Thrillers and Suspense
March 2023

Recent Releases
Hard to break
by Michael Ledwidge

Series alert: The next installment in the pulse-pounding Gannon series.

Mike Gannon always wanted to go to Alaska. That’s why when a bucket-list grizzly bear trip to the Klondike comes up, he’s on it with both feet. But as he arrives up in the northern wilds, he discovers other hunters are there. And they’re not looking for grizzly..

Mike’s enemies are in the driver’s seat until they realize they overlooked one simple thing. Some men are easy to handle, but there are other men who are…hard to break.
Treasure state : a Cassie Dewell novel
by C. J. Box

Cassie Dewell has her hands full with two cases - finding the man who conned a wealthy Florida widow out of her fortune, which takes her to Montana, and decoding a poem that promises buried treasure to one lucky adventurer, but which has led to five deaths.

Reviewers say: “Excellent...The story culminates with one of Box’s most satisfying payoffs.” (Publishers Weekly)
Friends don't lie
by Nell Pattison

My name is Isabella Butterworth. Your name is Isabella Butterworth.
We’re around the same age. We live in the same town. But your life is more exciting than mine... richer, dramatic, more fulfilling.

Imagine if I’d never found out about you. But I have because someone mistook me for you. And now I can’t stop thinking about you because I know you’re in trouble. You need my help. And I need a way to get to know you. To save you. To be you…

Read it for: An addictive, compelling and immersive thriller with enough dark twists to give you whiplash.
The Opportunist
by Elyse Friedman

Financially struggling single mom Alana Shropshire is estranged from her toxic wealthy family, but accepts a deal with her brothers to stop their septuagenarian father from marrying Kelly, his 28-year-old nurse.

Alana only agreed to help because she's drowning in medical bills related to her daughter's muscular dystrophy. Meanwhile bride-to-be Kelly has no intentions of letting anything prevent the wedding.

Reviewers say: The Opportunist is “perfectly paced” with twists that will “keep readers glued to the pages.” (Booklist).
A Mother Would Know
by Amber Garza

Widowed musician Valerie increasing forgetfulness might be a sign of the early onset Alzheimer’s disease that runs in her family. Valerie's troubled son Hudson moves home to help care for her.

It all goes wrong when a young woman is found dead shortly after Hudson returns and the incident revives suspicions about his past. This unsettles Valerie even more as she struggles to piece together the truth and consider her own safety.

For fans of: B.A. Paris and Camilla Way.
The Blackhouse
by Carole Johnstone

At age five, Maggie MacKay announced that a man she had never met had been killed on the tiny Scottish island community of Kilmeray, a place she had never visited.

Twenty years later, neither Maggie nor Kilmeray have fully recovered from what happened, something that becomes abundantly clear when she travels there as an adult, determined to finally discover the truth.

Read it for: The intricate plotting, creepy gothic atmosphere, and intensifying pace that will keep you turning the pages.
The Widowmaker
by Hannah Morrissey

This is a second suspenseful and gritty police procedural about trauma and secrets in a decaying small town, following Hello, Transcriber.

Set in Black Harbor, Wisconsin, the unsolved disappearance of prominent local businessman has haunted the town for 20 years and may have surprising connections to a recent murder.

For fans of: Walking the Bones by Randall Silvis.
All the Dark Places
by Terri Parlato

Psychologist Jay Bradley has just celebrated his 40th birthday with his devoted wife Molly and three other couples at their suburban Massachusetts home.

The next day, Jay is found in dead in his home office, with a slit throat and the start of an unanticipated new book about abnormal psychology open on his computer.

Read it for: The compelling narration, which alternates between the perspectives of Molly and the detective who interrogates her.

Available as an eBook.
The Widow
by Kaira Rouda

After the sudden death of her husband Martin, a politician with more than a dozen congressional terms under his belt, Jody Asher discovers that she's willing to do more than she realized to protect her family's name and political legacy from several scandalous, behind-the-scenes truths waiting to come to light.

It is told in Rouda's signature dishy, diaristic, first-person style.

Reviewers say: The Widow is a "deliciously diabolical take on marriage, politics, and the lies that bind." (Library Journal).
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