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Highly Compatible, a Seductive Psychological Thriller by Olivia Alder

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The Bottom Line: A seductive, timely and captivating psychological thriller for anyone wondering how much autonomy we will trade for comfort. In Highly Compatible, thirty-year-old Nina Jacobs is already living inside the future she helps sell. She works in Product Marketing at Panopteia, a powerful Silicon Valley AI company whose systems can anticipate a coffee order, monitor wildfire conditions affecting her family’s county, and turn

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A Hall of Mirrors, a First-Rate Legal Thriller by CD Wilsher

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The Bottom Line: A first-rate, hugely entertaining legal thriller. Get ready to fall hard for Frank Connor.  Washed-up Texas lawyer Frank Connor is presented with the kind of second chance that seems too good to be true. Broke, professionally damaged and pursued by the IRS, Frank lands a lucrative position with prominent Houston plaintiff’s attorney Dickie Glatz. The job also comes with the firm’s biggest

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Murder on Cape Cod, an Edge-of-Your-Seat Legal Thriller by James E. Carroll

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The Bottom Line: Murder on Cape Cod brilliantly trades summer charm for off-season bloodshed, delivering an edge-of-your-seat legal thriller that captivates from the first reversal to the final reckoning. In the third installment in James E. Carroll’s Jamie Carson series, a Cape Cod community bracing for a winter storm is rocked by the discovery of a body half-buried in a salt pile. The victim is

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Westwind, a Meticulously Plotted WWII Thriller by Karen K. Brees

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The Bottom Line: A meticulously plotted WWII thriller where the battle for Britain moves from the skies to Whitehall.  Set during World War II, opens as London is in disarray. German bombing raids have turned it into a city of blackouts, rubble and shortages. Against that instability, MI6 agent Katrin Nissen faces an enemy operating inside Britain’s own institutions. Katrin’s husband and fellow intelligence operative,

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Joburg Zen, a Devastating Psychological Crime Thriller by Sandro Martini

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The Bottom Line: A psychological crime thriller that simmers with menace and lands with devastating emotional force. South African journalist and writer Alex Lago is back in Johannesburg after three decades away, ostensibly to finish a book about legendary golfer Bobby Locke. Locke’s story has all the makings of a spectacular rise and fall: a small town boy who becomes an international champion, then suffers

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Project Copenhagen, a Cinematic Conspiracy Thriller by Milton Rothbard

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The Bottom Line: Fast, cinematic and potent, Project Copenhagen goes down like a shot of aquavit on a frigid Scandinavian night. In Project Copenhagen, Italian chemical engineer Giordano Paoletti arrives in Denmark to work for København Biotek, a Copenhagen biotechnology company ostensibly pursuing an agricultural breakthrough. His assignment is to refine a compound that could improve farming, but the mathematics quickly contradicts the premise. Its

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Devil’s Tango, a Relentless Action Thriller by D.R. Berlin

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The Bottom Line: John Wick fans will love Devil’s Tango, a relentless action thriller about the secrets powerful people will kill to protect. D.R. Berlin’s second series entry begins at the funeral of Ryan Manning, a financial specialist who was eliminated after uncovering evidence about the covert syndicate known as The Third Estate. The murder was orchestrated by the syndicate through another network known as

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Smiling Faceless Woman, a Character-Rich Supernatural Thriller by Thomas J. Gebhardt III

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The Bottom Line: A character-rich supernatural thriller that blends terror, romantic suspense and spirituality into a novel you won’t soon forget. Long live SPIRAL. Smiling Faceless Woman opens in the fictional American city of Emerald City, where an infamous “Demon House” with a disturbing local reputation sits in the neighborhood of Lower Bloom Hill. College student Alex Jacobsen arrives with a preacher and a paranormal

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Normal for the Spider, a Must-Read Thriller by Hank Schwaeble

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The Bottom Line: A must-read blend of horror, crime and comedy that reinvents the predator-versus-predator thriller. Warning: this review may contain spoilers! Normal for the Spider opens in an unnamed American city as Sienna Shaw, a practiced thief and experienced killer who committed her first murder shortly after turning fourteen, realizes she is being followed. Seeking to lose her pursuers, Sienna slips into a bookstore

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