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Main Street Fringe, a First-Rate Conspiracy Thriller by Matthew Lavoie

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The Bottom Line: An electrifying debut that deftly combines the twists of a first-rate conspiracy thriller with the moral complexity of vigilante justice. opens with Virginia State Police detective Theo Barnes watching a sting operation snap shut around State Senator Royce Andrews, who has arrived at a seedy motel expecting to have sex with a fourteen-year-old girl. Andrews is arrested and the scandal erupts into

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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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Carnivores, a Relentless Survival Thriller by Jason Melby

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The Bottom Line: A relentless survival thriller with real bite. Melby shows us what happens when nature stops playing by the rules, and for once, a terrifying reptile nightmare feels like it could actually happen. Highly recommended. Carnivores opens as herpetology professor Christina Flannagan and teaching assistant Kyle Daily enter the Florida Everglades to recapture Henry, a tagged Burmese python used in her ongoing study

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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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The Dark Lottery

The Dark Lottery, a Wickedly Funny Murder Mystery by Mike Stetz

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The Bottom Line: Wickedly funny and emotionally raw, The Dark Lottery is a murder mystery with a hero you’ll be quoting long after the last page. As The Dark Lottery opens, twentysomething San Diego house painter Connie Keen is staring at the ruined Ocean Beach pier. Twenty years earlier, his much older brother Kenny went over the railing after sneaking onto the closed pier to

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The 20 Best FBI Thriller Books (Updated)

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What are the best FBI Thrillers you haven’t read yet? This list of  20 staff-picked FBI Thrillers is filled with gems. FBI thrillers remain pervasive throughout the entertainment landscape. Almost since the FBI was founded during the Teddy Roosevelt presidency in 1908, novelists and filmmakers alike have been cooking up fictional episodes of the legendary G-men. Some of these classic tales are tributes, and many

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RISE, a Deliciously Dangerous Sci-Fi Thriller by Ron Wolff

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The Bottom Line: RISE proves this series is only getting better: darker, smarter, and more dangerous at every turn. The second book in Ron Wolff’s Colony series, RISE, returns to Mars through the first-person narration of Adam Flynn, the first and only human born on the planet. Months after a massacre at Hellas Station, Adam and four other teenagers are barely keeping the damaged colony

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It’s Not Going to Happen, a Mind-Bending and Profound Thriller by Henry Cox

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The Bottom Line: A muscular, mind-bending and profound thriller where hidden power bends the rules and unlikely heroes must decide how hard to push back. Five stars.  How much agency do ordinary people really have when powerful people shape not only the choices before them, but the consequences that follow?  It’s Not Going to Happen reads as both defiance and warning. It is what characters

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