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The Trapped Daughter (A Dark and Twisted Psychological Thriller) by Jay Kerk

A page-turner… Almost nothing is as it initially seems in Kerk’s latest psychological thriller, a twisting tale of love and madness. Belle is a prisoner in her father’s house, forcefully drugged and kept on high doses of psychiatric medication, and…
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Ashes of the Living by John Cox

A roller-coaster ride… The twin specters of revenge and redemption drive this stunning debut by Cox which features Chicago PD Detective Tyler Morgan and his newly-appointed partner Annabelle Herrera. While Detective Tyler Morgan is on duty, his wife and young…
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Demented by Joe Clark

Intense, dark, and an absolute page-turner… As much social commentary as crime drama, Clark’s solid latest finds a rape victim trying to deal with her past trauma. Cindy Foster was gang raped fifteen years ago after her then-boyfriend, the handsome…
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Cry from an Unknown Grave by Joseph LeValley

A nuanced, gritty mystery… LeValley’s enthralling second Tony Harrington mystery featuring the Pulitzer Prize journalist takes Tony throughout the Midwest, from Iowa to Chicago, to Kansas City as he gets entangled in a human trafficking investigation. Still trying to come…
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Iceapelago: A Climate Change Thriller by Peter Brennan

A superb environmental thriller… A terrifying global apocalyptic phenomenon drives Brennan’s chilling first installment in Iceapelago series. Ros and Simon Rodriquez, the twin brothers and Spanish research students, are the first ones to spot the initial signs of volcanic activity…
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Airliner Down by John Etzil

Not the one to be missed… An electrifying read. Etzil delivers his taut aviation thriller with a heaping serving of thrills, action, and intrigue as his protagonist struggles to take control of a doomed flight headed for the ocean. Bound…
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Dick Hartmann Series by Richard V Rupp

  A sophisticated and strikingly fresh crime thriller series… The excellent first two installments in Rupp’s crime series featuring the seasoned FBI agent Dick Hartmann, who heads up San Francisco’s Violent Crime Squad, finds him dealing with cunning killers who…
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Sinai Unhinged by Joanna Evans

A clever, intelligent nail-bitter that crackles with tension… A particle physics experiment goes awry, driving the researchers insane and plunging a young therapist into the frightening search for the truth in Evans’s seamlessly plotted debut thriller. After her physicist father’s…
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The Ottoman Excursion by Tim Pelkey

A nail-biter… A highly intricate and strikingly original plot elevates award-winning Pelkey’s suspenseful latest Middle East conspiracy thriller. When Doctor Callahan, an American surgeon, travelled to Izmir, a Turkish town, to be a part of the World Health Organization’s Disaster…
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Quando Dormo (When I Sleep) by Edward Izzi

A fast-paced, compelling crime thriller… Set in Chicago, Izzi’s entertaining latest crime thriller chronicles the tale of a misogynist maternity physician whose pro-life stance on abortions and the horrific sleep issues made him a top suspect in a series of…
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Destinies by Nick Christophers

An intriguing mob drama… Christophers’s latest mob drama tells the story of a young woman who finds herself in the middle of the war between the seedy underworlds of New York mafia after a mob boss falls for her, while…
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Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink

A deliciously readable crime drama… With a grim picture of racism embodied in the theme, Brink’s latest introduces a racist and miserly alcoholic yet endearing hero, a criminal defense attorney who finds himself in the middle of violent conspiracies involving…
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Some Laneys Died by Brooke Skipstone

Highly suspenseful and gripping… Skipstone returns with this first installment in the Skipping Sideways thrillers series which combines a dash of science fiction and quantum physics, a troubled yet fierce heroine, heart-pounding tension, and a mystery shocking enough to leave…
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False Front (Bishop Security #1) by Debbie Baldwin

  An intricately woven, arresting romantic thriller… Endless plot twists go hand in hand with psychological depth in this sizzling romantic thriller from Baldwin. Eight-year-old Emily Webster had lost her sense of “normal” after becoming a pawn in her billionaire…
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Serum: A disease-free world comes at a deadly cost by Dennis Ogden

An engrossing tale… Ogden creates an intriguing ocean world in his engrossing latest SF novel. Eighteen years after her abduction, broken and pregnant Noi de Jesus joins the marine biologist Professor Marcus Glasson, her father’s close friend, to Yeppoon, Queensland…
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MONTAGNARD (The JD Cordell Action Series Book 2) by D.C. Gilbert

A rollicking, moving action thriller… In this swiftly paced, thrilling second installment in Gilbert’s The JD Cordell Action series, the situation, the enemies are new, but the heroes aren’t: JD Cordell and his four-legged companion Ajax return to take readers…
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Heirs Apparent by Thomas J Thorson

  Clever, suspenseful, and full of intrigue… A tense cat and mouse game. Set in Chicago, Thorson’s ingeniously plotted latest featuring Malcom Winters finds the latter on the trail of a notorious killer after a cryptic message written in blood…
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The Detective Next Door by W C Gordon

  Darkly fascinating and original… An accidental murder, a dismembered corpse, and a web of lies haunts this gripping debut from Gordon. The protagonist is a regular cop who likes to do his duty with as much diligence as possible…
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The Happy Couple by Samantha Hayes

A quick read… In Hayes’s latest thriller, a woman comes across a dark, twisted truth while trying to look into her husband’s disappearance. Finding it hard to move on after her husband Will’s disappearance a year ago, Jo is contemplating…
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Her Eyes Under Water by Romona Simon

High on anticipation, compelling, and vastly entertaining… Simon delves deep into the mind of a psychopath as she delivers her clever, original debut thriller that takes the reader on a whirlwind journey of a young woman’s infatuation with a mysterious…