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Mystery / ThrillersMay - June 2021
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The Final Twist by Jeffery DeaverTaking on a mission his father began years ago — to find a missing courier bag that contains a catastrophic secret — Colter Shaw plays a cat-and-mouse game with a corporate espionage firm and gets some help from an unexpected figure from his past to expose the truth.
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Jackpot by Stuart WoodsWhen Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem.
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The Bullet by Iris JohansenAfter being divorced from Joe Quinn for many years, Diane Connors abruptly returns to disrupt his life by begging his current wife, Eve Duncan, to do her a favor.
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Unfinished Business by Judith A. JanceAli Reynolds's personal life is in turmoil when two separate men show up on the scene-a serial killer and a former employee of her husband's who has just been released from a sixteen-year prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend.
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Arctic Storm Rising by Dale BrownExiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska’s Arctic Frontier, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn, after an American F-22 collides with a Russian interloper, is ordered to find a missing stealth bomber before the enemy and prevent a potential nuclear holocaust.
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The Saboteurs by Clive CusslerThwarting the attempted assassination of a U.S. Senator, detective Isaac Bell traces the attack to a plot involving the nearly constructed Panama Canal and a local insurgency that would prevent its completion. By the authors of The Titanic Secret
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Local Woman Missing by Mary KubicaWhen Delilah, who disappeared 11 years earlier when she was only 6 years old, shockingly returns, the residents of a quiet suburban neighborhood want to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find.
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The Maidens by Alex MichaelidesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession, that further cements "Michaelides as a major player in the field.
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Dream Girl by Laura LippmanChilling and compulsively readable, touching on timely issues that include power, agency, appropriation, and creation, Dream Girl is a superb blend of psychological suspense and horror that reveals the mind and soul of a writer.
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While Justice Sleeps : a novel by Stacey Abrams"An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death treasure hunt with major national implications when the Supreme Court justice she works for slips into a sudden coma"
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The Kobalt Dossier : an Evan Ryder novel by Eric Lustbader After thwarting the violent, international, fascist syndicate known as Nemesis, Evan Ryder returns to Washington, D.C., to find her secret division of the DOD shut down and her deceased sister's children missing.
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Independent Bonesby Carolyn HainesWhen a notorious domestic abuser is found dead, suspicions turn to visiting feminist professor Dr. Alala Diakos and sassy Southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney is tasked with finding the real criminal who may be closer than she thinks.
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The Disappearing Act : a novel by Catherine SteadmanA British actress discovers the dark side of Hollywood when she is the only witness to the sudden disappearance of a woman she meets at an audition.
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The Fiancee by Kate WhiteSensing that something is off with her brother-in-law’s new fiancé, Hannah, who is a fellow actress, Summer, finding her suspicions ignored, investigates just how far Hannah is willing to go to keep her perfect image intact when a family member is murdered.
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The Night Hawks : a Ruth Galloway mystery by Elly Griffiths"There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst-and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer"
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Survive the Night : a novel by Riley Sager"It's November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana's in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer"
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The Photographer by Mary Dixie CarterWhen Delta Dawn, the photographer she hired for her daughter’s 11th birthday, starts slowly integrating herself into their lives, Amelia Staub soon discovers that she will do anything to permanently become of the picture.
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The Vanishing Point by Elizabeth BrundageWhen his rival Rye, a famous celebrity photographer, goes missing, presumed dead, after reconnecting with the woman they both loved, Julian reenters a world he thought he left behind, forcing him to question not only Rye’s death, but the very foundations of his life.
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Widespread Panic : a novel by James EllroyFreddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies.
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Pup Fiction by Laurien BerensonMelanie Travis Mysteries
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The Black Order by Jeff RovinIn a plot ripped from today's headlines, America’s elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyze the country through extreme acts of violence in this action-packed new thriller in the bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series.
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Murder at Sunrise Lake by Christine FeehanThe owner of Sunrise Lake resort high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Stella Harrison must face her traumatic past, with the help of a mysterious man, when her premonitions reveal that a killer is out there.
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The Plot by Jean Hanff KorelitzWildly successful author Jacob Finch Bonner, who had stolen the plot of his book from a late student, fights to hide the truth from his fans and publishers, while trying to figure out who wants to destroy him.
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The Hunting Wives by May K. CobbMoving to a small Texas town, Sophie O’Neill is immediately drawn to socialite Margot Banks who invites her into a secret clique called the Hunting Wives, with which she becomes obsessed until she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation with no way out.
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The Prodigal Daughter by Mette Ivie HarrisonSearching for a local girl, the victim of a terrible crime at the hands of her classmates, Linda Wallheim is led to the darker streets of Utah, which causes her to question whether the Mormon community’s most privileged and powerful will be called to task for past sins.
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Moon Lake by Joe R. LansdaleReturning to Moon Lake, the place where his father tried to kill them both, Daniel Russell, attempting to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for tears, discovers something even more shocking that is linked to dark deeds, old grudges and strange murders.
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Chasing the Lion by A. J. TataArmy Lieutenant General Garrett Sinclair and his special ops team race to stop the viral spread of a deadly psychoactive nerve agent released by Iranians on the even of the inauguration of the first woman president.
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The Devil May Dance by Jake TapperIn a fast-paced sequel to The Hellfire Club, Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington D.C., arrive in Los Angeles on their latest case, only to be pursued by sinister forces from Hollywood’s stages to the newly founded Church of Scientology.
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A Peculiar Combination by Ashley WeaverSet in England during World War II, this delightful mystery follows thief Electra McDonnell as she, caught red-handed, is forced to help a government official break into a safe and retrieve blueprints that will be critical to the British war effort before they fall into the wrong hands.
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The Anatomy of Desire : a novel by L. R. DornA reimaging of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy follows the disappearance of popular fitness coach, social media influencer, and possible murderer, as her secret life and what she risked to have it all are exposed.
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Dead by Dawn by Paul DoironMike Bowditch is ambushed and forced off the road into a frozen river on his way back from investigating the suspicious drowning of a wealthy professor in the twelfth novel of the series following One Last Lie.
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Palace of the Drowned by Christine ManganAfter a public breakdown over a scathing review, a failing writer retreats to a friend's vacant palazzo in 1966 Venice to rest, where she discovers she has a stalker on the eve of a catastrophic flood.
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Hairpin Bridge by Taylor AdamsNot accepting that her estranged twin sister committed suicide, Lena Nguyen interviews the highway patrolman who allegedly discovered her body, but who is mentioned by name in the last text her sister ever sent.
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