willingness to dangle his colleagues as bait.
For fans of: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter. |
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| The Innocent Wife by Amy LloydStarring: Dennis Danson, a high-profile death row inmate convicted of killing a teenager in his hometown 20 years ago. And British schoolteacher Samantha, who has fallen in love with Dennis -- and has traveled to the U.S. to meet and ultimately marry him.
What it's about: Released after someone else confesses, Dennis and Sam return to the Danson family home, where they deal with hostile locals, vandals, and an unsympathetic police force. And Sam starts wondering if Dennis really is as innocent as she'd believed. |
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| Chicago by David MametAuthor alert: Though better known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright or an Oscar-nominated screenwriter (take your pick), this is not David Mamet's first novel -- just his first in nearly 20 years.
What it's about: Set in 1920s Chicago and featuring a whole crew of unsavory gangsters, the novel stars former WWI pilot Mike Hodge, who's now a reporter. When his girlfriend is gunned down in his own home, he's immediately on the hunt for those responsible.
Read it for: real-life gangsters; evocative dialogue; fast-paced action. |
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The wife : a novel of psychological suspense
by Alafair Burke
What it's about: Marrying an economics professor she met while catering an East Hampton dinner party, Angela finds her tragic past coming under scrutiny at the same time she is asked to defend her husband against wrongful accusations.
About this author: By the New York Times best-selling author of the Edgar Award-nominated The Ex.
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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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Books You Might Have Missed
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| The Beautiful Dead by Belinda BauerWhat it's about: When television reporter Eve Singer arrives at the scene of a savage, fatal stabbing in a London office building, she attracts the attention of the serial killer behind it, who's staging his murders to look like artwork.
Why you might like it: With multiple perspectives (Eve's, the killer's, and even some victims) this gripping novels blends the details of a police procedural with the intensifying strain of a psychological suspense novel. |
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| It's Always the Husband by Michele CampbellWhat it's about: The events that led to the death of a friend will always link the three very different former college roommates featured in this twisty debut. As adults, they find themselves thrown together once more -- and the result is yet another death under suspicious circumstances.
Reviewers say: The "edge-of-your-seat pace and dark atmosphere" (Booklist) and depiction of complex female friendship will appeal to fans of domestic suspense novels like Rebecca Drake's recent Just Between Us. |
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Lockdown : a novel of suspense
by Laurie R King
What it's about: A school career day that is hosted by a range of presenters is thrown into turmoil by an anonymous enemy with a thirst for revenge.
Of interest: This is a stand-alone novel of psychological suspense by the best-selling author of the Mary Russell series.
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The woman on the stairs
by Bernhard Schlink
What it's about: Hired by an artist and the beautiful woman he painted, who want to reclaim a portrait from the woman's husband to keep it from being deliberately destroyed, a naïve young lawyer in Frankfurt becomes embroiled in an unexpectedly toxic case marked by a disappearance, a natural disaster and a past betrayal.
About the author: Bernhard Schlink is a German Author, Professor, and Judge, born in 1944 in Bielefeld, Germany. He attended the University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin. He is a law professor at Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the author of Flights of Love, a collection of short fiction. His international bestseller, The Reader, won the Hans Fallada Prize, the Prix Laure Bataillon, and the Welt-Literaturpreis of the newspaper Die Welt. His recent work, The Woman on the Stairs, is an international bestseller.
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Dying breath
by Heather Graham
What it's about: Historian Vickie Preston, who saw a ghost for the first time as a teenage survivor of an attack by a serial killer, is recruited to aid the authorities in tracking down another killer with the assistance of the spirit of one of the victims.
Of interest: This book is number 21 in the Krewe of Hunters series.
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