The 13th Hour
By Richard Doetsch
A tale told in reverse finds an innocent man sitting in jail after being accused of his wife’s murder, and given an opportunity to go back in time on an hour-by-hour basis to discover what happened — an opportunity that poses a painful dilemma.
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
By Rebecca Goldstein
Elevated to celebrity by his best-selling book, psychology professor Cass Seltzer finds his relationship with a fellow theorist challenged by a former girlfriend’s invitation to join her biochemistry experiment in immortality, an effort that is further complicated by his ongoing quest to understand religion.
Alice I Have Been
By Melanie Benjamin
Octogenarian Alice, who, as a child inspired Lewis Carroll’s famous Wonderland character, looks back on a life marked by an implacable mother, her halcyon days in Oxford, and the sons who went off to war.
Among Thieves
By David Hosp
Nearly twenty years after a large-scale art heist, the unsolved case is reopened in the wake of the bizarre murders of Boston underground criminals whose killings suggest the work of an IRA-trained individual.
An Irish Country Girl
By Patrick Taylor
The author of An Irish Country Doctor offers a story of his beloved character Kinky Kincaid. Once known as Maureen O’Hanlon, a farmer’s daughter growing up in the hills and glens of 1920s County Cork, Ireland, Maureen had a gift for seeing fairies, spirits, and the dreaded Banshee.
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
By Maaza Mengiste
After his physician father, Hailu, is ordered to report to jail for helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die, and his younger brother, Dawit, joins an underground resistance movement, Yonas prays to God for an end to the violence that has its grip on Ethiopia and the rest of the country on the eve of revolution.
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily (Pink Carnation)
By Lauren Willig
Sent to India to weather the scandal of her hasty marriage, Lady Penelope finds herself in the treacherous court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, where she encounters freedom and deception – until her athletic talents draw the attentions of Captain Alex Reid and a dangerous spy.
Blacklands
By Belinda Bauer
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb writes to a convicted killer to try to determine the fate of his 20-year-old missing uncle, only to trigger a psychologically charged cat-and-mouse correspondence.
Blind Panic
By Graham Masterton
Masterton’s horror thriller has self-styled mystic Harry Erskine confronting ancient Algonquin medicine man, Misquamacus, in a thriller in which the country descends into chaos as the President of the United States and thousands of others are suddenly struck blind.
Bloodroot
By Amy Greene
A tale told from myriad viewpoints follows a family from the Great Depression to the present, describing the experiences of a wild young mountain girl, her protective grandmother, the men who love her, and the children who struggle to manage her untamed legacy.
Blood Ties (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit: The Blood Trilogy)
By Kay Hooper
In this conclusion to a trilogy that includes Blood Sins and Blood Dreams, part of a murdered body is discovered on a running trail in a sleepy Tennessee town and three agents from the FBI’s elite Special Crimes Unit are dispatched to investigate, only to discover an unearthly series of killings.
The Book of Fires
By Jane Borodale
Taking a job as a firework maker’s apprentice after arriving in mid-18th-century London, pregnant 17-year-old Agnes slowly gains the trust of her brooding employer and joins his quest to make the world’s most spectacular fireworks.
The Brightest Star in the Sky
By Marian Keyes
Seven neighbors in a Dublin townhouse find their lives entangled by the visitation of a sassy and prescient spirit that causes them to rethink their relationships, careers, and values.
Burn
By Ted Dekker and Erin Healy
Her village attacked by outsiders and her best friend about to be burned alive, Janeal Mikkado finds herself with two choices: try to save her friend or run away with the fortune she just discovered.
The Burning Land
By Bernard Cornwell
After breaking with King Alfred of Wessex and joining the Danes and the Vikings in hopes of reclaiming Bebbanburg, warlord Uhtred switches sides again after Alfred’s daughter pleads with him to take command of the Mercian army and protect Britain from being conquered.
Day Out of Days
By Sam Shepard
In a series of tales set mainly in the west, a man is trapped inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant where an endless loop of Shania Twain songs is playing, a wandering actor recounts his teenage debaucheries with an old friend, and a squabbling family remains oblivious to their Yucatan vacation.
Doors Open
by Ian Rankin
Envisioning a half-serious art-theft scheme after a chance encounter with a crime boss, divorced banker Allan and frustrated art professor Robert share their idea with fellow art enthusiast Mike, who encourages them to carry out their plan.
The Endless Forest
By Sara Donati
A latest entry in the best-selling series finds the former Bonner family experiencing tragedy and hope in the spring of 1824, a time when Elizabeth and Nathaniel forge new relationships, share bittersweet reunions, and fear the dark secrets of their past.
A Fair Maiden
By Joyce Carol Oates
After being approached by an elegant and seemingly harmless older gentleman, sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is entranced by the artist’s sophisticated home and eventually agrees to pose for his newest painting before realizing that he may have a hidden agenda.
The Farmer’s Daughter
By Jim Harrison
A collection of three novellas from the author of The English Major includes the title story which depicts a home-schooled fifteen-year-old who meets unexpected brutality, after which she must draw on her reserves to make herself whole.
The First Rule
By Robert Crais
A follow-up to The Watchman finds Elvis Cole’s taciturn partner, Joe Pike, investigating an attack on former associate Frank Meyer, a one-time mercenary whose family has been murdered by a professional hit crew and who police suspect has been keeping a dangerous secret.
Fun with Problems
By Robert Stone
A volume of short works by the National Book Award-winning author of Dog Soldiers includes the stories of a screenwriter’s decades-long affair with a drug-addicted actress; a Silicon Valley executive who receives an unwelcome guest; and a scuba diver who guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return.
The Godfather of Kathmandu
By John Burdett
Struggling to focus on a promotion-making case while studying under an exiled drug-pushing Tibetan lama, Thai police detective Sonchai Jitplecheep finds his efforts complicated by a new appointment, his battle for control of an illegal network, and a captivating Tantric practitioner.
The Heavenstone Secrets
By V. C. Andrews
In a thrilling first installment of an all-new series, after tragedy strikes, Semantha Heavenstone finds herself under the constant, watchful eye of her terrifying older sister Cassie, and becomes a helpless pawn in Cassie’s twisted game of sibling rivalry.
The Hidden Flame (Acts of Faith)
By Janette Oke and Davis Bunn
As Abigail, one of the Messiah’s followers tries to decide between three potential husbands, a sudden tragedy offers her a glimmer of hope she could not have foreseen.
Iron River (Charlie Hood)
By T. Jefferson Parker
Charlie Hood runs the California-Mexico border with the ATF, searching for the iron river – the massive and illegal flow of handguns and automatic weapons that fuel the bloody cartel wars south of the border – and soon finds a close personal connection that shakes him to his core.
Kisser (Stone Barrington)
By Stuart Woods
Hoping to resume a quieter legal career after returning to New York from Key West, Stone Barrington crosses paths with a beautiful Broadway actress whose shady past places Stone and downtown police officer Dino Bacchetti in danger.
The Listener
By Shira Nayman
Treating charismatic and brilliant battle fatigue patient Bertram Reiner at a post-World War II asylum, hospital head Dr. Harrison finds their sessions both enlivening him and bringing him to the edge of his own grasp on sanity, a situation that is complicated by the patient’s affair with a nurse.
The Lock Artist
By Steve Hamilton
After miraculously surviving an act of violence as a child, Michael stops talking and grows up with the ability to open any lock or safe, a talent he sells to any buyer in the crime world, until a botched heist forces him to go home to find the only person he loved – and to face the secret that has kept him so quiet.
The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers
By Thomas Mullen
A follow-up to The Last Town on Earth traces the 1934 crime spree of celebrity bank robbers Jason and Whit Fireson, who dramatically escape from an Indiana barn during a police showdown and routinely stage their deaths while secretly hobnobbing with gangsters and heiresses.
The Melting Season
By Jami Attenberg
Fleeing her hometown with a suitcase of stolen money after being abandoned by her husband, Catherine Madison hopes to escape her painful past and self-doubt by starting over in Las Vegas, where unexpected friendships encourage her to accept difficult truths.
Mr. Shivers
By Robert Jackson Bennett
Leaving his dust-bowl home with thousands of others during the height of the Great Depression, Marcus Connelly joins a group of survivors who plot revenge against a mysterious scarred man who murdered their loved ones.
The Murderer’s Daughters
By Randy Susan Meyers
After the murder of their father, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives where Lulu denies he ever existed and Merry dutifully visits him in prison, only to find their lives on the brink of collapse when they learn their unrepentant and manipulative father is about to be paroled.
Noah’s Compass
By Anne Tyler
Preparing to retire early from an unfulfilling teaching job that supplanted his dream of becoming a philosopher, Liam Pennywell struggles to remember missing memories of the night before he awoke in the hospital with a head injury, an effort that leads to unexpected discoveries.
Not My Daughter
By Barbara Delinsky
Devastated by her teenage daughter’s pregnancy, single mother and high school principal Susan Tate is targeted by unfair criticism when the pregnancies of additional teens are rumored to be part of a pact.
The Privileges
By Jonathan Dee
Becoming wealthier and more socially connected throughout the course of their marriage, Adam and Cynthia Morey also find themselves increasingly subject to the temptations of excess and risky behavior while their growing children struggle with their own privilege-based challenges.
The Prodigal Wife
By Marcia Willett
Having achieved success as a television presenter of gardening programs, Joylon is visited by the recently widowed mother who abandoned him, but he finds it difficult to trust her and forgive the hurt she has inflicted.
The Queen’s Governess
By Karen Harper
Befriending the doomed Queen Anne Boleyn after the downfall of Cromwell, squire’s daughter Kat Ashley agrees to become the governess of the young Elizabeth Tudor and endures the exiled princess’s harsh early years before her coronation, after which Kat becomes a trusted confidante.
Rebels and Traitors
By Lindsey Davis
When Gideon Jones and Juliana Lovell, who are on opposite sides of the English Civil War, meet during one of the era’s most crucial events, they share a mutual attraction, but when the war takes a turn for the worse, endless plots, strange alliances, and shadows from the past threaten to tear them apart.
Remarkable Creatures
By Tracy Chevalier
Marked for greatness after being struck by lightning in infancy, Mary Anning discovers a fossilized skeleton near her 19th-century home that triggers attacks on her character and upheavals throughout the religious, scientific, and academic communities.
Roses
By Leila Meacham
Although they never married, cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnet Percy Warwick struggle as lovers with deceit, secrets, and tragedies that challenge their families in a small east Texas community.
Safe from the Neighbors
By Steve Yarbrough
Sharing stories from local history with his students, Mississippi high school teacher Luke May discovers a common link with a recently returned friend whose family was also shaped by upheavals during the civil rights movement.
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
By Beth Hoffman
Relegated to the care of an eccentric great-aunt after her mentally unbalanced mother’s accidental death, 12-year-old CeeCee is quickly surrounded by the strong women and cultural elements of her new Savannah community.
Searching for Tina Turner
By Jacqueline E. Luckett
Unable to tolerate the cold ultimatums of her emotionally distant husband and struggling with her children’s destructive behaviors, Lena Spencer ends her outwardly idyllic marriage and takes inspiration from the life of the female music artist she admires.
Sleepless
By Charlie Huston
Working undercover to stop the black-market trade of a sleep-aid drug that has become aggressively sought by a world stricken by pandemic insomnia, Los Angles cop Parker Haas finds his work compromised by the pharmaceutical company’s corruption and the afflictions of his wife and infant daughter.
Snow Angels (Inspector Vaara)
By James Thompson
A first entry in a new series introduces Inspector Karl Vaara, a hardened detective who investigates the racially charged murder of a Somali immigrant during a bitterly cold and dark Christmas season in Finland, a case that takes its toll on his marriage to his pregnant American wife.
Small Wars
By Sadie Jones
After career soldier Hal Treherne is transferred to the British colony of Cyrus, his wife, Clara, and two daughters follow, but Clara becomes fearful of her increasingly distant husband and the atrocities that take him further from her.
The Swan Thieves
By Elizabeth Kostova
His ordered life thrown into disarray when he begins treating an unstable genius artist who has recently attacked a canvas at the National Gallery of Art, psychiatrist and art hobbyist Andrew Marlowe struggles to understand the secret that torments the artist and discovers a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism.
Then Came the Evening
By Brian Hart
Eighteen years after Vietnam veteran Bandy Dorner was sent to prison for a violent crime, he is finally released and is soon visited by the wife who cheated on him and his teenage son, prompting the three of them to try to piece back together a family that never was.
Treasure Hunt
By John Lescroart
Released from desk work when a high-profile San Francisco activist is murdered, Hunt Club private investigator Mickey Dade discovers that the victim was involved in suspicious deals that also implicate the beautiful Alice Thorpe.
Union Atlantic
By Adam Haslett
A property rights battle between young banker Doug Fanning and retired teacher Charlotte Graves is marked by Charlotte’s bank-president brother, Charlotte’s tenacious grip on sanity, and a troubled high school senior.
The Unnamed
By Joshua Ferris
Their wealthy lifestyle marred only by a two-time occurrence of a short-lived illness, Tim and Jane Farnsworth are devastated when the illness returns in ways that frighteningly alter Tim’s behavior and test Jane’s endurance.
Watchlist: A Serial Thriller
By Jeffery Deaver
Deaver helms a collaborative effort by twenty-one thriller writers, including Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, and Joseph Finder, that includes two novellas: “The Chopin Manuscript,” in which Harold Middleton discovers that a score by Chopin holds a deadly secret; and its sequel, “The Copper Bracelet,” which finds Harold drawn into a plot that could lead to a nuclear war.
Where the God of Love Hangs Out
By Amy Bloom
The National Book Award-finalist author of Away presents a series of interconnected stories in which a young woman struggles to come to terms with her roommate’s murder, in-laws confess their indiscretions in an unlikely place, and two middle-aged friends discover a comedic attraction.
Wild Child: And Other Stories
By T. C. Boyle
A collection of fourteen short works by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning and National Book Award-finalist author of World’s End focuses on a theme of nature and includes the title piece, a retelling of the story of a feral boy who was captured in the forests of Napoleonic France.
The Wolf at the Door (Sean Dillon)
By Jack Higgins
When several members of an elite intelligence unit are murdered by an unknown assailant with formidable resources, Sean Dillon finds his life in danger upon attempting to obtain evidence that an old nemesis is the killer. |
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