 Agent 6 (Child 44 Trilogy)
By Tom Rob Smith
A former member of Russia’s secret police must stay behind when his wife and two daughters travel to New York where they become involved in a political conspiracy that turns tragic.
All Necessary Force (Pike Logan)
By Brad Taylor
Charged with stopping an imminent terrorist attack when traditional intelligence methods fail, the Taskforce pursues illegally obtained leads to Egypt, where Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill find themselves in charge of a mission involving a weapon of unprecedented destruction.
American Dervish
By Ayad Akhtar
A young Pakistani boy, whose parents left the fundamentalists behind when they came to America, finds transformation and a path to happiness through a family friend who shows him the power and beauty of the Quran.
An Available Man
By Hilma Wolitzer
Inadvertently attracting several single women while mourning the death of his adored wife, 62-year-old Edward Schuyler is profiled in a singles ad by his stepchildren and goes on several unsettling dates before a chance encounter leads to a promising new relationship.
 Another Woman
By Penny Vincenzi
When the seemingly elated Cressida Forrest disappears without a trace the night before her lavish wedding, a frantic search for answers reveals a fragile web of sexual and financial secrets involving two families.
The Baker’s Daughter
By Sarah McCoy
After an interview with an elderly baker leaves her feeling like she is the one who revealed too much – especially about her Border Patrol husband, Riki – El Paso journalist Reba Adams, the baker, and Riki all find they must confront the ghosts of their respective pasts.
The Best Bad Dream
By Robert Ward
Interrupted during vacation plans when alluring snitch Michelle Wu begs his help in rescuing her kidnapped sister, FBI agent Jack Harper is rapidly overwhelmed by a group of hostile bikers, Mexican gangs, and a pet Razorback hog before discovering links between the case and an exclusive spa for the elderly.
Breakdown (V. I. Warshawski)
By Sara Paretsky
When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago’s most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate and a wealthy patriarch’s childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
 The Broken Land (People of the Longhouse)
By Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
A third entry in the quartet that includes The Dawn Country finds a disgraced warrior, a war chief, and a clan matron working together to stop a dangerous sorcerer and unite the warring Iroquoian nations.
The Chalk Girl (Kathleen Mallory)
By Carol O’Connell
Returning to the Special Crimes Unit after a lost three months, Kathy Mallory investigates the Central Park killing of a man whose body was discovered near his young niece, a case Kathy subsequently links to a chilling series of murders stretching back fifteen years.
Come In and Cover Me
By Gin Phillips
Remembering the brother she lost in childhood in snatches of song or reflections of moonlight, Ren uses her intuitive abilities in her career as an archaeologist and is guided by the ghosts of two Mimbres women while falling in love and pursuing the most important discovery of her career.
Covert Warriors (Presidential Agent)
By W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.
When a hostile Third World country begins to receive military training and nuclear technology from foreign nations, Charley Castillo and his team investigate, only to be abandoned by the U.S. government and placed on hit lists throughout the world.
 The Crown
By Nancy Bilyeau
Deciding to flee her Dominican Order to stand at the side of a cousin who has been condemned to death by Henry VIII, novice Joanna Stafford and her father are arrested by agents of Thomas Cromwell and the Bishop of Winchester, who order her to recover a religious artifact believed to hold a sacred power.
Dead Low Tide
By Bret Lott
A sequel to The Hunt Club finds an adult Huger Dillard struggling to come to terms with his community and his past when his father and he stumble on the murdered body of a woman whose demise is linked to secret military forces, shadowy global networks, and lost loves.
Death Benefit
By Robin Cook
Launching a private investigation when their mentor dies under suspicious circumstances, medical students Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall uncover a sinister operation through which private life insurance policies are being manipulated to allow investors to benefit from the deaths of others.
The Demi-Monde: Winter
By Rod Rees
The Demi-Monde, a computer-simulated military training world populated by some of history’s cruelest sadists and tyrants, begins bleeding into the real world when the U.S. President’s daughter becomes trapped inside and enlists the assistance of a reluctant teenager to escape.
 A Devil Is Waiting (Sean Dillon)
By Jack Higgins
When a political visit to London is threatened by a fanatical mullah who promises to bless anyone who will assassinate the President of the United States, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the “Prime Minister’s Private Army” work with new intelligence recruit Sara Gideon, who discovers that the threat is linked to an even more menacing plot.
Down the Darkest Road (Oak Knoll)
By Tami Hoag
A latest entry in the series that began with Deeper Than the Dead finds 1980s California FBI agent Vince Leone tapping the powers of science-based forensic techniques to unveil dark secrets and stop a killer who is terrorizing the citizens of Oak Knoll.
The Face Thief
By Eli Gottlieb
Officer Dan France investigates the incident in which beautiful Margot was pushed down a flight of stairs, and discovers a number of people with motives, including a potential lover and a defrauded newlywed.
The Fat Years
By Guanzhong Chen
A first English translation of a controversial and politically charged novel that has been banned in China is set in near-future Beijing and follows a widespread disappearance of a month’s worth of official records and human memory that is disregarded by everyone except for a small circle of friends who kidnap a high-ranking official in order to expose the truth.
 The Fear Index
By Robert Harris
A genius hedge-fund manager finds his life unraveling after he is targeted by people who would love to get their hands on his secret investment computer algorithms.
Fifth Victim
By Zoë Sharp
Charlie Fox is hired to keep tabs on the daughter of a rich businesswoman whose circle of friends are increasingly the target of kidnappings while also seeking vengeance against the man who put her partner in a coma.
First You Try Everything
By Jane McCafferty
The unraveling relationship between husband Ben and wife Evvie widens even further as one tries to live a free, alternative lifestyle while the other becomes content to wear a suit and tie to an office job.
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
By Alex Gilvarry
Relocating to New York after finishing design school, Boyet Hernandez devotedly embarks on a promising career only to be wrongly accused of terrorist ties and locked up indefinitely in a tiny cell where he frantically prepares for a trial that decimates his faith in the justice system.
 Gideon’s Corpse (Gideon Crew)
By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
After a standoff between a top nuclear scientist from Los Alamos and an innocent hostage turns violent, Gideon Crew must track down a rogue nuclear device.
A Good Man
By Guy Vanderhaeghe
A final installment in the best-selling trilogy that includes The Last Crossing finds Wesley relocating to a Montana ranch to help negotiate peace between the Native Americans and U.S. and Canadian militaries, an effort that is complicated by his unexpected feelings for widow Ada Tarr.
A Grown-up Kind of Pretty
By Joshilyn Jackson
Three generations of the Slocumb family must deal with a traumatizing family secret after 15-year-old Mosey finds a small grave in their backyard.
Guilt: Stories
By Ferdinand von Schirach
Legal stories based on real cases are presented from a defense lawyer’s perspective, in a volume that includes “Funfair,” in which a young attorney loses his innocence while winning a big first case.
 Hard Target
By Howard Gordon
An Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning executive producer of 24 presents the tale of FBI agent Nancy Clement, who teams up with Gideon Davis after learning of an impending terrorist attack that none of their superiors believe is real, a threat that forces the pair to go rogue to protect targets at the top level of the government.
Heft
By Liz Moore
An obese former academic shut-in and a poor kid dreaming of a successful baseball career are linked together by a former student who transforms their lives.
How It All Began
By Penelope Lively
The mugging of a retired schoolteacher by a petty thief on a London street has unexpected repercussions for her friends and neighbors when it inadvertently reveals an illicit love affair, leads to a too-good-to-be-true business partnership, and helps a newly fluent immigrant to reinvent his life.
The Hunter
By John Lescroart
When an anonymous tip reveals that his birth mother was murdered and her killer never identified, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunter engages in a chilling cat-and-mouse game to track down the surviving members of his biological family, a case that reveals clues about a dire secret.
 The Jaguar (Charlie Hood)
By T. Jefferson Parker
When the songwriter wife of a corrupt Los Angeles County deputy sheriff is kidnapped by a ruthless Gulf Cartel leader who orders to compose a folk ballad about his life, her resulting song captures the attentions of both her husband and Charlie Hood, who are forced to work together to secure her rescue.
Kill Switch
By Jonathan Greene and Neal Baer
Criminal psychologist Dr. Claire Waters finds her life unraveling, and a surprising conspiracy unfolding, when she mistakenly recommends the release of a brutal serial killer, after which a murdered woman’s corpse is discovered bearing all the signs of the serial killer’s M.O.
The Last Nude
By Ellis Avery
Agreeing to model nude for Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka in order to avoid prostitution charges in 1927 Paris, young American Rafaela Fano inspires the artist’s most iconic Jazz Age images and becomes her lover while discovering darker truths about Tamara’s private life.
Leela’s Book
By Alice Albinia
Leaving New York to return to Delhi, Leela disrupts the plans for her nephew’s wedding and unsettles the lives of her sister and brother-in-law.
 The Little Russian
By Susan Sherman
A grocer’s daughter in a small Russian town finds her life changed forever when she unknowingly falls in love with a member of the Jewish Worker’s League who is involved in smuggling operations, which cause the pair to flee the country.
Locked On (Jack Ryan)
By Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney
Jack Ryan, along with his son, Jack, Jr., and the rest of the Campus team face their greatest challenge ever.
Lunatics
By Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel
An uproarious tale told in alternating voices and co-written by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Barry and Emmy Award-winning original Saturday Night Live writer Zweibel follows the stories of a pet shop owner and a curmudgeon who find themselves on the run from the police.
Mr. g: A Novel About the Creation
By Alan Lightman
Bored with his existence in the shimmering Void with his bickering Uncle Deva and Aunt Penelope, Mr. g wakes up from a nap one day and decides to create the universe only to be challenged by intellectual rival Belhor, who demands that Mr. g’s intelligent creations be subjected to irrational laws.
 Need You Now
By James Grippando
Patrick Lloyd and his girlfriend, Lilly, both hurt by a multimillion dollar Ponzi scheme, must uncover the truth about the evil genius at the heart of the setup.
The Night Swimmer
By Matt Bondurant
Relocating to the southern coast of Ireland from Vermont after winning a pub in a contest, Fred Bulkington immerses himself in the life of a pub owner while his wife, Elly, becomes obsessed by open water ocean swimming and local power struggles that challenge both regional stability and the Bulkington’s marriage.
The Odds
By Stewart O’Nan
Struggling with job losses, the imminent foreclosure of their home, and a floundering marriage, Art and Marion Fowler liquidate their savings and reserve the bridal suite at a ritzy Niagara Falls casino, where they make high-risk roulette wheel bets in the hopes of fixing their finances.
The Orphan Master’s Son
By Adam Johnson
The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il.
 Perlmann’s Silence
By Pascal Mercier
An English-language translation of a second novel by the best-selling Swiss author of Night Train to Lisbon finds prominent linguist and widower Philipp Perlmann contemplating drastic measures when he faces exposure after plagiarizing a colleague’s work.
Private: #1 Suspect (Private)
By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
After his former lover is found murdered in his own bed, Jack Morgan, former Marine and founder of the world’s most effective private-investigation company, must clear his name while also solving murders taking place at a posh hotel.
The Quality of Mercy
By Barry Unsworth
A sequel to the Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger finds Irish fiddler Sullivan escaping from prison after being implicated in the loss of Erasmus Kemp’s ship, only to reencounter his nemesis in an epic struggle that pits Kemp’s desire for wealth against Sullivan’s passionate advocacy for the disadvantaged.
A Quiet Vendetta
By R. J. Ellory
The abduction of the governor of Louisiana’s daughter reveals the epic story of a mobster’s life when the victim’s bodyguard is discovered brutally murdered and the kidnapper demands time alone with a minor government functionary.
 The Retribution (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan)
By Val McDermid
A latest crime thriller by the best-selling author of Fever of the Bone finds clinical psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan struggling to survive while they are sent to recapture celebrity sociopath Jack Vance, who has broken out of prison with the intention of exacting violent revenge.
Running the Rift
By Naomi Benaron
Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
Scarecrow Returns (Scarecrow)
By Matthew Reilly
Pitted against a large and secretive terrorist group that has seized control of an island in the Arctic, Marine captain Shane Schofield and his ragtag crew are ordered by the President to stop the organization’s zealous plot to destroy the planet.
The Secret Crown
By Chris Kuzneski
After Jonathon Payne and David Jones are pulled into a mystery surrounding documents found in a recently discovered World War II bunker, they quickly find themselves in a life-or-death struggle to uncover the truth about King Ludwig II’s murder and his mythical treasure.
 Shock of War (Red Dragon Rising)
By Larry Bond & Jim DeFelice
Trapped behind enemy lines after fulfilling a mission to sabotage a Chinese invasion fleet intent on starting a war against America, U.S. Army Major Zeus Murphy and erratic fellow officer Win Christian make their way into Vietnam, where Murphy defies orders to save a woman he loves.
The Silent Oligarch
By Christopher Morgan Jones
Hired to expose the criminal networks of a seemingly nondescript Russian bureaucrat who has amassed an illicit fortune while controlling half of the nation’s oil industry, London investigator Benjamin Webster uncovers evidence that the bureaucrat also may be responsible for the murder of a colleague years earlier.
The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen
By Thomas Caplan
Recruited on a clandestine mission to thwart the transfer of nuclear warheads into rogue hands, covert operative turned A-list movie star Ty Hunter uses all his skills as a spy, soldier, and actor to match wits with an enigmatic billionaire, the billionaire’s nefarious protégé, and an enchanting jewelry designer.
Start Shooting
By Charlie Newton
Twenty-five years after a gruesome murder rocked Chicago, a failing local newspaper runs an expose based on new evidence – a smear campaign that stirs up bad blood for officer Bobby Vargas and his older brother Ruben, who is a decorated, high-ranking detective.
 The Street Sweeper
By Elliot Perlman
Working as a street cleaner at a large city hospital while searching for his estranged daughter, paroled felon Lamont forges an unlikely friendship with a dying man, while struggling professor Adam discovers wrenching historical recordings of victims of the Holocaust and pre-Civil Rights racisim.
Taken
By Robert Crais
Hired along with Joe Pike to investigate the alleged kidnapping of a wealthy industrialist’s son, Elvis Cole quickly disproves police theories and goes undercover to infiltrate a ring of professional border kidnappers, only to be abducted himself.
The Translation of the Bones
By Francesca Kay
Volunteering at the local church, Mary-Margaret, a dull and overweight girl who nearly everyone disregards, has a profound experience while cleaning a statue of Jesus and becomes obsessed with fulfilling what she believes to be sacred duties while religious fervor spreads throughout her community.
The Underside of Joy
By Seré Prince Halverson
In the aftermath of her beloved husband’s drowning death, Ella’s initial support from her in-laws dissolves as long-buried secrets and family tragedies are revealed in the wake of a bitter custody battle against her stepchildren’s biological mother.
 A Walk Across the Sun
By Corban Addison
Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister, Sita, are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner, where they endure a torturous existence before they are helped by a Washington, D.C. attorney who could combat humantrafficking.
The Whisperer
By Donato Carrisi
Investigators Mila Vasquez and Goran Cavila unravel the layers of a series of twisted murders that begin with the discovery of the severed arms of five missing girls who were abducted in broad daylight.
White Girl Problems
By Babe Walker
A comic tale based on the popular Twitter feed follows the exploits of ego-centric and painstakingly manicured Babe Walker, who, after a four-week stint in rehab for her shopping addiction tackles such vanity challenges as the observance of a perfect diet, achieving celebrity thinness, and accepting her father’s trophy girlfriend.
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
By Eva Stachniak
A reimagining of Catherine the Great’s early years traces the story of a naïve German duchess as observed by young Barbara, a servant who watches her mistress’s elevation and rises to one of Russia’s most clever royal spies. |
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