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From Away

Phoef Sutton · Prospect Park Books
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback

Sammy Kehoe, his sister, Charlotte, and her four-year-old daughter, Maggie, are all each other have left since the car accident that killed the rest of their family. When they visit their beloved old family home on remote Fox Island, Maine, Sammy and Charlotte each have relationship sparks...
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The God Wave: A Novel

Patrick Hemstreet · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A team of neuroscientists uncover amazing new capabilities in the brain that may steer human evolution toward miraculous and deadly frontiers in this spectacular debut work of speculative science fiction - Limitless meets James Rollins - that combines spirituality and science in an inventive,...
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Wagging through the Snow

LAURIEN BERENSON · Kensington
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"If you like dogs, you'll love Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries!" - Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling author Melanie Travis needs a little peace from her busy life this Christmas. But the usual holiday hubbub is a joy compared to the killer surprise she finds...
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We Eat Our Own: A Novel

Kea Wilson · Scribner
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

"An ambitious debut novel by an original young writer, We Eat Our Own blurs the lines between life and art with the story of a film director's unthinkable experiment in the Amazon. When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film...
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Death of a Chocoholic

Lee Hollis · Kensington
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback

Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is not looking for love this Valentine's Day. Of course she also isn't planning on looking for a murderer. . .Fed up with dating after a disastrous setup, the only thing Hayley wants to snuggle up to is a box of made-to-order chocolates...
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Gun Metal Heart

Dana Haynes · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In Gun Metal Heart by Dana Haynes, Daria Gibron, a freelance operative with a long and deadly history, has been slowly recovering from the injuries sustained from her last case. Hiding out in a town in rural Italy, she has been staying as far off the map as she can--until she's tracked...
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Need You Dead

Peter James · Macmillan
Pages: 419
Format: Paperback

Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most mysterious case yet in Need You Dead. Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna finds, life seldom...
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Death in the Abstract: A Katherine Sullivan Mystery

EMILY BARNES · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Retired police chief Katherine Sullivan moved away from Edina, Minnesota to feed her artistic soul in New Mexico. But when she receives an urgent call, her serenity is shattered. Nathan Walker, her best friend and former colleague from her days on the police force, is missing and his crew...
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Displaced: A Novel

Stephan Abarbanell · Harper
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

Echoing the fiction of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, this deeply intelligent debut literary thriller - set within a world still reeling from World War II - explores how the actions of a few can change the course of history.British-occupied Palestine, 1946: Elderly writer Elias...
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Not of This Fold

Mette Ivie Harrison · Soho Crime
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

The fourth installment in Mette Ivie Harrison's nationally bestselling Linda Wallheim mystery series, set in Mormon Utah, explores the effects of alienation, immigration, and extortion from the inner workings of the Mormon church.Now that all five of her sons have left home, Mormon...
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Daughters of the Lake

Wendy Webb · Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The ghosts of the past come calling in a spellbinding heart-stopper from the "Queen of the Northern Gothic."After the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents' home on Lake Superior to pull herself together - only to discover the body of a murdered woman...
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Tokyo Kill: A Thriller

Barry Lancet · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A stellar novel of action, adventure, and intrigue. Jim Brodie is a true twenty-first century heroOn page after page of Tokyo Kill, skeletons bang on every closet door longing to be set free—and Barry Lancet delivers. —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lincoln Myth...
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Exit Strategy: A Nick Mason Novel

Steve Hamilton · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover

In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission... Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible:...
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The Sentence Is Death: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The writer "Anthony Horowitz" and eccentric detective Daniel Hawthorne team up again in a new mystery as they delve deeper into Hawthorne's past.
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Look Behind You

IRIS JOHANSEN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 325
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen and Edgar Award-winning author Roy Johansen are back with Look Behind You, a novel featuring Kendra Michaels -- hired gun for both the CIA and FBI.A serial killer is on the loose in San Diego with a most unusual M.O. With each kill, the perpetrator...
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