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Thrillers and Suspense January 2021
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| Take it Back by Kia AbdullahStarring: Londoner Zara Kaleel, who left behind her high-powered legal career to work as a rape counselor; disabled teen Jodie, who is referred to Zara after accusing a group of Muslim boys of assaulting her.
Read it for: the well-developed characters; Zara's compelling efforts to navigate her fraught position -- as a Muslim herself, she faces censure from all sides of the case as she tries to advocate for her client. |
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Blink of an eye
by Iris Johansen
Investigator Kendra Michaels teams up with military-trained bodyguard Jessie Mercado and agent-for-hire Adam Lynch in a desperate effort to rescue a famous pop singer who has been kidnapped during a live performance. 75,000 first printing.
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| Fool Me Twice by Jeff LindsaySeries alert: Fool Me Twice is the 2nd entry in the series of thrillers starring likeable rogue Riley Wolfe, an ambitious master thief always up for a challenge.
The prize: This time, Riley is strong-armed into stealing a priceless Raphael painting from deep in the Vatican by "an arms dealer who scares the crap out of other arms dealers."
The problem: It's not just any Renaissance painting -- Riley's target is a fresco, meaning he has to find a way to steal an actual wall. |
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Death with a double edge : a Daniel Pitt novel
by Anne Perry
"Daniel Pitt's investigation into his colleague's murder leads him through London's teeming underbelly to one of the Royal Navy's most powerful shipbuilders in a thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry"
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The echo wife
by Sarah Gailey
A precarious arrangement between a man, his wife and his wife's clone explodes in a violent confrontation that forces the two women to figure out a creative way to stay out of prison. 175,000 first printing.
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| Blackout by Marc ElsbergWhat it is: a fast-paced and compelling German novel that is part eco-thriller and part techno-thriller and which throws into stark relief the fragility of modern civilization.
What goes down: thanks to a group of hackers, the entire European electrical grid. As the blackouts spread and the stalled nuclear plants start leaking radiation, characters across the continent must fight for survival as society begins to collapse around them. |
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Reviewers say: It's 1962, but WWII is still fresh in the minds of many, especially Max Weill, an Auschwitz survivor who has devoted the last 17 years to tracking Nazi war criminals, in particular the elusive Dr. Otto Schramm, who worked as a camp doctor with Joseph Mengele. Near death himself, Max sees Schramm on the streets of Hamburg and elicits the aid of his nephew Aaron, a CIA agent, to finally bring the man to justice. Aaron wants no part of his uncle's crusade, but after Max's death, familial obligation drives him to Argentina, where Schramm's daughter, Hana, is living. So begins a complex psychological thriller that evokes Hitchcock's Notorious in the love affair that develops between Aaron and Hana. The hunt for former Nazis living luxurious lives in Argentina has formed the core of numerous thrillers, but, typically, the chase and capture are drawn in strictly black-and-white terms. Here Kanon injects humanity into each of his characters, even Schramm, and the hunters are all wounded in various degrees, the burden of the past obscuring their ability to see the future. Another fine historical thriller from the always-reliable Kanon. - Booklist
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The sandman
by Lars Kepler
Two brilliant police agents must hold fast to their sanity to beat a manipulative serial killer at his own game and rescue a girl who went missing thirteen years earlier
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Diary of a dead man on leave
by David Downing
Stumbling across the hidden diary of a boarder who had been a father figure to him half a century earlier, Walter discovers the man's life-risking undercover work as an anti-Nazi Moscow spy. By the author of the Jack McColl series.
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Cajun justice
by James Patterson
The award-winning author of the Alex Cross series and the investigative agent author of the award-winning The Reawakening of Mage Axum present a stand-alone tale of high-suspense adventure inspired by Cajun culture.
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