Selbyville Public Library New Arrivals

	Title	Author
	Chasing the Bear (Spenser #37) It was really only a matter of time. Having limbered up with two previous YA novels, Parker now begins a series starring his detective hero, Spenser, as a teen. He frames the narrative by having an adult Spenser relating childhood stories to the ...	Parker, Robert B.
	Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof (Dixie Hemingway Mysteries #4) (PB) Ex-deputy Dixie Hemingway still mourns the loss of her young daughter and cop husband in a freak accident three years earlier, but takes solace in her pet-sitting job in Siesta Key, Fla., in Clement's thoughtful and at times somber fourth ...	Clement, Blaize
	206 Bones (Temperance Brennan #12) (PB) Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Reichs's outstanding 12th thriller to feature Dr. Temperance Brennan (after Devil Bones), Brennan finds herself bound and injured in an underground tomb. In flashbacks, Reichs fills in the how and why ...	Reichs, Kathy
	Devil amongst the Lawyers, The (Ballad #8) In 1935, the case of an Appalachian schoolteacher arrested for murdering her father becomes a national news story, seized on by the press for its sensationalism and the opportunity to mock the rural inhabitants involved. Competing with a brigade ...	McCrumb, Sharyn
	Family Ties Steel's latest bestseller-to-be follows Annie Ferguson, who inherits her sister's three children when she dies in a plane crash. Annie does her best to raise them and manages to build a career for herself as a promising architect, even if it ...	Steel, Danielle
	Floating City (Nicholas Linnear #5) (PB) Lustbader fans will herald the coming of this latest adventure in the astonishingly turbulent life of half-Asian, half-Caucasian, all-hero fighting machine Nicholas Linnear. Newcomers to the author's idiosyncratic work, however, may have trouble ...	Lustbader, Eric
	Heresy Starred Review. Set in 1583 against a backdrop of religious-political intrigue and barbaric judicial reprisals, Parris's compelling debut centers on real-life Giordano Bruno, a former Italian monk excommunicated by the Roman Catholic church and ...	Parris, S. J.
	Ice Cold [aka The Killing Place] (Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles #8) Unpredictable twists help propel Gerritsen's winning eighth novel featuring Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (after The Keepsake). While in Wyoming late one fall for a pathologists' conference, Maura agrees ...	Gerritsen, Tess
	Imperial Bedrooms (Clay #2 [Clay #1 = Than Zero, 1998]) Starred Review. Ellis explores what disillusioned youth looks like 25 years later in this brutal sequel to Less Than Zero. Clay, now a screenwriter, returns at Christmas to an L.A. that looks and operates much as it did 25 years ago. Trent is ...	Ellis, Bret Easton
	In the Name of Honor Starred Review. Bestseller Patterson (Eclipse) explores the concept of honor—and how men and women can sometimes embody and sometimes blacken this lofty concept—in this riveting legal thriller. When Lt. Brian McCarran shoots and kills his ...	Patterson, Richard North
	Information Officer, The The prolonged and intense Axis bombing of Malta and the British efforts to deliver squadrons of new Spitfire fighters in aid of the strategic Mediterranean island's defense provide the dramatic backdrop for Mills's WWII spy thriller. ...	Mills, Mark
	Kaisho, The (Nicholas Linnear #4) (PB) Lustbader ( White Ninja , etc.) brings back Nicholas Linnear in this fast-moving thriller that combines the trademark Lustbader ingredients of Eastern mysticism and international intrigue. Because of a promise made to his father, Linnear finds ...	Lustbader, Eric
	Married by Morning (Hathaways #4) (PB) Starred Review Everyone in the Hathaway family loves Catherine Marks. Well, everyone except for the head of the family, Leo, Lord Ramsay. Leo thinks Catherine is far too outspoken, opinionated, and obstinate for a companion, and Catherine has ...	Kleypas, Lisa
	Mr. Peanut Ross's inspired debut explores the proximity of violence and love and begins with the death of Alice Pepin, whose lifelong struggle with depression, insecurity, and obesity comes to an abrupt end at her kitchen table when she is found dead with ...	Ross, Adam
	Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder #2) Painters Mill is an idyllic small town in Ohio’s Amish country. But even the most peaceful of landscapes is not immune to violent crime. The second installment in Castillo’s strong series (after Sworn to Silence, 2009) finds Police Chief ...	Castillo, Linda
	Private : Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, London, Chicago, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Rome (Jack Morgan #1) Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet ...	Patterson, James ; Maxine Paetro
	Red to Black (Finn #1) The pseudonymous Dryden, a British journalist, eschews both technological marvels and implausible action scenes in his absorbing debut, a spy thriller that exposes the links between the old Russia of the Cold War and the new Russia of ...	Dryden, Alex
	Shadow of Betrayal [aka: The Unwanted] (Jonathan Quinn Thriller #3) (PB) Ludlum fans will enjoy Battles's third thriller to feature Jonathan Quinn ... A botched information exchange near Cork, Ireland, results in a number of dead bodies, but Quinn, an operative-for-hire who specializes in resolving messy situations, ...	Battles, Brett
	Sizzling sixteen (Stephanie Plum #16) Stephanie Plum, half-Italian, half-Hungarian, a shrewd mixture of smarts and dumb luck, works for her cousin Vinny as a bail bondswoman in Trenton, New Jersey. Vinny, however, is in deep fecal matter, owing too much money to the very scary guys ...	Evanovich, Janet
	Whiplash (FBI Thriller #14) In Coulter's fab 14th FBI paranormal romantic thriller (after KnockOut), FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany's ...	Coulter, Catherine
	Wormwood (China Bayles #17) (PB) Murders past and present with a Shaker link intersect in alarming ways in Albert's engaging 17th China Bayles puzzler (after 2008's Nightshade). Recent painful events help prompt China, who runs an herb shop and tearoom in Pecan Springs, Tex., ...	Albert, Susan Wittig
	As Husbands Go Starred Review. Bestseller Isaacs draws on tony Long Island, gritty New York City, and a tabloid-friendly murder for this smart-alecky whodunit/surprisingly sweet love story. Susan is left alone with her three boys, big suburban house, and ...	Isaacs, Susan
	Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It Meloy (Liars and Saints) hits some high notes in these stories of people juggling conflicting emotions with varying shades of success. In "The Children," a man's resolve to leave his wife for his now-grown children's former swimming instructor ...	Meloy, Maile
	Brewed, Crude and Tattooed (Maggy Thorsen #4) Near the start of Balzo's lively fourth Maggy Thorsen mystery (after 2008's Bean There, Done That), a sudden spring thundersnow traps Maggy and friends in Benson Plaza, the Brookhills, Wis., strip mall where Maggy rents space for her coffee shop, ...	Balzo, Sandra
	Death Echo (St. Kilda #5) In Lowell's well-crafted fifth St. Kilda Consulting thriller (after Blue Smoke and Murder), Manhattan operative Emma Cross travels to Seattle, Wash., where Blackbird, a yacht purported to contain enough explosives to destroy a major U.S. city, ...	Lowell, Elizabeth
	Elizabeth Street : a Novel Based on True Events First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to ...	Fabiano, Laurie
	Father of the Rain Whiting Award–winner King (The English Teacher) captures with easy strokes the bold and dangerous personalities lurking inside the mundane frame of domestic drama. Her third novel, narrated by the clear-eyed daughter of an alcoholic father, ...	King, Lily
	From the Grounds Up (Maggy Thorsen #5) Maggy Thorsen, the proprietor of Uncommon Grounds, finds that rebuilding her coffee shop in the Old Brookhills section of Brookhills, Wis., can be murder in Balzo's witty, smoothly plotted fifth caffeine cozy (after 2009's Brewed, Crude and Tattoed).	Balzo, Sandra
	Game Over (Sisterhood #17) (PB) With yet another successful assignment behind them, the ladies of the Sisterhood have enjoyed a relaxing break together and celebrated the wedding of Myra and Charles on Big Pine Mountain. But as soon as the newlyweds return from their shortened ...	Michaels, Fern
	If I Loved You, I Would tell You This : Stories The stories in Black's solid debut collection are fraught with loss, usually of a loved one. Evocative and lyrical, the characters' introspections, while sometimes overwrought, are balanced by the sharp dialogue. In The Guide, a father takes ...	Black, Robin
	Imperfectionists, The Starred Review. In his zinger of a debut, Rachman deftly applies his experience as foreign correspondent and editor to chart the goings-on at a scrappy English-language newspaper in Rome. Chapters read like exquisite short stories, turning out ...	Rachman, Tom
	It All Began in Monte Carlo (Mac Reilly #3) At the start of Adler's bubbly thriller, the follow-up to There's Something About St. Tropez, Sunny Alvarez boards a Christmas Eve flight from L.A. to Paris, along with her pet Chihuahua, angry that her fiancé, PI Mac Reilly of TV's Mac Reilly's ...	Adler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
	Kings of the Earth Starred Review. In Clinch™s multilayered, pastoral second novel (after Finn), a death among three elderly, illiterate brothers living together on an upstate New York farm raises suspicions and accusations in the surrounding community. After their ...	Clinch, Jon
	Madonnas of Echo Park, The Skyhorse maps in his vivid debut the spirit of L.A.'s Echo Park, where Mexican-Americans define themselves either in alignment with or in opposition to their barrio. Each story-like chapter tells the tale of a character who has grown up in, ...	Skyhorse, Brando
	Moon Sworn (Riley Jenson Guardian #9) In the ninth and final entry in Arthur's deservedly popular Guardian series (after 2009's Bound to Shadows), a strong start and a terrific ending are poorly served by a disjointed middle. As series heroine Riley Jensen, ...	Arthur, Keri
	One Day The Hollywood-ready latest from Nicholls (The Understudy) makes a brief pit stop in book form before its inevitable film adaptation. (It's already in development.) The episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in ...	Nicholls, David
	Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective (Bourne #8) Lustbader's cookie-cutter fifth Jason Bourne novel in the Ludlum franchise (after The Bourne Deception) downgrades the title character to a mere co-star with villain Leonid Arkadin, a graduate of the same covert training program, who also ...	Lustbader, Eric
	Search, The The serviceable latest from Roberts centers on Fiona Bristow, a professional canine search-and-rescue trainer, who moved to Orcas Island in Puget Sound eight years earlier, just after barely escaping from a serial killer. The story opens with ...	Roberts, Nora
	These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales (PB) The title of Knipfel's offbeat collection of creepy stories makes one thing immediately clear—this, thankfully, isn't a typical collection of fairy tales. While there are the standard fantastical elements—talking animals, elves, and even a ...	Knipfel, Jim
	Visit from the Goon Squad, A Starred Review. Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive in well in this graceful ...	Egan, Jennifer
	Winter's Bone Woodrell flirts with—but doesn't succumb to—cliché in his eighth novel, a luminescent portrait of the poor and desperate South that drafts 16-year-old Ree Dolly, blessed with "abrupt green eyes," as its unlikely heroine. Ree, too young to escape ...	Woodrell, Daniel
	Relentless (Lost Fleet #5) (PB) After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, "Black Jack" Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star ...	Campbell, Jack
	Small Favor (Dresden Files #10) Intricate yet accessible plotting and near-Arctic winter weather mark the 10th Harry Dresden adventure from bestseller Butcher (after 2007's White Night). A friendly snowball fight opens the Chicago-based wizard-detective's latest tale, but it's ...	Butcher, Jim
	Cemetery Road Starred Review. Reverberations from a crime committed in their youth follow three grown men with the tenacity and inevitability of Greek tragedy in Haywood's beautifully crafted novel of unintended consequences. The gunning down in Los Angeles 26 ...	Haywood, Gar Anthony
	Chosen to Die (Montana - To Die #2) (PB) The Star-Crossed Killer, plague of Montana's Bitterroot Mountains, kidnaps injured women, tends them until they are healthy again, then photographs them and leaves them to die of exposure. With time, it becomes clear that he is spelling out an ...	Jackson, Lisa
	Last Gasp (PB) Ever since she found her mother and siblings murdered, Allison Clemmins has hated her father, Hank, who is imprisoned for the crimes. Then Seth Walker arrives in town, a lawyer determined to exonerate Hank, to unearth the secrets that should have ...	Cassidy, Carla (Carla Bracale)
	Bound to Shadows (Riley Jenson Guardian #8) (PB) In the darkness, demons come out to play . . . and someone must bring their sins to light. Part vampire, part werewolf, Riley Jenson knows what can happen when vamps don’t play well with others. But she’s never seen anything like this: a series ...	Arthur, Keri
	Deadly Desire (Riley Jenson Guardian #7) (PB) Seduction that kills. Pleasure to die for. She just can’t resist . . . Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time’s no different. For it’s no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. ...	Arthur, Keri
	Deceived, The (Jonathan Quinn Thriller #2) (PB) In Battles's strong sequel to The Cleaner—which introduced Jonathan Quinn, an ex-CIA agent who cleans up crime scenes for a shadowy U.S. government intelligence agency—Quinn determines to find the murderer of his CIA friend Steven Markoff. Quinn ...	Battles, Brett
	Pleasing the Dead (Storm Kayama Mystery #4) Rich with Hawaiian folklore, Atkinson's convoluted fourth mystery to feature attorney Storm Kayama (after 2007's Fire Prayer) explores the dark side of paradise. Soon after Storm arrives in Kahului, Maui, where she's handling the legalities of ...	Atkinson, Deborah Turrell
	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies It’s difficult to tell if critics’ reactions to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should be characterized as praise or astonishment. Some reviewers treated the book as a delightful gimmick. Others found that, beneath the surface, the book actually ...	Austen, Jane ; Seth Grahame-Smith
	Almost Perfect (Fools Gold #2) (PB) Back in high school, Liz Sutton was the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Then she'd stolen the heart of the most popular boy in town, and their secret romance helped her through the worst of times. Until Ethan Hendrix betrayed her and ...	Mallery, Susan
	Austin (McKettrick #13) (PB) World champion rodeo star Austin McKettrick finally got bested by an angry bull. His career over, his love life a mess, the lone maverick has nowhere to go when the hospital releases him. Except back home to Blue River and the Silver Spur ranch. ...	Miller, Linda Lael
	Bad Day for Pretty, A (Stella Hardesty #2) Starred Review. Littlefield's rollicking second novel featuring tough-talking Stella Hardesty, who manages a sewing shop and doles out her own brand of justice to wife-beaters, delivers on the promise of her debut, A Bad Day for Sorry. When a ...	Littlefield, Sophie
	Bad Day for Sorry, A (Stella Hardesty #1) Littlefield's amusing, sassy debut introduces Stella Hardesty, a widow and survivor of domestic violence, who owns a sewing shop in a sleepy Missouri town. On the side, Stella solves problems and metes out justice on behalf of battered women, ...	Littlefield, Sophie
	Betrayers (Nameless Detective #35) MWA Grand Master Pronzini's Nameless Detective series is showing its age in the tepid 35th entry featuring the unnamed San Francisco PI (after 2009's Schemers). In the book's less than compelling first case, Nameless looks into a dispute over ...	Pronzini, Bill
	Brazen Bride, The (Black Cobra Quartet #3) (PB) USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Laurens adds a dynamic, sweeping tale to her extraordinary adventures. They're bold, courageous, resolute . . . ex-officers of the Crown united against a deadly traitor known only as the Black Cobra. ...	Laurens, Stephanie
	Envy the Night (PB) Starred Review. Revenge drives this superb stand-alone from Edgar-finalist Koryta (A Welcome Grave). Frank Temple II, a U.S. marshal, commits suicide after a tip leads to the exposure of his secret life as a hit man. Seven years later, Frank II's ...	Koryta, Michael
	Foreign Influence (Scot Harvath #9) In Thor's formulaic ninth Scot Harvath thriller (after The Apostle), the ex–navy SEAL has lost his job with the disbanding under a new presidential administration of the Apex Project, a Department of Homeland Security secret antiterrorist program ...	Thor, Brad
	Girl Who Fell from the Sky, The Durrow's debut draws from her own upbringing as the brown-skinned, blue-eyed daughter of a Danish woman and a black G.I. to create Rachel Morse, a young girl with an identical heritage growing up in the early 1980s. After a devastating family ...	Durrow, Heidi W.
	Glass Rainbow, The (Robicheaux, book #18) Starred Review. MWA Grand Master Burke offers everything his readers expect--brilliant prose, prosaic situations that suddenly become mystic experiences, and a complex plot that repeatedly plumbs the depths of human depravity and the heights of ...	Burke, James Lee
	Haunt Me Still Agreeing to direct Shakespeare's notoriously ill-starred Scottish play plunges scholar-sleuth Kate Stanley into a cauldron of trouble in this heady, occult-steeped thriller, the sequel to Interred with Their Bones. The reclusive Lady Nairn, ...	Carrell, Jennifer Lee
	Ice Cold [aka The Killing Place] (Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles #8) Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is in Wyoming for a conference. Impulsively, she joins an old friend and his daughter on a ski trip. When their vehicle breaks down, they’re stranded in the eerily named Kingdom Come, a small community whose ...	Gerritsen, Tess
	Blood Born (Vampire #1) (PB) Luca Ambrus is a rare breed: vampire from birth, begotten by vampire parents, blood born. He is also an agent of the Council—the centuries-old cabal that governs vampirekind, preserving their secrecy and destroying those who betray them. ...	Howard, Linda
	Broken (Grant County #7) Starred Review. Slaughter brings her Grant County and Atlanta characters together for a second time (after Undone) in this superb thriller. When Dr. Sara Linton returns home to Grant County, Ga., for Thanksgiving, she hopes to steer clear of the ...	Slaughter, Karin
	Faithful Place (Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox #3) Starred Review. French's emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to ...	French, Tana
	Lost Lichtenstein’s second family-centered novel links three dissimilar families who come together one frigid weekend in northern New Jersey. Susan Hunsinger, a biology professor, and her older husband, Christopher, who suffers from dementia, have ...	Lichtenstein, Alice
	Love in the Afternoon (Hathaways #5) (PB) As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept ...	Kleypas, Lisa
	Lowcountry Summer (Lowcountry Tales) Starred Review. Here's one for the Southern gals as well as Yankees who appreciate Frank's signature mix of sass, sex, and gargantuan personalities. In this long-time-coming sequel to Plantation, opinionated and family-centric Caroline ...	Frank, Dorothea Benton
	Miss Julia Renews Her Vows (Miss Julia #11) Southern flower Miss Julia re-materializes in her droll 11th adventure, and this time out, the busybody is as busy as ever: she wraps up some business from Miss Julia Delivers the Goods by making sure thrice married rogue Mr. Pickens settles down ...	Ross, Ann B.
	Night Killer, The (Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #8) Forensic investigator Diane Fallon fights for her life in her eighth mystery. Diane is driving through a downpour on a windy mountain road after picking up a set of rare Indian artifacts when a tree suddenly slams across the hood of her car, ...	Connor, Beverly
	Overton Window, The There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time. Move the ...	Beck, Glenn
	Promises to Keep [aka: The Love Verb] In Green's 12th novel, Callie Perry is a happily married photographer with two wonderful kids, a lovable sister, Steffi, and a best friend, Lila. Problems are minor: Steffi can never settle down, Lila has finally found love but the guy has a ...	Green, Jane
	Puzzle Lady vs. the Sudoku Lady, The (Puzzle Lady #11) A foreign rival challenges Cora Felton in Hall's amusing 11th mystery to feature the Puzzle Lady of Bakerhaven, Conn. (after 2009's Dead Man's Puzzle). Minami, the Sudoku Lady, arrives from Japan dressed in traditional garb, along with her ...	Hall, Parnell
	Rembrandt Affair, The (Gabriel Allon #10) In the ancient English city of Glastonbury, an art restorer has been brutally murdered and a long-lost portrait by Rembrandt mysteriously stolen. Despite his reluctance, Gabriel is persuaded to use his unique skills to search for the painting and ...	Silva, Daniel
	Rushed to the Altar (Blackwater Brides #1) Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, needs a prostitute. Not in the usual way, however. His wealthy uncle’s will promises to divide his huge fortune among his nephews if each rescues a fallen woman . . . by marrying her! And since Jasper’s ...	Feather, Jane
	Shadow Zone A lost underwater civilization, deadly algae, and hordes of attack dolphins roil the seas and threaten a fragile peace in the latest international thriller from the Johansens, a tale that reunites characters from their best-selling Silent Thunder ...	Johansen, Iris ; Roy Johansen
	So Cold the River Starred Review. In this explosive thriller from Koryta (Envy the Night), failed filmmaker Eric Shaw is eking out a living making family home videos when a client offers him big bucks to travel to the resort town of West Baden, Ind., the childhood ...	Koryta, Michael
	Still Missing Starred Review. Stevens's impressive debut, a thriller set on Vancouver Island, pulsates with suspense that gets a power boost from the jaw-dropping but credible closing twist. In psychiatric sessions, Annie O'Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor with ...	Stevens, Chevy
	Summer We Read Gatsby, The Two half-sisters search for the thing of utmost value in an inherited ramshackle Southampton cottage in Ganek's witty new novel (after Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him). The story is narrated by introverted, newly divorced, would-be writer Cassie, ...	Ganek, Danielle
	Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, The Starred Review. Mitchell's rightly been hailed as a virtuoso genius for his genre-bending, fiercely intelligent novels Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas. Now he takes something of a busman's holiday with this majestic historical romance set in ...	Mitchell, David (David Stephen)
	Undone [aka: Genesis] (Georgia #1) (PB) Starred Review. Bestseller Slaughter brings together characters from her two series for the first time with electrifying results. Dr. Sara Linton, who lost her husband in 2007's Beyond Reach, has left rural Grant County for a new life in an ...	Slaughter, Karin
	Fractured (Will Trent #2) (PB) Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Slaughter's heart-pounding sequel to 2006's Triptych, wealthy housewife Abigail Campano returns home one day to Atlanta's posh Ansley Park neighborhood to find a dead girl in the mansion's upstairs ...	Slaughter, Karin
	Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry In Leanne Shapton’s marvelously inventive and invented auction catalog, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris (who aren’t real people, but might as well be). Through photographs ...	Shapton, Leanne
	Nightshade (China Bayles #16) (PB) Former attorney China Bayles, now the proprietor of a small herb shop in Pecan Springs, Tex., finally gets some answers to her questions about the death of her cold, distant father, who perished in a fiery car accident 16 years earlier, in the ...	Albert, Susan Wittig
	Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum #15) (PB) When Lula inadvertently witnesses the beheading of culinary TV star Stanley Chipotle in a Trenton, N.J., alley, Stephanie's on-again off-again boyfriend, cop Joe Morelli, reluctantly takes the case. Lula, with the help of Grandma Mazur, enters ...	Evanovich, Janet
	Mother's Day Murder (Lucy Stone #15) (PB) In Meier's fizzy 15th holiday-themed cozy (after 2008's St. Patrick's Day Murder), reporter Lucy Stone, of Tinker's Cove, Maine, knows that the victim of a shooting murder, Tina Nowak, was feuding with Barbara Bar Hume over the popularity of ...	Meier, Leslie
	Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder #2) Painters Mill is an idyllic small town in Ohio’s Amish country. But even the most peaceful of landscapes is not immune to violent crime. The second installment in Castillo’s strong series (after Sworn to Silence, 2009) finds Police Chief Kate ...	Castillo, Linda
	Seducing an Angel (Huxtable Quintet #4) (PB) Starred Review Cassandra Belmont has reached a decision: she is going to become a courtesan. Now all she has to do is select the right (incredibly wealthy) patron, which may be a bit difficult since the rumor that Cassandra took an ax to her ...	Balogh, Mary
	Star Island The career of singer Cheryl Bunterman (aka Cherry Pye), who debuted with Jailbait Records at age 15, is foundering due to her lack of talent and indiscriminate appetite for drugs, booze, and sex in this outrageous, offbeat novel from Hiaasen ...	Hiaasen, Carl
	At Last Comes Love (Huxtable Quintet #3) (PB) “Sparkling with sharp wit, lively repartee, and delicious sensuality, the emotionally rewarding At Last Comes Love metes out both justice and compassion.” —Library Journal, starred review	Balogh, Mary
	City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #2) Starred Review Relax. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, volume one of which, Prodigal Son (2005), was a pulse-pounder all the way, is going to be a trilogy. But don't expect to relax all that much. This book cooks, no second-volume doldrums anywhere ...	Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
	Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #3) In this fast-paced third installment of his Frankenstein series, Koontz continues, without necessarily concluding, his modern-day reimagining of Mary Shelley's horror classic. Leaving his co-authors behind, Koontz makes the most of previous ...	Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
	First Comes Marriage (Huxtable Quintet #1) (PB) “Peppered with brilliant banter, laced with laughter…and tingling with sexual tension, this story of two seemingly mismatched people struggling to make their marriage work tugs at a few heartstrings and skillfully paves the way for the stories to ...	Balogh, Mary
	Potted Gardener, The (Agatha Raisin #3) (PB) When Agatha Raisin comes home to cozy Carsely and finds that a new woman has piqued the interest of her handsome bachelor neighbor, James Lacey, she’s less than thrilled. The beautiful newcomer to the Cotswolds, Mary Fortune, is superior in every ...	Beaton, M. C.
	Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #1) Based directly on the bestselling novel by Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson, this exuberantly gruesome comic adaptation draws some themes from Mary Shelly's 1818 original but also many images from horror movies, including contemporary slasher flicks. ...	Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
	St. Patrick's Day Murder (Lucy Stone #14) (PB) At the start of Meier's charming 14th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2006's Bake Sale Murder), the Pennysaver reporter is on her way to interview the new harbormaster of Tinker's Cove, Maine, and relishing the unusually warm January day when she ...	Meier, Leslie
	Then Comes Seduction (Huxtable Quintet #2) (PB) Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, had never lost a wager until he met Katherine Huxtable. But when he bets his friends that he can successfully seduce Katherine, after their first meeting, he not only admits defeat but also patiently listens to ...	Balogh, Mary
	Undead and Unwelcome (Queen Betsy #8) Betsy Taylor has problems that only a vampire queen/suburban wife could possibly understand. Such as taking the body of her werewolf friend Antonia-who died in her service-to Cape Cod, where she's not sure if the Wyndham werewolves will welcome ...	Davidson, MaryJanice
	Valentine Murder (Lucy Stone #5) (PB) When plucky freelance writer Lucy Stone joins the library board in her small Maine town, she unexpectedly finds herself knee-deep in murder. Right before her first meeting, Lucy discovers librarian Bitsy Howell shot through the heart in a ...	Meier, Leslie
	Walkers of Dembley, The (Agatha Raisin #4) (PB) After six months in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village—and her dashing neighbor, James Lacey. Well, sort of. James might not be so interested in Agatha. But soon enough, Agatha becomes consumed by her other passion: ...	Beaton, M. C.
	Silent Hour, The (Lincoln Perry #4) Starred Review. Edgar-finalist Koryta spins a dark tale of broken dreams and second chances in his stunning fourth mystery to feature Cleveland, Ohio, PI Lincoln Perry (after 2008's A Welcome Grave). When Perry starts receiving letters from ...	Koryta, Michael
	Autumn's Promise (Seasons of Sugarcreek #3) Until Robert Miller met Lilly Allen, his world had been dark. A widower after only two years of marriage, he's been living in a haze, filled with grief. He feels his life is already over-even though he's only twenty-five. But his friendship with ...	Gray, Shelley Shepard
	Backseat Saints Starred Review Jackson’s absorbing and rewarding fourth novel spotlights Rose Mae Lolly, a minor character from her popular debut, Gods in Alabama (2005). Rose is now living under the thumb of her abusive husband and his domineering father. ...	Jackson, Joshilyn
	Burn (Anna Pigeon #16) Starred Review. Barr's outstanding 16th Anna Pigeon novel (after Borderline) takes the National Park Service ranger to the urban wilderness of post-Katrina New Orleans, where the Jazz National Heritage Park preserves the Big Easy's music. Anna ...	Barr, Nevada
	Chains of Ice (Chosen Ones #3) (PB) As a wildlife observer in the untamed mountains, Genny Valente had no idea that a beast more fearsome than any leopard lurked in the forest-a man, one of the Chosen Ones, betrayed by his gift and tormented by his memories. John Powell fled his ...	Dodd, Christina
	Cookbook Collector, The Starred Review. If any contemporary author deserves to wear the mantel of Jane Austen, it's Goodman, whose subtle, astute social comedies perfectly capture the quirks of human nature. This dazzling novel is Austen updated for the dot-com era, ...	Goodman, Allegra
	Crossfire In the enjoyable fourth and final collaboration between Francis (1920–2010) and son Felix (after Even Money), the army career of Capt. Thomas Forsyth abruptly ends when an IED in Afghanistan blows off one of his feet, leaving him with a ...	Francis, Dick ; Felix Francis
	Cure (Jack Stapleton / Laurie Montgomery #10) Cook's latest thriller opens not with a microscopic medical event, as so many of his previous novels have, but with theft at a research lab in Kyoto, Japan. The perpetrator is Ben Corey, a doctor and the founder of a company designed to profit ...	Cook, Robin
	Curtain Falls, A (Simon Ziele #2) Set in New York City in 1906, Pintoff's worthy sequel to her Edgar-finalist debut, In the Shadow of Gotham (2009), finds Det. Simon Zeile pursuing another sensational case. When chorus girl Annie Germaine turns up dead on a Manhattan theatrical ...	Pintoff, Stefanie
	Dancing on the Head of a Pin (Remy Chandler #2) (PB) Meet Remy Chandler... He's one of the good guys... But he's in bad trouble... Having lost the love of his life, Remy finds himself turning away from the world. He seeks out dangerous jobs that involve the supernatural and bring him into ...	Sniegoski, Tom
	Deja Dead (Temperance Brennan #1) Dr. Tempe Brennan, a trowel-packing forensic anthropologist from North Carolina, works in Montreal's Laboratoire de Medecine Legale examining recovered bodies to help police solve missing-persons cases and murders. It's clear to Tempe that the ...	Reichs, Kathy
	Dream for Hannah, A [aka: Hannah's Dream] (Hannah #1) Hannah Miller’s Amish faith is solid. Her devotion to her family and Indiana community is unquestionable. Yet her young spirit longs for adventure and romance. As troubling circumstances give her good reason to spend the summer at her aunt’s ...	Eicher, Jerry S.
	Elegy for April (Quirke #3) Starred Review. Black's engrossing third crime thriller set in 1950s Dublin (after The Silver Swan) finds pathologist Garret Quirke fresh from a stint in alcohol rehab. Quirke reluctantly agrees to help his daughter, Phoebe Griffin, with whom he ...	Black, Benjamin
	Fly Away Home “Unflappably fun… Hilarious… In Jennifer Weiner's luscious new novel, Fly Away Home, a political wife's predicament is the catalyst for a highly entertaining story… The message is choosing to live an authentic life. As always, Weiner gives us a ...	Weiner, Jennifer
	Girl She Used to Be, The After 20 years in the Federal Witness Protection Program (WITSEC) and eight aliases, Melody Grace McCartney hardly knows who she is. On the run since she and her parents stumbled on a gruesome murder by mobster Tony Bovaro when she was six years ...	Cristofano, David
	Hangman (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus #19) Murder, a missing woman, and a sociopath from the past sweep Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus into a labyrinth of mystery and danger in this electrifying new tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. . . .	Kellerman, Faye
	Hannah (Hannah #2) Hannah, now married, is living her dream with Jake under the shadow of the Cabinet Mountains. But fear stalks outside the cabin. Must they move back to Indiana, or does God have other plans? Will Jake see things her way, or will they both be ...	Eicher, Jerry S.
	Home Again (Chesapeake Diaries #2) (PB) Dallas MacGregor is living the Hollywood dream. At thirtysomething, she’s an award-winning actress beloved by the public and bound for even bigger success. But when her soon-to-be-ex-husband, producer Emilio Baird, is caught in a sex scandal, ...	Stewart, Mariah
	Hope for Hannah, A (Hannah #3) Hannah Byler is now married. She and Jake live in a small Amish community near Montana’s Cabinet Mountains, and the rough log cabin is far from everything Hannah holds dear. Anxious about her new role as wife and soon-to-be mother, Hannah ...	Eicher, Jerry S.
	House Secrets [aka: Dead Man's List] (Joe De Marco #4) (PB) Starred Review. In Lawson's excellent fourth Washington thriller to feature Joe DeMarco (after House Rules), the government investigator looks into the drowning death of a Washington Post reporter working a story involving Paul Morelli, a ...	Lawson, Michael
	In Harm's Way (Walt Fleming #4) It’s clear from the beginning that Idaho sheriff Walt Fleming loves Fiona Kenshaw, caretaker of a local estate and part-time sheriff’s photographer. It’s also clear that Kenshaw loves him back, but she has a secret she won’t share. Her heroic ...	Pearson, Ridley
	In the Shadow of Gotham (Simon Ziele #1) Starred Review. Pintoff's debut, winner of the first Minotaur Books/MWA Best First Crime Novel award, will remind many of Caleb Carr at his best. The wreck of the steamship General Slocum in 1904 cost Det. Simon Ziele of the New York City police ...	Pintoff, Stefanie
	Knockout (FBI Thriller #13) Starred Review. Bestseller Coulter's riveting 13th FBI thriller (after TailSpin) opens with a bang as psychic FBI agent Dillon Savich thwarts a gang of gun-totting robbers attempting to hold up the First Union Bank of Washington, D.C. Three days ...	Coulter, Catherine
	Last Lie, The (Dr. Alan Gregory #18) Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors-a legal legend in women's rights law and his beautiful wife-the couple hosts a housewarming party that ends in quiet disaster. One of their guests, a young widow, elects to spend ...	White, Stephen
	Live to Tell (D.D. Warren #4) Starred Review. At the heart of Gardner's outstanding fourth novel featuring Boston PD detective Warren (after The Neighbor) are some very sick kids, notably Lucy, a nine-year-old feral girl who self-mutilates when any attention is given to her, ...	Gardner, Lisa
	Lucy When anthropologist Jenny Lowe brings Lucy, the teenage daughter of a murdered colleague, back home with her to Chicago from the Congo in Gonzales's glib biological thriller, Jenny puts the girl's behavioral quirks down to unfamiliarity with the ...	Gonzales, Laurence
	Midnight Angels This superior religious artifact quest thriller from Carcaterra (Sleepers) careens through the streets of Florence with quick stops at various museums and galleries for interesting sidebars on the life and work of Michelangelo ("the Divine One"). ...	Carcaterra, Lorenzo
	Moscow Sting (Finn #2) Starred Review Dryden follows up his superb debut, Red to Black (2009), with a riveting sequel. British spy Finn, who uncovered a Russian plan to control Europe's access to oil and natural gas, is dead, murdered by a KGB-trained Russian ...	Dryden, Alex
	Never Far from Home (Miller Family #2) Mary Ellis follows her captivating Widow’s Hope with a new story from the heart of Holmes County, Ohio. In Never Far From Home, fifteen–year–old Emma Miller finishes school, starts her own wool business, and is longing for someone to court. ...	Ellis, Mary
	Postcard Killers, The Paris is stunning in the summer NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him--he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. ...	Patterson, James ; Liza Marklund
	Question of Belief, A (Guido Brunetti #19) Starred Review. Set during an oppressive Venetian August, Leon's masterful 19th Commisario Guido Brunetti mystery (after 2009's About Face) presents Brunetti with two puzzles that impinge on his most intimate beliefs. Close associate Ispettore ...	Leon, Donna
	Rebecca's Choice (Adams County Trilogy #3) Popular Amish fiction author Jerry Eicher finishes the Adam’s County Trilogy with an intriguing story of a young couple’s love, a community of faith, and devotion to truth. Rebecca Keim is now engaged to John Miller, and they are looking forward ...	Eicher, Jerry S.
	Red Queen, The (Cousins' War #2) Nobody does the Tudors better than Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl), so it should come as no surprise that her latest—the War of the Roses as seen through the eyes of Henry VII's mother —is confident, colorful, convincing, and full of conflict, ...	Gregory, Philippa
	Rock Paper Tiger Starred Review. Ellie Cooper, the heroine of Brackmann's electrifying debut, is an Iraq War vet trying to forget her past while bumming around the fringes of the Beijing art world. Having been ditched by her husband, Trey, a former army ...	Brackmann, Lisa
	Runner (Jane Whitefield #6) Starred Review Perry returns to his Jane Whitefield series (The Face-Changers, 1998) after several stand-alones and picks up right where he left off—unrelenting suspense surrounded by a detail-rich exposition on the art of “disappearing.” ...	Perry, Thomas
	Sarah's Garden (Patch of Heaven) When Sarah realizes that she has fallen in love with an Englisch doctor, she must choose between loving a man and losing her family. Deep in the heart of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains, shy Sarah King is happiest when working in her vibrant ...	Long, Kelly
	Scarlet Nights (Edilean #3) Deveraux (Days of Gold) returns to Edilean, Va., to tie up some loose ends, return to familiar characters, and introduce a few new ones. Sara Shaw is happily preparing for her marriage to Greg Anders, and though her family doesn't like him very ...	Deveraux, Jude
	Secrets to Happiness Dunn charts several New Yorkers' lives in this snappy novel. The spotlight most often falls on Holly Frick, a 35-year-old divorcée whose egg walls are taking on the consistency of tissue paper as we speak. A writer whose cheeky first novel ...	Dunn, Sarah
	Stay a Little Longer Rachel Watkins runs her family’s dilapidated boardinghouse in Carlson, Minnesota, while raising her orphaned niece and working as a midwife. Her older sister, Alice, lost her husband, Mason, in WWI before he knew she was pregnant, then died the ...	Garlock, Dorothy
	Stone's Fall Starred Review. British author Pears matches the brilliance of his bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998) with this intricate historical novel, which centers on the death of a wealthy financier. In part one, after John Stone falls to ...	Pears, Iain
	Stork Raving Mad (Meg Langslow #12) In Agatha-winner Andrews's wacky 12th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2009's Swan for the Money), chaos erupts in the crowded household of expectant parents-to-be Meg Langslow and her husband, Caerphilly College associate professor Michael Waterston. ...	Andrews, Donna
	Strip Starred Review. Half a dozen characters vie for primacy in this rambunctiously entertaining L.A. crime novel from Edgar-winner Perry (Runner). Aging strip-club owner Manco Kapak orders his boys to find the masked man who stole his cash receipts ...	Perry, Thomas
	Tempted by Trouble New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey returns with a flaming-hot stand-alone set in the world of conmen and thieves. We can plan all we want, but sometimes fate has a different agenda... Dmytryk was a respectable man... once. ...	Dickey, Eric Jerome
	They're Watching Starred Review. Always a master of the gripping setup, Hurwitz (Trust No One) outdoes himself in this ultra-suspenseful thriller. One gray L.A. winter morning, disgraced screenwriter Patrick Davis steps out onto his porch in Bel Air, retrieves ...	Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew
	Think of a Numb3r The numbers game gets a murderous spin in Verdon's deft, literate debut. Recently retired NYPD homicide detective Dave Gurney is an old warhorse much too easily led to water, in the view of his increasingly disenchanted wife, who insists it's ...	Verdon, John
	Third Rail, The Harvey’s third Michael Kelly novel finds the tough Chicago PI eyeball deep in a burgeoning reign of terror focused on the transit system, the venerable CTA. Kelly witnesses the first murder on an L platform and sets off in hot but futile pursuit. ...	Harvey, Michael T.
	This Must Be the Place Racculia's irresistibly charming debut is an artful mix of genres: oddball domestic (set in a boardinghouse, characters named Desdemona and Oneida), coming-of-age (high school loves and teen angst) and literary women's fiction (love, loss, and ...	Racculia, Kate
	Three Stations (Arkady Renko #7) “The sustained success of Smith’s Renko books is based on much more than Renko. This author’s gift for tart, succinct description creates a poisonous political backdrop, one that makes his characters’ survival skills as important as any of their ...	Smith, Martin Cruz
	Tough Customer Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn’t let rules get in his way—in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so ...	Brown, Sandra
	Undead and Unfinished (Queen Betsy #9) Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor returns in the ninth novel in the New York Times bestselling series. Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor is having a tough time getting through the Book of the Dead-until the Devil strikes a bargain. She offers Betsy a chance ...	Davidson, MaryJanice
	Undead and Unfinished (Queen Betsy #9) Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor returns in the ninth novel in the New York Times bestselling series. Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor is having a tough time getting through the Book of the Dead-until the Devil strikes a bargain. She offers Betsy a chance ...	Davidson, MaryJanice
	Vigilantes, The (Badge of Honor #10) The dramatic new novel in Griffin's New York Times- bestselling chronicle of the Philadelphia police force. There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much because the victims all seem to be lowlifes. The more ...	Griffin, W. E. B.
	Way to a Man's Heart, The (Miller Family #3) Mary Ellis (A Widow’s Hope and Never Far from Home) concludes her bestselling The Miller Family series with another engaging story set in Holmes County, Ohio. Leah Miller is living her dream come true as she invests in a newly restored diner ...	Ellis, Mary
	Where Angels Fear to Tread (Remy Chandler #3) The pedestrian third novel in Sniegoski's Remy Chandler series (after 2009's Dancing on the Head of a Pin) finds the Seraphim-turned-PI drawn into the case of a missing little girl with prophetic gifts. Also searching for the child is the ...	Sniegoski, Tom
	By Hook or by Crook (Crochet Mystery #3) (PB) Meet the happy crafter who believes every mystery should be unraveled. Meet the happy crafter who believes every mystery should be unraveled. Molly Pink's crochet group has a new mystery on their hands when they find a paper bag that contains a ...	Hechtman, Betty
	Calling, The (Hazel Micallef Mystery #1) Starred Review. This bracingly original mystery from the pseudonymous Wolfe opens with the grisly slaying of an elderly cancer sufferer in Port Dundas, a remote Ontario town that has gone years without a homicide. The murder hits at a ...	Wolfe, Inger Ash
	Father's Day Murder (Lucy Stone #10) (PB) When her part-time reporting gig gives Lucy the opportunity to attend a Boston newspaper conference, she looks forward to the vacation from domestic bliss. But then Luther Read suddenly drops dead. He is head of a near-bankrupt newspaper ...	Meier, Leslie
	Forgiven (Sisters of the Heart #3) Tragedy strikes—a brother and sister find themselves facing a situation that will shape the rest of their lives. When a fire destroys the Lundys' barn, Winnie is injured trying to get the animals to safety. Confined to a hospital for weeks, ...	Gray, Shelley Shepard
	Rebecca's Promise (Adams County Trilogy #1) Readers of Amish fiction will delight in this new series by a veteran author in this popular genre (50,000 Jerry Eicher books sold). Rebecca Keim has just declared her love to John Miller and agreed to become his wife. But she’s haunted by her ...	Eicher, Jerry S.
	Warrior, The (PB) John Nightwalker is a strong, rugged Native American soldier who has seen many battles. While hunting down an old enemy, he crosses paths with Alicia Ponte. On the run from her father—a powerful arms manufacturer—Alicia seeks to expose her ...	Sala, Sharon
	Wedding Day Murder (Lucy Stone #8) (PB) Tinker's Cove, Maine, is the cozily evoked setting of Meier's lighthearted Lucy Stone novels, which are usually set around holidays or significant life events. Here a harried Lucy is trying to juggle children, husband and a full-time job when her bes	Meier, Leslie
	Widow's Hope, A (Miller Family #1) The popularity of Christian novels set in the Amish culture knows no bounds, so Ellis's tale should be a sure-fire hit for eager readers. Hannah Brown, childless and widowed after six years of marriage, seeks and needs a change. She sells her ...	Ellis, Mary
	Bearers of the Black Staff (Legends of Shannara #1) The horrors of a war-ravaged world again invade a hard-won peace in Brooks's intense follow-up to 2008's The Gypsy Morph. Five hundred years have passed since Hawk led a tattered band of survivors into a valley protected by a magical barrier. Now the	Brooks, Terry
	Body Work (V.I. Warshawski #14) Starred Review. Paretsky's superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago's avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, where Warshawski is keeping an eye on Petra, a young cousin who caused trouble in ...	Paretsky, Sara
	Crashers Haynes's compelling first thriller takes familiar elements—a mysterious airplane crash, a bent FBI agent, a deadly female spy—and mixes them with the world of National Transportation Safety Board aviation disaster investigations. When pathologist ...	Haynes, Dana
	Galveston Starred Review. Pizzolatto, author of the story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea, takes a hard-edged look at the stormy life of a compassionate criminal in his impressive first novel. On the same day in 1987 he's diagnosed with lung ...	Pizzolatto, Nic
	House Justice (Joe De Marco #5) After the head of the CIA, Jake LaFountaine, gives a secret briefing to a group of congressional leaders in Lawson's engaging fifth thriller featuring fix-it man Joe DeMarco (after House Secrets), someone leaks the information to the press. ...	Lawson, Michael
	Kiss at Midnight, A (PB) Well-known for tales of dukes and duchesses, James (A Duke of Her Own) upgrades to the handsome prince in this delectable Regency reimagining of the Cinderella story. Miss Katherine Daltry, on the shelf at 23, manages the household of her ...	James, Eloisa
	Lost Empire (Fargo Adventure #2) Cussler and Blackwood's second adventure to feature husband-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo deviates little from the familiar formula of the first in the series, Spartan Gold. When Sam and Remi find a huge ship's bell on a dive off the ...	Cussler, Clive ; Grant Blackwood
	Maybe This Time Thirty-four-year-old Andie, hoping to cut the ties that still bind her to rich ex-hubby North, winds up instead getting drafted to "fix" the troubled orphaned children of North's cousin, who live with a grouchy housekeeper and a crew of ghosts ...	Crusie, Jennifer
	My Name Is Mary Sutter The Civil War offers a 20-year-old midwife who dreams of becoming a doctor the medical experience she craves, plus hard work and heartbreak, in this rich debut that takes readers from a small upstate New York doctor's office to a Union hospital ...	Oliveira, Robin
	Parrot and Olivier in America Starred Review. The eminently talented Carey (Theft) has the gift of engaging ventriloquism, and having already channeled the voices of Dickens's Jack Maggs and the Australian folk hero/master thief Ned Kelly, he now inhabits ...	Carey, Peter
	Queen of the Night (Brandon Walker #4) Starred Review. Dedicated to the late Tony Hillerman, Jance's brilliant fourth suspense novel featuring former homicide detective Brandon Walker and his wife, novelist Diana Ladd (after Day of the Dead), spans some 50 years, from a murder in ...	Jance, Judith A.
	Red Hook Road Waldman (Love and Other Impossible Pursuits) delivers a dense story of irreparable loss that tracks two families across four summers. After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families ...	Waldman, Ayelet
	Spring's Renewal (Seasons of Sugarcreek #2) Tim Graber arrives in Sugarcreek to help his aunt and uncle with spring planting. At first, Tim doesnÆt fit in with his many cousins and their crowded lifestyle. But when he meets Clara Slabaugh, the local school teacher, he understands why ...	Gray, Shelley Shepard
	Super Sad True Love Story Starred Review. Shteyngart (Absurdistan) presents another profane and dizzying satire, a dystopic vision of the future as convincing—and, in its way, as frightening—as Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It's also a pointedly old-fashioned May-December ...	Shteyngart, Gary
	Taken, The (Hazel Micallef Mystery #2) Starred Review. Lovers of twisty but plausible plotting and an out-of-the-ordinary lead will embrace Wolfe's standout second police procedural featuring Canadian Det. Insp. Hazel Micallef (after 2009's The Calling). A bizarre case brings ...	Wolfe, Inger Ash
	Veil of Night Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. ...	Howard, Linda

Chasing the Bear (Spenser #37)

It was really only a matter of time. Having limbered up with two previous YA novels, Parker now begins a series starring his detective hero, Spenser, as a teen. He frames the narrative by having an adult Spenser relating childhood stories to the ...

Parker, Robert B.

Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof (Dixie Hemingway Mysteries #4) (PB)

Ex-deputy Dixie Hemingway still mourns the loss of her young daughter and cop husband in a freak accident three years earlier, but takes solace in her pet-sitting job in Siesta Key, Fla., in Clement's thoughtful and at times somber fourth ...

Clement, Blaize

206 Bones (Temperance Brennan #12) (PB)

Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Reichs's outstanding 12th thriller to feature Dr. Temperance Brennan (after Devil Bones), Brennan finds herself bound and injured in an underground tomb. In flashbacks, Reichs fills in the how and why ...

Reichs, Kathy

Devil amongst the Lawyers, The (Ballad #8)

In 1935, the case of an Appalachian schoolteacher arrested for murdering her father becomes a national news story, seized on by the press for its sensationalism and the opportunity to mock the rural inhabitants involved. Competing with a brigade ...

McCrumb, Sharyn

Family Ties

Steel's latest bestseller-to-be follows Annie Ferguson, who inherits her sister's three children when she dies in a plane crash. Annie does her best to raise them and manages to build a career for herself as a promising architect, even if it ...

Steel, Danielle

Floating City (Nicholas Linnear #5) (PB)

Lustbader fans will herald the coming of this latest adventure in the astonishingly turbulent life of half-Asian, half-Caucasian, all-hero fighting machine Nicholas Linnear. Newcomers to the author's idiosyncratic work, however, may have trouble ...

Lustbader, Eric

Heresy

Starred Review. Set in 1583 against a backdrop of religious-political intrigue and barbaric judicial reprisals, Parris's compelling debut centers on real-life Giordano Bruno, a former Italian monk excommunicated by the Roman Catholic church and ...

Parris, S. J.

Ice Cold [aka The Killing Place] (Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles #8)

Unpredictable twists help propel Gerritsen's winning eighth novel featuring Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (after The Keepsake). While in Wyoming late one fall for a pathologists' conference, Maura agrees ...

Gerritsen, Tess

Imperial Bedrooms (Clay #2 [Clay #1 = Than Zero, 1998])

Starred Review. Ellis explores what disillusioned youth looks like 25 years later in this brutal sequel to Less Than Zero. Clay, now a screenwriter, returns at Christmas to an L.A. that looks and operates much as it did 25 years ago. Trent is ...

Ellis, Bret Easton

In the Name of Honor

Starred Review. Bestseller Patterson (Eclipse) explores the concept of honor—and how men and women can sometimes embody and sometimes blacken this lofty concept—in this riveting legal thriller. When Lt. Brian McCarran shoots and kills his ...

Patterson, Richard North

Information Officer, The

The prolonged and intense Axis bombing of Malta and the British efforts to deliver squadrons of new Spitfire fighters in aid of the strategic Mediterranean island's defense provide the dramatic backdrop for Mills's WWII spy thriller. ...

Mills, Mark

Kaisho, The (Nicholas Linnear #4) (PB)

Lustbader ( White Ninja , etc.) brings back Nicholas Linnear in this fast-moving thriller that combines the trademark Lustbader ingredients of Eastern mysticism and international intrigue. Because of a promise made to his father, Linnear finds ...

Lustbader, Eric

Married by Morning (Hathaways #4) (PB)

*Starred Review* Everyone in the Hathaway family loves Catherine Marks. Well, everyone except for the head of the family, Leo, Lord Ramsay. Leo thinks Catherine is far too outspoken, opinionated, and obstinate for a companion, and Catherine has ...

Kleypas, Lisa

Mr. Peanut

Ross's inspired debut explores the proximity of violence and love and begins with the death of Alice Pepin, whose lifelong struggle with depression, insecurity, and obesity comes to an abrupt end at her kitchen table when she is found dead with ...

Ross, Adam

Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder #2)

Painters Mill is an idyllic small town in Ohio’s Amish country. But even the most peaceful of landscapes is not immune to violent crime. The second installment in Castillo’s strong series (after Sworn to Silence, 2009) finds Police Chief ...

Castillo, Linda

Private : Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, London, Chicago, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Rome (Jack Morgan #1)

Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet ...

Patterson, James ; Maxine Paetro

Red to Black (Finn #1)

The pseudonymous Dryden, a British journalist, eschews both technological marvels and implausible action scenes in his absorbing debut, a spy thriller that exposes the links between the old Russia of the Cold War and the new Russia of ...

Dryden, Alex

Shadow of Betrayal [aka: The Unwanted] (Jonathan Quinn Thriller #3) (PB)

Ludlum fans will enjoy Battles's third thriller to feature Jonathan Quinn ... A botched information exchange near Cork, Ireland, results in a number of dead bodies, but Quinn, an operative-for-hire who specializes in resolving messy situations, ...

Battles, Brett

Sizzling sixteen (Stephanie Plum #16)

Stephanie Plum, half-Italian, half-Hungarian, a shrewd mixture of smarts and dumb luck, works for her cousin Vinny as a bail bondswoman in Trenton, New Jersey. Vinny, however, is in deep fecal matter, owing too much money to the very scary guys ...

Evanovich, Janet

Whiplash (FBI Thriller #14)

In Coulter's fab 14th FBI paranormal romantic thriller (after KnockOut), FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany's ...

Coulter, Catherine

Wormwood (China Bayles #17) (PB)

Murders past and present with a Shaker link intersect in alarming ways in Albert's engaging 17th China Bayles puzzler (after 2008's Nightshade). Recent painful events help prompt China, who runs an herb shop and tearoom in Pecan Springs, Tex., ...

Albert, Susan Wittig

As Husbands Go

Starred Review. Bestseller Isaacs draws on tony Long Island, gritty New York City, and a tabloid-friendly murder for this smart-alecky whodunit/surprisingly sweet love story. Susan is left alone with her three boys, big suburban house, and ...

Isaacs, Susan

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Meloy (Liars and Saints) hits some high notes in these stories of people juggling conflicting emotions with varying shades of success. In "The Children," a man's resolve to leave his wife for his now-grown children's former swimming instructor ...

Meloy, Maile

Brewed, Crude and Tattooed (Maggy Thorsen #4)

Near the start of Balzo's lively fourth Maggy Thorsen mystery (after 2008's Bean There, Done That), a sudden spring thundersnow traps Maggy and friends in Benson Plaza, the Brookhills, Wis., strip mall where Maggy rents space for her coffee shop, ...

Balzo, Sandra

Death Echo (St. Kilda #5)

In Lowell's well-crafted fifth St. Kilda Consulting thriller (after Blue Smoke and Murder), Manhattan operative Emma Cross travels to Seattle, Wash., where Blackbird, a yacht purported to contain enough explosives to destroy a major U.S. city, ...

Lowell, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Street : a Novel Based on True Events

First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to ...

Fabiano, Laurie

Father of the Rain

Whiting Award–winner King (The English Teacher) captures with easy strokes the bold and dangerous personalities lurking inside the mundane frame of domestic drama. Her third novel, narrated by the clear-eyed daughter of an alcoholic father, ...

King, Lily

From the Grounds Up (Maggy Thorsen #5)

Maggy Thorsen, the proprietor of Uncommon Grounds, finds that rebuilding her coffee shop in the Old Brookhills section of Brookhills, Wis., can be murder in Balzo's witty, smoothly plotted fifth caffeine cozy (after 2009's Brewed, Crude and Tattoed).

Balzo, Sandra

Game Over (Sisterhood #17) (PB)

With yet another successful assignment behind them, the ladies of the Sisterhood have enjoyed a relaxing break together and celebrated the wedding of Myra and Charles on Big Pine Mountain. But as soon as the newlyweds return from their shortened ...

Michaels, Fern

If I Loved You, I Would tell You This : Stories

The stories in Black's solid debut collection are fraught with loss, usually of a loved one. Evocative and lyrical, the characters' introspections, while sometimes overwrought, are balanced by the sharp dialogue. In The Guide, a father takes ...

Black, Robin

Imperfectionists, The

Starred Review. In his zinger of a debut, Rachman deftly applies his experience as foreign correspondent and editor to chart the goings-on at a scrappy English-language newspaper in Rome. Chapters read like exquisite short stories, turning out ...

Rachman, Tom

It All Began in Monte Carlo (Mac Reilly #3)

At the start of Adler's bubbly thriller, the follow-up to There's Something About St. Tropez, Sunny Alvarez boards a Christmas Eve flight from L.A. to Paris, along with her pet Chihuahua, angry that her fiancé, PI Mac Reilly of TV's Mac Reilly's ...

Adler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)

Kings of the Earth

Starred Review. In Clinch™s multilayered, pastoral second novel (after Finn), a death among three elderly, illiterate brothers living together on an upstate New York farm raises suspicions and accusations in the surrounding community. After their ...

Clinch, Jon

Madonnas of Echo Park, The

Skyhorse maps in his vivid debut the spirit of L.A.'s Echo Park, where Mexican-Americans define themselves either in alignment with or in opposition to their barrio. Each story-like chapter tells the tale of a character who has grown up in, ...

Skyhorse, Brando

Moon Sworn (Riley Jenson Guardian #9)

In the ninth and final entry in Arthur's deservedly popular Guardian series (after 2009's Bound to Shadows), a strong start and a terrific ending are poorly served by a disjointed middle. As series heroine Riley Jensen, ...

Arthur, Keri

One Day

The Hollywood-ready latest from Nicholls (The Understudy) makes a brief pit stop in book form before its inevitable film adaptation. (It's already in development.) The episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in ...

Nicholls, David

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective (Bourne #8)

Lustbader's cookie-cutter fifth Jason Bourne novel in the Ludlum franchise (after The Bourne Deception) downgrades the title character to a mere co-star with villain Leonid Arkadin, a graduate of the same covert training program, who also ...

Lustbader, Eric

Search, The

The serviceable latest from Roberts centers on Fiona Bristow, a professional canine search-and-rescue trainer, who moved to Orcas Island in Puget Sound eight years earlier, just after barely escaping from a serial killer. The story opens with ...

Roberts, Nora

These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales (PB)

The title of Knipfel's offbeat collection of creepy stories makes one thing immediately clear—this, thankfully, isn't a typical collection of fairy tales. While there are the standard fantastical elements—talking animals, elves, and even a ...

Knipfel, Jim

Visit from the Goon Squad, A

Starred Review. Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive in well in this graceful ...

Egan, Jennifer

Winter's Bone

Woodrell flirts with—but doesn't succumb to—cliché in his eighth novel, a luminescent portrait of the poor and desperate South that drafts 16-year-old Ree Dolly, blessed with "abrupt green eyes," as its unlikely heroine. Ree, too young to escape ...

Woodrell, Daniel

Relentless (Lost Fleet #5) (PB)

After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, "Black Jack" Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star ...

Campbell, Jack

Small Favor (Dresden Files #10)

Intricate yet accessible plotting and near-Arctic winter weather mark the 10th Harry Dresden adventure from bestseller Butcher (after 2007's White Night). A friendly snowball fight opens the Chicago-based wizard-detective's latest tale, but it's ...

Butcher, Jim

Cemetery Road

Starred Review. Reverberations from a crime committed in their youth follow three grown men with the tenacity and inevitability of Greek tragedy in Haywood's beautifully crafted novel of unintended consequences. The gunning down in Los Angeles 26 ...

Haywood, Gar Anthony

Chosen to Die (Montana - To Die #2) (PB)

The Star-Crossed Killer, plague of Montana's Bitterroot Mountains, kidnaps injured women, tends them until they are healthy again, then photographs them and leaves them to die of exposure. With time, it becomes clear that he is spelling out an ...

Jackson, Lisa

Last Gasp (PB)

Ever since she found her mother and siblings murdered, Allison Clemmins has hated her father, Hank, who is imprisoned for the crimes. Then Seth Walker arrives in town, a lawyer determined to exonerate Hank, to unearth the secrets that should have ...

Cassidy, Carla (Carla Bracale)

Bound to Shadows (Riley Jenson Guardian #8) (PB)

In the darkness, demons come out to play . . . and someone must bring their sins to light. Part vampire, part werewolf, Riley Jenson knows what can happen when vamps don’t play well with others. But she’s never seen anything like this: a series ...

Arthur, Keri

Deadly Desire (Riley Jenson Guardian #7) (PB)

Seduction that kills. Pleasure to die for. She just can’t resist . . . Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time’s no different. For it’s no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. ...

Arthur, Keri

Deceived, The (Jonathan Quinn Thriller #2) (PB)

In Battles's strong sequel to The Cleaner—which introduced Jonathan Quinn, an ex-CIA agent who cleans up crime scenes for a shadowy U.S. government intelligence agency—Quinn determines to find the murderer of his CIA friend Steven Markoff. Quinn ...

Battles, Brett

Pleasing the Dead (Storm Kayama Mystery #4)

Rich with Hawaiian folklore, Atkinson's convoluted fourth mystery to feature attorney Storm Kayama (after 2007's Fire Prayer) explores the dark side of paradise. Soon after Storm arrives in Kahului, Maui, where she's handling the legalities of ...

Atkinson, Deborah Turrell

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

It’s difficult to tell if critics’ reactions to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should be characterized as praise or astonishment. Some reviewers treated the book as a delightful gimmick. Others found that, beneath the surface, the book actually ...

Austen, Jane ; Seth Grahame-Smith

Almost Perfect (Fools Gold #2) (PB)

Back in high school, Liz Sutton was the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Then she'd stolen the heart of the most popular boy in town, and their secret romance helped her through the worst of times. Until Ethan Hendrix betrayed her and ...

Mallery, Susan

Austin (McKettrick #13) (PB)

World champion rodeo star Austin McKettrick finally got bested by an angry bull. His career over, his love life a mess, the lone maverick has nowhere to go when the hospital releases him. Except back home to Blue River and the Silver Spur ranch. ...

Miller, Linda Lael

Bad Day for Pretty, A (Stella Hardesty #2)

Starred Review. Littlefield's rollicking second novel featuring tough-talking Stella Hardesty, who manages a sewing shop and doles out her own brand of justice to wife-beaters, delivers on the promise of her debut, A Bad Day for Sorry. When a ...

Littlefield, Sophie

Bad Day for Sorry, A (Stella Hardesty #1)

Littlefield's amusing, sassy debut introduces Stella Hardesty, a widow and survivor of domestic violence, who owns a sewing shop in a sleepy Missouri town. On the side, Stella solves problems and metes out justice on behalf of battered women, ...

Littlefield, Sophie

Betrayers (Nameless Detective #35)

MWA Grand Master Pronzini's Nameless Detective series is showing its age in the tepid 35th entry featuring the unnamed San Francisco PI (after 2009's Schemers). In the book's less than compelling first case, Nameless looks into a dispute over ...

Pronzini, Bill

Brazen Bride, The (Black Cobra Quartet #3) (PB)

USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Laurens adds a dynamic, sweeping tale to her extraordinary adventures. They're bold, courageous, resolute . . . ex-officers of the Crown united against a deadly traitor known only as the Black Cobra. ...

Laurens, Stephanie

Envy the Night (PB)

Starred Review. Revenge drives this superb stand-alone from Edgar-finalist Koryta (A Welcome Grave). Frank Temple II, a U.S. marshal, commits suicide after a tip leads to the exposure of his secret life as a hit man. Seven years later, Frank II's ...

Koryta, Michael

Foreign Influence (Scot Harvath #9)

In Thor's formulaic ninth Scot Harvath thriller (after The Apostle), the ex–navy SEAL has lost his job with the disbanding under a new presidential administration of the Apex Project, a Department of Homeland Security secret antiterrorist program ...

Thor, Brad

Girl Who Fell from the Sky, The

Durrow's debut draws from her own upbringing as the brown-skinned, blue-eyed daughter of a Danish woman and a black G.I. to create Rachel Morse, a young girl with an identical heritage growing up in the early 1980s. After a devastating family ...

Durrow, Heidi W.

Glass Rainbow, The (Robicheaux, book #18)

Starred Review. MWA Grand Master Burke offers everything his readers expect--brilliant prose, prosaic situations that suddenly become mystic experiences, and a complex plot that repeatedly plumbs the depths of human depravity and the heights of ...

Burke, James Lee

Haunt Me Still

Agreeing to direct Shakespeare's notoriously ill-starred Scottish play plunges scholar-sleuth Kate Stanley into a cauldron of trouble in this heady, occult-steeped thriller, the sequel to Interred with Their Bones. The reclusive Lady Nairn, ...

Carrell, Jennifer Lee

Ice Cold [aka The Killing Place] (Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles #8)

Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is in Wyoming for a conference. Impulsively, she joins an old friend and his daughter on a ski trip. When their vehicle breaks down, they’re stranded in the eerily named Kingdom Come, a small community whose ...

Gerritsen, Tess

Blood Born (Vampire #1) (PB)

Luca Ambrus is a rare breed: vampire from birth, begotten by vampire parents, blood born. He is also an agent of the Council—the centuries-old cabal that governs vampirekind, preserving their secrecy and destroying those who betray them. ...

Howard, Linda

Broken (Grant County #7)

Starred Review. Slaughter brings her Grant County and Atlanta characters together for a second time (after Undone) in this superb thriller. When Dr. Sara Linton returns home to Grant County, Ga., for Thanksgiving, she hopes to steer clear of the ...

Slaughter, Karin

Faithful Place (Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox #3)

Starred Review. French's emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to ...

French, Tana

Lost

Lichtenstein’s second family-centered novel links three dissimilar families who come together one frigid weekend in northern New Jersey. Susan Hunsinger, a biology professor, and her older husband, Christopher, who suffers from dementia, have ...

Lichtenstein, Alice

Love in the Afternoon (Hathaways #5) (PB)

As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept ...

Kleypas, Lisa

Lowcountry Summer (Lowcountry Tales)

Starred Review. Here's one for the Southern gals as well as Yankees who appreciate Frank's signature mix of sass, sex, and gargantuan personalities. In this long-time-coming sequel to Plantation, opinionated and family-centric Caroline ...

Frank, Dorothea Benton

Miss Julia Renews Her Vows (Miss Julia #11)

Southern flower Miss Julia re-materializes in her droll 11th adventure, and this time out, the busybody is as busy as ever: she wraps up some business from Miss Julia Delivers the Goods by making sure thrice married rogue Mr. Pickens settles down ...

Ross, Ann B.

Night Killer, The (Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation #8)

Forensic investigator Diane Fallon fights for her life in her eighth mystery. Diane is driving through a downpour on a windy mountain road after picking up a set of rare Indian artifacts when a tree suddenly slams across the hood of her car, ...

Connor, Beverly

Overton Window, The

There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time. Move the ...

Beck, Glenn

Promises to Keep [aka: The Love Verb]

In Green's 12th novel, Callie Perry is a happily married photographer with two wonderful kids, a lovable sister, Steffi, and a best friend, Lila. Problems are minor: Steffi can never settle down, Lila has finally found love but the guy has a ...

Green, Jane

Puzzle Lady vs. the Sudoku Lady, The (Puzzle Lady #11)

A foreign rival challenges Cora Felton in Hall's amusing 11th mystery to feature the Puzzle Lady of Bakerhaven, Conn. (after 2009's Dead Man's Puzzle). Minami, the Sudoku Lady, arrives from Japan dressed in traditional garb, along with her ...

Hall, Parnell

Rembrandt Affair, The (Gabriel Allon #10)

In the ancient English city of Glastonbury, an art restorer has been brutally murdered and a long-lost portrait by Rembrandt mysteriously stolen. Despite his reluctance, Gabriel is persuaded to use his unique skills to search for the painting and ...

Silva, Daniel

Rushed to the Altar (Blackwater Brides #1)

Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, needs a prostitute. Not in the usual way, however. His wealthy uncle’s will promises to divide his huge fortune among his nephews if each rescues a fallen woman . . . by marrying her! And since Jasper’s ...

Feather, Jane

Shadow Zone

A lost underwater civilization, deadly algae, and hordes of attack dolphins roil the seas and threaten a fragile peace in the latest international thriller from the Johansens, a tale that reunites characters from their best-selling Silent Thunder ...

Johansen, Iris ; Roy Johansen

So Cold the River

Starred Review. In this explosive thriller from Koryta (Envy the Night), failed filmmaker Eric Shaw is eking out a living making family home videos when a client offers him big bucks to travel to the resort town of West Baden, Ind., the childhood ...

Koryta, Michael

Still Missing

Starred Review. Stevens's impressive debut, a thriller set on Vancouver Island, pulsates with suspense that gets a power boost from the jaw-dropping but credible closing twist. In psychiatric sessions, Annie O'Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor with ...

Stevens, Chevy

Summer We Read Gatsby, The

Two half-sisters search for the thing of utmost value in an inherited ramshackle Southampton cottage in Ganek's witty new novel (after Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him). The story is narrated by introverted, newly divorced, would-be writer Cassie, ...

Ganek, Danielle

Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, The

Starred Review. Mitchell's rightly been hailed as a virtuoso genius for his genre-bending, fiercely intelligent novels Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas. Now he takes something of a busman's holiday with this majestic historical romance set in ...

Mitchell, David (David Stephen)

Undone [aka: Genesis] (Georgia #1) (PB)

Starred Review. Bestseller Slaughter brings together characters from her two series for the first time with electrifying results. Dr. Sara Linton, who lost her husband in 2007's Beyond Reach, has left rural Grant County for a new life in an ...

Slaughter, Karin

Fractured (Will Trent #2) (PB)

Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Slaughter's heart-pounding sequel to 2006's Triptych, wealthy housewife Abigail Campano returns home one day to Atlanta's posh Ansley Park neighborhood to find a dead girl in the mansion's upstairs ...

Slaughter, Karin

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry

In Leanne Shapton’s marvelously inventive and invented auction catalog, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris (who aren’t real people, but might as well be). Through photographs ...

Shapton, Leanne

Nightshade (China Bayles #16) (PB)

Former attorney China Bayles, now the proprietor of a small herb shop in Pecan Springs, Tex., finally gets some answers to her questions about the death of her cold, distant father, who perished in a fiery car accident 16 years earlier, in the ...

Albert, Susan Wittig

Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum #15) (PB)

When Lula inadvertently witnesses the beheading of culinary TV star Stanley Chipotle in a Trenton, N.J., alley, Stephanie's on-again off-again boyfriend, cop Joe Morelli, reluctantly takes the case. Lula, with the help of Grandma Mazur, enters ...

Evanovich, Janet

Mother's Day Murder (Lucy Stone #15) (PB)

In Meier's fizzy 15th holiday-themed cozy (after 2008's St. Patrick's Day Murder), reporter Lucy Stone, of Tinker's Cove, Maine, knows that the victim of a shooting murder, Tina Nowak, was feuding with Barbara Bar Hume over the popularity of ...

Meier, Leslie

Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder #2)

Painters Mill is an idyllic small town in Ohio’s Amish country. But even the most peaceful of landscapes is not immune to violent crime. The second installment in Castillo’s strong series (after Sworn to Silence, 2009) finds Police Chief Kate ...

Castillo, Linda

Seducing an Angel (Huxtable Quintet #4) (PB)

*Starred Review* Cassandra Belmont has reached a decision: she is going to become a courtesan. Now all she has to do is select the right (incredibly wealthy) patron, which may be a bit difficult since the rumor that Cassandra took an ax to her ...

Balogh, Mary

Star Island

The career of singer Cheryl Bunterman (aka Cherry Pye), who debuted with Jailbait Records at age 15, is foundering due to her lack of talent and indiscriminate appetite for drugs, booze, and sex in this outrageous, offbeat novel from Hiaasen ...

Hiaasen, Carl

At Last Comes Love (Huxtable Quintet #3) (PB)

“Sparkling with sharp wit, lively repartee, and delicious sensuality, the emotionally rewarding At Last Comes Love metes out both justice and compassion.” —Library Journal, starred review

Balogh, Mary

City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #2)

*Starred Review* Relax. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, volume one of which, Prodigal Son (2005), was a pulse-pounder all the way, is going to be a trilogy. But don't expect to relax all that much. This book cooks, no second-volume doldrums anywhere ...

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #3)

In this fast-paced third installment of his Frankenstein series, Koontz continues, without necessarily concluding, his modern-day reimagining of Mary Shelley's horror classic. Leaving his co-authors behind, Koontz makes the most of previous ...

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

First Comes Marriage (Huxtable Quintet #1) (PB)

“Peppered with brilliant banter, laced with laughter…and tingling with sexual tension, this story of two seemingly mismatched people struggling to make their marriage work tugs at a few heartstrings and skillfully paves the way for the stories to ...

Balogh, Mary

Potted Gardener, The (Agatha Raisin #3) (PB)

When Agatha Raisin comes home to cozy Carsely and finds that a new woman has piqued the interest of her handsome bachelor neighbor, James Lacey, she’s less than thrilled. The beautiful newcomer to the Cotswolds, Mary Fortune, is superior in every ...

Beaton, M. C.

Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #1)

Based directly on the bestselling novel by Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson, this exuberantly gruesome comic adaptation draws some themes from Mary Shelly's 1818 original but also many images from horror movies, including contemporary slasher flicks. ...

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

St. Patrick's Day Murder (Lucy Stone #14) (PB)

At the start of Meier's charming 14th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2006's Bake Sale Murder), the Pennysaver reporter is on her way to interview the new harbormaster of Tinker's Cove, Maine, and relishing the unusually warm January day when she ...

Meier, Leslie

Then Comes Seduction (Huxtable Quintet #2) (PB)

Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, had never lost a wager until he met Katherine Huxtable. But when he bets his friends that he can successfully seduce Katherine, after their first meeting, he not only admits defeat but also patiently listens to ...

Balogh, Mary

Undead and Unwelcome (Queen Betsy #8)

Betsy Taylor has problems that only a vampire queen/suburban wife could possibly understand. Such as taking the body of her werewolf friend Antonia-who died in her service-to Cape Cod, where she's not sure if the Wyndham werewolves will welcome ...

Davidson, MaryJanice

Valentine Murder (Lucy Stone #5) (PB)

When plucky freelance writer Lucy Stone joins the library board in her small Maine town, she unexpectedly finds herself knee-deep in murder. Right before her first meeting, Lucy discovers librarian Bitsy Howell shot through the heart in a ...

Meier, Leslie

Walkers of Dembley, The (Agatha Raisin #4) (PB)

After six months in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village—and her dashing neighbor, James Lacey. Well, sort of. James might not be so interested in Agatha. But soon enough, Agatha becomes consumed by her other passion: ...

Beaton, M. C.

Silent Hour, The (Lincoln Perry #4)

Starred Review. Edgar-finalist Koryta spins a dark tale of broken dreams and second chances in his stunning fourth mystery to feature Cleveland, Ohio, PI Lincoln Perry (after 2008's A Welcome Grave). When Perry starts receiving letters from ...

Koryta, Michael

Autumn's Promise (Seasons of Sugarcreek #3)

Until Robert Miller met Lilly Allen, his world had been dark. A widower after only two years of marriage, he's been living in a haze, filled with grief. He feels his life is already over-even though he's only twenty-five. But his friendship with ...

Gray, Shelley Shepard

Backseat Saints

*Starred Review* Jackson’s absorbing and rewarding fourth novel spotlights Rose Mae Lolly, a minor character from her popular debut, Gods in Alabama (2005). Rose is now living under the thumb of her abusive husband and his domineering father. ...

Jackson, Joshilyn

Burn (Anna Pigeon #16)

Starred Review. Barr's outstanding 16th Anna Pigeon novel (after Borderline) takes the National Park Service ranger to the urban wilderness of post-Katrina New Orleans, where the Jazz National Heritage Park preserves the Big Easy's music. Anna ...

Barr, Nevada

Chains of Ice (Chosen Ones #3) (PB)

As a wildlife observer in the untamed mountains, Genny Valente had no idea that a beast more fearsome than any leopard lurked in the forest-a man, one of the Chosen Ones, betrayed by his gift and tormented by his memories. John Powell fled his ...

Dodd, Christina

Cookbook Collector, The

Starred Review. If any contemporary author deserves to wear the mantel of Jane Austen, it's Goodman, whose subtle, astute social comedies perfectly capture the quirks of human nature. This dazzling novel is Austen updated for the dot-com era, ...

Goodman, Allegra

Crossfire

In the enjoyable fourth and final collaboration between Francis (1920–2010) and son Felix (after Even Money), the army career of Capt. Thomas Forsyth abruptly ends when an IED in Afghanistan blows off one of his feet, leaving him with a ...

Francis, Dick ; Felix Francis

Cure (Jack Stapleton / Laurie Montgomery #10)

Cook's latest thriller opens not with a microscopic medical event, as so many of his previous novels have, but with theft at a research lab in Kyoto, Japan. The perpetrator is Ben Corey, a doctor and the founder of a company designed to profit ...

Cook, Robin

Curtain Falls, A (Simon Ziele #2)

Set in New York City in 1906, Pintoff's worthy sequel to her Edgar-finalist debut, In the Shadow of Gotham (2009), finds Det. Simon Zeile pursuing another sensational case. When chorus girl Annie Germaine turns up dead on a Manhattan theatrical ...

Pintoff, Stefanie

Dancing on the Head of a Pin (Remy Chandler #2) (PB)

Meet Remy Chandler... He's one of the good guys... But he's in bad trouble... Having lost the love of his life, Remy finds himself turning away from the world. He seeks out dangerous jobs that involve the supernatural and bring him into ...

Sniegoski, Tom

Deja Dead (Temperance Brennan #1)

Dr. Tempe Brennan, a trowel-packing forensic anthropologist from North Carolina, works in Montreal's Laboratoire de Medecine Legale examining recovered bodies to help police solve missing-persons cases and murders. It's clear to Tempe that the ...

Reichs, Kathy

Dream for Hannah, A [aka: Hannah's Dream] (Hannah #1)

Hannah Miller’s Amish faith is solid. Her devotion to her family and Indiana community is unquestionable. Yet her young spirit longs for adventure and romance. As troubling circumstances give her good reason to spend the summer at her aunt’s ...

Eicher, Jerry S.

Elegy for April (Quirke #3)

Starred Review. Black's engrossing third crime thriller set in 1950s Dublin (after The Silver Swan) finds pathologist Garret Quirke fresh from a stint in alcohol rehab. Quirke reluctantly agrees to help his daughter, Phoebe Griffin, with whom he ...

Black, Benjamin

Fly Away Home

“Unflappably fun… Hilarious… In Jennifer Weiner's luscious new novel, Fly Away Home, a political wife's predicament is the catalyst for a highly entertaining story… The message is choosing to live an authentic life. As always, Weiner gives us a ...

Weiner, Jennifer

Girl She Used to Be, The

After 20 years in the Federal Witness Protection Program (WITSEC) and eight aliases, Melody Grace McCartney hardly knows who she is. On the run since she and her parents stumbled on a gruesome murder by mobster Tony Bovaro when she was six years ...

Cristofano, David

Hangman (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus #19)

Murder, a missing woman, and a sociopath from the past sweep Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus into a labyrinth of mystery and danger in this electrifying new tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. . . .

Kellerman, Faye

Hannah (Hannah #2)

Hannah, now married, is living her dream with Jake under the shadow of the Cabinet Mountains. But fear stalks outside the cabin. Must they move back to Indiana, or does God have other plans? Will Jake see things her way, or will they both be ...

Eicher, Jerry S.

Home Again (Chesapeake Diaries #2) (PB)

Dallas MacGregor is living the Hollywood dream. At thirtysomething, she’s an award-winning actress beloved by the public and bound for even bigger success. But when her soon-to-be-ex-husband, producer Emilio Baird, is caught in a sex scandal, ...

Stewart, Mariah

Hope for Hannah, A (Hannah #3)

Hannah Byler is now married. She and Jake live in a small Amish community near Montana’s Cabinet Mountains, and the rough log cabin is far from everything Hannah holds dear. Anxious about her new role as wife and soon-to-be mother, Hannah ...

Eicher, Jerry S.

House Secrets [aka: Dead Man's List] (Joe De Marco #4) (PB)

Starred Review. In Lawson's excellent fourth Washington thriller to feature Joe DeMarco (after House Rules), the government investigator looks into the drowning death of a Washington Post reporter working a story involving Paul Morelli, a ...

Lawson, Michael

In Harm's Way (Walt Fleming #4)

It’s clear from the beginning that Idaho sheriff Walt Fleming loves Fiona Kenshaw, caretaker of a local estate and part-time sheriff’s photographer. It’s also clear that Kenshaw loves him back, but she has a secret she won’t share. Her heroic ...

Pearson, Ridley

In the Shadow of Gotham (Simon Ziele #1)

Starred Review. Pintoff's debut, winner of the first Minotaur Books/MWA Best First Crime Novel award, will remind many of Caleb Carr at his best. The wreck of the steamship General Slocum in 1904 cost Det. Simon Ziele of the New York City police ...

Pintoff, Stefanie

Knockout (FBI Thriller #13)

Starred Review. Bestseller Coulter's riveting 13th FBI thriller (after TailSpin) opens with a bang as psychic FBI agent Dillon Savich thwarts a gang of gun-totting robbers attempting to hold up the First Union Bank of Washington, D.C. Three days ...

Coulter, Catherine

Last Lie, The (Dr. Alan Gregory #18)

Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors-a legal legend in women's rights law and his beautiful wife-the couple hosts a housewarming party that ends in quiet disaster. One of their guests, a young widow, elects to spend ...

White, Stephen

Live to Tell (D.D. Warren #4)

Starred Review. At the heart of Gardner's outstanding fourth novel featuring Boston PD detective Warren (after The Neighbor) are some very sick kids, notably Lucy, a nine-year-old feral girl who self-mutilates when any attention is given to her, ...

Gardner, Lisa

Lucy

When anthropologist Jenny Lowe brings Lucy, the teenage daughter of a murdered colleague, back home with her to Chicago from the Congo in Gonzales's glib biological thriller, Jenny puts the girl's behavioral quirks down to unfamiliarity with the ...

Gonzales, Laurence

Midnight Angels

This superior religious artifact quest thriller from Carcaterra (Sleepers) careens through the streets of Florence with quick stops at various museums and galleries for interesting sidebars on the life and work of Michelangelo ("the Divine One"). ...

Carcaterra, Lorenzo

Moscow Sting (Finn #2)

*Starred Review* Dryden follows up his superb debut, Red to Black (2009), with a riveting sequel. British spy Finn, who uncovered a Russian plan to control Europe's access to oil and natural gas, is dead, murdered by a KGB-trained Russian ...

Dryden, Alex

Never Far from Home (Miller Family #2)

Mary Ellis follows her captivating Widow’s Hope with a new story from the heart of Holmes County, Ohio. In Never Far From Home, fifteen–year–old Emma Miller finishes school, starts her own wool business, and is longing for someone to court. ...

Ellis, Mary

Postcard Killers, The

Paris is stunning in the summer NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him--he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. ...

Patterson, James ; Liza Marklund

Question of Belief, A (Guido Brunetti #19)

Starred Review. Set during an oppressive Venetian August, Leon's masterful 19th Commisario Guido Brunetti mystery (after 2009's About Face) presents Brunetti with two puzzles that impinge on his most intimate beliefs. Close associate Ispettore ...

Leon, Donna

Rebecca's Choice (Adams County Trilogy #3)

Popular Amish fiction author Jerry Eicher finishes the Adam’s County Trilogy with an intriguing story of a young couple’s love, a community of faith, and devotion to truth. Rebecca Keim is now engaged to John Miller, and they are looking forward ...

Eicher, Jerry S.

Red Queen, The (Cousins' War #2)

Nobody does the Tudors better than Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl), so it should come as no surprise that her latest—the War of the Roses as seen through the eyes of Henry VII's mother —is confident, colorful, convincing, and full of conflict, ...

Gregory, Philippa

Rock Paper Tiger

Starred Review. Ellie Cooper, the heroine of Brackmann's electrifying debut, is an Iraq War vet trying to forget her past while bumming around the fringes of the Beijing art world. Having been ditched by her husband, Trey, a former army ...

Brackmann, Lisa

Runner (Jane Whitefield #6)

*Starred Review* Perry returns to his Jane Whitefield series (The Face-Changers, 1998) after several stand-alones and picks up right where he left off—unrelenting suspense surrounded by a detail-rich exposition on the art of “disappearing.” ...

Perry, Thomas

Sarah's Garden (Patch of Heaven)

When Sarah realizes that she has fallen in love with an Englisch doctor, she must choose between loving a man and losing her family. Deep in the heart of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains, shy Sarah King is happiest when working in her vibrant ...

Long, Kelly

Scarlet Nights (Edilean #3)

Deveraux (Days of Gold) returns to Edilean, Va., to tie up some loose ends, return to familiar characters, and introduce a few new ones. Sara Shaw is happily preparing for her marriage to Greg Anders, and though her family doesn't like him very ...

Deveraux, Jude

Secrets to Happiness

Dunn charts several New Yorkers' lives in this snappy novel. The spotlight most often falls on Holly Frick, a 35-year-old divorcée whose egg walls are taking on the consistency of tissue paper as we speak. A writer whose cheeky first novel ...

Dunn, Sarah

Stay a Little Longer

Rachel Watkins runs her family’s dilapidated boardinghouse in Carlson, Minnesota, while raising her orphaned niece and working as a midwife. Her older sister, Alice, lost her husband, Mason, in WWI before he knew she was pregnant, then died the ...

Garlock, Dorothy

Stone's Fall

Starred Review. British author Pears matches the brilliance of his bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998) with this intricate historical novel, which centers on the death of a wealthy financier. In part one, after John Stone falls to ...

Pears, Iain

Stork Raving Mad (Meg Langslow #12)

In Agatha-winner Andrews's wacky 12th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2009's Swan for the Money), chaos erupts in the crowded household of expectant parents-to-be Meg Langslow and her husband, Caerphilly College associate professor Michael Waterston. ...

Andrews, Donna

Strip

Starred Review. Half a dozen characters vie for primacy in this rambunctiously entertaining L.A. crime novel from Edgar-winner Perry (Runner). Aging strip-club owner Manco Kapak orders his boys to find the masked man who stole his cash receipts ...

Perry, Thomas

Tempted by Trouble

New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey returns with a flaming-hot stand-alone set in the world of conmen and thieves. We can plan all we want, but sometimes fate has a different agenda... Dmytryk was a respectable man... once. ...

Dickey, Eric Jerome

They're Watching

Starred Review. Always a master of the gripping setup, Hurwitz (Trust No One) outdoes himself in this ultra-suspenseful thriller. One gray L.A. winter morning, disgraced screenwriter Patrick Davis steps out onto his porch in Bel Air, retrieves ...

Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew

Think of a Numb3r

The numbers game gets a murderous spin in Verdon's deft, literate debut. Recently retired NYPD homicide detective Dave Gurney is an old warhorse much too easily led to water, in the view of his increasingly disenchanted wife, who insists it's ...

Verdon, John

Third Rail, The

Harvey’s third Michael Kelly novel finds the tough Chicago PI eyeball deep in a burgeoning reign of terror focused on the transit system, the venerable CTA. Kelly witnesses the first murder on an L platform and sets off in hot but futile pursuit. ...

Harvey, Michael T.

This Must Be the Place

Racculia's irresistibly charming debut is an artful mix of genres: oddball domestic (set in a boardinghouse, characters named Desdemona and Oneida), coming-of-age (high school loves and teen angst) and literary women's fiction (love, loss, and ...

Racculia, Kate

Three Stations (Arkady Renko #7)

“The sustained success of Smith’s Renko books is based on much more than Renko. This author’s gift for tart, succinct description creates a poisonous political backdrop, one that makes his characters’ survival skills as important as any of their ...

Smith, Martin Cruz

Tough Customer

Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn’t let rules get in his way—in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so ...

Brown, Sandra

Undead and Unfinished (Queen Betsy #9)

Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor returns in the ninth novel in the New York Times bestselling series. Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor is having a tough time getting through the Book of the Dead-until the Devil strikes a bargain. She offers Betsy a chance ...

Davidson, MaryJanice

Undead and Unfinished (Queen Betsy #9)

Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor returns in the ninth novel in the New York Times bestselling series. Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor is having a tough time getting through the Book of the Dead-until the Devil strikes a bargain. She offers Betsy a chance ...

Davidson, MaryJanice

Vigilantes, The (Badge of Honor #10)

The dramatic new novel in Griffin's New York Times- bestselling chronicle of the Philadelphia police force. There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much because the victims all seem to be lowlifes. The more ...

Griffin, W. E. B.

Way to a Man's Heart, The (Miller Family #3)

Mary Ellis (A Widow’s Hope and Never Far from Home) concludes her bestselling The Miller Family series with another engaging story set in Holmes County, Ohio. Leah Miller is living her dream come true as she invests in a newly restored diner ...

Ellis, Mary

Where Angels Fear to Tread (Remy Chandler #3)

The pedestrian third novel in Sniegoski's Remy Chandler series (after 2009's Dancing on the Head of a Pin) finds the Seraphim-turned-PI drawn into the case of a missing little girl with prophetic gifts. Also searching for the child is the ...

Sniegoski, Tom

By Hook or by Crook (Crochet Mystery #3) (PB)

Meet the happy crafter who believes every mystery should be unraveled. Meet the happy crafter who believes every mystery should be unraveled. Molly Pink's crochet group has a new mystery on their hands when they find a paper bag that contains a ...

Hechtman, Betty

Calling, The (Hazel Micallef Mystery #1)

Starred Review. This bracingly original mystery from the pseudonymous Wolfe opens with the grisly slaying of an elderly cancer sufferer in Port Dundas, a remote Ontario town that has gone years without a homicide. The murder hits at a ...

Wolfe, Inger Ash

Father's Day Murder (Lucy Stone #10) (PB)

When her part-time reporting gig gives Lucy the opportunity to attend a Boston newspaper conference, she looks forward to the vacation from domestic bliss. But then Luther Read suddenly drops dead. He is head of a near-bankrupt newspaper ...

Meier, Leslie

Forgiven (Sisters of the Heart #3)

Tragedy strikes—a brother and sister find themselves facing a situation that will shape the rest of their lives. When a fire destroys the Lundys' barn, Winnie is injured trying to get the animals to safety. Confined to a hospital for weeks, ...

Gray, Shelley Shepard

Rebecca's Promise (Adams County Trilogy #1)

Readers of Amish fiction will delight in this new series by a veteran author in this popular genre (50,000 Jerry Eicher books sold). Rebecca Keim has just declared her love to John Miller and agreed to become his wife. But she’s haunted by her ...

Eicher, Jerry S.

Warrior, The (PB)

John Nightwalker is a strong, rugged Native American soldier who has seen many battles. While hunting down an old enemy, he crosses paths with Alicia Ponte. On the run from her father—a powerful arms manufacturer—Alicia seeks to expose her ...

Sala, Sharon

Wedding Day Murder (Lucy Stone #8) (PB)

Tinker's Cove, Maine, is the cozily evoked setting of Meier's lighthearted Lucy Stone novels, which are usually set around holidays or significant life events. Here a harried Lucy is trying to juggle children, husband and a full-time job when her bes

Meier, Leslie

Widow's Hope, A (Miller Family #1)

The popularity of Christian novels set in the Amish culture knows no bounds, so Ellis's tale should be a sure-fire hit for eager readers. Hannah Brown, childless and widowed after six years of marriage, seeks and needs a change. She sells her ...

Ellis, Mary

Bearers of the Black Staff (Legends of Shannara #1)

The horrors of a war-ravaged world again invade a hard-won peace in Brooks's intense follow-up to 2008's The Gypsy Morph. Five hundred years have passed since Hawk led a tattered band of survivors into a valley protected by a magical barrier. Now the

Brooks, Terry

Body Work (V.I. Warshawski #14)

Starred Review. Paretsky's superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago's avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, where Warshawski is keeping an eye on Petra, a young cousin who caused trouble in ...

Paretsky, Sara

Crashers

Haynes's compelling first thriller takes familiar elements—a mysterious airplane crash, a bent FBI agent, a deadly female spy—and mixes them with the world of National Transportation Safety Board aviation disaster investigations. When pathologist ...

Haynes, Dana

Galveston

Starred Review. Pizzolatto, author of the story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea, takes a hard-edged look at the stormy life of a compassionate criminal in his impressive first novel. On the same day in 1987 he's diagnosed with lung ...

Pizzolatto, Nic

House Justice (Joe De Marco #5)

After the head of the CIA, Jake LaFountaine, gives a secret briefing to a group of congressional leaders in Lawson's engaging fifth thriller featuring fix-it man Joe DeMarco (after House Secrets), someone leaks the information to the press. ...

Lawson, Michael

Kiss at Midnight, A (PB)

Well-known for tales of dukes and duchesses, James (A Duke of Her Own) upgrades to the handsome prince in this delectable Regency reimagining of the Cinderella story. Miss Katherine Daltry, on the shelf at 23, manages the household of her ...

James, Eloisa

Lost Empire (Fargo Adventure #2)

Cussler and Blackwood's second adventure to feature husband-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo deviates little from the familiar formula of the first in the series, Spartan Gold. When Sam and Remi find a huge ship's bell on a dive off the ...

Cussler, Clive ; Grant Blackwood

Maybe This Time

Thirty-four-year-old Andie, hoping to cut the ties that still bind her to rich ex-hubby North, winds up instead getting drafted to "fix" the troubled orphaned children of North's cousin, who live with a grouchy housekeeper and a crew of ghosts ...

Crusie, Jennifer

My Name Is Mary Sutter

The Civil War offers a 20-year-old midwife who dreams of becoming a doctor the medical experience she craves, plus hard work and heartbreak, in this rich debut that takes readers from a small upstate New York doctor's office to a Union hospital ...

Oliveira, Robin

Parrot and Olivier in America

Starred Review. The eminently talented Carey (Theft) has the gift of engaging ventriloquism, and having already channeled the voices of Dickens's Jack Maggs and the Australian folk hero/master thief Ned Kelly, he now inhabits ...

Carey, Peter

Queen of the Night (Brandon Walker #4)

Starred Review. Dedicated to the late Tony Hillerman, Jance's brilliant fourth suspense novel featuring former homicide detective Brandon Walker and his wife, novelist Diana Ladd (after Day of the Dead), spans some 50 years, from a murder in ...

Jance, Judith A.

Red Hook Road

Waldman (Love and Other Impossible Pursuits) delivers a dense story of irreparable loss that tracks two families across four summers. After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families ...

Waldman, Ayelet

Spring's Renewal (Seasons of Sugarcreek #2)

Tim Graber arrives in Sugarcreek to help his aunt and uncle with spring planting. At first, Tim doesnÆt fit in with his many cousins and their crowded lifestyle. But when he meets Clara Slabaugh, the local school teacher, he understands why ...

Gray, Shelley Shepard

Super Sad True Love Story

Starred Review. Shteyngart (Absurdistan) presents another profane and dizzying satire, a dystopic vision of the future as convincing—and, in its way, as frightening—as Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It's also a pointedly old-fashioned May-December ...

Shteyngart, Gary

Taken, The (Hazel Micallef Mystery #2)

Starred Review. Lovers of twisty but plausible plotting and an out-of-the-ordinary lead will embrace Wolfe's standout second police procedural featuring Canadian Det. Insp. Hazel Micallef (after 2009's The Calling). A bizarre case brings ...

Wolfe, Inger Ash

Veil of Night

Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. ...

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Chasing the Bear (Spenser #37)

Parker, Robert B.

Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof (Dixie Hemingway Mysteries #4) (PB)

Clement, Blaize

206 Bones (Temperance Brennan #12) (PB)

Reichs, Kathy

Devil amongst the Lawyers, The (Ballad #8)

McCrumb, Sharyn

Family Ties

Steel, Danielle

Floating City (Nicholas Linnear #5) (PB)

Lustbader, Eric

Heresy

Parris, S. J.

Ice Cold [aka The Killing Place] (Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles #8)

Gerritsen, Tess

Imperial Bedrooms (Clay #2 [Clay #1 = Than Zero, 1998])

Ellis, Bret Easton

In the Name of Honor

Patterson, Richard North

Information Officer, The

Mills, Mark

Kaisho, The (Nicholas Linnear #4) (PB)

Lustbader, Eric

Married by Morning (Hathaways #4) (PB)

Kleypas, Lisa

Mr. Peanut

Ross, Adam

Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder #2)

Castillo, Linda

Private : Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, London, Chicago, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Rome (Jack Morgan #1)

Patterson, James ; Maxine Paetro

Red to Black (Finn #1)

Dryden, Alex

Shadow of Betrayal [aka: The Unwanted] (Jonathan Quinn Thriller #3) (PB)

Battles, Brett

Sizzling sixteen (Stephanie Plum #16)

Evanovich, Janet

Whiplash (FBI Thriller #14)

Coulter, Catherine

Wormwood (China Bayles #17) (PB)

Albert, Susan Wittig

As Husbands Go

Isaacs, Susan

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Meloy, Maile

Brewed, Crude and Tattooed (Maggy Thorsen #4)

Balzo, Sandra

Death Echo (St. Kilda #5)

Lowell, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Street : a Novel Based on True Events

Fabiano, Laurie

Father of the Rain

King, Lily

From the Grounds Up (Maggy Thorsen #5)

Balzo, Sandra

Game Over (Sisterhood #17) (PB)

Michaels, Fern

If I Loved You, I Would tell You This : Stories

Black, Robin

Imperfectionists, The

Rachman, Tom

It All Began in Monte Carlo (Mac Reilly #3)

Adler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)

Kings of the Earth

Clinch, Jon

Madonnas of Echo Park, The

Skyhorse, Brando

Moon Sworn (Riley Jenson Guardian #9)

Arthur, Keri

One Day

Nicholls, David

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective (Bourne #8)

Lustbader, Eric

Search, The