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Thrillers (Fiction)

  • Author:
    Feeney, Alice
    Summary:

    There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, his and hers. Which means someone is always lying. When a woman is murdered in Blackdown, a quintessentially British village, newsreader Anna Andrews is reluctant to...

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    Burnet, Graeme Macrae
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    A triple murder in Scotland in 1869 leads to the arrest of Roderick Macrae. There's no question that Macrae is guilty, but his fate hinges on the question of his sanity. Recounted through the accused's memoir, trial transcripts, and...

  • Author:
    Wills, A J.
    Summary:

    He stole her childhood. Now she wants it back. Mara Sitwell was only eleven when she went missing. Nineteen years later, she's been found wandering through remote woodland, alone and confused. She says she's been kept in an...

  • Author:
    Crewe, Lesley
    Summary:

    Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in Montreal. This year they're all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York together (courtesy of Linda's philandering husband's Visa Platinum)....

  • Author:
    Block, Lawrence
    Summary:

    Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains that sends him flying off somewhere to...

  • Author:
    Lyons, CJ
    Summary:

    From the ancient mysteries of a Mayan temple to the sinister secrets of modern medicine, FBI agent Caitlyn Tierney uncovers crimes that have been buried far too long and far too deep. It's the kind of case that chills Caitlyn to the...

  • Author:
    King, Stephen
    Summary:

    #1 New York Times Bestseller * New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Book of the Year Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling novel to solve the gruesome truth...

  • Author:
    Sandford, John
    Summary:

    Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle, and a murder, in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "...

  • Author:
    Hammond, Jo
    Summary:

    Erik and his friends spend all their time on the water, exploring the shoreline and islands off British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. While they all have experience with boats and the outdoors, the unpredictable weather and fickle seas...

  • Author:
    Sager, Riley
    Summary:

    Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share. Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an...

  • Author:
    Rose, Jeneva
    Summary:

    A New York Times and USA Today bestseller from New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. After...

  • Author:
    Lewis, Susan
    Summary:

    Angie Watts, wife and mother of three, expected motherhood to be more straightforward. But her son Liam grows from a sweet-natured boy to a troubled teen suspected of a local murder. Now with her husband gone, Liam missing, and funds...

  • Author:
    Doctorow, Cory
    Summary:

    In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful novel Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of...

  • Author:
    Brooks, Brenda
    Summary:

    How far would you go for love? When 24-year-old Nicole Hewett's beloved childhood friend, Honey, returns to their small northern town after an unexplained six-year absence, Nicole realizes how her life had stalled without her. But the...

  • Author:
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Summary:

    First published in a 1849 edition of The Flag of Our Union, Hop-Frog is a revenge tale akin to The Cask of Amontillado. Told from the perspective of a crippled jester who was taken from his homeland and has been abused by the king he...

  • Author:
    Deighton, Len
    Summary:

    A spy novel on British agent Bernard Samson as he searches for his missing brother-in-law, an Englishman of Polish origin. The search takes him to Poland and involves him in a series of adventures. The time is 1987, the story taking...

  • Author:
    LaPorte, Brent
    Summary:

    You sit down at the weathered harvest table to write a letter to your son. You need to explain the horrific events of the night, the circumstances that stained your hands with so much blood — the horrors that led you to take the lives...

  • Author:
    Patterson, James
    Summary:

    Detective Alex Cross's family have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What...

  • Author:
    Jackson, Lisa
    Summary:

    Dr. Samantha Leeds hosts her own late-night radio talk show on WSLJ. One day she receives a menacing phone call at her home, while miles away, a prostitute is strangled to death. Seemingly unrelated, nobody connects the two events until...

  • Author:
    Woods, Stuart
    Summary:

    Stone Barrington is back in the exciting new adventure from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods. It's not often that Stone Barrington finds a woman as accustomed to the jet-set lifestyle as he, so he's pleasantly surprised...

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