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Thrillers and Suspense August 2024 |
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| Middletide by Sarah CrouchIn 1994 Point Orchards, Washington, Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on the property of failed writer Elijah Leith, whom she dated. At first the sheriff thinks suicide, but after examining things, he suspects murder, especially as the killing mirrors one in Leith's novel. This slow-burn atmospheric thriller is Sarah Crouch's debut. |
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| Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna PearsonThis character-driven literary crime novel examines the January 2000 murder of golden girl college student Karlie. Taking place in the months leading up to the murder and in 2019 when Karlie's old roommate decides to look into what happened, Bright and Tender Dark uses multiple viewpoints to delve into lives of an assortment of characters. Read-alikes: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai; Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (see below) |
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Listen for the lie : a novel
by Amy Tintera
What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it.
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On the Hunt
by Iris Johansen
A #1 New York Times best-selling author introduces a bold new heroine—and her search-and-rescue Golden Retriever, Mack—as Kira Drake begins an international search for an elusive killer who bombed a museum in Paris.
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One big happy family
by Jamie Day
When the Bishop sisters arrive at The Precipice, a legendary, family-owned hotel on the coast of Maine, to claim it, Charley Kelly, the 19-year-old chambermaid, discovers this weekend could be the death of all of them when murder checks in.
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The Final Act
by Lisa Gray
It's been twenty years since Madison James had any kind of success in Hollywood. Now she's disappeared and a TikTok sleuth has found her purse discarded in a Los Angeles park. The news spreads like wildfire across a nation hungry for celebrity tragedy, and the struggling actress's mysterious disappearance quickly becomes a national obsession.
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Market for murder
by Heather Graham
In Edinburgh, where murder victims are being dissected and sold for spare parts, Special Agent Luke Kendrick and Carly MacDonald, with the clock ticking on every organ being harvested, are running out of time—and people they can trust to catch the killers before they themselves are put on ice. (Book 2 in the Blackbird Files series, start with Death Behind Every Door, see below).
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Death behind every door
by Heather Graham
Posing as a tourist, an FBI special agent visits a Scottish castle that's been turned into a bed and breakfast to infiltrate a society of twisted killers named after the man believed to be America's first serial killer.
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An Eye for an Eye
by Jeffrey Archer
In one of the most luxurious cities on earth…A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. In the heart of the British establishment…Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred years, lies dying. But his will triggers an inheritance with explosive consequences. (Book 7 in the William Warwick series, Book 1 is below)
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Nothing ventured
by Jeffrey Archer
A series debut introduces London Metropolitan Police Force detective William Warwick, who on his first investigation reflects on his complicated childhood while uncovering the schemes of a ruthless art collector.
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The burning
by Linda Castillo
Discovering the charred body of an Amish man, chained to a stake and burned alive in the woods, newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder uncovers a secret legacy that shatters everything she thought she knew about the Amish themselves ..... and her own roots. (Book 16 in the Kate Burkholder Thrillers series, start with Sworn to Silence, see below).
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Sworn to silence
by Linda Castillo
Kate Burkholder, a former Amish resident of Painters Mill, is returning as police chief 16 years after a series of brutal murders took place there, but when a new victim is found under her watch, she struggles with a secret that could hurt both her and her family.
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