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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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Call Game, a First-Rate Medical Thriller in a Snowbound Hospital

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The Bottom Line: One night in a snowbound hospital becomes a deadly maze of misdirection and murder. Don’t miss this first-rate medical thriller. On a stormy Thanksgiving eve at Northern Michigan General Hospital, Call Game drops its chief orthopedic resident into a shift that begins in blood and quickly becomes a test of nerve, skill, and institutional failure. Dr. Rylan Fraser arrives in the emergency

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The Last Rights, a Twisty Legal Thriller by Elliott Light

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The Bottom Line: A twisty, timely legal thriller that puts the justice system itself on trial.  In The Last Rights, small-town prosecutor Ashley Corbin is handed a case in which evidence will be only part of the battle. Sheila Fanning, a cleaner and law student, has accused respected teacher Daniel Lockhart of rape. The case suffers a number of early setbacks. The judge is not

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All Guilty Anyway, a Highly Recommended New Legal Thriller by Russell W. Johnson

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The Bottom Line: Sharp, unsettling and deeply human, All Guilty Anyway introduces a series-worthy defense attorney as it exposes the human cost of institutional injustice. All Guilty Anyway opens as North Carolina attorney Ivy Collins arrives at the Wake County courthouse to defend a client accused of child abuse. Early in her career, and the daughter of a powerful litigator, Ivy finds herself up against a criminal justice system that appears

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The Pope Must Die, a Vatican Conspiracy Thriller by Donald Anderson

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The Bottom Line: A Vatican thriller with real nerve, driven by a sinister pope and a conspiracy of terrifying reach. Fans of Daniel Silva will find much to admire.  In Donald Anderson’s The Pope Must Die, the newly elevated Sixtus VI speaks with the ease of a man who knows his papacy has been engineered. In the opening pages, Anderson makes plain that the new American

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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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