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Thrillers and Suspense March 2025
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| The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph FinderJoseph Finder delivers a exceptional blend of espionage, survival, and intrigue. Six years after falling for a Russian oligarch’s daughter, Paul Brightman is on the run, evading spies and the FBI in the New Hampshire wilderness. Explosive action and chilling suspense make this a standout modern thriller. |
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The Blue Hour
by Paula Hawkins
On an isolated Scottish island, a present-day discovery intimately connects three people and unveils a web of secrets and lies.
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Raised by Wolves
by James Patterson
After ransacking a local grocery store, feral siblings Kai and Holo are taken in by a small-town police chief and his wife, but their mysterious past attracts dark forces to Kokanee Creek, threatening the town and challenging their adaptation to human society.
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Karla's Choice
by Nick Harkaway
In 1963, George Smiley has stepped away from espionage, seeking a quiet life. Yet a Russian defector’s mysterious case pulls him back into the shadows. Written pseudonymously by John le Carré’s son, this novel, set between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, revives le Carré’s iconic spy world.
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Society of Lies
by Lauren Ling Brown
When her sister Naomi, about to graduate from Princeton, is found dead on campus, Maya, believing it was no accident, discovers Naomi joined the same underground society she did years ago and now every clue is leading her back to the past -- and to the secrets she's kept all these years.
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Bye, Baby
by Carola Lovering
On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered Cassie's world. Once fiercely bonded by their secrets, Cassie and Billie have drifted apart in adulthood, no longer the inseparable pair they used to be in their small Hudson Valley hometown. Cassie is married to a wealthy man, has recently become a mother, and is building a following as a lifestyle influencer. She is desperate to leave her past behind - including Billie, who is single and childless, and no longer fits into her world. But Billie knows the worst thing Cassie has ever done, and she will do anything to restore their friendship...
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Desolation Code
by Graham Brown
While investigating a mass stranding of marine life, Austin and Zavala uncover a mystery involving stolen findings, cryptic messages and a battle against a brilliant machine plotting a global catastrophe.
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The Last Hope
by Susan Elia MacNeal
Ordered by British Intelligence to assassinate the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program, Maggie Hope teams up with couturier and spy Coco Chanel, but as the war reaches a fever pitch and the stakes keep rising, the choices she makes will reverberate around the globe and touch everyone she loves.
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Havoc
by Christopher Bollen
A meddlesome elderly guest at a decadent luxury hotel who believes she has left her problematic past behind, until she decides to interfere in the lives of a young mother and her eight-year-old son, and finally meets her wicked match. The war between age and youth has never been so vicious.
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Devil's Defense
by Lori B. Duff
Jessica Fischer wants nothing more than to build her law practice in small-town Ashton, Georgia. She's well on her way when the local town hero, football coach Frank 'Tripp' Wishingham III, hires her to represent him in a paternity suit. Coach is everything Jessica despises -- arrogant, sexist, entitled -- but it's her job to make him look good in public. This is made doubly difficult when her burgeoning relationship with a local reporter gets in the way of telling the truth.
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April Storm
by Leila Meacham
Kathryn Walker's life seems perfect -- loving husband, successful children, and a fulfilling charity career. But in April, the month linked to past tragedies, her life unravels. Facing evidence that someone may be targeting her husband and her, Kathryn must confront her darkest fears.
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The Mistress and the Key
by Ben Mezrich
Card shark Hailey Gordon and ex-con Nick Patterson find themselves in Philadelphia, immersed in the history of Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. The Liberty Bell, Charles Willson Peale's Museum, and the Tomb of The Unknown Revolutionary Soldier are connected to Franklin in amazing ways. The more they discover, the more shocking the implications become.
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The Best Lies
by David Ellis
Diagnosed a pathological liar with unimaginable skeletons in his family's closet, crusading attorney Leo Balanoff, when his fingerprints show up on the murder weapon used to kill a ruthless drug dealer, is forced to go undercover for the FBI, finding himself backed into a corner, but has a few more cards left to play.
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Mirror Me
by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
Eddie arrives at Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital panicked that he may have murdered his brother's fiancee, Lucy. He can't imagine doing such a thing, but he hasn't been himself lately. Eddie's anxiety is nothing new to Par, the one Eddie calls his Other, who protects Eddie from truths he's too sensitive to face. Troubled by Par's increasing sway over his life, Eddie finds a specialist in dissociative identities. The psychiatrist is Eddie's best chance to determine what really happened to Lucy and to understand his memories of another man's life. But the psychiatrist's methods trigger memories that Par can't contain, bringing Eddie closer to an unimaginable truth about his identity.
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The Note
by Alafair Burke
May Hanover, always the rule-following“Little Sheriff,” reunites with her childhood friends Lauren and Kelsey for a carefree trip to the Hamptons, but when a drunken prank goes disastrously wrong, May becomes the focus of a police investigation and begins questioning whether her friends are hiding dangerous secrets.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Côte Saint-Luc Public Library 5851 Cavendish Blvd. Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec H4W 2X8 514-485-6900csllibrary.org/ |
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