Staff Picks: New Thrillers
by eapearce
It has been a great year for mystery and thriller readers! Writers of the ever-popular genres have churned out dozens of page turners all year long, but particularly this summer. If you love books that keep you on the edge of your seat, you’ll want to put a hold on some of these new-to-the-shelves titles that you won’t be able to put down until you turn the last page.
You Will Never Be Me, by Jesse Sutanto | Request Now
Meredith Lee is an influencer who shares her perfectly curated life fans via viral videos and posts on social media. She’s so good at what she does that she even teaches other women how to become influencers themselves. That’s what Meredith helped Aspen Palmer with, and to great success. The only problem is, Meredith taught Aspen so well that Aspen no longer needs her, which makes Meredith less than pleased. Hoping to sabotage Aspen’s flourishing influencer career, Meredith starts following her, looking for any cracks in her facade. When Meredith unexpectedly gains access to Aspen’s family calendar and social media accounts, she starts tweaking things here and there… to disastrous results for a confused Aspen. Aspen is determined to figure out who’s ruining her life, but figuring out Meredith’s role in her demise is only the start of this twisty thriller. You’ll have to read it to find out more!
What You Leave Behind, by Wanda Morris | Request Now
Lawyer Deena Wood’s life is not going well, and that’s putting it gently. She’s recently lost her beloved mother, her marriage has fallen apart and she’s lost her job at a prestigious Atlanta law firm. She needs a reset, and there’s no better place to do that (or at least she thinks) than her childhood home in the small town of Brunswick, Georgia. Driving the backroads around town, trying to make peace with where she’s found herself in life, she encounters a widower who has been fighting to keep his oceanfront land that’s been in his family since the end of the Civil War. Strangely, he threatens Deena to never return and shortly afterwards, disappears. Deena is mystified by this turn of events and starts doing some digging to figure out more of the missing man’s story. Soon, she finds herself immersed in the dark world of illegal land grabs and shady property development in poor, rural communities. Unfortunately for Deena, her increasing knowledge makes her and her family a target for sinister forces. Can she manage to outsmart the dark side of the law?
Wordhunter, by Stella Strands | Request Now
Tattooed and pierced Maggie Moore lives hard: she’s a heavy drinker, she doesn’t much like to go out of doors, and in general she’s a bit of a mess. Her main interest is solving linguistic puzzles, which she uses to recognize patterns in speaking and writing to help identify criminals and solve crimes. She’s usually relatively happy to help, but when the mayor’s son is abducted and she’s again asked to assist with the case, it feels a little too close to home for her. Her own best friend disappeared a few years before, and Maggie was never able to help solve that case—is she really the right person for this job? But, the small police department in her Central Florida town really needs her help, so she reluctantly joins the team on the case. As she analyzes the communications of various suspects, Maggie begins to realize that there may be a particularly disturbing conclusion to this case. Fans of word puzzles and the English language will delight in this unique story.
Daughter of Mine, by Megan Miranda | Request Now
Megan Miranda is a big name author in the thriller genre and fans will be happy that she’s delivered another fast-paced read this summer. Her latest centers around Hazel Sharpe, the daughter of the detective in the town of Mirror Lake. Hazel left town many years ago, but when she receives the news that she has unexpectedly inherited her childhood home, she reluctantly returns to take care of business. It’s an unusual summer for the town of Mirror Lake, and not only due to Hazel’s return: there’s been a bad drought and the water level in the lake the town is named for has significantly dropped. With the low water levels, long-buried secrets are revealed, secrets that the town has kept hidden for decades. Does the lake hold the answer to the mystery of Hazel’s mother’s disappearance? And is that answer one that Hazel wants to know?
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