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Thrillers and Suspense May 2019
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Before She Was Found
by Heather Gudenkauf
The Edgar Award-nominated author of The Weight of Silence presents a high-suspense thriller involving three young girlfriends, a dark obsession and a chilling crime that shakes up a quiet Iowa community.
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Confessions of an Innocent Man
by David R. Dow
Starring: 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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| Save Me From Dangerous Men by S.A. LelchukFeaturing: Nikki Griffin, a bookstore owner and part-time private investigator who isn't afraid to confront the violent men who have mistreated her female clients.
What goes wrong: Nikki agrees to take a well-paying and seemingly straightforward corporate espionage case, only to find out that the target is a woman who needs protection. Luckily, Nikki has experience with dangerous men.
Read it for: the exploration of serious issues like domestic violence, income inequality, and addiction; Nikki's complex relationship with her violent impulses. |
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The Eighth Sister
by Robert Dugoni
When Charles Jenkins, a former CIA officer, travels to Moscow on an undercover assignment involving a Russian assassin, he finds that things are not as he was led to believe.
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Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
A dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened. A first novel.
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I Know Who You Are
by Alice Feeney
An actress on the brink of fame finds her sense of reality thrown into question by her husband's baffling disappearance at the same time a young runaway lands in mortal danger. By the author of Sometimes I Lie.
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The Better Sister
by Alafair Burke
When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters—one the victim's widow, the other his ex—navigate long-standing resentments to uncover devastating family secrets. By the best-selling author of The Wife.
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A Good Enough Mother
by Bev Thomas
When a new patient, Dan—unstable and traumatized— looks exactly like her missing son, psychotherapist Ruth Hartland is determined to help him, but soon, her own complicated feelings cloud her professional judgement, and she begins to cross some dangerous boundaries.
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The Missing Years
by Lexie Elliott
When Ailsa Calder inherits her childhood home in the craggy peaks of the Scottish Highlands, she must contend with memories of her 27-years-gone father, a half-sister she's hardly known, the fact that neighborhood animals avoid the garden—and the nighttime intruder.
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The Mother-in-Law
by Sally Hepworth
A woman's obsessive fears about how much she disappoints her successful, pillar-of-the-community mother-in-law lead to a controversial disinheritance and a suspicious suicide. By the best-selling author of The Family Next Door.
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