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Correa, Armando Lucas. The Silence in Her Eyes. Atria. Jan. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9781982197506. $27. THRILLER

Leah has akinetopsia, or motion blindness. But she can still see, and her other senses are so acute that she can intuit the anxiety of her new neighbor in the apartment next door. After she hears a violent fight there, she learns that Alice has moved in to escape an abusive husband. Then Leah awakens with an intruder in her apartment whose scent lingers in the morning. What should she do? From the author of the internationally best seller The German Girl.

Elston, Ashley. First Lie Wins. Pamela Dorman: Viking. Jan. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9780593492918. $28. lrg. prnt. THRILLER

Evie Porter knows her job: she must charm her way into Ryan Sumner’s life, following instructions from her mysterious boss, Mr. Smith. But Evie’s beginning to like her quarry, and she can now envision a different kind of life for herself. Only she’s not really Evie Porter, and the one person who could spill her real identity has just arrived in town. YA novelist Elston makes the leap to adult novels.

Ferraro, Nicolás. My Favorite Scar. Soho Crime. Jan. 2024. 312p. tr. from Spanish by Mallory Craig-Kuhn. ISBN 9781641295154. $27.95. THRILLER

Ámbar would like to lead the life of an ordinary 15-year-old, with rock bands and boyfriends, but no such luck. Her father, Víctor Mondragón, is a notorious gangster, and when one of his associates is murdered, father and daughter must go on the run. From the Dashiell Hammett Award–winning Argentinean author Ferraro (Cruz).

Grumley, Michael C. Deep Freeze. Forge. Jan. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781250898685. $26.99. Downloadable. THRILLER

In “Breakthrough” series author Grumley’s near-future thriller, Army veteran John Reiff knows he will die when the bus he’s on crashes precipitously into a freezing river. But when he wakes up in the hospital, the doctors breezily assure him that he’ll be fine. Something decidedly creepy is going on. With a 200,000-copy first printing.

McCulloch, Amy. Midnight: A Thriller. Anchor. Jan. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780593315521. $28. THRILLER

Olivia Campbell is thrilled to be sailing to Antarctica on the luxury ocean liner where her art-dealer boyfriend plans to hold an auction. She’s just a little bothered that the shipping company’s CEO and several flustered-looking employees are on board. After the first deaths, the bloodshed doesn’t seem accidental. From the author of Breathless, a BOMC hit.

Marshall, Kate Alice. No One Can Know. Flatiron: Macmillan. Jan. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781250859914. $28.99. Downloadable. THRILLER

After their parents are murdered, sisters Emma, Juliette, and Daphne Palmer leave home, and 14 years elapse before a pregnant Emma returns to the house she and her estranged sisters still own. There are secrets to uncover, including her own—that night, she heard the whispered comment, “No one can know”—and the sisters are drawn together again. Following the multi-starred What Lies in the Woods; with a 75,000-copy first printing.

Pe, Amy. Northwoods. Emily Bestler: Atria. Jan. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9781668017265. $27. THRILLER

Drinking hard, bereft of career and marriage, and still haunted by his time in Afghanistan, Eli North holds a job in the sheriff’s office of his small Wisconsin town only because his mother is sheriff. Then a teenage boy is found dead, and a young FBI agent joins Eli and his mother in a hunt that leads to a wealthy pharmaceutical salesman’s enclave as the opioid crisis crashes like heavy waves around them. A debut from Wisconsin-based nurse practitioner Pease.

Wray, CJ. The Excitements. Morrow. Jan. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9780063337480. $30. THRILLER

British sisters Josephine and Penny Williamson are World War II veterans in their late nineties, lionized at home and heading to France to receive the Légion d’honneur for helping to liberate France. Ostensibly, they worked for the Royal Navy and the nursing corps, but actually Josephine was an intelligence operative and Penny a spy skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and while abroad they’re taking time out to settle a few scores and pull off a heist.

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