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Thrillers and Suspense August 2024
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| The Five Year Lie by Sarina BowenAriel Cafferty questions everything and ends up on the run after receiving an odd text from her four-year-old son's dad, who disappeared five years ago while working for her family's security camera tech company. Known for romance novels, this is Sarina Bowen's fast-paced first thriller. Read-alikes: The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews; The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. *This book may be requested from our LibShare partner, Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library |
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I need you to read this : a novel
by Jessa Maxwell
When her childhood hero, Francis Keen, the woman behind a famous advice column, is brutally murdered, Alex takes over as her replacement and begins receiving threatening letters, drawing into her inter her predecessor's murder, which takes her all the way up to the power centers of Manhattan where a killer waits.
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House of glass
by Sarah Pekkanen
Best Interest Attorney, Stella Hudson, takes on the case of an 8-year-old girl who witnessed the death of her nanny amid her parents' ugly divorce and realizes that everyone is a suspect. 150,000 first printing.
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House of Bone and Rain
by Gabino Iglesias
In Puerto Rico, five teenagers vow vengeance for their friend's mother who was murdered by a drug kingpin, while a hurricane unleashes vengeful spirits on the island, in the new novel from the author of The Devil Takes You Home.
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This Is Why We Lied : A Will Trent Thriller
by Karin Slaughter
While on their honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge, GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must solve a murder when the Lodge's manager is found dead, and investigating the McAlpine family and other guests, they realize everyone here is lying?—?lying about their past, lying to their family, lying to themselves.
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| Blood in the Cut by Alejandro NodarseOut of prison after three years, Iggy Guerra returns to his much-changed family in Miami: his mom recently died, his little brother wants to quit school, his dad is involved with illegal Everglades poachers, and the family butcher shop is failing. Iggy doesn’t know how he’s going to fix it all, but he’s going to try. For fans of: intense, gritty crime novels, like those by S.A. Cosby and Eli Cranor. |
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| Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna PearsonThis character-driven literary crime novel examines the January 2000 murder of golden girl college student Karlie. Taking place in the months leading up to the murder and in 2019 when Karlie's old roommate decides to look into what happened, Bright and Tender Dark uses multiple viewpoints to delve into lives of an assortment of characters. Read-alikes: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai; Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera. |
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You will never be me
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
When cracks start forming in an influencer's curated life, she finds out that jealousy can be just as viral as a video.
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