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Thrillers and Suspense July 2024
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Southern man
by Greg Iles
Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville.
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One perfect couple
by Ruth Ware
Landing on a tropical paradise where they'll compete against four other couples to win a cash prize, Lyla and Nico, starring on the new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, find themselves trapped on a storm-swept island where they all must band together for survival as a killer walks among them.
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Nothing Can Erase You
by Michel Bussi
Maddi Libéri is a successful doctor living an idyllic life in the South of France. On the morning of her son's tenth birthday, they walk to the beach together. The boy presses for a quick swim, but when the surf is too rough, she sends him off to buy a baguette instead. He never returns. Plot twists reveal truths you'll never see coming.
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Middle of the night : a novel
by Riley Sager
Returning to his childhood home 30 years after his friend Billy's disappearance, Ethan, plagued by strange occurrences, sets out to find out what really happened that night and, reunited with former friends and neighbors, finds his investigation leading him to a mysterious institute where clandestine research is performed.
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Assassins anonymous
by Rob Hart
After giving up his paid assassin gig and joining a twelve-step program for reformed killers, Mark is attacked and forced on the run from New York to Singapore while he chases down clues that point to who is after him.
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If something happens to me : a novel
by Alex Finlay
Trying to pick up the pieces after his girlfriend's kidnapping, Ryan Richardson goes to law school but must pivot back to the case when her car is found submerged in a lake with a cryptic note.
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| The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko JeanWashington State based detective Chelsey Calhoun is assigned to the case of the titular Ellie Black, a young woman found alive after being kidnapped 2 years earlier. Deeply traumatized Ellie refuses to say anything about her captor, which seriously complicates an investigation already made difficult by the hostile work environment where Chelsey works. |
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| Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva RoseThree estranged siblings have gathered in their small Wisconsin home town to settle the affairs of their recently deceased mother. While sorting through their mother's home, they stumble upon an old video tape that implicates her (and the father who abandoned them years earlier) in a shocking, unresolved crime. |
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That night in the library : a novel
by Eva Jurczyk
On the night before graduation, seven students gather in the basement of their university's rare books library. It's the perfect place for the ritual they want to perform--one borrowed from the Greeks, said to free those who take part in it from the fear of death. But just a few minutes into their celebration, the lights go out--and one of them drops dead. As the body count rises the group must figure out how to survive the night.
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| Very Bad Company by Emma RosenblumIn this fast-paced and suspenseful send-up of tech entrepreneur culture, bored TV producer Caitlin Levy accepts an event coordinator job at a startup for a change of pace. But when an executive disappears at the Miami team-building retreat she's running, Caitlin will need to do everything in her power not to lose herself in the company's tangled web of secrets and lies. |
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Return to blood
by Michael Bennett
When her daughter finds a young women's skeleton in the sand dunes of New Zealand, which is linked to a long-ago murder, former Auckland CIB detective Hana Westerman is drawn into the case and risks compromising her own peace and relationships if justice is to be served.
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| A Spy Like Me by Kim SherwoodA Spy Like Me is the action-packed follow-up to Double or Nothing, in which the one and only James Bond went missing. Johanna Harwood (aka Agent 003) has recently been placed on extended leave to recover from a sudden personal loss, but grieving or not she decides to go on an off-the-books mission to locate Bond and quell a looming terrorist attack. |
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