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  Short Summary Douglas Brunt veered off the path well-known to him and chose to dabble in non-fiction when he recently published The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel . In it, he points his attention to the often overlooked inventor of engine by the same name, giving us a window into his complicated life, leading us all the way to its known conclusion, which leaves all too much room for speculation.

  Short Summary Riley Sager (pen name used by Todd Ritter ) has been pumping out one sensational mystery thriller after the next, and his latest one, titled The Only One Left , captured my attention with its curious premise. The story follows Kit McDeere, a home-health aide who takes a job working for a stroke-scarred seventy-year-old woman with an infamous past. One night, the woman makes Kit an offer: she promises to tell her everything about the strange and sensational murder case which happened over fifty years ago, the one she was at the very centre of as the prime suspect.

  Short Summary James Patterson and Mark Sullivan have become an inseparable duo in the realm of thrillers a while ago, most notably with the Private series. One of the more prominent works is the fifth book, Private Berlin , and it follows the investigation into a slaughterhouse which holds many dark secrets from the East German days, a slaughterhouse where one of Private's agents is found murdered.

  Short Summary A.G. Riddle is , for good reason, one of the foremost science-fiction authors of the modern age, his mind not only rife with original ideas, but also extremely well-versed in expressing them. In his latest novel, titled Quantum Radio , he follows Dr. Tyson Klein, a CERN scientist working with the Large Hadron Collider , on the verge of making a nigh-unimaginable discovery, the truth of which threatens to radically change the future.

  Short Summary James Patterson and Maxine Paetro are parents to one of the more recognizable and celebrated detective series with the Women's Murder Club, being over twenty books in and showing no intention of stopping. In the fourteenth installment, titled 14th Deadly Sin , they send Lindsay Boxer and the rest of the club chasing after a pair of maniacs holding San Francisco hostage through their sheer brutality. What's worse, none are above suspicion, not even the police themselves.

  Short Summary Nicholas Sansbury Smith has taken his divers a very long way from their humble beginning in the skies, having them fight for an unlikely oasis on Earth in the fifth installment. In the sixth one, Hell Divers VI: Allegiance , we follow Xavier as he tries to reign as the reluctant king of the islands, all while a new group of divers tries to locate other survivors on Earth, before hostile android defectors wipe them all out.