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by Jo Piazza - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller, Women's Fiction

Lizzie and Bex were best friends in college. Fifteen years later, Bex is now Rebecca Sommers, a “traditional” Instagram influencer with millions of followers who salivate over her perfect life on her ranch with her five children and handsome husband, Gray. Lizzie is a struggling magazine writer, watching reels while her young children demand her attention. One night out of the blue, Bex calls Lizzie with a career-making proposition --- an exclusive interview about her multimillion-dollar business venture and an invitation to MomBomb, the high-profile influencing conference. At the conference, Bex goes missing and Gray is found brutally murdered on their ranch. Lizzie finds herself plunged into the dark side of the cutthroat world of social media. She must learn who her old friend has become and who she has double-crossed to try to find her, clear her name and maybe even save her life.

by Brian Freeman - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Jason Bourne is on a boat in the Mediterranean moonlight with his lover, Johanna. He’s happy for the first time in years. Then in the next instant, he finds himself floating on wreckage as fire and smoke choke the sky. And Bourne finds the darkness of lost memory closing around his mind again. He teams up with his spy chief, Shadow, who reveals that Bourne’s surrogate father --- David Abbott, the founder of Treadstone --- is alive and missing. Together they must find Abbott before his enemies do. With his memory returning in bits and pieces, Jason discovers that the explosion that stole away his identity is part of a deadly game being played among powerful adversaries from Moscow to Washington. Even if he finds David Abbott, Bourne may still find himself with no way out and everything to lose.

by Kate Russo - Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Women's Fiction

When Rachel Nardelli finds out Alison Petrucci --- her childhood rival --- is found dead in Pleasant Pond, the same place the two girls had first said goodbye to each other back in eighth grade, the town of Waterbury is outraged by the fear of losing one of their own --- the heir to Maine’s largest construction company. But it’s a little more complicated for Rachel. She saw Alison the night she died. Callous, she said something she shouldn’t have. She stirred up the past. The next morning, Alison was gone. Plagued by the complicated memories around Alison, Rachel joins her journalism crew to investigate the murder. But as she revisits their fraught relationship, she falls into a web of cruelties that threaten to undo everything she understood about her past.

by Lauren Kate - Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Women's Fiction

Fenny has that boss glow. Not only did she just have the best sex of her life, she’s finally about to direct the TV show she’s been a screenwriter on for 10 years. Only one thing could floor her --- finding out she’s been replaced by a hotshot director named Jude. Wait, no. Two things. Jude looks exactly like the guy who just turned her bones to jelly. Same dimples, same eyes, but he looks older and has a sadness Fenny wants to fix. Last weekend, Fenny met Sam when he movie-style rescued her from a storm on Catalina Island. Here he is again, just…different. Can Sam and Jude be the same man? And if they are, will Fenny’s love be enough to put him back together?

by Dan Fesperman - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Hal Knight, a comedian and movie star-turned politician, is no stranger to controversy. But after an embarrassing and humiliating encounter on set, Knight resigns from Congress, quits social media, and disappears to the tiny Caribbean island of Vieques to drink dirty martinis and nurse his wounds. Shortly after his arrival, he is approached by a trio of CIA operatives hoping to recruit him to infiltrate the power structure of Bolrovia --- a hostile, Eastern European country whose despotic president, Nikolai Horvatz, happens to be a longtime fan of Knight’s adolescent male humor. Knowing that Horvatz plans to invite the disgraced star for an official visit, the CIA coaxes Knight to accept, which he does. What begins as an assignment to keep his eyes and ears open quickly turns into a life-or-death battle.

by Shari Lapena - Domestic Thriller, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Bryden and Sam have it all: thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple. Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife’s car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall. Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It’s as if she just walked out. How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all? With every minute that passes --- and as questions swirl around their community --- Bryden and Sam’s past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbors and relatives no longer quite so reliable.

by Elly Griffiths - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Mystery

Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they're frozen --- or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. The latest assignment sees Ali venture back to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, an eccentric patron of the arts. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions. As the clock counts down, Ali becomes more entangled in the mystery, yet danger lurks around every corner. She soon finds herself trapped, unable to make her way back to her beloved son, Finn, who is battling his own accusations in the present day. Could the two cases be connected? In a race through and against time, Ali must find out before it’s too late.

by Clémence Michallon - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Frida and Gabriel arrive seeking a fresh start at the stunning Ara Hotel in the secluded desert of Escalante, Utah. Once so close they were able to finish each other’s sentences, they’ve grown apart in recent years after a sudden, unspeakable tragedy. Now, at the luxe resort, they are ready to reconnect. It all feels like paradise --- until the dead body of a beautiful young woman who was vacationing at the Ara with her powerful, much older husband is discovered. When the local police arrive and suspicion quickly falls on Gabriel, Frida is forced to revisit memories from their upbringing in a cloistered cult in upstate New York, their dramatic escape and the scandal that followed. Frida’s belief in Gabriel’s innocence never wavered at the time but now even she can’t ignore the evidence mounting against him.

by Helen Schulman - Fiction, Humor, Short Stories

The wide-ranging and inventive stories that make up Helen Schulman’s FOOLS FOR LOVE are funny, sexy, sometimes sad and always surprising. A single American mother and a French Orthodox rabbi fall in love over poetry, as she helps to dismantle a shuttered bookstore in Paris. A rebellious young woman marries a series of men who are all wrong for her and proceeds to cheat on each of them; her widowed mother finds her deceased husband’s sex diaries and decides she needs to make up for lost time. And in the title story, a blossoming East Village playwright realizes that her marriage to a brilliant actor is doomed, after watching his performance in an alternative production of Sam Shepard’s iconic play.

by Amy McCulloch - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Seven years ago, Adri left the running world after a major scandal. She leveled an explosive and career-ending accusation at one of the world’s most celebrated coaches --- and then he died suddenly. Now, she's ready to race again. Adri has picked one of the toughest events imaginable: a 250-mile trek through the Sahara Desert organized by a mysterious and famously sadistic race director. She’s also there to get closure on the mysteries that cloud her past. Was her family targeted by one of her coach’s defenders? Was his death due to natural causes? But clarity is hard to come by out in the Sahara’s extreme conditions. And as a number of runners start dropping out, it becomes clear that there’s someone out there in the desert trying to stop anyone from winning --- by any means necessary.