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Thrillers and Suspense February 2021
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Serpentine (Alex Delaware #36)
by Jonathan Kellerman
A "different" case: While LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis has a near perfect rate in solving crimes, he doesn't always do it alone. At times, when there is something "different" about a crime, he calls on his friend and brilliant psychologist, Alex Delaware. When Milo is forced to reopen a decades old case, he knows right away that this is such a case.
The case: A woman was found with a bullet in her head inside a torched Cadillac which was found overturned on the treacherous Mulholland Drive. The one who wanted the case reopened? The woman's daughter, a mega rich young woman. While other detectives tried and failed to solve this crime, Sturgis and Delaware are soon finding that not all of the facts add up, and that some threats might be closer than they appear.
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Prodigal Son (Orphan X #6)
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
A forced retirement: Evan Smoak was one of the best government assassins. Originally going by the alias Orphan X, he changed his name to The Nowhere Man once he left the Orphan Program that trained him. As The Nowhere Man, Evan helps the most desperate in their times of trouble. But now, in exchange for giving up his activities, he is being offered a pardon and the chance to live a normal life.
An unlikely request: Soon after this deal, Evan gets a call for help from someone he didn't even know existed, a woman claiming to be the one who put him up for adoption, his mother. She is asking Evan to help Andrew Duran, a man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now the target of a brutal brother and sister assassination team. Evan is his only hope, but is it worth risking everything he's worked for and even his life?
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The Power Couple
by Alex Berenson
A crumbling marriage: Rebecca and Brian Unsworth seem to have it all. A nice suburban house in Washington DC, two healthy teenage children, and important government jobs. Rebecca works in counterterrorism for the FBI and Brian is a coder for the NSA. Brian has also created and sold his own profitable app. Despite these success, their marriage of twenty years is in shambles.
A European getaway: To revive their marriage, and in celebration of their twentieth anniversary, they decide to take a family trip to Europe. Everything is going great until one night in Barcelona when their daughter Kira doesn't return from a dance club. While Rebecca and Brian do everything they can to get Kira back, they realize that their marriage is in more danger than they thought.
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Girl A
by Abigail Dean
Meet Girl A: Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her past or her family. Growing up in her parents' House of Horrors, she was known as Girl A. Lexi the eldest sister, not only managed to escape the House of Horrors, but was able to save her older brother and her four younger siblings. Lex thought that all of that was behind her.
What happens: Lex's father didn't make it out of the House of Horror's alive, and her mother was spending the rest of her life behind bars. When her mother dies in prison, the house is left to Lex and her siblings. Lex, along wither her sister Evie, wants to turn the House of Horrors into something good, but to do so she has to confront her siblings and the childhood they shared. What Lex doesn't expect are the betrayals and secrets that she and her siblings have been hiding all these years.
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| The Fixer by Joseph FinderWhat it is: a fast-paced, intricately plotted financial thriller about how a simple home renovation ends up undermining the foundation of one man's already crumbling life.
Starring: Rick Hoffman, who returns to his childhood home after losing his job as a journalist, the apartment he can no longer afford, and the girlfriend who prized them both more than she did Rick.
What goes wrong: While fixing the house up, Rick finds a large stash of money hidden in the wall. When he decides to move the money, he ends up uncovering a tale of political corruption that many people would rather stay buried.
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| Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn JacksonWhat it's about: Despite her difficult past, devoted wife and mother Amy Whey is living an idyllic life in suburban Pensacola. But when her new neighbor Angelica Roux shows up at Amy's book club, it's soon obvious that Angelica knows something about her past that could ruin it all.
Read it for: Amy's compelling but unreliable narration; the atmospheric Southern Gothic tone.
Reviewers say: "Readers will devour the twisty, consuming story" (Library Journal).
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| The Half Sister by Sandie JonesTwo's company: Stay-at-home-mom Lauren and her gossip columnist sister Kate have very different lifestyles, but they always make time to come together for a Sunday lunch where those differences fade away.
Three's a crowd: Their normal Sunday afternoon is interrupted by a strange young woman named Jess who claims to be their half-sister; her presence begins to undermine the idealized image Kate and Lauren have of their deceased father and the foundations of the life each sister has worked so carefully to build.
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| The Dilemma by B.A. ParisWhat it is: an intricately plotted tale of flawed but well-meaning characters and the secrets they hide from each other.
What happens: Adam Harman is preparing a lavish 40th birthday party for his wife Livia, to make up for their teenage courthouse wedding. When a tragedy preempts the arrival of a surprise guest, Adam wrestles with how much to reveal, not knowing that his wife is also hiding secrets about the same person.
For fans of: Shari Lapena's The Couple Next Door, which also centers on a couple hiding secrets from each other on the eve of a large social event.
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