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The One Man

Andrew Gross · Center Point Large Print
Pages: 559
Format: Large print book

"As moving as it is gripping. A winner on all fronts. " - BOOKLIST (starred review) "Heart-pounding ... This is Gross's best work yet, with his heart and soul imprinted on every page. " - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family...
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Corrupt Practices: A Parker Stern Novel

Robert Rotstein · Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

A Los Angeles church, considered by some to be a powerful cult, charges Rich Baxter with embezzling millions. Rich reaches out to former colleague and star trial attorney Parker Stern to come to his defense. Parker despises the cult, but he hasn't entered a courtroom since developing...
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The Devil's Breath

Tessa Harris · Kensington
Format: Paperback

Eighteenth-century anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone travels to the English countryside to unravel a tangled web of mystery, medicine, and murder--in this captivating new novel from Tessa Harris. . .A man staggers out of his cottage into the streets of Oxfordshire, shattering an otherwise...
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Dead Over Heels

Charlaine Harris · Berkley Hardcover; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

When death comes from out of the blue, part-time librarian Roe lands smack in the middle of a baffling murder case-in the latest Aurora Teagarden mystery from 1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris. Roe never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she never wanted to see him dead-especially...
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The Counterfeit Agent

Alex Berenson · G.P. Putnams Sons
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

"Berenson's strength is his deep understanding of geopolitics and of the shoddy compromises it demands. He clearly has excellent contacts in the world of shadows. Wells is a complex and satisfying protagonist, tackling bad guys across the world's conflict zones."--The New York...
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The Caretaker: A Ranjit Singh Novel

A. X. Ahmad · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha's Vineyard mansions he tends?Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker...
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The Last Dead Girl

Harry Dolan · G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2014!David Loogan’s dark past is revealed in this prequel to Bad Things Happen—the critically acclaimed mystery that Stephen King called a “great f***ing book.”On a rainy night in April, a chance encounter on a lonely road draws...
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The Violated: A Novel

Bill Pronzini · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series.Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards--a clean sweep of the crime...
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In the Dark Places: An Inspector Banks Novel

Peter Robinson · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Published in the United Kingdom and Canada as Abattoir BluesLouise Penny calls In the Dark Places "brilliant." Tess Gerritsen says it's "thrilling." And Michael Connelly describes Peter Robinson as "amazing." One of the world's greatest suspense writers...
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A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison...
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The Owl Always Hunts at Night: A Novel

SAMUEL BJORK · Penguin Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed" When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers,...
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Casualty of War: A Bess Crawford Mystery

CHARLES TODD · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes a haunting tale that explores the impact of World War I on all who witnessed it - officers, soldiers, doctors, and battlefield nurses like Bess Crawford.Though the Great War is nearing its end, the fighting rages on. While waiting...
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The Mystery of the Invisible Hand: A Henry Spearman Mystery

Marshall Jevons · Princeton University Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Henry Spearman, the balding economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, returns in The Mystery of the Invisible Hand--a clever whodunit of campus intrigue, stolen art, and murder. Having just won the Nobel Prize, Spearman accepts an invitation to lecture at Monte Vista University....
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The Perfect Girl: A Novel

Gilly Macmillan · William Morrow
Pages: 12
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew returns with an electrifying new novel about how the past will always find us..."Literary suspense at its finest." - Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Baby"A wonderfully addictive book with virtuoso...
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Execution

Adrian Magson · Severn House Publishers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

When a Russian hit team catches up with Roman Tobinskiy, political opponent of Moscow and former FSB colleague of Alexander Litvinenko murdered by polonium  poisoning in 2006, its an easy kill hes lying helpless in a hospital bed.  They realise too late that in an adjacent room is Clare...
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