FICTION
Released: June 26, 2012
"SEAL aficionados and action addicts will find a couple engaging hours of reading here; everyone else can wait for the inevitable movie."
A year ago, a team of Navy SEALs impressed the world by killing Osama bin Laden. In this book, the SEALs go a few steps further by capturing a leading terrorist, breaking up a sex-trafficking ring and scaling K2 for good measure; all in a few days with little apparent food or sleep.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"A light thriller with romantic elements."
Amanda Gleason's infant son, Justin, is fighting for his life, and only his father can save him. But his father, Paul Everett, is dead. Or is he?
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"Exotic locale. Credible heroics. Vicarious thrills. Fans will want more, and soon."
If you have the right incentives, dollars in the billions can be made in Shanghai, where capitalism wrestles with communism. So says Pearson (
In Harm's Way, 2010, etc.) in this first in a new series of thrillers.
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FICTION
Released: June 14, 2012
"Sure to unsettle readers who check their investments 10 times a day. "
Fascinating, if uneven, debut thriller that links Wall Street treachery to international terrorism.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"A serious page-turner that would have been even better if it had ended a hundred pages earlier."
A country singer/songwriter who's getting unwelcome attention from a devoted fan provides kinesic specialist Kathryn Dance, of the California Bureau of Investigation, with her third extra-twisty case.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"Think, a Dan Brown-ian adventure amongst Pharaohs ready with a pocket full of curses. "
When setting out to investigate Near-Death Experiences, it's best to employ an "enigmalogist."
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"The novel recalls a time when black and white applied to both movies and moral choices. It's a tale with wide appeal."
A historical spy novel that takes the reader back to the 1930s, when Europe hurtled toward the abyss.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"This great novel should put Billingham in the same league as Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, John Harvey and Denise Mina. "
FICTION
Released: June 6, 2012
"The latest from Lamanda (Running Homeless, 2011, etc.) is an exciting thriller filled with tough but sympathetic characters who drag you breathlessly along to the final scene."
A former police officer sunk in the depths of despair is rescued by the mob boss he thinks had his wife killed.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"One of those rare thrillers whose revelations actually intensify its suspense instead of dissipating it. The final pages are chilling."
A perfect wife's disappearance plunges her husband into a nightmare as it rips open ugly secrets about his marriage and, just maybe, his culpability in her death.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Foster's second (Come Back to Me, 2010) page-turning tale of suspense set on the snow-covered moors has something for everyone: mystery, romance, paranormal activity and mortal danger. "
A young woman returns to the Yorkshire moors in hopes of discovering what happened to her missing husband.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"A complex, heartfelt, rather grueling procedural, middling for the current bumper crop of Scandinavian imports, and first of a series of four seasonal cases for Malin."
Kallentoft's first English-language translation pits Detective Inspector Malin Fors against a killer who committed an unspeakably ritualistic murder.
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