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Half World: A Novel

Scott O'Connor · Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Pages: 412
Format: Print book

A "beautiful literary thriller" (Los Angeles Review of Books) inspired by the shocking history of a secret CIA mind-control program, Half World is "the perfect book for our present moment" (The Daily Beast).In the 1950s the CIA began a decades-long clandestine operation,...
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Domina

L S HILTON · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Maestra, femme fatale Judith Rashleigh once again leads readers into the mesmerizing and dangerous underworld of Europe's glamorous elite. Since opening her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh - now Elisabeth Teerlinc...
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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel

Alan Bradley · Delacorte Press
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's...
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Miracle at Augusta

James Patterson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud,...
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Fear and Loathing: A Detective Sam Becket mystery set in Miami

Hilary Norman · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

A sickening murder scene draws Detective Sam Becket into an investigation that becomes intensely personal. All four have been bound, gagged and poisoned to death in Garys garage in a meticulously planned attack. The killers left no clues except for a threatening note personally addressed...
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Black Lake: A Novel

Johanna Lane · Little, Brown
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel about a family losing grip of its legacy: a majestic house on the cliffs of Ireland. The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough--an idyllic, rambling estate isolated on the Irish seaside--for generations. But upkeep has drained the family coffers, and so John Campbell must...
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The Scottie Barked At Midnight

Kaitlyn Dunnett · Kensington Books, 2015.
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

Spring is just a few weeks away, but winter is still digging its claws into tiny Moosetookalook, Maine. Even business at the Scottish Emporium has frozen up, so Liss MacCrimmon is cautiously optimistic when a twist of fate lands her on a reality competition show--until the contest gets...
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An Honorable Man: A Novel

Paul Vidich · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries & Thrillers of Spring 2016 A debut espionage novel in the style of Alan Furst and John le Carré, An Honorable Man is a chilling Cold War spy thriller set in 1950s Washington, D.C.Washington D.C., 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, with...
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Nest: A Thriller

TERRY GOODKIND · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind reinvents the thriller with a provocative, page-turning walk among evil. Kate Bishop thought she was an ordinary woman living and working in Chicago. But when she unexpectedly finds herself in the middle of a police investigation into...
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Family Tree: A Novel

Susan Wiggs · William Morrow
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past - and the promise of the future.Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell, joining with another. And then dividing. And just like...
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Don't Believe a Word: A novel of psychological suspense

Patricia J MacDonald · Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

A daughter sets out to discover the truth about her mother's death in this absorbing novel of psychological suspense.Eden Radley had a strained relationship with her mother ever since Tara deserted the family nine years before to run off with her much younger lover. But when she's...
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Blood Kin

Steve Rasnic Tem · Solaris
Format: Book

2015 Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement Novel Steve Rasnic Tems new novel Blood Kin is set in the southern Appalachians of the U.S., alternating between the 1930s and the present day. Its a dark Southern Gothic vision of ghosts, witchcraft, secret powers,...
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The Glow of Death

Jane K. Cleland · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

As a warm ocean breeze ruffles the tall grass along Rocky Point's sandy dunes, Josie Prescott visits the house of a wealthy local couple, Edwin and Ava Belcher. She's been called in to appraise their Tiffany lamp, which everyone is delighted to find is genuine. Josie's good friend, Police...
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The Verdict: A Novel

Nick Stone · Pegasus Crime
Pages: 499
Format: Print book

When Terry Flynt gets the chance to defend a millionaire accused of murder he knows that the case could make his career, but the accused man is Flynt's greatest enemy -- can he defend a man who ruined his life? Terry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk, desperately trying to get promoted....
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