Back Mystery & Thrillers | September Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Mystery & Thrillers  
The Son: A novel

Jo Nesbø · Random House Inc
Pages: 401
Format: Hardcover

The author of the best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set inside Oslo's maze of especially venal, high-level corruption. Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny's been in prison for a dozen years, nearly...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Blinds: A Novel

ADAM STERNBERGH · Ecco
Pages: 382
Format: Hardcover

From the Edgar Award-nominated author of Shovel Ready, a blistering new thriller that Dennis Lehane calls "propulsive and meaningful"For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and LostImagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Decent Interval

Simon Brett · Crème de la Crime
Format: Hardcover

After a long period of resting, life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlets Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet. But rehearsals are fraught.  Ophelia is played by Katrina Selsey, who won the role through a television talent show. ...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Measure of Blood: A Richard Christie Novel

Kathleen George · MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Format: Book

A murder sends a child into foster care and drags a detective into a feverish hunt for justiceNadal watches for weeks before he first approaches the boy. No matter what Maggie Brown says, he’s sure Matt is his son, and a boy should know his father. After their first confrontation,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Worthy Brown's Daughter

Phillip Margolin · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers, New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in Worthy Brown's Daughter, a compelling historical drama, set in nineteenth-century Oregon, that combines a heartbreaking story of slavery...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Dark City

F. Paul Wilson · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Dark City is the secondof a new prequel trilogy Repairman Jack The Early Years by F PaulWilsonIts February Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but twenty-two-year-old Jack has more pressing matters at home His favorite bar The Spot is about to be sold out from under Julio Jacks friend Jack...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Shattered

Allison Brennan · Minotaur Books
Pages: 390
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan's two series collide in Shattered, a powerful, enthralling read about the craving for revenge and the desire for justice.Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave....
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Chase

Janet Evanovich · Bantam
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERJanet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, bestselling authors of The Heist, return in this action-packed, exciting adventure featuring master con artist Nicolas Fox and die-hard FBI agent Kate O'Hare. And this time around, things go from hot to nuclear when government...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Takedown Twenty

Janet Evanovich · Bantam Books
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPowerhouse author Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels are "as entertaining as ever" (Entertainment Weekly) , "brilliantly evocative" (The Denver Post) , and "making trouble and winning hearts" (USA Today) . Stephanie...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Dry Bones

Peter Quinn · Overlook Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

Fintan Dunne, the detective at the center of The Man Who Never Returned and Hour of the Cat, is back in this spellbinding story of an ill-fated OSS mission into the heart of the Eastern front and its consequences more than a decade after the war's end. As the Red Army continues its unstoppable...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Not the Killing Type

Lorna Barrett · Berkley; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Murder on the Half Shelf Lorna Barrett delivers another compulsively page-turning Booktown Mystery in which amateur sleuth and bookstore owner Tricia Miles gets caught up in a local election that turns lethal ... It's November in Stoneham, New Hampshire,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Hellfire Club

Jake Tapper · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover

*Instant New York Times Bestseller* The debut political thriller from Jake Tapper, CNN's chief Washington correspondent and the New York Times bestselling author of The Outpost-- 1950's D.C. intrigue about a secret society and a young Congressman in its gripCharlie Marder is an unlikely...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Devil's Cold Dish: A Mystery

Eleanor Kuhns · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Will Rees is back home on his farm in 1796 Maine with his teenage son, his pregnant wife, their five adopted children, and endless farm work under the blistering summer sun. But for all that, Rees is happy to have returned to Dugard, Maine, the town where he was born and raised, and where...
Read More check catalog