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Eruption
Michael Crichton
Paper Book
The biggest thriller of the year: A history-making eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the US military is far more terrifying than any volcano. "The book is a classic summer beach read...Eruption will...
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Middle of the Night
Riley Sager
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend--and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines...
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One Perfect Couple
Ruth Ware
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Harkening to Agatha Christie's classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them--from Ruth Ware, the New York Times bestselling author who "is turning out to be as ingenious and...
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Camino Ghosts
John Grisham
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Escape to Camino Island, where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise. Don't miss John Grisham's upcoming Framed, his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man!
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The Last One at the Wedding
Jason Rekulak
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the runaway hit, Hidden Pictures, comes a stunning new work of domestic suspense "Part conspiracy thriller, part family drama, The Last One at the Wedding kept my heart racing and my mind...
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All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that "hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel" (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as...
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What Have You Done?
Shari Lapeña
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Dark · Addictive · Twisty · Chilling · Domestic Suspense "Lapena is a master of manipulation." --USA Today The new unputdownable novel from the "queen of the one-sit read," and New York Times...
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The Hitchcock Hotel
Stephanie Wrobel
Paper Book
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A clever, sinister fun-house ride." -People "Jaw-dropping." -Riley Sager "Hugely readable and tremendous fun." -Alex Michaelides A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a...
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Worst Case Scenario: A Novel
T. J. Newman
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"Worst Case Scenario is the best thriller I've read so far this year. It's a chilling idea with great characters and near-perfect execution." -James Patterson When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner...
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Darling Girls
Sally Hepworth
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SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth's novel Darling Girls has it all. For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster...
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Anna O
Matthew Blake
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#1 International Bestseller GMA Buzz Pick * A Today Show Pick * A People Magazine Pick "A riveting, unsettling crime novel that will keep you turning pages well past your bedtime. Is Anna O a sleeping beauty or a sleeping killer? Matthew Blake's tension-filled thriller is...
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This Is Why We Lied
Karin Slaughter
Paper Book
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! "Expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller . . . just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill." -- Parade The instant NYT bestseller featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, author of...
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A Talent for Murder
Peter Swanson
Paper Book
A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer--in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders. Martha Ratliff conceded...
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Listen for the Lie
Amy Tintera
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "A world-class whodunit." --Stephen King "An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills." --Alex Michaelides, #1...
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The Perfect Son
Freida McFadden
Paper Book
"Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night..." Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika...
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Tom Clancy Act of Defiance (A Jack Ryan Novel Book 24)
Brian Andrews
Paper Book
A rogue nuclear Russian submarine is steaming toward the East Coast of the United States. For President Jack Ryan, memories of past events may seem stunningly vivid, but the dangers are terrifyingly real in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. US...
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Matterhorn
Christopher Reich
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A sudden family death and an old nemesis bring retired agent Mac Dekker in from the cold in this alpine thriller from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich. Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds...
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I Need You to Read This
Jessa Maxwell
Paper Book
This "super creepy" (The Washington Post) and "perfectly plotted whodunnit" (Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author) follows an advice columnist searching for answers about her predecessor's murder--from the bestselling author of The Golden Spoon. Years...
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The Heiress
Rachel Hawkins
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A January Indie Next Pick and LibraryReads Pick "The reigning queen of the Gothic thriller." --Entertainment Weekly THERE'S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD. When Ruby McTavish...
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Red Sky Mourning: A Thriller (7) (Terminal List)
Jack Carr
Paper Book
With the walls closing in, Navy SEAL sniper James Reece is on a race to dismantle a conspiracy that has forced America to her knees in the latest high-octane page-turner that seems ripped from the headlines from the "hottest author on the thriller scene today" (The Real Book Spy), #1...
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Still See You Everywhere
Lisa Gardner
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a "frightening, full of twists, and completely satisfying" thriller in which Frankie Elkin must locate the long-lost sister of a serial killer (Karin Slaughter). Five-year-old Leilani Pierson has...
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Nightwatching: A Novel
Tracy Sierra
Paper Book
Unputdownable · Psychological Suspense · Horror · Tense · Gripping A FALLON BOOK CLUB PICK "Pulse-pounding locked-room suspense." --Elle "Nightwatching is like nothing I've read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings; it's...
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In Too Deep
Lee Child
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done...
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The Midnight Feast
Lucy Foley
Paper Book
"Irresistible...Blair Witch meets Fyre Festival." - People "Sharp, stylish and stunning...Foley's best yet." -- Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark "A deliciously juicy, smartly paced blend of folk horror, psychological...
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One Big Happy Family
Jamie Day
Paper Book
"An unputdownable and gripping thriller with nonstop twists and turns!" --Freida McFadden, New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid The next riveting summer suspense by the bestselling author of THE BLOCK PARTY, Jamie Day. Could this...
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The Fury
Alex Michaelides
Paper Book
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "Alex Michaelides hits the trifecta with his third novel, The Fury. The highly original story presents the reader with the king of all unreliable narrators, enough twists and turns to power two novels, and a host of...
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Murder Road
Simone St. James
Paper Book
A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn....
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A Calamity of Souls
David Baldacci
Paper Book
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times ...
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Flashpoint
Catherine Coulter
Paper Book
Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter's #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, where the past refuses to stay buried. A year has passed since Elizabeth Palmer was nearly killed with hundreds more in the attempted bombing of St. Paul...
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Eye of the Beholder
Emma Bamford
Paper Book
"Highly recommended for fans of Vertigo and readers who enjoy the intricately plotted novels of Ruth Ware, Sarah Pearse, and Riley Sager" (Booklist), this atmospheric and sinister novel follows a ghostwriter searching for answers when her lover reappears after his mysterious...
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You Know What You Did: A Novel
K. T. Nguyen
Paper Book
In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. . . . Annie "Anh Le" Shaw grew up poor, but seems to have it all now- a dream career, a stunning home, and a...
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Night Owl
Andrew Mayne
Paper Book
A shocking act of sabotage draws a retired spy into a deadly conspiracy in an explosive thriller by an Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. After three decades in counterintelligence, Brad Trasker is retired, disillusioned, and dealing with a tragic loss....
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House of Glass
Sarah Pekkanen
Paper Book
"Wow, I loved this one so much! I didn't want it to be over because I was enjoying it so much, but I couldn't stop turning pages! House of Glass is a gripping thriller that was packed with surprises and compelling characters." -- Freida McFadden The next...
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Red River Road: A Novel
Anna Downes
Paper Book
Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback. Katy Sweeney is looking for her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife...
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The Chamber
Will Dean
Paper Book
And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller that takes place inside a hyperbaric chamber from the author of the "brilliant, twisted, and oh so clever" (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author) novel The Last...
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Assassins Anonymous
Rob Hart
Paper Book
"The best kind of thriller. . . . Suspenseful, sentimental, and ultimately redemptive, Assassins Anonymous is a can't-miss novel." -- S. A. Cosby, author of All the Sinners Bleed In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world's most lethal assassin gives...
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Arkangel
James Rollins
Paper Book
Currently in development as a TV series from Amazon MGM Studios, a story of a thrilling hunt around the globe, pitting nation against nation, as ancient myths of a lost continent prove all too real--the latest novel in the bestselling Sigma Force series from James Rollins, #1 ...
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City in Ruins
Don Winslow
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller! "The final shattering installment in a gangland trilogy to equal The Godfather. If you like Scarface and Goodfellas, this is where it's at." -- Stephen King "City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Winslow has saved the...
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The Return of Ellie Black
Emiko Jean
Paper Book
A USA TODAY Bestseller In this "page-turning suspense novel, shrewd character study, and captivating mystery" (Stephen King) Detective Chelsey Calhoun's life is turned upside down when she gets the call that Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has...
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The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "The best Paula Hawkins yet - by a tense and haunting mile." - Lee Child "An atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller... truly exceptional." - Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods "A masterful...
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I Will Ruin You
Linwood Barclay
Paper Book
"Linwood Barclay's I Will Ruin You is a page-turner that also has important things to say. You'll get your money's worth out of this one." -Stephen King In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teacher's act of heroism inadvertently makes him the target...
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The Bad Weather Friend
Dean Koontz
Paper Book
Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz. Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested...
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Lies He Told Me
James Patterson
Paper Book
An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband's secret life--and it might cost them all their lives. "Wow! Lies He Told Me is a roller coaster from start to finish! I was hooked from the first page, and the final twist blew me...
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The Chaos Agent (Gray Man)
Mark Greaney
Paper Book
Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real danger for the Gray Man in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston. Someone is killing the...
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Only One Survives: A Novel
Hannah Mary McKinnon
Paper Book
"For readers eagerly awaiting the return of Yellowjackets, this novel from McKinnon blends the musical highs of Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six with the darkness of The Girls by Emma Cline in a twisty thriller that is hard to resist." --Library Journal ...
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A spy like me
Kim Sherwood
Paper Book
An elite team of MI6 agents must go undercover to unravel a smuggling network funding violent terror in the second thrilling adventure in the acclaimed Double O series by Kim Sherwood. James Bond is alive. Or at least, he was when he left a clue at the black site where the insidious...
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Identity Unknown
Patricia Cornwell
Paper Book
"Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring." - Chris Whitaker Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead. And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message... ...
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