Thrillers and Suspense June 2017
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Crime song
by David Swinson
Working as a private investigator for a defense attorney, a retired D.C. police detective with a secret drug addiction and dwindling cocaine supplies scams a college student in an upscale nightclub in the hopes of stealing a fix before discovering that his home has been burglarized and that the student he targeted has been murdered.
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The End of the Day
by Claire North
The enigmatic Charlie, a specter who travels everywhere and visits everyone marked for death, sends messages and makes profound, life-changing offers to those he meets. By the best-selling author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
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The long drop
by Denise Mina
Centered around the “trial of the century” in Glasgow in 1950, the innocence and guilt of those involved is explored, starting with Peter Manuel who has been found guilty of a string of murders, starting with the Watt family, and is waiting to die by hanging.
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The Shadow District
by Arnaldur Indridason
A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavik's National Theatre.
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Change agent
by Daniel Suarez
Drugged and abducted while standing on a crowded train platform, Kenneth Durand, an Interpol agent working against black-market labs that perform illegal embryo augmentation, awakens to discover he has been genetically transformed into his most wanted suspect. By the best-selling author of Daemon.
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Less than a treason
by Dana Stabenow
Native Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak finds her and her trusty half-wolf, half-husky dog Mutt in trouble in the Alaskan wilds when they both wind up shot.
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The murder book : a Henry Johnstone mystery
by Jane Adams
DCI Henry Johnstone investigates the murders of a woman, her seven-year-old daughter, and an unidentified victim in 1928 Lincolnshire, but his use of modern forensic sciences ruffles some feathers
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The chalk pit
by Elly Griffiths
Summoned to investigate a set of human remains discovered in one of Norwich's chalk-mining tunnels, Ruth teams up with DCI Nelson to search for a missing homeless person whose demise may be tied to Ruth's case and a string of murders. By the award-winning author of the Magic Men mysteries. 20,000 first printing.
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Most dangerous place
by James Grippando
When an old school friend's wife is accused of murdering the man who had assaulted her, Jack Swyteck finds the case unexpectedly complicated, in a thriller based on true events. By the New York Times best-selling author of Gone Again. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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A Simple Favor
by Darcey Bell
A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, an inexplicable event that prompts her to reach out to her blog readers and the missing woman's handsome husband before nightmarish realities come to light.
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Containment : a thriller
by Hank Parker
After a tick-borne illness outbreak appears linked to a global bioterrorist organization, an epidemiologist and a CIA agent must race against time to trace the virus to its source, through the jungles of the Philippines and the coral reefs off Malaysian Borneo.
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