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Publication Date:  January 17, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/Thriller/suspense Narrators:  Cassandra Campbell Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Length:   11 hours 26 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb. But when a young woman is found dead in the nicest part of town, the powerful neighbors close ranks to keep their families safe. In this searing novel, Eden Perry’s death kicks off an investigation into the three teenagers who were partying with her that night, each a suspect. Hannah, a sweet girl with an unstable history. Jack, the popular kid with a mean streak. Christopher, an outsider desperate to fit in. Their parents, each with motivations of their own, only complicate the pictur...

Publication Date:  January 3, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery/Thriller Publisher:  Kensington Length:  304 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis Snow falls softly outside Molly Bradley’s home on a frigid January night. Inside, half a dozen close friends are gathered to  celebrate the fortieth birthday of Molly’s psychologist husband, Jay. Candlelight gleams against dark wood, wine flows, and the  house rings with laughter. Everybody loves Jay, Molly most of all. Yet next morning, Molly discovers Jay dead on the floor of his  office, his throat brutally slashed. After decades working with the Boston PD, Detective Rita Myers has grown accustomed to the banality of evil—the murders that  make no sen...

Bystander: Seven Stories from the New Espionage Collection J.R. Pomerantz (The New Espionage Collection, #1) Publication date: November 14th 2022 Genres: Adult, Literary Fiction, Thriller Can you survive the new espionage? There are no sidelines. There are no boundaries. In the new world order, there’s no such thing as an innocent bystander. Seven shocking stories from the New Espionage Collection by award-winning author JR Pomerantz. The Terrifying Importance of Mental ealth Jesse’s suffering from synthetic broccoli’s surprise side effects. When he gets hospitalized with both its victim and perpetrator, who will pay the ultimate price? T-Rex The Deputy Administrator of the State Department has a bone to pick with the Secretary of State, and they both might be fossils. Golden Boy 144: Marigold Baby Jalia helps Harper give birth in the depths of their corporate greenhouse. Will the labor interrupt their labor long enough to get both of them fired? The Farm When their...

Publication Date:  October 6, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA Suspense Publisher:  Sourcebooks Fire  Length:  287  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Mira needs to get home for the holidays. Badly. But when an incoming blizzard results in a canceled connecting flight, it looks like she might get stuck at the airport indefinitely. And then Harper, Mira's glamorous seatmate from her initial flight, offers her a ride. Harper and her three friends can drop Mira off on their way home. But as they set off, Mira realizes fellow travelers are all total strangers. And every one of them is hiding something. Soon, roads go from slippery to terrifying. People's belongings are mysteri...

  Publication Date:  July 12, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/Thriller Narrators:  Hillary Huber/Josephine Hoang Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  11 hours 38 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Set in the upscale DC private school scene, where silence can easily be bought, Aggie Blum Thompson's  All the Dirty Secrets  asks how far you would go to protect your status and your family, and if some secrets should ever be revealed. One warm summer night twenty-five years ago, Liza Gold and her friends celebrated their high school graduation with a party on the beach. It should have been the best night of their lives, only one of them never came back out of the ocean. The tragedy haunted Liza Gold for years. Now, she's a rec...

Publication Date:  September 7, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Thriller Narrators:  Brittany Pressley Publisher:  Harlequin Audio Length:  11 hours 48 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis You should never trust a psychopath. But what if you had no choice? It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre…. She’s a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties, and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her.  Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths - students like herself who lack empathy and can’t comprehend ...

Publication Date:  November 9, 2021 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Supernatural Thriller Publisher:  City Owl Press Length:  314  pages Buy:    Kindle Synopsis Lawyer. Demon. Lily Knight is both—half-human, half-succubus, and utterly dangerous. Lily protects her secret and the safety of those around her by abstaining from the skin-to-skin contact that would grant her superhuman powers. An ambitious criminal prosecutor, she’s all work and no play, determined to prove herself in the courtroom to atone for the ex-lovers she’s left for dead in her past. But after a fellow succubus turns up murdered and the police arrest an innocent man, Lily discovers evidence of a supernatural killer stalking the foggy San Francisco...

Publication Date:  June 7, 2022 Format:  E-book Genre:   Thriller Publisher:  Minotaur Books Length:  326 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Audiobook  Synopsis A highly trained team of mercenaries launches a well-planned, coordinated attack on a well-guarded military contractor - but they didn't count on one thing, the right man being in the wrong place at the right time. Desmond Aloysius Limerick (“Dez” to all) is a retired mercenary, and enthusiastic amateur musician, currently in Southern California, enjoying the sun and sitting in on the occasional gig, when the hotel he's at falls under attack. A skilled team attempts to kidnap the Chief legal counsel of Triton Expeditors, a major military contractor – in fact, Petra Alexandris is the daughter of the CEO – but ...

Publication Date:  July 1, 2008 Format:  Audio Genre:   Suspense Thriller Narrators:  Dick Hill Publisher:  Brilliance Audio  Length:  17 hours 0 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard's office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse's own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead. Then comes Morse's bombshell: Dr. Shepard's own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer...

  Publication Date:  January 11, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/thriller Narrators:  Karissa Vacker Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  11 hours 01 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her...

Publication Date:  September 7, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Crime Thriller Narrators:  Aven Shore, Nick Modelli Publisher:  Dreamscape Media      Length:  8 hours 34 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Bryn Collins moved to the Eastern Tennessee mountains and never looked back when, fourteen years ago, her fiancé, Sawyer, jilted her for her despised sister, Del. Sawyer was later killed in a plane crash, but Bryn has never been able to forgive her sister for what she did, and instead chooses to spend her days in the idyllic beauty of the rugged landscape. Although a life-threatening accident ended her days navigating the perils of whitewater, she still finds refuge kayaking in the local lakes.   But Bryn's placid life hits t...

  Publication Date:  April 21, 2020 Format:  Audio Genre:   Crime Thriller Narrators:  David DeVries, Lisa Negron Publisher:  Macmillan Audio      Length:  12 hours 38 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Five years have passed since sixteen-year-old Angie Favorite’s mother disappeared without a trace. Since that day, Angie has managed to go through the motions of everyday life—until the summer morning when she’s abducted from a mall parking lot. Angie narrowly escapes, and her attacker is arrested, but he takes his life in jail before he can offer an explanation for his crime. When his mother contacts Angie, begging forgiveness on her son’s behalf, the girl agrees to meet with her in hopes of finding answers ...

Publication Date:  April 21, 2020 Format:  Audio Genre:   Travel Adventure Thriller Narrators:  Scott Brick  Publisher:  Brick by Brick Audio      Length:  6 hours 59 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis As a picturesque and perfect summer arrives in Michigan, a father and son prepare to sail around Lake Superior, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world. It is a trip three years in the making and filled with planned stops for wreck diving, camping, and hiking. The water is deep, the wind is just right, and the sunsets are sublime. If there was ever a place for Robin and Tristian Norris to "get away from it all," the remote Superior coastline is it. But when their anchor fouls, Robin not only uncovers a...

Publication Date:  December 8, 2020 Format: Kindle Genre:   Ghost Fiction  Publisher:  Montlake       Length:  303 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her―until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences. Feeling distant from...

  Publication Date:  August 6, 2020 Format:  Kindle  Genre:  Mystery/thriller Publisher:  Nichole Heydenburg Length:  183 pages Buy:  Paperback  |  Kindle  Synopsis Jackson Birkman has a perfect life: the lead role on the popular detective show  Dispatching David , millions of adoring fans, celebrity status, and a beautiful girlfriend. After five seasons,  Dispatching David  has been canceled. With the final episode quickly approaching, Jackson is worried about more than just his future acting career. His once-massive fortune is dwindling and his girlfriend Clara is pressuring him to propose. When Jackson unexpectedly dies on the set of the TV show during filming, everyone speculates whether i...

Publication Date:  March 25, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Police procedural/thriller Publisher:  Amazon Publishing UK Pages:  335 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A merciless killer who will stop at nothing. And a detective with nothing left to lose. When Detective Karen Hart hears a scream echoing out of beautiful Lincoln Cathedral one snowy evening, she is the first officer on the scene. In the chapel a man lies murdered, a bloody cross carved into his forehead. The twisted killing sends this close-knit community into shock. And a note to the police from the murderer, signed by ‘The Cleanser’, confirms their worst fears: this sadistic slaying is the first of many. The ritual killings will never stop until Hart uncovers th...

  Publication Date:  May 20, 2018 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery/Thriller/ghosts Publisher:  Berkley Publishing  Pages:  334 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio  |  Paperback Synopsis Vermont, 1950.  There's a place for the girls whom no one wants—the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the ones too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall, and local legend says the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their friendship blossoming—until one of them mysteriously disappears.... Vermont, 2014.  Twenty years ago, journalist Fiona Sheridan's elder sister’s body was found in the overgrown fields near the ruins of Idlewild Hall. And although her sister’s boyfriend was tried and convicted of the murder, Fiona can’t stop revisiting the events, unable to shake the feeling that something was never right about the case. When Fiona discovers that Idlewild Hall is being restored by an anonymo...