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Risk

Dick Francis · 263 pages

Roland Britten was an amateur jockey, and an accountant by profession, who woke up one morning and found he couldn't move his hands. And all he could hear was the noise of an engine, very close by. He finally decided he was lying in the dark, tied to a generator. But why? And where? And by whom? And what would happen next.

AthleteFinancial FraudTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Unlawful Contact

Pamela Clare · 392 pages

When a young woman disappears, journalist Sophie Alton investigates and is led to the woman's brother, a convicted killer who is running from the law. Together, they follow a dangerous path toward the truth-and unforgettable passion.

Tense and SuspensefulFramed for a CrimeThrillerPrison
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Choke

Stuart Woods · 340 pages

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The Way to Dusty Death

Alistair MacLean · 223 pages

After the death of his brother on the race track, the number one Grand Prix driver has turned to alcohol and has lost his nerve. It not all things are as they seem. With the spotlight off him he now can now focus on an international diabolical scheme. But is it worth it.

AthleteTense and SuspensefulThrillerMale Lead
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Nash Falls

David Baldacci · 448 pages

When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Nash is an intelligent man, tough but fair-minded. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him

Tense and SuspensefulFinancial FraudFramed for a CrimeThriller
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Play Dead

Harlan Coben · 499 pages

Laura falls in love with Boston Celtic's star player, David Baskin. On their honeymoon in Australia he drowns in a freak accident. Now that the funeral is over, Laura is finding clues that make her think that David's accident was no accident. Everyone around her is acting strangely and Laura doesn't know who to trust as she tries to uncover the truth.

AthleteTense and SuspensefulThrillerFemale Lead
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Playing Dead

Allison Brennan

DEAD MAN RUNNINGSentenced to death for crimes he didn't commit, ex-cop Tom O'Brien is now a hunted fugitive. After fifteen years in prison, he's determined to prove his innocence--but first he must convince his daughter, whose testimony helped put him behind bars, that he has damning evidence of a plot to frame him.Claire is no longer the naive teenager who arrived home to find her mother and her

Tense and SuspensefulThrillerFramed for a CrimeMale Lead
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The Case Against William

Mark Gimenez · 400 pages

AthleteThrillerFramed for a CrimeMale Lead
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Marathon Man

William Goldman · 232 pages

Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence--and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder--and force him into a race for his life ... a

AthleteThrillerTense and SuspensefulMale Lead
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Whiskey Beach

Nora Roberts · 512 pages

For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore—and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home… A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of—but never arrested for—the murder of his soon-to-be-ex wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother i

Tense and SuspensefulThrillerFramed for a CrimeRomance
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Dick Francis's Bloodline

Felix Francis

"When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours la

AthleteTense and SuspensefulThrillerMale Lead
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Broken Beautiful Hearts

Kami Garcia · 407 pages

AthleteTense and SuspensefulRomanceMale Lead
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Daddy's Girl

Lisa Scottoline · 416 pages

Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class and secretly feels like Faculty Comic Relief. She loves her family, too, but as a bookworm, doesn't quite fit into the cult of Greco football, headed by her father, the team captain. The one person she feels most connected to is her colleague, Angus Holt, a guy with a brilliant min

Tense and SuspensefulThrillerFramed for a CrimePrison
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Private: Gold

James Patterson · 135 pages

Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague soon realizes the case is not what it seems and his partner's death may not be a suicide.

AthleteTense and SuspensefulThrillerMale Lead
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The Barkeep

William Lashner · 468 pages

"Justin Chase is the perfect barkeep, tending bar as he lives his life, in a state of Zen serenity. At least until Birdie Grackle, a yellow-haired, foul-mouthed alcoholic from Texas, walks into his bar, orders a Mojito, and makes a startling confession. Six years ago Justin's life was ripped apart when he discovered his mother's bludgeoned corpse in the foyer of the family home. Now Justin's fath

Tense and SuspensefulThrillerFramed for a CrimePrison
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Beg for Mercy

Jami Alden · 438 pages

"Megan Flynn thought she was falling in love. Cole Williams wasn't just handsome and passionate, he was one of the good guys. Or so she thought, until he arrested her brother--the only family she has left--for a murder she knows he couldn't have possibly committed. Now, with her heart broken and her brother's life hanging in the balance, Megan will risk everything to prove his innocence. Even if t

Tense and SuspensefulThrillerFramed for a CrimeRomance
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If Tomorrow Comes

Sidney Sheldon · 416 pages

***She's Tracy Whitney. Sidney Sheldon's most exciting heroine ever.*** Lovely, idealistic, she's soon to enter into a dazzling world of sumptuous wealth, audacious exploits, and narrow escapes--***and to a passion, dangerous and elusive, that promises to fulfill all her secret dreams ...*** ***The international bestseller from the master of suspense. A mafia conspiracy and one woman against t

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Double Cross

DiAnn Mills · 421 pages

"FBI Agent Laurel Evertson's investigation into a scam targeting the elderly takes an unexpected twist when key evidence leads her to Morton Wilmington, a felon she arrested five years ago on her first undercover assignment. Together with Houston police officer Daniel Hilton, she must decide if Wilmington is helping or leading them into a double cross"--

Tense and SuspensefulFinancial FraudThrillerRomance
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The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5)

John Grisham · 76 pages

ThrillerFramed for a CrimeTense and SuspensefulFinancial Fraud
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Financial FraudTense and SuspensefulThrillerFemale Lead
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The Girl with Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson · 678 pages

Berisi cerita pengungkapan pembunuh Harriet Vanger, putri salah satu keluarga paling berpengaruh di Swedia, yang hilang 40 tahun yang lalu ?.

Financial FraudTense and SuspensefulThrillerMale Lead
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg/ Vance Larsson (Simon (NRT)) · 656 pages

It?s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden ... and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It?s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet?s disappearance ... and about Lisbeth S

Financial FraudTense and SuspensefulThrillerMale Lead
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Hush

Karen Robards · 405 pages

When her estranged husband is found dead, Riley Cowan teams up with FBI agent Finn Bradley to identify the killer.

Tense and SuspensefulThrillerFinancial FraudRomance

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