 Accidents of Providence
By Stacia Brown
A tale dealing with the mid-17th-century persecution of unwed mothers in the aftermath of Charles I's execution finds glove maker Rachel Lockyer arrested and tried for murder when a dead child is found in the woods following her affair with Leveller William Walwyn.
All That I Am
By Anna Funder
Set in 1930s Europe and based on a true story, this debut novel follows a group of young German exiles who dedicate themselves to bringing down Hitler and warning the British government to the very real Nazi threat to which it has remained willfully blind.
Archive 17
By Sam Eastland
Appointed by Stalin to finance an imminent war with Germany by finding the legendary missing gold of Tsar Nicholas II, former investigator Pekkala goes undercover and returns to Siberia where he was once a gulag prisoner to infiltrate a gang of convicts rumored to know the treasure's whereabouts.
Black Site (Delta Force)
By Dalton Fury
A first entry in a new series by the best-selling author of Kill Bin Ladenfinds Delta Force operator Kolt Raynor seeking redemption by attempting the rescue of teammates he caused to be captured three years earlier, a mission that leads to his discovery of an al Qaeda plot to take over a secret U.S. military prison.
 Bleed for Me
By Michael Robotham
A psychologist with a failing marriage and a teenage daughter, who won't speak to him, tries to help his daughter's friend, Sienna, who shows up at their house covered in blood and terror-stricken, but with no idea what happened.
The Bond Girl
By Erin Duffy
After fighting her way into the elitist boys’ club and making it in bond sales at Cromwell Pierce, one of Wall Street’s most esteemed brokerage firms, Alex Garret must decide whether to stick with the company or head for the hills when the financial crisis hits.
Cain at Gettysburg
By Ralph Peters
The best-selling author of The War After Armageddonpresents a reimagining of the pivotal Civil War battle from the perspectives of a Blue Ridge Confederate sergeant, a bitter survivor of the Great Famine in Ireland and a German political refugee.
Catch Me (Detective D. D. Warren)
By Lisa Gardner
Approached by a young woman who claims her murder is imminent, detective D. D. Warren hears her chilling story about how all of her close childhood friends have been murdered on the same date each year and that she is the only one still alive, a case that is complicated by a vigilante shooter.
 Contents May Have Shifted
By Pam Houston
A woman seeking a reprieve from a going-nowhere relationship finds solace in flying to exotic locations around the world, from Alaska to Bhutan.
The Dark Rose
By Erin Kelly
An unwitting accessory to murder, Paul testifies against his best friend to avoid jail time and begins an affair with a woman who has dark secrets of her own in this new novel from the author of The Poison Tree.
The Darlings
By Cristina Alger
Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-law's hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties ultimately lie when a huge scandal and a regulatory investigation threatens the family business.
Deceit and Devotion (Million Dollar)
By R. M. Johnson
Resolving to help a girl her ex has convinced to relinquish custody of her baby, Monica reluctantly receives the attentions of the girl's lonely lawyer; while Caleb struggles to repay a loan shark and keep his son from falling deeper into crime.
 The Detour
By Andromeda Romano-Lax
Dispatched by the Third Reich's Sonderprojeke to collect a famous Classical Roman marble statue and relinquish it to Gestapo custody, Ernst Vogler discovers that his protective escorts are pursuing nefarious side agendas and leaving him to fend for himself in what proves to be an unexpectedly dangerous job.
The Dressmaker
By Kate Alcott
A spirited young maid on board the Titanic captures the attentions of two men, including a kindhearted sailor and an enigmatic Chicago millionaire, and barely escapes with her life before witnessing media scorn targeting her famous designer mistress.
Drifting House
By Krys Lee
This collection of short stories depicts the lives of Korean immigrants to America in both contemporary times and immediately following the war, including a story about a woman who fakes a marriage to find her kidnapped daughter.
The Exterminators (Assassin Bug)
By Bill Fitzhugh
After he bilks a Bolivian drug lord out of $10 million and contracts with the government to get additional funding for his super-bug project--the goal of which is to genetically create the perfect assassin insect--Bob Dillon finds he has a $20-million price on his head, and he and his partner Klaus must dodge every contract killer known to man on the seedy streets of L.A.
 The Flight of Gemma Hardy
By Margot Livesey
Overcoming a life of hardship and loneliness, Gemma Hardy, a brilliant and determined young woman, accepts a position as an au pair on the remote Orkney Islands, where she faces her biggest challenge yet.
The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace (The Guardians)
By Jack Whyte
A first entry in a planned trilogy by the author of the best-selling Dream of Eagles series is set in London's Smithfield Prison of 1305, where condemned patriot William Wallace imparts the remarkable story of the Scottish Wars of Independence to a priest in the pre-dawn hours before his execution.
Friends Like Us
By Lauren Fox
Sharing an apartment and the type of friendship that causes many to mistake them for sisters, best friends Willa and Jane work freelance jobs, share inside jokes, and enjoy each other’s company – until an old high school buddy from Willa’s past unexpectedly falls in love with Jane.
The Garden Intrigue
By Lauren Willig
Hiding intelligence clues in deliberately bad poetry that he writes from his vantage point in France, undercover agent Augustus Whittlesby is scathingly mocked by the American envoy's niece Emma, whose favor he is forced to gain in order to collect information about a top-secret device being shown at a local house party.
 Gathering of Waters
By Bernice L. McFadden
Tass Hilson--the girlfriend of Emmett Till, who in real-life was a black boy murdered by a group of whites--leaves the town of Money, Mississippi, after Emmett's murder and relocates to Detroit where she lives out her life for 40 years, until something calls her back to Money, where she finds Emmett's spirit ready to rekindle their love.
Girlchild
By Tupelo Hassman
Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook, in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother, an effort marked by her fastidious collection of diaries, social worker reports and other family records.
Girl Reading
By Katie Ward
A kaleidoscopic tale follows the experiences of seven women models from different historical periods, the artists for whom they sit, the factors that shape the creations of their portraits and the ties that connect them to each other.
A Good American
By Alex George
At the turn of the 20th century, the Meisenheimer family relocates to Beatrice, Missouri, from their native Germany and struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
 The Hanging Hill
By Mo Hayder
In the aftermath of a popular Bath teen's savage murder, Harley-riding police detective Zoe Benedict urges her superiors to think outside the box in order to solve the crime; while her divorced sister, Sally, takes a housekeeping job for a wealthy entrepreneur who behaves in increasingly suspicious ways.
The Healing
By Jonathan Odell
Concerned about his wife's extensive grief over the loss of their daughter and worried about a mysterious illness that is afflicting his slaves, Master Satterfield purchases a slave woman known as a healer, only to be further unsettled by her troubling predictions and possible inauthenticity.
Heart of a Killer
By David Rosenfelt
Underachieving lawyer Jamie Wagner faces a morally and legally wrenching case when his client, a woman wrongly convicted for murdering her husband, begs him to help her get freed so that she can commit suicide and donate her heart to her terminally ill daughter.
Helpless
By Daniel Palmer
Returning home to Shilo, New Hampshire, to raise his teenage daughter after his ex-wife is murdered, former Navy Seal Tom Hawkins becomes the target of vicious rumors and is implicated in a series of disturbing crimes by someone who is determined to destroy everything he loves.
 History of a Pleasure Seeker
By Richard Mason
An opulent tale set at the height of Europe’s belle époque era follows the experiences of a handsome young tutor in the household of one of Amsterdam’s most prominent and secretive bourgeois families, who transforms his employers’ lives through his charm and sensuality.
Home Front
By Kristin Hannah
Struggling with a marital estrangement that is further complicated when one of them is deployed, military couple Michael and Joleen Zarkades are forced to confront their problems while protecting the security of their family in the wake of a brutal tragedy.
Hope: A Tragedy
By Shalom Auslander
Deliberately relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel finds his efforts challenged by his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.
The House I Loved
By Tatiana de Rosnay
Determined to protect her historical family home from Napoleon's orders to renovate 1860s Paris, Rose Bazelet establishes a defense in the basement of her house on rue Childebert and records her experiences in letters to her late husband, a process that helps her come to terms with a decades-old secret.
 Iago
By David Snodin
A sequel to Shakespeare's Othello by the award-winning BBC writer imagines the adversarial relationship between the escaped and accused title character and chief inquisitor Annibale Malipiero, the latter of whom obsessively explores Iago's possible role in an Ottoman conspiracy.
The Inquisitor
By Mark Allen Smith
Possessing an uncanny ability to recognize lies, professional information retrieval expert Geiger, who refuses to use his torturous techniques on children, places his own life on the line to rescue a 12-year-old boy that a dangerous client has abducted for questioning.
I’ve Got Your Number
By Sophie Kinsella
After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations.
Jack Holmes and His Friend
By Edmund White
A tale set against a backdrop of the sexual revolution in America traces the decades-long friendship of Jack Holmes and Will Wright, which is marked by Jack's secret love for Will, Will's marriage in spite of conflicted sexual feelings and the devastating rise of AIDS.
 The Last Storyteller
By Frank Delaney
Advised by a beloved mentor to find inspiration in mythological heroes, Ben MacCarthy is reluctantly enmeshed in a gun-running operation during Ireland's tumultuous 1950s and uses his powerful and violent new connections to recapture the heart of an actress he has loved for years.
Left for Dead
By J. A. Jance
When the near-fatal shooting of a former police academy classmate reveals clues that his wife and he were operating on the wrong side of the law, Alice Reynolds teams up with Sister Anselm, who is attending an undocumented woman who has been savagely attacked by a drug cartel.
Living Proof
By Kira Peikoff
Performing illegal research in a near-future world where embryonic stem-cell work is considered first-degree murder, brilliant doctor Arianna Drake struggles to find a cure for her multiple sclerosis and captures the attentions of an undercover agent whose faith in the Department of Embryo Preservation crumbles when he learns about Arianna's achievements.
Lone Wolf
By Jodi Picoult
When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has left his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father’s life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.
 The Lost Goddess
By Tom Knox
Archaeological finds in France and Southeast Asia set in motion a plan for vengeance by a demonic woman and rankle the shadowy forces who want the discoveries kept secret in this new thriller from the author of The Genesis Secret.
The Lost Saints of Tennessee
By Amy Franklin-Willis
A debut novel inspired by stories of the author's father's childhood follows the experiences of Zeke who, after losing his twin and divorcing his wife, travels with an ancient dog to Virginia horse country where, in the wake of life-changing events, he considers his responsibility to repair his fractured family.
Low Down and Dirty (Dirty Red)
By Vickie M. Stringer
Relocating to Arizona after punishing her enemies, Red enjoys her successes as a best-selling author but is unable to forget her love for Q, a situation that is further threatened by the vengeful plots of those she has harmed.
May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
By Peter Troy
This intricately woven tapestry of 19th-century America follows the lives of four unique individuals--Ethan McOwen, an Irish immigrant and war photographer; Marcella, an abolitionist from Spain; and Mary and Micah, both slaves of varying circumstances.
 Midnight in Austenland
By Shannon Hale
Leaving her stressful family life behind to enjoy a two-week vacation at a theme resort where employees and guests dress like characters from Jane Austen novels, Charlotte wonders if she has stumbled on a murder scene when her hosts behave suspiciously, a situation that is complicated by a prospective romance.
The Mirage
By Matt Ruff
In the summer of 2009, Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi is plunged into a deadly conspiracy involving Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, when a captured suicide bomber claims that the world in which they live is a mirage.
The Mountain of Gold
By J. D. Davies
Disbelieving a condemned pirate's claims about a fabled treasure, Captain Matthew Quinton is nevertheless dispatched by Charles II on a recovery mission that is complicated by an arranged marriage between his brother and a widow rumored to have killed her previous husbands.
No One Is Here Except All of Us
By Ramona Ausubel
When an isolated Jewish village in Romania is threatened by war in 1939, the suggestions of a young child and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank compels the community to reinvent itself while completely detaching from the known world, a creative plan that involves disturbing reassignments of jobs and families.
 Oath of Office
By Michael Palmer
Blamed for the murder-suicide rampage of a respected doctor and former client who previously struggled with drug addiction, counselor Lou Welcome investigates what went wrong and uncovers a terrifying political conspiracy with ties to the White House.
Other Waters
By Eleni Gage
Her happy life in New York shattered by a property dispute in India that culminates in her father’s claim that a curse has been placed on their family, psychiatry resident Maya rejects the family’s superstitions, until a series of heartbreaking misfortunes prompts her to visit her relatives in India to break the curse.
Pineapple Grenade (Serge Storms)
By Tim Dorsey
Miami gets even crazier when, after a gutless corpse called "Hollow Man" is found on the beach and giant shark carcasses stuffed with human limbs clog up busy intersections, one-man vigilante Serge Storms, determined to be a spy, decides to investigate.
Private Games (Private)
By James Patterson & Mark Sullivan
Peter Knight and the rest of the Private investigation firm try to stop a madman bent on destroying the modern Olympic Games in London.
 Pure
By Julianna Baggott
In a post-apocalyptic world where those undamaged by the cataclysmic events are kept safely inside the Dome, a young girl on the outside teams up with a boy on the inside to search for his missing mother.
The Rebel Wife
By Taylor M. Polites
Forced into marriage with a wealthy man after her Southern family is rendered destitute by the Civil War, Augusta becomes a widow a decade later and finds her circumstances hinging on a missing package in a community torn by racial prejudice, violence and disease.
Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea
By Morgan Callan Rogers
Her idyllic childhood in early 1960s coastal Maine shattered by the disappearance of her mother during a weekend trip, Florine struggles to manage her loss and receives help and support from family and neighbors until she is confronted by a revelation from her father's past.
Reefs and Shoals (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
By Dewey Lambdin
A latest high-seas romp by the author of The Invasion Yearis set in the privateer era of 1805 and pits battle-scarred King's Navy adventurer Alan Lewrie against a series of bawdy and bloodthirsty adversaries.
 Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command
By Paul Garrison
An ex-assassin for the United States government, Paul Janson, teams up with an accomplished sharpshooter, Jessica Kincaid, to rescue a doctor abducted by African pirates in international waters and realizes there are larger forces at work when their liberation mission goes awry.
The Royal Wulff Murders
By Keith McCafferty
Sheriff Martha Ettinger investigates the suspected murder of a young man retrieved from the Madison River in Montana with a trout fly stuck in his lip in this first novel from the award-winning editor of Field & Stream magazine.
Sacrilege
By S. J. Parris
Agreeing to help former paramour Sophia Underhill clear her name of a wrongful murder charge, 16th-century radical philosopher and spy Giordano Bruno uncovers secrets with ties to the cult of Thomas Becket and the legend surrounding the disappearance of the saint's body.
The Shadow Patrol
By Alex Berenson
John Wells, an undercover operative for the CIA, travels to Kabul to investigate a drug-trafficking operation that involves the agency, the military and the Taliban in this new novel from the author of The Faithful Spy.
 The Snow Child
By Eowyn Ivey
Working a farm in the brutal Alaska landscape of the 1920s, a childless couple discover a little girl living in the wilderness with a red fox as her only companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
Sonoma Rose
By Jennifer Chiaverini
Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence and is rescued by former love Lars, who helps her seek a cure and outmaneuver corrupt authorities.
Stay Awake
By Dan Chaon
The National Book Award finalist author of Among the Missingpresents a collection of suspenseful tales in which fragile and searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland after experiencing intense loss or displacement.
The Technologists
By Matthew Pearl
A first graduating class at a post-Civil War Massachusetts Institute of Technology is thrown into turmoil by bizarre phenomena that cause period instruments to inexplicably spin out of control, challenging a quiet machinist and three enterprising students to protect lives while combating Harvard rivals, labor unions and a sensation-driven media.
 Timebomb
By Gerald Seymour
The intended buyer of a dirty bomb stolen by a KGB operative 16 years prior begins to suffer Stockholm syndrome after traveling with an undercover agent with the MI6 in this new thriller from the author of Harry's Game.
Unwanted (Fredericka Bergman)
By Kristina Ohlsson
A U.S. debut by an award-winning Swedish author follows Inspector Fredericka Bergman's federal investigation into the kidnapping and murder of a child who had been separated from her mother on a crowded train on a rainy Swedish summer day, a case that points to the work of a brilliant and ruthless killer.
Victims (Alex Delaware)
By Jonathan Kellerman
When a killer who rivals Jack the Ripper cuts a bloody swath through the city, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis needs Alex Delaware's help in catching this homicidal maniac--a disturbing case that sends Alex back into the secretive world of mental health treatment where he discovers an unholy alliance between the mad and the monstrous.
Watergate
By Thomas Mallon
A retelling of the Watergate scandal from the kaleidoscopic perspectives of seven of its perpetrators and investigators illuminates the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency and imagines the answers to such mysteries as who erased 18 crucial minutes of evidence tape.
 What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories
By Nathan Englander
From the title story that presents a portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game, to a dark story of vigilante justice undertaken by a troop of geriatric campers, this unrivaled collection showcases the talents of one of the great voices of our time.
Wild Thing
By Josh Bazell
In this follow up to Beat the Reaper, Pietro Brnwa, operating under the pseudonym Dr. Peter Brown for his own safety, accompanies a paleontologist on a horrible field assignment and faces murderers, mobsters, drug dealers and a lake monster.
The Winding Road
By Cynthia Harrod Eagles
While television pioneer Lennie risks family ruin to learn more about a powerful man who has proposed to his beautiful cousin Ren, Emma and Molly find unexpected love and Polly looks back at her Old World heritage, circumstances that are thrown into turmoil by the the Wall Street crash.
The World We Found
By Thrity Umrigar
The author of The Space Between Us describes four friends who met as university students in Bombay in the late 1970s as they struggle to reconnect and reunite at the deathbed of one of their group. |
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