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Thrillers and Suspense July 2024 |
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| The Red Grove by Tessa FontaineSixteen-year-old Luce has spent half her life in the remote commune known as Red Grove, which was founded as a women's refuge from violence and oppression. But when an unexpected death involving a stranger upsets the status quo, Luce finds herself getting swept into internal power dynamics as bitter as anything in the outside world. |
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| The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova GlassIn this intricately plotted psychological suspense novel from the author of The Vanishing Hour, the crumbling lives of two struggling women become unwittingly entangled by a suspicious death (deemed a suicide by the police) and the enforced proximity of living in the same claustrophobic apartment building. |
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| I Want You More by Swan HuntleyOn her way to the Hamptons, professional ghostwriter Zara Pines doesn't expect much out of her new gig, working with celebrity chef Jane Bailey on a memoir. But when she finds herself enthralled by Jane's boundless charisma and the luxurious lifestyle trappings Jane shares so freely, Zara will have to tread carefully or risk putting both her personal and professional lives at stake. |
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| Phantom Orbit by David IgnatiusAmidst the political turmoil of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the personal turmoil of his son's tragic death, brilliant scientist Ivan Volkov decides it's worth the risk to reach out to an old CIA contact when he grows wary of his home country's plans for dominating the world in space -- plans that could threaten the future of all life on earth. |
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| The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko JeanWashington State based detective Chelsey Calhoun is assigned to the case of the titular Ellie Black, a young woman found alive after being kidnapped 2 years earlier. Deeply traumatized Ellie refuses to say anything about her captor, which seriously complicates an investigation already made difficult by the hostile work environment where Chelsey works. |
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| The Band by Christine Ma-KellamsThe unnamed narrator of this darkly humorous yet gripping story is a Chinese American psychologist who agrees to take in a troubled K-pop star Sang Dun after a chance meeting in an L.A. H-Mart. Sang Dun gains the chance to lay low after a publicity crisis and the narrator gets to break the monotony of her home life, but how long can this unlikely duo cohabitate before their strange dynamic gets even stranger? |
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| Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva RoseThree estranged siblings have gathered in their small Wisconsin home town to settle the affairs of their recently deceased mother. While sorting through their mother's home, they stumble upon an old video tape that implicates her (and the father who abandoned them years earlier) in a shocking, unresolved crime. |
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| Very Bad Company by Emma RosenblumIn this fast-paced and suspenseful send-up of tech entrepreneur culture, bored TV producer Caitlin Levy accepts an event coordinator job at a startup for a change of pace. But when an executive disappears at the Miami team-building retreat she's running, Caitlin will need to do everything in her power not to lose herself in the company's tangled web of secrets and lies. |
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| A Spy Like Me by Kim SherwoodA Spy Like Me is the action-packed follow-up to Double or Nothing, in which the one and only James Bond went missing. Johanna Harwood (aka Agent 003) has recently been placed on extended leave to recover from a sudden personal loss, but grieving or not she decides to go on an off-the-books mission to locate Bond and quell a looming terrorist attack. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Atlantic County Library System | 40 Farragut Avenue, Mays Landing, NJ 08330
Phone: (609) 625-2776 | www.atlanticlibrary.org
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Atlantic County Board of Commissioners, Maureen Kern, Chairwoman |
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