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Forty Thieves

Thomas Perry · The Mysterious Press
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

From Thomas Perry, the New York Times bestselling author of the Jane Whitefield series, comes a whip-smart and lethally paced standalone novel, Forty Thieves. Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married...
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The Guest Room: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian · Doubleday
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams. When Kristin Chapman...
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A Banquet of Consequences: A Lynley Novel

Elizabeth George · Viking
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

"George's mystery unfolds with great psychological depth, finely drawn characters and gorgeous portraits of the English countryside. . . . [George] is an essential writer of popular fiction today." - The Washington PostThe #1 New York Times bestselling author's award-winning...
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Desperate

Daniel Palmer · Kensington; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Palmer burnishes his status as one of today's best thriller writers with this emotionally gripping and steel-trap plotted standalone. Palmer is so successful at getting readers to invest in Gage that his travails are almost too painful to read about." --Publishers Weekly...
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Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill · Knopf
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover

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Testimony

Scott Turow · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR) , returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance.At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill...
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Security: A Novel

Gina Wohlsdorf · Algonquin Books
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover

"Original and imaginative . . . Ripping suspense, sheer terror, and a wrenching love story." - Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author of FrictionThe terrible truth about Manderley is that someone is always watching. Manderley Resort is a gleaming, new twenty-story hotel...
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The Target

David Baldacci · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 420
Format: Print book

The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns...
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House of Echoes: A Novel

Brendan Duffy · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

In this enthralling and atmospheric thriller, one young family's dream of a better life is about to become a nightmare. Ben and Caroline Tierney and their two young boys are hoping to start over. Ben has hit a dead end with his new novel, Caroline has lost her banking job, and eight-year-old...
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The Only Child

Andrew Pyper · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The #1 internationally bestselling author of The Demonologist radically reimagines the origins of gothic literature's founding masterpieces - Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula - in a contemporary novel driven by relentless suspense and surprising emotion....
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Robert B. Parker's Debt to Pay

Reed Farrel Coleman · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 338
Format: Print book

*New York Times bestseller*The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life,...
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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine: A Novel

Alexandra Kleeman · Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 283
Format: Print book

An intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass that is at once a missing-person mystery, an exorcism of modern culture, and a wholly singular vision of contemporary womanhood from a terrifying and often funny voice of a new generation.A...
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The Lady from Zagreb

Philip Kerr · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by Malcolm Forbes as "the best crime novels around today." A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda...
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Badlands

C J Box · Minotaur Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

"Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective...
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Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel

Yiyun Li · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, "one of America's best young novelists" (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China...
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