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Rico Stays, a Masterclass in Antihero Crime Fiction by Ed Duncan

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The Bottom Line: A riveting, unsentimental crime thriller about the kind of man decent people should avoid, right up until they need him. A masterclass in antihero crime fiction. Rico Stays opens with the kind of ordinary Chicago afternoon that is too calm to last. Rico, a seasoned enforcer with a long criminal history, is watching baseball when his girlfriend, Jean, asks him to pick […]

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No Home Without You, a Post-Apocalyptic Romance Thriller by Lena Gibson

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The Bottom Line: Love in a post-apocalyptic world rarely feels this exciting or dangerous. Lena Gibson delivers the goods in this dystopian romance.  In Lena Gibson’s No Home Without You, Earth has been remade by an asteroid strike, and human survival now depends on security and the difficult question of who gets protected when there are not enough resources to go around. Vita xTerra is

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Under Cover of Chaos, a High-Stakes International Crime Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Under Cover of Chaos turns a UN field mission into a vivid, high-stakes hunt for a serial killer in a setting readers won’t soon forget. As 32-year-old United Nations employee Stella Fairmont arrives in the Central African Republic for her first field mission, she encounters a corpse on the road from the airport. She soon learns that the victim is connected to

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A Tempest Dropping Fire, an Urban Police Thriller by Edward J. Leahy

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The Bottom Line: NYPD detectives are the target of a terrifying killer in this taut urban cop thriller. Kim Brady’s refusal to accept the easy answer makes for a thoroughly entertaining police procedural with some satisfying surprises. As Edward J. Leahy’s fifth Kim Brady series book opens, the NYPD homicide detective is finishing her first half-marathon in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Just as she begins to

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A Conspiracy of Data: Fail Safe – Not Safe, by S.A. Lonky

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The Bottom Line: A winning medical conspiracy thriller for the AI age, complete with murder, medical realism and the possibility that a fail-safe is anything but safe. Los Angeles critical care physician Dr. Alexander Korman is semi-famous, sardonic, self-protective and generally candid about the compromises in his life. Alex still practices medicine, but his reputation now rests as much on books, podcasts and media commentary

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Do Not Resuscitate, One of the Year’s Best Supernatural Thrillers

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The Bottom Line: One of the year’s best supernatural thrillers. Written with clinical authenticity and paranormal suspense, Do Not Resuscitate finds terror in the thin line between resuscitation and resurrection. Twenty-six-year-old medical intern Harry Lindmark is working the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, when a patient grabs his arm and demands that his chart be marked, “Do Not Resuscitate.” But

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Silver or Lead, a Darkly Comic Crime Thriller by James Cox

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The Bottom Line: A darkly comic blast of crime fiction where every old wound has a motive and every revelation feels fresh. Lucy Foley fans will adore Silver or Lead.  As Silver or Lead opens, struggling actor Ben Rooker is sitting with his best friend, Teddy Dabrowski, at their regular Pasadena bookstore café. As tension builds between Teddy and a woman seated nearby, the café

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The Boy on the Deck, a Deliciously Eerie Domestic Thriller by A.J. McCarthy

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The Bottom Line: Deliciously eerie, The Boy on the Dock is about the danger only one woman can see, and the doubt that may destroy her. Highly recommended.  As The Boy on the Dock opens, bereaved mother Julie Hampton is alone at a rented lake cottage on Vancouver Island, trying to keep herself sane through a morning routine that consists of coffee, work and kayaking.

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From Lompoc with Love, a New Spy Caper from Haris Orkin

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The Bottom Line: A hilarious “one last mission” spy caper featuring the one man MI6 never hired but somehow still needs. James Flynn is once again convinced he is exactly the man the free world needs. In Haris Orkin’s From Lompoc with Love, the sixth book in the James Flynn Escapade series, the delusional hero is living in Switzerland with Caitlyn Valentine, trying to enjoy

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Red Mound, an Archeology Thriller With a Huge Payoff

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The Bottom Line: Red Mound digs up dread by inches, then delivers a shocking finale that readers won’t soon forget. B.D. Smith’s Red Mound opens with an archaeological mystery already sealed in dread. Centuries before the main action, a temple mound in the lower Mississippi Valley, in what is now eastern Arkansas, is ritually sealed, its central chamber protected by ceremony and clean white sand.

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