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Local and Popular Reviews Books reviewed in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe or People WeeklyJan. 19, 2020
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The tenant by Katrine Engberg Starring: retired professor and aspiring crime novelist Esther de Laurenti, who ends up on the list of suspects when one of her tenants is found dead -- which sounds a lot like the plot of Esther's novel.
Read it for: the quirky cast of characters, like the mismatched pair of detectives investigating Esther; the complex twists and turns that the plot takes as it unfolds at a rapid clip.
For fans of: Ruth Ware, Erin Kelly, and other authors of character-driven thrillers.
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How quickly she disappears by Raymond Fleischmann What it's about: This historical thriller follows 1940's housewife Elizabeth Pfautz, who is lured into an intricate web of secrets after a stranger tells her he knows what happened to her twin sister Jacqueline, who disappeared when they were children.
Read it for: the stark and well-rendered Alaska setting, the isolation of which only underlines the lack of choices Elizabeth finds herself forced to confront.
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Big lies in a small town
by Diane Chamberlain
Imprisoned for a crime she did not commit, an artist is offered a chance to complete her remaining time by restoring a post office mural in a sleepy Southern town where another artist confronted violent prejudice decades earlier.
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Followers
by Megan Angelo
Decades after an ambitious writer and her A-list wannabe roommate abandon their ethics for social-media stardom, a government-appointed celebrity discovers a shattering secret from her past that her corporate sponsors would gladly exploit. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.
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The secret guests : a novel
by Benjamin Black
The secret World War II relocation of the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to an old estate in Ireland becomes subject to the devastations of the Blitz, the resentments of grieving townspeople and suspicions about the girls’ true identities.
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Cleanness
by Garth Greenwell
In a follow-up to What Belongs to You, set in Sofia, Bulgaria—a landlocked city in Southern Europe—an American teacher grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad as he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home.
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When you see me : a novel
by Lisa Gardner
FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective DD Warren join forces with Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to investigate the secrets of a deceased serial killer. By the award-winning author of The Neighbor.
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Into the fire
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Helping a murder victim’s cousin who is being violently pursued for a mysterious key, Nowhere Man Evan Smoak eliminates a series of dangerous threats before discovering that he is being personally targeted. By the author of Out of the Dark.
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Liars' Legacy
by Taylor Stevens
A brother and sister pair of trained assassins and spies suspect a Russian trap when they travel to Berlin to meet their father for the first time, in the second novel in the series following Liars’ Paradox.
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The Rabbit Hunter
by Lars Kepler
Summoned from prison by the Swedish prime minister to help investigate the murder of a high-ranking political official, detective Joona Linna teams up with security police detective Saga Bauer to uncover the complex scheme of a vengeful killer. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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The Body Outside the Kremlin by James L. MaySolovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions.With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician serving a three-year sentence, hopes an acquaintance he's been cultivating will lead to a less brutal work assignment, maybe even a little more bread in his ration. Knowing Gennady Antonov holds a privileged position restoring the monks' seized collection of icons ought to improve Tolya's odds of reassignment. But when Antonov's body is discovered floating frozen in the bay, their connection turns dangerous.
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Agency
by William Gibson
A sequel to the best-selling The Peripheral finds app-whisperer Verity Jane beta-testing a disturbing AI technology, while a century into the future, an apocalypse survivor discovers his employer meddling in Verity’s influential timeline.
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Remembrance
by Rita Woods
Looks at present-day Ohio, 1791 Haiti, and 1857 New Orleans, in which house girl Margot is sold just before her 18th birthday and her promised freedom, and, desperate, she escapes and tries to find Remembrance, a rumored stop on the Underground Railroad. Tour.
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American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
by Julie Des Jardins
Marie 'Missy' Mattingly Meloney was born in 1878, in an America where women couldn't vote. Yet she recognized the power that women held as consumers and family decision-makers, and persuaded male publishers and politicians to take them seriously. Over the course of her life as a journalist, magazine editor-in-chief, and political advisor, Missy created the idea of the female demographic. After the passage of the 19th Amendment she encouraged candidates to engage with and appeal to women directly. In this role, she advised Presidents from Hoover and Coolidge to FDR. By the time she died in 1943, women were a recognized political force to be reckoned with. In this groundbreaking biography, historian Julie Des Jardins restores Missy to her rightful place in American history. On Order.
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The optimist's telescope : thinking ahead in a reckless age
by Bina Venkataraman
A Harvard and MIT global policy director and advisor to the Obama White House draws on myriad disciplines to explain why people typically do not plan for their futures, outlining counterintuitive approaches to making decisions that prove beneficial over time.
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