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Editor’s pick★ 5

Shifta

by Miles Joyner

Every bet has a target. Every target has a bodyguard.

Shifta by Miles Joyner review: a fast, smart political crime thriller where a bodyguard team faces a hacker-led dead pool. Themes, characters, style, and similar reads.

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Editor’s pick★ 4

Broken Rival

by Tessa Bailey

He watched her for years. He never once said why.

A scientist's daughter stranded fifty years in the past is taken in by a Kansas pastor's family, loved by one son and loathed by the other. Bailey's first move away from comedy is a big, swoony, sometimes bloody time-travel romanc…

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Editor’s pick★ 4

Victorious

by V.E. Schwab

Every dose buys him hours. The end is already counting down.

Victor Vale is powerless, running out of medicine and counting the hours, while a soft-spoken new director remakes EON from the inside. Schwab's Villains finale is a two-clock thriller that pays off three books of rivalry, with a…

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Editor’s pick★ 5

Sir

by Martin James Miriam

The clock keeps reading 9:11. It was never a coincidence.

Sir by Martin James Miriam pits a New York accountant against the Controllers of a simulated world. Read our analysis of its dreams, dread and big ideas.

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Editor’s pick★ 4.5

Adam and Eve

by Jeffrey Archer

Born on the day one war ended. Raised for the next.

An earl's daughter and a shepherd's son, born on Armistice morning 1918, grow up on the same Norfolk estate and end up holding the fate of September 1940 in their hands. Archer's final novel, published the day after his death, is…

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