You're going to be afraid of, but read to the end of the 10 action-packed novels beginning of the year

1. "Dead Souls", Angela Marsons

Briton Angela Marsons has created one of the strongest female characters in modern action-detective. Her Kim Stone smart inspector, sharp-tongued and has a professional animal instinct, which helps it to survive and to unravel the terrible secrets that make up her work routine.

During excavations, archaeologists find modern human bones. Sort them, experts are horrified: it seems that they have stumbled upon a whole mass grave. Bones give damage from bullets and even animal traps ...

Additional trouble for Kim Stone is that by order of the authorities, she is forced to work with a former colleague Tom Travis. Trying to keep them acrimony no impact on the investigation, the investigation team starts to unwind the tangle terrible family secrets, human bones were found in one's ground.

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2. "Fix", David Boldachchi

Amos Decker - one of the most interesting characters of David Boldachchi, acclaimed master of the genre of political detective. After a sports injury he received an absolute memory and went to serve the law.

At this time, Decker witnesses a murder right in front of the main headquarters of the FBI. Although the perpetrator to seek and do not need - immediately after he shot himself in the head - the murder is puzzling.

Decker and his team could not find absolutely no connection between the firing, a family man with a successful consulting business, and his victim, a schoolteacher. Also there is no hint of any possible motives for the attack. The situation is complicated by the fact that all of a sudden a strange murder case is of national importance.

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3. "Roses in May," Dot Hutchison

Continued absolute bestseller "Butterfly Garden" literally blew book rankings a year ago. Four months after the events of the first book of the FBI agents Ramirez, Addison and Hanover still deal with the consequences Gardener business, helping survivors to adapt to a normal life.

Winter is coming to an end, and the very nature comes to the aid of "Butterfly": long bright days and warmth are beneficial to their health. But the agents approaching spring means another terrible news: somewhere at the other end of the country another young girl would find in the church with his throat cut and an altar of flowers around her body.

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4. "The walls around us," Nova Ren Suma

One fatal case has taken away from Ori Sperling everything: life, hope and friendship. To the prison "Aurora Hills" Ori was a talented, budding ballerina, but by the will of fate she was behind bars among the girls who cherish their dark secrets.

Ori has no idea that the unjust imprisonment - only the beginning of her strange and disturbing adventure. One August night Ory and other inmates find out that the door of their chambers are open and the protection of "Aurora Hills" gone.

Where did the cruel overseers? Who opened the locks? This story, as these questions may not be repeated again in August next year, the prisoners again one day will find a strange freedom. But what is behind all these events? I know someone who is willing to plunge into the mystical story of betrayal and true justice.

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5. "Forgotten" Sarah Bledel

In the glorious ranks Scandinavian thrillers worthy completion: "The Forgotten" Sarah Bledel, the most celebrated novelist of Denmark.

In the forest, he found a fresh corpse of an unknown woman. A large scar on his face must facilitate the identification, but no one reported her missing. It takes four days, but Louise Rick, the new head of the Department of missing persons still has not advanced in the case. Then it prints a photo of the deceased in the media and received a call from an elderly woman who has learned to picture the girl, which she cared for in a psychiatric hospital many years ago.

The dead woman in his time was left the family, as well as other children in the institution, and wore the nickname "The Forgotten." But soon, Louise discovers something else more frightening: in the dead had a twin sister, and more than 30 years ago have been issued death certificates for the two girls. Louise investigation returns to the places where she grew up, and suddenly she finds horrible business relationship with its own past.

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6. "Annihilation", Jeff Vandermeer

X Zone has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has absorbed the last remnants of human civilization. The first expedition returned with tales of unspoiled paradise landscape. All members of the second expedition, had committed suicide. Members of the third died in a shootout, which they themselves had arranged. Members of the eleventh expedition returned do not own and within a few months after his return died of aggressive cancer.

This is the twelfth expedition. The group consists of four women: anthropologist, biologist, psychologist and topography. Their mission - to make a detailed map of the area, collect samples, to record all observations and stay alive.

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7. "Stranger," Charlotte Link

Charlotte Link led the top 5 of the most widely read authors in modern Germany. Her novels are not just fall into the list of best-selling weekly Spiegel. In 2004, she was nominated for the German Book Prize, and in 2007 was awarded the prize "Golden Pen" for his literary work.

After the death of her husband, Rebecca Brandt desperate and decided to cut short his life. However, her plans July morning breaks an old friend: he calls in for a visit, and no one - brings a couple from Germany, Inga and Marius, casual acquaintances, lost their way in the midst of a terrible heat. Rebecca is forced to show hospitality - otherwise it can not.

But during the boat ride there is an accident: Marius falls overboard and disappears. A few days later the newspapers there are numerous pictures of Marius: police announced it in wanted on suspicion of killing a monstrous foster parents that affected all their cruelty Germany.

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8. "When I'm gone," Emily Bleeker

Luke Richardson returns home from the funeral of his beloved wife and mother of his three young children and finds on the floor... a letter from her. The envelope - page diary Natalie that she has started to conduct, when she learned about the disease. Letters begin to come on a regular basis, gradually bringing to mind a widower. Who and what gives them?

Faced with the death of his wife is not bothered anything. Her letters are striking in their frankness, and even hinted at a secret that Luke decides in whatever was found. But plunging into the world described in the letters, he inevitably begins to doubt - and I knew Whether he did the woman with whom he lived for 16 years?

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9. "Day of the closed doors," Blake Crouch

The long-awaited book, completes a trilogy about Thomas Andrew, the writer, who is suspected of terrible crimes he did not commit.

In the continuation of the bestseller "Wasteland. House of Fear "Andy Thomas is hiding with his girlfriend in the woods of northern Canada - godforsaken place where no one seemed to be beyond the power to find them. Incredibly, the past in the face of one of the most bloodthirsty book villains and there has placed their traps. Atrocities that he is preparing for the heroes, will turn their ideas of good and evil.

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10. "Bones" by Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman, MD, a clinical psychologist, with anatomical accuracy falls into the reader's nerves. His novels are built so that the suspense builds as the discarding of suspects and comes to a point boiling in the final, leaving the reader satisfied simultaneously and shaken to depth consciousness.

The next thing the criminal psychologist Alex Delaware and his longtime partner, sarcastic detective Milo Sturgis, It began with a phone call in a volunteer organization that takes care of the protected zone near by Los Angeles. Up felt stupid joke, but it turned out far from ridiculous consequences: in protected bogs found the body of a young woman.

Later in the same place and found other victims of the killer, on which there were only bones - particularly the swampy soil. Detectives have to rewind time back, when all these bones were women living with intricate fate that led to the terrible death and oblivion. But the main thing - the killer must be stopped.

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