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Thrillers and Suspense August 2022
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The Omega Factor by Steve BerryWhat it's about: While in Belgium, UNESCO investigator Nicholas Lee, whose job it is to protect the world's cultural objects, stumbles upon a priceless artifact that plunges him into a bitter conflict, forcing him to confront a modern-day religious crusade intent on eliminating a shocking truth from humanity's past. What artifact? The Ghent Altarpiece, the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? For fans of: Raymond Khoury and Dan Brown.
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| Magpie by Elizabeth DayWhat it is: a thoughtful combination of domestic and psychological suspense that delves into issues of infertility, jealousy, mental illness, and the nature of the truth.
Who it stars: young London couple Marisa and Jake, who are looking forward to having a baby; Jake's cold and imperious mother Annabelle; Kate, a lodger the couple take in whose connection with Jake makes Marisa increasingly uneasy.
About the author: Magpie is the 6th novel by English journalist Elizabeth Day, who also hosts the award-winning podcast How to Fail. |
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| More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez1985: Lore Rivera's double life comes crashing down around her after the husbands she has on either side of the Texas-Mexico border find out about each other and one man murders the other.
The present: True crime writer Cassie Brown grows obsessed with the case and desperate for an interview, she shows up unannounced at Lore's front door. Lore reluctantly agrees to be interviewed, but the story she tells will end up changing Cassie's personal and profession lives in ways she never could have anticipated.
Reviewers say: This debut novel by Katie Gutierrez is "a compelling, character-driven crime story that holds the reader’s interest to its very end" (Booklist). |
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With a Mind to Kill by Anthony HorowitzWhat it's about: Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West. Series alert: With a Mind to Kill is book number forty one in the Extended James Bond series; it is Anthony Horowitz's third James bond book following Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day. Reviewers say: "This heartfelt homage is sure to please fans of the original Bond books" (Publishers Weekly).
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| Breathless by Amy McCullochThe premise: Outdoorsy journalist Cecily Wong has landed a career-making chance to interview famous climber Charles McVeigh, but only if she's willing to meet him on the Himalayan peak he's currently ascending.
The problem: The climb is notoriously dangerous for even the most experienced mountaineers, and along the way more than one of Cecily's traveling companions dies under circumstances that look like something much more suspicious than accidents or altitude sickness.
For fans of: adventure thrillers where Mother Nature and our fellow humans compete to see who is the bigger threat. |
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| The Dark Flood by Deon MeyerSeries alert: The Dark Flood is the 7th entry in South African author Deon Meyer's crime series featuring police detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido.
This time: Griessel and Cupido have been demoted from the elite unit they used to belong to after looking too closely into the wrong corruption case. Assigned to investigate the disappearance of a gifted college student, things take a high-profile turn as connections emerge between their case and the activities of a notorious billionaire.
Read it for: the dialect-filled banter between the two detectives and the unexpected moments of dark humor they share. |
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Privacyby Nina SadowskyWhat it's about: A successful therapist's world is upended when her patients are targeted in a campaign of twisted psychological harassment. What happens: When her newfound success places a target not only on her back, but on the backs of her patients as they each receive unsettling gifts mocking their deepest fears, therapist Dr. Laina Landers enlists an investigative journalist to discover who wants to end her career and possibly her life. Reviewers say: "Screenwriter and filmmaker Sadowsky gives readers a rapidly paced, suspenseful thriller that makes the most of such hot-button issues as privacy, professional ethics, media malfeasance, and race relations. This one seems bound for the big screen" (Booklist).
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The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James1977: Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect - a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion. 2017: When Shea Collins, who runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases, gets a chance to interview Beth Greer, she senses something isn't right and wonders if she is in the presence of a manipulative murderer. Reviewers say: "A twisty and satisfying paranormal mystery you won’t want to read alone at night" (Kirkus Reviews).
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| The Lunar Housewife by Caroline WoodsWhat it is: an atmospheric and stylistically complex historical thriller set during the Red Scare about CIA plans to use the work of American writers as anti-Soviet propaganda and one woman's attempt to hone her craft in spite of it.
How it's written: as the story of journalist and budding novelist Louise -- who publishes under a male pseudonym while dealing with her unsupportive fellow writer boyfriend -- wrapped around the titular sci-fi novel-within-the-novel that Louise is writing.
Reviewers say: The Lunar Housewife is a "tantalizing slice of literary history" that will "draw readers across all genres" (Booklist). |
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