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The 72 Most Popular Mysteries and Thrillers

Here are 72 of the most popular mysteries and thrillers from the last three years - and they're available from your local Library! Borrow print items by placing them on hold or visiting a Library branch. Borrow eBooks by downloading the CloudLibrary app and logging in with your Coquitlam Public Library card and PIN.

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The night swim : a novel / Megan Goldin.
Goldin, Megan, author.
Format: Book

Electrifying and propulsive, The Night Swim asks: What is the price of a reputation? Can a small town ever right the wrongs of its past? And what really happened to Jenny?

The chain / Adrian McKinty.
McKinty, Adrian, author.
Format: Book

It's something parents do every morning: Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone call from an unknown number changes everything: it's a woman on the line, informing her that she has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will see her again is to follow her instructions exactly: pay a ransom, and find another child to abduct. This is no ordinary kidnapping: the caller is a mother herself, whose son has been taken, and if Rachel doesn't do as she's told, the boy will die.

The survivors
Harper, Jane
Format: Book

When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...

Not a happy family : a novel / Shari Lapena.
Lapeña, Shari, 1960- author.
Format: Large Print

In this family, everyone is keeping secrets--especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don't come much richer than Fred and Sheila Merton. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call.

Billy Summers : a novel / Stephen King.
King, Stephen, 1947- author.
Format: Book

Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?

A time for mercy : a novel / John Grisham.
Grisham, John, author.
Format: Book

Jake Brigance, the protagonist of A Time to Kill, John Grisham’s classic legal thriller is back. This time he's at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi.

Someone we know : a novel / Shari Lapena.
Lapeña, Shari, 1960- author.
Format: Book

Maybe you don't know your neighbors as well as you thought you did . . .

The good sister
Hepworth, Sally,
Format: Book

Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister.

Rock paper scissors
Feeney, Alice,
Format: Book

Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney.

Invisible girl : a novel / Lisa Jewell.
Jewell, Lisa, author.
Format: Book

Owen Pick’s life is falling apart.