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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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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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