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Thrillers and Suspense July 2019
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The chef
by James Patterson
Accused of committing murder in the line of duty, detective Caleb Rooney of the New Orleans PD uses the contacts from his moonlighting job as a celebrity food-truck chef to counter a terrorist plot
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| Recursion by Blake CrouchWhat it is: an intricately plotted and thought-provoking technothriller about the power of memory and well-intentioned science gone awry.
What went wrong: When she invented a way to reintroduce lost memories, neuroscientist Helena Smith was just trying to help Alzheimer's patients. But now someone is using her technology to give people false memories, and the fate of reality itself is on the line.
You might also like: Virtual Sabotage by Julie Hyzy; Three Laws Lethal by David Walton. |
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Widows' revenge
by Lynda La Plante
After discovering that her husband isn't dead, Dolly and her group of heist-completing gangland widows must keep one step ahead of him to keep their lives and their spoils, in the second novel of the series following Widows
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The rumor : a novel
by Lesley Kara
"When a single mother hears a rumor outside her son's school, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another . . . and now there's no going back. Rumor has it that a notorious killer, a woman who has been released from prison years after her brutal crime, is living under a new identity in Joanna's seaside town. So who is the supposedly reformed murderer now living in their neighborhood? Suspicion falls on everyone. As Joanna becomes obsessed with the case, her curiosity will expose her son and his father to a heartless psychopath who has killed--and may kill again. And she will learn how dangerous one rumor can become . . . and just how far she must go to protect those she loves from harm. She is going to regret the day she eversaid a word . . . "
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| The Favorite Daughter by Kaira RoudaThe premise: The Harris family's seemingly perfect life was shattered by the death of Mary, their eldest daughter, in a freak accident. Stay-at-home mom Jane was particularly shaken, and has spent the year since in a thick fog of grief. The problem: Now that Jane is recovering, she sees things she spent the last year ignoring, like the suspicious behavior of her husband David and how distant her other daughter, Betsy, has become. Then notes begin to arrive -- notes that suggest Mary's death wasn't an accident after all.
Read it for: the upscale yet creepy gated community that the Harris family calls home; the flawed, unreliable narrator; the occasional moments of dark humor. |
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| Exhibit Alexandra by Natasha BellWhat it's about: Marc Southwood lives a happy and uneventful life with his wife Alex and their two daughters -- or he did, until his wife was kidnapped. When the police investigation starts to turn up Alex's many secrets, Marc begins to wonder if he ever knew his wife at all.
Reviewers say: "On one level a gripping page-turner and on another a disturbing exploration of identity, art, and decency" (Publishers Weekly).
Next up: Since Natasha Bell hasn't yet announced a second book, try Sarah Pinborough's Behind Her Eyes or Darcey Bell's A Simple Favor. |
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| The Terminal List by Jack CarrStarring: James Reece, a Navy SEAL who vows to get revenge for the murders of his crew, his wife, and his three-year-old child in this intricately plotted and compelling thriller.
Trust no one: After some digging, James has reason to believe that the kill orders that destroyed his life came from inside the government he pledged to serve.
Next up: the sequel, True Believer, is due out at the end of July. |
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| The French Girl by Lexie ElliottOn holiday: Kate Channing and six of her university friends go on a weeklong getaway to a picturesque farmhouse in the French countryside, where they meet a beautiful and enigmatic local named Severine.
Ten years later: Severine went missing the same day Kate and her friends left to return to Oxford, but police reopen the cold case after Severine's body is discovered. Now it's time for Kate and her friends to reckon with everything that happened on that trip a decade ago.
Next up: The Missing Years is Lexie Elliott's second novel, which came out in April. |
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American spy : a novel
by Lauren Wilkinson
Marie Mitchell, a Cold War FBI intelligence officer, joins an undercover task force to undermine Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary Communist president of Burkina Faso, who she secretly admires and comes to love, in a novel inspired by true events
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| The Chalk Man by C.J. TudorWhat it's about: The summer of 1986, Eddie and his friends drew each other coded chalk messages all over their small town. But then two local kids were found dead near some of the markings and they took on a sinister tone. Thirty years later, the chalk figures are back, and with them, more deaths.
Is it for you? The creepy, menacing tone of The Chalk Man will appeal most to fans of horror movies, especially slasher films.
Next up: C.J. Tudor released the revenge thriller The Hiding Place in February of this year. |
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