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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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Baby ConSEALed, a Steamy Romantic Suspense Novel by Leah Miles

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The Bottom Line: A steamy military romance about a murder witness, the SEAL who never forgot her, and the family neither saw coming. Leah Miles’ Baby ConSEALed opens in a packed San Diego bar, where Marissa ‘Rissa’ Parker is celebrating her twenty-first birthday with friends. Before the night is done, she meets Bernard ‘Burn’ Cruz, a handsome Navy SEAL. Their undeniable chemistry results in a

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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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Deranged, a Propulsive Detective Origin Story by John Netti

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The Bottom Line: A dark, propulsive origin story that pits a newly minted detective against the kind of evil that doesn’t stay buried. Maddy Reynolds is a heroine built to last. Set primarily in late-1970s upstate New York, Deranged introduces newly promoted detective Maddy Reynolds. Following in her father’s footsteps, who was fatally stabbed by an uncaught serial killer, Maddy investigates the disappearance of an

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Call Game, a First-Rate Medical Thriller in a Snowbound Hospital

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The Bottom Line: One night in a snowbound hospital becomes a deadly maze of misdirection and murder. Don’t miss this first-rate medical thriller. On a stormy Thanksgiving eve at Northern Michigan General Hospital, Call Game drops its chief orthopedic resident into a shift that begins in blood and quickly becomes a test of nerve, skill, and institutional failure. Dr. Rylan Fraser arrives in the emergency

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The Last Rights, a Twisty Legal Thriller by Elliott Light

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The Bottom Line: A twisty, timely legal thriller that puts the justice system itself on trial.  In The Last Rights, small-town prosecutor Ashley Corbin is handed a case in which evidence will be only part of the battle. Sheila Fanning, a cleaner and law student, has accused respected teacher Daniel Lockhart of rape. The case suffers a number of early setbacks. The judge is not

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FORT NIGHT, a Remarkable New Thriller by Howard Seaborne

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The Bottom Line: DM14 is terrific. Remarkable and rare for a series to still be this good fourteen books in.  Dark money, daring aerial maneuvers and impending fatherhood collide in a thriller that flies fast and hits hard.  The clock is ticking in FORT NIGHT, the fourteenth book in Howard Seaborne’s DIVISIBLE MAN series. But the primary countdown that persists throughout the novel isn’t related to a mission,

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The Lightning People Play, a Big-Hearted YA Novel by Tim Cummings

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The Bottom Line: A big-hearted YA novel that transforms fear and family fracture into something thrilling, strange and beautiful.  Kirby Daniel Renton’s family has been destabilized by the departure of one of his fathers, who he calls Pop. Kirby is convinced that his younger brother Baxter’s seizures are the result of Pop’s disappearance, reading the illness through the raw logic of grief rather than medicine. Curiously, during his seizures, Baxter claims to see mysterious

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Redivivus, a Five-Star Abduction Thriller by J. Denison Reed

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The Bottom Line: A powerful abduction thriller where escalating danger and rare emotional depth create a dark page-turner that shouldn’t be missed.  Redivivus opens with an uneasy act of trust – Grace Pollard allows her ex-husband Raymond to take their daughter Hadley on an unsupervised trip to a Colorado lodge, only for their check-in to fail, Hadley’s phone location to stall just short of the destination, and

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