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The Key

Simon Toyne · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Simon Toyne’s breathtaking international bestseller, Sanctus, had critics everywhere cheering, calling the author the new Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) or Steve Berry (The Jefferson Key), while praising Toyne’s debut thriller as “remarkable,” “thrilling,”...
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Safe Houses: A novel

Dan Fesperman · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband, and her daughter begins...
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Blood Defense

Marcia Clark · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover

Samantha Brinkman, an ambitious, hard-charging Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, is struggling to make a name for herself and to drag her fledgling practice into the big leagues. Sam lands a high-profile double-murder case in which one of the victims is a beloved TV star - and the defendant...
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Jane and the Canterbury Tale: Being A Jane Austen Mystery

Stephanie Barron · Bantam; Original edition
Format: Print book

Three years after news of her scandalous husbands death, Adelaide Fiske is at the altar again, her groom a soldier on the Marquis of Wellingtons staff. The prospects seem bright for one of the most notorious women in Kent—until Jane Austen discovers a corpse on the ancient Pilgrims Way that...
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Scratchgravel Road: A Mystery

Tricia Fields · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The twisty follow-up to the Hillerman Prize–winning The Territory, featuring tough smalltown Texas police chief Josie GrayIt was pure luck that Josie Gray spotted Cassidy Harper's car, abandoned on the side of the road. If she hadn't, then she'd never have...
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The Sinners

ACE ATKINS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the new novel from New York Times-bestselling crime master Ace Atkins, violence comes in many forms...and this time it may be more than Quinn Colson can handle.The Pritchards had never been worth a damn--an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and committing mayhem....
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FaceOff

Steve Berry · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

An instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller and a thriller readers ultimate fantasy Booklist this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today Worlds collideIn an unprecedented collaboration twenty-three of the worlds...
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Arrowood: A Novel

Laura McHugh · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

"This robust, old-fashioned gothic mystery has everything you're looking for: a creepy old house, a tenant with a secret history, and even a few ghosts. Laura McHugh's novel sits at the intersection of memory and history, astutely asking whether we carry the past or it carries us."...
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Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit: A Felicity Carrol Mystery

Patricia Marcantonio · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Amidst the heraldry of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations, a string of brutal murders rocks Britain's upper crust -- and could threaten the realm itself -- in the spellbinding debut of Patricia Marcantonio's Felicity Carrol mysteries.Felicity Carrol is interested in everything...
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Smoke and Ashes: A Novel

Abir Mukherjee · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Captain Sam Wyndham and his sidekick Surrender-Not Banerjee return in this prize-winning historical crime series set in 1920s Calcutta.India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of World War I, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors...
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The Wedding Guest: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis dig into a shocking crime at a raucous wedding reception in this gripping psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.In the middle of a "Saints and Sinners" themed wedding, a bridesmaid...
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The Suspect

FIONA BARTON · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow and The Child returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense.When two British teenage girls go missing in Bangkok following a hostel fire, journalist Kate Waters is sent to follow the story. Despite the circumstances,...
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The Hiding Place: A Novel

C. J. Tudor · Crown
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling second novel from the author of The Chalk Man, about a teacher with a hidden agenda who returns to settle scores at a school he once attended, only to uncover a darker secret than he could have imagined.Joe never wanted to come back to Arnhill. After the way things ended with...
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Her Royal Spyness

Rhys Bowen · Berkley
Pages: 324
Format: Mass Market Paperback

THE FIRST ROYAL SPYNESS MYSTERY!The New York Times bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries turns her attentions to "a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers."*London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th...
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