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Sinner Man

Lawrence Block · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another...
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White Bone

Ridley Pearson · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 383
Format: Print book

John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable duo of the Risk Agent novels, team up again in the latest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson. When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover...
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All Things Cease to Appear: A novel

Elizabeth Brundage · Knopf
Pages: 395
Format: Hardcover

A dark, riveting, beautifully written book - by "a brilliant novelist," according to Richard Bausch - that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart, a gruesome and unsolved murder Late one winter afternoon...
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Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

Christopher Fowler · Bantam
Format: Hardcover

London's wiliest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back on the case in this fiendishly clever new mystery. And when a cemetery becomes the scene of a crime, neither secrets - nor bodies - stay buried. Romain Curtis sneaks into St. George's Gardens one evening with his date,...
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The Girl from Venice

Martin Cruz Smith · Simon and Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared "that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction," The Girl from Venice is a suspenseful World War II love story...
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The Kraken Project

Douglas Preston · St Martins Pr
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Wyman Ford is back again in The Kraken Project, the thrilling new novel from New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston.NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial...
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The Perfect Witness: A Novel

Iris Johansen · St. Martin's Press; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

She had the perfect life.She had the perfect cover.She was the perfect witness.Until they found her.When Teresa Casali was young she discovered she had a strange gift: the ability to read people's memories. But the gift seemed more like a curse as her mob boss father used her to gain...
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By Blood We Live

Glen Duncan · Random House Inc
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover

First Glen Duncan gave us his monstrously thrilling, genre-reinventing The Last Werewolf: the tale of Jake, a werewolf with a profoundly human heart, considering bringing to an end the timeless legend of his kind . . . Then Talulla Rising: Jake's werewolf lover, mother to newborn twins,...
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The Emerald Lie: A Jack Taylor Novel

Ken Bruen · Grove
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Ken Bruen, the "Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel" (Irish Independent) , is beloved for his black humor, verse-like prose, and irascible protagonist Jack Taylor, an ex-cop who is as addicted to trouble as he is to Jameson, pills, and pop culture.In The Emerald Lie, the latest...
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Tall Tail: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown · Bantam Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In this fast-paced mystery by Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her animal friends seek to solve a whodunit rooted in eighteenth-century Virginia - uncovering a shocking secret that refuses to stay buried. TALL TAIL At any moment...
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Borderline

Lawrence Block · Hard Case Crime
Format: Hardcover

THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS!On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meet  MARTY - the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night...
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Hot Pursuit

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington is back in the exciting new adventure from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods. It's not often that Stone Barrington finds a woman as accustomed to the jet-set lifestyle as he, so he's pleasantly surprised when he meets a gorgeous pilot who's soon moving to New York,...
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New Boy

TRACY CHEVALIER · HOGARTH PR
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy...
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The Skin Collector

Jeffery Deaver · Grand Central Publishing; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print Hardcover

In his classic thriller The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver introduced readers to Lincoln Rhyme-the nation's most renowned investigator and forensic detective. Now, a new killer is on the loose: a criminal inspired by the Bone Collector. And Rhyme must untangle the twisted web of clues...
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The Other Side of Silence

Philip Kerr · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by The Daily Beast as "the best crime novels around today." Once I'd been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray...
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