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The Lying Room by Nicci French

  Predictable but suspenseful… In the pseudonymous French’s (the husband-wife writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) latest standalone, a married woman finds her lover killed and pushes herself into a tangled web of lies. When Neve Jennifer Connolly…
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Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

  Entertaining and twisty… After Amanda Pierce went missing, no one in the neighborhood thought much about it. But after rumors of a teenager breaking into people’s homes and hacking into their computers start circulating, the lives of neighborhood residents…
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The Patient by Steena Holmes

  A lackluster work… Holmes explores a cat-and-mouse game between a psychotherapist and a killer in this psychological thriller. Fighting with her own past demons, Danielle Rycroft is trying to set her psychotherapist’s practice in the small town of Cheshire.…
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The Girl Before You by Nicola Rayner

  Uninspiring and dragging… George Bell’s reputation as a womanizer never failed to cause stirs, and despite her unease, Alice went ahead and married him. But after a strange encounter with one of George’s ex-girlfriends, a girl who supposedly drowned,…
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The Inferiority Complex: A Thriller Novel by Ryan Degg

  A macabre fun ride… TJ, a socially awkward, highly intelligent psychopath and serial killer, goes on a killing spree for reasons that make sense only to him. With a mole within the Manhattan NYPD department, it is up to…
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Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

  Ingeniously constructed… a page-turner… Cavanagh brings forth a courtroom drama wrapped in a tautly paced thriller about a serial killer who gets himself on the jury to make sure the wrong man goes down for his crime. Joshua Kane…
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The Killer You Know by A. M. Taylor

  A fast-paced formula thriller… It’s been ten years since Ethan Hall went to jail for a murder he never committed. The murder changed lives of many people in the small town of Twin Rivers, and Ethan’s family had to…
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Paranoid by Lisa Jackson

  A quick airplane read… Twenty years after Rachel Gaston accidentally killed her brother, Luke Hollander, during a teenage game with her friends after someone replaced her toy gun with a real one, someone from the past returns to haunt…
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I Know You’re There by Sarah Simpson

      A tedious read that disappoints… Leaving scary memories of her childhood behind, Natalie is looking forward to living a life of security in her cozy little flat in St. Ives. Morwenna, Nigel, and Daniel, Natalie’s neighbors become…
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Lying Next to Me by Gregg Olsen

  Intense, suspenseful, and an engrossing read… Adam and Sophie Warner are holidaying for the Memorial Day weekend to unwind and to fill the gaps seeping in their relationship. A stranger kidnaps Sophie on the first morning of their trip…
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Mother Knows Best by Kira Peikoff

  A thrilling ride… To avoid passing on a mitochondrial genetic mutation to her second child that killed her first-born in the past, Claire Abram undergoes an illegal, experimental genetic procedure during her in-vitro fertilization. Before she could give birth…
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The Stranger Inside by Laura Benedict

  Absorbing narrative with inconvincible ending… Kimber Hannon returns home after four days of vacation in the Lake of the Ozarks, to find that the key to her home doesn’t work. Apparently, the next-door neighbor has rented the place to…
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Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

Full of ingenious twists, Never Tell fails to deliver a shocking, realistic, and jaw-dropping finale, but it succeeds in serving up suspense at a frantic pace… When Sgt. Detective D. D. Warren breaks into the home of pregnant math teacher…