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The Captive Condition: A Novel

Kevin P. Keating · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

From a thrilling new voice in fiction comes a chilling and deliciously dark novel about an idyllic Midwestern college town that turns out to be a panorama of depravity and a nexus of horror. For years Normandy Falls has been haunted by its strange history and the aggrieved spirits said...
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Survival of the Fritters

GINGER BOLTON · Kensington
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Emily Westhill runs the best donut shop in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin, alongside her retired police chief father-in-law and her tabby Deputy Donut. But after murder claims a favorite customer, Emily can't rely on a sidekick to solve the crime - or stay alive.

If Emily has learned...
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Exposure

Helen Dunmore · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

"Dunmore so cleverly interweaves each of the character's stories that as the tale unfolds it has the chilling ring of absolute authenticity. It's gripping and page turning and all those things you expect in a Spy Drama - but always laced with her trademark humanity. I was totally caught...
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Go to My Grave

CATRIONA MCPHERSON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the Agatha-award winning author of Quiet Neighbors comes a clever, spine-tingling standalone that reads like Agatha Christie's take on a Gothic thriller.

"Go to My Grave is both a classic 'country house mystery' and a thriller. Atmospheric, with mind-bending...

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The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert transports readers to the summer of 1934, when a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabama - and pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias' garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet...
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Back Blast

Mark Greaney · Berkley
Pages: 738
Format: Paperback

From Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes the fifth explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man ... Five years ago, Court Gentry was the CIA's best covert asset. Then, without warning, his masters...
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The Shimmer

Carsten Stroud · MIRA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

How do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure you're never born?

A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing...
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The Devil Crept In

Ania Ahlborn · Gallery Books
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

An unforgettable horror novel from bestselling sensation Ania Ahlborn - hailed as a writer of "some of the most promising horror I've encountered in years" (New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire) - in which a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance...
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Limetown: The Prequel to the #1 Podcast

ZACK AKERS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the creators of the #1 podcast Limetown, an explosive prequel about a teenager who learns of a mysterious research facility where over three hundred people have disappeared - including her uncle - with clues that become the key to discovering the secrets of this strange town.

On...
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The Stopped Heart: A Novel

Julie Myerson · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

Internationally bestselling author Julie Myerson's beautifully written, yet deeply chilling, novel of psychological suspense explores the tragedies - past and present - haunting a picturesque country cottage.Mary Coles and her husband, Graham, have just moved to a cottage on the edge...
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The Distance: A Thriller

Helen Giltrow · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A dark, ultra-contemporary, and relentlessly paced debut thriller about a London society woman trying to put her secret criminal past behind her, and the hit man who comes to her with an impossible job she can't refuse.Charlotte Alton is an elegant socialite. But behind the locked doors...
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The Chinese Orange Mystery

Ellery Queen · American Mystery Classics
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

A topsy-turvy crime scene sends a detective on a puzzling quest for the truth.The offices of foreign literature publisher and renowned stamp collector Donald Kirk are often host to strange activities, but the most recent occurrence­ -- the murder of an unknown caller, found dead in an empty...
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The Wolves

Alex Berenson · Putnam
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

CIA agent John Wells refuses to let a privileged businesmman walk away from a crime in this novel of modern suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator...
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The Bad Daughter: A Novel

JOY FIELDING · Ballantine Books
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover

A gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller of family intrigue and dark secrets, from the author of Someone Is Watching and See Jane Run.

There was no shortage of words she could use to describe her father, almost none of them complimentary. Serves you damn right,...
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Raging Heat

Richard Castle · Kingswell
Format: Print book

In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook....
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