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Thrillers and Suspense - April 2024
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The new couple in 5b
by Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger returns with a thrilling novel set in an iconic posh high-rise apartment in New York City, full of eccentric neighbours, creepy doormen, and murder. With echoes of 'Rosemary’s Baby' and Hitchcock’s 'Rear Window', 'The New Couple in 5B' is filled with danger and deceit, and the chilling warning that even the place you think of as home may be built on dark secrets and lies.
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| 2054 by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James StavridisThis 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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A friend in the dark
by Samantha M. Bailey
With her world crumbling in the face of a divorce and her daughter's estrangement, Eden Miller reaches out on social media to a former college crush who knows far too much about her life.
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| My Name Was Eden by Eleanor Barker-WhiteIn 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 princess of Las Vegas : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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| The Split by Kit FrickYA author Kit Frick makes her adult debut in this fast-paced and haunting work of psychological suspense, which examines the nature of choice through the fraught relationship between two sisters and one desperate late night phone call between them. For fans of: The Choice by Gillian McAllister and The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton. |
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The Hidden Storyteller
by Mandy Robotham
Set seven years after the events of 'The Berlin Girl'; 'The Hidden Storyteller' follows reporter Georgie Young as she returns to Germany to look into reports of a serial killer terrorizing the women of the destroyed city of Hamburg. But she soon discovers that some secrets of war did not die with Hitler.
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| The Mystery Writer by Sulari GentillTheodosia "Theo" Benton puts aside her legal career to finally get serious about writing, moving in with her brother Gus and convincing an established author to mentor her. But when her mentor turns up dead and the police decide Gus is a person of interest, Theo makes a decision she can't take back in order to find out what really happened. |
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Good Half Gone
by Tarryn Fisher
When Iris was a teen, she saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped - and no one believed her. As an adult, Iris is ready to do what the cops couldn't - find the man who took her. From the author of 'An Honest Lie' and 'Never Never', co-written with Colleen Hoover.
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| The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice HallettWashed-up true crime writer Amanda Bailey sees the chance to revitalize her career by writing a book about the titular Alperton Angels, a cult known for brainwashing a teen mother into believing that her child was the antichrist. Forced to collaborate with a professional rival also interested in the group, she soon discovers that the disturbing, dark truth is much stranger than fiction. |
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The Wild Side
by Fern Michaels
A seemingly ordinary guidance counselor goes undercover as a high-class escort to bring down a dangerous network of ruthless and powerful men in the gripping new standalone novel from Fern Michaels.
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| The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-DaleOne part coming-of-age story and one part atmospheric suspense, The Fortune Seller stars social outsider Rosie Macalister as she returns to Yale for her senior year, where she's on an equestrian team scholarship. The seemingly accidental death of a teammate ends up poisoning Rosie's social circle, and after graduation the members of the team begin receiving sinister messages that cast doubt on everything they thought they knew. |
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What happened to Nina? : a thriller
by Dervla McTiernan
Two families are pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son's name.
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| Kingpin by Michael LawsonVeteran political fixer Joe DeMarco returns in the gritty and action-packed follow-up to Alligator Alley. This time, his well-connected erstwhile employer tasks Joe with uncovering the truth behind the mysterious death of one of his interns, where he'll find a complex web of corruption, assassins, and unanticipated ties to the Albanian mafia. |
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Every single secret
by Christina Dodd
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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| Northwoods by Amy PeaseTraumatized Afghanistan vet Eli North is a problem drinker with untreated PTSD and a failing marriage. After his Fish and Wildlife Service job is eliminated, he returns to the picturesque Midwestern home town where his mother is the sheriff, and where his efforts to help investigate the murder of a young boy will uncover ugly secrets about the town's opioid crisis. |
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A Man Downstairs
by Nicole Lundrigan
"Molly Wynters has moved back to her small hometown to care for her father, recently felled by a stroke and no longer able to communicate. She is ready to make a fresh start with her son after her divorce, but is haunted by both old events and new realities in her childhood home. What Molly recalls of her young life with her father is full of love and care, even though a violent trauma defined her childhood: when she was a young girl, she witnessed her mother's murder, and her testimony - "There was a man downstairs" - sent a teenager to prison. This tragic episode is still very much alive in the culture of the town, and the more Molly remembers, the more she fears that what she said on the stand all those years ago might not have been the whole truth. After Molly, a trained therapist, volunteers for a local helpline, the threats begin. At first they seem random, but soon Molly realizes that she is a target, and even those closest to her seem suspicious, especially as unsuspected links between them emerge. More than one life was destroyed on that horrific long-ago day, and now someone intends to hold Molly accountable"
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Bye, baby : a novel
by Carola Lovering
From the author of the Hulu sensation Tell Me Lies comes a novel about female friendship, a missing baby, and the toxic, secret history between two women.
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Day One : a novel
by Abigail Dean
A village hall, a primary school play, a beautiful Lake District town in England. Into this idyllic scene steps a lone gunman whose actions set off a train of events that will have devastating consequences for the community of Stonesmere. In the weeks following the cataclysm, two young people find themselves at the epicentre of the uproar. But what really happened at the Day One assembly? In this world where news travels fast, and videos and gossip travel faster, how does a community move forward together?
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