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Mystery, Thrillers, and Suspense April 2024
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Ash Dark as Night
by Gary Phillips
What It's About: After being beaten unconscious for taking a photo during the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, Harry Ingram agrees to help a friend track down a missing business associate in this follow-up to the book One-Shot Harry.
Reviewers Say: “Hardboiled, gritty, and fresh, Phillips’s latest is for fans of action/detective stories.” (Library Journal)
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book.
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The Berry Pickers
by Amanda Peters
What It's About: Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
Reviewers Say: "Enthralling...Powerfully rendered...[A] cogent and heartfelt look at the ineffable pull of family ties." (Publishers Weekly)
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book and an eBook.
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The Broken Girls
by Simone St. James
What It's About: More than 60 years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.
Reviewers Say: “This horror-tinged mystery is frighteningly believable, peopled with feisty characters, and features top-notch dialogue.” (Booklist (Starred Review))
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book.
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City in Ruins
by Don Winslow
What It's About: A Las Vegas casino mogul with a spotty past must fight for the life he created and everything he holds dear after old enemies surface, in the final novel of the Danny Ryan Trilogy.
Reviewers Say: "Bolstered by careful plotting and meticulous attention to character, Winslow’s ambitious narrative culminates with an exhilarating climax that beautifully wraps up the series’ many plot threads. It’s a fitting swan song." (Publishers Weekly (Starred Review))
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book, and an Audiobook on CD is on order.
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Death Writes
by Andrea Carter
What It's About: As Solicitor Benedicta "Ben" O'Keeffe and her boyfriend Police Sergeant Tom Molloy go Glendara in time for a literary festival, the duo must put their skills to the test when a local recluse writer dies during a public appearance.
Reviewers Say: “Death, she writes. Contemporary Agatha Christie reincarnate Andrea Carter, that is. It’s kismet that these two famed mystery authors share identical initials.” (Bookreporter)
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book and an eBook.
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Everyone is Watching
by Heather Gudenkauf
What It's About: Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on One Lucky Winner, a mysterious game show that will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, the competitors come to discover that they are playing a far more dangerous game than they imagined.
Reviewers Say: "[A] diverting tale that will have readers flying through the pages to learn what happens next." (Booklist)
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book and a Large Print Fiction book.
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Her Deadly Game
by Robert Dugoni
What It's About: After a failed romance with a coworker, a Seattle prosecutor must return home to her family's failing law firm to work for her father until she accepts a high profile case in which the prosecutor is her ex.
Reviewers Say: “Fast-paced legal-intrigue gold that could be improved only by kicking off a new series.” (Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review))
In Our Collection: This is available as a Large Print Fiction book, and Adult Fiction copies are on order.
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Last Patient of the Night
by Gary Gerlacher
What It's About: Together with his policeman friend and a police dog, emergency physician AJ Docker sets out on a quest for justice for a young patient who was brutally tortured and murdered. Doc's investigation leads him into the dark world of organized crime, and when the killers come after him, it becomes a fight for survival.
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book.
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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by Stuart Turton
What It's About: Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in order to escape the curse, in a world filled with enemies and where nothing and no one are quite what they seem.
Reviewers Say: "This novel is so ingenious and original that it’s difficult to believe it’s Turton’s debut. The writing is completely immersive...Stuart Turton is an author to remember." (Booklist)
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book, an eBook, and an eAudiobook.
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Silence in the Library
by Katharine Schellman
What It's About: Regency widow Lily Adler must earn the trust of her father to help her solve the murder of an old family friend who had secrets worth killing for – and who had family with a lot to gain from his death.
Reviewers Say: "Schellman’s gracefully written whodunit is equally a tale of 19th-century female empowerment and societal conventions...More than a clever murder puzzle, this is an immersion in a bygone era." (Kirkus Reviews)
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book and an eBook.
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Still See You Everywhere
by Lisa Gardner
What It's About: Asked by a female serial killer, with only 21 days left to live, to locate her long-lost sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, Frankie Elkin is led to a tech mogul's remote island where she goes undercover to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman's life.
Reviewers Say: “Gardner skillfully weaves threats into this pitch-perfect variation of the locked-room mystery...Gardner's Frankie Elkin series gets more magnetizing with each installment.” (Booklist)
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book.
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The Wild Side
by Fern Michaels
What It's About: Called back to the Office of Special Investigations for a highly specialized assignment, school guidance counselor Melanie Drake must pose as an escort to infiltrate a dangerous international group of billionaires during a decadent dinner to collect information vital to national security.
In Our Collection: This is available as an Adult Fiction book and a Large Print Fiction book.
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