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The Jacklighter, a Powerful True Crime Epic by Carla Conti

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The Bottom Line: A powerful and compulsive true crime epic that demands a screen adaptation. Carla Conti’s The Jacklighter begins in 1976 in Montrose, Pennsylvania, where young attorney Martin “Marty” Dillon leaves town for an afternoon of skeet shooting at his family’s remote hunting camp with Dr. Stephen Scher. The doctor eventually arrives alone at a neighbor’s house, bloodied and shaken, saying Dillon accidentally shot

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Getting It Right: A Psychological Thriller by Karen E. Osborne

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The Bottom Line: A powerful psychological thriller about two sisters unearthing long-buried family secrets. Getting It Right: A Psychological Thriller opens at a funeral, where thirty-year-old Kara Lawrence watches the burial of Jim Smyth, the foster father who sexually abused her as a child. She has come with Tuesday and Flyer, the foster siblings who survived the same household, hoping Smyth’s death will finally put

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The Best Lucy Foley Books in Order (Updated!)

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Looking for a list of Lucy Foley books in recommended reading order? You’ve come to the right place. Bestselling British author Lucy Foley is a favorite among fans of contemporary mystery and crime fiction and critics alike. She also writes historical fiction. Recently, Foley was officially commissioned by the Agatha Christie estate to write Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, a new mystery featuring Agatha

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Death in Durango, a Highly Recommended Murder Mystery by James E. Merriman

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The Bottom Line: A twisty, atmospheric murder mystery set against the cinematic beauty of Colorado’s high country. Highly recommended. Death in Durango opens on the night of a murder. Seventy-eight-year-old Mike Driscoll has traded New York business life for a working ranch outside Durango, but the move West has hardly made his life simpler. His marriage to the much younger Misty is deteriorating, his daughter

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Westwind, a Meticulously Plotted WWII Thriller by Karen K. Brees

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The Bottom Line: A meticulously plotted WWII thriller where the battle for Britain moves from the skies to Whitehall.  Set during World War II, opens as London is in disarray. German bombing raids have turned it into a city of blackouts, rubble and shortages. Against that instability, MI6 agent Katrin Nissen faces an enemy operating inside Britain’s own institutions. Katrin’s husband and fellow intelligence operative,

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Joburg Zen, a Devastating Psychological Crime Thriller by Sandro Martini

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The Bottom Line: A psychological crime thriller that simmers with menace and lands with devastating emotional force. South African journalist and writer Alex Lago is back in Johannesburg after three decades away, ostensibly to finish a book about legendary golfer Bobby Locke. Locke’s story has all the makings of a spectacular rise and fall: a small town boy who becomes an international champion, then suffers

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Blue Ridge, a High-Stakes Crime Thriller by James Foley

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The Bottom Line: The kind of second series book that fans expect: bigger stakes, harder questions and much more to lose. The second book in James Foley’s Lisa Owens series moves its protagonist from Miami homicide work into an FBI investigation stretching between Washington, D.C., and North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Foley begins with a massacre whose consequences will echo for half a century, opening

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Echoes of Fortune: Knights of the Golden Circle, a Must-Read Thriller by David R. Leng

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The Bottom Line: A must-read conspiracy thriller built on one jaw-dropping idea: the Confederacy’s heirs are waging a new battle for America. The third book in David R. Leng’s Echoes of Fortune series is a fast-moving thriller about a perpetual war that has survived by learning not to look like one. The story begins in 1864, during the final winter of the American Civil War.

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GLORIA, a Tender and Terrifying Psychological Thriller by Howard Seaborne

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The Bottom Line: Small town noir that is as tender as it is terrifying, GLORIA mesmerizes while asking whether the greatest mysteries live not in the world, but in our minds. GLORIA begins in small-town Wisconsin as Henry Halder, a boy on the cusp of adolescence, loses both legs in a tragic accident. What exactly happened is elusive. While in and out of consciousness across many surgeries, he’s told

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Gorgons, a Wildly Imaginative Archeology Thriller by Ox Devere

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The Bottom Line: A wildly imaginative archeology thriller that makes Greek myth feel new and dangerous. Ox Devere’s third Ridley Samaras thriller has the kind of premise that sells itself: what if the myth of Perseus and Medusa was not myth at all? On a sun-blasted dig site above the Aegean, Gorgons wastes no time turning archaeology into danger. The breakthrough comes when Dr. Nasrin

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