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Debut Suspense/Thriller Author Spotlight

While reading favorite authors is wonderful, there's something special about discovering an author at the start of his or her career. With our One to Watch: Debut Suspense Thriller promotion, we share with you some new authors who we think are worth watching. All authors featured here will be debut writers in the suspense/thriller genre. We hope that you enjoy reading their work and join with us in later years in saying, "I remember when I read their first book." Just think, you could have one of their first editions as part of your collection.

John Manning, author of All the Pretty Dead Girls

Two decades ago, at a private women’s college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room, but her assailant was never found.

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Will Lavender, author of Obedience

When the students in Winchester University’s Logic and Reasoning 204 arrive for their first day of class, they are greeted not with a syllabus or texts, but with a startling assignment from Professor Williams: Find a hypothetical missing girl named Polly.

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Emily Benedek, author of Red Sea

After four commercial airliners are blown out of the sky in international airspace, retired Israeli Special Forces commander Julian Granot is called in to investigate.

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Chelsea Cain, author of Heartsick

Damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him.

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Heather Terrell, author of The Chrysalis

Haarlem, Holland, seventeenth-century: The city’s chief magistrate commissions a family portrait from Dutch master painter Johannes Miereveld. But when the artist sees the magistrate’s daughter, Amalia, an illicit love affair begins.

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Todd Buchholz, author of The Castro Gene

After killing a man in the ring, Luke Braden quits boxing.  While toiling as a security guard and yearning to reinvent himself, Luke is swept up into the high-flying domain of Paul Tremont. 

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Tim Maleeny, author of Stealing the Dragon

A container ship smuggling Chinese refugees runs aground on Alcatraz, its crew murdered with deadly precision.

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