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The Stolen Ones

Owen Laukkanen · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The blistering new novel from the author of the multi-award-nominated The Professionals - "Laukkanen is one of the best young thriller writers working today" (Richmond Times-Dispatch). When you've got nothing left, you've got nothing left to lose.Cass County, Minnesota:...
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Crime and Punishment: A New Translation

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY · Liveright
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

An event to be celebrated, a "rare Dostoesvsky translation" (William Mills Todd III, Harvard University) that fully captures the literary achievements of the original. So essential is Crime and Punishment (1866) to global literature and even to our understanding of roiling Russia...
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Murder on Millionaires' Row

ERIN LINDSEY · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Erin Lindsey takes readers on a chase through Gilded Age Manhattan, filled with wonderful historical details, ghosts, romance, and Pinkerton detectives in Murder on Millionaires' Row, a delightfully charming debut mystery.Rose Gallagher might dream of bigger things, but she's content enough...
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Drawn and Buttered

Shari Randall · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Drawn and Buttered is the third book in a wonderfully satisfying cozy mystery series set at the Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack in coastal New England.The Lazy Mermaid's business has slowed to a snail's pace -- until a monster lobster claws his way onto the scene ... With high season behind...
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The Deep Dark Descending

Allen Eskens · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers. Most of his life he had thought of himself as a decent...
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Fast and Loose

Stuart Woods · Penguin Audio
Pages: 357
Format: Audiobook

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Dark Waters: A Raisa Jordan Thriller

Chris Goff · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Raisa "Rae" Jordan, an agent for the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service, isn't in Israel for more than a day before her predecessor is killed in a Tel Aviv square. Assigned to investigate the assassination of one of her own, she must also protect Judge Ben Taylor and his teenage...
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The Killing Forest

Sara Blaedel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Sara Blaedel, author of the #1 international bestseller The Forgotten Girls--which was roundly praised as "gripping" with "uncompromising realism" (Washington Post) and "tautly suspenseful" (BookPage) --returns with the thrilling next book in her series...
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My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting... Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest...
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The Round House: A Novel

Louise Erdrich · Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Book

The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House,...
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August Snow

Stephen Mack Jones · Soho Crime
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover

From the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit's bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a fast-paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism, race and urban decay.Tough, smart, and struggling to stay alive, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African-American...
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The Broken Girls

Simone St James · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A breakout suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare.Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located,...
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The Strangler Vine

M.J. Carter · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 369
Format: Hardcover

Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenth-century colonial India, this dazzling historical thriller introduces Blake and Avery - an unforgettable investigative pair.India, 1837: William Avery is a young soldier with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret...
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Murder in Paradise

James Patterson · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

3 pulse-pounding stories from the world's #1 bestselling writer in one book!THE LAWYER LIFEGUARD with Doug Allyn: Are you the lawyer who got blown up with his girlfriend? Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancée. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes...
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Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder

Bonnie MacBird · Collins Crime Club
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The new novel from the author of the Art in the Blood.December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite...
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