The 2012 Codex
By Gary Jennings
A conclusion to Apocalypse 2012 finds Rita Critchlow and Cooper Jones racing against time to locate the 1,000-year-old codex of god-king Quetzacoatl, a quest that mirrors the search of Montezuma empire slave-scholar Pacal 500 years earlier.
The Atlas of Love
By Laurie Frankel
After Jill becomes both pregnant and single in grad school, she moves in with her two closest friends, as the three of them attempt to share parenting Jill’s baby while juggling classes and adjusting to their chaotic living situation.
Babylon Nights (David Spandau)
By Daniel Depp
A follow-up to Loser’s Town finds the intrepid private investigator working to protect a suicidal A-list actress from a stalker who launches a deadly cat-and-mouse game that takes them from the streets of Hollywood to the chaos of the Cannes Film Festival.
The Blasphemer
By Nigel Farndale
In the aftermath of a small plane crash that forced him to make a wrenching life-and-death choice, zoologist Daniel Kennedy confronts the fate of his great-grandfather during World War I and struggles to both prove himself and earn forgiveness.
Bill Warrington’s Last Chance
By James King
Vowing to repair his relationships with his estranged adult children after learning he has Alzheimer’s, Bill Warrington takes a cross-country drive with his teenage granddaughter and leaves clues intended to force his children to overcome mutual distrust and work together.
Bitter in the Mouth
By Monique Truong
The Lambda Literary Award finalist author of The Book of Salt follows the challenging life journey of 1970s small-town youth Linda, whose synesthesia causes her to “taste” words and compels her to pursue a sense of belonging as she enters adulthood.
Blind Man’s Alley
By Justin Peacock
Defending a real estate tycoon from lawsuits stemming from a building collapse and suspected mafia ties, lawyer Duncan Riley finds the task complicated by his client’s enamored daughter and a seemingly unrelated murder case.
Body Work
By Sara Paretsky
At Chicago’s Club Gouge, a mysterious performer known as the Body Artist lets her body be used as a canvas for the audience’s impromptu illustrations, and V. I. Warshawski watches the sometimes brazen, sometimes hesitant participants approach the stage. One woman’s art, however, provokes a violent reaction from a man in the crowd, an Iraqi war vet. When the woman is shot days later, she dies in V. I.’s arms, and the police quickly arrest the soldier. Oddly, V. I. is hired by his family, and her attempts to clear his name will take her from Chicago’s affluent North Side to the Gulf War.
The Capitol Game
By Brian Haig
After Jack Wiley rallies corporate giant Capitol Group in an attempt to takeover a small company that has developed an armor-reinforcing polymer that could change the course of modern warfare, he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal ever seen.
The Caretaker of Lorne Field
By Dave Zeltserman
Longing to abandon their duties as the ninth generation of tenders who weed Lorne Field, Jack and Lydia Durkin wait for their son to grow up and assume their responsibilities, unaware that the field will spawn a cataclysmic monster if unattended.
The Cobra
By Frederick Forsyth
Having once been forcibly retired from the CIA for being too ruthless, former director of Special Operations Paul Devereaux is called back into action, with the agency giving him free reign and unlimited resources to take down the top drug cartels.
Crossfire
By Dick Francis and Felix Francis
After he discovers that his mother, an esteemed horse trainer, is being blackmailed and forced to make her horses lose, disabled Afghanistan war veteran Captain Tom Forsyth must use his finely honed military skills to root out the shadowy figure who is responsible for his mother’s predicament.
Cure
By Robin Cook
Returning to work when her son’s neuroblastoma goes into remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery faces the case of her career involving the suspected murder-by-poisoning of a CIA agent and possible links to a powerful pharmaceutical company and start-up stem-cell research labs.
Darius Jones
By Mary B. Morrison
After an accident with a drunk driver leaves his wife Fancy in a coma, pro-baseball player Darius Jones must fend off the mother of his son, who is fighting for primary custody, as well as a relentless groupie who is using Fancy’s absence to try to become part of Darius’ life.
Dark Echo
By Francis Cottam
Obtaining a beautiful yacht in spite of its unlucky reputation, Martin prepares for an Atlantic voyage before learning that the vessel’s original owner was a sorcerer who committed suicide a century earlier and who put a curse on the boat linked to a terrible secret.
Death Is Not an Option: Stories
By Suzanne Rivecca
This debut collection of stories features the tales of a potential home renter who is sucked into a strangely inappropriate correspondence with her landlord, and a teacher obsessed with a student who comes to school with scratches on his face.
Death on the D-List
By Nancy Grace
After she moves to New York City and becomes a TV crime fighter, former felony prosecutor Hailey Dean learns that the television industry not only isn’t as glamorous as it seems, it is filled with treachery, deception, and murder.
Displaced Persons
By Ghita Schwarz
Forging a family together after surviving World War II concentration camp brutality, Pavel, Fela, and Chaim relocate to America, where throughout subsequent decades they raise families while struggling to find peace and adjust to a culture that unexpectedly embraces their tragedies.
Fragile
By Lisa Unger
When her rebellious teenage son’s girlfriend goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Maggie becomes increasingly fearful about unsettling ties between the investigation and an unsolved missing-person case from twenty years earlier that involved her police-officer husband.
The Garden of Betrayal
By Lee Vance
A tale set against a backdrop of the 2008 economic crisis follows the experiences of a family that was shattered seven years earlier by the abduction of their 12-year-old child, and who receive an important lead on the same day a natural gas pipeline in Russia is blown up by terrorists.
Healer
By Carol Wiley Cassella
Losing her privileged world when the abrupt failure of her husband’s business catapults them into heavy debt, Claire withdraws with her daughter to the family ranch, where she resurrects her medical skills and struggles to keep the family together.
How to Be an American Housewife
By Margaret Dilloway
Entreated to visit her ancestral family in Japan in place of her ailing mother, Sue uncovers family secrets that influence her life in unforeseen ways, offer insight into her mother’s marriage to an American GI and reveal the role of tradition in shaping personal choice.
I Curse the River of Time
By Per Petterson
Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother’s diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance. By the award-winning author of Out Stealing Horses.
In Harm’s Way
By Ridley Pearson
His budding relationship with Fiona strained by her avoidance of media attention for her part in a river rescue, Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming begins a race against time when he learns of a possible link between his community and a recent Seattle murder.
The Last Lie (Alan Gregory)
By Stephen White
party guests indulges in too much wine, elects to sleep over and wakes up the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed, Alan Gregory and his deputy district attorney wife, Lauren, join forces with detective Sam Purdy in an investigation that turns grim once one of the witnesses is murdered.
The Lucifer Code
By Charles Brokaw
Abducted during a visit to Turkey, Thomas Lourds is ordered by his murderous captors to translate a lost scroll attributed to the Book of Revelations’ John that is being sought aggressively by dangerous, powerful groups for its potential capacity for triggering the Apocalypse.
Memory Wall
By Anthony Doerr
The O. Henry Prize-winning author of The Shell Collector presents a volume of short tales that includes the title work, a McSweeney’s-commissioned piece, as well as additional stories that span four continents and follow a theme of life’s subtle grandeur.
My Hollywood
By Mona Simpson
Struggling with her television writer husband’s long hours and her own lack of childcare experience, composer Claire hires Lola, a Filipino mother of five who would finance her children’s educations and who becomes privately devoted to her employers.
Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom
By Peg Kingman
A runaway Virginia slave returns to America in 1840 after building a rewarding and successful life in the East Indies as a silk merchant, risking everything she has to undertake a perilous investigation.
Percival’s Planet
By Michael Byers
A tale inspired by the true story of Pluto’s discoverer finds a wealthy heir seeking dinosaurs in the 1920s West while a beautiful girl gradually succumbs to mental illness and a Kansas farm boy painstakingly grinds his own telescope lens.
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
By Ann Weisgarber
Agreeing to a marriage of convenience involving a share of land granted by the Homestead Act, an African-American boardinghouse owner’s son and a hired woman stake a claim and begin a pioneer life together in the forebodingly beautiful South Dakota Badlands.
The Pirate Devlin
By Mark Keating
Patrick Devlin, a lowly servant, is captured by pirates and eventually becomes their captain, helming their swashbuckling search for a king’s fortune and trying to steer clear of those who wish him dead.
The Postcard Killers
By James Patterson and Liza Marklund
NYPD detective Jack Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jack’s daughter and her boyfriend.
The Recessionistas
By Alexandra Lebenthal
A group of rich and powerful New Yorkers suddenly discovers that not even they are recession-proof when their perfect Upper East Side lives get turned upside down by the economic collapse.
The Red Queen (The Cousin’s War)
By Philippa Gregory
Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
Red Star Rising
By Brian Freemantle
When the body of a brutally murdered Russian is dumped on the lawn of Moscow’s British Embassy, special agent Charlie Muffin returns to Russia, where his search for answers exposes him to dangers that threaten international foreign relations.
Rich Boy
By Sharon Pomerantz
After he rises from a working-class New York Jewish neighborhood in the 1970s to the cloistered universities of New England to the highest circles of Manhattan society during the Reagan boom, Robert Vishniak sees his carefully crafted identity start to unravel after he bumps into a beautiful woman from the old neighborhood.
Slicker
By Lucy Jackson
Raised with the privileges of her Manhattan family, Yale student Desiree flees an unpromising relationship to start over in a tiny Kansas community, where her efforts to fit in are challenged by her wariness of its very different culture and her growing feelings for the son of two aging hippies.
The Sonderberg Case
By Elie Wiesel
Ruminating on his past relationships with the men in his family, New York City theater critic Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate whose enigmatic plea triggers Yedidyah’s own revelations.
Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan)
By Kathy Reichs
Reichs’ intrepid forensic anthropologist investigates the death of a man who appears to have died while engaged in a bizarre sexual act and who was originally declared dead four decades earlier.
Stiltsville
By Susanna Daniel
The love story between Frances Ellerby and Dennis DuVal takes place against the backdrop of the Biscayne Bay, where they struggle with Florida’s weather, infidelity, parenthood, friendship, and debilitating illness over the span of thirty years.
A Stranger Like You
By Elizabeth Brundage
Inciting the wrath of an unstable aspiring screenwriter whose film she cancelled for its implausible violence, movie executive Hedda is abducted by the writer, who decides to prove his story’s worth by staging its plot with Hedda as the victim.
Strangers at the Feast
By Jennifer Vanderbes
Celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday of 2007, three generations of the Olson family struggle with old grudges, personality clashes and the impending economic crisis, and two African-American teens from a nearby housing project embark on a mysterious job that culminates in a violent encounter.
The Stuff That Never Happened
By Maddie Dawson
Comparing her stable marriage to a passionate affair she had 26 years earlier, Annabelle feels neglected by her busy husband and cares for her pregnant daughter until an encounter with her past lover forces her to question her choices.
Tempted by Trouble
By Eric Jerome Dickey
When his promising future is upended by the recession, former Detroit auto industry employee Dmytryk and his wife, Cora, make a morally ambiguous and ultimately violent deal with a ruthless crime boss that ends their marriage and forces Dmytryk to reassess his beliefs.
The Thousand
By Kevin Guilfoile
Set in coastal Italy in 500 B.C., the arrival of Pythagoras triggers revolutionary changes in science and philosophy that influence the modern-world life of a murdered composer’s daughter. By the author of the best-selling Cast of Shadows.
Three Stations (Arkady Renko)
By Martin Cruz Smith
In a novel set in modern-day Moscow, Arkady Renko must deal with the kidnapping of a mysterious teenage mother’s baby, a murdered prostitute, and police corruption.
Tough Customer
By Sandra Brown
Entreated by his former lover, Dodge, to help protect her daughter from a depraved man who has been stalking her, staff investigator Derek Mitchell teams up with a small-town sheriff and enlists methods from his own shady past to find answers.
Turbulence
By Giles Foden
Directed to forecast the weather to assist the planned Allied D-Day invasion, a reclusive pacifist who has devised a sophisticated new system and a young prodigy confront an unstable weather system that proves more threatening than realized.
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
By Helen Grant
Reviled in her German village home where her only friends are a fellow outcast and an elderly storyteller, 11-year-old Pia investigates the disappearances of three local girls whom she believes are tied to unsolved missing persons cases from decades earlier.
Venom
By Joan Brady
In the aftermath of a man’s flight from a secret organization that wants him dead, a physicist discovers a colony of bees with unique venom and is alarmed by a series of murders targeting her colleagues as she gets closer to finding a cure for radiation poisoning.
Villain
By Yoshida Shuichi
A first English-language translation of a work by an award-winning author follows a southern Japanese community’s concerned observations of a young construction worker who is charged with murdering a female insurance salesperson.
With Friends Like These
By Sally Koslow
Forging a deep friendship in spite of their differences, former roommates Quincy, Jules, Talia, and Chloe struggle with respective challenges based upon their illusion-based comparisons to one another’s circumstances.
You Lost Me There
By Rosecrans Baldwin
Alzheimer’s researcher Dr. Victor Aaron cherishes memories of his idyllic marriage to his late wife and suffers doubts about his carefully organized life and the nature of memory when he discovers hidden notes written by his wife which contradict those beliefs.
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