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Thrillers and Suspense September 2019
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| Lost You by Haylen BeckWhat it is: a moving psychological thriller in which the tension is ratcheted up by the shared anguish of two sympathetic characters who claim to be the mother of a three-year-old boy named Ethan.
For fans of: Allison Brennan, Megan Abbott, and Karen Ellis.
About the author: Haylen Beck is a pseudonym of Stuart Neville, best known for Belfast-set crime fiction. |
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Layover
by David Bell
In a high-concept psychological suspense tale by the award-winning author of Somebody's Daughter, a chance meeting with a missing woman in an airport catapults a business traveler on a heart-racing search for answers
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| The Escape Room by Megan GoldinWhat it is: a twist on the traditional locked-room thriller; a story about the team-building exercise from hell.
Starring: Wall Street colleagues Sylvie, Sam, Jules, and Vincent, who share a tangled web of connections, rivalries, and dark secrets.
What goes down: The four investment bankers share an elevator on their way to a training exercise, only to find that the elevator is the exercise and that they'll have to work together if they want to survive. |
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A Philosophy of Ruin
by Nicholas Mancusi
Featuring: Oscar Boatwright, a young philosophy professor with a poor sense of self-preservation; Oscar's father, left in dire financial straits by Oscar's recently deceased mother; and Dawn, a young woman with whom Oscar has a regrettable drunken one night stand.
What goes wrong: Dawn turns out to be a student, not to mention the head of an on-campus drug-dealing empire. When Dawn offers Oscar a big payout, he accepts the chance to help his father no matter the risk.
Read it for: the characters, who are well-developed and darkly witty despite their many flaws.
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| Beijing Payback by Daniel NiehStarring: Victor Li, a college basketball player and son of Vincent Li, an L.A.-based restauranteur who left China in the 1970s.
What happens: Vincent is killed in an apparent burglary, only for Victor to discover his father's decades-old ties to organized crime and government corruption back in China.
About the author: Before publishing Beijing Payback (his debut novel), Daniel Nieh worked as a model and translator based in Beijing. |
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| Bearskin by James A. McLaughlinWhat it's about: Poachers are killing bears on an Appalachian nature preserve where Rice Moore is working as a caretaker, but his attempts to stop them bring up secrets from his past and reveal his location to the members of the drug cartel that he came to Virginia to hide from.
Why you might like it: Lush writing and an atmospheric tone almost turn the natural world into a character itself.
For fans of: Paul Doiron, Nevada Barr, and C.J. Box. |
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| The Perfect Stranger by Megan MirandaWhat it is: the menacing and fast-paced story of Leah Stevens, who leaves the big city (and career failure) behind to move in with her friend Emmy in rural Pennsylvania. But when Emmy suddenly goes missing, Leah is unable to convince the police that her friend ever existed.
Try this next: Tangerine by Christine Mangan; A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell; The Lying Game by Ruth Ware.
About the author: After primarily writing young adult fiction, Megan Miranda published adult suspense novels such as All the Missing Girls and The Last House Guest. |
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The burning island
by Hester Young
A journalist who would ignore her psychic intuition in favor of hard facts flees unwanted attention to Hawaii, where a local's disappearance forces her to embrace her gift, despite the danger. By the author of The Gates of Evangeline
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Richmond Public Library 101 East Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-7223rvalibrary.org/ |
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