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Dark Fire: A Novel

C. J. Sansom · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

It is 1540, and Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer renowned as the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England, is pressed to help a friends young niece who is charged with murder. Despite threats of torture and death by the rack, the girl is inexplicably silent. Shardlake is about to lose...
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The Last Thing She Remembers: A Novel

J.S. Monroe
Format: Paperback(Original)

Who can you trust if you don't know who you are?She arrives at the train station only to realize her bag had been stolen - her passport, credit cards, laptop, house key now all gone. And even more disturbing, when she goes to report the incident, she can't recall her own name. All she has on her is a train...
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery

Alan Bradley · Bantam
Pages: 385
Format: Paperback

Winner of the CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT DAGGER AWARD and the AGATHA AND DILYS AWARD - "A wickedly clever story, a dead-true and original voice" - Laurie R. KingIt is the summer of 1950-and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist...
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Salvage and Demolition

Tim Powers · Subterranean; Deluxe Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Salvage and Demolition, the astonishing new 21,000 word novella by Tim Powers, begins when Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript...
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Private: The Royals

James Patterson · BookShots
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

God save the Queen-only Private can save the Royal Family.Private is the most elite detective agency in the world. But when kidnappers threaten to execute a Royal Family member in front of the Queen, Jack Morgan and his team have just 24 hours to stop them. Or heads will roll...literally....
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The Temp

Michelle Frances · Kensington
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Wanted: Assistant to provide maternity cover for high-powered TV producer. Must be bright, creative, with killer instincts. Emma would do anything to work for the woman who has the job she wants. Carrie is at the top of her game, with a dream career, a baby on the way, and a handsome...
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At First Sight: A Novel of Obsession

Stephen J. Cannell · Vanguard Press
Format: Hardcover

In his newest and most distinctive novel, Stephen J. Cannell channels his insider experiences into a tautly drawn noir look at the materialistic Hollywood lifestyle.Meet Chick Best—a middle-aged, selfabsorbed, disaffected, California dot.com millionaire. Other than his house and high-priced...
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Breaking creed

Alex Kava · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

New York Times- and internationally bestselling author Alex Kava's thrilling new series introducing Ryder Creed, ex-marine turned K9 search-and-rescue dog trainer as he teams up with fan-favorite FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell. Ryder Creed and his dogs have been making national headlines....
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Requiem: A Thriller

Geir Tangen · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The first in a superb new series from phenomenal author Geir Tangen, Requiem strikes a deliciously chilling chord."A magnificent crime debut from Norway's biggest crime blogger. Well-composed, well-written, funny, and brutal. In short: a great crime novel, with a few bold, unexpected...
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Quicksand

Malin Persson Giolito · Other Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

QUICKSAND is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years...
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BoneMan's Daughters

Ted Dekker · Center Street; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A Texas serial killer called BoneMan is on the loose, choosing young girls as his prey, His signature: myriad broken bones that torture and kill - but never puncture. Military intelligence officer Ryan Evans is married to his work; so much so that his wife and daughter have written him out of their...
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