Thrillers and Suspense
January 2021

Recent Releases
The lady upstairs
by Halley Sutton

Supporting herself by targeting and then blackmailing powerful unscrupulous men from Hollywood, Jo orchestrates a final con against a rising political star when she is wrongly targeted with suspicion for murder.
After all I've done : a novel
by Mina Hardy

Experiencing recurring nightmares of an accident she cannot remember, Diana bonds with newcomer Cole before her unraveling memories force her to make an unthinkable choice. By the author of the Quarry series.
The kingdom
by Jo Nesbø

A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
The law of innocence
by Michael Connelly

Defense attorney Mickey Haller utilizes his legal team’s resources from behind bars to organize his own defense when he is framed for murder by an unknown adversary. By the best-selling author of the Harry Bosch series. 
We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence
by Becky Cooper

Documents the unsolved 1969 murder of Harvard student Jane Britton, sharing insights into how the case was clouded by false rumors and the realities of gender inequality and institutional silence in period academic circles.
Betrayals
The better sister : a novel
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. 
You betrayed me
by Lisa Jackson

Waking up in a small hospital with no memory of what happened, playboy James Cahill gradually recalls that his girlfriend had just discovered his affair before going missing. By the best-selling author of Liar, Liar.
The silent patient
by Alex Michaelides

A therapist becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering the truth about what prompted his client, an artist who refuses to speak, to murder her husband in a way that triggers mass public speculation. A first novel.
The sentinel
by Lee Child

A latest entry in the best-selling series, co-written with the author’s brother, finds Jack Reacher following his lizard-brain instincts on a seemingly uneventful night in Nashville, where a recently fired man nurses an increasingly violent grudge. 
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