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Robert B. Parker's Damned if You Do

Michael Brandman · G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't...
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The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel

Martin Walker · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

Bruno, the beloved chief of police in the idyllic French town of St. Denis, is back This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff...
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Trumpet of Death: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

Cynthia Riggs · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himself of his troublesome girlfriend,...

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The Ninja's Daughter: A Hiro Hattori Novel

Susan Spann · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 230
Format: Print book

Autumn, 1565: When an actor's daughter is murdered on the banks of Kyoto's Kamo River, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo are the victim's only hope for justice.

As political tensions rise in the wake of the shogun's recent death, and rival warlords threaten...
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Little Sister: A Novel

Barbara Gowdy · Tin House Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

A ground-breaking novel about the porous boundaries of intimacy and consciousness, and the possibility of forgiveness.Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in another woman's...
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Purgatory

Ken Bruen · Mysterious Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Recovering from the severe mental and physical wounds inflicted from his recent past, former cop Jack Taylor has finally found a modicum of peace. He has managed to kick the myriad substances that have had a stranglehold over his painful life, however tenuously. Yet this fragile existence...
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Nighthawk

CLIVE CUSSLER · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master...
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Freedom of the Mask

Robert Mccammon · Subterranean Press, 2016.
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

The year is 1703, and Matthew Corbett, professional "problem solver," is missing. Last seen by his friends in New York before he departed on a lucrative, seemingly straightforward mission for the Herrald Agency in Charles Town, he's been too long absent. His comrade-in-arms...
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Curtain of death : a clandestine operations novel

W E B Griffin · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 467
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin comes the dramatic third novel in the Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency - and a new breed of warrior.

January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers' club in Munich,...
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Robert Ludlum's

Paul Garrison · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

To atone for the sins he committed serving his country, ex-covert government agent Paul Janson is determined to save the world: one person, one mission, one redemption at a time.THE JANSON OPTIONPaul Janson--a former Consular Ops legend known as "The Machine" for his deadly speed...
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The Sisters

Claire Douglas · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

One lied. One died.When one sister dies, the other must go to desperate lengths to surviveAfter a tragic accident, still haunted by her twin sister's death, Abi is making a fresh start in Bath. But when she meets siblings Bea and Ben, she is quickly drawn into their privileged and unsettling...
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The Long Way Home

Louise Penny · St Martins Pr
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There...
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The Fourth Monkey

J. D. Barker · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called, "A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind."

For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found,...
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You'll Never Know, Dear: A Novel of Suspense

HALLIE EPHRON · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight, about three generations of women haunted by a little girl's disappearance, and the porcelain doll that may hold the key to the truth . . .

Seven-year-old Lissie Woodham and her four-year-old...

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The Word Exchange: A Novel

Alena Graedon · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange is a fresh, stylized, and decidedly original debut about the dangers of technology and the power of the printed word. In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted death of print has become a near reality. Bookstores,...
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