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Thriller
Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively.
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov ...more
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov ...more
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The Fourth Monkey (A 4MK Thriller, #1)
by J.D. Barker (Goodreads Author)
by J.D. Barker (Goodreads Author)
Release
date: Jun 27, 2017
NEW from Master of Suspense J.D. BARKER
THE most anticipated THRILLER of 2017!
Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from ...more
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THE most anticipated THRILLER of 2017!
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Working on the Dark Side of the Moon
by Thomas Reed Willemain (Goodreads Author)
by Thomas Reed Willemain (Goodreads Author)
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date: Jun 30, 2017
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Kind Nepenthe
by Matthew V. Brockmeyer (Goodreads Author)
by Matthew V. Brockmeyer (Goodreads Author)
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date: Jul 27, 2017
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KIND NEPENTHE: A Savage Tale of Terror Set in the Heart of California's Marijuana Country.
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Linwood Barclay
Author of No Time for Goodbye
Linwood Barclay is the #1 internationally bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Trust Your Eyes, A Tap on the Window, No Time for Goodbye and that novel's followup, No Safe House.
This summer, his thriller Broken Promise, the first of three linked novels about his fictional upstate New York town Promise Falls, will be released. Book two will come nine months later, and another nine months after that, the conclusion will be released.
Over the years, several of Barclay's novels have been optioned for film and television. Most recently, No Time for Goodbye has been optioned for television in France, and in 2012, Trust Your Eyes was the object of a film rights bidding war between Universal and Warner Bros.
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It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.
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― James Rollins, The Judas Strain
― James Rollins, The Judas Strain
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Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back of her skull. I tried to read her thoughts. For once I didn't feel like I was staring into the sun. I'm rising to my wife's level of madness. Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage. It's a story I can live with. Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my
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― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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