[bksvol-discuss] Fw: Thrillers and Suspense July 2009

  • From: "Amber Wallenstein" <amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:42:29 -0400

New and Recently Released!

The Increment: A Novel - by David Ignatius
Publisher: W.W. Norton
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Pub Date: 05/18/2009
ISBN-13: 9780393065046
ISBN-10: 0393065049
Spy Fiction. When the CIA receives an encrypted message from a Tehran scientist 
suggesting that Iran's nuclear bomb-development program is moving forward,
veteran agent Harry Pappas is told to figure out the validity of the messages. 
With a presidential administration bent on moving towards war on Iran, Pappas
must find the scientist, get him out of Iran, and learn the truth before 
innocent lives are lost. This terrifying thriller, with a plot ripped straight
out of the headlines, has already been sold to Hollywood.

Black Water Rising - by Attica Locke
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061735868
ISBN-10: 0061735868
Legal Thriller. African-American attorney Jay Porter has problems--not only is 
money tight, but his past as an activist is coming back to haunt him. When
he rescues a white woman from drowning after shots are fired nearby, Jay and 
his wife take her to the police station, but Jay can't leave it alone, despite
the fact that he's learned--the hard way--that getting involved is a bad idea. 
When Houston's political scene and big business interests are compromised
and threats are directed at Jay, he must fight to save his own life. Though 
Black Water Rising has a slower pace than most thrillers, there's still a great
deal of suspense and intrigue, as well as strong sense of place.

The Secret Speech - by Tom Rob Smith
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Pub Date: 05/19/2009
ISBN-13: 9780446402408
ISBN-10: 0446402400
Historical Thriller. In the aftermath of Joseph Stalin's death, a "leaked" 
speech from newly installed leader Nikita Khrushchev unleashes retribution 
against
the secret police who carried out brutal acts under Stalin. Leo Demidov, a 
former state security officer who's now working as a homicide detective after
stopping a serial killer, is among those at risk. While the danger mounts 
around him and threatens his family as well as his former colleagues, it is the
atmosphere and depictions of life in the Soviet Union that will stick with you 
long after you close the book. The Secret Speech is the 2nd book to feature
Leo Demidov; the 1st was Child 44.

Dismantled : a novel - McMahon, Jennifer
Publisher: Harper
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Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061689338
ISBN-10: 0061689335
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Island of Lost Girls" presents a 
chilling work in which the secrets of the past come back to haunt a group of
friends in terrifying ways.  A decade after covering up a friend's death during 
an elaborate prank in the Vermont woods, Henry and Tess are tormented by
the painful secret, the suicide of another member of their group, and a chain 
of eerie events that threatens their life with their precocious young daughter.

The fate of Katherine Carr - Cook, Thomas H.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Pub Date: 06/23/2009
ISBN-13: 9780151014019
ISBN-10: 0151014019
Psychological fiction.  George Gates, who once toured the world as a travel 
writer, churns out fluff pieces for his local paper and spends his nights alone,
imagining what he'd do to the person who murdered his eight-year-old son seven 
years before and is still at large in Cook's eerily poignant novel. When
Arlo McBride, a retired missing persons detective, tells Gates about the 
unsolved disappearance of reclusive poet Katherine Carr 20 years earlier, Gates
is intrigued. Cook ("Master of the Delta") seamlessly intertwines the short 
story Carr left behindabout a woman also named Katherine Carrwith Gates's 
growing
obsession with Carr's fate. When his editor suggests that Gates write a profile 
of Alice Barrows, an orphan girl dying of progeria (premature aging), he
discovers that Alice is an avid detective fan, and together they form an 
unlikely partnership. Adept at merging past and present plot lines, Cook 
eloquently
examines the often cathartic act of storytelling

Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down - edited by Clive Cussler
Publisher: Mira
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Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780778327233
ISBN-10: 077832723X
Short Stories. With spine-tingling tales by such authors as Sean Chercover, 
R.L. Stine, Marcus Sakey, Lisa Jackson, and Ridley Pearson (among many others),
this 2nd anthology is sure to live up to its subtitle. Those looking for 
international intrigue will be hooked by Jeffrey Deaver's "The Weapon," while
Lisa Jackson's contribution, "Vintage Death," will have you on the edge of your 
seat, and David Hewson's "The Circle" will make you think twice about train
rides. From serial killers to a race to save a cop's life, the pace is 
relentless, the danger extreme--and you really won't want to put it down.
In the Woods

In the Forest of Harm - by Sallie Bissell
Publisher: Bantam Books
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Pub Date: 10/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780553582703
ISBN-10: 0553582704
Thriller. You're definitely not going to want to read this one right before a 
camping trip. Prosecutor Mary Crow has just won her 6th murder case, and to
celebrate she's joined two female friends on a camping trip through the North 
Carolina wilderness near her hometown. But she is unaware that a desperate
someone, seeking retaliation for Mary's recent court victory and wanting to 
keep a dark secret hidden, is stalking her and her friends. With not one but
two murderous madmen, this debut novel contains a lot of graphic violence--as 
well as beautiful mountain scenery and strong writing and characterizations.
First Chapter

The Woods - by Harlan Coben
Publisher: Signet
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Pub Date: 04/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780451221957
ISBN-10: 0451221958
Thriller. While working at a summer camp, Paul Copeland shirked his duties to 
meet a girl, and in his absence four campers disappeared into the woods. Two
bodies were discovered, their throats slashed, but the other two kids--a boy 
and Paul's sister--were never found. Fast forward 20 years and Paul, now a
county prosecutor, is working on a high-profile case while raising his daughter 
alone after losing his wife to cancer. Then he gets a strange call: a dead
man has been found in Manhattan with personal effects that link him to Paul. 
When Paul identifies him as the missing boy camper--long presumed dead--it
stirs up the past and places him in grave danger. "Another Coben gripper," says 
Booklist.

The Cat Dancers - by Peter T. Deutermann
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Pub Date: 10/31/2006
ISBN-13: 9780312933425
ISBN-10: 0312933428
Police Thriller. When thugs kill three people in a gas station hold-up and are 
caught soon after, everyone expects the trial to go quickly and smoothly--but
the case is thrown out of court due to a technicality, angering the North 
Carolina community that the victims called home. The criminals are free to go,
but it isn't long before one is killed. Lieutenant Cam Richter of the Manceford 
County Sheriff's Office suspects vigilantes, and he's soon off to the Great
Smoky Mountains in search of them--and in search of the cat dancers of the 
title, who like to surprise and photograph the last, elusive mountain lions
in their dens, risking death by disembowelment.

In the Woods - by Tana French
Publisher: Viking
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Pub Date: 05/17/2007
ISBN-13: 9780670038602
ISBN-10: 0670038601
Psychological Suspense. When Rob Ryan was a child, he was found one summer 
night clinging to a tree, his sneakers filled with blood. His two constant 
playmates
had disappeared, but Ryan remembered nothing. Now, 20 years later, a child has 
been killed in the same woods outside Dublin--and Ryan, who's hidden his
traumatic background from everyone except his partner and best friend, Cassie 
Maddox, is the detective assigned to the case. Damaged by his childhood 
experience,
Ryan nevertheless decides to press on with the investigation. If you like the 
mix of psychological suspense and police procedural in this Edgar Award-winning
book, don't miss The Likeness, which focuses on Cassie Maddox.

Scott Free: A Novel - by John Gilstrap
Publisher: Pocket Books
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Pub Date: 08/24/2007
ISBN-13: 9781416575054
ISBN-10: 1416575057
Thriller. En route to a Metallica concert, the Cessna that Scott O'Toole is 
flying in to get to Salt Lake City goes down in a storm, killing the pilot,
and 16-year-old Scott is left to the mercy of the Utah woods in the middle of 
winter--alone. With the local authorities more focused on preparing for an
upcoming presidential visit than on a search for a missing teenager, Scott's 
long-divorced parents must put aside their differences and work together to
find him. Meanwhile, Scott must battle freezing temperatures and find shelter, 
but when he does, it only puts him in more danger, for the property he finds
contains one heavily armed man--and two dead bodies.

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