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Thrillers and Suspense July 2024
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A Game of Lies
by Clare Mackintosh
In 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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Dissolved
by Sara Blædel
In the Danish village of Tommerup, a missing persons case becomes a string of daily kidnappings that seem at first to have religious overtones. Though verses from the Quran are left as evidence, it soon becomes clear that victims are being abducted for more complex reasons, especially once gruesome video footage emerges that complicates matters even further.
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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead
by Jenny Hollander
Although journalist Charlotte "Charlie" Colbert has built a good life for herself since, being the sole survivor of a violent attack at her grad school's campus still haunts her. When plans for a feature film to mark the event's 10-year anniversary are announced, Charlie, who can't remember everything that happened that night, decides she needs to stop the production -- by any means necessary.
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| Phantom Orbit by David IgnatiusAmidst the political turmoil of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the personal turmoil of his son's tragic death, brilliant scientist Ivan Volkov decides it's worth the risk to reach out to an old CIA contact when he grows wary of his home country's plans for dominating the world in space -- plans that could threaten the future of all life on earth. |
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Finding Sophie
by Imran Mahmood
After their 17-year-old daughter goes missing, Harry and Zara King begin to fixate on the deafening silence of their reclusive neighbor Herman, the only person on the block who refuses to entertain their questions. Full of suspicion and grief, the desperate parents decide to take matters into their own hands, with unanticipated fallout for everyone involved.
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| The Band by Christine Ma-KellamsThe unnamed narrator of this darkly humorous yet gripping story is a Chinese American psychologist who agrees to take in a troubled K-pop star Sang Dun after a chance meeting in an L.A. H-Mart. Sang Dun gains the chance to lay low after a publicity crisis and the narrator gets to break the monotony of her home life, but how long can this unlikely duo cohabitate before their strange dynamic gets even stranger? |
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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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First Lie Wins
by Ashley Elston
In this "genuine page-turner" (Kirkus Reviews), a likeable con artist going by the name Evie Porter develops feelings for Ryan Summer, her latest mark, and contemplates going straight. Any plans for a new life are put on hold after Evie meets a woman calling herself Lucca Marino -- Evie's fairly uncommon original name.
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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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