Cardington-Lincoln Public Library: Thrillers and Suspense: January 2026

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The Sunshine Man
by Emma Stonex

Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she's been waiting eighteen years to hear: Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay. But every story has two sides. Jimmy can sense he's being hunted. He knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she'd sooner forget, and he isn't the only one with something to hide. As the two circle each other in a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, they plunge into a murky world of family secrets, betrayals, and unsolved mysteries--

The Invisible Woman: A Thriller
by James Patterson

From New York Times bestselling author James Patterson, an undercover FBI agent investigates a family with suspected ties to organized crime--by posing as their live-in nanny. No one sees her, but she sees everything. Elinor Gilbert was once a young woman with a thriving career at the FBI. Now decades past solving crimes with the bureau, she is personally and professionally forgettable. Which is exactly what her former FBI boss needs. He disguises Elinor as a middle-aged nanny, and casts her as an agent on the inside of his investigation into a New York art dealer suspected of ties to organized crime. But as Elinor pushes toward the truth, her superpower--anonymity--morphs into a fatal flaw. The more the invisible woman integrates into her host family, the more dangerously memorable she becomes.

The Last Hitman
by Robin Yocum

Marked for death, a hitman must figure out how to save himself and exact a final revenge before his past catches up to him. Perfect for fans of Eli Cranor and Tulsa King, this thrilling mafia tale shows what happens when loyalty isn't a two-way street. There was a time when being a made man meant something. Angelo Cipriani was a member of the inner circle of the powerful Fortunato Crime Family, which controlled the Upper Ohio Valley. Of course, Angelo would never admit that such an organization existed, let alone to all of the bodies he dropped for his boss. Angelo was a loyal soldier, even after a rival family strafed him with bullets and put him in a coma for three weeks. But times have changed. Four decades have passed, and the glory days of mob rule have waned. As drugs replace the mob's traditional revenue streams and the FBI looks to bring down the Fortunatos, Angelo finds himself on the outside with the current administration, essentially, on the shelf. He spends his days pining over a waitress at the local diner and reminiscing with a one-legged former colleague in a nursing home. Angelo was a man of honor in a world that he now barely recognizes. But when the FBI shows up, Angelo realizes the past is far from dead and buried. Faced with old secrets and fresh betrayals, Angelo finds himself unretired: The Last Hitman is ready to get back to work.

Track of Courage
by Susan May Warren

Pop singer Keely Williams's trip to Alaska turns into a nightmare when her plane is hijacked, forcing her through the woods with a killer in pursuit. Ex-cop Dawson Mulligan and his adopted rescue dog come to the rescue, but he has no idea he's being pulled into a race for his life. Together, Keely and Dawson must stay one step ahead of the killer on their tail.

Code Blue
by Fern Michaels

The Sisterhood is a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventures together. Armed with vast resources and top notch expertise and a loyal network of allies all over the world, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.

The Right to Remain: A Jack Swyteck Novel
by James Grippando

Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck must contend with a unique problem. His client, Elliott Stafford, indicted for murder, has gone silent. Not just silent in asserting his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination--Elliott refuses to speak. He won't talk to the judge, his girlfriend, or even the attorney fighting for his life. There seems to be no medical or psychological reason for his silence. He has, as Jack puts it, 'chosen to become his own worst enemy.' To some, it's an act of protest against a broken criminal justice system. Jack doesn't buy it. Undeterred by the hoopla and calls to walk away, he keeps his client and tries his best to save Elliott from himself. As he digs for facts, Jack discovers a much more disturbing reason for Elliott's silence. Virtually everything Elliott told Jack before the indictment is proving false, including Elliot's criminal history, family turmoil, and secret past. As Jack plunges deeper, he comes to believe that Elliott isn't trying to hide his own guilt. He may be protecting someone else--and the stakes could not be higher--

The Gallagher Place
by Julie Doar

A LibraryReads Top Pick Gothic and twisty Don't miss it.--Lisa Unger, author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six The narrative culminates in a heartbreaking finale that will haunt readers long after the final page is turned. Doar nails it on her first time out.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) A layered exploration of family secrets, sibling misconceptions, and an unsolved murder in this chilling debut set in New York's Dutchess County. When Marlowe Fisher, an illustrator living in New York City, returns to her family's bewitching Hudson Valley home for the holidays, she discovers a body in the woods--a murder that draws her back into the haunting case of her teenage best friend's disappearance two decades earlier. What happened to Nora? As police descend on the sprawling Fisher property, Marlowe is pulled into an investigation that threatens to unravel the town's fragile loyalties and expose the shadowed legacy of a weekend home steeped in secrets. Marlowe must confront the fallibility of her own memory and the feeling that everyone--including her brothers--is hiding something if she's to uncover the shocking truth about her lost friend. In this gripping debut, Julie Doar delivers a chilling mystery that explores the corrosive power of silence and the tension of family secrets.

The Storm
by Rachel Hawkins

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is back with a thrilling new gothic suspense about a Gulf Coast beach motel that has survived a century of hurricanes-and has also been the site of multiple mysterious deaths.

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