Here are this year’s winners.
Three young women–the only survivors of mass killings–are known to the press as the Final Girls. But when one of the Final Girls is found dead, the other two uneasily join together to discover what’s really going on, and if someone is targeting the Final Girls to finish them off for good. See our interview here with Riley Sager about Final Girls and his newest book, The Last Time I Lied.
Thea Paris is the only woman among a small group of worldwide kidnap and ransom experts. When her father, a wealthy oilman, is kidnapped from his yacht, Thea might be the only one who can find him. “A spectacular start for what promises to be a great Thea Paris series,” says Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. If you enjoy The Freedom Broker, you’ll want to pick up the newly released book 2 in the Thea Paris series, Skyjack.
A year after her husband’s death, widow Lily Declan is finally pulling her life together. Then a strange letter, a home invasion, and someone stalking her on Facebook threaten to not only upend her world, but destroy it.
In book 8 in Sean Black’s series of Ryan Lock thrillers, former military bodyguard Ryan Lock realizes that an enemy has emerged from his past to take revenge, and that enemy doesn’t care who else falls in the cross-fire.
Hurwitz, well-known for his adult thrillers, gives younger readers chills of their own with this series-starter about two teenage brothers who are determined to survive an outbreak that zombie-fies all people over age eighteen. And Patrick Rain’s eighteenth birthday is only a few days away….
