The Amateur Historian
By Julian Cole
Returning to the hometown where he once failed to save a young girl from her suicidal father, private investigator Rick Rounder clashes with his policeman brother during a missing-child case that is complicated by the death of a poverty-stricken youth one hundred years ago.
As Husbands Go
By Susan Isaacs
Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute’s apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors’ mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband’s partners to the DA to restore her family’s honor.
Betrayed
By Robert K. Tanenbaum
While Marlene inadvertently risks her life to prove the innocence of a Tourette’s Syndrome patient who has been wrongly accused of murder, New York District Attorney Butch Karp works to convict a mosque leader responsible for an attack on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Blood of Lorraine (Bernard Martin)
By Barbara Corrado Pope
After an infant boy is found dead in a small town in historic Lorraine, France, and the townspeople, thinking a Jew was responsible for the murder, whip up a frenzy of anti-Semitism, it is up to Bernard Martin to find the true killer before a vigilante mob carries out a spree of racial violence.
The Cabal
By David Hagberg
When his son-in-law and a reporter who uncovered evidence of a shadowy cabal of high-ranking government officials are brutally murdered, legendary spy Kirk McGarvey is drawn into a far-reaching investigation that threatens to destabilize the world financial order.
The Cold Kiss
By John Rector
Giving a ride to a snowbound stranger who offers them a lucrative sum in exchange, a recently engaged couple is thrown into a nightmarish situation when the stranger seemingly dies in their back seat with more than two million dollars in his possession.
The Cookbook Collector
By Allegra Goodman
While technology company CEO Emily questions the choices she has made about her career and a long-distance relationship with a successful man, her environmental activist sister, Jessamine, struggles with a love affair and has her own doubts about some of her beliefs.
Corduroy Mansions
By Alexander McCall Smith
While a middle-aged wine merchant tries to emancipate his reluctant adult son from their crumbling Pimlico home, a hated Parliament member incites the disgust of his biography-writing mother and long-suffering literary agent girlfriend.
Crashers
By Dana Haynes
While pathology and former National Transportation Safety Board expert Leonard Tomzak races against time to investigate a crashed passenger plane, former Shin Bet agent Daria Gibron risks her life to thwart the terrorists responsible for the crash.
Damaged (Maggie O’Dell)
By Alex Kava
When the Coast Guard finds the body of a murder victim in the Gulf of Mexico while preparing for a Category 5 hurricane, Special Agent Maggie O’Dell places herself in the path of the deadly storm to track down the victim’s identity and killer.
The Doctor and the Diva
By Adrienne McDonnell
Building a successful career by helping couples to conceive, an early-20th-century obstetrician makes a risky decision after meeting a talented opera singer whose infertility issues prompt her to leave her husband and pursue a career abroad.
The Exile
By Andrew Britton
After militia members murder the president of the United States’ niece in the West Darfur region, ex-CIA agent Ryan Kealey is assigned to infiltrate a conspiracy that runs from the lawless streets of Sudan to the highest levels of American government.
Father of the Rain
By Lily King
Rendered a pawn in her parents’ manipulative divorce, Daley embarks on an adolescence fraught by her mother’s liberal social commitments and her conservative father’s alcoholism, from which she flees in adulthood only to be drawn back when her father hits bottom.
Five Days Apart
By Chris Binchy
The Irish author’s American debut tells the story of David, who loses the girl of his dreams to his charming best friend and leaves home only to find that neither time nor distance can erase her from his memory.
Fly Away Home
By Jennifer Weiner
A latest work by the author of Best Friends Forever finds a politician’s wife retreating with her grown daughters to a Connecticut beach house after a painful public betrayal, an escape marked by new beginnings and her younger daughter’s pregnancy.
For the King
By Catherine Delors
In the aftermath of an assassination attempt on Napoleon, Chief Inspector Roch Miquel is dispatched to find those responsible, a case that is complicated by his superior’s political maneuverings, his father’s indiscretions, and two intriguing women.
Go, Mutants!
By Larry Doyle
The author of I Love You, Beth Cooper describes the adventures of J!m, the brooding, blue-skinned rebel son of an alien that nearly destroyed the Earth, and Johnny, a leather-jacketed radioactive ape, as the pair navigate adolescence in the future.
Ice Cold
By Tess Gerritsen
Stranded with her traveling companions in an eerily deserted Wyoming village during a blizzard, Maura discovers that they are being watched and pursues help when a party member is injured, an effort that turns nightmarish when she is abducted into the woods.
The Island
By Elin Hilderbrand
After her daughter, Chess, breaks off an engagement and her fiancé subsequently dies in a rock-climbing accident, divorcee Birdie Cousins encourages her younger daughter, Tate, and her sister, India, to join her and Chess on Tuckernack Island for a month, a time when deep secrets are soon revealed.
Kings of the Earth
By Jon Cinch
A follow-up to Finn is presented from the viewpoints of alternating narrators and traces the story of two elderly upstate New York farmers whose hardscrabble rural life is brought into question after their older brother dies in his sleep.
Kings of the North
By Cecelia Holland
A sequel to The High City finds Raef Corbanson and his companions catapulted into a struggle for the throne between contenders from Wessex and Denmark when they return to Raef’s home territory and learn of a plot to overthrow Ethelred II of England.
Knife Music
By David Carnoy
Six months after saving the life of a teenage car accident victim, emergency room surgeon Ted Cogan is shocked when he is questioned by police in the wake of her baffling suicide, which causes the womanizing Cogan to be wrongly accused of rape.
Layover in Dubai
By Dan Fesperman
Corporate auditor Sam Keller finds himself surrounded by Dubai’s underworld violence in the wake of a colleague’s murder and turns for help to unlikely detective Anwar Sharaf, a partnership that tests the dark regions of each man’s heart.
Midnight Angels
By Lorenzo Carcaterra
Visiting Florence to study art history and finish her thesis on the lost works of Michelangelo, American student Kate Westcott befriends Italian student Marco, with whom she discovers three missing sculptures, only to be violently targeted by a master art thief.
An Ordinary Decent Criminal
By Michael Van Rooy
Wanting to settle down to a quiet life with his wife and baby, recovering addict and reformed thief Montgomery Haaviko foils a robbery in his home and is subsequently targeted by a vengeful crime boss and a suspicious police sergeant.
The Outer Banks House
By Diann Ducharme
Falling in love with penniless fisherman Ben, whom she tutors in exchange for his services for her father, Reconstruction-era plantation mistress Abigail Sinclair is devastated when Ben becomes entangled in her father’s illicit Ku Klux Klan activities.
People of the Longhouse
By W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear
Captured as slaves when their village is attacked, Odion and his little sister are pursued by their tribe’s war chief and other rescuers who are unaware that an evil witch-woman is responsible for the abductions.
The Promised War
By Thomas Greanias
A first entry in a new trilogy by the best-selling author of The Atlantis Revelation finds Israeli counter-terrorism agent Sam Deker abducted by radical adversaries only to find himself seemingly transported through time to the eve of a historical battle in ancient Israel, an event he fears may be tied to torture-induced psychosis.
The Prophecy
By Chris Kuzneski
Receiving a mysterious cache of documents written in codes and ancient languages, a perplexed woman enlists the help of Jonathan Payne and David Jones before discovering that she holds important predictions by the prophet Nostradamus that violent forces are determined to suppress.
Red Rain
By Bruce Murkoff
Returning to his Civil War-era home in the Hudson Valley after a decade-long absence, Will Harp is disconsolate over the violence he has seen between the states and against Native Americans, while others in his community experience prosperity, loss, and new opportunities.
Red Hook Road
By Ayelet Waldman
The aftermath of a child’s tragic death results in a broken marriage, a bonding between bereaved siblings, and a healing in the form of an adopted girl’s prodigious violin talent. By the author of the best-selling The Bad Mother.
The Rembrandt Affair
By Daniel Silva
Severing his ties with the Office to care for his traumatized wife after a violent showdown with Ivan Kharkov, Gabriel is reluctantly drawn into a case involving a murdered art restorer and discovers unsettling links between the killers and a recently discovered Rembrandt.
The Return
By Roberto Bolaño
In a collection of thirteen stories, the title piece focuses on a young party animal that dies on the dance floor of a Parisian disco, only to realize that strange doings are afoot as his soul begins to leave his body.
Rules of Betrayal
By Christopher Reich
Married to an undercover spy who has gone rogue, resourceful doctor Jonathan Ransom is catapulted into the shadowy world of double and triple agents, where his life becomes dependent on his discovery of his wife’s true loyalties.
Running Dark
By Jamie Freveletti
In this sequel to Running from the Devil, runner and chemist Emma Caldridge and her friend Edward Banner from the security company, Darkview, investigate a Somali pirate ship that may be carrying a new weapon of unknown origin.
Savages
By Don Winslow
Running a lucrative marijuana operation in Laguna Beach, sometime environmentalist Ben and mercenary Chon confront a dangerous adversary in the Mexican Baja Cartel, who kidnaps their playmate confidante Ophelia, compelling the duo to plot ingenious negotiations.
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
By Lola Shoneyin
Baba Segi’s fourth wife, the young, quiet, and college-educated Bolanie, sends his household into turmoil, causing his other three wives to become jealous, resentful, and plot her downfall.
Shadow Zone
By Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
A latest collaboration by the best-selling author of Blood Game and her Edgar Award-winning son follows a discovery by submersible designer Hannah Bryson that suggests a possible cause of the mysterious demise of an Atlantis-like undersea colony that has potentially cataclysmic consequences for the modern world.
Silencing Sam
By Julie Kramer
When a gossip reporter with whom she publicly clashed is found murdered, television reporter Riley is wrongly charged with the crime and is forced to use all her resources to clear her name, a case during which she comes to suspect a ratings-greedy media newcomer.
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
By Beverly Jensen
A sequence of tales chronicling the early 20th-century lives of New Brunswick sisters Idella and Avis Hillock includes “Gone,” an account of their mother’s heartbreaking childbirth crisis; and the Pushcart-nominated “Wake,” in which they attend their wild father’s funeral.
Still Missing
By Chevy Stevens
Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.
Super Sad True Love Story
By Gary Shteyngart
In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman whom Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she is coming to stay with him in New York, nothing can get him down, not even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela.
The Surf Guru
By Doug Dorst
A volume of stories by the PEN/Hemingway Award runner-up author of Alive in Necropolis features such protagonists as an aging surfing champion who meditates on the sport’s new generation; an acerbic botanist who draws uproarious biographical sketches; and two drifters who share misadventures from their dilapidated car.
The Templar
By P. C. Doherty
When crusading fever sweeps late-11th-century Europe, Hugh de Payens and Codefroi of St. Omer, the imminent founders of the Templar Order, and Hugh’s younger sister leave the security of their homes in Burgundy to join Count Raymond of Toulouse’s army and march to Jerusalem.
They’re Watching
By Gregg Hurwitz
Struggling with setbacks in his marriage and Hollywood ambitions, Patrick Davis begins receiving mysterious DVDs that reveal that he and his wife are being stalked, a situation that is thrown into further turmoil by a mysterious email offer of assistance.
This Must Be the Place
By Kate Racculia
Isolating themselves from everyone save their four eclectic boarders, Mona and her daughter, Oneida, find their quiet life upended by the arrival of a widower in the middle of a nervous breakdown who carries his late wife’s mementos and a never-sent, revelatory postcard to Mona.
The Vigilantes (Badge of Honor)
By W. E. B. Griggin and William E. Butterworth, IV
Investigating a string of murders targeting criminals in Philadelphia, Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne becomes alarmed when unrelated vigilante groups begin taking credit for the hits, which become increasingly violent and high-profile.
What Is Left the Daughter
By Howard Norman
In the aftermath of his parents’ double suicides for their separate affairs with the same neighbor, Nova Scotia teen Wyatt moves in with his uncle, aunt, and beautiful cousin against a backdrop of World War II, and experiences additional life-changing events that culminate in his fathering of a child.
The Whisper
By Carla Neggers
After surviving a brutal attack in Ireland, archaeologist Sophie Malone discovers that the fabled Celtic treasure she has been searching for is now in the hands of a serial killer who is using ancient rituals to satisfy a lust for violence – a discovery that causes her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
The Whisperers
By John Connolly
Traveling to the Canadian border where disenchanted former soldiers have built a smuggling operation, Charlie Parker forges an uneasy alliance with a killer known as The Collector when the smugglers capture the attentions of two formidable adversaries.
Work Song
By Ivan Doig
A sequel to The Whistling Season finds itinerant schoolteacher Morrie journeying to 1919 Butte, Montana, in the hopes of making his fortune in copper mining but finding instead a rich assortment of local characters before an encounter with a former student leads to a violent union uprising. |
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