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Coconut Cowboy LP: A Novel

Tim Dorsey · William Morrow
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Channeling his inner Easy Rider, Serge Storms saddles up for his most epic, lethal, and hilarious road trip ever as he revvs off to find the lost American Dream . . . starting in the Florida Panhandle.

Obsessed with the iconic Sixties classic Easy Rider, encyclopedic Floridaphile,...

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The Ex: A Novel

Alafair Burke · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this breakout standalone novel of suspense in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on a Train, a woman agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been framed for murder - but begins to suspect that she is the one being manipulated.

Twenty years ago she ruined his life. Now she has the chance...

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Even Dogs in the Wild

Ian Rankin · Little
Pages: 347
Format: Print book


Rebus comes out of retirement...to save his nemesis.

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat. She's investigating the death of a senior government prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in high places. When one of their own is killed, the powers...
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The crooked house

Christobel Kent · Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar
Pages: 357
Format: Print book

"Alison lives her life under the radar. She has no ties, no home, and she spends her days at a backroom publishing job. Which is how she wants it. Because Alison used to be a teenager named Esme, who lived in a dilapidated house by a bleak estuary with her parents and three siblings....
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Supernotes: A Thriller

Agent Kasper. · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In the Cambodian hinterlands, a lone Western prisoner suffers through a hot, muddy, interminable sentence. Wasted by repeated torture, lack of sleep, malnutrition, and psychotropic drugs, he has been abandoned. His years of exemplary service to his government mean nothing. No one is coming...
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Where It Hurts

Reed Farrel Coleman · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author comes a gritty, atmospheric new series about the other side of Long Island, far from the wealth of the Hamptons, where real people live - and die.

Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired...

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The Drifter

Nicholas Petrie · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

An explosive thriller debut introducing Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren't easily left behind . . .

Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his "white static," the buzzing claustrophobia...
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The girls she left behind : a Lizzie Snow novel

Sarah Graves · Bantam Books
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

"After ten years as a captive of kidnapper Henry Gemmerle, Joan Crimmins eludes the media and spurns the family who failed to search for her. Instead, she settles in the remote Maine town of Bearkill. But when Gemmerle flees a prison clinic and a 16-year-old Bearkill girl vanishes,...
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What She Left: A Novel

T R Richmond · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

In this brilliantly modern novel of love, obsession, and revenge, a professor pieces together the life and mysterious death of a former student - and unearths a shocking revelation about her final days.

On a snowy February morning, the body of twenty-five-year-old journalist Alice...
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The Case of the Fickle Mermaid: A Brothers Grimm Mystery

P J Brackston · Pegasus Books, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter comes the story of Gretel, all grown up and investigating a series of mysterious disappearances off the coast of Bavaria.

Gretel -- yes, that Gretel -- is now all grown up and working as a private investigator in 18th...
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