Reading by the Skin of Your Teeth
Discover gripping books to read by the skin of your teeth! Explore thrilling survival stories, intense adventures, and edge-of-your-seat fiction in this curated list.
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The Devil's Punchbowl
by Greg Iles
The poster boy of southern gothic thrillers ("Kirkus Reviews") delivers a powerful and unforgettable reading experience with "The Devil's Punchbowl," which marks the return of Penn Cage, the protagonist of "The Quiet Game" and "Turning Angel".
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The Bodies Left Behind
by Jeffery Deaver
A signature Jeffery Deaver. A cat and mouse chase that will leave you breathless.
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True Detectives
by Jonathan Kellerman
Psychologist Alex Delaware joins forces with brothers Moe Reed and Aaron Fox as they seek to uncover secrets in high places that could explain the fate of an outwardly innocent young woman.
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Swimsuit
by James Patterson
A heart-pounding story of fear and desire, "Swimsuit" transports readers to a chilling new territory where the collision of beauty and murder transforms paradise into a hell of unspeakable horrors.
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The Associate
by John Grisham
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’ t want—even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed. With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains—from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle’s “cubicle” at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country—and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
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Dead Ringer
by Ken Douglas
"Maggie Nesbitt is pregnant and depressed, because her husband isn't the father of her unborn child. She's thinking about abortion when she's attacked on the beach. She barely gets away, then gets the shock of her life the next morning when she sees that she has been killed on the news and that her nude body had been dumped in the trash behind a beachside bar. She finds out the body behind the bar is the twin sister she'd been told had died when she was two weeks old. She also learns her twin was divorced from a horrid man and that she had an eight-year-old daughter, Jasmine. Maggie, showing a bump on her head she got while getting away from her attackers, claims partial amnesia and steps into her dead twin's life. This way she can have her baby, give it a home, and save Jasmine from having to go and live with her father. But she doesn't know her twin saw someone do murder. And that someone thinks he's killed the wrong woman."--Publisher description
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Gone Tomorrow
by Lee Child
Witnessing a suicide on a Manhattan subway, Jack Reacher finds himself targeted by the federal government and Al-Qaeda for his knowledge of a dangerous secret, a situation that leads to a dangerous chase through the streets of New York City.
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Devil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
When a plumber discovers the remains of a murdered girl and various dark religious objects in the cellar of a client's house, Temperance Brennan is called in to investigate the case and finds her efforts challenged by vigilante upheavals against Wiccans and occultists. 450,000 first printing.
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The Charlemagne Pursuit
by Steve Berry
A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica. 350,000 first printing.
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The Broken Window
by Jeffery Deaver
Chasing down a vicious serial killer who complicates his crimes by leaving behind iron-clan evidence implicating innocent people, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs reluctantly team up for the investigation only to find themselves rendered the killer's next targets. By the author of The Cold Moon. 300,000 first printing.
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Moscow Rules
by Daniel Silva
Investigating the suspicious death of a journalist in Moscow, Gabriel Allon learns of the machinations of a former KGB colonel whose covert arms dealing business is part of a larger plot to challenge the global dominance of the United States.
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Born to Run
by James Grippando
Intrepid Miami attorney Jack Swyteck comes to the aid of his former governor father as he investigates the suspicious hunting death of the vice president.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate
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Night and Day
by Robert B. Parker
Investigating allegations of lewd conduct on the part of the local junior high principal, police chief Jesse Stone finds efforts to bring the woman to justice thwarted by a high-powered attorney, a case that is further complicated by the activities of a twisted voyeur. 300,000 first printing.
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Killer View
by Ridley Pearson
A dead search-and-rescue team member, a missing friend, an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings may have something in common as Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming follows threa
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A Most Wanted Man
by John le Carre
Hailed as the literary master for a generation ("The London Observer"), "New York Times"-bestselling author le Carr returns with a stunning, compelling work set in Hamburg--a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.
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Undone
by Karin Slaughter
As Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Faith Mitchell and Will Trent try to connect two murders to a hit-and-run victim, Atlanta physician Sara Linton becomes more involved in the investigation--an investigation which soon culminates in the hunt for as
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The Venetian Betrayal
by Steve Berry
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Alexandria Link" offers a gripping international thriller that sends Cotton Malone on a perilous quest for the truth about the mysterious death of Alexander the Great.
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Swan Peak
by James Lee Burke
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns in another adventure--only this time, he travels from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana.
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The Renegades
by T. Jefferson Parker
Patrolling a section of the American West that he finds just as untamed as those depicted in early pulp novels, Charlie Hood is assigned to partner with a popular county veteran whose subsequent murder reveals sinister truths behind the man's stellar reputation.
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The keepsake
by Tess Gerritsen
"New York Times"-bestselling author Gerritsen delivers another electrifying thriller in her popular series that started with "The Surgeon," featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and police detective Jane Rizzoli.
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The Turnaround
by George P. Pelecanos
Thirty-five years after a devastating accident that irrevocably shapes the lives of six people, a pair of redemption-seeking survivors reaches out to one another in an effort that is compromised by a fellow survivor's release from prison and the changing neighborhoods of modern Washington, D.C.
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The Silver Swan
by Benjamin Black
Quirke, an irascible, hard-drinking Dublin pathologist, investigates the apparent suicide of Deidre Hunt, the beautiful young wife of an old acquaintance, and discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those h
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The Shotgun Rule
by Charlie Huston
Seeking revenge for the theft of a bicycle, four teenage friends discover that the missing item is in the hands of the Arroyo brothers, one of whom is just out of prison, and set out to retrieve it, stumbling upon a methamphetamine lab in the process.