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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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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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Birds of Prey Don’t Sing, a Bold Assassination Thriller by Joe Cary

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The Bottom Line: A bold assassination thriller about a perfect kill that refuses to stay buried. Highly recommended. Birds of Prey Don’t Sing opens on the African savanna in 1988 with sixteen-year-old Michael Harrier lying prone on a ridge. As poachers rake an elephant with automatic fire, Michael calmly picks them off with a sniper’s rifle. Just as he muses about the seduction of self-righteousness, he swears the poachers’

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Asset Nightfall, a Ferociously Intelligent Sci-fi Thriller With a Rebel Heart

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The Bottom Line: Ferociously intelligent sci-fi suspense that crackles with a rebel heart. Douglas has never written with more urgency or momentum. Asset Nightfall opens in an interrogation room where legendary hacker Kerstin Ahlers sits before Federation intelligence officers. Now reduced to “Asset Nightfall,” fitted with a neural device and ordered to undertake a mission that is as morally corrosive as it is technically difficult, the Federation regards

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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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The Séance of Murder, a Victorian Murder Mystery With Blockbuster Potential

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The Bottom Line: This Victorian murder mystery has all the ingredients for a blockbuster: a sealed room, an unsolved murder and revelations that make you question everything you think you know. Set in Victorian England, opens with the arrival of retired bookkeeper Dunston Burnett at Crenshaw Hall, a dark, fortress-like estate outside Cambridge. Dunston has been summoned by the dying Sir Hugo Crenshaw, an elderly relative

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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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The Caveman Conspiracy, a Must-Read for Spy Thriller Fans

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The Bottom Line: The Caveman Conspiracy delivers everything spy-thriller readers want: covert agendas, divided loyalties, and a hero who knows every mission comes with a lie attached. The Caveman Conspiracy opens in western Kansas, where covert operatives lead a home search for documents tied to a failed secret project called Afterimage. From there, author Bret Hurst shifts the action to Miami, where former CIA field operative Eddie Mason’s

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Sayonara, My Sweet, a Sophisticated Crime Thriller by Lea O’Harra

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The Bottom Line:  A gritty, compact and emotionally sophisticated crime thriller that should win over plenty of Michael Pronko fans. Sayonara, My Sweet opens with a Nippon Daily evening-edition newspaper report announcing the mysterious death of twenty-three-year-old Kaori Hirakata in Murota after she collapses from poisoned chocolates. Set in a quiet town where violent crime is rare, author Lea O’ Harra’s framing is immediately effective.  The

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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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