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Bryan Reardon’s Finding Jake, a New York Times bestseller with 4.3 out of 5 stars and over 16,000 Goodreads ratings, delivers a harrowing psychological thriller.
Finding Jake
Thriller · Historical Thriller
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Bryan Reardon’s Finding Jake, a New York Times bestseller with 4.3 out of 5 stars and over 16,000 Goodreads ratings, delivers a harrowing psychological thriller. When a school shooting leaves one teen missing, his father must confront rumors, guilt, and the terrifying possibility that his son is more than a victim. Tense, emotional, and unforgettable, this novel grips to the final page.
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Simon Connolly has devoted his life to raising his children while his wife built her career. For his daughter Laney, it has always been easy. But Jake has been different, quiet, thoughtful, content in the margins. Simon never worried. Until the day everything shatters.
A text message announces the unthinkable: a shooting at the high school. Parents are reunited with their children one by one, until Simon is left standing alone. Jake never comes out. Whispers swirl. Rumors point fingers. Could his son be involved? Did Simon miss the signs?
Bryan Reardon’s Finding Jake, a New York Times bestseller, is a haunting psychological thriller and heart-wrenching portrait of fatherhood, guilt, and the desperate search for truth when love collides with fear.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to World War II thrillers, covert missions, expert marksmen, and military intrigue.
The Bullet Garden
Thriller · Historical Thriller · Political Thriller · Spy Thriller
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Called “a tour de force of a war novel” by Booklist, The Bullet Garden follows Pacific war hero Earl Swagger after General Eisenhower selects him to counter a deadly SS operation. Swagger enters the shadowy corners of wartime London and France, where he has a target on his back and cannot trust anyone. A sharp fit for readers drawn to World War II thrillers, covert missions, expert marksmen, and military intrigue.
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In this “an electrifying historical thriller that is sure to become a classic” (The Real Book Spy) the long-anticipated origin story of legendary Marine, fan favorite, and father of literary icon Bob Lee takes us to the battlefields of World War II as Earl Swagger embarks on a top secret and deadly mission.
July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature—German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It’s clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how?
General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation. Enter Pacific hero Earl Swagger, assigned this crucial and bloody mission. With crosshairs on his back, Swagger can’t trust anyone as he infiltrates the shadowy corners of London and France for answers.
“A tour de force of a war novel” (Booklist, starred review), The Bullet Garden is the ultimate read for new and longtime fans of Stephen Hunter.
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With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this chilling tale of murder, corruption, and survival in 18th-century Stockholm is perfect for fans of The Alienist and richly…
The Wolf and the Watchman
Historical Fiction · Historical Mystery · Historical Thriller
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Niklas Natt och Dag’s The Wolf and the Watchman is a #1 international bestseller hailed as “the best historical thriller I’ve read in twenty years” (A.J. Finn). With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this chilling tale of murder, corruption, and survival in 18th-century Stockholm is perfect for fans of The Alienist and richly atmospheric crime fiction.
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Stockholm, 1793. A mutilated corpse rises from the rancid waters of the Larder, a grotesque puzzle that could unravel the city itself. With the monarchy collapsing and whispers of conspiracy everywhere, the investigation falls to Cecil Winge, a brilliant lawyer whose health is failing, and Mikel Cardell, a cynical watchman drowning his past in drink.
Together, they descend into Stockholm’s underworld: thieves’ dens, brothels, workhouses, and palaces alike, where corruption festers behind every door. Each clue peels back another layer of the city’s rot, revealing lives destroyed by greed, cruelty, and desperation.
Time is running out—for Winge’s body, for Cardell’s soul, and for justice itself. This is no simple murder. It is Stockholm laid bare, in all its blood, brilliance, and ruin.
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A good pick for fans of historical fiction about resistance fighters, espionage, sabotage, and dangerous wartime missions.
The Saboteur
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · World War 2
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Called “World War II meets Mission Impossible in this gripping historical thriller” by Library Journal, The Saboteur follows Norwegian resistance fighter Kurt Nordstrum as he joins a dangerous mission to disrupt Nazi efforts to develop an atomic bomb. A good pick for fans of historical fiction about resistance fighters, espionage, sabotage, and dangerous wartime missions.
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Norwegian commandos aim to destroy the Nazi nuclear program in this World War II thriller of action and espionage by a New York Times–bestselling author.
Based on the true story of Operation Gunnerside
February 1943. Both the Allies and the Nazis are closing in on attempts to construct the decisive weapon of the war . . .
Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of his fiancée, and with his outfit whittled to shreds, he commandeers a coastal steamer and escapes to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis' progress towards an atomic bomb at an isolated factory in Norway. There, he joins a team of dedicated Norwegians in training in the Scottish Highlands for a mission to disrupt the Nazis' plans before they advance any further.
Parachuted onto the most unforgiving terrain in Europe, braving the fiercest of mountain storms, Nordstrum and his team attempt the most daring raid of the war, targeting the heavily-guarded factory built on a shelf of rock thought to be impregnable, a mission even they know they likely will not survive. Months later, Nordstrum is called upon again to do the impossible, opposed by both elite Nazi soldiers and a long-standing enemy who is now a local collaborator—one man against overwhelming odds, with the fate of the war in the balance, but the choice to act means putting the one person he has a chance to love in peril.
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In a city ruled by suspicion, truth hides behind loyalty and fear.
The Seeker
Mystery · Historical Fiction · Historical Mystery · Historical Thriller
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In a city ruled by suspicion, truth hides behind loyalty and fear. In The Seeker, Damian Seeker serves as Cromwell’s most formidable agent in 1654 London, tasked with investigating the murder of a celebrated army captain. When the obvious suspect appears too convenient, Seeker navigates a web of spies and political intrigue in a historical thriller shaped by secrecy, power, and peril.
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London, 1654. In the teeming warren of spies, exiles and assassins that is Cromwell's London, the Lord Protector's most feared agent is Damian Seeker. No one knows where Seeker comes from or even his real name. But one thing is certain - nothing remains hidden from him for long.
When a popular captain and hero of Cromwell's all-powerful army is murdered, and Elias Ellingworth, an outspoken critic of Cromwell's regime, is found standing over the bleeding body clutching a knife, his guilt seems to be without question. Yet Seeker is not convinced. He will stop at nothing to unmask the true killer and save Ellingworth from the gallows and knows better than any man where to search.
'A cut above . . . A compelling plot and some wonderful characters make this a must-read' The Times
'A first class, compelling debut for MacLean's new hero' Crime Review
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