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Thrillers and Suspense January 2025 |
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| Gabriel's Moon by William BoydHaunted by childhood trauma, travel writer Gabriel Dax interviews Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in 1960, only to find himself ensnared by MI6. Drawn into espionage by agent Faith Green, Gabriel undertakes covert missions tied to Lumumba's overthrow and his own buried family secrets while intrigue and danger reshape his life. |
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| You Can't Hurt Me by Emma CookIn this gripping debut, journalist Anna Tate ghostwrites a biography for neuroscientist Nate Reid, whose wife, Eva, died mysteriously. As Anna uncovers dark secrets through Eva’s diaries and a reopened inquest, her own past unexpectedly intertwines with Eva's. Twists, deceptions, and richly satisfying revelations keep readers guessing until the end. |
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| The Collaborators by Michael IdovCIA officer Ari Falk joins forces with billionaire’s daughter Maya Chou to investigate her father’s mysterious death, unraveling a complex web of Russian intelligence, missing billions, and political intrigue. Set across various countries in 2021, the fast-paced narrative blends espionage, history, action, and Millennial perspectives to create a captivating spy novel. |
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| Shell Games by Bonnie KistlerJulie’s mother, Kate, a powerful real estate mogul, marries her high school sweetheart, Charlie. But on their wedding night, Kate calls the police, claiming Charlie confessed to a decades-old crime. Julie grapples with doubts about her mother's sanity, Charlie’s motives, and her own troubled marriage in this psychological thriller. |
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| An Insignificant Case by Phillip MargolinCharlie Webb, a down-on-his-luck lawyer, is assigned to represent eccentric artist Guido Sabatini, who has stolen a painting and a thumb drive containing sensitive information. As the case escalates into a deadly conflict involving powerful figures and criminal investigations, Charlie is thrust into a dangerous, high-stakes legal battle. |
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To die for
by David Baldacci
Ace operative Travis Devine comes face-to-face with his mysterious nemesis—the girl on the train—as he endeavors to escort twelve-year-old Betsy to visit her accused racketeer uncle at the behest of the FBI, uncovering a vast conspiracy along the way.
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| You Better Watch Out by James S. Murray and Darren WearmouthIn this campy and gory thriller set just before Christmas, small-time crook Eddie Parker wakes up in an abandoned home, trapped with five strangers, including a fraudster, a rapist, and a drug dealer. As they try to escape a ghost town surrounded by an electric fence, someone begins to kill them off in gruesome ways. |
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| The Boundaries We Cross by Brad ParksCharles Bliss, a Connecticut boarding school teacher, is accused of a romantic relationship with student Hayley Goodloe. When Hayley vanishes, evidence implicates Charles as the main suspect. While he fights to prove his innocence, alternating chapters expose his growing desperation and Hayley’s tense, revealing journal entries. |
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Out in the cold
by Steve Urszenyi
Special Agent Alex Martel is thrown back into a deadly world of deception when a series of attacks threaten to incite World War III.
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Guide me home
by Attica Locke
Facing a potential indictment a Texas Ranger must investigate his mother's dubious tale of a missing Black college student while balancing his quest for truth, in the third novel of the series following Heaven, My Home. 50,000 first printing.
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The close-up
by Pip Drysdale
"When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, her whole future is wide open. But then Zach, the bartender and aspiring actor she's falling for, ghosts her. Her debut novel, a thriller, fails. And she has writer's block worse than ever before. Now, three years later, Zach is famous and Zoe is...not. She's facing her thirtieth birthday, a dead-end job at a flower shop, and a demanding agent, terrified she'll never get her life back on track. But when she goes to make a flower delivery and Zach is at the address, it's like no time has passed at all. They start casually dating in secret, her writer's block disappears, and Zoe begins to wonder: Zach inspired her first novel, so why can't he inspire her second? But then theinevitable happens and photos are leaked, landing Zoe in the press. Her first novel goes viral, and now everyone seems to know her name. Except the problem with everyone knowing your name is that everyone knows your name-including the mysterious stalker obsessed with Zach. A stalker who begins reenacting violent events from Zoe's book, step by step, against her..."
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Identity unknown
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Summoned to an eerie, deserted theme park to retrieve the body of a former lover, Dr. Kay Scarpetta faces a perplexing murder scene suggesting otherworldly origins, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Unnatural Death.
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Lies he told me
by James Patterson
When Marcie Bowers, an attorney and mother of two in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, discovers her husband David's secret life, it could mean a death sentence for them all.(suspense). Simultaneous.
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The waiting
by Michael Connelly
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter.
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Clever little thing
by Helena Echlin
After her daughter Stella begins mimicking the personality of her deceased babysitter, Blanka, pregnant Charlotte becomes convinced that Blanka has possessed her child, leading her on a chilling and obsessive quest to uncover the truth and save her daughter.
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Darkmotherland
by Samrat Upadhyay
In an earthquake-ravaged, dystopian Nepal, a revolutionary's daughter marries into a plutocratic dynasty and discovers her personal ambitions colliding with her new family's politics and social reins, in the new novel from the award-winning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu.
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Robert Ludlum's the Bourne vendetta
by Brian Freeman
When a hacked database known as the Files upends the intelligence community, with careers destroyed and assassinations spreading from Europe to the U.S., Treadstone sends Jason Bourne to get or destroy them before the Chinese or the Russians?—?and Bourne's ex-lover, treacherous spy Johanna, may be the only one who can help him.
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