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The Boy on the Deck, a Deliciously Eerie Domestic Thriller by A.J. McCarthy

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The Bottom Line: Deliciously eerie, The Boy on the Dock is about the danger only one woman can see, and the doubt that may destroy her. Highly recommended.  As The Boy on the Dock opens, bereaved mother Julie Hampton is alone at a rented lake cottage on Vancouver Island, trying to keep herself sane through a morning routine that consists of coffee, work and kayaking.

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Kauai Spies and Bald-faced Lies, a Fast-Moving Spy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: A fast-moving spy thriller where island secrets, family loyalties and old lies collide with explosive force. As Kauai Spies and Bald-faced Lies opens in 1996, twenty-seven-year-old Max Volkov and his twenty-four-year-old wife, Anya, are asleep above their print shop in Kharuta, Russia, when a drunken mob forces its way inside. Fueled by antisemitic hatred and resentment, the men target the Jewish-owned shop,

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Swamp Justice, a Stellar Swamp-Country Legal Thriller by Neil Turner

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The Bottom Line: A stellar swamp-country legal thriller that turns one man’s murder into a reckoning with generations of injustice As Swamp Justice opens, Chicago-area attorney Tony Valenti is shocked by the news that the father of one of his investigators has been killed in what local authorities are calling a hit-and-run. But as Valenti gradually learns, the official story is almost too tidy to

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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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Hard Worked Days, a Darkly Funny Alien Contact Thriller by Lawrence P. O’Brien

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The Bottom Line: A bold, darkly funny alien contact thriller where catastrophe is only the beginning and escape may be impossible. Hard Worked Days begins as Fares Khalil, a Lebanese immigrant and Brooklyn building superintendent, tries to fix a tenant’s toilet. Meanwhile across the neighborhood, Ionna Sari is working at Monica’s Bakery, juggling impatient customers, burnt cookies and the kind of ordinary exhaustion that comes

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Red Sky, a Must-Read Medical Thriller by A.B. Acharya

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The Bottom Line: A must-read medical thriller about the thin line between innovation and exploitation. Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch and Michael Crichton. Red Sky opens with pharmacology researcher Narin Roy writing a confession in a St. Louis police interrogation room. Author A.B. Acharya withholds the precise nature of the crime, but, tantalizingly, casts him as an unreliable narrator by revealing that the confession

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Avalon Moon, a Compelling New Murder Mystery by Michael Amos Cody

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The Bottom Line: With wolves across the river and murder in the high meadow, Avalon Moon knows exactly how to raise the hair on your neck. Move it to the top of your book queue. Gabriel Tanner, editor of a weekly newspaper in the North Carolina mountain town of Runion, expects little excitement from an early March county meeting. Instead, local Spellman Anderson IV explains his controversial plan

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The Florentine Entanglement, a Stylish Cold War Thriller by Pamela Norsworthy

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The Bottom Line: Cold War thrillers are rarely this stylish and sophisticated. Norsworthy understands that the most dangerous secrets can be hidden inside a marriage. The Florentine Entanglement opens at a surprise 40th birthday party in Washington, DC, where Eleanor Bentley performs gratitude for a roomful of friends, neighbors and government-adjacent acquaintances. Her husband, Talbot, a seasoned CIA officer, arranged the evening as a public

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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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