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Shamed: A Kate Burkholder Novel

Linda Castillo · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting new thriller in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling series, Kate Burkholder races against the clock to find a missing Amish girl. An Amish grandmother is murdered on an abandoned farm, her seven year old granddaughter abducted. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder plunges...
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Killer in the Carriage House

Sheila Connolly · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the Victorian Village Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! Kate Hamilton's plans for recreating Asheboro, Maryland as a Victorian village and tourist attraction are progressing nicely, and most of the townspeople have become supporters....
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Never Look Back: A Novel

Alison Gaylin · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben - with a Serial-esque podcast twist - an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated What Remains of Me and the USA Today bestselling and Shamus Award-winning...
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The Substitution Order: A novel

Martin Clark · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wickedly clever, tenderhearted, and intricately plotted novel about a hard-luck lawyer's refusal to concede defeat, even as fate, the court system, and a gang of untouchable con artists...
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Tom Clancy's The Division: Broken Dawn

Alex Irvine · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

The members of The Division struggle to contain a bioweapon that has devastated half the United States in this novel based on the bestselling videogame.Months after the outbreak of a devastating global pandemic that started in New York City on Black Friday, traces of rebirth are spreading...
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The Other Mrs. Miller

Allison Dickson · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this unputdownable domestic suspense debut, a lonely suburban housewife finds her life entangled with the family that moves in across the street at the same time that she becomes convinced someone is watching her--perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and The Last Mrs. Parrish.Once...
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Peach Clobbered: A Georgia B&B Mystery

Anna Gerard · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

What's black and white and dead all over? Georgia bed and breakfast proprietor Nina Fleet finds out when she comes across a corpse in a penguin costume.Nina Fleet's life ought to be as sweet as a Georgia peach. Awarded a tidy sum in her divorce, Nina retired at 41 to a historic Queen Anne...
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Bad Axe County: A Novel

John Galligan · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this tense, atmospheric thriller about the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents twenty years ago - all as a winter...
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The Queen Con

Meghan Scott Molin · 47North
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

What's a comic book writer's life without a real-life archnemesis?MG Martin thought she'd turned the last page on the dangerous Golden Arrow case. The bad guys are behind bars, and the rest is up to her detective boyfriend, Matteo Kildaire. But when Golden Arrow impersonators start popping...
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Red Metal

Mark Greaney · Berkley
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth...
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Black Sun: A Novel

Owen Matthews · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Red Sparrow and Child 44 comes a chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history, a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb,...
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The Stories You Tell

Kristen Lepionka · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Lepionka is setting a high standard for crime fiction." -- BOOKLIST (starred review) on What You Want to SeeThe Stories You Tell is Shamus Award-winning and Anthony and Macavity Award-nominated author Kristen Lepionka's heart-pounding third novel...
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Beijing Payback: A Novel

Daniel Nieh · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murderVictor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father...
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Tell Me Everything: A Novel

Cambria Brockman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A murder at an elite New England college tears apart a group of friends - one of whom is playing a dangerous game - in this electrifying debut in the tradition of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Couple Next Door. In her first weeks at Hawthorne College, Malin is swept up into a tight-knit...
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Theme Music: A Novel

T. Marie Vandelly · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An utterly propulsive and unpredictable psychological thriller from stunning new talent T. Marie VandellyShe didn't run from her dark past. She moved in. For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it; but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long...
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One Little Secret: A Novel

Cate Holahan · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Everyone has a secret. For some, it's worth dying to protect. For others, it's worth killing.The glass beach house was supposed to be the getaway that Susan needed. Eager to help her transplanted family set down roots in their new town -- and desperate for some kid-free conversation -- she invites...
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The Toll

Cherie Priest · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

From Cherie Priest, the author of The Family Plot and Maplecroft, comes The Toll, a tense, dark, and scary treat for modern fans of the traditionally strange and macabre.Take a road trip into a Southern gothic horror novel.Titus and Melanie Bell are on their honeymoon and have reservations...
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Invisible Blood

Lee Child · Titan Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

FEATURING A BRAND-NEW JACK REACHER STORY! A collection of seventeen brand-new crime stories from bestselling authors Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Stella Duffy, and more.FEATURING A BRAND NEW JACK REACHER STORY.Open the files on seventeen new crime stories to probe the brutal and complex hearts...
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The Girl in the Letter

Emily Gunnis · Headline
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Read her letter. Remember her story...Gripping. Mesmerising. Haunting. Heart-breaking. Once you've heard her story, you will never forget The Girl in the Letter.Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Rachel Hore and Kathryn Hughes, this page-turning, moving novel of separation and long-buried...
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The Ugly Truth: A Riley Ellison Mystery

Jill Orr · Prospect Park Books
Format: Hardcover

There's been a shocking double murder in Tuttle Corner, Virginia, involving high-profile players from Washington D.C. This brings national attention -- and big-city competition for the story -- to junior reporter Riley Ellison's little corner of the world. Beloved café owner Rosalee...
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The Two Lila Bennetts

Liz Fenton · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

"One fateful decision. Two unexpected endings. A perfect summer read!" - Wendy Walker, bestselling author of The Night BeforeLila Bennett's bad choices have finally caught up with her. And one of those decisions has split her life in two. Literally.In one life, she's taken hostage...
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The Possession

Michael Rutger · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Anomaly comes the second installment in The Anomaly Files, a series in the tradition of James Rollins of a team investigating American myths and legends. Still recovering from the shocking revelations they uncovered deep in uncharted territory in the Grand Canyon,...
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Good Girl, Bad Girl: A Novel

Michael Robotham · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Secrets She Keeps, the writer Stephen King calls "an absolute master ... with heart and soul," a fiendishly clever suspense novel about a dangerous young woman with a special ability to know when someone is lying - and the criminal psychologist...
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Buried

Ellison Cooper · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In Ellison Cooper's suspense thriller Buried, an FBI neuroscientist is on the trail of a serial killer who's turned up the heat on a cold case ... Senior Special Agent Sayer Altair studies the minds of psychopaths. But even she didn't expect to uncover a killer within the Federal Bureau...
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