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Ordinary Heroes: A Novel

Scott Turow · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's...
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Cat's Eyewitness (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)

Rita Mae Brown · Bantam
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

It’s no secret that cats are a mystery writer’s best friend. Just ask the bestselling team of Rita Mae Brown and her furry partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, back on the prowl with another unforgettable whodunit. This time a controversial miracle in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains...
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Death of a Village (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 19)

M. C. Beaton · Mysterious Press; 1ST edition
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover

Intent on having a quiet time by just sitting in a deck chair in his garden, Hamish Macbeth is quite disturbed when a very agitated Elspeth Grant, Loch- dubh's local reporter and astrologer, arrives. It seems that three citizens of nearby Stoyre have moved to Loch- dubh-but they are quite...
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Indefensible

Pamela Callow · Mira
Format: Paperback

When Elise Vanderzell plummets from her bedroom balcony one gorgeous summer night, her children awaken to a nightmare.Their mother is dead.Their father is charged with her murder.Lawyer Kate Lange knows all about nightmares. She's survived the darkest period of her troubled life and the wounds...
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Save the Last Dance for Me: A Sam McCain Mystery

Ed Gorman · Carroll & Graf; 1st Carroll & Graf Ed edition
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

As Black River Falls, Iowa, prepares for a presidential election campaign visit from Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, Reverend John Muldaur is stirring up the town with both his anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic circulars and his snake-handling ceremonies. When Muldaur drops dead on his altar,...
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The Famous and the Dead

T. Jefferson Parker · Dutton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The explosive finale in T. Jefferson Parker's New York Times bestselling Charlie Hood series, which will bring together the destinies of three men caught between light and darkness.Los Angeles County sheriff 's deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF, working undercover on the illegal...
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Out of Range

C. J. Box · Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Game warden Joe Pickett returns in a twisting, action-packed tale of greed, power, and murder. Joe Pickett is attempting to enjoy-all right, survive-his mother-in-laws wedding to a local big-shot rancher when he receives some disturbing news Will Jensen,a fellow Wyoming game warden and a good...
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Roux morgue

Claire M Johnson · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 223
Format: Print book

San Francisco pastry chef Mary Ryan is back teaching at her old alma mater, caught between her original mentors and her contemporaries. In the middle of this turf war, Mary is confronted by the dean and ordered to either force Coolie Martin to leave the school or lose her job. But when...
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Heaven is High: A Mystery

Kate Wilhelm · Minotaur Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Barbara Holloway is a low-key attorney in Eugene Oregon who left her fathers high powered firm to handle small legal problems for local residents and ponder her own next move But while trying to sort out her own future two people desperate for help show up on her doorstep former pro football...
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A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge: A Samuel Craddock Mystery

Terry Shames · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback

In the course of their developing friendship, Samuel Craddock has learned to accept that his neighbor Jenny Sandstone's personal life is strictly secret. But when her dying mother tells Craddock that Jenny is in danger, he is confronted with a dilemma. He wants to respect Jenny's...
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And the Dark Sacred Night: A Novel

Julia Glass · Pantheon; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father, Julia Glass brings new characters together with familiar figures from her first two novels, immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from suburban New Jersey to rural Vermont and ultimately to the tip of Cape Cod....
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

David Shafer · Mulholland Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

One of Time Magazines Ten Best Books of 2014Selected by NPR, Slate, and Kirkus as one of the Best Books of 2014Shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book AwardThree young adults grapple with the usual thirty-something problems--boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy--in David...
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The Secret Soldier

Alex Berenson · Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

John Wells goes undercover in Saudi Arabia in a cutting-edge novel of modern suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. John Wells may have left the CIA, but it hasn't left him. A mysterious call brings a surprise meeting with the aged monarch of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah....
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Dead at Breakfast: A Novel

Beth Gutcheon · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing, More Than You Know, and Gossip comes the first entry in a stylish and witty mystery series featuring a pair of unlikely investigators - a shrewd novel of manners with a dark heart of murder at its center, set in small-town...
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