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Thrillers and Suspense June 2024
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| Sleeping Giants by Rene DenfeldThe Child Finder and The Butterfly Girl author Rene Denfeld tells the intricately plotted and occasionally heartwrenching stories of young people trying to survive in a world not set up to support or protect them. Searching for information about the mother who put her up for adoption, Amanda Dufresne discovers she had a brother who met a tragic, avoidable fate 20 years earlier at a local "home for troubled boys."
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| A Killing on the Hill by Robert DugoniThis atmospheric historical noir follows 19-year-old William "Shoe" Shumacher, a wannabe crime reporter in Derpression-era Seattle whose first big story -- the killing of a locally prominent boxer -- pulls him into elite drinking establishments, undercover gambling clubs, and a conspiracy involving some of the city's most dangerous gangsters.
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| While We Were Burning by Sara KoffiUnable to return to full function while mourning a friend who died under suspicious circumstances, Elizabeth follows her husband's advice and hires a personal assistant, the positive, supportive, and effective Brianna. But Brianna has her own reasons for wanting the job, and she'll do everything in her power to see her plans through.
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| A Better World by Sarah LanganSet in the near future, this thought-provoking dystopian thriller centers on pediatrician Linda and her scientist husband Russell, who was just laid off from the EPA. Forced by crumbling finances and environmental instability, the couple move with their twin daughters to a suspiciously idyllic company town run by Russell's new employers.
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| A Game of Lies by Clare MackintoshIn this compelling sequel to The Last Party, Welsh detective Ffion Morgan is called to the rugged, picturesque mountain set of a polarizing reality TV show when the crew discover bones that turn out to be from an animal. But when the show's creator later winds up dead, Ffion must root out the murderer before they can kill again.
Formats available: Print Book, e-book, e-audiobook |
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The fury
by Alex Michaelides
Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
Formats available: Print Book, Large Print Book, e-book, e-audiobook
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| You Know What You Did by K.T. NguyenPainter Annie Shaw's previously manageable OCD spirals out of control after the death of her mother, a Vietnam War refugee with whom she had a complex relationship. As her ability to function plummets she develops strange gaps in her memory as well, a serious problem when one of her art patrons dies under suspicious circumstances. For fans of: Tess Gerritsen and Lisa Unger.
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| The Berlin Letters by Katherine ReayCIA codebreaker Luisa Voekler was raised in America by her German grandparents, believing her parents died in a car accident. The discovery of twenty years of letters between her father and grandfather calls into question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family, all tied to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Formats available: e-book, e-audiobook
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The princess of Las Vegas : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
Formats available: Print Book, Large Print Book, e-book
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The night island
by Jayne Ann Krentz
When a mysterious informant disappears, Talia March, searching for a list of people like her and her friends, is forced to team up with Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man chasing the same list, when they are both targeted by a killer.
Formats available: Print Book, Large Print Book
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Manatee County Public Library System 1301 Barcarrota Boulevard West, Bradenton, Florida 34205 (941) 748-5555www.mymanatee.org/library |
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