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The Face of Clara Morgan is a gripping and chilling psychological suspense thriller from international bestselling author, J.A. Baker.What happens when the past and the present collide?Dominic Rose, a bachelor and teacher, has an antiquated hobby. He studies physiognomy, the art of judging somebody's...

The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a 17th-century clergyman accused of witchcraft...a story that certain long-established families would rather remained...

The Face of Clara Morgan is a gripping and chilling psychological suspense thriller from international bestselling author, J.A. Baker.What happens when the past and the present collide?Dominic Rose, a bachelor and teacher, has an antiquated hobby. He studies physiognomy, the art of judging somebody's...

A fast-paced and action-packed ride through upstate New York for fans of CHRIS RYAN and STEPHEN LEATHER. When Nicolas 'Po' Villere runs into Elspeth Fuchs, an old flame, he's surprised to find who's by her side. It's her son, Jacob, and he's a dead...

Poetamos Jackson & Simon Profit are hired as undercover detectives in Los Angeles to investigate police department drug stings that have gone awry. Someone on the inside may be putting their hand in the proverbial cookie jar. But when their other partner is killed...

Let's take a journey into a very complicated and confused young man, who from one minute to the next is a monster. All of the good things can be installed in a kid but it's impossible to figure it out. Man or Monster? Who...

'An enthralling, powerful and incredibly moving novel' Irish Times 'Blood Ties is a compulsive police procedural, but it's so much more than that: thought-provoking, compassionate and beautifully-written. McGilloway is one of the finest crime-writers working today.' Ann Cleeves 'Written in elegantly simple prose... this...

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times 'A powerful story of loss, malice and deception' Ann Cleeves 1921. When a Member of Parliament goes missing in a small Derbyshire village, Scotland Yard detective Albert Lincoln is sent up North to investigate....

"IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY."4 Dead Lawyers. $100 Million Dollars of their money racing around the globe in a sophisticated scheme of bank wires and cryptocurrency. Then the money goes dark. GONE!Wild Bill Burnham, the Gulf Coast's leading billboard shyster, rakes in millions every...

Nobody can get into the mind of an erratic killer--except an unpredictable detective.When a young man is found lying on a station platform with a hole in his head, DI Kate Young is called in to investigate the grisly murder. But the killing is...

"$50 million dollars or we kill her." Vic Stapleton, an epic Gulf coast good old boy who spends his days fishing and running his redneck bar empire, was fat, dumb, and happy until he was accosted on a dark Grayton Beach night with the...

A serial killer hunts the beautiful street of Sunnyside Road, an elegant neighborhood in Western Massachusetts. So far, six preteens are dead, and families are devastated. Despite involvement by the FBI, state police, and local authorities, no clues are forthcoming, and citizens hunker down...

From one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century--and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series: "A chilling tale that is perhaps the most essential novel to emerge from September 11" (People) about an eighteen-year-old devoted to Allah, who's convinced he's...

"Deliciously twisted . . . Kate Kessler's positively riveting It Takes One boasts a knockout concept and a thoroughly unique and exciting protagonist, a savvy criminal psychologist with murderous skeletons in her own closet." -- Sara Blaedel, #1 internationally bestselling author Criminal psychologist Audrey...

This killer Bookshots special edition of four first-rate thrillers features the Women's Murder Club, a deadly little black dress, a ruthless band of thieves, and a lethal team of vengeful warriors.The Trial: An accused murderer called Kingfisher is on trial. And Detective Lindsay Boxer...

Two ruthless thieves posing as newlyweds are about to rob the Titanic . . . and their scheme could change the fate of the ship forever in this irresistible heist thriller.Posing as newlyweds, two ruthless thieves board the Titanic to rob its well-heeled passengers....

One year after his big golf tournament win, Travis McKinley struggles to find a place in the world of professional sports in this inspiring novel.A year ago, unknown golfing amateur Travis McKinley shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach....

You don't remember her -- but she remembers you. Two different women; two different worlds. On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. Nina is sophisticated...

Harry Posehn is the best dad and the best husband . . . or is he? Detective Teaghan Beaumont isn't sure.Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about Harry Posehn. But there's a twist that she-and you-will never see...

Rise the dark. These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything to the police or to her husband, investigator Markus Novak. Now the man he believes killed her is...

He's a good detective...with a bad habit. "One of the Year's Best Crime Novels"-The New York Times Book Review, Booklist Frank Marr knows crime in Washington, DC. A decorated former police detective, he retired early and now ekes a living as a private eye...

NYPD Red's finest detectives are about to investigate a brutal crime scene in Central Park . . . but even their training can't prepare them for the biggest case of their careers.When NYPD Red arrives at a crime scene, everyone takes notice. Known as...

The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power -- passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He...

Detective Frank Behr finds himself neck deep in white collar crime and facing off with cold-blooded killers more terrifying than anything he's faced before. Bernard "Bernie Cool" Kolodnik is a hard-driving business mogul in the process of making a move into big-time Indiana politics,...

★★★★★ "Better than Bond." ★★★★★ "Sinatra is a full-blown superhero." Book two of the Sinatra series. The celebrated governor of Maryland has been compromised at the MGM Casino in National Harbor. His situation is dire, and the implications for the country are brutal.Sinatra and...

This installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college professor trudging home from...

It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is copiloting a special train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farther...

The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bj rk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed" When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator...

One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer.In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she...

Be afraid . . . College professor Paul Davis' life is turned upside down when he spots his colleague Kenneth driving in a suspicious manner along a deserted road. Curious, Paul follows Kenneth and catches him trying to dispose of two bodies.That was eight...

An intelligent and propulsive international political thriller in which political fixer Peter Rena is hired by the president to investigate the bombing of an American military base overseasWhen a shadowy American diplomatic complex is attacked in North Africa, the White House is besieged by...

ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Washington Post - NPR - Financial Times - The Guardian - Booklist - New Statesman - Daily Telegraph - Irish Times - Dallas Morning News - Sunday Times...

A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago--a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better--by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross.Mike Hodge--veteran of the Great War, big shot...

"As I read Eric Rickstad's latest, The Names of Dead Girls, I felt myself constantly wanting to skip ahead -- anxious, desperate, to find out what was going to happen...You're in the hands of one of the best in the business, at the very...

NPR Best Book of 2017A polished and gripping political debut that Michael Connelly calls "an edge of your seat thriller," Shining City is set in DC amid a harrowing Supreme Court nomination fight."Amazing. . . . Pulses with momentum. . . . A debut...

Forgive me father, for I have sinned . . . Detective Mike Cancini has seen dark days as a homicide detective in Washington, D.C. But even he is shocked when a charismatic young priest is found shot through the eye on the altar of...

Perfect for fans of Making a Murderer, a novel about a man exonerated of heinous crimes returning to a town that can't let go of his bloody legacyLittle Springs was just a small college town, the kind of place where everyone knew everyone and...

Praise for the Alice Quentin series: "A fast-moving, entertaining mix of sex, suspense and serial killings." -Washington Post"Alice is a vividly realized protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline." -New York Times bestselling author Sophie HannahJude Shelley, daughter of a...

New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying novel of suspense as a young man's investigation into his sister's death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer.He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him.The more...

Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power in this electrifying tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini.One of the most successful lawyers...

It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all...

Past, present, and future collide to throw respected forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton's successful, secure life into devastating turmoil in this poignant novel in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series.It's been ten years since Dr. Bill Brockton created the Body Farm--the world's...

Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona's Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.An old...

A decorated police detective inspector is murdered and compromising photographs are discovered in his room. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is well aware he must handle the highly sensitive--and potentially explosive--investigation with the utmost discretion. As Banks digs deeper in the past of the...

New York Times bestseller James Grippando returns with a gripping new stand-alone novel: a story ripped from the headlines, in which a young financial adviser and his girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street to Washington, from the trading floors of the...

A first-year resident at a major Boston children's hospital, Peyton Shields finally has the career she's always dreamed of--even though her marriage to Kevin, an up-and-coming young lawyer, is suffering from her hard work and impossibly long hours. But a late-night drive home in...

"A very clever wordsmith." --New York Times Book Review"When Emily Arsenault was growing up, a teacher told the fifth-grader she was very good at writing. Give that teacher an A." --Hartford CourantEmily Arsenault's compelling debut, Broken Teaglass, was resoundingly praised ("Quirky and inventive...meets all...

In the year 1260, a great cathedral, the most ambitious ecclesiastical building in all of Christendom, is rising high above the bustling city of Cologne under the supervision of the architect Gerhard Morart. Far below the soaring spires and flying buttresses, a bitter war...

A new suspense-themed housing tract on the edge of the Mojave Desert is about to open, and who better to help promote the Cotswold-cozy development than mystery biographer extraordinaire Cece Caruso? For the grand opening weekend, Cece is staging a play featuring the beloved...

"[Israel's] fish-out-of-water dilemmas and encounters with kooky locals will resonate with Alexander McCall Smith fans." --Publishers Weekly Author Ian Sansom "clearly loves a good laugh" (Washington Post), as his delightful mystery series featuring rumpled, fish-out-of-water, Jewish vegetarian librarian Israel Armstrong indisputably proves. The Bad...