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 | Ice Shear: A Novel by M.P. CooleySuspense Fiction. Once an F.B.I. agent with a promising career, June Lyons left it all behind to care for her dying husband in tiny Hopewell Falls, New York. Her regular routine -- drowning her grief in booze after the night shift with the town's police force -- comes to an abrupt end when she discovers the body of a young woman impaled on an ice shear in the frozen Mohawk River. The girl turns out to be the daughter of a prominent local politician -- and connected to a notorious biker gang. By the time the F.B.I. gets involved, it's clear that this murder won't be the last. With a "strong, fast-paced narrative" (Publishers Weekly) propelling the story, this debut marries a small-town setting to big-time crime. |
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 | A Colder War: A Novel by Charles CummingSpy Fiction. In his second appearance, disgraced MI6 agent Thomas Kell is asked to look into the plane crash that killed Paul Wallinger, a colleague who was romantically involved with the head of MI6. Complications arise with the involvement of the dead man's daughter, but the real danger is in finding out whether Wallinger was killed accidentally, murdered, or driven to suicide. Kell's search for answers takes him all over the world and puts him on the trail of a mole responsible for sabotaging several missions. Plenty of spycraft and complex characters make this a great choice for fans of John Le Carré. |
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 | The Beast in the Red Forest: An Inspector Pekkala Novel of Suspense by Sam EastlandHistorical Thriller. In this intriguing novel, it's 1944, and series lead Inspector Pekkala is missing, presumed dead. Josef Stalin, however, has dispatched Major Kirov, Pekkala's trusted assistant, to find him, and his search begins deep in the wild forests of Western Russia. In a parallel narrative, we learn the story of a vengeful American steelworker, and underlying both tales is the bloody violence between the Russians and partisan Ukrainians. Though this is the 5th entry in the series, it's only the 4th to be published in the U.S.; readers new to Pekkala may want to start with Eye of the Red Tsar. Fans of Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko novels or Tom Rob Smith's Leo Demidov thrillers will be especially drawn to the atmospheric portrayal of Russian history found in this series. |
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 | The Good Girl: A Novel by Mary KubicaPsychological Suspense. Months after art teacher Mia Dennett, daughter of a wealthy local judge, is kidnapped, she returns, remembering little of her abduction and captivity. Told from the viewpoints of her mother, the detective who works her case, and the kidnapper (who never delivered her to the people who ordered the job), this debut offers plenty of twists and suspense that builds until the very end. The guessing game of what happened to Mia has drawn comparisons to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl; complex family dynamics and well-drawn characters add to the appeal of this heady novel. |
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 | 61 Hours: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee ChildThriller. This 14th Reacher novel opens with a countdown: 61 hours to go until something happens. With 59 to go, Reacher's helping senior citizens after the bus they're all on careens out of control. Stuck in tiny Bolton, South Dakota, Reacher keeps himself busy helping the police, but it's soon clear that illegal activities on the outskirts of town are well beyond the local cops' abilities to control. A hired assassin, a Mexican drug lord, a biker gang, and a sophisticated meth lab spell trouble, and it will take all of Reacher's skill with military strategy and weaponry to handle the situation. Fans who enjoy this one should look forward to Personal, the 19th in the series, which will be available in September. |
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 | Six Years by Harlan CobenSuspense Fiction. Six years ago, Jake Fisher watched the woman he loved marry another man. At the wedding, Natalie told him never to contact her again, but now her husband is dead, Jake's love endures, and his rival's funeral just might be the chance he needs to reopen that door. Imagine his surprise when he attends the funeral to see that the widow isn't Natalie! In fact, the deeper he digs to find Natalie, the more mysterious things get -- there's very little proof that his relationship with Natalie ever happened, or that Natalie even existed. Readers who appreciate fast-paced, suspenseful tales in which ordinary men slowly realize that they know nothing at all about the women they love should enjoy Six Years, as well as David Rosenfelt's On Borrowed Time. |
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 | The 13th Target by Mark De CastriqueThriller. After years with the Secret Service, Russell Mullins has just joined a private security company. His first assignment is to protect Federal Reserve executive Paul Luguire; when Luguire apparently commits suicide, Mullins doesn't believe it. The cops won't help, so Mullins starts looking into Luguire's death himself, only to find that the first man he'd interviewed has been killed in a way that implicates Mullins himself. Meanwhile, an investigative reporter is also suspicious of Luguire's death -- and a banker has been noticing some transactional irregularities that result in threatening phone calls. Not only is Mullins himself in trouble, but America's financial system seems to be under attack; readers who enjoy timely, terrifying thrillers will appreciate this action-packed novel. |
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 | The 9th Girl by Tami HoagSuspense Fiction. "Doc Holiday" has killed eight women, always on or near a holiday (hence the name); Minnesota homicide cops Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska may have a ninth on their hands. Horribly mutilated, this latest victim is proving difficult to identify, and the detectives are working from different theories...one believes her death was the work of the serial killer, the other thinks it might be unrelated. On top of their chilling investigation, Liska's also worried about her son, an autistic 15-year-old, as bullying, social media, and the legacy of divorce come into play throughout this novel, the 4th in the series. |
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 | Three Seconds by Anders Roslund and Börge HellströmSuspense Fiction. Though it gets off to a leisurely start, this novel, the winner of Sweden's award for best crime novel in 2009 and the 2011 winner of the CWA International Dagger, pays off with a pulse-pounding climax. Piet Hoffman is an ex-con, a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant -- and it's understandable that those last two roles cause some stress in his life. It gets worse when he's sent to a maximum security prison as part of the mafia's strategy to control the methamphetamine supply in Swedish prisons, a man is murdered, and all hell breaks loose. Detective Ewert Grens, who's appeared in the authors' other books, plays a pivotal role here as well. |
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 | The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes: A Novel by Marcus SakeySuspense Fiction. Waking up half-drowned on an abandoned beach with no memory of who he is, a naked man stumbles across a silver BMW. The Bimmer contains clothes, cash, a gun, and registration in the name of Daniel Hayes, and so "Daniel" takes off for a cheap motel, where he learns he's in Maine and dreams of a television actress. But there's a cop on his trail -- has he done something, or has Daniel? As he heads to L.A. (sure that answers await him there), Daniel ("Daniel"?) struggles to figure out who he is, why he's in trouble, and how to get himself out of it, with only random memories to help him out. We can't say much more without giving it away, but the suspense is so intense that it's "a possible threat to readers' cardiac health," says Library Journal. |
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