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Holler Whispers, an Emotionally-Charged Southern Legal Thriller

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The Bottom Line: An emotionally-charged Southern legal thriller where rumor runs wild and truth fights for air. As Holler Whispers opens, Carl Ledbetter, an autistic eighteen-year-old with a formal way of speaking and a mind calmed by Chicago Cubs statistics, is dreading another therapy session. Bright lights hurt, questions about feelings make little sense, and adults keep repeating his name as if that will make […]

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What Have You Done With My Son?: a Fully Believable Kidnapping Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Fully believable from its first shock to its final reckoning, Rosenberg has created the new standard for a modern kidnapping thriller. American couple Heather and John Ricci are in Hanoi with the baby they have fought years to bring home. After failed attempts at natural conception, multiple rounds of IVF, a miscarriage, and stalled adoption efforts in China and Nepal, the Chicago

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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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Arctic Fire, a Bruising Neo-Western Crime Thriller by Brian L. Reece

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The Bottom Line: A bruising neo-western crime thriller where greed, murder and frontier justice collide in rural Alaska. Perfect for fans of Taylor Sheridan and C.J. Box. Arctic Fire opens with Major Zoe Nichols standing between armed United States Marines and Afghan villagers after a weapons-cache discovery turns into a standoff. Ordered from afar to seize the weapons, Zoe instead removes her helmet and body

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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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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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Against All Odds, a Timely Legal Thriller for the ICE Era

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The Bottom Line: A timely, morally charged legal thriller for the ICE era, driven by one attorney’s refusal to look away. In Richard A. Danzig’s fourth Chance Cormac book, Against All Odds, the Brooklyn lawyer has stepped away from his practice amid a crisis of faith and embraced a timely new calling: traveling from courthouse to courthouse to represent immigrants held in detention.  The novel’s

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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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