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All the Beautiful Lies: A Novel
by Peter Swanson
What it's about: Harry's father Bill has seemingly died by suicide, but when Harry returns home, he becomes convinced that his father was murdered.
Prime suspects: Harry's femme-fatale stepmother, Alice, whose attentions to Harry border on inappropriate; the mysterious woman whom Alice claims Bill was seeing.
What reviewers say: All the Beautiful Lies is "a gripping exploration of delusion and deceit" (Booklist).
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The Good Twin
by Marti Green
In Marti Green’s twisting novel of psychological suspense, twin sisters become engaged in a dangerous deception… Mallory Holcolm is an unfulfilled waitress and aspiring artist living in a Queens boardinghouse when she learns something astonishing about her past: she has an identical twin sister named Charly she never knew existed. Charly is a Princeton graduate, a respected gallery owner, and an heiress married to her handsome college sweetheart, Ben. Charly got everything she ever wanted. Everything Mallory wanted, too. And now having it all might be easier than Mallory ever imagined. Because Ben has reasons of his own for wanting to help her.
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Exit Strategy
by Charlton Pettus
Sometimes you just need to escape. For crooked politicians, military brass from third-world nations, and white-collar criminals looking to avoid either prison or a deadlier form of payback, there’s Exit Strategy. With just one call, Exit Strategy helps these wealthy-but-wanted types disappear completely. They can fake your death, give you a new name and face, and launder whatever ill-gotten funds you need to establish a new life on the other side of the world.
When Jordan Parrish, the brilliant founder of a medical technology start-up, made the call, he thought he had no other way out. With his marriage in shambles and his company on the brink of financial ruin, it seemed the only way to make things right. But after his exit, he began to wonder about the circumstances that led him to make that momentous decision: was someone, in fact, working against him? To find out, Jordan will have to break the cardinal rule of Exit Strategy: you can never, ever go back.
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Last Instructions : A Thriller
by Nir Hezroni
Agent 10483, a psychopathic former Israeli spy, is busy trying to shut down the spy organization he once worked for and plotting his revenge against the key individuals who he deems responsible for the Organization’s betrayal against him. Now, he's traveling the world in a quest to find a hidden nuclear warhead to use against them. Everyone wants to get their hands on Agent 10483 – the two teams from the Organization; twin assassins who are working in the service of Herr Schmidt, an intelligence organization unto himself who also wants the warhead; and Carmit, a sub-contractor for the Organization who performed transformations on him to manipulate his behavior during the course of his assassination missions abroad.
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Lone Witness
by Rachel Dylan
Prosecutor Sophie Dawson's first job in the White Collar division of the Fulton County D.A.'s office is to build a case against a local bank employee who may be cheating clients. But when circumstances beyond her control leave her as the only witness to a double homicide involving a vengeful gang, her world is turned upside down.
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Paper Ghosts: A Novel of Suspense
by Julia Heaberlin
"A gripping thriller about a man who may or may not have dementia--and who may or may not be a serial killer--from a master of twists and turns, in the tradition of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn An obsessive young woman has been waiting half her life--since she was twelve years old--for this moment. She has planned. Researched. Trained. Imagined every scenario. Now she is almost certain the man who kidnapped and murdered her sister sits in the passenger seat beside her. Carl Louis Feldman is a documentary photographer. The young woman claims to be his long-lost daughter.He doesn't believe her. He claims no memory of murdering girls across Texas, in a string of places where he shot eerie pictures. She doesn't believe him. Determined to find the truth, she lures him out of a halfway house and proposes a dangerous idea: a ten-day road trip, just the two of them, to examine cold cases linked to his haunting photographs. Is he a liar or a broken old man? Is he a pathological con artist? Or is she? "--The Times (U.K.)"
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Second Strike
by Peter N. Kirsanow
Peter Kirsanow delivers a gripping, high-stakes thriller in which special operator Mike Garin faces off against a lethal Russian assassin--and a devious plot to wreak chaos in America.
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| Tangerine by Christine ManganStarring: two former college friends, Alice and Lucy, who are reunited in 1956 Morocco a year after their friendship imploded.
Why you might like it: In addition to a vividly depicted setting, this tale of love, obsession, friendship, and betrayal offers plenty of intrigue and slow-simmering tension.
For fans of: Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. |
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You Were Never Really Here
by Jonathan Ames
Introducing: former FBI agent Joe, who, traumatized by his past and by his work rescuing the victims of human trafficking, is now looking for the missing 13-year-old daughter of a New York State senator.
Is it for you? Only 100 pages long, this is a dark and violent book; rumor has it that it's the 1st in a new series.
Book buzz: Does the guy on the cover look familiar? That's right, it's Joaquin Phoenix, who stars in the award-winning film released in the U.S. in April.
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| Stolen by Daniel PalmerWhat it's about: In order to pay for his wife's cancer treatment, John Bodine steals a customer's identity; when the customer finds out, he demands that John play a life-or-death game in which John must commit increasingly criminal acts -- or risk the lives of his loved ones.
Why you might like it: Suspenseful and fast-paced (if at times quite brutal), this unsettling cat-and-mouse game is a good bet for fans of Harlan Coben.
Try this next: Tom Hunt's Killer Choice, which likewise forces a desperate man to make terrible choices to save his wife. |
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| The Lying Game by Ruth WareWhat it's about: Four boarding-school friends, expelled 17 years ago, are brought back together after the discovery of a human bone stirs up the past -- and threatens to unearth their secrets.
Why you might like it: Well-developed characters, an atmospheric British setting, and slow-building tension keep the pages turning.
Where does the game come in? So glad you asked -- these four girls developed an elaborate score-keeping system, all based on how many schoolmates and teachers they could get to believe their outlandish lies. |
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