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1) The blinds
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Guilt, memory, and redemption swirl through this inventive science-fiction-based thriller from Edgar-finalist Sternbergh (Shovel Ready). In Caesura, an isolated Texas town that's part penal colony, part rehabilitation experiment, Sheriff Calvin Cooper keeps the peace in a community that mixes the most savage of criminals with the victims of horrible crimes. What allows the two groups to coexist is that all their memories have been selectively edited...
2) Green sun
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moving to 1980s Oakland, California, to join the mostly black community he serves and protects, Vietnam veteran Hanson works diligently to stay honest in spite of the forces of hate and violence that compromise his job.
3) The believer
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An intricately plotted and brilliantly conceived stand-alone sequel to the international bestseller The Swimmer that turns the hottest political topics of our times into a complex, resonant thriller in the vein of John LeCarré. Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough Bergort, reinventing herself as a trendspotter in New York City. One day she receives a startling message: there are riots erupting on the streets of Stockholm...
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Language
English
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Description
"Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. You see, every so often Carol descends into a death-like coma that she calls the Black Place. For two to four days her heartbeat slows way down, her breathing all but stops, and to the eyes of all she would appear dead as a doornail. Only two people know of her condition: her husband Dwight, and her former lover James Moxie--the most legendary outlaw the Trail has ever seen. Just before Carol can share her...
5) Golden State
Author
Language
English
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Description
A veteran of the Speculative Service in an alternate-world California where the law and truth are valued above all else uses his rare authority to question the facts when truth enforcement is manipulated for corrupt purposes.
"In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden State, a nation standing where California once did, a place...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us. After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University. Though comfortable in his new life, and happy to be near his daughter once again, Jeremy continues to feel the quiet pangs of loneliness. Walking through the city at night, it's as though he could disappear...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Investigating her own suspicions about an injured car dealership owner's suicide, Belfast detective Serena Flanagan seeks the advice of a rector associated with the case only to discover that he is struggling with his own loss of faith and difficult personal challenges.
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