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Thrillers and Suspense May 2024 |
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The Guest
by B. A. Paris
When their friend Laure moves in after her husband reveals he's had a child with another woman, Iris and Gabriel, with Laure acting increasingly unhinged and broken relationships and hidden motives linked to a recent tragedy piling up around them, must reckon with whether their happy life has been an illusion.
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| Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve CavanaghMeeting in a Manhattan bar rather than the train of Patricia Highsmith's classic thriller, two strangers meet, drink, and commiserate over their problems and agree to exchange murders: Wendy will take out a well-connected sex offender for Amanda and Amanda will go after the man who Wendy says killed her daughter. What could possibly go wrong? |
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| The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer CroftIn this offbeat and atmospheric send-up of the world of literary translators, 8 writers gather at the remote Polish cabin to collaborate on their translations of the magnum opus by the Irena Rey of the title. But when the author vanishes, the group's effort to search for her in the forbidding Białowieża Forest descends into complete disarray. |
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| Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-JuradoSpanish journalist and author Juan Gómez-Jurado returns readers to the world of gifted (but deeply traumatized) investigator Antonia Scott in this gritty and action-packed sequel to Red Queen. Teaming up once again with her erstwhile partner Jon Gutiérrez, she'll have to evade an assassin (whose alias provides the novel's title) as she investigates the case of 9 women found dead in a shipping container. |
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The Ghost Orchid : An Alex Delaware Novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
Consulting on the baffling double murder of a playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire and his married lover, brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis are led to L.A.'s darkest side as they contend with one of the most shocking cases of their careers.
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| The Year of the Locust by Terry HayesAfter a tip-off from an informant reveals that the presumed-dead founder of a major terrorist group still lives and plans to launch a major attack, CIA agent Ridley "Kane" Walker is dispatched to Iran to investigate, only to find a dead informant, a deadly trap, and a threat on the horizon that could endanger the entire world. |
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| Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead by Jenny HollanderAlthough journalist Charlotte "Charlie" Colbert has built a good life for herself since, being the sole survivor of a violent attack at her grad school's campus still haunts her. When plans for a feature film to mark the event's 10-year anniversary are announced, Charlie, who can't remember everything that happened that night, decides she needs to stop the production -- by any means necessary. |
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| A Step Past Darkness by Vera KurianIn 1995, a group of teens working on a local history project accidentally discovered a dark connection between an abandoned mine and the megachurch that dominates their small town. Twenty years later, a member of the group turns up dead, pulling the survivors back together for a long, long overdue reckoning. |
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The Deepest Kill
by Lisa Black
When the pregnant daughter of software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, is murdered, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies, called in to investigate, are drawn into the Posts' increasingly dangerous family dynamic to determine who—and what—is at the heart of the crime.
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A Game of Lies
by Clare Mackintosh
Detective Ffion Morgan must untangle alibis and uncover what happened when a reality show in the Welsh mountains turns into a deadly game of truth or dare after one of the participants is murdered.
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