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

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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:46:12 -0400
New and Recently Released!

Fear the Worst: A Novel - by Linwood Barclay
Publisher: Bantam Books
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Pub Date: 08/11/2009
ISBN-13: 9780553807165
ISBN-10: 0553807161
Suspense Fiction. One summer day, Tim Blake steps into every parent's worst 
nightmare: his 17-year-old daughter, Sydney, has disappeared. Worse, when Tim
visits the motel where she's been working all summer, he finds they've never 
even heard of her. And that's just the beginning--his increasingly desperate
search for Sydney throws him into a violent, illicit world he'd never imagined 
existed in his ordinary Connecticut suburb. If you like Harlan Coben's books,
you won't want to miss this page-turning 4th novel from bestselling Canadian 
author Linwood Barclay.
First Chapter

Bad Things Happen - by Harry Dolan
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books
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Pub Date: 07/23/2009
ISBN-13: 9780399155635
ISBN-10: 0399155635
Suspense Fiction. David Loogan hasn't been living in Ann Arbor long when he 
accepts an editing job with mystery magazine publisher Tom Kristoll--and 
promptly
sleeps with Tom's wife. Then Tom calls him and asks for his help burying a 
body. David agrees, but just a short while later, Tom is also dead, having 
fallen
(or been pushed) out of his office window. Soon detective Elizabeth Waishkey is 
on the case, but so is David--who doesn't appear to be exactly who he claims
to be--as the killings continue. Mystery lovers will appreciate this smart, 
twisty debut, especially since the top suspects are themselves mystery writers
and editors.

The Arms Maker of Berlin - by Dan Fesperman
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Pub Date: 08/04/2009
ISBN-13: 9780307268372
ISBN-10: 0307268373
Spy Fiction. German history professor Nat Turnbull is on the hunt for four 
documents stolen from World War II archives--but although it's the FBI that has
hired him, the agency's motives may not be entirely pure. And they're not the 
only ones on the trail, for someone seems to be killing anyone who knows
anything about the missing files. While the hunt for the archival material is 
set in the present, the events documented in those missing papers are told
through flashbacks set in the 1940s. Intricate and intelligent, author Dan 
Fesperman's latest is "well-crafted entertainment that also delivers complex
truths about warfare and survival" (Kirkus Reviews).
House secrets - Lawson, Michael
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
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Pub Date: 07/08/2009
ISBN-13: 9780802118851
ISBN-10: 0802118852
After Joe DeMarco is asked by the speaker of the House to probe the apparent 
accidental death of a reporter who was trailing presidential hopeful Senator
Paul Morelli, his investigation spirals out of control as dirty secrets and 
divided loyalties threaten and freelance operatives, a sinister chief of staff,
and characters from Joe's New York past come out of the woodwork.
If You Like: Dan Brown
Dan Brown's wildly popular The Da Vinci Code is followed up this month by the 
highly anticipated release of The Lost Symbol, a fast-paced mix of history
and symbology, codes and danger. It too stars the scholarly Robert Langdon, and 
unfolds over a period of only 12 hours. If you're looking for something
to tide you over until your chance with it, you might want to try one of the 
following books, all of which have something in common with The Da Vinci Code:
break-neck speed; pulse-pounding suspense; history, science, art, and religion; 
intrigue, secrets, and deception; codes, puzzles, and symbols; and maybe
even a conspiracy or two.

The Last Cato: A Novel - by Matilde Asensi
Publisher: Rayo
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Pub Date: 04/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780060828585
ISBN-10: 0060828587
Religious Thriller. After being asked to decipher the strange tattoos on the 
body of a dead Ethiopian--an "enemy of the Church"--spirited Vatican 
paleographer
Ottavia Salina discovers that Dante's Divine Comedy holds the key to a secret 
religious organization that protects the location of the cross used to crucify
Jesus. Ottavia (who happens to be a nun), an archaeologist, and the captain of 
the Pope's Swiss Guards take off in a world-wide race to prevent the theft
of more religious artifacts by following Dante's footsteps through Purgatory. 
If you're looking for the sorts of secret societies, religious conspiracies,
church history, and arcane rituals found in The Da Vinci Code, you've come to 
the right place.
First Chapter

The Templar Legacy - by Steve Berry
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Pub Date: 11/27/2007
ISBN-13: 9780345504418
ISBN-10: 0345504410
Suspense Fiction. In this 1st in a series starring Cotton Malone, the 
spy-turned-bookseller takes on the Knights Templar, which apparently aren't as 
extinct
as people think. Nor are they particularly welcoming, for they're adamant about 
protecting the secret of their existence and the location of their treasure--and
their potentially Church-destroying archive of religious history. There are 
plenty of codes and symbols to puzzle out, and Da Vinci Code fans will also
appreciate the conspiracies and Templar lore in this "complex, well-written, 
and extremely readable story" (Library Journal). For more ancient history
tied to present-day problems, try the 2nd in the series, The Alexandria Link.
First Chapter

The Eight: A Novel - by Katherine Neville
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Pub Date: 06/01/1997
ISBN-13: 9780345419088
ISBN-10: 0345419081
Thriller. The Montglane Service is a chess set of great beauty--and power. Once 
belonging to Emperor Charlemagne, it was bequeathed to the nuns of Montglane
for protection during the French Revolution, and was dispersed and hidden by 
them. But in the 1970s, computer expert Cat Velis learns that she is just
one of many pawns in a game whose winner receives control of the service--and 
possibly the world. Between the clues that Cat must decipher, the combination
of a storyline set in the past with one in the present, and the dangerous power 
plays, this is a good choice for Dan Brown fans. Published 20 years ago,
The Eight now has a sequel; The Fire follows Cat's daughter, Alexandra.
First Chapter

Map of Bones: A Sigma Force Novel - by James Rollins
Publisher: Morrow
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Pub Date: 05/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780060763879
ISBN-10: 0060763876
Thriller. While Commander Grayson Pierce of the elite Sigma Force may be a 
radically different sort of man than Robert Langdon, the combination of a secret
ancient fraternity within the Church, a powerful and treasured religious 
artifact, and a race to prevent disaster will be familiar to Da Vinci Code fans.
It all starts with a slaughter at a midnight Mass and the theft of the 
cathedral's relics, which happen to be the bones of the Three Wise Men. From 
there,
Gray teams up with an attractive Italian carabinieri and her uncle, an official 
at the Vatican, to retrieve the bones. This is the 2nd Sigma Force novel;
the 6th, The Doomsday Key, was published earlier this year.
First Chapter
Focus on: Award Winners

Darkly Dreaming Dexter: A Novel - by Jeffry P. Lindsay
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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Pub Date: 09/12/2006
ISBN-13: 9780307277886
ISBN-10: 0307277887
Thriller. Dexter Morgan is a charming, well-dressed, and well-respected 
blood-spatter analyst with the Miami-Dade Police Department. He's also a serial
killer with a manufactured conscience who has learned to kill only other serial 
killers. When a newcomer to Miami mimics his style, he's intrigued by what
might be a kindred spirit--but he's promised his sister, who's trying to make 
detective, help in solving the crimes. This series opener, which serves as
the basis for the Showtime television show, won the 2005 Dilys Award. The 4th 
Dexter book, Dexter by Design, was published earlier this month.
First Chapter

Half Broken Things - by Morag Joss
Publisher: Bantam Dell
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Pub Date: 07/25/2006
ISBN-13: 9780440242444
ISBN-10: 0440242444
Psychological Suspense. The 2003 winner of the British Crime Writers' 
Association Silver Dagger Award, this dark, haunting novel starts with 60-ish 
Jean,
a professional house-sitter with no meaningful ties to anyone. This lonely 
misfit turns her last assignment--a long stay in a beautiful country 
estate--into
a last attempt at building a home when she takes liberties with the wine cellar 
and invites two fellow emotionally damaged losers to live with her, claiming
them as her son and daughter-in-law. The lengths to which they are all willing 
to go to keep their new-found "family" together become increasingly desperate,
making for a complex tale that has been favorably compared to those by Ruth 
Rendell and Minette Walters.
First Chapter

The Patriots Club - by Christopher Reich
Publisher: Bantam Books
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Pub Date: 07/25/2006
ISBN-13: 9780440241430
ISBN-10: 044024143X
Thriller. Now a successful investment banker, 32-year-old Thomas Bolden has put 
his difficult childhood behind him--until circumstances force him to use
his hard-earned street smarts to stay alive when, having escaped from 
kidnappers, he's forced to run from a violent organization framing him for 
crimes
he didn't commit. The clandestine group, which appears to have roots in the 
founding of the U.S., is sworn to protect their own interests--and that includes
dispensing with anyone who gets in their way. In this conspiracy-laden world, 
it may be that only Thomas can thwart them in their quest to take over the
country. In 2006, The Patriots Club won the inaugural International Thriller 
Writers Award for Best Novel.
First Chapter

Fox Evil - by Minette Walters
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
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Pub Date: 11/07/2006
ISBN-13: 9780425214923
ISBN-10: 0425214923
Psychological Suspense. Suspense author Minette Walters has actually won 
several awards from the Crime Writers' Association; Fox Evil earned the second
of her two Gold Dagger Awards in 2003. It begins when wealthy Ailsa Lockyer-Fox 
freezes to death outside her home, clad only in her nightclothes. Bloodstains
are found not far away, and soon her husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox, is the 
target of a vicious campaign that accuses him not only of murder, but of
other terrible crimes as well. Meanwhile, a group of gypsies led by an 
unspeakably cruel man named Fox has moved in nearby. The increasing tension is 
"hair-raising,"
says Booklist.



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