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All Is Not Forgotten

Wendy Walker · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"An assured, powerful novel that blends suspense and rich family drama...it is, in a word, unforgettable." --William Landay, author of DEFENDING JACOBWendy Walker's All Is Not Forgotten begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture...
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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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Bagmen

William Lashner · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Print book

Victor Carl is back, and back in trouble. At a low point in his lowly career, Victor finds himself skulking through the streets of Philadelphia carrying a bag full of money for an ambitious politician. It is a rotten job on the wrong side of anyones line, but with bag in hand Victor is suddenly...
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The House Husband

JAMES PATTERSON · BOOKSHOTS
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Harry Posehn is the best dad, the best husband...well, maybe not. Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about Harry Posehn. But there's a twist that she--and you, dear reader--will never see coming. BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES PATTERSON...
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Under the Knife: A Novel

Kelly Parsons · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Biotechnology tycoon Morgan Finney is highly intelligent but shy and emotionally fragile. When his beloved wife Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney's grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita just as he believes she killed his wife. But first he will...
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

Graeme MaCrae Burnet · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this...
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Full Bodied Murder

CHRISTINE E BLUM · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

As the newest member of the Rose Avenue Wine Club, Halsey wants to expand her palate - not solve murders. But when a neighbor is found dead, it's up to her to pair the culprit with a deadly crime . . . Leaving behind a failed marriage, New Yorker Annie "Halsey" Hall is ready...
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Hellbent

Gregg Hurwitz · Minotaur Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Evan Smoak -- government assassin gone rogue -- returns in Hellbent, an engrossing, unputdownable thriller from Gregg Hurwitz, the latest in his #1 international bestselling Orphan X series.Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government...
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The English Agent

Phillip DePoy · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In 1583, young Christopher Marlowe -- student, brawler, rakehell, and would-be playwright -- has had a dreadful evening. The first performance of his play in the corner of a very disreputable Cambridge bar is a humiliating flop, and then he's attacked on the streets while in the company...
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The Arsonist

Sue Miller · Vintage
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of While I Was Gone and The Senator's Wife, a superb new novel about a family and a community tested when an arsonist begins setting fire to the homes of the summer people in a small New England town.Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after...
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In Her Bones: A Novel

Kate Moretti · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti's next "exceptional ... emotionally astute, [and] deliciously sinister" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) thriller follows the daughter of a convicted serial killer who finds herself at the center of a murder investigation.Fifteen...
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The Night Child: A Novel

ANNA QUINN · Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks -- ''a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating...
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Haunted Destiny

Heather Graham · Mira Books
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

The newest story in Heather Graham's popular Krewe of Hunters series, Haunted Destiny is another page-turner - set on a cruise ship. You'll never look at taking a vacation the same way again! Between the Evil and the Deep Blue Sea ... A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic...
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Chase: A BookShot: A Michael Bennett Story

James Patterson · Bookshots
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

"This was no suicide," says Detective Michael Bennett.A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide--except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett.BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES...
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The Girl Before: A Novel

J P Delaney · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception.SOON...
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