| Thrillers and Suspense February 2007 |
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"We loved with a love that was more than love."
~ Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| New and Recently Released! |
| Sacred Games - by Vikram Chandra |
| Publisher: HarperCollins |
| Pub Date: 01/01/2007 |
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| ISBN: 0061130354 |
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Crime Thriller. Set in contemporary Bombay, this wide-ranging epic (900+ pages) features Hindu crime lord Ganesh Gaitonde and Sikh police inspector Sartaj Singh. Obsessed with money and power, Ganesh also seeks fulfillment in a spiritual advisor; Sartaj, resigned to the brutality and dishonesty of the Bombay police force, remains honorable as he takes on cases of murder and blackmail. The sprawling tale chronicles Ganesh's rise to power, Sartaj's investigation into Ganesh's inexplicable death, and countless other stories that come together to create a richly evoked world where "the reader becomes a resident rather than a visitor" (Publishers Weekly). | |
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| Trouble - by Jesse Kellerman |
| Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Pub Date: 01/18/2007 |
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| ISBN: 0399154035 |
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Psychological Suspense. Third year medical student Jonah Stem is exhausted and struggling with the challenges of his fledgling career. He is headed out late one night when he happens across an assault in progress--and inadvertently kills the assailant. The woman he saves, Eve, is both grateful and beautiful, and the two start a relationship. But as the relationship progresses, Jonah notices a disturbing side to her, and he attempts to break up with her. She does not give up easily; in fact, she stalks him relentlessly. Publishers Weekly calls the nightmare that Jonah's life becomes "plausible and chilling." | |
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| The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud - by Julia Navarro; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley |
| Publisher: Bantam Books |
| Pub Date: 12/26/2006 |
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| ISBN: 0385339623 |
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Religious Thriller. The Turin Cathedral, home to the world-famous Holy Shroud, has been the site of yet another fire in a series of blazes that have spanned 50 years. This most recent fire attracts the attention of Marcus Valoni, head of Italy's Art Crimes Department. Juxtaposed with his investigation of the mysterious fires is a lively, complicated history of the shroud itself, which spans centuries, covers continents, and reaches into executive boardrooms, Vatican councils, and early Christian meeting places. A bestseller in Europe, The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud knocked The Da Vinci Code off Spanish bestseller lists. | |
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| The Blade Itself - by Marcus Sakey |
| Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur |
| Pub Date: 01/09/2007 |
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| ISBN: 0312360312 |
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Crime Thriller. Danny and Evan were once partners in crime, breaking into pawn shops and taking off with the spoils. Until, that is, Evan went to prison after a botched robbery led to a man's death. Danny, who escaped arrest, cleans up his act, but when Evan returns to Chicago on an early parole he is determined to bring Danny back into crime. Danny isn't interested, but the ties they forged as teens remain strong, and his struggles to free himself from Evan are what make this story stand out. Sakey's debut will appeal to readers of Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos. | |
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| The Things You Do for Love |
| Just One Look - by Harlan Coben |
| Publisher: Signet |
| Pub Date: 04/26/2005 |
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| ISBN: 0451213203 |
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Suspense Fiction. Grace Lawson's much-loved husband disappeared after she showed him a decades-old photograph of four people--one of whom, curiously, resembles him. He denied knowing anything about the people in the photo...and yet he took it with him when he vanished. This is just the beginning of Grace's descent into her own personal hell, as her frantic search for her husband forces her to reexamine both a tragedy in her past and the man with whom she thought she had built a pretty perfect life. "Just one look, and you will be hooked," says Library Journal. | |
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| The Husband - by Dean Koontz |
| Publisher: Bantam Books |
| Pub Date: 05/30/2006 |
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| ISBN: 0553804790 |
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Suspense Fiction. Mitch Rafferty is an ordinary man who loves his wife intensely and whole-heartedly. Which is why a simple phone call catapults him into his worst nightmare: Holly has been kidnapped, and without a ransom of two million dollars, Mitch will never see her again. As a gardener, he doesn't have the resources to dig up the cash, but that won't stop him--nothing will. Mitch can't go to the police, his family causes more problems than solutions, he's got only 72 hours to save Holly--and there will soon be a tangle of secrets and betrayal to unravel. Booklist calls this a "hair-raising thriller." | |
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| Cut and Run - by Ridley Pearson |
| Publisher: Hyperion |
| Pub Date: 04/06/2005 |
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| ISBN: 0786867264 |
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Thriller. Hope Stevens has been in hiding for six years, waiting to testify against the fraudulent Romero family. U.S. Marshal Roland Larson, who fell in love with her just before she was admitted to the witness protection program, has never forgotten her, and is determined to find her. Too bad there's a hired killer looking for her too, for the Romeros have stolen the program's list of participants. Larson must decide: does he find and protect the woman he loves, or does he hunt down the list to save the thousands of people on it? As always, author Pearson keeps up a heart-pounding pace. | |
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| Blindfold Game - by Dana Stabenow |
| Publisher: St. Martin's Press |
| Pub Date: 01/10/2006 |
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| ISBN: 031234323X |
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Thriller. A hijacked Russian freighter loaded with black-market plutonium is sailing--undetected--toward the western coast of North America. Meanwhile, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon has uncovered a terrorist plot aimed at a target on...the western coast of North America. Which places his wife, second in command of the Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth, right in the middle of a developing international crisis. When the CIA director refuses to listen to Hugh's discoveries, he must save his wife--and Alaska--himself. This is author popular mystery author Dana Stabenow's first thriller. | |
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| The Dark Side of Love |
| Kiss Me, Judas - by Will Christopher Baer |
| Publisher: MacAdam/Cage |
| Pub Date: 09/30/2004 |
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| ISBN: 193156180X |
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Noir Suspense. A former police officer on his first night out after a stay in a psychiatric hospital wakes up to find himself in a tub of ice, his kidney removed--and replaced with a bag of heroin. Determined to get his kidney back, Phineas Poe tracks down the prostitute who stole it, and who appears to be using him to smuggle drugs--or perhaps as a live carrier for his other kidney? Poe's problems are certainly not solved when he finds the prostitute, Jude, and not only joins her in her work, but also falls in love with her. Is she the sort to stick around? You'll have to read this surreal, not-for-the-weak-of-stomach noir novel to find out. | |
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| Death Match: A Novel - by Lincoln Child |
| Publisher: Doubleday |
| Pub Date: 05/01/2004 |
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| ISBN: 0385506708 |
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Psychological Thriller. Planning to spend Valentine's Day with someone a computer matched you with? You might want to avoid this tale of a believed-perfect couple found dead of an apparent double suicide. They--and five other "supercouples"--were matched by matchmaking powerhouse-for-the-elite Eden, Inc.; they are also not the only ones to have committed double suicide. In response, Eden, Inc. has hired ex-FBI forensic psychologist Chris Lash to figure out why such perfection should lead to such tragedy; amid hard science and psychiatric searching he must also face ghosts of his own. | |
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| The Narcissist's Daughter: A Novel - by Craig Holden |
| Publisher: Simon & Schuster |
| Pub Date: 02/01/2005 |
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| ISBN: 0743212975 |
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Suspense Fiction. Syd Redding is a 23-year-old premed student working nights in Dr. Kessler's lab. Also working nights is Kessler's seductive wife, Joyce. After a punishing affair with Joyce ends, Syd seduces the Kesslers' daughter, Jessi, in revenge, but finds himself falling for her. This, however, doesn't stop him from returning to his affair with Joyce. More and more embroiled in the Kessler family dysfunctions and sexual machinations, Syd gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse that eventually ends in murder. "Page-turning," says Booklist. | |
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| The Vendetta Defense - by Lisa Scottoline |
| Publisher: HarperTorch |
| Pub Date: 03/01/2002 |
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| ISBN: 0061031429 |
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Legal Thriller. Septuagenarian Pigeon Tony has been arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy, Angelo Coluzzi. Judy Carrier will be defending him in court, but when Tony admits he killed Angelo--because of a 60-year-old vendetta--she begins to doubt her ability to defend him. Plus, the Coluzzi family now wants revenge, and Judy has fallen for Tony's grandson. Anyone familiar with Lisa Scottoline's thrillers will recognize Judy's firm (Rosato and Associates) and will be pleased to see South Philadelphia and its denizens once again playing a major role. | |
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