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Joel C. Rosenberg's second J.B. Collins thriller picks up seconds after the Amman peace-summit massacre that ended The Third Target: the King of Jordan is wounded, the leaders of Israel and Palestine are critically hurt, and the President of the United States is missing and presumed captured by ISIS. New York Times correspondent J.B. Collins, the only Western journalist on the ground when the wave hit, spends the next four hundred and sixty pages helping the Jordanians, the Mossad, and the Secret Service try to find Harrison Taylor before Abu Khalif puts him on camera with a sword.

The second Kendra Michaels thriller from Iris and Roy Johansen opens with a multi-car pile-up on San Diego's Cabrillo Bridge that Kendra - a music therapist who was blind from birth until experimental surgery gave her sight in her twenties - sees instantly is no accident, and the case turns personal fast when the new killings start mirroring her own most famous past cases. Fast-paced commercial suspense with a strong premise undercut by formula and an obligatory romance beat.

On a Memorial Day weekend Girl Scout campout at Apache Pass, twelve-year-old Jenny Brady and her tentmate Dora Matthews sneak off to smoke a cigarette and stumble onto the body of a murdered Phoenix heiress; when Dora turns up dead two days later, Sheriff Joanna Brady has to figure out who left the body for her own daughter to find before they come back for the second witness.

Music therapist Kendra Michaels - blind for the first twenty years of her life, now sighted with the unnerving observational reflexes those twenty years built - is pulled out of the consulting work she's tried to leave behind by Adam Lynch, a former FBI agent known as the Puppetmaster, who arrives with a San Diego serial-stabbing case and the leverage that Kendra's ex-lover, FBI agent Jeff Stedler, has gone missing while investigating it.

When a Cheviot Hills couple unearths an old hospital supply box with an infant skeleton from the early 1950s, then a nanny is found shot in a nearby park beside more recent infant bones picked clean and coated in beeswax, Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis follow two trails - one back to a 1950s pediatric nurse and a doctor in a rare Duesenberg, the other into the gated estate of movie stars Donny Rader and Prema Moon.

The closing volume of Greg Iles's Natchez Burning trilogy puts Dr. Tom Cage on trial for the murder of Viola Turner - his Black nurse, his decades-long lover, the mother of a son he never publicly acknowledged - while his son Penn Cage tries to defend a father who refuses to defend himself.

Fifteen years after Katherine 'Casey' Carter was convicted of shooting her fiancé Hunter Raleigh III - a famed philanthropist and Raleigh Foundation heir - she gets out of prison and brings her case to Laurie Moran's true-crime show Under Suspicion, hoping the cameras can find what the original investigation didn't.

FBI agents Nicholas Drummond and Mike Caine hunt a descendant of Vlad the Impaler who commands a deadly drone army - and will stop at nothing to unlock an ancient manuscript he believes holds the cure for his dying brother.

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard works the graveyard shift, catching cases no one else wants. When two cases intersect dangerously, she must go rogue to find justice.

Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life, uses her extraordinary observational skills to hunt a brilliant serial killer in this pulse-pounding thriller.

A gripping thriller about a woman who changed her identity to protect her children after her husband's murder. When her carefully constructed new life begins to unravel, Rachel Marin must confront the past she's been hiding from.

A psychological thriller exploring the dark secrets of a small English town where women have been drowning for centuries. When Nel Abbott dies in the same river, her sister Jules returns to uncover the truth.

A haunting post-apocalyptic horror novel about a world where seeing the wrong thing means certain death, and one mother's desperate journey to safety.

A psychological thriller about a woman whose perfect life is systematically stolen by someone claiming to be her, forcing her to question everything she thought she knew about her identity.

Detective Billy Harney's life is turned upside down when he's framed for a murder he didn't commit, forcing him to navigate a web of corruption within his own police department.

A high-stakes thriller involving a NASA discovery in the Arctic that could change everything, if the political conspiracy surrounding it doesn't destroy it first.

A psychological thriller about a woman who returns to her hometown to face dark secrets from her past that threaten to destroy everything she's built.