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Sorrow’s Brother, a Masterfully Constructed Psychological Thriller by Mary Maddox

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The Bottom Line: A brilliant collision of psychological suspense and dark fantasy, Sorrow’s Brother is a masterfully constructed thriller that demands to be read. In Mary Maddox’s psychological thriller Sorrow’s Brother, 40-year-old former museum curator Kelly Durrell has returned to Morrison, Illinois, after a string of family tragedies. While attending the funeral of her old art teacher, she inherits Sorrow and the Necromancer, a disturbing

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Main Street Fringe, a First-Rate Conspiracy Thriller by Matthew Lavoie

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The Bottom Line: An electrifying debut that deftly combines the twists of a first-rate conspiracy thriller with the moral complexity of vigilante justice. opens with Virginia State Police detective Theo Barnes watching a sting operation snap shut around State Senator Royce Andrews, who has arrived at a seedy motel expecting to have sex with a fourteen-year-old girl. Andrews is arrested and the scandal erupts into

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Carnivores, a Relentless Survival Thriller by Jason Melby

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The Bottom Line: A relentless survival thriller with real bite. Melby shows us what happens when nature stops playing by the rules, and for once, a terrifying reptile nightmare feels like it could actually happen. Highly recommended. Carnivores opens as herpetology professor Christina Flannagan and teaching assistant Kyle Daily enter the Florida Everglades to recapture Henry, a tagged Burmese python used in her ongoing study

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RISE, a Deliciously Dangerous Sci-Fi Thriller by Ron Wolff

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The Bottom Line: RISE proves this series is only getting better: darker, smarter, and more dangerous at every turn. The second book in Ron Wolff’s Colony series, RISE, returns to Mars through the first-person narration of Adam Flynn, the first and only human born on the planet. Months after a massacre at Hellas Station, Adam and four other teenagers are barely keeping the damaged colony

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Highly Compatible, a Seductive Psychological Thriller by Olivia Alder

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The Bottom Line: A seductive, timely and captivating psychological thriller for anyone wondering how much autonomy we will trade for comfort. In Highly Compatible, thirty-year-old Nina Jacobs is already living inside the future she helps sell. She works in Product Marketing at Panopteia, a powerful Silicon Valley AI company whose systems can anticipate a coffee order, monitor wildfire conditions affecting her family’s county, and turn

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Murder on Cape Cod, an Edge-of-Your-Seat Legal Thriller by James E. Carroll

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The Bottom Line: Murder on Cape Cod brilliantly trades summer charm for off-season bloodshed, delivering an edge-of-your-seat legal thriller that captivates from the first reversal to the final reckoning. In the third installment in James E. Carroll’s Jamie Carson series, a Cape Cod community bracing for a winter storm is rocked by the discovery of a body half-buried in a salt pile. The victim is

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Devil’s Tango, a Relentless Action Thriller by D.R. Berlin

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The Bottom Line: John Wick fans will love Devil’s Tango, a relentless action thriller about the secrets powerful people will kill to protect. D.R. Berlin’s second series entry begins at the funeral of Ryan Manning, a financial specialist who was eliminated after uncovering evidence about the covert syndicate known as The Third Estate. The murder was orchestrated by the syndicate through another network known as

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Smiling Faceless Woman, a Character-Rich Supernatural Thriller by Thomas J. Gebhardt III

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The Bottom Line: A character-rich supernatural thriller that blends terror, romantic suspense and spirituality into a novel you won’t soon forget. Long live SPIRAL. Smiling Faceless Woman opens in the fictional American city of Emerald City, where an infamous “Demon House” with a disturbing local reputation sits in the neighborhood of Lower Bloom Hill. College student Alex Jacobsen arrives with a preacher and a paranormal

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The Secessionist’s Wife, a Timely Political Thriller by Wolf Bahren

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The Bottom Line: A timely, fast-moving political thriller in which a staged terror attack becomes the opening move in an attempted coup against America. As The Secessionist’s Wife opens, American investigative journalist Anna Jones is accepting a press award in Washington when reports arrive of a devastating terrorist attack on Fort Riley, Kansas. She and boyfriend Viktor Simonson, a fellow reporter at the New York

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