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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 o...more
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Blinding Justice
by Kristi Cramer (Goodreads Author)
by Kristi Cramer (Goodreads Author)
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date: Apr 11, 2013
Detective Mitzi Reardon doesn’t know what she did to anger her boss, but he is gunning for her. Literally. Now a prostitute is dead, and she is the pr…more
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- May 25, 2013
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Redemption Blues
by T.D. Griggs (Goodreads Author)
by T.D. Griggs (Goodreads Author)
Release
date: Apr 02, 2013
CHRISTMAS, and it’s the end of the road for Matt and Lauren Silver’s tempestuous marriage. Rock star Silver has been touring abroad just once too ofte…more
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May 05
- Jun 05, 2013
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Peeler
by Kevin McCarthy
West Cork. November 1920. The Irish War of Independence rages. The body of a young woman is found brutally murderered on a windswept hillside, a scrap…more View Details »
by Kevin McCarthy
West Cork. November 1920. The Irish War of Independence rages. The body of a young woman is found brutally murderered on a windswept hillside, a scrap…more View Details »
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May 01
- Jun 04, 2013
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