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The Mansion: A Novel

Ezekiel Boone · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this white-knuckle thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the "apocalyptic extravaganza" (Publishers Weekly) The Hatching series, a family moves into a home equipped with the world's most intelligent, cutting-edge, and intuitive computer ever - but a buried...
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The Chalk Man: A Novel

C J Tudor · Crown
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The must-read thriller of 2018, this riveting and relentlessly compelling psychological suspense debut will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking endingIn 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little...
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One by One: A Danny Ryan Thriller

Sarah Cain · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Praise for the The 8th Circle:"This dark thriller is a fast-paced plunge. "--Kirkus starred review "Ryan is a perfect hero; with nothing left to lose, he's incorruptible. One can certainly see the brooding journalist making a compelling series lead. "--BOOKLIST "Cain's...
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Out of the Blues

Trudy Nan Boyce · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"A fresh, gritty debut. Boyce unveils one of the best new series characters in ages. . . A book that combines fast-paced suspense with moving insights." - #1 New York Times-bestselling author Lisa GardnerFrom an author with more than thirty years' experience in the Atlanta Police...
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The Empire of Night: A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller

Robert Olen Butler · Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

In the first two books of his acclaimed Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, The Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler captured the hearts of historical crime fiction fans with the artfulness of his World War I settings and his charismatic leading man,...
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No Safe House

Linwood Barclay · New American Library
Pages: 453
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author delivers the follow-up to No Time for Goodbye--an electrifying novel of suspense in which a family's troubled past is about to return in more ways than one. And this time, they may not be able to escape. ... Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family,...
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Pen 33

Anders Roslund · Quercus
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Bernt Lund harbors a sickness. He is a monster, an unrepentant child molester and serial killer. In the mind of society, in the minds of his nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the minds of his fellow inmates, he is a waking nightmare. And now he has escaped from custody--the worst scenario...
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Murder in Greenwich Village

LIZ FREELAND · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A year before World War I breaks out, the sidewalks of Manhattan are crowded with restless newcomers chasing the fabled American Dream, including a sharp-witted young woman who discovers a talent for investigating murder . . . New York City, 1913. Twenty-year-old Louise Faulk has fled...
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Old Scores: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

WILL THOMAS · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office, is enlisted to display his personal Japanese garden to the visiting dignitaries.Later that night, Ambassador Toda...
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The Figaro Murders: A Novel

Laura Lebow · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In 1786 Vienna, Lorenzo Da Ponte is the court librettist for the Italian Theatre during the height of the enlightened reign of Emperor Joseph II. This exalted position doesnt mean hes particularly well paid, or even out of reach of the endless intrigues of the opera world. In fact, far from...
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The Carrier

Sophie Hannah · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The latest in Sophie Hannah's internationally bestselling Zailer & Waterhouse series, named by The Sunday Times as one of the 50 Best Thrillers of the Last Five YearsWhen Gaby's plane is delayed, she's forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: Lauren, who is terrified...
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The Emerald Lie: A Jack Taylor Novel

Ken Bruen · Grove
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Ken Bruen, the "Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel" (Irish Independent) , is beloved for his black humor, verse-like prose, and irascible protagonist Jack Taylor, an ex-cop who is as addicted to trouble as he is to Jameson, pills, and pop culture.In The Emerald Lie, the latest...
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Half World: A Novel

Scott O'Connor · Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Pages: 412
Format: Print book

A "beautiful literary thriller" (Los Angeles Review of Books) inspired by the shocking history of a secret CIA mind-control program, Half World is "the perfect book for our present moment" (The Daily Beast).In the 1950s the CIA began a decades-long clandestine operation,...
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The Hydra Protocol: A Jim Chapel Mission

David Wellington · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

To prevent nuclear annihilation, Special Forces operative Jim Chapel must infiltrate a top secret Russian military base and disable an unstable supercomputer in this high-adrenaline, action-packed adventure thriller from David Wellington, the acclaimed author of Chimera—an exciting, science-based...
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A Killer Ball at Honeychurch Hall

Hannah Dennison · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this delightful new mystery our heroine Kat Stanford stumbles upon a hidden room in an abandoned wing at Honeychurch Hall. However, Kat's initial excitement soon ends in horror. There, lying on the cold, stone floor, Kat comes across the body of a young woman dressed in an Egyptian...
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