Thrillers are the name of the game next month, with some long-awaited new titles from some of our readers' favorites!
The Boy, by Tami Hoag. New in Hoag's Doucet series (following 1997's A Thin Dark Line), The Boy finds Detective Nick Fourcade in the most brutal and confusing crime scene he's encountered to date. Genevieve Gauthier's home doesn't show signs of forced entry and she is physically unharmed, inexplicably left alive as a witness, telling a story of an unknown intruder who has murdered her 7-year-old son KJ. Who would kill a child and leave the only witness behind? When KJ's babysitter, Nora, is reported missing the following day, the sleepy Louisiana community is in an uproar. Nick and his wife, fellow detective Annie Broussard, must sift through Genevieve's past and Nora's disappearance to uncover the truth.
Pandemic, by Robin Cook. Taking on a cutting-edge tale of gene modification, Cook's latest begins when a young woman collapses on the New York subway and dies upon her arrival at the hospital. With eerie echoes of the 1918 flu pandemic near the hundredth anniversary, the incident begins to show anomalies when veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton autopsies the woman. First, she had a heart transplant. Second, impossibly, her transplanted heart matches her DNA. His investigation leads him to a gene-editing biotechnology that has captured the imagination of the medical community...and the attention of its most unethical members.
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