Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/15/2013
ISBN-13: 9781451640205
ISBN-10: 145164020X

Thriller. Like James Ellroy's American Tabloid (but set mostly in the present) or Stephen King's 11/22/63 (without the time travel), The Third Bullet reimagines the events surrounding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy -- and comes up with a conspiracy-heavy yet plausible scenario for what really happened that day. In this 8th thriller starring Bob Lee Swagger, we find the Vietnam vet drawn into investigating the murder of a novelist who'd been researching the assassination, and from there into the conspiracies swirling around JFK's death. In addition to great writing, conspiracy theories, and ballistics details, fans will enjoy the similarities author Stephen Hunter weaves between himself (and Bob Lee Swagger) and the dead novelist (and the hero he wrote about, Billy Don Trueheart).

Publisher: Grove Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/08/2013
ISBN-13: 9780802120670
ISBN-10: 0802120679

Psychological Suspense. For the past three years, after a devastating assignment caused his withdrawal from the NYPD's undercover vice division, Dan Champion's been working as a detective in a small New York town. But the traumatizing case hasn't left him -- he dreams of one of the dead child victims and a beautiful redheaded woman, who soon shows up in his town, near death, with a warning for him. As readers we're unsure of what is real and what is delusion, but Champion's need to track down the people associated with the earlier case and his own repressed memories combine to create a hero to root for and a story you won't soon forget.

Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/02/2013
ISBN-13: 9780062122551
ISBN-10: 006212255X

Suspense Fiction. Twenty-five years ago, 13-year-old Reggie Dufrane's mother fell victim to a serial killer (known as Neptune) who amputated one hand from each of his victims, leaving it on the police department's steps and posing the bodies around town. But while Reggie's mom's hand was delivered, her body was never found, and Neptune disappeared. Now a successful architect, Reggie must confront her past after she learns that her mother has been found alive. Worse than the fact that her mother can't tell her anything about Neptune? The fact that he may be killing again. Though the suspense is nothing to sneeze at, it's the "full-blooded characters that make this thriller stand out from the serial-killer pack" (People).

Publisher: William Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/26/2012
ISBN-13: 9780062064837
ISBN-10: 0062064835

Thriller. This debut -- and likely series opener -- from the Emmy Award-winning creator of Law & Order combines action, suspense, and all the procedural details you might find on one of his well-known television shows. It focuses on the thwarted hijacking of a commercial jet over the Atlantic Ocean, which raises NYPD detective Jeremy Fisk's suspicions that the too-easily-foiled plot masks a much bigger, more devastating one planned for the dedication ceremony of the Freedom Tower, only 36 hours away. Praising its plot, characters, and dialog, Library Journal calls this an "edge-of-your-seat read."

Publisher: Soho Crime
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/17/2012
ISBN-13: 9781616951122
ISBN-10: 1616951125

Suspense Fiction. The day that a shooting victim dies in travel writer Poke Rafferty's arms (after uttering three mysterious words), Thai police (who claim the blood was from a nosebleed) vigorously question him -- and ultimately frame him for the unknown man's murder. Shocked by the cover-up and the ransacking of his apartment, Poke sends his wife and daughter to safety while he flees underground to discover that he has been enmeshed in the War on Terror -- and that the Pentagon may have revived a violent and covert Vietnam War-era program. Thailand is once again well depicted (this is the 5th in the series) and makes an atmospheric background for this intensely suspenseful story.

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Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/05/2012
ISBN-13: 9780062197252
ISBN-10: 0062197258

Psychological Suspense. Four years ago, Catherine Bailey was a vibrant 30-something with an active social life. Now, she's moved to a new city, changed her name and appearance, and is fully controlled by fear and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Attacked and nearly killed by her seemingly charismatic but manipulative and violent boyfriend, Lee, Catherine never feels safe -- especially when she learns that Lee is about to be let out of jail. Told in chapters that alternate between Catherine's past and present and make clear the wreckage of her life, the novel's suspense escalates as we move closer to the attack -- and to Lee's possible return in the present. A bestseller in England, this is a gripping debut from an author already compared to S.J. Watson and Lisa Gardner.

Publisher: Dutton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/05/2012
ISBN-13: 9780525952794
ISBN-10: 0525952799

Fiction. Stacey "Shakespeare" Williams (known as "Shakes") has a dead cat he needs to bury, so he's gone to the family farm in Eastern Colorado to take care of it. But when he arrives, he finds bigger problems -- his widowed father's dementia has progressed so far that he hasn't realized that his caretaker is dead on the bathroom floor, and a crooked bank manager (who's already swindled most of the farm's assets away) is about to foreclose. Shakes moves in with his dad, reconnects with some of the locals who never escaped the busted-up town, and, as the bills build up, contemplates robbing the bank. A one-of-a-kind mix of tragedy and comedy, this debut offers vivid writing and eccentric and realistic characters who drive the story.

Publisher: Mysterious Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/04/2012
ISBN-13: 9780802120267
ISBN-10: 0802120261

Crime Thriller. Thirteen years after Will, Jeffrey, and Nolan met at Princeton, they're still having annual reunion weekends to catch up on each other's busy, successful lives (Nolan's running for Congress, Jeffrey's a dot-com millionaire, Will and his wife are expecting a baby). That all changes on a dime when Jeffrey steps into a convenience store for antacids and comes out dragging the clerk and demanding that Will drive what has now become a getaway car. For the next three days, Will, Jeffrey, and Nolan hide out and try to figure their way out of an impossible scenario -- they're already guilty of kidnapping and robbery, and their situation, narrated by Will, soon becomes an "agonizing moral nightmare" (Kirkus Reviews).

Publisher: Blue Rider Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/29/2012
ISBN-13: 9780399158742
ISBN-10: 039915874X

Religious Thriller. At the Lausanne Cathedral in Switzerland, a Quasimodo-like custodian named Marc Rochat cares for the bells and calls out the hours. Across the street lives beautiful call girl Katherine. Poking around is Jay Harper, an alcoholic, amnesiac British P.I. investigating the death of an Olympic athlete. Then there are the bodies found around the cathedral, which may be the handiwork of a gang of international killers...or might they be fallen angels? They all come together in this 1st in the Angelus trilogy, a "lavishly atmospheric, witty, bloody, and swashbuckling tale of age-old struggles for dominion between angels and demons" (Booklist).

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