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BEST THRILLER:
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MALLED, by Lauren Peterson
Welcome
to the Mall of the Future…now try to get out alive. Six teenagers have to fight for their
lives to escape a new hi-tech “smart” shopping mall when its Big Brother security
system mistakes them as a threat and traps them inside.
SLIPPING, by Jeff Connell
Psychic thriller.
A young, female FBI profiler, with a psychic gift of seeing through
killers’ eyes, discovers that the latest suspect in a series of brutal
slayings somehow holds the key to a dark secret from her childhood and to
her destiny.
SKIN, by Dan McGuire
Beauty-and-the-beast
crime thriller. A heroic
fireman, disfigured horribly from severe burns, undergoes an experimental
face transplant from the skin of a dead man, in order to win the girl he
secretly loves. But his new
face is that of a wanted murderer who has been terrorizing her, uncovering
a secret that plunges them both into danger.
THREES, by Luis Cruz
In a small town, a family is butchered and a
little girl goes missing. The young police chief, conflicted over personal
secrets of his own, enlists his old mentor, a washed-up, ex-NYPD detective,
to catch the murderer and find the missing child – spiraling them toward a
deadly confrontation with their pasts, the truth, and a serial killer.
THE OBLIVIONS, by Gilles Fourquet
An undercover CIA agent discovers a French secret
society plotting to undermine the U.S. economy. He must expose who is behind the plot, which involves an
international cartel of powerful moguls, and stop them before it’s too
late.
BLOOD HUNGRY, by Mark Beament
A troubled homicide detective suffering from insomnia must
catch a cannibalistic serial killer, who grows more vicious with each
slaying, while at the same time battling his own haunted nightmares and
hallucinations brought on by former murder cases.
NEW DAWN FADES, by Jerad Alexander
Mob crime thriller. A retired hit man is forced to confront the boy whose
parents he murdered years before…and kill him, despite his deep
reservations. The boy, however,
has grown up into a clever adversary with an eye for vengeance.
TENNESSEE WALTZ, by Richard Bailey
Period crime thriller a la Chinatown. A Depression-era private eye
investigating the death of a crooked bank president learns that when people
waltz with you, at least they’re not shooting at you. Along the way he uncovers fraud at
the Tennessee Valley Authority and falls for the banker’s widow.
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, by Brian Yarbrough
On a night of forgettable indiscretions, a betting man
signs up for a real-life assassination game. Five years later, reformed of his ways, this successful,
devoted family man wants out.
But you don’t quit the game – you win or you die.
BOTTOM OF THE POOL, by Terry Southern
Psychological
thriller in suburbia, inspired by Turn of the Screw. Two
children seem to be haunted by the ghost of their dead mother's secret
lover, in the eyes of a young woman hired as a temporary nanny. Their
house's ordinary back yard evolves into a nightmare world of evil and
madness, emanating from the swimming pool.
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