Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan regains consciousness in a cold, dark room, her feet and hands bound. She and Lt. Ryan had been accompanying the body of an heiress to the Chicago morgue, and someone must have ambushed them. Accused of mishandling the autopsy, Tempe uncovered a lead to a serial killer, and then people started dying. First Tempe must find a way out of her underground tomb, then discover who the killer is, and who left her to die in the dark.

James Patterson
An unbalanced killer is targeting the women and children of San Francisco. The first victims are a woman and her infant child, shot in a mall parking garage. The same night, the wife of an actor is shot to death in an apparent home burglary. In order to keep the frightened citizens of San Francisco safe, Lindsay and the member's of the Women's Murder Club have a lot of ground to cover. But Lindsay is distracted from her job by her dangerous desire for her partner Rich; dangerous not only because it keeps her from focusing on her job, but it could also ruin her engagement and destroy her working relationships. In order to catch the killer, Lindsay must focus, and put her own life on the line.

Anne Perry
Three days before Christmas, 13 year old Grace Pippins befriends Minnie Maude Mudway, an 8 year old girl looking for her friend Charlie. But Charlie isn’t a little boy, but a donkey. Seems he was pulling her Uncle Alf’s cart when Uncle Alf was murdered, and the Charlie and the cart stolen. What could have been so valuable that they had to kill Uncle Alf? Certainly not an old donkey, or a broken down cart. Turns out the cart had a beautiful golden box in it, not the usual bits and pieces. The girls go in search of the donkey, but encounter a very adult world that they don’t know how to navigate. That is until they meet Mr. Baltasar in his shop of beautiful objects. He warns them that the box could contact all the ills of the world; but agrees to help them find the box, and Charlie. A lovely Victorian Christmas card from Perry.

Stuart Kaminsky
Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov is a honest cop in a very corrupt post-Soviet Union. He and his team are searching for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 elderly victims, bludgeoning them to death with a hammer in or near a Moscow Park. Rostnikov stakes out the park in order to draw out the killer who has been dubbed the Bitsevsky Maniac. In addition, while trying to protect a visiting British journalist working on a story about a Moscow prostitution ring, the team uncovers murders leading to a source so high up that the police are afraid to pursue it; if they value their jobs or their lives.

F. Paul Wilson
19 stories by the author of the “Repairman Jack” novels. These stories cover the past, present and future and include a riveting short featuring Repairman Jack, (Interlude at Duane’s), where he is trapped in a drugstore with four killers. Other stories pay homage to the pulp era, and another imagines a grim future where medical supplies are severely rationed.

James Patterson
This is the story of the remarkable man Alex Cross is descended from. In 1906, America is a very segregated nation. Mistrust, hatred and blatant discrimination is apparent in all aspects of life, the schools, the streets and even the courtrooms. But one courageous Washington D.C. attorney, Ben Corbett, takes on the cases of those no one else will defend because of their skin color. When the President himself asks Corbett to investigate the resurgence of the Ku Klux Kan in Mississippi, he cannot refuse. And it is during this case that he meets Abraham Cross. Ever since Alex Cross learned the story of his ancestor from his grandmother Nana Mama, he promised he would tell it to the world. Just as full of excitement and action as Cross’s other novels, this is a wonderful bit of Cross family history.

Loren Estleman
Film archivist Valentino wants to keep The Oracle, his run-down movie theater, from being condemned. At a gala party, the host, Rankin, tells him of a letter from Garbo to his wife that revealed they had had a “relationship”. Now his assistant, Ayers, is blackmailing him using the letter. Val desperately wants to see the letter so he returns later that night only to find Rankin with a gun in his hand, and Ayers dead on the floor. He can’t go to the police, he’s been kicked out of the Oracle, and now he can’t even see the letter. What’s a man to do when life isn’t even fair?

Harlan Coben
Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her aging golf pro- husband, Jack while he makes a run at the U.S. Open Championship. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar and his office assistant, Esperanza, now his partner in his business, look for clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel. They have to pull all the skeletons from the Coldren family closet and learn about a U.S. Open twenty three years ago, when Jack Coldren should of won the U.S. Open, but didn’t; before they catch a break. The past and present collide with deadly results as he and Esperanza investigate. Suddenly they find themselves surrounded by blue bloods, criminals, and liars. And as the Coldren family’s secrets are revealed, murder occurs, and Myron finds out just how deadly this game can get.

John Sanford
One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator - and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious that one of her own staff might be involved, the sheriff calls in outside help; Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Virgil quickly breaks the kid down ... but the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Did he kill himself out of remorse? Virgil doesn’t think so, and as he investigates he begins to uncover a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy - a series of crimes so monstrous that even he, with all his exposure to crime, has difficulty comprehending it...and in figuring out what to do next.

Tamar Myers
Very pregnant Magdelena hosts a Church breakfast where a guest, Minerva, dies after gorging herself. The toxic report states that an overdose of pills was put into the batter, making her death murder. Chief Ackerman asks Magdelena to find out did this. After Magdelena has her baby, she discovers that just about everyone hated the blackmailing Minerva.

C.J. Box
Joe Pickett and his family are shocked to get a message from their foster daughter April, a girl who was killed six years before. Or was she? Joe investigates, which leads him to a Chicago brothel. Seems like April was rescued from prostitution by a kindly gangster, “Stenko” Stenson and his zealously environmentalist son, Robert. Joe pursues Stenko until it ultimately comes down to a tug of war between two father figures for the love of April. Engaging and real.

Bill Pronzini
There are seven deadly sins. But the often deeply personal sin of betrayal is not on that list. Each of the detectives at the agency, Tamara, Nameless, and Runyon, are betrayed in different ways. Tamara discovers that her former lover Lucas Zeller was scamming charities, bilking them in the name of the homeless. Nameless himself discovers cocaine in his daughter’s bedroom while he looks into the case of an old woman whose family is not very nice. And Jake, with his case of a bail jumper, is forced into the position of perhaps betraying someone. So it is that these three people, dedicated to helping others, are hurt and hindered because of betrayal in their own lives.

Martha Grimes
In this sequel to Dust, only a few weeks have passed since Jury was left guilt-ridden after the tragic accident of his lady love, Lu Aguilar. Now she lies in a coma, and Jury wants to stay near her. But instead, he is sent on a case in the village of Chesham. An unidentified woman, murdered outside The Black Cat pub, lies in the morgue in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. She turns out to have been a librarian by day and a professional escort by night. The only witness to the murder is the pub’s black cat. It is up to Jury to find out if her murder is linked to that of other escorts. Out of his jurisdiction, he is resented by the local coppers, who only impede his investigation. Helped by Henry Munro and his colleagues, he searches for a connection between all the murders, before another body turns up.

Faye Kellerman
Lt. Peter Decker and his wife, Rina find that some jury duty should include hazardous duty pay. Decker is investigating a shooting spree that leaves shopping mall developer Guy Kaffey, his wife and four others dead. The case is so complicated, that Decker has to interrogate dozens of suspects before even getting close to solving the crime. When Rina is put in harms way during a courtroom encounter, Decker almost loses his cool. Lots of bad guys, suspects, and guessing as to who dun it keeps this story moving at a fast pace.

Hooper, Kay
A series of grisly murders lead to the small town of Serenade, Tennessee. Trouble really comes to roost when a bloody arm is discovered by a high school track star on a running trail, causing the people of Pageant County to panic and call in agents from the FBI's Special Crimes Unit to investigate. The SCU, the FBI’s most controversial team, is a group of mavericks and misfits trained to use their psychic abilities to ferret out the worst monsters - the human ones. Led by Noah Bishop, the SCU takes on killers that other cops fear. But this time Bishop and his agents face an enemy who has them in his sights, a trained sniper with a deadly plan—and more than one ace up his sleeve. Before all is said and done the body count will rise and all involved will wonder if they're up against something that's not human in the conclusion to 'Hooper's Blood' trilogy.

Katherine Hall Page
It's Christmastime, and the Fairchild family is spending the holidays on Sanpere Island in Maine while Reverend Thomas recovers from surgery. Faith is catching up on some much deserved rest until she discovers the body of a young woman in an antique sleigh. Norah, the victim, was a teenage drug addict who, it appears, died by her own hand. But she was well liked by those on the island and her death shocks them. Then a local spinster Mary finds a baby boy in the manger of her barn on Christmas Eve; along with an indecent amount of money. Faith helps Mary try to find the baby’s mother, but what she finds is that Norah’s death is connected to the baby’s appearance. Someone doesn’t want something found out, and now Faith really has to know!

Sara Paretsky
The mysterious performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas. There to keep an eye on her cousin Petra, V.I. Warshawski watches as people step forward to paint her. One woman paints a woman’s face on her torso, while a man paints numbers on her back. This triggers a violent outburst from a man named Chad – who is an Iraqi war vet. He is quickly ejected from the club. A few days later, the woman, Nadia, is shot outside the club and dies in Warshawski’s arms. The police go to arrest Chad, only to find out that he has overdosed and is in a coma. Chad’s parents hire Warshawski to prove his innocence. Her digging leads her to discover that Nadia’s sister was killed in Iraq while working for a defense contractor, and leads her to a family that are ashamed to speak their daughter’s name. The club owner is close mouthed, as is the Body Artist. V.I. must go from the Chicago club scene to the battlefields of Iraq in order to clear Chad’s name.

Nevada Barr
Anna and new husband Paul take a vacation to help Anna recover from the traumatic killings on Isle Royale; but instead they find more trouble. On a raft trip in Big Bend National Park in Texas, they find a barely alive pregnant woman caught between two boulders – and a trail that leads to the Governor’s mansion in Austin.

Stewart Kaminsky
When an anti-education activist is murdered, Fonesca is asked to investigate the case by the suspect’s family. The suspect is a recent graduate of a high school for the gifted and had a bright future before his arrest. When he digs up dirt on Philiip Horvecki, someone tries to take him out; and Lew, having learned too much, must make a difficult choice.

Nevada Barr
Anna Pigeon, National Park Service Ranger, is newly married but on leave while she recovers from injuries suffered in the line of duty. While the physical wounds have healed, the emotional ones are still healing. When her new husband goes back at work, Anna goes and stay with her old friend, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. She isn’t in New Orleans long before she meets Geneva’s creepy tenant, Jordan. Then she discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on her—a gruesomely killed pigeon marked with runic symbols; and begins to find traces of dark doings in the heart of the city. Jordan is not at all what he appears to be; a fugitive mother is accused of killing her husband and daughters in a fire; and there are faint whispers of unpleasant goings-on . Now it will take all of Anna’s skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the urban jungle in which she finds herself, to tie together the threads that connect these people, and to rescue the most vulnerable of creatures, children, from the most savage of animals.

Nevada Barr
Anna Pigeon, National Park Service Ranger, is newly married but on leave while she recovers from injuries suffered in the line of duty. While the physical wounds have healed, the emotional ones are still healing. When her new husband goes back at work, Anna goes and stay with her old friend, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. She isn’t in New Orleans long before she meets Geneva’s creepy tenant, Jordan. Then she discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on her—a gruesomely killed pigeon marked with runic symbols; and begins to find traces of dark doings in the heart of the city. Jordan is not at all what he appears to be; a fugitive mother is accused of killing her husband and daughters in a fire; and there are faint whispers of unpleasant goings-on . Now it will take all of Anna’s skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the urban jungle in which she finds herself, to tie together the threads that connect these people, and to rescue the most vulnerable of creatures, children, from the most savage of animals.

Jeffrey Deaver
An explosion at a Manhattan electrical power substation destroys a bus, and threats to do worse follow, unless almost impossible demands are met. Rhyme and partner Amelia Sachs look into the fatal blast, and Rhyme is able to find clues in the trace evidence. In addition he’s tracking assassin Richard Logan with the help of Mexican Police commander Rodolfo Luna. But too soon, the exertions of the investigations take a toll on his health and jeopardize the investigations. With his stamina fading, even the brilliant Rhyme cannot foresee the direction the cases will take in this charged thriller.

Bernhardt, William
A grieving Professor Thomas requests Kincaid’s help to beat a murder rap for a murder not yet committed. He tells Kincaid that he wants to kill Detective Christopher Sentz, a Tulsa cop that refused to authorize a search while his wife died a horrifically slow death in the wreckage of her car. Then Sentz is killed by seven bullets. Now Thomas is begging Kincaid to defend him. Something in his pleas for help and protestation that he didn’t do it touches Kincaid, and he takes on the case. But the trial isn’t going well, and things look bleak, until Lovey, Kincaid’s personal detective uncovers something shocking, something that lets Kincaid build a new defense, a new story about the defendant, the victim and the plaintiff; a story that will let people see madness in an entirely different light.

Robert Tanenbaum
A rising starlet dies in a Broadway producer’s penthouse, and he claims she committed suicide. N.Y. District Attorney “Butch” Karp and wife, Marlene smell a lie and Marlene finds a witness who says the actress didn’t die by her own hand. Meanwhile, The Sons of Man, a group that lives in the NY subways, kidnap Karp’s daughter Lucy, as they plan their next onslaught on New York. Karp has to decode a series of riddles to discover their target and save Lucy. To do so, he must find an unbalanced religious vigilante, David Grale, that had hidden in the subway system. And as he searches for the vigilante, a Russian assassin is hunting him as well. Will Karp be able to infiltrate the Sons of Man in order to find Lucy in time? Will Grale have the answers he seeks, or will he be the catalyst for Armageddon? An exciting, overblown thriller.

Carole Nelson Douglas
Public Relations expert Temple Barr is helping the Fontana family to publicize a new tourist attraction exploiting Vegas’s mob past, the Chunnel of Crime, a museum/monorail that connects two hotels. She plans a live 'opening of Bugsy Siegel's vault' media event in hopes of revealing lost gangster loot; but is shocked when this instead reveals the stabbed to death corpse of Cosimo Sparks, an ex-Vegas magician. The Fontanas and Temple investigate, along with the LVPD. Meanwhile, Temple’s fiancé, radio star Matt Devine, is in Chicago and her presumed dead, amnesiac ex; magician/counter terrorist Max/Michael Aloysius Xaxier Kinsella, is in Ireland with mentor Garry Randolph. He is researching the past of the late Kathleen O’Connor, an abused orphan and trying to recover his memories. But it is ultimately Midnight Louie, and his father, that help Temple to untangle the crimes, both in Vegas and overseas.

Rita Mae Brown
Some rivalries never die. Harry’s beloved Aunty Talley is looking forward to celebrating her 100th birthday at her alma mater, William Woods University. But the planned party/fundraiser immediately runs into problems. First, an impending blizzard threatens to ruin the whole affair, and then a suspicious transaction is found that indicates board member Mariah D’Angelo has mysteriously withdrawn and then replaced $25,000. Prominent stockbroker Flo, class of ’74, is sure that detested classmate D’Angelo has mishandled funds. Then Flo is shot after revealing the Mariah was selling counterfeit watches. Mariah goes missing and taunting emails appear in WWU alumni mailboxes. Sneaky Pie must use feline cunning and Harry his human canniness to sniff out the answers.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy
An anonymous tip leads Det. Juana Davis of the Molina Point, Calif., PD to an empty swimming pool, where she finds trace evidence of a murder but no corpse. Sage, a feral cat, catches the killer burying the victim in the garage floor of a house being remodeled, and survives a hammer being thrown at him. the cat-hating sociopath throws a hammer at Sage. Sage survives to report what he's witnessed to his cat pals who live with humans, including Joe. With so many smart four-footed sleuths on his trail, the killer is doomed. As in recent entries in this popular series, the cat detectives receive more face time than their two-footed cohorts, like Molina Point's often bumbling if well-intentioned police chief, Max Harper, who gets on the stick only late in the game. Mystery fans who prefer people in action will have to look elsewhere.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
William Smithback, New York Times reporter, and wife, Nora Kelly, New York Museum of Natural History anthropologist, are celebrating their first anniversary when Smithback is fatally stabbed in their Manhattan apartment by his neighbor, Colin Fearing. Given Nora’s eyewitness account, what appears to be an open and shut case against Fearing crumbles when Pendergast and NYPD Lt. D'Agosta learn Fearing had died two weeks before. Their investigation leads them to a part of New York never seen before; one dominated by a secretive cult of Obeah and vodou.

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Lily Forrester befriends attorney Anne Bradley, the attractive new woman in town. Lily’s second marriage to Bryce is starting to crumble; and she has no idea that Bryce is a philanderer. Anne has a secret; she’s a sociopathic killer, and has a referral club, called Anne’s Alibi Club, whose members send her the names of adulterers; whom she then kills. Bryce’s name comes up on her list and Anne is on his trail. Mary Stevens, an FBI profiler, has been tracking a female serial killer and the clues lead to Anne. Will Mary be in time to save Lily’s errant husband before Anne closes in?

Sue Henry
Champion musher Jessie Arnold's had a tough year, and fiancé Alex Jensen suggests a weekend of kayaking on Prince Island Sound; knowing that communing with the waves and the seals will be relaxing. Jessie agrees, but not long after arriving, she discovers a body and gets involved in the murder investigation. The search for the killer will take her and Alex from the glaciers of the Sound to the dangerous back alleys of Anchorage.

Charlaine Harris
The Mystery Writers of America presents an original anthology sure to appeal to paranormal fans with an interest in crime. For all the Twilight fans, vampires are well represented among the 20 stories, most notably Parnell Hall's darkly humorous Death of a Vampire. But Harris ensures that werewolves, ghosts, and magicians also get their due. Harley Jane Kozak integrates a ghost into a modern setting in Madeeda, in which an expectant mother is concerned over her two-year-old twins' visions of a “bad witch.” A phantom ship figures prominently in Lou Kemp's In Memory of the Sibylline, a horror story set in the 19th century. Even Mike Hammer gets into X-Files mode in Max Allan Collins's and Mickey Spillane's Grave Matter, which introduces the supernatural into a series of mysterious deaths in the ironically named town of Hopeful, N.Y. Other contributors include William Kent Krueger, Margaret Maron, and Carolyn Hart.

Dick Francis
British Captain Tom. Forsyth, shell-shocked and missing a foot, returns home from the war in Afghanistan. Needing help to recover, he returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time in since he fled when he was 17. His mother is one of the Britan’s top racehorse trainers. Josephine Kauri is a cold person and never had time for Tom. While home, instead of convalescing, he learns about a blackmail plot that puts his mother’s horses in danger. He puts his military skills to good use to try and extricate his mother from the extortionist. With lots of research and character driven action, this is a delightful last collaboration between Dick Francis and his son Felix.

Carol Higgins Clark
Reagan has moved from sunny California to New York and married. One day, her friend Abigail from Los Angeles calls needing immediate help. Seems her boyfriend borrowed $10,000 and then skipped out on her. Because her husband’s out of town and it's cold, gray and snowing, Reagan agrees to help and flies out. Abigail’s always felt cursed, (she was born on Friday the 13th), and soon Reagan does too as the people she encounters grow increasingly dangerous.

Carolyn G. Hart
Max and Annie Darling befriend Iris while at Nightingale Courts, a hotel. When Iris is found strangled, a writer does some snooping and is killed. Helped by their friends from Death on Demand, Max and Annie find secrets aplenty ... and murder.

Barbara Hambly
Free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January goes undercover as a piano player in a high-class bordello to investigate possible embezzlement from the Faubourg Tremé Free Colored Militia and Burial Society. When he attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of the coffin – and its not who it’s supposed to be. Instead, it’s Patrick Derryhick, a white man who is recognized only by Hannibal Seflon, fiddle-player and one of January’s friends. But why is his body there? During his investigation, Benjamin learns of an inheritance complicated by interracial romance and a touch of blackmail by a gentleman impersonating a lord. Before he solves the puzzle, he’ll be pursued by overseers and slave traders.

M.C. Beaton
MacBeth investigates the murder of a woman who sold herbal aphrodisiacs to a number of local men; problem was that instead of getting love, their kidneys became inflamed. As more murders occur, he has to deal with his own love life, as well as a host of other problems.

Charlaine Harris
This latest supernatural anthology edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner centers around the vacation theme. And the all star lineup of authors deliver by sending their paranormal denizens off on a vacation jaunt for some R & R. With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other fresh tales, Charlaine and Toni bring together a terrific collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, demonic and furry so they can send postcards from the edge of the paranormal back to their friends. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals. A real treat as us poor mortals start thinking about packing away our swimsuits and beach balls.

Johnathan Kellerman
LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis is given an extremely disturbing DVD, one found by the dead body of a woman. On the DVD, a bruised and battered woman named Ellie Freeman recounts the year and a half of sexual abuse she’s been subjected to at an ultra-exclusive LA academy. Her last words accuse a trio of fellow teachers at the prestigious school. Milo and Alex are assigned to probe the halls of the Windsor Prep Academy and find themselves on a dark trail full of perversity, duplicity and violence among the young and wealthy; and as they close in, the ranks of the best and brightest close against them, for power and position are never easily surrendered. If they’re not extremely careful, they could be walking into a death trap.

Tami Hoag
Two young boys and a girl stumble upon a woman's body, and alert their teacher, the young and attractive Anne Navarre. Special Agent Tony Mendez, who recently completed a course at FBI headquarters, and has learned about serial killers, uses the new “profiling” technique to hone in on the killer. As the body count rises, he launches the search for the psychopath dubbed 'The See No Evil Killer.' As the investigation progresses, and the evidence mounts, it is clear the killer is a man of unusual skill and intelligence, able to gain the trust of his victims. Mendez enlists the help of Navarre as he begins to realize the killer could be one of their fathers. A riveting read.

Daniel Silva
Set just 6 months after the events of Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to Umbria to continue his honeymoon and restore an altarpiece for the Vatican. But the shocking news that defector Grigori Bulganov has vanished. British intelligence thinks Bulganov is a double agent, but Gabriel knows he isn’t. Soon Gabriel and his operatives are involved in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with vicious arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. From London to Russia, the proponents chase each other, leading to betrayal, murder and vengeance.

Sue Henry
Maxie McNabb decides that this winter, she’ll stay in Homer, Alaska instead of driving her RV down to the lower 48. One night, while walking on the beach, she meets a man, and invites him, along with a number of other friends, over to dinner. The man, John, when asked about what he did before he came to HOmer, is surprisingly evasive. The next day, Maxie is shocked to learn that John has killed himself. Later, on a trip to Anchorage, she realizes that she is being followed by a woman. When she returns home, she finds her door ajar. Soon thereafter, the woman who had been following her arrives, and identifies herself as John’s sister. But Maxie gets a bad feeling about her and starts investigating. Her search for a possible killer leads her to a place called 'the end of the road”; and more danger and trouble than she counted on.

Dick Francis
Small bookmaker Ted Talbot is counting his losses after the Royal Ascot race when an older man introduces himself as his father--a man he had been told died in a car crash when he was a child. Barely an hour later, the man is stabbed by a thug demanding money, but tells Ned before he dies “…be very careful”. Going back to his father’s hotel room, Ted finds that his father was involved in something illegal. Soon Ted finds himself in a race to solve the case--a race that could cost him both lots of money and his life.

Jonathan Kellerman
In the half-built mansion in one of L.A.’s toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple–murdered and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. While the female victim’s is unidentified, her companion is well known eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer, a man who hates mega mansions and all they represent. The late Mr. Backer was quite the ladies man, except for his ex-boss, Helga Gemein, who’s as indifferent to Desmond’s death as she apparently was to his advances. As Milo and Alex dig deeper for clues the longer their suspect list grows. An elusive foreign prince, an eccentric blueblood, one of Desmond’s ex-lovers and her cuckolded husband–all are in the homicidal mix spiced with eco-terrorism, arson, blackmail, and a vendetta that runs deep. But when the investigation focuses on just one suspect, it’s the investigators who could end up dead.

Anne Perry
William Monk, superintendent of the Thames River Police, is investigating the murder of a young boy, who was obviously used in the sex trade. Going after the kingpin, Jericho Phillips, leads him from the highest levels of London society to the poor who live in the dank, filth encrusted alleys of this Victorian era metropolis.

J.D. Robb
The founder of a computer-gaming giant, Bart Minnock, enters his private virtual reality playroom to do a little faux sword fighting and locks the door behind him, thereby sealing his doom. Figuring out who killed Bart Minnock and why becomes Lt. Eve Dallas’ job as she and her team try to decipher what went wrong with the game, Fantastical. A mogul like Minnock is bound to have enemies, especially in the competitive world of computer gaming. This leads to so many suspects, from his shocked partners at U-Play to his seemingly grief-stricken girlfriend, winnowing out who really did it could prove difficult and deadly.

Diane Mott Davidson
Goldy Schultz, wedding planner and caterer, is confronted with not only a bridezilla that wants the location for her wedding changed two days before tying the knot, but also a possible murder. Doc Finn, a beloved local physician, is killed when his car goes into a ravine. Then Goldy’s godfather Jack is attacked. Could it be because Jack thought Doc was killed because of research he was doing? Goldy goes undercover as a chef at the local spa to discover if, and who, this low-fat killer might be.

Douglas Preston and Lee Child
For 12 years, Pendergast has believed that the death of his wife, Helen, by a raging lion while they were big game hunting, was a tragic accident. But while putting away his late wife’s personal possessions at his family mansion, he makes a horrible discovery. The gun she was used was loaded only with blanks. Who would of wanted Helen dead? Pendergast convinces his friend D’Agsota to take a leave of absence and travel with him to Africa and South America. They find that Helen’s death might have something to do with her fascination with John James Audubon, and with a lost Audubon painting called the “Black Flame”. His quest leads him deep within the Louisiana bayou, and the realization that he might not have known Helen as well as he thought he did. The exciting and convoluted plot will keep you turning the pages of this excellent thriller!

Judith Jance
Six women are dead, killed in the same gruesome manner from Seattle to Arizona. The State Attorney General's Special Homicide Investigation Team of J.P. Beaumont and his wife Melissa Majors Soames investigate, and find that the last woman to die lived in Cochise County, AZ, where Joanne Brady works. Brady has enough on her plate without the additional case. In between a nursing home scandal and the murder of a man run over by ATVs, she works with Beaumont to track down the serial killer that has terrorized women from the rainy coasts of Washington to the deserts of Arizona; trying to determine where he will strike next.

Lee Child
Bestselling author Lee Child has teamed up with the International Thriller Writers for First Thrills, a showcase of many of the organization’s bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the field. First Thrills includes twenty five new stories by New York Times bestselling authors including Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, Karin Slaughter, among others, full of mystery, chaos and murder. This collection also serves as a great introduction to rising stars in the thriller field, including the gritty writing of Irish author Ken Bruen, Rebecca Cantrell, Karen Dionne, Theo Gangi, Gregg Hurwitz and many more. The stories range from a hospital intern who turns into a body snatcher to a priest that faces his wife’s murderer on death row. A great book that will introduce you to the stories and writing styles of the finest thriller writers today.

Philip Margolin
Former self help guru Charlie Marsh decamps to Africa to flee a murder charge of a Congressman. 12 years later, he returns to the U.S. to face the charge, this time trying to avoid the wrath of Dictator Jean Claude Bapiste for having an affair with his favorite wife. He goes to criminal lawyer Amanda Jaffe, whose father once helped his co-conspirator, to save him from death row, protect him from Baptiste's secret police, and keep him from being murdered by the real killer.

Donald E. Westlake
The final installment of the Dortmunder series finds Dortmunder and his gang involved in a reality TV show to film a “real heist”. Each member will get $20,000+, but the gang decides to sweeten the deal by indulging in a little extra larceny. But then Central casting sends in a gorgeous “gun moll” and another character to play a crook; which has them wondering; who’s two timing who? A hilarious send up of robbers and reality TV with pitch perfect dialogue.

Laurie R. King
Set immediately after the events of Language of Bees, the fanatical Rev. Thomas Brothers has shot Holmes’s son, Damian Adler, seriously wounding him. As Holmes tries to get Damian to Holland for medical help, Mary travels through Britain in an attempt to keep Damian’s daughter, Estelle safe from Brothers and his minions. This is one of the few times Holmes and Mary have been apart, and they are always stronger together. And Brothers knows that. As the Holmes’s weather the attacks on them, they have to deal with other issues as well, including a shell shocked veteran of World War I that has been masquerading as the Green Man; the disappearance of Mycroft Holmes after he's had a heart attack, and having to learn the new new thing, the developments of both air travel and telephone lines. Lushly imagined and written, the descriptions of the land and people are so real they transport you to the damp shores of England and the brisk chill of Holland. An engaging read, King leaves a few loose ends for what might come next.

Charlaine Harris
Harper Connelly is a young woman who was struck by lightening, and woke up with the ability to find recently deceased people and to share their last moments. Aided by her stepbrother and manager Tolliver, she always happy to help people find closure with their dearly departed; however, sometimes the people she helps aren’t that grateful. Because, while doing her job, she often uncovers something that might be a bit out of place, something that ruffles the feathers of those who hired her. Her most recent reading revealed that the man had died because a rattlesnake was thrown at him, causing a heart attack. Problem is he knew who that person was. The client thinks Harper might be able to figure out who that was too; which forces her and Tolliver back to a large ranch in Texas to look for clues as to who, and why.

Faye Kellerman
Fifteen years ago, high school senior Chris Whitman went to jail for murdering his girlfriend, Cheryl Diggs. Determined to save another classmate, the vulnerable Terry McLaughlin, he confessed. When the truth came out, Chris was released from prison, married Terry—pregnant with his child—and changed his last name to Donatti. He also became a professional killer. Peter Decker was the detective on the case, and over the years, he and Terry kept in touch. Now Terry is in L.A. and asking for a favor. Though Decker knows full well that getting involved will bring Terry's sociopathic husband back into his life, he agrees. The favor soon becomes complicated when Terry goes missing and Donatti disappears, leaving their fourteen-year-old son, Gabe, alone. But Peter's search for Terry must share center stage with the gruesome murder of Adrianna Blanc, a neonatal nurse at St. Timothy's Hospital, who body was found swinging from the rafters of a home under construction. Although she was a dedicated professional, Adrianna was also a party girl. Suspicions heat up when Decker finds that one of her last phone calls was a disturbing message to her vacationing boyfriend—who himself has vanished without a trace. Was her death something personal or is it the first signs of a serial killer? With lives hanging in the balance, Decker and his colleagues, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver, need to find answers and fast. Even as he juggles the two investigations, things are becoming more dangerous at home. Ever the concerned parent, Decker wants to look after Terry's son, Gabe. Yet who will protect his own family? Because if there's one thing he knows for sure, with a sociopath like Donatti on the loose, no one is ever really safe.

Sara Paretsky
In Chicago, politics and baseball are both spectator sports. In baseball, the slow pitch rules, but in politics the game is hardball. When Warshawski returns from visiting client Johnny Merton, a member of the Anaconda gang, at prison she finds her apartment trashed, papers everywhere, furniture broken and pictures removed from the walls and smashed. She calls the police, than looks at a security video feed that shows 3 men entering. She finds a bracelet belonging to her 20 year old cousin Petra, an intern on Brian Kumas’ Senate campaign. Did Petra let them in? Who are they? And do they have Petra? Could this have anything to do with her visit with Johnny Merton? Or maybe with the Senate campaign she’s working on? A thousand questions, but what she needs to do first is find Petra before she gets hurt. And that will take a lot of work, and lots of guts.

T. Jefferson Parker
Fishing can be murder, as shown in this collection of 16 original stories edited by T. Jefferson Parker. Some of the gems are Mr. Brody’s Trout, by the late William Tapply, where a bait shop owner guides an elderly fisherman on a quest to catch a 10 pound trout; Kate Shugak solves a missing person case in her Alaskan village in Cherchez La Femme, and in Granite Hat, 3 fishing lessons from a hit man teach life lessons to a suicidal man. Other stellar stories woven around fishing are contributed by Michael Connolly, C.J. Box, James W. Hall and Ridley Pearson.

Stuart Woods
After Special Agent Holly Barker lets international terrorist Teddy Fay slip through her fingers twice, the CIA thinks she might want to go to ground for awhile, at least until Teddy is captured and the bad publicity has blown over. So Holly returns to Orchid Beach, Florida, where she had been police chief for many years. But a very unpleasant surprise awaits her. Holly discovers her Army former commanding officer has become chief of police in Orchid Beach. Many years earlier, Holly and another female officer had brought charges against him for sexual harassment, attempted rape, and rape. Instead, he was acquitted of all charges, and left the army. Now Holly is between a rock and a hard spot; should she return to the CIA and risk being killed by Fay? Or should she challenge her nemesis for control of the Orchid Beach Police Department? Then a new string of murders occur in Orchid Beach.

James Patterson
Alex is interrupted at a family celebration only to learn that his niece has been murdered. He learns that she was mixed up in some very wild Washington scenes, and that the killer has struck before. He vows to find him, and with the assistance of girlfriend Detective Brianna Stone, learns about an infamous club where every fantasy can come true; a club you get into only if have the right credentials. There, they come face to face with people that are both very powerful and well protected; the kind of people that will kill to keep their secrets. As he closes in on the killer, Alex learns of a shocking revelation. Lots of action and edge of your seat suspense, this is Cross at his best!

Tess Gerritsen
In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins her friends on a ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, they’re stranded and seek refuge in the village of Kingdom Come; where twelve identical houses eerily stand dark and abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come and the town’s residents seem to have vanished into thin air. But in the snowy darkness, someone is watching Maura and her friends. Then Maura vanishes. Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura’s charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow. As horrifying revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both powerful and merciless—and the truth about Maura’s fate.

Tess Gerritsen
Beryl Tavistock has always lived with the scandal that surrounded her parents’ deaths twenty years ago. A family secret revealed at a dinner party propels her to Paris, where they died, to look for answers. But what she finds out is deadly dangerous; that her parents were spies, and that her father might have killed her mother. Drawn into a world of espionage, Beryl realizes she’s out of her league. She turns to ex-CIA agent Richard Wolf, a man who knows how to play the dangerous game of spycraft. As they travel from Paris to Greece, Beryl can’t deny the attraction she feels for the suave agent. But she’s now in a world where trust doesn’t come easy, because friends can be enemies and enemies could become killers.

Andrew M. Greeley
Nuala Anne and her daughter are learning karate to fight off schoolyard bullies, while their incredibly shy nanny, Julie, is courted by a new fellow. Dermot pores over a memoir of a famine refugee whose family died of a mysterious fever, looking for clues into the illness' real cause.

Mary Higgins Clark
Young prosecutor Emily Wallace had a heart transplant when younger. Taking on the case of a murdered Broadway star, she becomes so busy she gives a key to her home to a neighbor to take care of her dog. But her neighbor has a past that ties him directly to her case, and now Emily’s life is in peril.

Robert Barnard
Det. Inspector Peace investigates a death at the popular British soap opera of the title and suspects foul play. Then two people are burnt to a crisp, and the stakes turn more deadly. Life imitates art in this story full of and wit and back biting, the kind of life that can only occur in a soap opera.

J.D. Robb
When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return early from a celebratory vacation, intending to spend time with their daughter, they discover the most horrific scene a parent could ever imagine. For in her bedroom, they discover the horribly mutilated boy of their 16 year old daughter, Deena. The amount of force used to inflict such trauma suggests an especially disturbed killer. The Captain asks specifically for Lt. Eve Dallas to help with the investigation, and, as the evidence piles up, she feels that she is closing in on the killer. But the killer is playing with her; taunting her by using multiple identities to throw her off; hoping that Dallas will make a fatal mistake.

Walter Mosley
Leonid McGill is back, and is determined to remain a reformed man, in spite of all the things that pull him in other directions. He’s split up with girlfriend Aura because he doesn’t want to leave his wife, but then Aura’s new boyfriend tries to get Leonid kicked out of his prime office space. Then one of his sons thinks he’s found true love, but the girl has a shady past, and his other son is only making matters worse. And if all that isn’t enough to rock his equilibrium, his boss, Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind-the-throne at City Hall comes to Leonid with a problem he can't fix. Leonid soon finds himself mixed up in a case involving the disappearance of a young woman and murder. Rinaldo wants Leonid to find the girl, but won't explain his reasons. Leonid, while suspicious, can't turn Rinaldo down. A great noir novel that keep you turning the pages until the end!

Carolyn Hart
Several deaths in Broward's Rock, S.C., engage Annie Darling and her husband, Max. Click Silvester, a black teenager who hung out at the Haven’s teen activity center, apparently falls to his death from a wooden viewing platform in the woods. Later, someone shoots Haven board member Booth Wagner on stage during an outdoor evening benefit for the center. Many had motives for killing the obnoxious Booth, including his stepson, Tim Talbot, who feared and hated him; his wife, Neva, who's unmoved by his death; his former mistress, Jean Hughes, who was terrified of being fired as the Haven's director. It is Jean who becomes police chief Billy Cameron's prime suspect. A group of local ladies, led by mystery writer Emma Clyde, assist Annie and Max in the hunt for the real killer. The fast moving plot and well developed characters make this a rewarding read.

Marcia Muller
After being shot in the head, Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: where one is almost totally paralyzed but can still have an alert, conscious mind. As she lies in her hospital bed, members of her agency look for her assailant. Communicating with blinks of her eye, Sharon looks for clues in their investigations, trying to ferret out who and why, and discovers a pattern of abuse, prostitution, blackmail, and betrayal involving San Francisco city officials that could put her in danger once again.

Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington, joined by buddy Dino Bachetti, travels to Key West to track down Evan Keating, son of a wealthy businessman Warren Keating. When they find Evan, he doesn’t want to cooperate, and Stone is brained by Evan’s overprotective girlfriend. After recovering with the help of beautiful Swedish doctor Annika Swenson, Stone continues his increasingly dangerous quest.

Walter Mosley
Mosley introduces 53 year old ex-boxer Leonid McGill, an old school private eye trying to make it in very modern New York. McGill, who has taken some shady jobs in the past, has sworn to go from “crooked to only slightly bent”, finds it hard to keep to the straight and narrow while working his cases. Especially when Tony "The Suit" Towers expects McGill to do a job for him. A great beginning for this new series.

Lisa Scottoline
Reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a “Have You Seen This Child” flyer in the mail, and is about to throw it out when she is struck by the image. An image that looks just like her adopted son, Will. Although her adoption was lawful, she can’t stop thinking about the picture, and investigates. If Will was a “stolen child”, could she give him up? And what about his real mother? She digs too deep for the truth, and ends up risking her life, and that of her son.

Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington and his former cop partner Dino are enjoying some pasta at their favorite restaurant when Herbie Fisher, a former client, walks in with a briefcase filled with $14 million in cash. He claims to have won the money in a lottery game. Then a single shot comes smashing through the window above his head. That's when Stone and Dino suspect Herbie may have left a few details out of his story about the money. As much as they don’t want to, they agree to help him. But Stone has more than Herbie to worry about, the lovely Felicity Devonshire, member of British intelligence, hires him to find Stanley Whitestone, an ex-agent wanted by her superiors. Stone, somewhat illicitly, also starts working for a security firm owned by Jim Hackett, a man that just might turn out to be Whitestone. Lots of danger leavened with humor and a hot romance makes this a fast and fun read.

Carolyn G. Hart
Christmas is a time for giving and family, and a older wealthy woman in Oklahoma wants to do both. She has just discovered she has a grandson, and in a most unusual way. Someone has left a little boy on her front porch just before Christmas. She is so delighted she decides to change her will to leave most of her fortune to him. Unfortunately, this alteration doesn’t sit well with the rest of her family. But the greedy heir that’s been cut out of the will is determined that she will never sign the new document. When she is found dead, cheerful spirit Bailey Ruth Raeburn of Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions is assigned to foil a murderer, protect a little baby boy, and save the Christmas holidays. But with everyone having a motive to kill, how will she figure out who did it?

Joan Hess
Mrs. Jim Bob is organizing a charity golf tournament in order to improve the image of Maggody; which causes mayhem. First, a golf course must be built; which Earl will do by bulldozing Raz Buchanon's back forty. But first, he has to get Raz’s permission, which could be difficult because Raz is a cantankerous old coot. But all obstacles are overcome, and the golf course gets built. Because of the upcoming tournament, the whole town goes golf crazy, with everyone trying to learn how to play golf in order to compete. The first day of the Charity Gold Tournament goes perfectly, with local Tommy Ridner winning the Hole in One prize of a $40,000 bass boat. However, the next day he is found dead in his new boat; beaten to death by a golf club. Pregnant sheriff Arly Hanks soon has her hands full when another murder by golf club is discovered, and a LPGA star is assaulted. Arly has to solve these murders before the tenuous reputation of Maggody as a cultivated golf town is tarnished.

Reginald Hill
Returning to work after a long recovery, Yorkshire cop Andy Dalziel is finding it hard to get back in the swing of things. When Commander Ed Purdy of the Met asks him to help Gina Wolfe find her missing husband, Andy thinks it will be the perfect diversion. As he begins his investigation, it becomes apparent that this case is more complicated that he at first realized. Events from the past impact what is currently happening; a Welsh reporter senses that the story he’s been chasing for years may just have come home, and a Tory MP’s secretary suspects her boss’s father might have a history that could stain his son’s political ambitions to become prime minister. When that man, Goldie Goldman, a gangster who has supposedly gone legit, sends out two henchmen to make sure that the past stays in the past, the game is afoot. For even these two have secrets of their own. And Dalziel & Pascoe have only 24 hours to sort everything out before someone gets whacked.

Ruth Rendell
Rendell takes Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to the man he has long suspected of serial murder. On his first case, that of a strangled woman, he noticed a man walking a dog; the man gave him a steely stare and continued on his way. The man’s name was Eric Targo. Through the years, there have been many unsolved murders in and around Kingsmarkham, and Wexford continues to suspect an increasingly prosperous Targo. He mentions his suspicions to his partner, Burden, but he dismisses them. But Burden’s wife is suspicious of something else; that their Pakistani neighbors might be forcing their daughter into an arranged marriage; or something else. When Wexford looks into this, he finds what he thinks and what Mrs. Burden thinks might be true, is true indeed, in the most horrible way.

Leslie Meier
Reporter Lucy Stone’s Mother’s Day festivities are ruined when two contentious mothers create a scene. Worse is to come, as Bar and Tina host an after prom party, that ends with Tina being shot in front of Lucy. Lucy, witness to Tina’s murder, doesn’t think that Bar killed her. Then she comes face to face with the real murderer.

Nancy Rosenberg
Lily Forrester is a tough judge in Ventura County, California, who has overcome adversity and heartache to achieve a position of power to help those who can’t help themselves. Several years earlier, Lily and her daughter, Shana, were raped and their attacker eluded capture. This and subsequent traumas have left Shana in a precarious emotional state. When Shana has a meltdown after her boyfriend dumps her, Lily picks Whitehall, a private psychiatric hospital outside San Francisco, out of a phone book. Without referrals or further investigation, Lily takes her daughter to Whitehall, where Shana voluntarily commits herself. Unfortunately, Whitehall is run by a greedy doctor who is more interested in landing insured patients and then bilking their insurance companies than in treating his charges; and its halls are is ruled by a wealthy and handsome inmate, who's is also a sociopathic killer. Discovering the truth, Lily will have to summon all her intelligence and street smarts to find a way to free Shana before the suave killer zones in on her.

Robert B. Parker
Police Chief Stone gets a strange call from the junior high school: the principal, Betsy Ingersoll, is behaving lewdly. Then a peeping Tom surfaces that the town dubs “The Night Hawk”. But his casual observations escalate when he forces his “victims” to strip at gunpoint and be photographed. Stone

Dana Stabenow
When a huge gold mine in the world is found in the Iqaluk Wildlife Refuge everything changes for Kate Shugak. People flock to the mine owned by Global Harvest Resources, including the aunties and half of the Niniltna Native American Association. Chopper Jim is kept so busy he’s hardly home. Despite the prospect of prosperity, not everyone is happy. Kate and Chopper Jim find bear eaten human remains near the truck of Dewayne A. Gammons, a Global Harvest Resources roustabout. They assume Dewayne is dead, until he walks out of the woods several weeks later. If he’s alive, whose remains were those? As the opening day of the mine draws closer, more murders occur and the discord between the corporate owners and the park grows.

Michael Connelly
When the owner of a small liquor store in South L.A. is killed, Harry Bosch promises the family he’ll bring the killers to justice. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit to help him sort out the language and culture. He finds a link to a Hong Kong triad, a lethal crime ring that follows many immigrants to the U.S. But he gets too close to the action, and the person most important to him is kidnapped by the triad. Harry follows them to Hong Kong in a bid to regain what he’s lost. And it is at Nine Dragons, during the Hungry Ghosts festival that Harry risks everything, hoping to overwhelm the triad and regain his love.

Rita Mae Brown
A new tail wagging series from cat lover Rita Mae Brown. Thirty two year old Mags flees her former high powered Wall Street job for her aunt Jeep’s Nevada ranch; hoping to put her life back together. In the passenger seat is her wirehaired dachshund, Baxter. Mags, (named for her feisty great aunt Magdalena – now known as Jeep) has to learn how to fit in on the Ranch, much as the urban Baxter must learn to deal with Jeep’s German Shepherd mix, King; who considers Baxter to be a “fuzzy sausage”. Jeep has had an exciting, productive life and intends to keep on going. And both ladies are definitely in for excitement, as someone pipe bombs the pumping station, thereby endangering the water supply. The sabotage is linked to a series of murders, but Deputy Pete Meadows doesn’t know if its eco-terrorism or something else. When human bones are found in Jeep’s barn, they are identified as those of an elite Russian military officer from the late 1800’s who was knifed to death. Mags and Pete team together to solve the mystery of the bones and murders. They discover corporate sneaks that want to divert the water supply to Reno and shortly thereafter, someone shows up dead much too close to home. Baxter and King must come to a truce in order to investigate and protect their humans when the inevitable confrontation occurs. With interesting characters, an irresistible wiener of a dog, and witty dialogue, this is a fun beginning to a new series by Rita Mae Brown.

C. J. Box
Finishing up his final week in exile as the temporary game warden in Baggs, Wyo., Joe Pickett must clear up some strange going ons in the mountains before he returns to his old district. As he investigates reports of looting, tent slashing, elk butchering, and a missing Olympic runner in training, he comforts himself with the fact that this would be his last patrol. But he gets more than he bargained for when a what should have been a routine citation for unlicensed fishing turns into a deadly confrontation with twin brothers Caleb and Camish Grim, whose anger at the government turns murderous. Box highlights both the dangerous beauty of the West and the risks of a job where a single civil servant must contend with a well-armed populace. As events escalate, the momentum is carried by the determination of Pickett, who could have walked away but didn't. At issue is the rule of government versus the rights of the people, and by the time Pickett goes back up the mountain for a final showdown with the Grim brothers, he sees the confrontation in a whole new light--but that won't stop him from doing his duty. This well written story was inspired by a real-life Wyoming game warden's encounter with sinister mountain-man twin brothers.

Danielle Steel
A story about love in all its guises; the Barrington family is one of Hollywood’s legends; immensely talented and wealthy.

John T. Lescroart
A series of murders in San Francisco, each connected to the socialite daughter of the mayor, Maya Townsend, keeps Dismal Hardy and Co. busy. A former college roommate of hers, the manager of Haight Ashbury coffeehouse Bay Beans West, is found dead, his backpack full of high grade marijuana. Then another colleague dies, and another, until the list of those that have been murdered leads to conspiracy theories by the press. As a very public trial looms, Maya has a secret she must protect, one that impacts her future, and that of the fabled city on the bay, a secret that attorney Dismas is sworn to defend.

Janet Evanovich
Stephanie leads a complicated life, trying to juggle her job as a bounty hunter, friend Lula, Grandma Mazur and several men who adore her. Enter Diesel, a gorgeous fellow bounty hunter looking for Wolf Grimoire, a man with sinister plans. Add a camping trip, the legend of the Jersey Devil, and monkeys… and life becomes even more chaotic.

Ruth Rendell
London's Portobello Road, a street fabled for its shops and outdoor market, provides the backdrop for this superlative suspense novel, which features a cast of colorful characters from varied classes and walks of life. Their lives are tied together by the chance discovery of an envelope full of cash dropped by Joel Roseman, who had just withdrawn it from a Portobello Road ATM, but then was felled by a heart attack. Sent to the hospital, his physician is Ella Cotswold. In an odd coincidence, her boyfriend, gallery owner Eugene Wren, finds the envelope of cash. His decision to advertise for its owner alerts Lance Platt, a petty crook who has been casing the neighborhood for homes to break into, and sets in motion a series of events that prove dangerous. Lance seethes under the thumb of his great-uncle Gilbert Gibson, a former burglar that is more dangerous now that he preaches the gospel; and is threatened by Dwayne Wilson, the brother of his former girlfriend, who got rid of Lance after he beat her up. In a comic sendup; Eugene Wren dithers about asking Ella Cotswold to marry him, and struggles with his addiction to sugar free lozenges. Rendell has woven a tapestry of characters, some of which are only a dole check away from homelessness, and all the anxiety that that engenders, and juxtapositioned them against the callousness of the book’s more upper class characters.

J.A. Jance
Two murders committed generations apart threaten to destroy three separate families. The first, the unsolved murder of a college co-ed, is passed to retired homicide detective Brandon Walker, now working with a cold case squad. In the second, Half Anglo and Half Apache Dan Pardee, is a member of the border patrol west of Tucson, joins homicide investigator Brian Fellows to track a killer who's gone off the charts in the Tohono O’odham Nation. Assisted by the Shadow Wolves, Indians who patrol Indian lands near the Mexico Border, and inspired by 4 year old Angelina Enos the small survivor of a similar encounter, who has wiggled her way into his heart, Pardee uncovers clues and gets closer to a killer intent on completing what he began when he killed his wife, his two children and the family dog. A terrific mystery dedicated to the late Tony Hillerman and named for the desert flower that only blooms only once a year, at night, the Cerebus.

James Lee Burke
Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin of Billy Bob Holland, discovers the bodies of 9 illegal immigrants machine gunned down and buried in a shallow grave behind a church. As he and his Deputy Sheriff, Pam, try to learn who might have killed the Mexicans, an Iraq veteran named Pete and his girl friend Vicki are running scared. Pete, hired to do the killing by a vicious crime boss, is also being chased by a small town gangster, a serial killer, and now the FBI and the Immigration Department as well. Holland soon figures out he’d better find Pete before the others do, or there will be a much bigger problem to deal with.

T. Jefferson Parker
Hood has transferred to the desert town of Antelope, where he is hoping for a quieter life. But that hope is shattered when his partner, Tommy Laws, is gunned down. He investigates and finds reasons why someone might have wanted Laws dead; someone like Laws’ old partner, a man connected with the Mexican drug trade.

Elizabeth Peters
Its 1910, and when Amelia Peabody and Emerson learn that Morley is leading an expedition to search for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem, they know they must follow him in order to prevent an inept excavation and the possibility of a protest from the members of all three religions, who view the Temple Mount as sacred. There's also the suspicion that Morley might be secretly working for German intelligence. Meanwhile, Amelia's son, Ramses, learns some important information from an unusual party of travelers while working on a dig in Samaria. Then he is kidnapped when he learns too much about the German archaeologist Madame von Eine and her mysterious companion Mansur. Adopted son David sets out to find Ramses while Amelia organizes the dig and the effort to find both David and Ramses. Then a shadowy group called the Sons of Abraham appear. Are they there to help or hinder?

John Sanford
Davenport’s associate, Virgil Flowers, returns. Virgil receives a call from Davenport while he’s at a fishing tournament in northern Minnesota. A woman has been shot while kayaking at a Woman’s Only resort. What he finds when he investigates is that the resort caters to more than just relaxation and rejuvenation. There are sinister connections between the townspeople, the owners of the resort, the victim and a local country singer. Soon he is mired in a web of blackmail, deceit, greed, anger and multiple murders. Because he’s learned a similar murder occurred the previous year, and that another murder will occur soon, and then yet another, if he can’t discover who, why and where.

Margaret Maron
Judge Deborah Knott, is at a summer conference in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, for the state’s District Court Judges, while her husband, Deputy Dwight Bryant is in Virginia with his son, typing up loose ends left by the death of his first wife. While at the conference, she discovers the body of one of her colleagues. When another judge is found murdered, it appears that Deborah might be next. Her relaxing business trip to the seaside soon becomes a harrowing experience, and she must call upon all of her investigative abilities to track down the culprit before she becomes the next victim.

Stuart Woods
This novel is less about superstar lawyer Ed than it is about his nefarious ex-wife, Barbara, who manages to escape from a Mexican prison and head back to the States with murder on her mind. Her targets are Ed and his new wife, Susannah. But Barbara isn't the only fugitive on the lam. Teddy Fay, a notorious ex-CIA operative, has arrived in Santa Fe, hoping to start a new life with his girlfriend, Lauren. But young CIA recruit Todd Bacon is hot on his trail. Ed's latest client, golf pro Tip Hanks, who is under suspicion for the murder of his wife, might be able to shed some light on Ed’s past, but this information might also place him in danger. Those familiar with the series will enjoy the frequent murders and sexual escapades that enliven the tale. Lots of fun for those who Woods' entertaining fare.

Michael Connelly
In a sign of the times, newsman Jack McEvoy is downsized, but is looking for one last big story. He choses the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But Jack discovers the confession is bogus and Alonzo’s innocent. Jack starts tracking a killer that the police don’t know about, but one who knows about Jack.

Patricia Cornwell
Scarpetta, works for CNN as their forensic adviser, has her own practice, but still offers her services pro bono to New York’s Office of the Medical Examiner. This increased visibility leads to some unsettling events. During a radio interview, she is asked about the case of Hannah Starr, a woman who vanished and is presumed dead, and then, moments later another caller is identified as a former patient of her lover, Benton Wesley. When she returns home from the show, a suspicious package is waiting for her. Could it be a bomb? This apparent threat on her life rattle her. Then, her CNN producer wants her to do a show called The Scarpetta Factor; but Scarpetta worries that the show could cause people to think she is always able to solve a case; and might also compromise her private life.

Bill Pronzini
Nameless takes on an insurance case to find who stole rare books worth $500,000 from a locked room. The shooting death of the man’s brother in law in the same room complicates matters, as it appears his wife shot him. But did she? And someone is stalking the Henderson brothers, pouring acid on their father’s headstone and warning them “This is only the beginning”.

Dick Francis
When amateur jockey and barrister Geoffrey Mason finds fellow jockey Scott Barlow badly beaten in the changing room; and is told to “sod off’, he leaves. Then Barlow if found dead with a pitchfork in his chest. One of Mason’s clients tells him to defend the jockey accused of Barlow’s death; but instead he looks for the connection between his client and the murder.

Janet Evanovich
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a “lucky” bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn’t say if the bottle brought good or bad luck. Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, Connie, and Lula to raise the money if they want to save their jobs. The women decide to rescue Vinnie, which would give them time to come up with the money. After they do, they stash him at Ranger’s apartment, where he, rather ungraciously runs up massive pay-per-view porn charges. Meanwhile, the girls come up with creative ways to make money, including a bonds office yard sale and a Hobbit-Con charity event. You just know that somehow, the girls will attract trouble no matter what they do, even if it's for a good cause. Add to this the complication of Stephanie having two men in her life, the dangerous Ranger and the sultry Joe Morelli. Will Uncle Pips lucky bottle prove to be lucky for Stephanie? We can only hope ... but with who?

Kathy Reichs
Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Quebec for a man who’s fingerprints identify him as a person declared legally dead 40 years earlier – a man who supposedly died in Vietnam in 1968. This begs the question: who is it that’s in this man’s grave? While trying to analyze the remains, a second set of remains turns up with the first victim's dog tags. Temperance digs up the remains of John Lowery, the man connected to the fingerprints and has them flown to Hawaii for analysis. She is joined by her ex-lover, Detective Andrew Ryan. Then she is contacted by Honolulu’s medical examiner to help with a body that was washed up by the surf, an apparent shark attack. Or was it? Could the victims be connected? Temperance and Ryan have their work cut out for them in order to solve the mix up in bodies and possible crimes.

Robert Parker
The body found in the trunk of the car was that of a low level mobster and it had all the appearances of being a mob hit. While this was reason for concern, it took on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure was later found dead on Paradise Beach, where tough guy Reggie Galen and his wife Rebecca lived. Police Chief Jess Stone and PI Sunny Randall team up to solve the case and rekindle old feelings.

Donna Andrews
Meg Lansdowne and her husband, associate professor Michael, are very shortly to become parents to twins. They host a Spanish playwright for the production of his play by one of Michael's grad students. Senor Mendoza turns out to be quite a party goer, and soon their home is filled with students from the drama and Spanish departments. Into this walk Dr. Jean Wright, the dean of the English department, and an administrator from the college president’s office who refuse to allow Michael's student to do his formerly approved dissertation and insist the play be cancelled. When the dean is found dead, Meg's house becomes a crime scene. The only way to restore peace is to help Chief Burke solve the murders – at the same time as rescuing the student’s dissertation and Michael’s tenure - all before dashing off to the hospital to give birth to her twins!

John Sandford
There's a storm brewing...Very early, 4:45 a.m., on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But one of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck -and find themselves for face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, a surgeon on her way to work at the Minneapolis Medical Research Center. A woman who just happens to be the wife of investigator Lucas Davenport. Did she see them clearly enough to identify them? The men debate over what to do, and decide that there is only one thing they can do: Find out who the woman is, and eliminate the only witness.

Robert Barnard
Kit Philipson was the only child of professional parents in Glasgow, Scotland. His mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, who escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. But on her deathbed, Kit’s mother tells him he was adopted and that his birth name was Novello. Soon, nebulous memories of his early life surface: his nursery, pictures on the wall, even the way his birth mother smelled. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter Novello was abducted from his parents’ holiday hotel in Sicily in 1989. Now Kit sets out to rediscover his past, and the story of two three-year-old boys stolen from their mothers. His inquiries uncover that his adoptive and birth fathers had a confrontation at a conference. What could that have been about? Could this have any bearing on his “adoption”? Further digging suggests that perhaps it does, and leads to dangerous secrets that were never meant to be exposed.

Donna Andrews
Meg’s parents have a new hobby: growing and showing roses. Meg volunteers to help them when the Caerphilly Garden Club sponsors its first rose show. In very short order, however, Meg realizes the competitive level of the rose growers borders on lunacy. When the woman who owns the property hosting the show is killed, Meg suspects some of the growers. Meg just wants to let the local police handle the matter, until she is compelled by another attack to solve the crime before another person is killed.

James Patterson
At San Francisco’s Party of the Year, millionaires mingle … and a killer is watching, waiting for the right moment to strike down Isa and Ethan Bailey. When he does, he commits the perfect murder, leaving not a trace. Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the murder of a preacher to the homeless, a low profile crime until Reporter Cindy Thomas reports on it, revealing the preacher wasn’t as saintly as he was supposed to be. The Woman’s Murder Club has its plate full; and then Lindsay notices that sparks are flying between her partner Rick and Cindy.

James Lee Burke
Robicheaux, back in Louisiana, intends to spend some time with his adopted daughter Alafair while she takes a semester off from law school, but her involvement with Kermit Abelard, son of one of the region’s robber barons, causes conflict between them. Robicheaux investigates a series of murders of young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis parish, and the Abelard family might be involved in them. When their prime suspect turns up dead, the case takes a nasty turn, and the violence comes home to Robicheaux’s doorstep. An atmospheric, taut novel that's different from anything that Burke has written before.

T. Jefferson Parker
The Iron River is the illegal stream of weapons crossing the California-Mexican border, the guns that perpetuate the drug cartel wars south of the border. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Charlie Hood is working the California-Mexico border with the ATFE, searching for the entry spot of the Iron RIver. When a shootout during a botched weapons buy leaves a Mexican cartel’s son dead, the cartel targets Hood’s Blowdown Unit; his men getting hunted down one by one. Then an almost bankrupt local gun manufacturer brokers a deal with the cartel for a new, deadlier handgun, and the middleman is someone that Hood is personally acquainted with. He knows that gunrunners will go to any lengths to complete their task, but is shocked by the level of violence they're willing to indulge in to protect their trade. A fast paced police thriller.

Laurie King
Holmes's estranged artist son, Damien Adler, approaches Holmes to ask for help in finding his missing wife and child. Damien , a former drug addict and derelict, was accused and cleared of murder charges. Mary Russell investigates Damien, and finds a connection to a Druid-type cult called the Children of Light, and secrets from the past. And clues to someone that Holmes himself is trying to protect.

Lisa Gardner
When your closest family is suspect, where do you run? A perfect family; a handsome and successful husband, a pretty, popular schoolteacher wife and an adorable 4 year old girl. Their lives implode when Sandra Jones disappears from their stately Boston home, with no clues left behind; even their 4 year old was asleep upstairs. But to Detective Warren, something isn’t quite right. Jason Jones refuses to answer questions and is evasive. A media storm quickly descends, and Warren has to find answers before everything spins out of control. A riveting read.

Robert Parker
Boston Lawyer Elizabeth Stone specialty is the writing of wills, mostly for wealthy men, and she discovers that some of her wealthy client’s wives have shared a lover, Gary Einstein. Problem is, now he’s blackmailing them and they don’t want their affairs found out. She approaches Spenser for a cease and desist order on Eisenhower, but that’s when things get ugly. Several of the women turn up dead, and Spenser’s case goes from blackmail to murder. Spenser’s long time love, Susan, analyzes the women involved to find a pattern.. It turns out not all were rich, but their husbands were. What she finds it that innocence and guilt sometimes go hand in hand in a marriage.

Elizabeth George
The new acting superintendent of London's Metropolitan Police, Isabelle Ardery, manages to lure Lynley, who's been grieving over his wife's murder, back from Cornwall to look into a murder case. The body of Jemima Hastings, a young woman from Hampshire, has turned up in a London cemetery. With suspects in both locales and numerous leads to follow and interviews to conduct, Ardery succeeds in antagonizing the other members of the investigating team. Lynley discovers links to an earlier murder case; and George showcases Lynley at his shrewdest, most diplomatic best; and confounds readers with a complex array of evidence, motives, and possible solutions.

Colleen McCullough
It’s 1967 and on a lovely spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut, home to prestigious Chubb University and armaments giant Cornucopia, chief of detectives Captain Carmine Delmonico is confronted with twelve seemingly unrelated murders that have taken place in one day. Along with detective sergeants Abe Goldberg and Corey Marshall and Delia Carstairs, they attempt to solve a potentially unsolvable mystery. Are the murders, all different, connected? Is there one killer or many? How is the murder of a local prostitute, related to the deaths of a mother and her disabled child? How is Chubb student Evan Pugh connected to Desmond Skeps, head of Cornucopia? And if the murders were not enough, Carmine soon finds himself pitted against Ulysses, a mysterious spy giving Cornucopia's armaments secrets to the Russians. Could the murders be linked to the espionage? When FBI agent Ted Kelly becomes part of the investigation, it appears that murder is only one part of the puzzle that has the town in a panic. As the overwhelmed police force contends with small town politics, academic rivalry and corporate greed, the death toll mounts, and Carmine and his team discover that the answers are not what they seem.

John Lescroat
Mickey Dade is restless; he's been doing too much paperwork at Wyatt Hunt's private investigative service, The Hunt Club. Not that there’s much paperwork as business has slowed to a trickle. Something has to happen or The Hunt Club could go under. And something does; the body of Dominic Como, a man involved with many non-profit and charitable organizations in San Francisco, is found floating in the lagoon in front of the palace of Fine Arts. People are stunned. Who would want to kill a man who had done so much good for the city? Mickey convinces Hunt to get involved in the investigation; and together they uncover some shocking truths about Como, his relationship with his young driver, and some shady deals. And, along the way, Mickey learns the hard lessons about people and investigative work that Hunt knows only too well.

J.A. Jance
Former TV journalist Ali Reynolds, now in a media relations' post with the Yavapai County Police Department, has her reporting and crime-solving skills tested on her first time out when a housing development goes up in flames. The lone female victim of the fire is now hospitalized with burns, and amnesia. She doesn’t know who she is or who might of set the fire. Sister Anselm, who works as an advocate for unidentified patients, is a savior to this woman, who can only communicate by blinks of her eye. After Sister Anselm asks Ali for help in discovering the woman's identity, Ali wonders why there was only one victim; and deduces that perhaps someone wanted her dead. Sister Anselm and Ali realize that finding out who she is and contacting her family might expose the woman to a killer who wants to come back and finish the job.

Jonathan Kellerman
PI Aaron Fox and L.A. cop Moe Reed, inter-racial brothers from previous novel Bones, are complete opposites and not the best of friends. But they must team together to solve a missing persons case that takes them to the dark and seamy underbelly of L.A.

Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone was alone in her office doing paperwork when Michael Sutton, 27, arrived unannounced to ask for her help. Twenty-one years earlier, a four-year-old girl had disappeared and was never found. Recent references to her case had triggered memories in Sutton, who now believed he had stumbled upon her burial site when he was six years old. He wanted Kinsey to help him locate the child's remains and find those responsible for her death. Kinsey would soon discover that Sutton hasn’t been entirely truthful, and that he has a history of making things up. Is his current story the truth or simply one more in a long line of fabrications?

William Kent Krueger
Mining heir Max Cavanagh hires PI Cork O’Connor as a security consultant to trace his missing sister, Lauren, founder of an artists' retreat - and to try to identify the sender of threatening letters to people connected with Vermilion One, a Cavanaugh family iron mine. The U.S. Department of Energy has put Vermilion One on a short list of sites being considered for long-term nuclear waste storage, which has lead to a storm of protest from Tamarck County residents. When Cork and a mine official descend into Vermilion One, they discover six bodies, five of them skeletal, which may be connected with a series of unsolved crimes from 1964 known as "the Vanishings," which Cork's father looked into when he was sheriff. The sixth corpse, that of a well-dressed woman, appears to have been in the mine less than a week. Problem is, the most recent victim, as well as one of the other’s, was killed with Cork’s own gun. This well written and thrilling read will grab you from page one and won’t let go.

Dana Stabenow
PI Shugak homesteads in the Iqualuk Wildlife Refuge along with the Ninilta tribe. Global Harvest Resources plans a gold mining operation in the Refuge and Kate is asked by the tribe to prevent this. Vigilante justice occurs when two developers are murdered. Kate knows she must investigate the crimes before the violence spirals out of control.

Janet Evanovich
Evanovich introduces a new supernatural series with Wicked Appetie. Pastry chef Elizabeth Tucker recently relocated to Marblehead, Massachusetts and now bakes cupcakes for Dazzle's Bakery. Life goes smoothly in Marblehead for Lizzy until Diesel arrives. Lizzy gets involved with the slightly dangerous Diesel, who is tracking down SALIGA Stones, each one representing one of the Seven Deadly Sins. But also looking is Gerwulf Grimoire, Diesel's cousin, a criminal mastermind and denizen of the dark side who's determined to get the Stones first in order 'to unleash their power and create hell on earth.' Wulf's first target is the Gluttony Stone, which has long been guarded by members of the More family. In order to gain access to the Stone, the seeker has to find three keys held by different members of the More family. These apparently normal trinkets can be identified by Unmentionables with uncanny powers, like Steven Hatchet, the former military paramedic now working as Wulf's vassal - or like Lizzy, who suddenly discovers she has powers she's never dreamed of. You don't need to be an Unmentionable to see that Shirley More, who eats three-dozen cupcakes every day, probably has one of the keys. Unfortunately, it won't be easy to get much information out of Shirley, because Gloria, attempting to cast a truth spell over her, has accidentally turned her speech into gobbledygook. Together Lizzy and Diesel battle Wulf for possession of the Gluttony Stone, and soon learn that more is not necessarily better. A fun beginning to a new series.

John Sandford
The Republican Convention is coming to St. Paul, Minnesota attracting not only politicians, but those who would prey on them. A gang of professional thieves have targeted those with briefcases full of cash, and the weak link in the security system. And there’s a right wing crazy with a .50 caliber sniper rifle roaming the streets. But Lucas Davenport has a bigger problem; someone with a psychotic rage has resurfaced, with a plan to get back at Davenport in a way that really hurts … by setting his sights on Davenport’s 14 year old adopted daughter. An exciting, intelligent thriller.

Leslie Meier
As late autumn arrives in the tiny town of Tinker’s Cove, Maine, a newcomer also moves there who seems to suit the Halloween season. Diana Ravenscroft has just opened Solstice, a charming little shop featuring candles, crystals, jewelry, and psychic readings. But after an unnervingly accurate reading by Diana, Lucy gets a little spooked. Then she finds a dead body on one of the old logging roads behind her house. The deceased is identified as Malcolm Malebranche, a seemingly harmless magician who worked at children’s birthday parties. When it’s discovered that Diana knew the murder victim, Ike Stoughton, a prominent local businessman, starts a campaign against her, blaming “the witch” for everything from the unseasonal dry spell to his wife’s illness and his lackluster pumpkin crop. But Lucy’s not so sure that Ike himself is innocent. Still, as the town Halloween party approaches, Lucy’s more concerned about the costume competition, pin-the-nose-on-the-pumpkin, and baking three dozen orange cupcakes and Beastly Bug cookies. But as the October moon rises, a killer plans a lethal celebration of his own, and Lucy’s the guest of honor.

James Patterson
Detective Michael Bennett, a father himself, is responsible for protecting the children of Manhattan's wealthiest citizens. A cold-blooded psychopathic killer has abducted and murdered several of them after asking the children whether they understand the price others pay for their lifestyles. The wrong answer always proves lethal. With New York City in chaos, Bennett teams up with FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker in an effort to capture the psychopath before he sets in motion the even deadlier plan he has in store, one that would affect not only New York, but the entire world.