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Thrillers and Suspense February 2020
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Mr. Nobody
by Catherine Steadman
Treating a man found on the beach with no memory of his identity, a neuropsychologist who would hide her own past is confronted by her patient’s mysterious knowledge of her secrets. By the author of Something in the Water.
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| The Tenant by Katrine EngbergStarring: retired professor and aspiring crime novelist Esther de Laurenti, who ends up on the list of suspects when one of her tenants is found dead -- which sounds a lot like the plot of Esther's novel.
Read it for: the quirky cast of characters, like the mismatched pair of detectives investigating Esther; the complex twists and turns that the plot takes as it unfolds at a rapid clip.
For fans of: Ruth Ware, Erin Kelly, and other authors of character-driven thrillers. |
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Deep State
by Chris Hauty
When a controversial populist candidate is elected president over an increasingly partisan America, the assassination of the White House chief of staff reveals a far-ranging conspiracy that implicates insiders at the most hidden levels of government.
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| How Quickly She Disappears by Raymond FleischmannWhat it's about: This historical thriller follows 1940's housewife Elizabeth Pfautz, who is lured into an intricate web of secrets after a stranger tells her he knows what happened to her twin sister Jacqueline, who disappeared when they were children.
Read it for: the stark and well-rendered Alaska setting, the isolation of which only underlines the lack of choices Elizabeth finds herself forced to confront. |
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The Look-Alike
by Erica Spindler
A decade after stumbling on a murdered classmate in college, a woman caring for her mentally ill mother begins receiving threatening phone calls before spotting a white van outside her home.
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| The Better Liar by Tanen JonesWhat it is: a fast-paced and compelling psychological thriller of fraud and family dysfunction, told from multiple (unreliable) perspectives.
The setup: Leslie hasn't seen her estranged sister Robin in a decade, but she needs to find Robin in order to claim her much-needed share of an inheritance. Luckily, she's tracked Robin down. Unluckily, Robin appears to have died of an overdose.
The doppelganger: On her way out of town, a grief-stricken Leslie meets a waitress named Mary who looks enough like Robin that she just might be able to get the job done... |
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Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
A policewoman races to find her missing sister, a homeless addict, amid a vicious killing spree in a Philadelphia neighborhood, in a story that alternates between the investigation and memories of their shared childhood.
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| The Rabbit Hunter by Lars KeplerSeries alert: This is the 6th entry in the D.I. Joona Linna series of Nordic crime thrillers, which finds the titular detective sprung from prison to investigate the death of a government minister with possible terrorist ties.
His mission: prevent two follow-up terrorist attacks by infiltrating the networks of a notorious drug, lord and later, an elite secret society.
Who it's for: readers who don't mind a little gore; fans of compelling crime fiction with a menacing tone. |
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The Other People
by C. J. Tudor
A man obsessed with tracking down the person responsible for his daughter’s abduction is forced to reckon with events from his distant past, while a mother on the run desperately protects her own daughter from dangerous adversaries.
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