Category: suspense
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THE LAST PARTY by CLARE MACKINTOSH
At midnight, one of them is dead.By morning, all of them are suspects. It’s a party to end all parties, but not everyone is here to celebrate. So many layers to unpack with this one. It’s New Year’s Day and Ffion Morgan is looking at a dead body and a lot of suspects. On New…
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LIVID by PATRICIA CORNWELL
A Kay Scarpetta Novel #26 We are back with Kay, Lucy, and all the gang! And you know there is about to be drama! Of the murderous kind. Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is testifying in a sensational murder trial. Cameras in the courtroom, abrasive attorneys, and a judge who seems to not have…
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BLACK DOG by STUART WOODS (Stone Barrington #62)
Stone Barrington is back in New York City. Hoping for some downtime but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards for him. I’m excited about this one. Joan, who is one of my favorite characters, is front and center in this one. Introducing her uber-rich aunt to Stone. Her aunt has somewhat of a…
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ALIAS EMMA by AVA GLASS
In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city’s security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed? Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name. A daughter of a Russian mother and father. She…
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THE NEW NEIGHBOR by KAREN CLEVELAND
Beth Bradford and her husband Mike have just dropped their last child off at college. They have a buyer for the large home they raised their children in and are downsizing. The cul-de-sac they have lived in will be getting a new neighbor and Beth is feeling sad. But wait, things can always get worse!…
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THE BINDING ROOM by NADINE MATHESON
From the author of The Jigsaw Man comes the second installment of Inspector Anjelica Henley. The Jigsaw man was a great and gruesome read and I was looking for more of that. This one has the characters all still traumatized from Olivier so everyone is a bit off their game. But when a pastor in…
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WHAT MOVES THE DEAD by T. KINGFISHER
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.” This one had a bit of everything scary! The war, deadly fungi, ghostly animals, and the House of Usher, already half fallen. When Alex Easton, now retired from the soldier’s life,…
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UPGRADE by BLAKE CROUCH
“You are the next step in human evolution.” Logan Ramsay works for the Gene Police. They shut down unscrupulous gene-editing labs so what happened with Logan’s mother, never happens again. While Logan spent a little time in prison for what happened, his mother chose to drive off a cliff. During a raid gone bad, Logan…
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LOOK CLOSER by DAVID ELLIS
This is a fast-paced, very clever story of murder, revenge, money, and basically how to plan the perfect murder. Be patient. Simon is a law professor in Chicago. Trying for tenure while his wife, Vicky works as a domestic violence advocate. It’s not a head over heels love story, but it’s stable. Maybe. Or is…
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HER DARKEST SECRET by Jessica R. Patch
When a cold-case serial killer returns, FBI special agent Fiona Kelly has one last chance to stop him before he claims the prize he’s always wanted—her. FBI SA Fiona Kelly is living in Chicago now. After blowing up her marriage to her husband and fellow agent, Asa Kodiak. It’s been almost twenty years since she…
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