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Thrillers and Suspense October 2023 |
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| Chameleon by Remi AdelekeNigerian American secret agent Kali Kent a member of an extra-classified CIA branch known as Black Box, is dispatched to South Africa in pursuit of a suspiciously organized group of kidnappers who are taking high-profile hostages in order to influence international affairs and stock prices. Chameleon is the first in a planned trilogy by former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke. |
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| What Harms You by Lisa BlackIn this sequel to the first Locard Institute novel Red Flags, crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Carr and pathologist Dr. Rachael Davies look into a colleague's sudden "heart attack" death. Things only get more suspicious after a student is strangled and a lab is bombed, sowing mistrust among the institute's students and faculty -- many of whom are viable suspects in the three crimes. |
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| What Never Happened by Rachel Howzell HallAfter the end of her marriage obituary writer Coco Weber moves from Los Angeles to the Catalina Island home where her parents and brother were killed years ago. Waiting for her are her prickly aunt Gwen, who believes the house should be hers, and an unusually high number of local widows dying off in a pattern that suggests they're being targeted for their valuable real estate. |
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| Small Town Sins by Ken JaworowskiSuspense and moral complexity abound in this story of a small, economically depressed Pennsylvania town, where a volunteer firefighter decides to keep the $2 million of drug money he finds in a burning house, a nurse decides to skirt the law to make a dying patient's wish come true, and a recovering heroin addict turns vigilante to take down a child predator. |
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| The Trade Off by Sandie JonesNovice reporter Jess Townsend lands her dream job at British tabloid The Globe, hired by an editor who makes promises about helping the paper shed its sleazy reputation. But taking anyone in the office at their word will have dire consequences for both Jess and the celebrities whose private lives the paper goes to such great lengths to pry into. |
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| The Spider by Lars KeplerIn the latest entry in the series that introduced readers to Swedish detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer, the pair investigate the possible return of the prolific (and allegedly dead) serial killer the Mirror Man. Racing against the clock, Linna and Bauer will have to determine who they're dealing with and face the possibility they're being led into a trap. |
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| The Centre by Ayesha Manazir SiddiqiAnisa Ellahi works subtitling Bollywood movies while she dreams of someday becoming a literary translator. Then her new boyfriend Adam, a polyglot, refers her to an exclusive, expensive language school called The Centre. Once enrolled however, Anisa will learn a dark, horrifying truth about the school's strict, too-good-to-be-true methodology. |
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| I'm Not Done With You Yet by Jesse Q. SutantoUnderachieving writer Jane Morgan is in for two big surprises at once. First, her estranged friend Thalia Ashcroft has just hit the bestseller list. Second, Thalia's book is directly inspired by their complex, intense friendship, which began at Oxford's MFA writing program and ended in an unspecified traumatic event. |
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| The Hurricane Blonde by Halley SuttonFormer child star Salma Lowe pays the bills as guide for Stars Six Feet Under, a tour of locations in Hollywood where famous women died -- including Salma's sister Tawney, who died 20 years ago. When the actress playing her sister in a biopic is found dead in Tawney's home swimming pool, Salma decides to uncover the truth after police dismiss the death as an accident. |
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| Looking Glass Sound by Catriona WardWriter Wilder Harlow travels to his uncle's Maine cabin to write what he believes will be his final book, a memoir of the unsettling events that took place during a summer visit to the area in 1989. For fans of: unreliable narrators and stylistic complexity, who will appreciate "this Rubik's Cube of a novel" (Library Journal). |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Atlantic County Library System | 40 Farragut Avenue, Mays Landing, NJ 08330
Phone: (609) 625-2776 | www.atlanticlibrary.org
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Atlantic County Board of Commissioners, John W. Risley, Jr., Chairman |
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