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Thrillers and Suspense April 2018
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| The Sandman by Lars KeplerWhat it's about: A terrifying, manipulative serial killer imprisoned in a high-security psychiatric ward may hold the key to saving the life of a young woman believed dead for 13 years.
Is it for you? Blood-soaked and fast-paced, this 4th in the series starring Det. Insp. Joona Linna highlights his intuition and strategic sense -- and his willingness to dangle his colleagues as bait.
For fans of: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter. |
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The legacy : A Thriller
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Required to both question and protect a traumatized 7-year-old girl who is the only witness to a murder, rookie detective Huldar and psychologist Freyja navigate elusive clues left behind by an unusually slippery killer. By the award-winning author of The Silence of the Sea.
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Agent in place
by Mark Greaney
Taking a contract to abduct the mistress of a Syrian dictator to obtain any information she may possess, Court Gentry learns that the woman has given birth to the dictator's only son and that in order to secure her cooperation, he must retrieve the child safely out of Syria. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Gunmetal Gray.
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| Chicago by David MametAuthor alert: Though better known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright or an Oscar-nominated screenwriter (take your pick), this is not David Mamet's first novel -- just his first in nearly 20 years.
What it's about: Set in 1920s Chicago and featuring a whole crew of unsavory gangsters, the novel stars former WWI pilot Mike Hodge, who's now a reporter. When his girlfriend is gunned down in his own home, he's immediately on the hunt for those responsible.
Read it for: real-life gangsters; evocative dialogue; fast-paced action. |
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| Barbed Wire Heart by Tess SharpeWhat it's about: In Northern California, 22-year-old Harley McKenna wants to get out of the family business, and if that means igniting a blood feud between her drug-kingpin father and his rivals, so be it.
Why you might like it: With flawed but likeable Harley at the helm, this hard-bitten crime novel is both intense and affecting; there's plenty of violence as well as an intriguing father-daughter dynamic.
For fans of: the atmosphere and star character in Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone. |
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Books You Might Have Missed
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| The Beautiful Dead by Belinda BauerWhat it's about: When television reporter Eve Singer arrives at the scene of a savage, fatal stabbing in a London office building, she attracts the attention of the serial killer behind it, who's staging his murders to look like artwork.
Why you might like it: With multiple perspectives (Eve's, the killer's, and even some victims) this gripping novels blends the details of a police procedural with the intensifying strain of a psychological suspense novel. |
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| It's Always the Husband by Michele CampbellWhat it's about: The events that led to the death of a friend will always link the three very different former college roommates featured in this twisty debut. As adults, they find themselves thrown together once more -- and the result is yet another death under suspicious circumstances.
Reviewers say: The "edge-of-your-seat pace and dark atmosphere" (Booklist) and depiction of complex female friendship will appeal to fans of domestic suspense novels like Rebecca Drake's recent Just Between Us. |
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| Kill the Father by Sandrone Dazieri; translated by Antony ShugaarBook buzz: Bestselling Italian author Sandrone Dazieri made his U.S. debut with this series opener (it's followed by Kill the Angel), a disturbing, violent tale of murder and captivity starring an Italian police detective and a traumatized missing-persons consultant.
Read it for: the complex and captivating plot, the Italian setting, and the dynamic relationship between the two damaged main characters.
Reviewers say: "original and brutal" (The Times of London); "outstanding" (Booklist). |
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| You Belong to Me by Colin HarrisonWhat it's about: Immigration attorney Paul Reeves wants a rare, priceless map of 19th-century Manhattan; his deepening obsession with it turns him into an accessory to abduction and throws him into the path of some angry hit men.
Why you might like it: Obsession is the primary motivator, not just for Paul but for the rest of the characters in this action-packed, noirish crime drama. The New York City setting provides plenty of well-drawn atmosphere, too. |
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| The Believer by Joakim Zander; translated by Elizabeth Clark WesselTopics of note: the privatization of police forces, the radicalization of young Muslim men, neighborhood violence in Stockholm spurred on by outsiders, and a vast conspiracy that connects all three.
Starring: Three Swedes -- human rights researcher and functional alcoholic Klara Walldéen (first seen in The Swimmer), trendspotter Yasmine Ajam, and her depressed, radicalized brother, Fadi.
What reviewers say: "Impressively complex characters and stark atmospherics" (Publishers Weekly). |
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