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Thrillers and Suspense July 2024
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Shanghai : a novel
by Joseph Kanon
After escaping the Gestapo, Daniel Lohr arrives in Shanghai, where glamor and squalor exist side-by-side, and as he tries to navigate through his uncle's world in the city's fabled nightlife, he tries to stay one step ahead of murder and outrun his own past.
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| The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova GlassIn this intricately plotted psychological suspense novel from the author of The Vanishing Hour, the crumbling lives of two struggling women become unwittingly entangled by a suspicious death (deemed a suicide by the police) and the enforced proximity of living in the same claustrophobic apartment building. |
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| I Want You More by Swan HuntleyOn her way to the Hamptons, professional ghostwriter Zara Pines doesn't expect much out of her new gig, working with celebrity chef Jane Bailey on a memoir. But when she finds herself enthralled by Jane's boundless charisma and the luxurious lifestyle trappings Jane shares so freely, Zara will have to tread carefully or risk putting both her personal and professional lives at stake. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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Some murders in Berlin
by Karen Robards
Assisting the Kripo in solving a series of murders in Nazi Germany, Dr. Elin Lund, an expert in psychological profiling, when the killer realizes she's figured out who he is, must join Denmark's Jews, along with her family, who are being smuggled to Sweden that very night to survive.
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A talent for murder : a novel
by Peter Swanson
A newlywed becomes suspicious of her husband after finding a blood streak on the back of a shirt he wore to a conference and discovers a disturbing pattern of unsolved murders in all the cities he's visited. 100,000 first printing.
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Camino ghosts
by John Grisham
Bay Books shop owner Bruce Cable is reunited again with best-selling author Mercer Mann to solve another murder on Camino Island, Florida, in the third novel of the series following Camino Winds.
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Southern man
by Greg Iles
A man—and a town—are rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but he's unbowed in the fight to save those he loves.
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Tell me who you are : a novel
by Louisa Luna
When Nelson, a troubled young man, confesses he's going to kill someone and that he knows who she really is, psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange, when a woman goes missing, becomes the prime suspect, and to prove her innocence, must confront a past she's spent her entire life trying to forget.
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Think twice
by Harlan Coben
When his former client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing, who is deceased, has been placed at the scene of a double homicide, sports agent Myron Bolitar and Win, his longtime friend and colleague, search for answers, but the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous their world becomes.
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The last note of warning
by Katharine Schellman
During Prohibition, Vivian Kelly, a shop assistant by day and by night, joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing in a speakeasy called the Nightingale, finds herself a murder suspect and cashes in every favor from the criminals she calls friends to catch the real killer.
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Ghost station
by S. A. Barnes
While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness. 125,000 first printing.
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The midnight feast : a novel
by Lucy Foley
During the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxe coastal retreat built on top of old secrets, those in attendance all have an agenda but not everyone will survive.
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Red sky mourning
by Jack Carr
When three seemingly disconnected events are about to ignite a power grab unlike anything the world has seen, Navy SEAL sniper James Reece, to save America, must reconnect to a quantum computer called“Alice” who is positioned to act as either the county's greatest savior or its worst enemy.
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The Lucifer Cut : a novel
by Matthew Hart
When a mysterious gem?—?the Lucifer Cut?—?goes missing, U.S. Treasury agent Alex Turner and his lover, a billionaire Russian diamond thief, must find this jewel that holds a secret so lethal, it threatens both the world diamond trade and the national security of the U.S. before it falls into the wrong hands.
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