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Nutshell: A Novel
Nutshell: A Novel

Ian Mcewan · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

New from the bestselling author of Atonement and The Children ActTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have...
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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Murder at Sorrow's Crown
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Murder at Sorrow's Crown

Steve Savile · Titan Books
Pages: 295
Format: Print book

A frantic mother comes to SHERLOCK HOLMES, begging him to find her son, a navy officer who has not returned from the war in South Africa. He has been labeled a deserter, yet she is sure he would never abandon his men. Holmes and Watson begin their own inquiries, but encounter resistance...
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The Cruiser: A Dan Lenson Novel
The Cruiser: A Dan Lenson Novel

David Poyer · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Newly-promoted to Captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's...
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The Keeper: A Novel
The Keeper: A Novel

John Lescroart · Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting novel featuring Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky on the hunt for clues about a woman who has gone missing. On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick...
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The Candidate
The Candidate

Lis Wiehl · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

How far would a candidate go to become President of the United States? In covering the presidential election campaign, star newsmaker Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz seems dependent on his wife to an unnatural degree. Celeste Ortiz is a brilliant and glamorous...
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Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story
Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story

J. Jefferson Farjeon · British Library
Format: Book

A snowbound train should be a safe, if slightly inconvenient, place to spend Christmas, no? Not in Mystery in White: Death, it turns out, is a passenger on this run, and as passengers begin to fear, and some make a bid for escape, J. Jefferson Farjeon keeps ratcheting up the tension, holding...
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Hot Pursuit
Hot Pursuit

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington is back in the exciting new adventure from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods. It's not often that Stone Barrington finds a woman as accustomed to the jet-set lifestyle as he, so he's pleasantly surprised when he meets a gorgeous pilot who's soon moving to New York,...
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The Red Room
The Red Room

Ridley Pearson · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 399
Format: Hardcover

"This installment is all about impossible escapes and elusive spycraft ... .Another hit in this knockout thriller series featuring nonstop danger, casually clever descriptions of exotic locales, evolving characterization, and evenhanded sociopolitical commentary. Recommended for every...
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The Circle: A Novel
The Circle: A Novel

Bernard Minier · Minotaur Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface.Inside the house, his teacher lies dead.But he claims to remember nothing... June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match, Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A few miles away in the town of Marsac,...
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Ming Tea Murder: Tea Shop Mysteries
Ming Tea Murder: Tea Shop Mysteries

Laura Childs · Berkley Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

It's scones and scandal for Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Steeped in Evil ... Normally Theodosia wouldn't attend a black tie affair for all the tea in China. But she can hardly say no to her hunky, handsome boyfriend,...
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Murder on Amsterdam Avenue: Gaslight Mystery
Murder on Amsterdam Avenue: Gaslight Mystery

Victoria Thompson · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this Gaslight Mystery from the national bestselling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City ... In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding...
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Desperate
Desperate

Daniel Palmer · Kensington; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Palmer burnishes his status as one of today's best thriller writers with this emotionally gripping and steel-trap plotted standalone. Palmer is so successful at getting readers to invest in Gage that his travails are almost too painful to read about." --Publishers Weekly...
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Graveyard of Memories
Graveyard of Memories

Barry Eisler · Amazon Publishing
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback

What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972.Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese...
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The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

Stephen King · Pocket Books
Pages: 976
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is "splendidly tense ... rip-roaring" (Publishers Weekly) - a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.In Wizard and Glass,...
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