Big Girl
By Danielle Steel
After her sister gets engaged to a carbon copy of her narcissistic father, plus-size woman Victoria Dawson, who has fled L.A. for less-body-conscious New York City, must learn to love herself for who she is if she is ever going to get on with her life.
Black Hills
By Dan Simmons
Ceremoniously attending the battlefield death of General George Armstrong Custer at Little Bighorn, a young Sioux warrior invokes the general’s spirit that haunts the Native American with visions of the pasts and futures of legendary historical figures.
The Bricklayer
By Noah Boyd
The FBI recruits Steve Vail, an agent it has just fired, to solve a brilliant and deadly extortion plot where a group called Rubaco Pentad is killing human targets one by one unless the bureau gives them cash, with the dollar amount and body count escalating each time the agency doesn’t pay up.
Coming of the Storm (Contact: The Battle for America)
By W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear
The first in a new series by the Golden Spur Award-winning authors of People of the Raven traces the first contact between Native Americans and Europeans in 1539 as viewed by Chicksaw trader Black Shell, who witnesses the brutal progress of Hernando de Soto’s military.
A Dark Matter
By Peter Straub
Years after a 1960s religious guru’s clandestine activities with his most fervent acolytes results in a grisly murder, a man struggles to make sense of what happened to his wife and friends by writing a book for which he asks former followers to relive their experiences.
Deep Creek
By Dana Hand
Investigating the discovery of more than 40 murdered Chinese gold miners in a 19th-century Idaho territory lake, lawman Joe Vincent teams up with an ambitious company researcher and a mountain guide to track the killers across the Pacific Northwest.
Evening’s Empire
By Bill Flanagan
An MTV executive and essayist for CBS News Sunday Morning presents the tale of a mythical British rock band that rises, falls, and returns over the course of four historically relevant and drug-addled decades.
Fantasy in Death
By J. D. Robb
Investigating the bizarre murder of a millionaire video game maven within a locked room, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is baffled by a lack of suspects and the victim’s demise in spite of his considerable resources.
Gator A-Go-Go
By Tim Dorsey
After a Miami crime gang ruins his spring break by targeting a snitch’s son, drug-addled Serge A. Storms and his equally bloodthirsty deputy, Coleman, aim to track down the gang members and take them out.
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
By Heidi W. Durrow
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G. I., moves into her grandmother’s mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
Heresy
By S. J. Parris
Condemned for his heretical belief that the Earth orbits the sun, scientist and occult researcher Giordano Bruno is unexpectedly recruited by Elizabeth I, who dispatches him to Oxford University to investigate a Catholic plot against the crown.
The Hidden Flame (Acts of Faith)
By Davis Bunn and Janette Oke
In the sequel to The Centurion’s Wife, Abigail discovers the Messiah and joins his followers, and while two suitors – a successful Hebrew merchant and a Roman soldier – long for her hand in marriage, Abigail’s heart is captured by Stephen, one of the leaders of The Way, whose outspoken preaching has marked him for assassination.
Horns
By Joe Hill
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power, a power he uses in the name of vengeance, only to learn that, when it comes to revenge, the devil is in the details.
The Infinities
By John Banville
Attending the deathbed of a renowned mathematician, a second wife and his adult children reflect on their personal demons, including the son’s pretty wife, who has caught the attention of the mischievous god Zeus.
The Information Officer
By Mark Mills
The author of the best-seller Amagansett presents the story of World War II officer Max Chadwick who is stationed on a strategically important, bomb-riddled Mediterranean island where the murder of a local woman threatens to shatter the precarious regional stability.
Last Snow
By Eric Lustbader
In the aftermath of an American senator’s death on a political trip, presidential Special Advisor Jack McClure is dispatched to investigate a perilous trail throughout Eastern Europe, an assignment that is complicated by his efforts to protect two unlikely competitors.
Letter to My Daughter
By George Bishop
When her 15-year-old daughter runs away from their Baton Rouge home, a guilt-ridden mother writes a healing letter about her own adolescence which was marked by a strict Catholic boarding school, a forbidden romance, and the origins of an enigmatic tattoo.
The Man From Beijing
By Henning Mankell
In the aftermath of the 2006 massacre of 19 people in a Swedish village, Judge Birgitta Roslin, a granddaughter of two of the victims, discovers the 19th-century diary of a gang leader that reveals the case’s eerie connections to the abuse of Chinese slave workers.
Matthew’s Story (The Jesus Chronicles)
By Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Disappointing his family with his choice to become a tax collector, Levi abandons his initial calling to become a priest and begins questioning the nature of his existence after hearing rumors about a man who is reputed to be the prophesied Messiah.
The Midnight House
By Alex Berenson
Summoned to Langley in the aftermath of two murders, CIA agent John Wells learns that the victims were part of a secret interrogation team that used brutal methods to break tough jihadis, a case with ties to unexpected places.
Money to Burn
By James Grippando
A taut new thriller of greed and murder set in the high-stakes atmosphere of New York’s Wall Street involves some of the financial world’s most powerful and corrupt individuals.
Occupied City
By David Peace
A tale inspired by a true story follows the murder of a dozen people in 1948 Tokyo by a man who claimed he was providing government-directed medical care, an event recounted from the disparate perspectives of the victims.
Ordinary Thunderstorms
By William Boyd
After a chance meeting with a stranger leads Adam Kindred to lose his home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, and mobile phone, both the London police and a hired killer are actively trying to track him down. With nowhere to turn, Adam joins the vast army of the missing that live underground as he tries to sort through what’s left of his life.
Point Omega
By Don DeLillo
Jim Finley, a young filmmaker, attempts to convince Richard Elster, a former secret war advisor, to tell his story on film, an endeavor complicated by the arrival of Richard’s daughter and a devastating event that throws everything into question.
Poor Little Bitch Girl
By Jackie Collins
Enjoying power and wealth in their respective positions as a Los Angeles attorney, a senator’s mistress, and a celebrity madame, three former high school friends find their destinies intertwining with another friend from their teens in the aftermath of a devastating murder.
The Postmistress
By Sarah Blake
The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States’s entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.
Ransom
By David Malouf
A reimagining of the story of Priam’s effort to claim the slain body of his son finds the grief-stricken Achilles striking out against Hector after the death of Patroclus during the siege of Troy, an act that invokes a passionate bereavement in the king and ultimately results in a powerful confrontation.
Ruby’s Spoon
By Anna Lawrence Pietroni
A depression-era factory town in England is turned upside-down by an enigmatic white-haired newcomer from the coast who particularly influences a motherless 13-year-old girl, a middle-aged bachelor, and the factory’s Oxford-educated spinster heir.
Savage Lands
By Clare Clark
Dispatched to early 18th-century Louisiana as a mail-order bride, Elisabeth unexpectedly falls in love with her charismatic soldier husband, while cabin boy Auguste, abandoned in a remote village, is directed to learn the local language in order to spy on native activities.
Secrets of Eden
By Chris Bohjalian
Haunted by the final words of a newly baptized congregation member who was subsequently murdered, the Reverend Stephen Drew abandons his pulpit to spend time with an author who writes best-selling books about angels.
Shadow Tag
By Louise Erdrich
After she discovers that her husband has been reading her diary, Irene America turns it into a manipulative farce, while secretly keeping a second diary that includes her true thoughts, through which the reader learns of Irene’s shaky marriage, its affect on her children, and her struggles with alcohol.
Something Is Out There
By Richard Bausch
A volume of eleven tales by the award-winning author of Peace includes the stories of a husband who confronts the inevitability of old age; a son who breaks his heart to make his mother’s final days happy; and a divorcee who learns that her divided parents have reconciled.
Split Image (Jessie Stone)
By Robert B. Parker
Overwhelmed by a double homicide involving a mob hit, a high-ranking crime figure, and twin mafia wives, Jesse Stone increasingly succumbs to alcoholism before agreeing to assist fellow investigator Sunny Randall on a seemingly unrelated case.
The Sweet By and By
By Sara Evans
With her wedding only days away and only her faith to get her through the chaos, Jade Freedom Fitzgerald must contend with the sudden arrival of her wild sister and hippie mother who is seeking reconciliation before she succumbs to a deadly illness.
The Things That Keep Us Here
By Carla Buckley
Trapped inside her home when a devastating pandemic enters America, Ann Brooks is forced to make life-or-death decisions involving choices that were once ordinary in order to protect her family.
Wake Up Dead: A Thriller
By Roger Smith
After a carjacking in Cape Town leaves Roxy Palmer’s gunrunner husband dead, she must stay out of the sights of the carjacking gang members, Disco and Godwynn; an ex-cop turned mercenary, Billy Afrika; and Piper, a psychopath, bet on renewing his vows with his jailhouse “wife.”
Winter Garden
By Kristin Hannah
Reunited when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
Worst Case
By James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Investigating a kidnapper who is murdering the children of wealthy New York families, Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker discover that the killer has hatched an elaborate plot to decimate the entire city. |
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