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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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A Killer's Mind (Zoe Bentley Mystery, #1)
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A killer’s mind is her playground.
Three Chicago women have been found strangled, embalmed, and posed as if still alive. Doubting the findings of the l ...more
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Availability: 100 copies available, 1338 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Jul 04 - Jul 31, 2018
Countries available: US
Expose (Dr. Schwartzman, #3)
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Examining the dead will help her solve present crimes and uncover past secrets in this page-turner thriller for fans of Patricia Cornwell and Rizzoli
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Availability: 100 copies available, 950 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Jun 26 - Jul 23, 2018
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See What I Have Done
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Enter for a chance to win a paperback copy of Sarah Schmidt's SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE, called "a gory and gripping debut" by The Guardian.
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Availability: 20 copies available, 5980 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Jun 30 - Jul 29, 2018
Countries available: US
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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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