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Luckiest Girl Alive: A Novel

Jessica Knoll · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller and "the perfect page-turner to start your summer" (People, Book of the Week) , Luckiest Girl Alive is about secrets and lies ... and whether or not the truth can really set you free."Loved Gone Girl? Luckiest Girl Alive is just as addicting"...
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Swerve

Vicki Pettersson · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In the electrifying tradition of Dean Koontz and Gillian Flynn comes the first riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author!It's high summer in the Mojave Desert, and Kristine Rush and her fiancé, Daniel, are en route from Las Vegas to Lake...
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Chump Change

G.M. Ford · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Book

Sometimes it’s the things you don’t do that come back to haunt you, just as surely as some questions are best left unanswered. When “Leo” is the last word a stranger speaks, the Seattle private eye launches himself into a search for answers. Not only does the dead...
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Final Target

JOHN GILSTRAP · Pinnacle
Pages: 512
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Rocket-paced suspense." - Jeffery Deaver"Gilstrap will leave you breathless." - Harlan Coben "A great hero, a really exciting series." - Joseph Finder Freelance operative Jonathan Grave faces his fiercest challenge yet in bestselling author John Gilstrap's...
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Shadows of the Dead: A 1920s London Mystery

Jim Eldridge · Crème de la Crime
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover

DCI Paul Stark discovers that the bitter legacy of WWI casts a long shadow in the second of this intriguing historical mystery series. London, 1921. Lord Johnny Fairfax has been found dead in his study, along with a second victim, a mysterious American who arrived unannounced the previous...
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The Distance: A Thriller

Helen Giltrow · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A dark, ultra-contemporary, and relentlessly paced debut thriller about a London society woman trying to put her secret criminal past behind her, and the hit man who comes to her with an impossible job she can't refuse.Charlotte Alton is an elegant socialite. But behind the locked doors...
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The Hole: A Novel

Hye-yŏng P'yŏn · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child....
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Decanting a Murder

Nadine Nettmann · Midnight Ink, 2016.
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

Katie Stillwell focuses on two things in her life: work and practicing for her Sommelier Certification with her blind tasting group. The exam was supposed to be the hardest part of her week, but that was before a body was found at an exclusive Napa Valley winery party. When all the evidence...
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Countdown: A Milt Kovak police procedural

Susan Rogers Cooper · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Book

Arresting a Blanton was always going to be bad news but things are about to get even worse for Sheriff Milt Kovak Everyone in Prophesy County knows that you donxt mess with the dim-witted in-bred Blantons So when Milt gets a call to say that Darrell Blanton has shot dead his wife hexs expecting...
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A Demon Summer: A Max Tudor Mystery

G. M. Malliet · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

*Nominated for the 2014 Agatha Award*Agatha Award-winning author G. M. Malliet has charmed mystery lovers, cozy fans, and Agatha Christie devotees everywhere with Wicked Autumn, A Fatal Winter, and Pagan Spring, the critically acclaimed mysteries featuring handsome former-spy-turned-cleric...
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The Semper Sonnet

Seth Margolis · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 374
Format: Paperback

In this stunning thrill ride, perfect for fans of Steve Berry, a poem holds the key to unlocking the past -- and to eliminating the future. Lee Nicholson takes the academic world by storm, seemingly unearthing a never-before published sonnet by William Shakespeare. When she reads the poem...
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Good People

Nir Baram · Text Publishing Company
Pages: 421
Format: Print book

"Written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity." - Amos Oz"One of the most intriguing writers in Israeli literature today." - Haaretz"A richly textured panorama of German and Russian life ... This ample novel lives most memorably through Baram's vignettes...
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Not for Nothing

Stephen Graham Jones · Dzanc Books
Format: Book

"My hat is off to Stephen Graham Jones, because he is the kind of author that makes the frustrated writer inside every book reviewer cringe with self-doubt."—PopMattersA novel written in second person. The town is Stanton, Texas, population three thousand; the private investigator...
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The Postman Always Purls Twice

Anne Canadeo · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

In the seventh installment in the "entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews) Black Sheep Knitting Mystery series, the knitters see the darker side of Hollywood when Maggie's shop is used as a set for a big budget, star-studded movie.When the cast and crew of a Hollywood movie arrive...
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One Station Away: A Novel

OLAF OLAFSSON · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed Olaf Olafsson, an intimate yet sweeping story of a New York neurologist and the three women who change his lifeAn overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose untimely death her fiancé is desperate...
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