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Thrillers and Suspense November 2024 |
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The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott
What it is: a sweeping, richly detailed story about censorship and Cold War women inspired by inspired by the true story behind the publication of Boris Pasternak's classic novel Doctor Zhivago:
The key players: Russian-American CIA agent Irina Drozdova, who gets in over her head in more ways than one after taking the assignment; Olga Vsevolodovna, Pasternak's long-time partner who risks the gulag rather than betray the details of his emerging masterpiece to Soviet authorities.
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Ashes never lie
by Goldberg, Lee
Arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his new partner Andrew Walker, a former US marshal, team up with two homicide detectives after a string of fires form a bizarre pattern, in the second novel of the series following Malibu Burning.
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In too deep
by Child, Lee
Waking up handcuffed in a dark hospital room with no memory, Reacher finds himself framed for a murder, setting the stage for an explosive reckoning, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Secret.
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Beyond reasonable doubt
by Dugoni, Robert
Seattle attorney Keera Duggan helps former childhood friend Jenna Bernstein, a disgraced biotech CEO accused of murdering her former partner, amidst rising doubts and circumstantial evidence in the second novel of the series following Her Deadly Game. Original.
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Safe enough
by Child, Lee
Meticulously plotted and packed with Child's trademark action and suspense, a collection of 20 short stories shows the author's mastery of the short form, and they've never been gathered before now.
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The final act of Juliette Willoughby
by Lloyd, Ellery
Fifty years after runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, two Cambridge art history students stumble across proof that the fire was no accident, which threatens the very foundation of Juliette's aristocratic family and revives rumors of the infamous curse that has haunted them for generations.
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Karla's choice
by Harkaway, Nick
"An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carrâe's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Szusanna, a Hungarian âemigrâe and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence, the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley soon finds himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come and set him on a collision course with the greatest enemy he will ever make. Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in John le Carrâe's George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Karla's Choice marks a momentous return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer"
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Haunted
by Martin, Kat
A brutal 1898 murder in the mining town of Jerome, Arizona, sets off an eerie chain of events that impacts a pair of 2024 hotel owners whose discovery of an old journal triggers supernatural occurrences impacting their livelihood and relationship.
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Flint Kill Creek
by Oates, Joyce Carol
An accomplished American writer offers a new collection of stories.
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Warrior king
by Smith, Wilbur A.
In 1820 South Africa, when Ann discovers a little boy, the survivor of a shipwreck, she is left raise the young child, Harry, and as disaster and hardship befall them, she takes them to Nativity Bay, a place bordering the Zulu kingdom, where they embark on a new adventure of loyalty and survival.
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New Suspense can be found on the first pillar of books near the reference desk. Other suspense titles are located next to the large windows, toward the back of the library. Look for the orange labels on the book spines. |
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