March 2018 list by Bonnie Bradford
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Barbed Wire Heart
by Tess Sharpe
Never cut the drugs—leave them pure. Guns are meant to be shot—keep them loaded. Family is everything—betray them and die. Harley McKenna is the only child of North County's biggest criminal. With a bloody turf war threatening to consume North County, Harley is forced to confront the truth: that her father's violent world will destroy her.
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The Bomb Maker
by Thomas Perry
A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior—a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move.
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Exhibit Alexandra
by Natasha Bell
Before she disappeared, Alexandra Southwood lived an average, happy life: devoted to her wonderful husband, Marc, and caring for her daughters. Now she is being held in a room against her will. And Marc is following a trail that leads him to find answers to questions he never meant to ask, and to confront how frighteningly little he’s grasped about the woman he loves.
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A Familiar Fear
by Kathi Oram Peterson
Ex-FBI agent Riley Scott lives each day with the scars of her former career. Agate Island seems like the perfect place to begin building a new future for herself, but there on the ferry is the man who took everything from her. The man she killed. Matthew Taggart knows who Riley is and understands her reaction to his resemblance to Maksimillian Petruso. But Matthew is nothing like his estranged criminal father.
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Flash Points
by David Hagberg
When an unpredictable new American President is elected, retired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey is challenged to stop a dual plot involving terrorist assassins and staged attacks designed to expose the new President's inability to fulfill his duties.
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Girl Unknown
by Karen Perry
David and Caroline Connolly are swimming successfully through their marriage’s middle years. Then a student appears in David’s university office: “I think you might be my father.” Now the Connollys may have a chance to expand who they are, or they may be making themselves vulnerable to menace. They face either an opportunity or a threat―but which is which?
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Hellbent
by Gregg Hurwitz
Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After he broke with the Orphan Program, Evan disappeared and reinvented himself as the Nowhere Man, a man spoken about only in whispers and dedicated to helping the truly desperate. Orphan X series.
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House Witness
by Mike Lawson
Minority Leader of the House and Joe DeMarco’s long-time employer John Mahoney has kept more than one secret from his wife over the years, but none so explosive as this: He has a son, and that son has just been shot in a Manhattan bar. Mahoney dispatches DeMarco to assist prosecutor Justine Porter, though the case seems like a slam-dunk. That is, until Porter begins to suspect that someone is interfering with witnesses, and that this may be connected to a pattern of cases across the country. Joe DeMarco Thriller series.
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Kill the Angel
by Sandrone Dazieri
In Rome, a high-speed train hurtles into the city’s main station with a carriage full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. Subsequently, the police receive a claim of responsibility and the threat of more murders to come. But neither Caselli nor her ally, Dante Torre, are yet ready to buy the terrorist link. Caselli and Torre series.
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A Loyal Spy
by Simon Conway
The last time Jonah saw Nor ed-Din, he was lying face-down in a pool of icy water in the Khyber Pass. He thought he had killed him, but now the trail of betrayal has come full circle.
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Not That I Could Tell
by Jessica Strawser
When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand, around a fire pit where their backyards meet one Saturday night, most of them are just ecstatic to have discovered that their baby monitors reach that far. It’s a rare kid-free night, and they’re giddy with it. They drink too much, and the conversation turns personal. By Monday morning, one of them is gone.
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The Other Mother
by Carol Goodman
Diagnosed with Post Partum Mood Disorder after the birth of her daughter, Chloe, Daphne's downward spiral feels unstoppable—until she meets Laurel Hobbes. Laurel, who also has a daughter named Chloe, is everything Daphne isn’t: charismatic, sophisticated, fearless. They immediately form an intense friendship. Soon, they start to look alike, dress alike, and talk alike, their lives mirroring one another in strange and disturbing ways.
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The Plea
by Steve Cavanagh
Billionaire David Child swears he didn’t murder his girlfriend, Clara. But the evidence shows he did. The FBI believe David’s arrest and obvious guilt could help them take down a huge money laundering scheme―if they can get him to testify. Con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn is given the job: persuade David to plead guilty and give the agents the evidence they need.
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The Sandman
by Lars Kepler
Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he knows only as the Sandman.
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The Terminal List
by Jack Carr
A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller.
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