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Thrillers and Suspense July 2020
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Follow Me
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Kathleen Barber
Starring: social media influencer Audrey Miller, who's retooling her life (and her personal brand) after moving to Washington D.C. for a dream job at the Smithsonian.
IRL: Audrey's online persona is carefully curated but she's glad to make room in her feed for the college friend (Cat) and ex-boyfriend (Nick) with whom she's recently reconnected. Not included: the stalker who's making plans now that Audrey has moved to his city.
Is it for you? Readers who aren't big social media users might find the context unmooring, but it could be just the temptation they need to finally sign up for Instagram -- or vindication of their choice to stay away.
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The Falling Woman
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Richard Farrell
A young National Transportation Safety Board investigator struggles with ethics challenges while interviewing a lone survivor of a tragic plane crash, a woman facing terminal cancer who would live out her final days in peace.
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Crash
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David Hagberg and Lawrence Light
What it's about: This action-packed financial thriller pits ex-Navy SEAL Spencer Nast and cybersecurity expert Cassy Levin against a powerful cadre of scheming investment bankers willing to do anything to satisfy their insatiable greed.
What's at stake: The stock-shorting plot set in motion is designed to completely crash the world economy, and if Cassy and Spencer want to prevent a new Great Depression they'll have to put their own lives on the line as well.
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Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar Starring: Kate Aitken, a troubled archivist; Miranda Brand, an iconoclastic (and recently deceased) photographer who left behind a disorganized and disquieting body of work; Miranda’s son Theo, who hired Kate to deal with his mother’s papers.
What goes wrong: Her natural curiosity about the aloof Brand family coupled with the intimacy of her assignment lead Kate to start crossing personal and professional lines in pursuit of the truth about Miranda's life and death, and soon she's in serious danger. | | The Visitors by Catherine Burns What it's about: Middle-aged Miriam Zetland lives a reclusive life in a tumbledown seaside mansion with her cruel and overbearing brother John, a former school teacher who spends most of his time in the cellar building model airplanes -- and occasionally receiving visitors whom Miriam never gets to meet.
Read it for: the atmospheric and creepy tone, which builds tension slowly and deliberately until circumstances force Miriam to get closer to the disturbing secrets her brother has been hiding behind the (locked) cellar door. | |
The Wrong Man: A Novel
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John Katzenbach
When Ashley Freeman, a bright and beautiful young woman, becomes the target of unrelenting obsession on the part of Michael O'Connell, she and her family struggle to extricate her from her violent admirer, until they are forced to come up with a no-holds-barred plan to outwit her dangerous stalker.
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Baby Doll by Hollie Overton What it is: an intricately plotted story of survival in which a woman held captive since her teenage years fights to rebuild her life and keep her kidnapper behind bars.
Starring: Lily Riser, who has spent the last eight years trapped in a basement; Rick Hanson, a high school English teacher and Lily's kidnapper who is determined to punish her for escaping; Abby Riser, Lily's twin sister who faced her own struggles while Lily was missing; and Sky, Lily's young daughter who has never lived in the outside world. | | The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware Too good to be true: On the surface Rowan Caine's new nanny job seems great -- the girls are charming, the parents seem nice, and she'll be living with them in a beautiful house in the Scottish countryside
What happens next: Once Rowan takes off her rose-colored glasses she starts noticing creepy things about her employers and their house, and when one of the children is found dead, Rowan becomes the prime suspect.
Why you might like it: This homage to the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw is framed as a letter Rowan is writing to her lawyer from prison as she tries to defend herself and figure out what really happened. | |
Contact your librarian for more great books!
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