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Thrillers and Suspense March 2024
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2054
by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
What it's about: This sweeping and sobering sequel to 2034 returns to the first book's near-future world of rapidly advancing technology, 20 years later. In the interim, both China and the U.S. have fallen from geopolitical grace, an A.I. may be responsible for the sudden death of the American president, and the approaching Singularity poses a threat to the entire human race.
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My Name Was Eden
by Eleanor Barker-White
What it's about: In this compelling debut, a complicated mother-daughter relationship grows even thornier after the titular teenage daughter Eden survives almost drowning. After her near-death experience, Eden's behavior takes a sinister turn, and she begins churning up family secrets, and asking uncomfortable questions about someone named Eli.
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The Atlas Maneuver
by Steve Berry
What it's about: When he unwittingly becomes caught in a war between the world's oldest bank and the CIA, retired Justice Department operative Cotton Malone must stop cryptocurrency from being weaponized to attack the world's financial systems.
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The Princess of Las Vegas
by Chris Bohjalian
What it's about: Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn into a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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Every Single Secret
by Christina Dodd
What it's about: A woman lives alone in an isolated lighthouse on the coast of California...until a man appears on her doorstep who knows every single secret she's kept since one fateful night.
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End of Story
by A. J. Finn
What it's about: With mere months to live, a reclusive novelist invites long time correspondent Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story. As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of his life, she finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.
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Good Half Gone
by Tarryn Fisher
What it's about: Ever since that terrible day, Iris' search for her twin sister Piper has bordered on obsession. She even goes so far as to use her criminal psychology degree to intern at the psychiatric hospital where her suspect is being held. But Iris soon realizes that something even more sinister is simmering beneath the surface of the hospital, and that the patients aren't the only ones being observed.
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The Hunter
by Tana French
What it's about: Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey's long-absent father reappears, suddenly threatening everything the three of them have been building.
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Still See You Everywhere
by Lisa Gardner
What it's about: Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn't have anticipated this latest request—to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks' time. - Publisher
Series alert: This is the third novel in Gardner's Frankie Elkin series.
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Leave No Trace
by A. J. Landau
What it's about: After an explosion brings down the Statue of Liberty, Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is sent to New York to investigate. While barred from the meetings of the Joint Task Force for his lack of security clearance, Walker finds a young boy among the survivors with a critical piece of information—a video linking the attackers to the assault.
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The Inmate
by Freida McFadden
What it's about: There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men's maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never, ever, become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules.
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The New Couple in 5B
by Lisa Unger
What it's about: Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere. With its pre-war elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade. - Publisher
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