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Ordinary People (Thrillers)
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Search results: The best new books - Thrillers about ordinary men/women placed in extraordinary circumstances
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Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger
Hardcover: 26 Mar 2013
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| Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. |
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Beneath the Abbey Wall
by A. D. Scott
Paperback: 13 Nov 2012
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As a decade of change comes to a close, murder hits close to home in a small Scottish town...
On a dark, damp Sunday evening, a man taking a shortcut home sees a hand reaching out in supplication from a bundle of sacks. In an instant he knows something terrifying has happened. |
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Stealing Mona Lisa: A Mystery
by Carson Morton
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: 30 Oct 2012
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| What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting? |
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Angelmaker: A Novel
by Nick Harkaway
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 23 Oct 2012
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| A blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction. |
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Zone One: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 10 Jul 2012
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| Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century. |
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The Quiet Twin: A Novel
by Dan Vyleta
Paperback: 14 Feb 2012
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| Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed, the latest victim in a string of unsolved murders. Speckstein wants answers - but these are uncharitable times, and one must be careful where one probes... |
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Save Me
by Lisa Scottoline
Hardcover: Apr 2011
Paperback: 14 Feb 2012
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| Save Me will have readers wondering just how far they would go to save the ones they love. Lisa Scottoline is writing about real issues that resonate with real women, and the results are emotional, heartbreaking and honest. |
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The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel
by Michael Gruber
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 1 Mar 2008
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| An intellectual property lawyer is at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer—or killers—unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began with a fire in an antiquarian bookstore. |
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