Featured Mystery Author

This Month's Featured Author: Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction and in 1987, her first novel was published. Now retired from medicine, she writes full time and lives with her family in Maine.

Tess Gerritsen
Book Cover Image. Title: Last to Die (Rizzoli and Isles Series #10), Author: Tess Gerritsen
Book Cover Image. Title: John Doe (Rizzoli and Isles Series Novella), Author: Tess Gerritsen
Book Cover Image. Title: The Silent Girl (Rizzoli and Isles Series #9) (with bonus short story Freaks), Author: Tess Gerritsen
Book Cover Image. Title: The Surgeon (Rizzoli and Isles Series #1), Author: Tess Gerritsen
Book Cover Image. Title: The Descent, Author: Jeff Long

The Descent

Jeff Long

If the weather's too hot and you're looking for a chill, here's the thriller for you! What if ancient legends of demons and devils are real -- and those creatures still live underground? One of the scariest novels I've ever read.
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Book Cover Image. Title: The Ruins, Author: Scott Smith

The Ruins

Scott Smith

And yet another creepy crawly thriller for a hot summer's day. A group of hapless tourists wanders into archaeological ruins in Mexico, to discover they are doomed to be devoured by a carnivorous plant. Truly terrifying.
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Book Cover Image. Title: The Devil of Nanking, Author: Mo Hayder

The Devil of Nanking

Mo Hayder

This thriller is set during a terrible time in China's history: the Japanese invasion of Nanking. Mo Hayder captures the horrors in poetic language that is weirdly beautiful, even as it shocks and appalls.
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Book Cover Image. Title: Before I Go to Sleep, Author: S. J. Watson

Before I Go to Sleep

S. J. Watson

A woman wakes up with a man she doesn't recognize, looks at herself in the mirror, and is shocked to see she's decades older than she should be. How did she lose her memory, and is her husband really her husband? A riveting thriller.
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Book Cover Image. Title: Turn of Mind, Author: Alice LaPlante

Turn of Mind

Alice LaPlante

Another stunning mystery with memory as its theme, this one featuring a heroine who's suffering from Alzheimer's. Accused of murder, she can't remember if she committed the crime.
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Book Cover Image. Title: Blasphemy, Author: Douglas Preston

Blasphemy

Douglas Preston

What if a group of physicists, searching for the origins of the universe, suddenly encounter what they think is the voice of God? I love science thrillers, and Douglas Preston manages to combine science, religion, and philosophy into a rip-roaring yarn.
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