When Lee hires a free-spirited employee with a tie-dyed, troubled past, she discovers that even the counter-culture can conceal a killer As much as the chocolate concoctions at TenHuis can tantalize peoples tongues, Lees newest hire is more likely to make them wag. Forsythia Sissy Smith is the granddaughter of Warner Piers only remaining resident hippie, and lives out at the Moose Lodgeonce an informal commune in the forest east of town. But the fact that Sissy is a third-generation flower child is the least of Lees concerns. The previous winter, Sissys husband, Buzz, was found shot to death, and local talk named Sissy the number one suspect. Even though her alibi was airtight, the gossips are still pointing their fingers at her. Lee sympathizes with the young womaneven more so when Buzzs dad, a tough retired Army colonel, threatens to sue Sissy for custody of her son.
NAL Hardcover; Book Club edition
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9780451238023
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Hardcover
Threadbare
By Ferris, Monica
In the latest needlecraft novel from USA Today bestselling author Monica Ferris Besty gets embroiled in an embroidery mystery When an elderly homeless woman is found dead on the shore of Lake Minnetonka shes wearing something that holds the key to her identity but also opens up a mystery Embroidered on her blouse is her will in which she bequeaths everything she owns to her niece-Emily Hame a member of the Monday Bunch at Betsy Devonshires Crewel World needlework shopEmilys aunt turns out to be the second homeless woman to be found dead under mysterious circumstances Its up to Betsy to discover the common thread between the deaths-and to determine if a murderer may strike again
Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
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9780425243589
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Hardcover
I Love It When You Lie
By Bird, Kristen
"Irresistible and compulsive, this book is packed full of surprises." - Samantha Downing, internationally bestselling author of My Lovely WifeThe Williams women don't just keep secrets ... They bury them. The three Williams girls are as close as sisters can be, and they also share one special trait in common: each of them have a man in their lives that they could do without. Tara, the pastor's wife, has been stealing money from the church and would prefer that her husband stay out of it. Then there's June, who would do anything to have a baby of her own, even if her husband is dead set against it. Clementine, the youngest, is entangled in an affair with her professor, a man whose behavior she's starting to seriously question. Their sister-in-law Stephanie, an outsider, knows all the family dirt and is watching the three of them - and the men in their lives - closely.
MIRA
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9780778333432
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Paperback
Murder in the Bastille
By Black, Cara
"Cara Black books are good companions, and Murder in the Bastille especially so. Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can’t go, these will do fine. Or, better, go and bring them with you."—Alan Furst "Charming. . . . Aimée is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city’s historical streets and byways with their eyes closed."—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Paris is one of my favorite cities in all the world; Black’s books are a fine way to revisit it."—New Orleans Times-Picayune "Black’s fourth is her best yet, with complex, appealing characters, a crisp, well-paced mystery, and a setting like no other.
Soho Crime
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9781569473245
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Hardcover
Bad Faith
By Tanenbaum, Robert K.
A parent’s worst nightmare sets the stage for the exhilarating new thriller in Robert K. Tanenbaum’s New York Times bestselling Butch Karp series. New York District Attorney Butch Karp has no qualms about putting David and Nonie Ellis on trial following the excruciating death of their young son, Micah. To him, the case is cut-and-dried—reckless manslaughter. Helpless ten-year-old Micah counted on his parents to protect him from the effects of a rare but treatable cancer. Instead, the Ellis family relied solely on prayer and the guidance of snake-oil salesman Reverend C. G. Westlund, of the End of Days Reformation Church of Jesus Christ Resurrected, to save him. Westlund and his zealous followers set up camp outside the DA’s office, angrily protesting the indictment of their “brother” and “sister,” but the charismatic leader’s true objective is to create a diversion from an alarming fraud.
Gallery Books
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9781451635591
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Audiobook
Chance
By Parker, Robert B
Spenser and his sidekick, Hawk, become entangled in the affairs of the Mafia and in an internecine struggle for control of the Boston underworld when they set out to find the errant spouse of the daughter of big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura.
G.P. Putnam's Sons
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9780399141348
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Print book
Detroit Is Our Beat
By Estleman, Loren D.
The place Detroit. The time World War II.While most of the police department is fighting overseas, the four men of the Racket Squad struggle to keep a lid on a powderkeg stuffed with draft-dodging troublemakers, Black Market gangsters, enemy saboteurs, and a mixed bag of racial and ethnic groups working uneasily side by side in defense plants run by the automobile industry.With blackjacks, brass knuckles, tommy guns, and their bare fists, Lieutenant Max Zagreb, Sergeant Starvo Canal, and detectives McReary and Burke--known collectively as the Four Horsemen--battle their way through ten gritty stories in the hardest-boiled town during the twentieth centurys hardest-boiled decade.,
Tyrus Books; First Edition edition
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9781440588440
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Print book
The Room of White Fire
By Parker, T. Jefferson
In this stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker, P.I. Roland Ford must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by war, dangerous, and on the run. A young soldier escaped from a mental institution.A P.I. carrying his own wounds hired to track that soldier down.A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him. Roland Ford - once a cop, then a marine, now a private investigator - is good at finding people. But when he's asked to locate Air Force veteran Clay Hickman, he realizes he's been drawn into something deep and dark. He knows war, having served as a Marine in first Fallujah; he also knows personal pain, as only two years have passed since his wife, Justine, died. What he doesn't know is why a shroud of secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickman - and why he's getting a different story from everyone involved. To begin with, there's Sequoia, the teenage woman who helped Clay escape; she's smart enough to fend off Ford's questions but impetuous enough to be on the run with an armed man. Then there's Paige Hulet, Clay's doctor, who clearly cares deeply for his welfare but is impossible to read, even as she inspires in Ford the first desire he has felt since his wife's death. And there's Briggs Spencer, the proprietor of the mental institution who is as enigmatic as he is brash, and ambitious to the point of being ruthless. What could Clay possibly know to make this search so desperate? What began as just a job becomes a life-or-death obsession for Ford, pitting him against immensely powerful and treacherous people and forcing him to contend with chilling questions about truth, justice, and the American way.
G.P. Putnam's Sons
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9780735212664
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Hardcover
Big Sky
By Atkinson, Kate
Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network-and back across the path of his old friend Reggie. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking novel by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today.
Little, Brown and Company
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9780316523097
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Hardcover
No Safe House
By Barclay, Linwood
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 experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible, and Terry is struggling to keep his family together.But when his daughter Grace foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. They must survive. Because now they have all been unwillingly drawn into the shadowy depths of their seemingly idyllic hometown. And they will soon learn that there are some things people value much more than money, and will do anything to get.
The Chocolate Moose Motive
By Carl, Joanna
When Lee hires a free-spirited employee with a tie-dyed, troubled past, she discovers that even the counter-culture can conceal a killer As much as the chocolate concoctions at TenHuis can tantalize peoples tongues, Lees newest hire is more likely to make them wag. Forsythia Sissy Smith is the granddaughter of Warner Piers only remaining resident hippie, and lives out at the Moose Lodgeonce an informal commune in the forest east of town. But the fact that Sissy is a third-generation flower child is the least of Lees concerns. The previous winter, Sissys husband, Buzz, was found shot to death, and local talk named Sissy the number one suspect. Even though her alibi was airtight, the gossips are still pointing their fingers at her. Lee sympathizes with the young womaneven more so when Buzzs dad, a tough retired Army colonel, threatens to sue Sissy for custody of her son.
Threadbare
By Ferris, Monica
In the latest needlecraft novel from USA Today bestselling author Monica Ferris Besty gets embroiled in an embroidery mystery When an elderly homeless woman is found dead on the shore of Lake Minnetonka shes wearing something that holds the key to her identity but also opens up a mystery Embroidered on her blouse is her will in which she bequeaths everything she owns to her niece-Emily Hame a member of the Monday Bunch at Betsy Devonshires Crewel World needlework shopEmilys aunt turns out to be the second homeless woman to be found dead under mysterious circumstances Its up to Betsy to discover the common thread between the deaths-and to determine if a murderer may strike again
I Love It When You Lie
By Bird, Kristen
"Irresistible and compulsive, this book is packed full of surprises." - Samantha Downing, internationally bestselling author of My Lovely WifeThe Williams women don't just keep secrets ... They bury them. The three Williams girls are as close as sisters can be, and they also share one special trait in common: each of them have a man in their lives that they could do without. Tara, the pastor's wife, has been stealing money from the church and would prefer that her husband stay out of it. Then there's June, who would do anything to have a baby of her own, even if her husband is dead set against it. Clementine, the youngest, is entangled in an affair with her professor, a man whose behavior she's starting to seriously question. Their sister-in-law Stephanie, an outsider, knows all the family dirt and is watching the three of them - and the men in their lives - closely.
Murder in the Bastille
By Black, Cara
"Cara Black books are good companions, and Murder in the Bastille especially so. Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can’t go, these will do fine. Or, better, go and bring them with you."—Alan Furst "Charming. . . . Aimée is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city’s historical streets and byways with their eyes closed."—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Paris is one of my favorite cities in all the world; Black’s books are a fine way to revisit it."—New Orleans Times-Picayune "Black’s fourth is her best yet, with complex, appealing characters, a crisp, well-paced mystery, and a setting like no other.
Bad Faith
By Tanenbaum, Robert K.
A parent’s worst nightmare sets the stage for the exhilarating new thriller in Robert K. Tanenbaum’s New York Times bestselling Butch Karp series. New York District Attorney Butch Karp has no qualms about putting David and Nonie Ellis on trial following the excruciating death of their young son, Micah. To him, the case is cut-and-dried—reckless manslaughter. Helpless ten-year-old Micah counted on his parents to protect him from the effects of a rare but treatable cancer. Instead, the Ellis family relied solely on prayer and the guidance of snake-oil salesman Reverend C. G. Westlund, of the End of Days Reformation Church of Jesus Christ Resurrected, to save him. Westlund and his zealous followers set up camp outside the DA’s office, angrily protesting the indictment of their “brother” and “sister,” but the charismatic leader’s true objective is to create a diversion from an alarming fraud.
Chance
By Parker, Robert B
Spenser and his sidekick, Hawk, become entangled in the affairs of the Mafia and in an internecine struggle for control of the Boston underworld when they set out to find the errant spouse of the daughter of big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura.
Detroit Is Our Beat
By Estleman, Loren D.
The place Detroit. The time World War II.While most of the police department is fighting overseas, the four men of the Racket Squad struggle to keep a lid on a powderkeg stuffed with draft-dodging troublemakers, Black Market gangsters, enemy saboteurs, and a mixed bag of racial and ethnic groups working uneasily side by side in defense plants run by the automobile industry.With blackjacks, brass knuckles, tommy guns, and their bare fists, Lieutenant Max Zagreb, Sergeant Starvo Canal, and detectives McReary and Burke--known collectively as the Four Horsemen--battle their way through ten gritty stories in the hardest-boiled town during the twentieth centurys hardest-boiled decade.,
The Room of White Fire
By Parker, T. Jefferson
In this stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker, P.I. Roland Ford must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by war, dangerous, and on the run. A young soldier escaped from a mental institution. A P.I. carrying his own wounds hired to track that soldier down. A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him. Roland Ford - once a cop, then a marine, now a private investigator - is good at finding people. But when he's asked to locate Air Force veteran Clay Hickman, he realizes he's been drawn into something deep and dark. He knows war, having served as a Marine in first Fallujah; he also knows personal pain, as only two years have passed since his wife, Justine, died. What he doesn't know is why a shroud of secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickman - and why he's getting a different story from everyone involved. To begin with, there's Sequoia, the teenage woman who helped Clay escape; she's smart enough to fend off Ford's questions but impetuous enough to be on the run with an armed man. Then there's Paige Hulet, Clay's doctor, who clearly cares deeply for his welfare but is impossible to read, even as she inspires in Ford the first desire he has felt since his wife's death. And there's Briggs Spencer, the proprietor of the mental institution who is as enigmatic as he is brash, and ambitious to the point of being ruthless. What could Clay possibly know to make this search so desperate? What began as just a job becomes a life-or-death obsession for Ford, pitting him against immensely powerful and treacherous people and forcing him to contend with chilling questions about truth, justice, and the American way.
Big Sky
By Atkinson, Kate
Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network-and back across the path of his old friend Reggie. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking novel by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today.
No Safe House
By Barclay, Linwood
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 experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible, and Terry is struggling to keep his family together.But when his daughter Grace foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. They must survive. Because now they have all been unwillingly drawn into the shadowy depths of their seemingly idyllic hometown. And they will soon learn that there are some things people value much more than money, and will do anything to get.