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Killer Crab Cakes: A Fresh-Baked Mystery

Livia J. Washburn · NAL Trade; Original edition
Format: Book

In this bake-off, people get knocked off. The irresistible new entry in the national bestselling series.When Phyllis?s cousin asks her to look after her Oak Knoll bed-and-breakfast for a few weeks, Phyllis jumps at the chance?mostly because the inn is located close to the annual Rockport,...
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Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent

Jay Bonansinga · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover

Written by Jay Bonansinga, based on the original series created by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead: Descent follows the events of The Fall of the Governor, and Lilly Caul's struggles to rebuild Woodbury after the Governor's shocking demise.Out of the ashes of its dark past, Woodbury,...
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Robicheaux: A Novel

James Lee Burke · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 447
Format: Hardcover

James Lee Burke's most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this gritty, atmospheric mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana.DAVE ROBICHEAUX IS A HAUNTED MAN. Between his recurrent nightmares about Vietnam, his battle with alcoholism, and the sudden loss of his beloved...
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The Fox

Frederick Forsyth · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times-bestselling master of international intrigue takes readers into the bleeding-edge world of technological espionage in a propulsive thriller that feels chillingly real.Former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service Adrian Weston is awoken in the middle of the night...
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The Captives: A Novel

Debra Jo Immergut · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of a woman convicted of a brutal crime, the prison psychologist who recognizes her as his high-school crush - and the charged reunion that sets off an astonishing chain of events with dangerous consequences for bothAs an inmate psychologist at a state prison, Frank Lundquist...
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The Hollow Girl

Reed Farrel Coleman · Tyrus Books; First Edition edition

The final novel in one of the most critically acclaimed PI series in the annals of crime fiction!"Few writers working in any genre offer tales with such moral complexity, dark humor, and, most of all, heart." --Megan Abbott, author of Dare MeDrunk, alone, and racked with guilt...
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Beijing Red: A Thriller

James Bradley · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

When ex-Navy SEAL Nick Foley travels to China to find purpose and escape the demons of his past, he instead stumbles into a conspiracy his Special Forces training never prepared him for. A mysterious and deadly outbreak ravages a remote area of western China, and Nick finds himself the lead...
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Edge: A Henry Christie thriller

Nick Oldham · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

The latest gripping police procedural featuring Detective Chief Superintendent Henry ChristieWhen Charlie Wilder is released from prison he's desperate to resume his life of crime. But when he discovers he's been betrayed by his closest friends, Charlie's rage turns to cold-blooded...
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Caught

Lisa Moore · Pgw
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover

"Outsanding . . . Surprising and superb . . . A literary adventure story . . . Gripping, detailed, and wholly convincing . . . A supremely human book . . . combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller." - National...
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Murder on the Orient Espresso

Sandra Balzo · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

It’s November and Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, is in South Florida at an annual crime-writers’ conference with her beau, local sheriff Jake Pavlik, who is due to speak as a ‘forensics expert’. Maggy’s...
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Dominion

C J Sansom · Mulholland Books
Pages: 629
Format: Hardcover

C.J. SANSOM REWRITES HISTORY IN A THRILLING NOVEL THAT DARES TO IMAGINE BRITAIN UNDER THE THUMB OF NAZI GERMANY.1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German...
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The Secret History

Donna Tartt · Knopf
Pages: 523
Format: Print book

Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits...
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Missing

C. T. Jorgensen · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

For five years, Karin Preston kept her daughter a secret. Not even the father knew she existed. Then, for one night, Karin leaves her child with a sitter. The next morning, no one answers the door. Desperate, Karin breaks in. The house is empty and dusty. Detective Casey Jansen says the house...
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The Devereaux Legacy

Carolyn Hart · Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

Leah has been presumed dead for nineteen years--since the day that both her parents died. Very much alive, she has returned to Deveraux plantation in South Carolina to uncover the untold story of her parents' deaths. When a ghost known only as the Whispering Lady appears once again...
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