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Thrillers and SuspenseAugust 2022
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| My Summer Darlings by May CobbWhat it's about: Recently divorced Jen Hansen has just returned to her small East Texas hometown and reconnected with her childhood best friends Cynthia and Kittie. The happy reunion is cut short by the arrival of mysterious and handsome Will Harding, whose entanglements with each woman set off a chain reaction with shocking, violent results.
Read it for: Tense, compelling mind-games and recriminations narrated by each character in alternating point of view chapters.
For fans of: The Lying Club by Annie Ward.
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| More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez1985: Lore Rivera's double life comes crashing down around her after the husbands she has on either side of the Texas-Mexico border find out about each other and one man murders the other.
The present: True crime writer Cassie Brown grows obsessed with the case and desperate for an interview, she shows up unannounced at Lore's front door. Lore reluctantly agrees to be interviewed, but the story she tells will end up changing Cassie's personal and profession lives in ways she never could have anticipated.
Reviewers say: This debut novel by Katie Gutierrez is "a compelling, character-driven crime story that holds the reader’s interest to its very end" (Booklist). |
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| The Dark Flood by Deon MeyerSeries alert: The Dark Flood is the 7th entry in South African author Deon Meyer's crime series featuring police detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido.
This time: Griessel and Cupido have been demoted from the elite unit they used to belong to after looking too closely into the wrong corruption case. Assigned to investigate the disappearance of a gifted college student, things take a high-profile turn as connections emerge between their case and the activities of a notorious billionaire.
Read it for: The dialect-filled banter between the two detectives and the unexpected moments of dark humor they share. |
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