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Thrillers and Suspense June 2024
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| Sleeping Giants by Rene DenfeldThe Child Finder and The Butterfly Girl author Rene Denfeld tells the intricately plotted and occasionally heartwrenching stories of young people trying to survive in a world not set up to support or protect them. Searching for information about the mother who put her up for adoption, Amanda Dufresne discovers she had a brother who met a tragic, avoidable fate 20 years earlier at a local "home for troubled boys." |
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| A Better World by Sarah LanganSet in the near future, this thought-provoking dystopian thriller centers on pediatrician Linda and her scientist husband Russell, who was just laid off from the EPA. Forced by crumbling finances and environmental instability, the couple move with their twin daughters to a suspiciously idyllic company town run by Russell's new employers. |
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| A Game of Lies by Clare MackintoshIn this compelling sequel to The Last Party, Welsh detective Ffion Morgan is called to the rugged, picturesque mountain set of a polarizing reality TV show when the crew discover bones that turn out to be from an animal. But when the show's creator later winds up dead, Ffion must root out the murderer before they can kill again. |
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| The Berlin Letters by Katherine ReayCIA codebreaker Luisa Voekler was raised in America by her German grandparents, believing her parents died in a car accident. The discovery of twenty years of letters between her father and grandfather calls into question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family, all tied to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. |
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Someone Saw Something
by Rick Mofina
When TV network journalist Corina Corado's six-year-old son and husband vanish while walking through Central Park, detectives uncover shocking family secrets as a bombshell revelation surfaces online alleging the boy never belonged to the couple at all.
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Granite Harbor
by Peter Nichols
In scenic Granite Harbor, life has continued on - quiet and serene - for decades. That is until a local teenager is found brutally murdered in the Settlement, the town’s historic archaeological site. Alex Brangwen, adjusting to life as a single father with a failed career as a novelist, is the town’s sole detective. This is his first murder case and, as both a parent and detective, Alex knows the people of Granite Harbor are looking to him to catch the killer and temper the fear that has descended over the town.
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Extinction
by Douglas J. Preston
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators.
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