Lighthearted Thrillers to Round Out Your Summer Reading
By Mary Kay McBrayer
Summer’s not quite over, so if you’re looking for that last, light-hearted thriller to read while you stretch out on a lawn chair and absorb the dog days, you’re sure to find one in this list!
Gabby Greene was married for ten years. She’d put aside her career ambitions in favor of wrangling her children and keeping house, caring for her family, and holding everything together. When, as a recent divorcee, she opens her front door to a secret government agency who says she bears a resemblance to one of their agents who was recently murdered, she accepts the call to adventure. Pretty soon, she’s learning the skills of espionage while tracking down Russian mafia members wanted for money laundering.
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Ernest Cunningham has been invited on the Ghan, a special train from Darwin to Adelaide by the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society, only to find himself in the middle of locked-door murder case. Surely, on a train full of mystery writers, someone will be able to solve this locked-door mystery… but Ernest is as interested in finding the murderer as he is documenting how the story of the train ride unfolds in real time, especially since he’s just promised his publisher a new novel with a “reliable” narrator. If you love a meta-narrative, this novel is for you.
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Hardcover
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Twenty years after her mentorship with the elderly Arthur Crockleford splintered into separation, Freya receives word that the antiques dealer has died. Although the authorities have ruled the death accidental, the suspicious circumstances, and a coded letter from Arthur himself that he wrote just days before his death, pull Freya back to the English country manor she’s tried to avoid for two decades. She tries to follow the clues Arthur left behind, and she attends an antique dealer and enthusiast’s weekend in which all the items are poor reproductions, and the fellow guests are weird and ominous—which reminds her of the reason why she severed her relationship with Arthur all those years ago. But will she be able to figure out who killed him? And why?
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Hardcover
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After Gwen Turner ends her relationship with the best man she’s ever known for reasons she can’t quite pinpoint, she turns to the newest dating app to distract herself. All the dates are typically bad, and she’s as bored and undistracted from her heartbreak as ever… until she hears about the series of murders in her small coastal English city. What truly grabs her attention is that all the victims have been on a date with her, and now she’s the main suspect. To clear her own name, Gwen tries to help locate the actual serial killer, but to do that, she has to retread all her previous bad dates and figure out which one is to blame.
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Trade Cloth; Trade Cloth
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This is the fourth book of the Finlay Donovan series, and this caper is just as wild as the others. When Finlay receives a ransom note stating that Aston Martin has been kidnapped, she and her friend/nanny Vero road trip to Atlantic City under the guise of a girls’ road trip, but when Finlay’s ex-husband Steven, their two kids, and her mother all tag along on the trip, the shenanigans unfold exponentially, even as they try to evade the grasp of the Russian mob boss.
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Hardcover
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