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The ITW Thriller Awards honor excellence in the field of thriller and suspense writing.
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  • The Fever | Megan Abbott
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    The Fever

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins)
    • By Megan Abbott
    • Narrated By Caitlin Davies, Kirby Heyborne, Joe Barrett
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    The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hockey star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent student. Their seeming stability, however, is thrown into chaos when Deenie's best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class. Rumors of a hazardous outbreak spread through the family, school and community.

    FanB14 says: "Potential Unmet"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Hardcover Novel, 2015
  • The Weight of Blood: A Novel | Laura McHugh
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    The Weight of Blood: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 56 mins)
    • By Laura McHugh
    • Narrated By Dorothy Dillingham Blue, Shannon McManus, Sofia Willingham
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    The town of Henbane sits deep in the Ozark Mountains. Folks there still whisper about Lucy Dane's mother, a bewitching stranger who appeared long enough to marry Carl Dane and then vanished when Lucy was just a child. Now on the brink of adulthood, Lucy experiences another loss when her friend Cheri disappears and is then found murdered, her body placed on display for all to see.

    John S says: "Not too bad but you have to pay attention."
    Thriller Award Winner, Best First Novel, 2015
  • The Demonologist: A Novel | Andrew Pyper
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    The Demonologist: A Novel

    The Demonologist: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
    • By Andrew Pyper
    • Narrated By John Bedford Lloyd
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    Professor David Ullman's expertise in the literature of the demonic - notably Milton's Paradise Lost - has won him wide acclaim. But David is not a believer. One afternoon he receives a visitor at his campus office, a strikingly thin woman who offers him an invitation: travel to Venice, Italy, witness a "phenomenon", and offer his professional opinion, in return for an extravagant sum of money. Needing a fresh start, David accepts and heads to Italy with his beloved 12-year-old daughter, Tess. What happens in Venice will send David on an unimaginable journey from skeptic to true believer....

    David says: "The Hardy Boys meet Indiana Jones..."
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Novel, 2014
  • Red Sparrow: A Novel | Jason Matthews
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    Red Sparrow: A Novel

    Red Sparrow: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 55 mins)
    • By Jason Matthews
    • Narrated By Jeremy Bobb
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    Drafted against her will to become a "Sparrow" - a trained seductress in the service, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America's valuable mole in Moscow.

    Mel says: "Sexy Saucy Spies"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best First Novel, 2014
  • All Our Yesterdays | Cristin Terrill
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    All Our Yesterdays

    All Our Yesterdays

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 25 mins)
    • By Cristin Terrill
    • Narrated By Meredith Mitchell
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    "You have to kill him." Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain. Only Em can complete the final instruction. She's tried everything to prevent the creation of a time machine that will tear the world apart. She holds the proof: a list she has never seen before, written in her own hand. Each failed attempt in the past has led her to the same terrible present - imprisoned and tortured by a sadistic man called "the doctor" while war rages outside.

    Matthew says: "Pardon me...do you have the correct time?"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Young Adult Novel, 2014
  • The World Beneath: A Joe Tesla Novel | Rebecca Cantrell
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    The World Beneath: A Joe Tesla Novel

    The World Beneath: A Joe Tesla Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 12 mins)
    • By Rebecca Cantrell
    • Narrated By Jeffrey Kafer
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    Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Cantrell drops you into a vast, dark world: 100 miles of living, breathing, tunnels that is the New York City underground. This subterranean labyrinth inhales three million bustling commuters every day. And every day, it breathes them all out again...except for one.

    PowderRiverRose says: "I look forward to the next in the series"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best eBook Original Novel, 2014
  • Spilled Blood: A Novel | Brian Freeman
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    Spilled Blood: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 29 mins)
    • By Brian Freeman
    • Narrated By Joe Barrett
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    Linked by the Spirit River, the two towns couldn’t be more different: in affluent Barron, a powerful and secretive scientific research corporation enriches its residents, while downriver in blue-collar St. Croix, victims of that company’s carcinogenic waste struggle to survive. The bad blood between the communities escalates into open warfare when the beautiful Ashlynn, daughter of the corporation’s president, is found shot dead—and a St. Croix girl, Olivia Hawk, is accused of the crime.

    cristina says: "Excellent story"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Novel, 2013
  • The 500: A Novel | Matthew Quirk
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    The 500: A Novel

    The 500: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
    • By Matthew Quirk
    • Narrated By Jay Snyder
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    A year ago, fresh out of Harvard Law School, Mike Ford landed his dream job at the Davies Group, Washington's most powerful consulting firm. Now, he's staring down the barrel of a gun, pursued by two of the world's most dangerous men. To get out, he'll have to do all the things he thought he'd never do again: lie, cheat, steal - and this time, maybe even kill. Mike grew up in a world of small-stakes con men, learning lessons at his father's knee. His hard-won success in college and law school was his ticket out.

    shelley says: "This book is WILD!! Easy 5 STARS..."
    Thriller Award Winner, Best First Novel, 2013
  • Lost Things | John Rector
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    Lost Things

    Lost Things

    • UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 26 mins)
    • By John Rector
    • Narrated By Todd Haberkorn
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    Fresh out of college, Evan has everything going for him: a good job, a beautiful fiancée, and the prospect of making partner at his firm. Then one night, with one bad decision, his dream life turns into a nightmare of cover-ups and lies. It begins as one last drunken celebration with his old friend Peter but ends with a deadly confrontation so heinous the two make a pact to never tell anyone about it - not even the police. The truth has a way of getting out, however, and the truth about Peter is far more dangerous than Evan could have ever imagined.

    Candy Rutledge says: "Interesting story"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Short Story, 2013
  • Blind Faith | CJ Lyons
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    • By CJ Lyons
    • Narrated by Nick Landrum
    • Length:12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release Date: 08-15-12
    • 3.60  (38 ratings)
    Blind Faith

    Blind Faith

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 16 mins)
    • By CJ Lyons
    • Narrated By Nick Landrum
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    After the deranged lunatic who murdered Sarah Durandt’s husband and son is executed, Sarah returns to her home in the Adirondacks in hopes of achieving some measure of closure. But once there, Sarah is forced to face a nightmarish possibility. The wrong man may have been sent to his death, and the killer of her loved ones may be hunting for a new victim.

    maria says: "entertaining"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best eBook Original Novel, 2013
  • 11-22-63: A Novel | Stephen King
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    11-22-63: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 44 mins)
    • By Stephen King
    • Narrated By Craig Wasson
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    On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

    Kelly says: "I Owe Stephen King An Apology"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Hard Cover Novel, 2012
  • The Last Minute | Jeff Abbott
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    The Last Minute

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 52 mins)
    • By Jeff Abbott
    • Narrated By Kevin T. Collins
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    Sam Capra has one reason to live: to rescue his baby son from the people who abducted him. An ex-CIA agent, Sam now owns bars around the world as cover for his real mission - working undercover for a secret network as mysterious as it is powerful, while using his skills to find his child. Now the kidnappers have offered a deadly deal: they'll surrender Sam's child... if Sam finds and murders the one man who can expose them.

    Gretchen M. Gogan says: "Thrill a Minute"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Paperback Original, 2012
  • Spiral: A Novel | Paul McEuen
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    • By Paul McEuen
    • Narrated by Rob Shapiro
    • Length:10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release Date: 03-22-11
    • 3.80  (126 ratings)
    Spiral: A Novel

    Spiral: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 35 mins)
    • By Paul McEuen
    • Narrated By Rob Shapiro
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    When Nobel laureate Liam Connor is found dead at the bottom of one of Ithaca, New York’s famous gorges, his research collaborator, Cornell professor of nanoscience Jake Sterling, refuses to believe it was suicide. Why would one of the world’s most eminent biologists, a 86-year old man in good health who survived some of the darkest days of the Second World War, have chosen to throw himself off a bridge? And who was the mysterious woman caught on camera at the scene?

    Andrew says: "Unbelievable, implausible plot"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best First Novel, 2012
  • The Cold Room: Taylor Jackson Series | J. T. Ellison
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    The Cold Room: Taylor Jackson Series

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 8 mins)
    • By J. T. Ellison
    • Narrated By Joyce Bean
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    Homicide detective Taylor Jackson thinks she's seen it all in Nashville—from the Southern Strangler to the Snow White Killer. But she's never seen anything as perverse as The Conductor. Once his victim is captured, he contains her in a glass coffin, slowly starving her to death. Only then does he give in to his attraction.

    Amorah Ross says: "Chilling Spellbinder"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Paperback Original, 2011
  • Bad Blood: A Virgil Flowers Novel | John Sandford
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    Bad Blood: A Virgil Flowers Novel

    Bad Blood: A Virgil Flowers Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 43 mins)
    • By John Sandford
    • Narrated By Eric Conger
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    One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator - and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down...and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn't so sure....

    Bob says: "EXCELLENT!"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Hard Cover Novel, 2011
  • Still Missing | Chevy Stevens
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    Still Missing

    Still Missing

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 6 mins)
    • By Chevy Stevens
    • Narrated By Angela Dawe
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    On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old Realtor, had three goals: sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.

    Richard Delman says: "A singular voice; a horrendous story."
    Thriller Award Winner, Best First Novel, 2011
  • The Neighbor: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel | Lisa Gardner
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    The Neighbor: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

    The Neighbor: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 28 mins)
    • By Lisa Gardner
    • Narrated By Emily Janice Card, Kirby Heyborne, Kirsten Potter
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    It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy: a young mother, blond and pretty, disappears without a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her handsome, secretive husband as the prime suspect. But from the moment Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren arrives at the Joneses - a snug little bungalow, she senses something off about the picture of wholesome normality the couple worked so hard to create.

    KSK says: "Listen to "Say Goodbye" first"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Hard Cover Novel, 2010
  • Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith
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    Child 44

    Child 44

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 24 mins)
    • By Tom Rob Smith
    • Narrated By Dennis Boutsikaris
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    It is a society that is, officially, a paradise. Superior to the decadent West, Stalin's Soviet Union is a haven for its citizens, providing for all of their needs: education, health care, security. In exchange, all that is required is their hard work, and their loyalty and faith to the Soviet State. But now a murderer is on the loose.

    Melvin says: "Terror from all sides."
    Thriller Award Winner, Best First Novel, 2009
  • The Bodies Left Behind | Jeffery Deaver
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    The Bodies Left Behind

    The Bodies Left Behind

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 49 mins)
    • By Jeffery Deaver
    • Narrated By Holter Graham
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    The Bodies Left Behind is an epic cat-and-mouse chase, told nearly in real-time, and is filled with Deaver's patented twists and turns, where nothing is what it seems, and death lingers just around the next curve on a deserted path deep in the midnight forest.

    Deb says: "very disapointing"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Thriller of the Yesr, 2009
  • The Ghost Writer: A Novel | Robert Harris
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    The Ghost Writer: A Novel

    The Ghost Writer: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 47 mins)
    • By Robert Harris
    • Narrated By Roger Rees
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    (331)
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    Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.

    Jim says: "What a HUGE Surprise!"
    Thriller Award Winner, Best Novel, 2008
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