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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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Final Transaction, a Fast-Moving Murder Mystery by Diane Dickinson

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The Bottom Line: A sultry, fast-moving murder mystery where sex, power and real estate lead to a jaw-dropping finale.  As Final Transaction opens, thirty-something Houston realtor Lara Maxwell co-hosts an open house with her broker, Todd Drake, whose charm and vanity fill every room he enters. But after leaving when the open house is over to retrieve directional signs, she returns, calls Todd’s name, and finds him in

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Murder Under Redwood Moon, a Spellbinding Paranormal Thriller by Sherri L. Dodd

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The Bottom Line: A spellbinding small-town paranormal thriller where witchcraft and murder make deadly company.  Set in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, Murder Under Redwood Moon is the story of a spiritually attuned young woman whose quiet routines begin to fracture. Twenty-three-year-old Arista Kelly spends her time practicing witchcraft when she’s not working in the Earth & Ocean crystal shop. Troubling visions of an ominous tattoo, mounting unrest

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The Fires of Rubicon, an Unforgettable Crime Novel by Robert Allen Stone

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The Bottom Line: For fans of police procedurals, The Fires of Rubicon is an unforgettable rust belt noir that lingers long after the last page. Set in 1971, The Fires of Rubicon opens in Cleveland Police Headquarters, where Lieutenant Alex Wesner and Detective Sergeant Benjamin Friedman question a troubled young man whose account of steelworker Anton Wojcik’s disappearance feels sprawling and unreliable. Anton’s job places him beside

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Prior Futures, a Hardboiled Sci-Fi Thriller by Dan Kopcow

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The Bottom Line: A hardboiled sci-fi thriller set in a world where evolution is for sale. As Prior Futures opens, Jeremiah Prior stands knee-deep in the turquoise waters of Antigua, staring at the wreckage of his stilted hut after another violent storm. The former New York detective is now an Authentician, a specialist in verifying rare artifacts. Prior has fled a world divided between the

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Operation: Running Brook, a Tightly-Engineered Identity Thriller by KA Biggerstaff

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The Bottom Line: A tightly-engineered identity thriller, often realistic in its detail and unexpectedly forceful in its payoff. A twenty-six-year-old woman wakes in an Austin hospital with a concussion, a fractured ankle and a troubling blank space where recent memory should be. She gives the name “Jaime” to the attending physician, even as the name “Sam” lingers in her mind with quiet insistence. She cannot

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The Consequence of Sin, a Superb New Mathieu James Thriller

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The Bottom Line: A superb finale that delivers real emotional weight while sustaining the urgency and velocity that series fans have come to expect. The final book in Matthew Fults’ award-winning trilogy featuring former U.S. Army Ranger turned investigative journalist Mathieu James sharply raises the stakes. In The Scotland Project, readers learned that James’ parents were killed in the 2005 London bombings, a trauma that set

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The Doctor’s Reckoning, a Propulsive New Medical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: The Doctor’s Reckoning pairs medical heroism with a reluctant hero whose investigative tenacity makes him a target. The Doctor’s Reckoning opens not with a crime, but with a high-stakes rescue. Cyrus Darian, a former physician who has abandoned both medicine and society, is hiking in Oregon when he encounters a critically injured stranger deep in the backcountry. Using little more than improvisation, calm judgment, and

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The Body Brokers is the Year’s Best Crime Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Crime Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Disgraced attorney Jason Feldman’s life collapses the moment his girlfriend dies from a fentanyl overdose. Unwilling to accept the official story, he descends into a world where human life is expendable and the truth is far more devastating than anyone wants revealed. When police dismiss Emily’s death as an accident,

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