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Thrillers and Suspense March 2019
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The Witch Elm
by Tana French
What it is: a gripping new standalone novel that turns a crime story inside out. Left for dead by burglars while partying with friends, a happy-go-lucky charmer takes refuge at his dilapidated ancestral home before a grisly discovery reveals an unsuspected family history.
Reviewers call it: "A brilliant new work of suspense" (Washington Post), "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People)
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Red War
by Kyle Mills
The premise: When a terminally ill Russian president launches a massive campaign that threatens millions of lives, Mitch Rapp is dispatched by the CIA to prevent an all-consuming war.
Series alert: By the author of Enemy of the State, this is number 17 in the popular series originated by Vince Flynn
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| The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher GreeneWhat it is: a compelling, intensifying story of the seemingly perfect marriage of single mom Susannah Garcia and charismatic artist Max Westmoreland.
What happens: Just as they begin to settle into married life, the couple receives a series of cryptic, sinister notes at their new home. Although Susannah starts to wonder if she can trust her new husband, she also harbors her own secrets.
Read it for: its menacing tone, tight plotting, and well-balanced alternating perspectives that ratchet up the tension. |
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| Scrublands by Chris HammerWhat happens: On a hot but otherwise unremarkable Sunday morning in a small Australian town, Father Byron Swift opens fire on his congregation, killing five people before being killed himself.
One year later: Sydney journalist Martin Scarsden travels to Riversend for a story on how the town is coping after the shooting, only to stumble into a fraught web of conflict, contradiction, and maybe even a conspiracy tied to Father Swift's crime.
You might also like: Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher; The Dry by Jane Harper; Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash. |
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The Fox
by Frederick Forsyth
What it's about: When America's intelligence agencies are breached by a teen hacker, a British MI6 leader endeavors to use the boy's talents to safeguard both nations from unseen enemies.
Author alert: the latest political thriller by the author of The Day of the Jackal
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Books You May Have Missed
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| The Washington Decree by Jussi Adler-OlsenWhat it's about: the historic presidential campaign that Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers has dedicated her life to and the fallout of an assassination on the night of the election.
Prime suspect: Doggie's own father, a passionate supporter of the opposition party.
Author alert: Jussi Adler-Olsen is best known for his Department Q series of police procedurals. |
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Bloody Sunday
by Ben Coes
What it's about: Just as CIA agent Dewey Andreas is about to retire, he gets word of a North Korean plan to launch nuclear weapons on the nation's capital. But when his straightforward mission targeting a key enemy general goes catastrophically awry, Dewey will have to sneak into Pyongyang in order to prevent the attack and save millions of lives.
For fans of: high-octane military and spy novel writers like Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Tom Clancy.
Series alert: Bloody Sunday is the 8th Dewey Andreas novel, after Trap the Devil.
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| The Second Coming by John HeubuschWhat it's about: the struggles of forensic anthropologist Dr. Jon Bondurant and Vatican media specialist Domenika Josef to protect a child whose DNA could be the secret to saving the world from a virulent disease outbreak.
Series alert: The Second Coming is the sequel to The Shroud Conspiracy, which followed Dr. Bondurant's first brush with the dangerous forces seeking to control the legendary Shroud of Turin.
For fans of: The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn; Obsessed by Ted Dekker. |
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| An Unwanted Guest by Shari LapenaWhat happens: A snowstorm strands a diverse group of guests at a Catskills ski lodge, and once the power goes out people begin to die one by one at the hands of the killer among them.
Inspired by: Agatha Christie's famous "locked room" mystery And Then There Were None.
Critics say: "[Shari] Lapena [creates] a goosebump-raising atmosphere as the darkness and malevolence stretch on" (Booklist). |
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| Swift Vengeance by T. Jefferson ParkerStarring: private investigator Roland Ford, the hero of T. Jefferson Parker's previous novel The White Room of Fire; FBI agent Joan Taucher, who struggles with the legacy of her agency's failures.
What it's about: the hunt for an elusive killer known only as "Caliphornia," who is targeting (and decapitating) the former members of an Air Force drone assassination team.
You might also like: The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer; Nicholas Petrie's Peter Ash novels. |
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