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Layover in Dubai

Dan Fesperman · Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The newest thriller from the author of The Amateur Spy and The Prisoner of Guantánamo (“Worthy of sharing shelf space with the novels of John le Carré and Ken Follett”—USA Today) is as dazzling as its setting.Sam Keller has been enlisted by his V.P. for Corporate...
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Hell Bay

Will Thomas · Minotaur Books
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

"If you love Sherlock Holmes, historical mysteries, or just a good, rousing adventure, you'll love these books, too." - Laurell K. HamiltonAt the request of Her Majesty's government, private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker agrees to take on his least favorite kind of assignment -- he's...
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The Afterlives: A Novel

Thomas Pierce · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Ridiculously good" (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out) .Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty....
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Hunted

James Patterson · BookShots
Pages: 20
Format: Print book

Evil has a new game....Someone is luring men from the streets to play a mysterious, high stakes game in the English countryside. Former Special Forces officer David Shelley will go undercover to shut it down--but this might be a game he can't win.BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES...
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The Devil's Triangle

Catherine Coulter · Gallery Books
Pages: 495
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison comes the highly anticipated thriller in their Brit in the FBI series, featuring special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine in their new roles as heads of the Covert Eyes team - but will their first case...
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Deadline

Sandra Brown · Grand Central Publishing; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come...
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In a True Light: A Novel of Crime (Otto Penzler Books)

John Harvey · Carroll & Graf; First Edition edition
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

British author Harvey (Lonely Hearts and others in his Charlie Resnick detective series) offers the stuff noirs are made on in this stand-alone: mean streets and shattered dreams; heartfelt jazz and smoke-filled rooms; lonely people in sleazy bars; the harmless, and the harmful who prey...
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A Function of Murder

Ada Madison · Berkley; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

Dr. Sophie Knowles is a math professor with a knack for creating complex puzzles that delight her students. But now, at the close of the academic year, she must solve a crime that doesn’t quite add up… At the math department’s graduation party, Sophie hears heated arguments...
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The Last Day of Emily Lindsey

Nic Joseph · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A bone-chilling novel about a woman found holding a hunting knife, covered in blood that is not her own, who communicates with a single, ominous drawing, and the man who must get inside her head to solve a mystery without a crime.Detective Steven Paul has had the same nightmare for as long...
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Lush Life: A Novel

Richard Price · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

So, what do you do?" Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter . . . But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be. What...
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The Babes in the Wood: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery

Ruth Rendell · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

After weeks of rain, Chief Inspector Wexford has just finished moving his books and furniture upstairs to protect them from the rising waters when the telephone rings. Two local teenagers and their babysitter have gone missing. Wexford isn’t particularly worried, since these things...
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The Whole World Over: A Novel

Julia Glass · Pantheon Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery...
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