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Thrillers and Suspense November 2020
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The Devil and the Dark Water
by Stuart Turton
On a boat: It's 1634 and detective Samuel Pipps is on his way to be executed in Amsterdam for a crime that he might not even be guilty of. Accompanying him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes.
Devilry afoot: Once at sea, mysterious things begin to happen. A leper thought to be dead stalks the decks, symbols appear on the sails, and the livestock is slaughtered. Things take a sudden turn when 3 passengers, including Samuel, are marked for death. With Samuel locked away, it's up to Arent to solve this mystery that connects everyone on board this ship.
Book discussion: This is Stuart Turton's second published book. Join the Book Discussion for Millennials on December 9th to discuss his debut novel The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
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Invisible Girl
by Lisa Jewell
The cast: Owen Pick, a virgin living with his aunt, recently suspended from his job as a geography teacher for sexual misconduct. Cate and Roan Fours, a physiotherapist and child psychologist duo who live across from Owen. They fear that Owen is taking an interest in their teenage daughter. And Saffyre Maddox, who spent three years as a patient of Roan, feeling abandoned after her therapy ends, she strives to maintain their relationship by following him.
What happens: The lives of these four characters come crashing together on Valentine's night when Saffyre goes missing. The last person to see her alive was Owen.
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Dear Child
by Romy Hausmann
An escape: Fourteen years ago Lena disappeared without a trace. Now, a woman has escaped from a windowless shack in the woods and her captor. She claims to be Lena but her family does not believe her.
Secrets: The woman claiming to be Lena isn't telling the entire truth. What's more, the little girl who escaped with her knows what she is hiding. Lena's father is desperately trying to piece together the facts, even if they don't fit together. And someone is looking to take back what's theirs.
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Goodnight Beautiful
by Aimee Molloy
Happily married: Sam Statler and Annie Potter are excited to start their new lives together in upstate New York. But Annie's excitement dims when she realizes that she will be spending her alone while Sam, a therapist, works long hours in his downstairs office.
Some eavesdropping: Annie soon finds a cure for her boredom by listening through the vent to the conversations Sam has with his mostly female clientele. Who could resist listening to the troubles of these women? Then everything changes when a French girl shows up and Sam doesn't come home.
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| The Perfect Wife by JP DelaneyWhat it's about: Abbie Cullen-Scott doesn't remember why she's in the hospital, although her high-profile tech innovator husband tells says she's been in a coma for five years after a major accident. But while she rebuilds her life, Abbie starts to notice other things she can't account for, including her mysterious inability to taste or smell anything.
Why you might like it: Evoking elements of classic thrillers like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, this novel raises compelling, troubling questions about the intersection between advanced technology and humanity's most primitive impulses.
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| Perfect Little Children by Sophie HannahThe premise: More than a decade after it happened, Beth Leeson still feels pangs of guilt about the way things ended with her closest friend Flora. After hearing that Flora has returned to town with her husband and children, Beth follows an impulse and drives to their upmarket neighborhood to see how life is treating her friend.
The problem: Beth times it perfectly and gets to catch a glance them returning home. Flora looks good, but instead of the teenagers she expects, she sees two small children that appear not to have aged a day in the last 12 years.
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| Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane MoriartyWhat it is: a character-driven, witty take on the suspense trope of a group of strangers thrown together by circumstances, this time at a chichi wellness retreat that may be more than it seems.
Featuring: wealthy but unhappy people like a couple whose marriage is suffering after winning the lottery, a young woman haunted by the death of her twin, a washed-up romance novelist, and an out-of-shape former Olympian. And overseeing it all is a preternaturally beautiful fitness guru with an unorthodox new regime to test out on her clients.
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| One Perfect Lie by Lisa ScottolineWhat it's about: Living undercover as a high school baseball coach, ATF agent Curt Abbott is investigating a potential domestic terror plot inspired by the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. But he didn't anticipate the complex web of connections underpinning the school's picturesque little town, nor the forces waiting to reel him into it.
Who it's for: young adult readers looking for sophisticated thrillers; anyone who enjoys parallel narratives; readers curious about the pitfalls of modern technology and its ability to radicalize vulnerable and disaffected young people.
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| The Perfect Nanny by Leïla SlimaniWhat it is: a twisted, compelling psychological thriller first published in France, which is told from multiple perspectives and raises troubling questions about the demands of modern motherhood.
Back to work: Attorney Myriam is returning to her career after taking time off to spend with her young children, so she and her husband begin to search for a nanny. Forty-something Louise seems perfect and the children take to her immediately, but what role will Louise play in the tragedy revealed in the story's first pages?
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