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Only the Hunted Run: A Sully Carter Novel

Neely Tucker · Viking

""The test of a crime series is its main character, and Sully is someone we'll want to read about again and again."--Lisa Scottoline, The Washington Post "Tucker raises the stakes and ramps up the darkness in this series and makes you wonder, and even worry a little...
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Death Comes to the Village

Catherine Lloyd · Kensington
Format: Paperback

A wounded soldier and a rector's daughter discover strange goings-on in the sleepy village of Kurland St. Mary in Catherine Lloyd's charming Regency-set mystery debut.Major Robert Kurland has returned to the quiet vistas of his village home to recuperate from the horrors of Waterloo....
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The Nameless Dead

Brian McGilloway · Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback

A fifth procedural featuring Inspector Devlin, as well as the stark realities of recent Irish historyYou cant investigate the baby, Inspector. Its the law.Declan Clearys body has never been found, but everyone believes he was killed for informing on a friend more than 30 years ago. Now the Commission...
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Death of a Toy Soldier: A Vintage Toyshop Mystery

Barbara Early · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Liz McCall grew up in a playful winter wonderland but it was never her dream to manage her father's vintage toyshop. However, after he sank his entire police pension into the business, someone needed to help him turn his dreams into reality - and keep him from sneaking off to patrol the not-so-mean...
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A Hunt in Winter: A Joe Swallow Mystery

Conor Brady · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

In Dublin, newly promoted detective inspector Joe Swallow's life looks to be taking a turn for the better. In addition to his promotion, he's settled into a comfortable arrangement with his landlady and paramour, Maria Walsh. That is, until his newfound peace is chaotically uprooted when...
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Testimony

Scott Turow · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR) , returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance.At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill...
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Law and Vengeance

Mike Papantonio · SelectBooks
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Legal thriller based on true events. Quick-witted Gina Romano built her career as a criminal trial lawyer playing by all the rules to win justice for her clients. But the gruesome murder of her beloved law partner turns her world upside down, and now settling scores and winning in the courtroom...
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Where Dead Men Meet

MARK MILLS · Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A return to the period adventure thriller in Where Dead Men Meet reestablishes Mark Mills as a master storyteller for fans of William Boyd, Charles Cumming, or Robert Harris Paris, 1937. Luke Hamilton -- a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy -- finds himself the target...
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On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service

RHYS BOWEN · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Crowned and Dangerous, Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother. But it's all in a day's work when you're thirty-fifth in line to the British Crown. When Darcy runs...
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Cartwheel: A Novel

Jennifer duBois · Random House
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYSlate • Cosmopolitan • Salon • BuzzFeed • BookPageWritten with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel...
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Dry.

Jane Harper · Flatiron Books
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up ... You'll love [her] sleight of hand ... A secret on every page." -- The New York Times"One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read ... Every word is near...
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Unbound

STUART WOODS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington is pulled along for the ride when a friend pursues a perilous course of vengeance in the newest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.In the wake of a personal tragedy, former CIA operative Teddy Fay - now a successful Hollywood film producer known...
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Silence Once Begun: A Novel

Jesse Ball · Pantheon; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the celebrated author of The Curfew ldquoA spare masterwork of dystopian fictionrdquo mdashThe New York Times Book Review Jesse Ballrsquos Silence Once Begun is an astonishing novel of unjust conviction lost love and a journalistrsquos obsessionOver the course of several months eight...
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A Simple Favor: A Novel

Darcey Bell · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent...
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The Book of Mirrors: A Novel

Eugen-Ovidiu Chirovici · Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

An elegant, page-turning thriller in the vein of Night Film and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, this tautly crafted novel is about stories: the ones we tell, the ones we keep hidden, and the ones that we'll do anything to ensure they stay buried.When literary agent Peter Katz receives...
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