New Thrillers

 The newest book from author Kiki Swinson is titled The Deadline. Kloe Mercer is an off-air journalist who covers the tough Norfolk, Virginia neighborhood where she grew up. She desperately wants the coveted anchor desk slot, but her hostile boss and the cut-throat competition means she will need to break a major exclusive. Kloe finds herself with easy access to the dirty truth to a murder on her home turf, but she’ll have to weigh her career against the safety of those she holds dear. When the ruthless cabal behind the murder put Kloe in their sights, they take that choice from her and begin to tie up loose ends. Nowhere is safe and her ambition has become her liability.

The newest Pendergast novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is called Crooked River. The residents of the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida are horrified when dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes wash up on the beach—each one with a crudely severed human foot inside. Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to cut his vacation short to visit the crime scene, but quickly becomes pulled in by this incomprehensible puzzle. The early pathology report only adds to the mystery. No one knows what happened, why, or from where the feet originated. And everyone desperately wants to know: are the victims still alive? Pendergast finds himself facing a tangled web of evidence that spans and ocean and crosses continents. The powerful adversary he uncovers has decided that Pendergast is the ideal subject for the sadistic research they are conducting.

Ted Bell delivers his latest Alex Hawke novel with Dragon Fire. The dashing rake and heir to the British throne has gone missing in the Bahamas. The Queen knows that there is only one man for the job—Lord Alexander Hawke the dashing British gentleman and MI6 legend. Hawke is recovering from horrific injuries he suffered on his last mission when he receives the Queen’s desperate call. All she knows is that the young prince was last seen on an ultra-exclusive resort the Dragonfire Club which is run by the notorious Tang brothers. These twin brothers are known to head-up the Tang Dynasty’s worldwide criminal enterprises. As time ticks by, Hawke must push through his own physical pain to unravel a shadowy conspiracy that may be centuries old.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright delivers his latest with The End of October. Forty-seven people in an Indonesian internment camp die of acute hemorrhagic fever and WHO epidemiologist Henry Parson’s investigation reveals staggering repercussions. At the same time, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security is scrambling to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic jumping from country to country. She believes the disease is an act of biowarfare. Already tense global relations crumble as the virus cuts through the United States, dismantling institutions—scientific, religious, governmental—and decimating the population. Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia and back to the CDC in Atlanta in search of a cure and for the origins for the mysterious disease. Meanwhile, a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution.

The Wife Who Knew Too Much is the new novel by Michele Campbell. Set among the glittering mansions of the Hamptons, this summer thriller tells the story of the two Mrs. Fords. The first is a beautiful, accomplished, and wealthy beyond imagination. She marries a much younger man and now she is dead. The second Mrs. Ford is a waitress and small-town girl who marries a man she never forgot from a summer romance ten years previous. Now, she is wealthy beyond belief. But who is Mr. Ford? Connor Ford has married two women who have known him as only wives can. Both loved him very much, but who is the victim? Who is the villain? What would you do for love and money?