Psychological Suspense
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Auster, Paul Invisible Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life. 2009 Adult Fiction Book AUSTER |
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Bazell, Josh Beat the Reaper: a Novel The carefully orchestrated life of Manhattan emergency room doctor and witness-protection program participant Peter Brown unravels in the course of a high-stakes day that begins with a mugging, an elevator encounter with a sexy pharmaceutical rep, and a new patient who knows him from his previous existence. 2009 Adult Fiction Book BAZELL |
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Carofiglio, Gianrico The Past is a Foreign Country An international bestseller, this intense psychological thriller is also a winner of Italy's prestigious Premio Bancarella prize. As world-weary Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for a serial rapist, trainee lawyer Giorgio is lured into a corrupt world of beautiful women and casual violence. 2010 Adult Fiction Book CAROFIG |
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Davidson, Andrew The Gargoyle Awakening in a burn ward after being horribly burned in a terrible car accident, the cynical narrator is visited by a beautiful and enigmatic sculptress of gargoyles who tells him that they had once been lovers in medieval Germany. 2008 Adult Fiction Book DAVIDSO |
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DeMille, Nelson Cathedral: a Novel Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act-the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own plan. 1981 Adult Fiction Book |
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French, Nicci. Blue Monday Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of Matthew. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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French, Tana. The Likeness Traumatized detective Cassie Maddox struggles in her career and relationship with Sam O'Neill while investigating the unsettling murder of a young woman whose name matches an alias Cassie had used as an undercover officer. 2008 Adult Fiction Book |
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Galchen, Rivka Atmospheric Disturbances Convinced that his wife has disappeared and left behind a duplicate of herself who fools everyone else, Dr. Leo Liebenstein embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love, aided by a deluded psychiatric patient and an enigmatic meteorologist. 2008 Adult Fiction Book GALCHEN |
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George, Elizabeth A Great Deliverance Scotland Yard Inspector Sir Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers have been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the Yorkshire Villagers. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. 2007 Adult Fiction Book |
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Green, George Dawes Ravens Stopping at a convenience store to fix a leaky tire, Shaw McBride and Romeo Zderko learn that a winning lottery ticket was purchased from the same location and devise a plot to steal half of the prize money, a scheme for which they take a family hostage and subject its members to sanity-breaking fear. 2009 Adult Fiction Book GREEN |
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Hannah, Sophie The Dead Lie Down In a mystery that features the return of Sergeant Charlotte "Charlie" Zailer and DC Simon Waterhouse, Ruth Bassey, a sinner on the road to redemption, falls in love with Aidan Seed, and later discovers that he murdered Mary Trelease, a woman that Ruth knows to be very much alive. By the author of The Wrong Mother. 2010 Adult Fiction Book HANNAH |
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Hart, John The Last Child After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets. 2009 Adult Mystery Book HART |
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Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew You're Next Someone has an unexpected motive in destroying Mike Wingate, who's worked his way up from the bottom to become a successful home contractor in Lost Hills, California. To protect his family and himself, Mike, who was raised in a foster home, summons his only friend from those days, the formidable Shep, who has grown up to be a career criminal of considerable skill. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Jackson, Shirley We Have Always Lived in the Castle Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods -- until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers. 2006 Adult Fiction Book |
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Joss, Morag Among the Missing: a Novel In the aftermath of a tragic bridge collapse that took her husband and daughter, Silva lives in a small cabin downstream with a pregnant woman believed to have died in the collapse, as Silva, convinced that her family are alive, waits for them to return. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Kagen, Lesley Tomorrow River When her mother's bizarre disappearance in the summer of 1968 triggers her twin sister's traumatic inability to speak, 11-year-old Shenandoah is prompted to discover the truth of her mother's fate when her alcoholic father cruelly threatens to remarry and send her sister away. 2010 Adult Fiction Book KAGEN |
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Kellerman, Jesse The Genius When a retired cop recognizes the faces of murdered children in an art gallery exhibit, he and his assistant DA daughter Susan begin a search to find the artist of the portraits--and possibly crack open a forty-year murder case. 2008 Adult Fiction Book KELLERM |
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Kerr, Philip A Quiet Flame: a Bernie Gunther Novel Detective Bernie Gunther flees to Perâon-era Argentina in the wake of wrongful accusations about his war time activities and reluctantly investigates the double case of a murdered girl and a missing banker's daughter. 2009 Adult Fiction Book KERR |
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King, Laurie R. A Darker Place Theology professor Anne Waverly is sent undercover by the FBI to infiltrate a religious cult in California. Initially ill-disposed to cults -- her husband and daughter died in a mass suicide in Texas -- Waverly discovers an organization genuinely devoted to rehabilitating troubled youth and even finds love. But as she rises to a top post in the cult's administration, an unpleasant surprise awaits her. 1999 Adult Fiction Book |
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Koontz, Dean R. Odd Thomas Over the course of two shattering days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an oddball assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying, and labyrinthine world in which past and present, fate and destiny, and life and death collide as they risk everything to avert a threatening cataclysm. 2003 Adult Fiction Book |
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