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A Time of Torment: A Charlie Parker Thriller

John Connolly · Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

"Connolly again displays his mastery at combining the hard-boiled with the supernatural." - Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally bestselling author John...
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The Sixth Idea

P J Tracy · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The Monkeewrench crew returns in a twisty, heart-stopping new thriller. The peaceful Christmas season in Minneapolis is shattered when two friends, Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz, scheduled to meet in person for the first time, are murdered on the same night, two hours and several miles...
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The Martini Shot: A Novella and Stories

George Pelecanos · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 295
Format: Hardcover

Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply...
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Blue Warrior

Mike Maden · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

"Techno thriller fans will welcome Maden's second Troy Pearce novel, which combines grunt-level action, advanced cyber warfare, and plenty of high-tech weaponry ... . Maden handles cutting edge technology and the ancient Tuareg culture with equal dexterity." - Publishers...
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The Lost Woman

Sara Blædel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Following the incredible success of Sara Blaedel's #1 international bestsellers The Forgotten Girls and The Killing Forest, Louise Rick-head of the police department's elite Special Search Agency charged with missing persons cases-returns in Sara's latest twist-filled suspense novel...THE...
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The Distance: A Thriller

Helen Giltrow · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A dark, ultra-contemporary, and relentlessly paced debut thriller about a London society woman trying to put her secret criminal past behind her, and the hit man who comes to her with an impossible job she can't refuse.Charlotte Alton is an elegant socialite. But behind the locked doors...
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Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury

JAY BONANSINGA · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover

To risk everything...She has weathered over four years of the apocalypse. She has done things that she would not have dreamt of doing in her darkest nightmares. But she has survived. And now, she has staked a claim in the plague-ravaged city of Atlanta. It is a safe haven for her people,...
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Identical

Scott Turow · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon...
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Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

DONNA LEON · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral...
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A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison...
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The Fifth Heart

Dan Simmons · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than...
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Redemption Road

John Hart · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 417
Format: Hardcover

Now a New York Times Bestseller Over 2 million copies of his books in print. The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Every book a New York Times bestseller. Since his debut bestseller, The King of Lies, reviewers across the country have heaped praise on John...
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Hope to Die

James Patterson · Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family--his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what...
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Broken Monsters

Lauren Beukes · Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldnt put it down...Id grab it if I were you. --Stephen King A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukess new genre-bending novel of suspense. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies....
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The Last American Vampire

Seth Grahame-Smith · Grand Central Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

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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