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A spellbinding novel from the internationally bestselling author! A Secret Worth Dying For. Jac L'Etoile is plunged into a world she thought she'd left behind when her brother, coheir to their father's storied French perfumery, makes an earthshattering discovery in the family archives, and...

"Ray Celestin skillfully depicts the desperate revels of that idiosyncratic city and its bizarre legends in his first novel."--The New York Times Book ReviewThe Axeman stalks the streets of The Big Easy...New Orleans, 1919: In a town filled with gangsters, voodoo, and jazz trumpets...

Detective Sergeant Donald Dombrowski and his partner, Detective Katie Callahan, are not convinced that the body, found slumped in the driver's seat within the exhaust-choked garage, is really a suicide.Will this be the only homicide staged to appear otherwise? The investigation winds through shady...

Featured in Library Journal's Top 20 Horror Bestseller List "An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that" - Guillermo del Toro Book 1 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. 1952. On a school trip to France teenager Dominic...

College student Courtney Middleton disappeared fifteen years ago. Everyone presumed she was dead... Detective Madison Knight shows up at the local train station in the aftermath of a fatal shooting, and finds two women killed on scene. One was expecting her first child. The...

Kareem Owens, a street hustler from New York moves to Illinois after the birth of his lovely daughter Makeda to bury his past and start a new life. A sudden devastating turn of events leads him to discovering an inheritance, solely left to his...

Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Award: A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer. To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes...

"British by birth, foreign by descent, and agnostic by conviction, Edward Henry Malik is an MI6 handler--an agent runner. For four years he has been running an agent codenamed Nightingale inside Pakistan's notorious ISI, keeping watch on its links to Al Qaeda and the...

An Esquire Best Book of the Year - A Paste Best Novel of the YearRecommended by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Vogue, Paste, New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, PopSugar, Boston Herald, New York Social Diary, Library...

"I have been a fan of Steve's accounting series since its inception. I have followed Ben and Sharon's adventures to Philadelphia, Malta, Belgium, Finland, and New Orleans. This time they are at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. As always with Steve's books, Ben...

Ryan Spencer won't get on a plane...and a major league ballplayer who won't get on a plane better hit .400, knock in one hundred and fifty runs and never chase the high cheese. So, it's fortunate that Ryan is a five-tool player. He can...

The American Southwest, known in Chicano myth as Aztlan, is rediscovered by a phantom jaguar known as El Jefe ( the chief). His discovery takes him into New Mexico and the mountains near the Salinas ruins outside of Mountainair. His autumn arrival is announced...

London says Anna Hunt is a traitor. Kirsten is dispatched to find and eliminate her boss. Can Kirsten put aside her disbelief to complete her mission or will she find her instincts reveal even stranger truths?When Kirsten is called to London, she finds the...

Misguided RetributionBy: James HughesOn the third date, Marlene and the seemingly charming Sheldon Wilson go back to her home for coffee after dinner. Marlene finishes making coffee when he grabs Marlene, kisses her, and says they belong together. When Marlene says it's much too...

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!Michael Mann, four-time-Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice, Collateral, and Heat teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first novel, an explosive return to the universe and characters...

Fans of Lisa Regan and Mary Burton will be riveted by the latest in the award-winning author's dark thriller series. Laden with Gothic atmosphere and brilliantly plotted twists and turns, Halcyon Hall, a former insane asylum-turned-luxury resort on a remote island off the coast...

English psychic Clarissa Wilkinson is holidaying in the Canary Islands. Hoping to have an adventure, she boards a tour bus bound for Villa Winter, a secret Nazi base on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura.Instead, she discovers a body in a chest and finds herself...

This fast-paced debut novel follows political kingmaker Charles O'Connell and barrels through the New Mexican landscape in an exploration of innocence and guilt, wealth and power, and the search for love and happiness.Author: Richard Z. SantosISBN-10: 1558859047ISBN-13: 9781558859043Publisher: Arte Publico PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2020Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Retired Atlanta police detective Mac Burns was trying to enjoy retirement in the lowcountry town of Bluffton, South Carolina. He had planned to live a quiet, even solitary life after a challenging career and messy divorce. In his fifties, he never presumed he would...

It's the 1950s in Romania, after the fall of the Romanian monarch, a time of terror for its citizens. Stalin's communist regime influenced the creation of the Securitate, a police agency used as an instrument of manipulation and control over the country and its...

Author: Kathy ReichsISBN-10: 8885780105ISBN-13: 9798885780100Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/27/2022Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.02dLarge Print

Victims are turning up dead in the woods, their bodies arranged with a serial killer's signature. But what message, exactly, is he trying to send? Can brilliant FBI agent Ilse beck decode it in time before he strikes again? Or will his trail lead...

This is a 'Who-dun-it' novel about a murder of a member of the Portland, Maine Flounders organization, a minor league basketball team, affiliated with Boston's major league team, the Shamrocks. The Flounders were an eclectic ensemble of U.S. and foreign players, young and old,...

24 HOURS AFTER LEAVING HIS CELL HE WAS DEAD. CAN SHE FIND OUT WHY? 'A rising star of Australian crime fiction...White's account of the murder investigation is gripping.' SUNDAY TIMES'S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS. *** From THE...

English psychic Clarissa Wilkinson is holidaying in the Canary Islands. Hoping to have an adventure, she boards a tour bus bound for Villa Winter, a secret Nazi base on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura.Instead, she discovers a body in a chest and finds herself...

John Jaykyll, professor at a small college in southern Appalachia, is having a mid-life crisis resulting from his conflict with the new college president, who hates his mountain origins, and dislikes Jaykyll because he is defending mountain literature and culture and the young professor...

Someone should've told these ladies to stay home.While best friends Sonya and Evie are taking a road trip through the California desert to celebrate Evie's last days as a single woman, Sonya becomes infatuated with a handsome stranger. After she and the man share...

Two friends embark on a climb of treacherous Anarchy Ridge but only one will make it down alive. Unjustly blamed for his friend's haunting death, the other must run for his life as a mourning father seeks revenge, in Jo Bannister's thrilling mystery novel...

Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense based on shocking true-life events. Tall Premium Edition.Author: James GrippandoISBN-10: 0062440586ISBN-13:...

Paulina Riquelme rushes to her bartender job in the midst of another seventy hour week with the hope of eventually affording competent legal assistance for the sake of regaining joint custody of her two year old son. Waiting for her at the bar, Keiko...

In this small town, Carmichaels is the pool hall where top hustlers stop for a shot at quick cash. Sometimes they get lucky but not always. Tommy has the desire to be the best pool player he can be. At Carmichaels, he meets The...

In this small town, Carmichaels is the pool hall where top hustlers stop for a shot at quick cash. Sometimes they get lucky but not always. Tommy has the desire to be the best pool player he can be. At Carmichaels, he meets The...

"[Le Carré's] novels are so brilliant because they're emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they're novels." --New York Times Book Review A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's...

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller--a heist story set on the moon. Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to...

"[In THE NINTH METAL] debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal on Northfall, MN., turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing." --Stephen King "Take one part dystopia, one part sci-fi, two parts apocalypse, then ride...

In the latest thriller from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington faces down a persistent rival. Stone Barrington is nearing his New York City abode when he stumbles into trouble. As it turns out, a new client is in danger--and with both business...

The action never stops in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor mystery series--and this time O'Connor is targeted by a political assassin. The dying don't easily become the dead. Cork O'Connor is sitting in the shadow of a towering monolith known as Trickster's...

J.T. Ellison's pulse-pounding new psychological thriller examines the tenuous bonds of friendship, the power of lies and the desperate lengths people will go to in order to protect their secrets.Goode girls don't lie...Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The...

Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Megan Abbott, Lynne Reeves' The Dangers of an Ordinary Night is an exploration of the explosive family secrets that are often hidden in plain sight. On a chilly fall evening at the prestigious Performing Arts High School...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELAN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE, MYSTERY & THRILLER FINALIST * AN INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS FINALIST, BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL * A MACAVITY BEST MYSTERY NOVEL FINALISTA Recommended Book FromThe New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post...

Detective Mike Bennett takes on New York's most terrifying epidemic in James Patterson's gripping blockbuster novel.A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer...

A nation in flames. Freedom under fire. A call to all heroes to stand up, fight back, or die. From the bestselling authors of Black Friday, Home Invasion, and Knockdown... AMERICA IS BURNING. It begins in the Pacific Northwest. A deadly wave of massive...

The night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy's daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia's disappearance broke her parents' already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter's case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective. Jack became a shell...

In this tantalizing thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a woman uncovers lifelong secrets as she searches for the truth behind her father's involvement in a heist gone wrong. Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that The New York Times says is "riveting" and "suspenseful." Clanton, Mississippi. 1990....

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN--WATCH NOW ON PRIME VIDEO! From Tom Clancy, the celebrated author of the Jack Ryan series, comes the #1 New York Times bestseller that puts CIA operative John Clark front and center.... His code name is...

Eve Duncan attempts to unearth one of history's mostintriguing lost secrets in this adventure ripped from the pages of Greek mythology, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a...

An unthinkable crime--and the tattered threads of a friendship gone wrong--come roaring back to terrible new life in Jody Gehrman's riveting psychological suspense, perfect for fans of Joshilyn Jackson. Twenty years ago, Tansy was drawn to Selene's hard edges, her grit, and her knack...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva presents "a first-rate thriller" (Rocky Mountain News) featuring art restorer--and reluctant spy--Gabriel Allon. After an explosion in Rome destroys the Israeli embassy, Gabriel Allon makes a disturbing discovery--the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that...

Kate Stone swore an oath to uphold the law. But is it time to take justice into her own hands? THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE... Assistant DA Kate Stone has just suffered the biggest loss of her career. She'd worked so hard to prosecute a...