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Thrillers and Suspense May 2021
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| The Future is Yours by Dan FreyWhat it is: an intricately plotted and thought-provoking near-future thriller that explores the individual and society-wide impact of a powerful technology that can no longer be controlled by its creators.
The tech: a quantum computer with an AI so sophisticated that it appears to predict events up to a year in the future.
What makes it unique: the novel's frame story, which begins as one of the inventors testifies before Congress about everything that went wrong. |
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Every Vow You Break : A Novel
by Peter Swanson
A bride’s dream honeymoon with her beloved millionaire groom is upended by the appearance of an obsessive one-night stand who would claim her for himself. By the award-winning author of The Kind Worth Killing.
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| The Fourth Child by Jessica WinterWhat it's about: Troubled empty-nester Jane Brennan adopts a toddler traumatized by the notorious Romanian orphanage system, an action that will have drastic consequences for her biological children and initially reluctant husband.
Is it for you? Jane is compellingly complex, although her membership in a radical anti-abortion group may alienate some readers.
Reviewers say: author Jessica Winter "deftly depicts all-too-human inconsistency" (Booklist). |
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Find You First
by Linwood Barclay
Searching for the children he has never known, tech billionaire Miles Cookson, diagnosed with a terminal illness, discovers that, one by one, his potential heirs are vanishing – every trace of them wiped, like they never existed at all.
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In The Quick : A Novel
by Kate Hope Day
A young and ambitious woman astronaut’s life is upended by a fiery love affair that threatens the rescue of a 12-years-lost spacecraft and its crew of survivors. By the author of If, Then.
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The Lost Apothecary
by Sarah Penner
Secretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries.
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The Golden Cage
by Camilla Läckberg
The setup: Though they come from opposite sides of the tracks, Stockholm couple Jack and Faye Adelheim have it all: a lovely home, a daughter they adore, and a successful business, the last of which allows Faye to lead a life of leisure that she couldn't have imagined during her hardscrabble childhood.
What goes wrong: When Faye discovers that Jack has been having an affair, she is unceremoniously kicked out of their home and cut off from the wealth they built together. But Jack has grossly miscalculated by underestimating Faye, whose difficult past may have left her with just the right skill set to plot the perfect revenge.
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We Begin At The End
by Chris Whitaker
A guilt-ridden police chief and a tough-as-nails woman who was forced to support her family as a girl work together to protect loved ones when the latter’s father is released after 30 years in prison.
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Hench : A Novel
by Natalie Zina Walschots
Temping for people on the wrong side of the law, Anna becomes unfairly unemployed before using her talents for manipulating data to expose how the heroes of her world do more harm than good.
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The Only Good Indians : A Novel
by Stephen Graham Jones
A novel that blends classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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