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Lowcountry Boil

Carl T. Smith · River City Publishing
Format: Book

Sam Larkin--former merchant marine and environmental officer in Louisiana--is unjustly sent to prison. Released under mysterious circumstances, Larkin moves to Covington, South Carolina, to begin a new, peaceful life. His newfound isolation is shattered when undercover federal agent Karen...
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Tail Gait: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown · Bantam
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

There's nothing like a tail well told. Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and ever-faithful Tee Tucker the corgi. TAIL GAIT Spring has sprung...
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House of Echoes: A Novel

Brendan Duffy · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

In this enthralling and atmospheric thriller, one young family's dream of a better life is about to become a nightmare. Ben and Caroline Tierney and their two young boys are hoping to start over. Ben has hit a dead end with his new novel, Caroline has lost her banking job, and eight-year-old...
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Land of Shadows

Rachel Howzell Hall · Forge Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Along the ever changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, seventeen year old Monique Darson is found dead at a condominium construction site, hanging in the closet of an unfinished unit. Homicide detective Elouise Lou Nortons new partner, Colin Taggert, fresh from the comparatively bucolic...
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The Harder They Come: A Novel

T.C. Boyle · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character.Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile...
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Kill the Heroes

David Thurlo · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Charlie Henry, co-owner of a pawnshop and Iraq war veteran, has, for the most part, settled into his somewhat quieter life in Albuquerque. He is invited to attend the dedication of a memorial in a park, where he, other local heroes, and first responders are to be honored for their military...
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The People vs. Alex Cross

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The charges: explosiveAlex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law-until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross knows it was self-defense....
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Badlands

C J Box · Minotaur Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

"Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective...
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Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 702
Format: Hardcover

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like...
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The Square Root of Murder

Ada Madison · Berkley
Format: Paperback

Dr. Sophie Knowles teaches math at Henley College in Massachusetts, but when a colleague turns up dead, it's up to her to find the killer before someone else gets subtracted.
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The Force: A Novel

DON WINSLOW · William Morrow
Pages: 482
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times BestsellerRecommended for summer reading by Amazon, New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Miami Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Edmond News, Rutland Herald, Seattle Times, AM New York, BookBub, and theREALbookspy.com"The Force is mesmerizing,...
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The Cutthroat

Clive Cussler · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 393
Format: Hardcover

Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in the newest action-adventure novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Clive Cussler. The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none...
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Since We Fell

DENNIS LEHANE · Ecco
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island"Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations." - Gillian FlynnSince We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who,...
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Gossamer Ghost

Laura Childs · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Carmela Bertrand knows that Halloween in New Orleans means a week of rabble-rousing, costumed craziness - and she can't wait to get the party started. But when a local antiques dealer turns up dead, Carmela suddenly finds herself in a real-life danse macabre ... An evening's work...
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Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel

Ian Rankin · Little
Pages: 516
Format: Paperback

While in a reform school for cops, Inspector John Rebus joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by some of his classmates known as "Resurrection Men."
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