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Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington returns in the new action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It's a time of unexpected change for Stone Barrington. A recent venture has achieved a great victory, but is immediately faced with a new challenge: an underhanded foe who's...
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One man's flag : a novel of espionage during the First World War

David Downing · Soho Crime
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"Spring 1915. As the Great War burns its way across Europe, Jack McColl, a spy for His Majesty's Navy, is stationed in India, charged with defending the Empire against Bengali terrorists and their German allies. In England, meanwhile, suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley begins the business...
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A Separation: A Novel

Katie M Kitamura · Riverhead Books
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover

"Kitamura's prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with the tensions of a top-notch whodunit." - Elle"Kitamura is a writer with a visionary, visual imagination." - The New YorkerThis is her story. About the end of her marriage. About what happened...
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Trumpet of Death: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

Cynthia Riggs · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himself of his troublesome girlfriend, Samantha....
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Lethal Beauty

April Henry · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

It should have been an open and shut murder case, but Mia Quinn finds out nothing about it is simple. After a young Chinese prostitute is stabbed to death by her rich American client, the tabloids dub Dandan Yee "Lethal Beauty" - despite the fact that she was the one who ended...
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The Counterfeit Heiress: A Lady Emily Mystery

Tasha Alexander · Minotaur Books
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

Paris - the city of romance. where Lady Emily struggles to unmask a murderer amid a case of assumed identities and shadowy figures. After an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying...
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Countdown to Mecca: A Thriller

Michael Savage · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A plane bound for Amman, Jordan goes down in the Caspian Sea. The crash yields no survivors--save the Russian mercenary who hijacked the flight--and a cask containing an agent of unprecedented destructive potential is missing from the wreckage. A carefully plotted terrorist attack has been...
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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn · Broadway Books
Format: Book

The #1 New York Times BestsellerOn a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't...
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The Keeper of Hands

J. Sydney Jones · Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Vienna, 1901. With the police seemingly indifferent to the murder of a 19-year-old prostitute known as Mitzi, brothel-keeper Frau Mutzenbacher turns to lawyer Karl Werthen to find out what happened and bring her killer to justice. Yet the more he discovers about the mysterious Mitzi, with...
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Something Wicked

Lisa Jackson · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover

You Sense HimSome refer to it as the Colony. To others, it's a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live here, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic...
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Treason: A Novel

Newt Gingrich · Center Street
Pages: 372
Format: Print book

Leading politician and bestselling author Newt Gingrich and novelist Pete Earley are back with another gripping international thriller. THE WORLD'S MASTER TERRORIST, known only as the Falcon, has infiltrated Washington's highest corridors of power, threatening the very existence of our democracy...
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Dark Saturday: A Frieda Klein Thriller

NICCI FRENCH · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 390
Format: Paperback

Recommended for summer reading by TIME magazineLOUISE PENNY says Nicci French's books are "fabulous." JOSEPH FINDER says they're "in the rich vein of Kate Atkinson." And TAMI HOAG calls them "truly unique."Enter the world of NICCI FRENCH with Dark Saturday,...
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The Ghost Bride: A Novel

Yangsze Choo · William Morrow; First edition edition
Format: Hardcover

One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride...Part 19th century novel, part magical journey to the Chinese world of the dead, Yangsze Choos debut novel The Ghost Bride is a startlingly original historical fantasy infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue,...
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Plagued By Quilt: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery

Molly MacRae · NAL
Format: Book

The latest novel in the national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery seriesYarn shop owner Kath Rutledge is at a historic farm in Blue Plum, Tennessee, volunteering for the high school program Hands on History. But when a long-buried murder is uncovered on the property, Kath needs help...
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Little Black Lies: A Novel

Sharon Bolton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely...When another child goes missing, and then a third, it's no longer possible to believe that their deaths were accidental, and the villagers...
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