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The Second Sleep: A novel

Robert Harris · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before.

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor....
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Evil Things

Katja Ivar · Bitter Lemon Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Hella Mauzer was the first ever woman Inspector in the Helsinki Homicide Unit. But her superiors deemed her too 'emotional' for the job and had her reassigned. Now, two years later, she is working in Lapland for the Ivalo police department under Chief Inspector Järvi, a man more interested...
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Thread the Halls

LEA WAIT · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Christmas in Haven Harbor, Maine, means family, trouble, and murder . . .

This Yuletide season, there's no time for Angie Curtis and Patrick West to linger under the mistletoe. Patrick's being needled by his mother - movie star Skye West - to set the stage for a perfect...
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Colorado Boulevard: A Crush Mystery

Phoef Sutton · Prospect Park Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

When Zerbe, the honorary brother (and roommate) of LA's toughest bodyguard/bouncer, Crush, is kidnapped, Crush springs into action to save him. Unraveling the mystery takes him to Zerbe's estranged billionaire father, who's obsessed with building California's long-promised bullet...

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The Complete Family Guide to Addiction: Everything You Need to Know Now to Help Your Loved One and Yourself

Thomas F. Harrison · The Guilford Press
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback

If you are struggling to help a loved one recover from addiction--and to cope with the devastating impact on the whole family--you are not alone. But until now, there has been no single book that gives the millions of families like yours the comprehensive, unbiased information you need....
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The Drifter: A Novel

Christine Lennon · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Megan Abbott meets M.O. Walsh in Christine Lennon's compelling debut novel about a group of friends on the cusp of graduating from college when their lives are irrevocably changed by a brutal act of violence.

Present Day ...

For two decades, Elizabeth has tried to escape...

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So Much Love

Rebecca Rosenblum · McClelland & Stewart
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Olive Kitteridge meets Room and The Lovely Bones in this stunning first novel about the unexpected reverberations the abduction of a young woman has on a small community. When Catherine Reindeer vanishes from the parking lot outside the restaurant where she works, an entire community is shattered....
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Tangerine: A Novel

Christine Mangan · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"As if Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn, and Patricia Highsmith had collaborated in a screenplay to be filmed by Hitchcock - suspenseful and atmospheric."
- Joyce Carol Oates, author of The Book of American Martyrs

The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving...

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Paradox

Catherine Coulter · Pocket Books
Pages: 512
Format: Mass Market Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter delves into the mind of an escaped mental patient obsessed with revenge in this "eerie, unsettling, and breathlessly terrifying" (The Real Book Spy) twenty-third installment in her FBI series.When an escaped mental patient...
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The Waiting Room

Emily Bleeker · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of When I'm Gone and Working Fire comes a gripping novel about a mother, her missing daughter, and the dark secrets that engulf them.Ever since her husband's death collided with the birth of her daughter, postpartum depression has taken hold of Veronica...
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Plum Tea Crazy

Laura Childs · Berkley
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.

While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's walk of Timothy Neville's Charleston...
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The Liar's Room

Simon Lelic · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A new spine-tingling thriller from the author of The New Neighbors that takes place over the course of a therapy session, in which neither patient nor therapist are who they claim to be.Two liars. One room. No way out.Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago she left her identity...
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Cape Diamond: A Frank Yakabuski Mystery

RON CORBETT · ECW Press
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback

Cape Diamond, the second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, is atmospheric and action-packed. Set near the Northern Divide -- as was the first installment, Edgar Award nominee (Best Paperback Original) , Ragged Lake -- the book opens with Yakabuski called to investigate a gruesome...
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Every Day Above Ground: A Van Shaw Novel

GLEN ERIK HAMILTON · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A favor for a dying ex-con turns into a violent battle against a mysterious enemy for Van Shaw in this emotionally powerful and gritty thriller from the award-winning author of Past Crimes and Hard Cold Winter. It sounds like a thief's dream to Van Shaw: A terminally ill ex-con tells him of an easy...
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The Followers

REBECCA WAIT · Europa Editions
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The Followers is a compassionate and suspenseful story of the dissolution of a family. Judith has been visiting her mother, Stephanie, in prison once a month for the last eight years. She still can't bring herself to talk with her mother about what brought them here--or about Nathaniel,...
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