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Upcoming Crime, Mystery and Thriller Releases - January 2018
DIR By: TheFantastical
Date: January 3, 2018, 8:28 am
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The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
Release date - 2, January, 2018
Synopsis -
What did she see?
It’s been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten
months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New
York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to
step outside.
Anna’s lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits
day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move
in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of
three, they are an echo of the life that was once hers.
But one evening, a frenzied scream rips across the silence, and
Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. Now she
must do everything she can to uncover the truth about what
really happened. But even if she does, will anyone believe her?
And can she even trust herself?
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34848682-the-woman-in-the-window
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Beneath the Mountainby Luca D’Andrea
Release date - 2 January, 2018
Synopsis -
New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot
documentary-making team. He and his partner, Mike, made a
reality show about roadies that skyrocketed them to fame. But
now Salinger’s left that all behind, to move with his wife,
Annelise, and young daughter, Clara, to the remote part of Italy
where Annelise grew up—the Alto Adige.
Nestled in the Dolomites, this breathtaking, rural region that
was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire remains more Austro
than Italian. Locals speak a strange, ancient dialect—Ladino—and
root for Germany (against Italy) in the world cup. Annelise’s
small town—Siebenhoch—is close-knit to say the least and does
not take kindly to out-of-towners. When Salinger decides to make
a documentary about the mountain rescue group, the mission goes
horribly awry, leaving him the only survivor. He blames himself,
and so—it seems—does everyone else in Siebenhoch. Spiraling into
a deep depression, he begins having terrible, recurrent
nightmares. Only his little girl Clara can put a smile on his
face.
But when he takes Clara to the Bletterbach Gorge—a canyon rich
in fossil remains—he accidentally overhears a conversation that
gives his life renewed focus. In 1985, three students were
murdered there, their bodies savaged, limbs severed and strewn
by a killer who was never found. Although Salinger knows this is
a tightlipped community, one where he is definitely persona non
grata, he becomes obsessed with solving this mystery and is
convinced it is all that can keep him sane. And as Salinger
unearths the long kept secrets of this small town, one by one,
the terrifying truth is eventually revealed about the horrifying
crime that marked an entire village.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33385444-beneath-the-mountain?ac=1&from_search=true
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A Map of the Dark (The Searchers 1) by Karen Ellis
Release Date - 2, January, 2018
Synopsis -
FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing people.
She knows how it feels to be lost...
Though her father lies dying in a hospital north of New York
City, Elsa cannot refuse a call for help. A teenage girl has
gone missing from Forest Hills, Queens, and during the critical
first hours of the case, a series of false leads hides the fact
that she did not go willingly.
With each passing hour, as the hunt for Ruby deepens into a
search for a man who may have been killing for years, the case
starts to get underneath Elsa's skin. Everything she has buried
- her fraught relationship with her sister and niece, her
self-destructive past, her mother's death - threatens to
resurface, with devastating consequences.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35605410-a-map-of-the-dark?ac=1&from_search=true
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Unbound: A Stone Barrington Novel by Stuart Woods
Release date - 2, January, 2018
Synopsis -
Stone Barrington is pulled along for the ride when a friend
pursues a perilous course of vengeance in the newest novel from
#1 New York Times–bestselling author Stuart Woods.
In the wake of a personal tragedy, former CIA operative Teddy
Fay—now a successful Hollywood film producer known as Billy
Barnett—takes a leave of absence to travel and grieve, and lands
in Santa Fe in the company of his friends Stone Barrington and
Ed Eagle. There, fate hands him an unexpected opportunity to
exact quiet revenge for his recent loss, from a man who helped
to cover up the crime.
But when his enemy wises up to Teddy’s machinations, a discreet
game of sabotage escalates to a potentially lethal battle. From
the arid splendor of the New Mexico desert to the glamour of
Hollywood’s rolling hills, it will take all of Stone
Barrington’s diplomacy and skill to maneuver for Teddy’s
advantage while keeping innocents out of the crossfire.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34911601-unbound
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Robicheaux by James Lee Burke
Release date - 2, January, 2018
Synopsis -
Between his recurrent nightmares about Vietnam, his battle with
alcoholism, and the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his
thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next.
Images of ghosts at Spanish Lake live on the edge of his vision.
During a murder investigation, Dave Robicheaux discovers he may
have committed the homicide he’s investigating, one which
involved the death of the man who took the life of Dave’s
beloved wife. As he works to clear his name and make sense of
the murder, Robicheaux encounters a cast of characters and a
resurgence of dark social forces that threaten to destroy all of
those whom he loves. What emerges is not only a propulsive and
thrilling novel, but a harrowing study of America: this nation’s
abiding conflict between a sense of past grandeur and a legacy
of shame, its easy seduction by demagogues and wealth, and its
predilection for violence and revenge. James Lee Burke has
returned with one of America’s favorite characters, in his most
searing, most prescient novel to date.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297186-robicheaux
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Operator Down (Pike Logan 12)by Brad Taylor
Release date - 9, January, 2018
Synopsis -
Former Delta Force Officer and New York Times bestselling author
Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller where Pike
Logan's search for a Mossad agent and ally puts him on a
collision course with a ruthless military coup in Africa—and
tests his loyalties to the Taskforce.
It was to be a simple mission. Nothing more than assessing
whether a merchant in the fabled Israeli Diamond Exchange was
involved in a scheme that could potentially embarrass the state
of Israel. But nothing is ever simple in the world of
intelligence, as Aaron Bergman—a former leader of an elite
direct action team under the Mossad—should have known. Executing
the operation as a contractor, a cutout that gave the State of
Israel plausible deniability, he disappears without a trace.
Pike Logan and his team know none of this, but he’s tracking an
American arms dealer in Tel Aviv who may—or may not—be
attempting to sell sensitive nuclear weapons components to the
highest bidder. When Pike’s team breaks up an attempt at killing
Shoshana, Aaron’s partner, they stumble upon much more than they
expected—a concerted conspiracy to topple a democratic African
country.
Beginning to untangle a web that extends through both the
American and Israeli intelligence community, Pike is forced to
choose between his Israeli friends and his Taskforce mission,
even as the execution of the coup begins to form. At the heart
of it is Aaron, and his disappearance is the one mistake the
plotters made. Because Shoshana is the greatest killing machine
the Mossad has ever produced, and she will stop at nothing to
help Aaron, even if it means killing Pike Logan.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34844955-operator-down?from_search=true
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The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
Release date - 9, January, 2018
Synopsis -
In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of
adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy
English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can
get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick
figures they leave for one another as messages only they can
understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to
a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same.
In 2016, Eddie is fully grown and thinks he's put his past
behind him, but then he gets a letter in the mail containing a
single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends
got the same message, they think it could be a prank--until one
of them turns up dead. That's when Eddie realizes that saving
himself means finally figuring out what really happened all
those years ago.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35356382-the-chalk-man?ac=1&from_search=true
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Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna
Release date - 9, January, 2018
Synopsis -
When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot
in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an
enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls.
Immediately shut out by a local police department already
stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth
epidemic, Vega enlists the help of a disgraced former cop, Max
Caplan. Cap is a man trying to put the scandal of his past
behind him and move on, but Vega needs his help to find the
girls, and she will not be denied.
With little to go on, Vega and Cap will go to extraordinary
lengths to untangle a dangerous web of lies, false leads, and
complex relationships to find the girls before time runs out,
and they are gone forever.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36136030-two-girls-down?ac=1&from_search=true
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City of Endless Night (Pendergast 17) by Douglas Preston
Release date - 9, January, 2018
Synopsis -
What begins as a manhunt for the missing daughter of a wealthy
tech billionaire becomes something altogether different when the
young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in
Kew Gardens, Queens, the head nowhere to be found. It appears
there may be two killers on the loose--one responsible for the
young woman's death, another responsible for the mutilation. A
pair of such dastardly killers requires a team of equally
talented investigators. Luckily, both Vincent D'Agosta and
Special Agent Pendergast are back in town.
D'Agosta hopes that working a case back on his home turf for the
first time in years will reinvigorate the FBI Special Agent and
give him an opportunity to flex his investigative might. But
neither is prepared to face a killer--or killers--as diabolical
as this. It will take all of Pendergast and D'Agosta's
intelligence and strength simply to match wits--let alone stay
alive.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34517346-city-of-endless-night?ac=1&from_search=true
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The Take by Christopher Reich
Release date - 16, January, 2018
Synopsis -
From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich, an
international spy thriller featuring Simon Riske: one part James
Bond, one part Jack Reacher
Riske is a freelance industrial spy who, despite his job title,
lives a mostly quiet life above his auto garage in central
London. He is hired to perform the odd job for a bank, an
insurance company, or the British Secret Service, when he isn't
expertly stealing a million-dollar watch off the wrist of a
crooked Russian oligarch.
Riske has maintained his quiet life by avoiding big, messy jobs;
until now. A gangster by the name of Tino Coluzzi has
orchestrated the greatest street heist in the history of Paris:
a visiting Saudi prince had his pockets lightened of millions in
cash, and something else. Hidden within a stolen briefcase is a
secret letter that could upend the balance of power in the
Western world. The Russians have already killed in an attempt to
get it back by the time the CIA comes knocking at Simon's door.
Coluzzi was once Riske's brother-in-arms, but their criminal
alliance ended with Riske in prison, having narrowly avoided a
hit Coluzzi ordered. Now, years later, it is thief against
thief, and hot on their trail are a dangerous Parisian cop, a
murderous Russian femme fatale, her equally unhinged boss, and
perhaps the CIA itself.
In the grand tradition of The Day of the Jackal and The Bourne
Identity, Christopher Reich's The Take is a stylish,
breathtaking ride.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33784305-the-take?ac=1&from_search=true
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Light It Up: A Peter Ash Novel by Nick Petrie
Release date - 16, January, 2018
Synopsis -
"Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but
Petrie's Peter Ash is the real deal."--Lee Child
In the newest action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter
Ash, a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals
the hidden dangers of Colorado's mellowest business, but Ash may
find there's more to this crime than meets the eye.
Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking
trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard, whose
daughter runs a Denver security company that protects cash-rich
cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. Henry's
son-in-law and the company's operations manager were carrying a
large sum of client money when their vehicle vanished without a
trace, leaving Henry's daughter and her company vulnerable.
Then, when Peter is riding shotgun on another cash run, the
cargo he's guarding comes under attack from hijackers and he
narrowly escapes with his life. As the incidents mount, he has
to wonder: for criminals as sophisticated as these, is this
money really worth the risk? And if not, what about his cargo is
worth more?
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35105892-light-it-up
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Walking the Bones (Ryan DeMarco Mystery 2) by Randall Silvis
Release date - 23, January, 2018
Synopsis - When long-buried secrets come back to the surface...
The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully
preserved, discovered years ago... that's all Sergeant Ryan
DeMarco knows about the unsolved crime he has unwittingly been
roped into investigating during what is supposed to be a healing
road trip with his new love, Jayme.
DeMarco is still reeling from the case that led to death of his
best friend months ago and wants nothing more than to lay low.
Unfortunately, the small southern town of Jayme's idyllic youth
is not exactly a place that lets strangers go
unnoticed--especially strangers who have a history of solving
violent crimes. And if there's anything DeMarco knows, it's that
a killer always leaves clues behind, just waiting for the right
person to come along and put all the pieces together...
Walking the Bones is a story about things buried--memories,
regrets, secrets, and bodies. Acclaimed author Randall Silvis
delivers another heart-stopping investigation as DeMarco finds
himself once again drawn into a case that will demand more of
himself than he may be willing to give.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34974117-walking-the-bones?ac=1&from_search=true
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The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellowes
Release date - 23, January, 2018
Synopsis -
It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of
poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous
uncle.
Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at
Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will
become nurserymaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford
sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy - an acerbic, bright
young woman in love with stories.
But then a nurse - Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of
her famous namesake - is killed on a train in broad daylight,
and Louisa and Nancy find themselves entangled in the crimes of
a murderer who will do anything to hide their secret . . .
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34612673-the-mitford-murders?ac=1&from_search=true
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