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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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Evelina Fontana, a Sexy and Thoroughly Addictive Spy Thriller by M. Rebecca Wildsmith

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The Bottom Line: A sexy, dark and thoroughly addictive thriller. Wildsmith is quickly carving out a genre all her own, and we are all in. In Evelina Fontana, M. Rebecca Wildsmith introduces a heroine whose dangerous intelligence precedes her formal career in espionage. Italian-born and raised in France, Evelina is an impatient nurse more fascinated by disturbed minds than ordinary medical care. Her interest in

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Burn Everything…Then Forget It, an Audacious Conspiracy Thriller by Boston Teran

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The Bottom Line: Boston Teran has reinvented the conspiracy thriller as a rapid-fire collage of memory, love and violence. Audacious, original and unforgettable. In the opening pages of Boston Teran’s new novel, a car bomb explodes outside a Bronx diner. Debris rains across the front of the diner, and hundreds of photographs scatter through the scene. One of the photographs shows an abandoned building covered

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Storm Damage, a Captivating Crime Thriller by Terry R. Bacon

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The Bottom Line: A captivating crime thriller led by an unlikely hero with a saxophone, a big heart, and a talent for finding trouble. Thirty-four-year-old blues musician Sonny Marshall, already struggling with chronic pain and oxycodone dependence, is playing with his band in San Francisco when he learns that girlfriend Detective Sergeant Katrina “Kat” Hastings has been shot while responding to a mass shooting.  Sonny

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Talisman, a Captivating Time Travel Thriller by Tom Catalano

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The Bottom Line: Time travel meets archaeological suspense in this captivating tale of greed, conscience and the terrifying cost of second chances. As Talisman opens, American archaeology student John Shaw is digging in the heat of Antigua when his tool sinks into a hidden cavity beneath the sand. Inside is a human skeleton clutching a strange gold device. Supervising professor Henri Rutherford, despite his experience,

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Merry-Go-Round Broke Down, a Breathtaking Financial Thriller

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The Bottom Line: A breathtaking financial thriller about globalization’s winners, losers and casualties, bound together by money and fate. Merry-Go-Round Broke Down may be the smartest novel you read all year. Merry-Go-Round Broke Down opens in the fall of 2008 at the Waldorf Astoria New York, where two armed men storm the hotel’s famed bar and take its occupants hostage. Among those trapped are an

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Swamp Justice, a Stellar Swamp-Country Legal Thriller by Neil Turner

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The Bottom Line: A stellar swamp-country legal thriller that turns one man’s murder into a reckoning with generations of injustice As Swamp Justice opens, Chicago-area attorney Tony Valenti is shocked by the news that the father of one of his investigators has been killed in what local authorities are calling a hit-and-run. But as Valenti gradually learns, the official story is almost too tidy to

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The Florentine Entanglement, a Stylish Cold War Thriller by Pamela Norsworthy

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The Bottom Line: Cold War thrillers are rarely this stylish and sophisticated. Norsworthy understands that the most dangerous secrets can be hidden inside a marriage. The Florentine Entanglement opens at a surprise 40th birthday party in Washington, DC, where Eleanor Bentley performs gratitude for a roomful of friends, neighbors and government-adjacent acquaintances. Her husband, Talbot, a seasoned CIA officer, arranged the evening as a public

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Holler Whispers, an Emotionally-Charged Southern Legal Thriller

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The Bottom Line: An emotionally-charged Southern legal thriller where rumor runs wild and truth fights for air. As Holler Whispers opens, Carl Ledbetter, an autistic eighteen-year-old with a formal way of speaking and a mind calmed by Chicago Cubs statistics, is dreading another therapy session. Bright lights hurt, questions about feelings make little sense, and adults keep repeating his name as if that will make

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Arctic Fire, a Bruising Neo-Western Crime Thriller by Brian L. Reece

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The Bottom Line: A bruising neo-western crime thriller where greed, murder and frontier justice collide in rural Alaska. Perfect for fans of Taylor Sheridan and C.J. Box. Arctic Fire opens with Major Zoe Nichols standing between armed United States Marines and Afghan villagers after a weapons-cache discovery turns into a standoff. Ordered from afar to seize the weapons, Zoe instead removes her helmet and body

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