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The Rendition

Albert Ashforth · Oceanview Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The brutal secret war to win Kosovo's freedom from Serbia is in full swing when The Rendition takes readers behind the headlines for an inside look at the United States' involvement. Alex Klear, a veteran intelligence officer, is sent to the Balkans on a hastily planned rendition...
 
 
Starvation Lake: A Mystery

Bryan Gruley · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 370
Format: Print book

Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Harlan Coben meets early Dennis Lehane in this "smashing debut thriller" (Chicago Tribune) , set in a small northern Michigan town by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile...
 
 
Razor girl.

Carl Hiaasen · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Click Here For the Autographed Copy The new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of "Skinny Dip" and"Bad Monkey" When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary...
 
 
Song of the Lion: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

Anne Hillerman · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings.When...
 
 
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Rita Mae Brown · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The chase is on in New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown's gripping new foxhunting mystery, featuring the irrepressible "Sister" Jane Arnold and the wily antics of her four-legged friends. In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, a century-old crime reawakens bad will - and stirs...
 
 
Invisible Streets

Toby Ball · Overlook Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

In this visionary dystopian thriller, the hunt is on for a haul of explosives that shouldn’t get into the wrong hands . . . or should it? A brilliantly imagined thriller, Invisible Streets is a sprawling, noirish epic of crime and corruption by an author who has been compared...
 
 
The Chemist

Stephenie Meyer · Little
Pages: 521
Format: Print book

In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency...
 
 
Arctic Chill: An Inspector Erlendur Novel

Arnaldur Indridason · Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

INSPECTOR ERLENDUR RETURNS IN THIS ICY, INTENSE REYKJAVIK THRILLEROn an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of apartments where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of blood. Erlendur and his team embark...
 
 
A Fatal Chapter: A Booktown Mystery

Lorna Barrett · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lorna Barrett presents another page-turning chapter in her Booktown Mystery series. This time mystery bookshop owner Tricia Miles is about to find out murder is no walk in the park ... While out walking Sarge, her sister's bichon frise, Tricia is led by the agitated...
 
 
The Sudden Appearance of Hope

Claire North · Redhook
Pages: 468
Format: Print book

My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before-a thousand times. It started when I was sixteen years old. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger. No matter what I do, the words...
 
 
Damaged.

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 405
Format: Print book

"Scottoline writes riveting thrillers that keep me up all night, with plots that twist and turn." -Harlan CobenOne boy. One lawyer. One chance for justice.Ten-year-old Patrick O'Brien is a natural target at school. Shy, dyslexic, and small for his age, he tries to hide his first-grade...
 
 
The Bishop's Wife

Mette Ivie Harrison · Soho
Pages: 345
Format: Print book

In the Mormon community of Draper, Utah, seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Linda Wallheim is a devout Mormon, the mother of five boys and the wife of a bishop. But Linda is increasingly troubled by her church's structure and secrecy, especially as a disturbing situation...
 
 
Snake Pass

Colin Campbell · Midnight Ink
Format: Print book

Jim Grant is one of the best cops in Yorkshire, but the tactics that earn him respect from his fellow officers have drawn the scrutiny of the brass. And when a discipline and complaints inspector feels he's gone too far after a particularly righteous bust, Grant is put on suspension....
 
 
The Burning Soul

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

What's the worst thing you've ever done? "There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before." Randall...
 
 
The Perfect Girl: A Novel

Gilly Macmillan · William Morrow
Pages: 12
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew returns with an electrifying new novel about how the past will always find us..."Literary suspense at its finest." - Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Baby"A wonderfully addictive book with virtuoso...