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Darktown: A Novel

Thomas Mullen · 37 Ink/Atria
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

"One incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural ... written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." - The New York Times Book Review "Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that connects an overlooked...
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Dying for Christmas: A Novel

Tammy Cohen · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A novel full of twists, surprising turns, and suspense, Dying for Christmas is Tammy Cohen's most disturbing psychological thriller yet. Out Christmas shopping one December afternoon, Jessica Gould meets the charming Dominic Lacey and impulsively agrees to go home with him for a drink....
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The Stephen Hawking Death Row Fan Club: Six Stories and a Novella

R. C. Goodwin · Langdon Street Press
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback

A stalker lets us glimpse into the world of his compulsions. A woman, confronting her convicted rapist, becomes obsessed with finding a way to kill him. A neo-nazi begins to see beyond the hate and violence on which he has based his life. How do people wind up in prison? Once there, can they...
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Pond

Claire-Louise Bennett · Riverhead Books
Pages: 195
Format: Print book

Shortlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize Named one of The Millions' Most Anticpated Books of 2016"A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut ... Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. ... [It]reminds us that small things have great depths."-New...
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So Say the Fallen

Stuart Neville · Soho Crime
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

Henry Garrick, a local car dealer who was maimed in an accident five months before, has apparently taken his own life. A simple case, it should be wrapped up in a few days. But something doesn't feel right to Belfast detective Serena Flanagan, despite the fact that there is no evidence...
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Bronx Requiem: A Novel

John Clarkson · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The death of Paco "Packy" Johnson shouldn't have surprised anyone. Paco Johnson spent a lifetime in the system -- starting in juvie at age 10, then prison for most of his adult life. But he managed to make some real friends in prison, friends who helped him get parole, a place...
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The Mirror Thief

Martin Seay · Melville House
Pages: 582
Format: Print book

A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece in the tradition of Cloud Atlas.Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay's debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural...
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Listen to Me

Hannah Pittard · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A modern gothic about a marriage and road trip gone hauntingly awry Mark and Maggie's annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they're on the road, it's late, a storm is brewing, and they are no longer speaking to one another. Adding to the stress,...
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Miss Dimple and the Slightly Bewildered Angel: A Mystery

Mignon F. Ballard · Minotaur Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

October, 1944. It has been a challenging season for Elderberry's favorite first grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick. A beloved former student was recently killed in the war, her brother has become distant, and her friend Odessa, the cook at Pheobe's rooming house, has taken a leave...
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The Breakout: A Novel

Ryan David Jahn · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

James Murphy is a Marine Corps sniper. He's done two tours in Afghanistan. He's considered an American Hero. And James is out for revenge.Alejandro Rocha, a massively powerful drug kingpin who operates out of La Paz, Mexico, is responsible for James's sister, Layla's death,...
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Six: Blood Brothers: Based on the History Channel Series SIX

Charles W. Sasser · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

Based on the History's series Six, an action-packed military thriller following the elite, legendary SEAL Team Six. The elite Navy unit known as SEAL Team Six is made up of some of the most renown and fearsome warriors of all time, deployed for only the toughest missions in the most...
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Black and Blueberry Die: A Fresh Baked Mystery

Livia J. Washburn · Fire Star Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

In the latest from the nationally bestselling author of The Candy Cane Cupcake Killer, Phyllis Newsom returns with a blackberry and blueberry pie recipe that's to die for ... It's late summer in Weatherford, Texas and Mike Newsom's childhood friend is sweltering in prison...
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Any Minute Now

Eric Van Lustbader · Forge
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From Eric Van Lustbader, the New York Times bestselling author of the Jason Bourne series come Any Minute Now.Red Rover is broken, finished, dead. The blackest of black ops teams is betrayed on its top-priority mission to capture and interrogate a mysterious Saudi terrorist. One of their...
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