Category: Thriller
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This next book is one that was silently disturbing. The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon is about a serial killer named Aidan Thomas. However, the story is not told from his perspective or from the perspective of the police. It is told by Rachel, the young woman who he has held hostage in the back…
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Still Life With Crows is another Agent Pendergast novel by Preston and Child. This one opens in Kansas where a small town named Medicine Creek has its first murder in several decades. Not only is it a murder but it is one that is rife with speculation due to the curious arrangement of the body…
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The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield is book one of the series The Apollo Murders. Kazimieras Zemeckis, known as Kaz, is a former military pilot turned flight controller who is tasked with overseeing the upcoming NASA launch of Apollo 18. Something that is complicated by the Soviet Union launching Almaz, a spy space station with…
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The Kind Worth Saving is the sequel to The Kind Worth Killing and the second book in the Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner series by Peter Swanson. It opens with Kimball working as a private investigator when he is approached by a former student, Joan, wishing to hire him, she claims it is because her husband is…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the first book in the Karla trilogy by John Le Carré and is the epitome of a spy novel. George Smiley is a forcibly retired spy who is spending his time debating about possible reconciliation with his estranged wife and about what to do with his abundance of free time.…
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If you want a book that will make you wonder about everything from start to finish then you should try The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager. Emma Davis is a young but up and coming artist with a tendency to paint beautiful forest scenes. What no one knows is the secret buried within…
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Blood Will Tell by Heather Chavez is a story that is about a missing girl, among other things, but at its core it is about the bond between sisters. Frankie Barrera is a single mom and school teacher who tends to also be slightly overprotective towards her younger sister, Izzy. One day she ends up…
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With Body Double by Tess Gerritsen we return to Boston and Rizzoli and Isles. Dr. Isles is returning from a conference in Paris when she is puzzled to find police swarming her house and Detective Rizzoli a little shell shocked at the sight of her. While the explanation of a body found in a car…
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Into The Fire is the first book in Rick Mofina’s Ray Wyatt trilogy. When hikers find a young traumatized boy wandering the remote Adirondacks in New York they retrace his steps in an attempt to find his family. What they actually find launches a national investigation led by FBI Special Agent Jill McDade. Ray Wyatt…
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Angelhunting by Ji Hong Sayo is the first book in the new Seamus Caron Mystery series. Seamus is a private detective in Toronto where he primarily works on finding wandering husbands and lost money though he occasionally consults with his best friend, Sandra Blair, who is a homicide detective with the Toronto Police department. When…