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The King of Swords

Nick Stone · Harper
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

Miami, 1981. When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like another routine - if slightly bizarre - investigation. Until two things turn up: the victim's family, slaughtered; and a partly digested tarot card...
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The Demon Crown: A Sigma Force Novel

James Rollins · William Morrow
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A construction project beneath the National Mall reveals a dark secret dating back to the Civil War, something buried by a cabal of scientists, led by Alexander Graham Bell, who helped found the Smithsonian Institution. It is a cache of bones, preserved in amber, protecting a wonder like...
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Ararat

Christopher Golden · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Fans of Dan Simmons' THE TERROR will love ARARAT, the thrilling tale of an adventure that goes awry. When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter inside a massive cave uncovered by the snow fall. The cave is actually an ancient, buried...
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Bluebird, Bluebird

ATTICA LOCKE · Mulholland Books
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire.When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply...
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The Woman in the Window: A Novel

A. J. Finn · William Morrow
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"Astounding. Thrilling. Lovely and amazing....Finn has created a noir for the new millennium, packed with mesmerizing characters, stunning twists, beautiful writing and a narrator with whom I'd love to split a bottle of pinot. Maybe two bottles - I've got a lot of questions for her."...
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The Night Manager

John Le Carre · Ballantine
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * AMC Miniseries event April 19 Tues 10/9c John le Carré, the legendary author of sophisticated spy thrillers, is at the top of his game in this classic novel of a world in chaos. With the Cold War over, a new era of espionage...
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Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane

Dorothy L. Sayers · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback

"Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself." - Times Literary SupplementThe great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter...
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Whose Body: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

Dorothy L. Sayers · Bourbon Street Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A corpse has been found in the bath of an architect's flat, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez.A financier has seemingly vanished into thin air from his bedroom.The ever-curious Lord Peter Wimsey is intrigued by these odd events. Ignoring the clumsy efforts of the official investigator...
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The Last American Vampire

Seth Grahame-Smith · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

Vampire Henry Sturges returns in the highly anticipated sequel to Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter-a sweeping, alternate history of twentieth-century America by New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith.THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIREIn Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges...
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Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars: A Novel

Miranda Emmerson · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In this sparkling debut novel imbued with the rich intrigue of Kate Atkinson's literary mysteries and the spirited heart of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, a disparate group of Londoners plunge into a search for a missing American actress.In the dreary days of November 1965, American actress...
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Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates

Kathy Aarons · Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Whether it’s to satisfy a craving for chocolate or pick up the hottest new bestseller, the locals in charming West Riverdale, Maryland, are heading to Chocolates and Chapters, where everything sold is to die for… Best friends Michelle Serrano and Erica Russell are celebrating...
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Teetotaled: A Mystery

Maia Chance · Minotaur Books
Pages: 291
Format: Paperback

"Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets -- and has a high old time doing it! So will you." -- Ann B. Ross, New York Times bestselling author of the Miss Julia seriesAfter her philandering husband died and left her penniless in Prohibition-era New York, Lola Woodby escaped with her Swedish...
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The Gangster

Clive Cussler · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Isaac Bell is back in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure Clive Cussler. It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn...
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You've Been Warned

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy "Don't think, just shoot"--pictures, that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full-time as the nanny for the fabulously wealthy Turnbull family, looking after their two wonderful children and waiting for her glamorous...
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Honky Tonk Samurai

Joe R. Lansdale · Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

NOW THE BASIS OF THE NEW SERIES ON SUNDANCETV.Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads.
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