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Underrated Gems: Mysteries & Thrillers
By Mary Kay McBrayer
There’s something about having to solve a mystery without having the internet in your pocket that makes it so much more compelling, right? And as we all know, there’s no good reason notto have the internet in your pocket…unless it hasn’t been invented yet. Join us on five stops in history and across the world for some fascinating, underrated thrillers.
Let’s start in the summer of 1961 in New Bremen, Minnesota, 13-year-old Frank has the regular concerns of any teenage athlete… until tragedy strikes his family more than once, visiting his father (a Methodist minister), his artistic mother, his elder sister, and his younger brother. Told as a coming-of-age tale meets thriller, from the distance of forty years, Frank explains the mystery that plunged him into an adulthood full of lies and betrayal.
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Hardcover
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Did you know that Madame Tussaud was a real person? Yes, the Madame Tussaud of the wax museums! In Little, we learn about Marie, born in 1761, in a Swiss village. She’s odd-looking and small, and when Marie is orphaned, she becomes an apprentice to an eccentric sculptor. He sculpts severed body parts for medical study, including death masks from which he casts heads in wax. He and Marie move to seedy Paris just before the French Revolution, where wax sculptures of heads take on new, political importance… especially when the head has been dismembered from its aristocratic body. What will Marie do to survive the bloody revolution? The answer is…what won’t she do?
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Hardcover
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This one is also based on a true story—or, at least, an allegedly true story. This time, let’s travel back to 1726, Godalming, England, where a woman claims she gives birth to dead rabbits. Mary Toft birth rabbits almost every day, as many as seventeen in a litter, and she otherwise exists in a somewhat catatonic state. The story is told from the perspective of Surgeon John Howard’s apprentice, Zachary Walsh, who goes with Dr. Howard when he’s summoned to Mrs. Toft’s bedside. Dr. Howard faces the phenomenon with pure logic. Is Mary Toft really doing this? How? Or, perhaps more importantly, why?And how can they find out, for sure?
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Trade Paperback
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Let’s go to 1950s Washington, D.C. next, where Congressman Charlie Marder has been forced into the political position after the mysterious death of his predecessor. Charlie and his wife Margaret swirl among the glamor and prestige of the time and place until a fatal car accident reveals to them a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top. Will Charlie stand by his principles, or will he do what he has to do to save his own life?
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The summer of 1976, brothers Jesse and Edgar run the southwest roads hunting prey. They’re rovers, nocturnal beings who consume human blood from necessity, clinging to the dregs of society just to survive. It might sound like fantasy, but this hardboiled supernatural thriller goes gritty fast when a potential victim reminds Jesse of his past. She reminds Jesse of his humanity, and she risks her life doing it… but will Jesse step up to save it for her?
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