September 2019 list by S. Ward
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29 Seconds
by T. M. Logan
When a manipulative co-worker valued for the millions he brings to their university targets her with sexual harassment, a young professor rescues the child of a powerful man who offers to repay her by making her co-worker disappear.
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All Out War
by Sean Parnell
Badly injured while stopping a rogue agent from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, elite warrior Eric Steele is drawn back into service before he’s ready when unknown assailants break into his home near Pittsburgh, injuring his mother and stealing his father’s pistol.
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Blood in the Water
by Jack Flynn
A harbor chief targeted for his knowledge of the waterfront and a vengeful homeland security agent race to protect a daring teen pawn in a deadly game of cat and mouse against an underworld criminal.
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The Chestnut Man
by Søren Sveistrup
When a serial killer begins leaving handmade dolls at his murder scenes, two detectives struggle to put aside their differences and follow forensic clues linking the case to a politician’s kidnapped daughter.
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Cold Storage
by David Koepp
When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository.
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The Deception
by Kat Martin
After searching for her sister for two long years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she’s called to the morgue to identify Chrissy’s body, the runaway teen the victim of a brutal attack. Guilt and grief send Kate into a tailspin. She failed Chrissy once…she won’t do it again. Even if finding her sister’s killer means following a lethal bounty hunter into the heart of darkness.
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Elevator Pitch
by Linwood Barclay
When an outbreak of fatal elevator crashes in Manhattan coincides with a sinister drop in emergency response services, two seasoned New York detectives and a straight-shooting journalist race against time to find answers.
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The Extinction Agenda
by Michael Laurence
While searching for his wife’s killer, an FBI agent uncovers a network of untouchable elite who are involved in a plot for global financial domination through the release of a deadly virus.
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The Fifth Column
by Andrew Gross
Losing everything after a catastrophic bar fight, a man in 1941 New York uncovers a secret Nazi spy ring planning an attack on the city.
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Hudson's Kill
by Paddy Hirsch
City Marshal Flanagan and teacher Kerry O’Toole pursue separate investigations into a craven political conspiracy in 1803 New York, where a mysterious provocateur has orchestrated a violent race war.
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The Institute
by Stephen King
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke wakes up at The Institute.
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Kill Monster
by Sean Doolittle
When treasure hunters excavate the long-lost wreck of the steamship Arcadia from a Kansas cornfield, a buried creature awakens – a mindless assassin of accursed earth, shaped like a man though in no way mortal, created to kill a slave trader in 1856.
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Killer Instinct
by James Patterson
The murder of an Ivy League professor pulls Dr. Dylan Reinhart out of his ivory tower and onto the streets of New York. As the worst act of terror since 9/11 strikes the city, a name on the casualty list rocks Dylan's world. Is his secret past about to be brought to light?
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Lethal Agent
by Kyle Mills
A divisive presidential election is complicated by terrorist videos of a kidnapped scientist who is being forced to produce anthrax, catapulting Mitch Rapp into an undercover mission to prevent the weapon from being smuggled into America.
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The Nanny
by Gilly Macmillan
Leaving her home after the mysterious disappearance of her beloved nanny, an embittered woman is forced to return decades later when the discovery of human remains forces her to question everything she thought she knew.
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The Stranger Inside
by Lisa Unger
A woman is forced to confront the dark secrets of her past when a serial killer strikes too close to home.
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Strangers She Knows
by Christina Dodd
Living on an obscure, technology-free island off California means safety from the murderer who hunts Kellen Adams and her new family.... Or does it? Family time becomes terror-time, and at last, alone, Kellen faces a killer playing a cruel game.
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The Titanic Secret
by Clive Cussler
Investigating a mine tragedy in 1911 Colorado that killed nine people, Isaac Bell discovers a larger puzzle involving an international power scheme aimed at seizing control of a rare element.
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To The Lions
by Holly Watt
After she stumbles upon a dark conspiracy having to do with an extreme and secret hunt in North Africa, journalist Casey Benedict is determined to follow the clues, no matter how far it takes her.
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What Rose Forgot
by Nevada Barr
Waking up in a nursing-home Alzheimer’s Unit with no memory of how she got there, Rose Dennis orchestrates an escape but does not know who to trust.
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