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  • Sheriff Luke Ludd

    D.J. Bishop

    Luke Ludd has only been the sheriff in Rising Star for a year when he finds his friends Tom and Beth Tidwell shot dead, their home ransacked and their mules and wagon stolen. With grief and vengeance in his heart, Luke follows the wagon tracks west t...

  • The Assassins Gallery

    David L. Robbins

    New Year's Eve, 1945. The assassin steps out of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of a raging nor'easter. Cool and efficient, she's a weapon of war superbly trained in the ancient arts of subterfuge and murder. And even though she's outnumbered, she's...

  • Bar Code Rebellion

    Suzanne Weyn

    Kayla has resisted getting the bar code tattoo, even though it's meant forfeiting a "normal" life. Without the tattoo, she's an exile. But she can't stay an exile for long.... For reasons she doesn't completely understand -- but will soon discov...

  • The Copper Scroll

    Joel C. Rosenberg

    Another NYT bestseller
    Over 250,000 sold
    Rosenberg’s novels have an uncanny way of coming true.

    The Last Jihad put readers inside the cockpit of a hijacked jet, coming in on a kamikaze attack into an American city . . . but it was ...

  • Deceit

    James Siegel

    It looks like just another car crash: a head-on collision on a lonely stretch of desert highway that leaves one driver dead. But Tom Valle, the local newspaperman assigned to the story, is damned good at spotting lies. And for Valle, once a star repo...

  • Descendant

    Graham Masterton

    A supernatural thriller from the master of suspense Californian James Falcon's compelling Romanian mother told him so many folk stories that by the time he reaches college in 1943, he is something of an expert on the strigoi, the legendary, undying v...

  • The Expected One

    Kathleen McGowan

    A GRIPPING THRILLER AND A PROFOUND SPIRITUAL JOURNEY THAT REVEALS THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD! TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the rocky foothills of the French Pyrenees, a gospel that contained her own version of th...

  • The Grey Man

    Andy McNab

    "A STUNNING ACTION THRILLER FROM A REAL-LIFE HERO. Kevin Dodds leads a dull, uneventful life. He has a steady job at the bank, a nice house and car. His wife goes to Bingo on a Saturday night, but he usually stays in to save money. But Kevin has spen...

  • The Lucifer Gospel

    Paul Christopher

    In the desert of North Africa, Finn Ryan stumbles upon a seventy-year-old plane wreck--and a shocking revelation that threatens to unravel an entire faith.... Young archaeologist Finn Ryan and charismatic pilot and photographer Virgil Hilts are sc...

  • The Messenger

    Daniel Silva

    Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, has been widely acclaimed as one of the most fascinating characters in the genre and now he is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. Allon is recovering from a grueling showdown with a Palestinian ...

  • The Power Broker

    Stephen Frey

    Christian Gillette, the dynamo chairman of a famous New York private equity firm, plans to open a new casino in Las Vegas and launch an NFL franchise. But the mob makes it clear that Christian will have to pay if he wants to play. To complicate matte...

  • Red Shark

    Peter Sasgen

    A United Nations-brokered detente between North and South Korea is about to make history when two powerful bombs rock Midtown Manhattan, killing the warring nations' representatives as well as innocent bystanders. A renegade North Korean general is b...

  • Relentless

    Simon Kernick

    There is only one truth left in your world. They want you. And they want you dead -- the new stand-alone thriller by crime-writing's rising star. John Meron, a happily married father of two, who's never been in trouble, receives a phone call that ...

  • Second Genesis

    Jeffrey Anderson

    SURVIVAL IS AN INSTINCT. In a private compound deep in the jungles of the Amazon rain forest, a team of scientists, expert in stem cell engineering, is playing God. With unnerving success. Among them, young biologist Jamie Kendrick is grappling with...

  • The Second Horseman

    Kyle Mills

    Brandon Vale is a career thief---the best there is. Or at least he was before he was thrown in prison for a jewel heist gone bad. And even more embarrassing, he had nothing to do with it. His time inside is going fairly quietly until the night he's b...

  • Snow Blind

    P.J. Tracy

    Already major bestselling authors in the UK, the brilliant creators of the Monkeewrench team and their law-abiding counterparts on the Minneapolis PD are setting a new standard for the modern thriller, combining brilliant plotting, razor-sharp dialog...

  • Spy

    Ted Bell

    In this exhilarating tale of international suspense, New York limes bestselling author Ted Bell's counterterrorist operative Alexander Hawke, must save the United States from a devastating terrorist operation. When a mysterious explosion destroys ...

  • Targets of Opportunity

    Jeffrey S. Stephens

    THE ENEMY HAS A THOUSAND WAYS TO STRIKE. WE HAVE JUST ONE WAY TO RETALIATE. HIS NAME IS JORDAN SANDOR. In Targets of Deception, which suspense master Robert K. Tanenbaum called “a fast-paced thriller,” Jeffrey Stephens introduced CIA agent...

  • White Sister

    Stephen J. Cannell

    Back from the New York Times bestselling Cold Hit, Detective Shane Scully goes up against the beautiful, blonde wife of powerful hip-hop mogul--who stands at the center of a ruthless conspiracy Leaving L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his w...

  • Bloodlines

    Karen Traviss

    Civil war looms as the fledgling Galactic Alliance confronts a growing number of rebellious worlds--and the approaching war is tearing the Skywalker and Solo families apart. Han and Leia return to Han's homeworld, Corellia, the heart of the resistanc...

  • Boba Fett: A Practical Man

    Karen Traviss

    BONUS: This original novella includes an excerpt from Star Wars: Republic Commando: Hard Contact and an interview with the author. On the surface, it seems like just another routine contract for Boba Fett and his Mandalorian comman...

  • Burning Dreams

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

    Before James T. Kirk, another captain stood on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, spearheading its mission of exploration into the uncharted reaches of the galaxy. He was a man driven to perfection, a brooding soul whose haunted eyes reflected the ...

  • Hunters of Dune

    Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

    Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. B...

  • Strange New Worlds 9

    Dean Wesley Smith

    Strange New Worlds 9 celebrates the 40th anniversary of Star Trek by featuring stories that span the entire universe! Each of these unique stories is based on original Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Tre...

  • A Tangled Web

    Jude Watson

    WHO ARE THE LAST OF THE JEDI? Since evil Emperor Palpatine destroyed the Jedi Knights and seized power, his reign has been absolute. He controls the Senate. He controls the Imperial Army. He controls the galaxy. He is a Sith. And now, for myst...

  • Things Fall Apart

    Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    MERE ANARCHY A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek® history, continuing with an adventure that takes place during the historic five-year mission! Book 1: THINGS FALL APART Mestiko: a world on the brink of interstellar space ...

  • Eternal Nights

    Patti O'Shea

    Capt. Kendall Thomas has been plagued by dreams of blood, dreams so horrifying they leave her trembling in the night. Kendall has good reason to be afraid. She's discovered thieves are stealing artifacts from the alien city on Jarved Nine, and the sm...

  • Your Planet or Mine?

    Susan Grant

    With outrageously false accusations piling up against her famous political family and an ex-fiance in hot water determined to take her down with him, the last thing Jana Jasper needs is more trouble -- especially man trouble. But when she heads to th...

  • Against Gravity

    Gary Gibson

    Live long enough, and this could be your future... It is the late 21st century, and it is a very different world. Meet Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of The Maze, a secret research facility where thousands of political prisoners became unwilling guine...

  • Book of Lost - Volume 1: Introductions All Around

    J. Michael Straczynski

    The destinies of most people are defined early on. Then there are the others - the lost. Those whose numbers aren't in yet, who could go toward the light or toward the darkness - indeed, who could be tipped one direction or another. And everything st...

  • Cable & Deadpool, Volume 5: Living Legends

    Fabian Nicieza

    Collects Cable/Deadpool #25-29. Cable has forged a paradise haven that threatens to destabilize countless governments and religions. One man wants to find out what Cable's intentions are before it's too late. Plus: Cable sees the signs forming..can A...

  • Coraline

    Neil Gaiman

    THE DAY AFTER THEY MOVED IN, CORALINE WENT EXPLORING.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until...

  • Death's Head 3.0: Unnatural Selection

    Simon Furman

    It's one hundred years in the future and the now-benevolent organization known as AIM has been fighting a non-violent conflict with the fascist government it wishes to change. But there's a splinter group that's ready to return to its violent roots w...

  • The Doublecross Program

    Chris Bunch

    M’chel Riss and the Star Risk team are enjoying a little well-deserved R&R . . . until funds get a bit low. Then it’s time to swing back into action. The next thing they know, they’re in the middle of the weirdest gig they’ve had yet: a s...

  • Dragon's Fire

    Anne McCaffrey; Todd McCaffrey

    At Natalon's mining camp, Pellar embarks on a secret mission to discover whether the condemned criminals known as the Shunned are stealing coal. But the gifted tracker discovers that a far more treacherous plot is unfolding. A heartless thief named T...

  • End of the World Blues

    Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    From Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the celebrated Arabesk series, comes a stunningly inventive novel of futuristic noir set in a world of shifting realities. Here a man is drawn into a gritty postmodern subculture and a secret kingdom of otherwor...

  • Essential Luke Cage Power Man - Volume 2

    Don McGregor

    Luke Cage wraps up his early solo career against the likes of Zzzax, Chemistro and Gideon Mace - then launches a new era with Iron Fist, forming one of Marvel's oddest and most enduring partnerships! Garish gangsters, sexy scientists, monolithic muta...

  • Essential Marvel Team-Up - Volume 1

    Roy Thomas

    Spider-Man teams up with Marvel's most celebrated super heroes! The Fantastic Four, the greatest team of adventurers ever assembled! The X-Men, Children of the Atom! And the Avengers, Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Plus: Namor the Sub-Mariner! Ghost Rider...

  • Essential Marvel Team-Up - Volume 2

    Len Wein

    Horrific heroism, kung fu crimefighting, courtroom chaos: Spider-Man's up for anything in this selection of shared sagas! Co-starring Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk, the Thing, the Beast and the Frankenstein Monster! Join Spidey on a titanic trip thr...

  • Essential Tomb of Dracula, Volume 3

    Marv Wolfman

    SC, TPB, NM/M, New, in cello, Written by MARV WOLFMAN and ROGER MCKENZIE. Art by GENE COLAN and FRANK ROBBINS. Cover by GENE COLAN. Published in October of 2004, Softcover, 584 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.99. If you want additional books, I ship a...

  • The Flock

    James Robert Smith

    A remote Florida swamp has been targeted for theme-park development, and the swamp's inhabitants are none too happy. It doesn't help that the residents are a colony of intelligent, prehistoric, dinosaur-like birds. This flock of beasts has escaped th...

  • The God Machine

    Thomas E. Sniegoski

    Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission. Religious artifacts from every...

  • Iron Man: Inevitable

    Joe Casey

    It was only a matter of time before Iron Man's longtime enemies re-emerged to confront him once again. And now, they've got more than revenge on their minds. An all-new, action-packed story spotlighting the return of classic villains like the Living ...

  • James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time

    Stephen Baxter

    In the eighteenth century, the received wisdom, based on biblical calculations, was that the Earth was just six thousand years old. James Hutton, a gentleman with a passion for rocks, knew that could not be the case. Looking at the irregular strata o...

  • New Excalibur - Volume 1: Defenders of the Realm

    Chris Claremont

    Excalibur is back, just the way you like them! From the ashes of House of M a new Excalibur team is formed to combat the aftereffects of this cataclysmic event! Witness the birth of Captain Britain's new team forming, as a sinister force already trie...

  • New X-Men: Childhood's End - Volume 2

    Craig Kyle

  • Other Times Than Peace

    David Drake

    THEY MAY NOT BE FLAWLESS HEROES -- BUT THEY'LL GET THE JOB DONE In the past, the present, or the future, life is grim and often short for the few who protect the many, usually for little pay, less gratitude, and dim prospects of growing old. *A squ...

  • Phule's Errand

    Robert Asprin

    From a New York Times bestseller, a commander in charge of a legion of misfit troops must track down his missing butler in this sci-fi comedy.   Phule is without a doubt the only captain in the Space Legion with his own butler, but Beeker has s...

  • Pointblank

    David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    A bold new contingent -- Force Recon -- joins the explosive Starfist space epic of marines at war.  A Confederation army is besieged on the planet Ravenette, cut off by and facing destruction at the hands of a dozen Secessionist Coalition world...

  • Second Wave

    Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    It is difficult growing up in the shadow of heroes revered throughout the galaxy. But that is the lot of young Khorii-daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate, Aari-who must now follow her own destiny through a fantastic universe of wonders ...

  • A Separate War and Other Stories

    Joe Haldeman

    Here are fifteen stories-never before collected- spanning 36 years of Joe Haldeman's award-winning writing...tales that tread upon familiar Haldeman territory, as well as explore the outer reaches of his phenomenal imagination. From the first sho...

  • Spider-Girl Presents Avengers Next - Volume 1: Second Coming

    Tom Defalco

    On another day unlike any other, a new collection of the World's Mightiest Heroes rocked their own remarkable reality! Enemies alien and Earthbound vie to end the new era of Avengerdom! Featuring the heir of Captain America and the son of the Black P...

  • Spider-Woman: Origin

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Spider-Woman: Origin #1-5. This all-new epic chronicles the intriguing secret history of Jessica Drew and her journey from child experiment to Hydra agent to S. H. I. E. L. D. agent to super hero to private eye to Avenger!....

  • Stamping Butterflies

    Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    From Marrakech to China's Forbidden City, from a doomed starship carrying a cryogenically preserved crew to an island prison camp, the fate of the world is being played out in the minds of two dreamers. One, a would-be assassin obsessed with enigmati...

  • The Trouble with Aliens

    Christopher Anvil

    TROUBLE, EXTRATERRESTRIAL STYLE... Humans on the space frontiers may have enough problems with befuddled bureaucrats, rules that don't fit the realities of very dangerous situations, and general rear-echelon incompetence without bringing in unfriend...

  • Ultimate Galactus - Book 3: Extinction

    Warren Ellis

    Collects Ultimate Exinction #1-5. It's time for the coming of Gah Lak Tus! And his arrival could mean the end of all life on this planet! Not even the power of S.H.I.E.L.D or the brilliance of Fantastic Four leader Reed Richards seems able to stop it...

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 6: Return of the King

    Mark Millar

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #26-33. Magneto, the X-Men's deadliest villain, returns. They've faced the Weapon X program, Proteus and even the superhuman strikeforce known as The Ultimates. Now, still licking their wounds from their prior battles, can Xav...

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 9: The Tempest

    Brian K. Vaughan

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #46-49. The X-Men have become more than a team. They've become a family. And the death of one of their own leaves the remaining X-Men struggling to deal with the loss. And even before a moment of silence can pass, the myste...

  • Von Neumann's War

    John Ringo; Travis S. Taylor

    TARGET: EARTH Mars is changing. Seemingly overnight the once "Red" planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural. A team of, literally, rocket scientists figure out a way to send a probe, very fast, to Mars to determin...

  • Women of Marvel

    Stan Lee

    It's a First-Issue Frenzy as Marvel collects the crime-fighting debuts of the Dazzler, Ms. Marvel, Shanna the She-Devil and the Cat - with distaff deviltry from the Enchantress and the White Queen! Plus: the Black Widow gets a new costume and the She...

  • X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl

    Peter Milligan

    It's hard to keep a good girl down... especially when she's Dead! After a brief hiatus caused by their deaths, everyone's favorite mutants are back! And this time, they're bringing a host of... questions with them. Like why do some heroes and villain...

  • The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

    Irvine Welsh

    "A family saga, a revenge fantasy, a Twilight Zone-esque parable, and, most importantly, a very fun read."  -- Entertainment Weekly This story of two men locked in a war of wills that threatens their very existence is vintage Irvine Welsh. Troub...

  • Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic

    Philippa Morgan

    Poet and diplomat Geoffrey Chaucer, newly returned from a delicate mission to Florence on behalf of Edward III, is despatched to sort out a home-grown problem in the Devon seaport of Dartmouth. Geoffrey must leave his family in London and travel west...

  • The Conjurer's Bird

    Martin Davies

    The Conjurer’s Bird is a beautiful story in the spirit of Possession that is as exciting as The Club Dumas, inspired by one of the great puzzles of natural history: that of the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta. Seen only once, in 1774, by Captain Cook’s...

  • Coronado: Stories

    Dennis Lehane

    A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle. . . . A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger. . . . An innocent man is hunted by government age...

  • Dead Cat Bounce

    Norman Green

    Stoney gave up drinking, but it couldn't save his marriage. Leaving the big house in New Jersey to his wife and kids, he's living in the City-still working the profitable, if not 100 percent legal, angles with his partner, "Fat Tommy Bagadonuts." The...

  • Double Cross

    Tim Powers

  • Farthing

    Jo Walton

    One summer weekend in 1949--but not our 1949--the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading figures in the group t...

  • Fear

    Jeff Abbott

    Everyone has a memory they'd like to forget. For federal witness Miles Kendrick, it's the shoot-out that left his best friend dead -- and Miles a hunted and haunted man. While helping his psychiatrist with a mysterious favor, Miles stumbles upon an i...

  • The Fourth Bear

    Jasper Fforde

    Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far as a murderous cookie stalks the streets of Reading. The Gingerbreadman--psychopath, sadist, genius, and killer--is on the loose. But it isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary...

  • The Intruders

    E.E. Richardson

    Joel Demetrius is quite looking forward to moving in with his new step-family, but as far as his sister Cassie's concerned, they're nothing but intruders. She doesn't want anything to do with Gerald and his two sons, and to make matters worse their n...

  • Knights of the Black and White

    Jack Whyte

    A brother of the Order--a medieval secret society uniting noble families in a sacred bond--Sir Hugh de Payens has emerged from the slaughter of the First Crusade a broken man seeking to dedicate his life to atonement, and to God. But the Order has ot...

  • The Last Quarry

    Max Allan Collins

    The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders...

  • Little Faith

    Michael Simon

    In a desperate battle between big business and big religion, Texas homicide detective Dan Reles must solve a murder--and save himself A rich stew of murder and corruption connects the state capital, the oil industry, and a powerful evangelical ch...

  • Master of the Hall

    Veronica Heley

    Eden Hall, the ancient English stately home, has brought Araminta 'Minty' Sands more joy---and heartache--- than she could ever have imagined. She's worked hard to keep it open to the public; but, exhausted from looking after the twins, Minty has no ...

  • The Mortician's Daughter

    Elizabeth Bloom

    Ginny Lavoie has just been suspended from her job with the NYPD when she gets a late-night phone call from her childhood best friend whose teenage son, Danny, was savagely beaten to death. Now, Ginny is back in the scruffy New England mill town she l...

  • The Next

    Dan Vining

    From the author of the innovative thriller The Quick comes the second story featuring Jimmy Miles. He is a man who doesn’t sleep. Perfect for a private investigator. The night belongs to him and to a restless few with secrets of their own -- like L...

  • The Night Gardener

    George P. Pelecanos

    The haunting story of three copsone good, one bad, one brokenand the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making. Gus Ramone is good police, a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the citys Violent Crime bra...

  • The Nightmares That Ghosts Have

    Louise Arnold

    When you have a ghost as an Invisible Friend, like Tom Golden does, you quickly learn the benefits. Grey Arthur supplies Tom with pens in class, grabs Tom's lunch when he forgets it on the kitchen counter, and generally helps him out as any best frie...

  • Not By Chance

    Kathy Herman

    In Search of Significance Thirty-year-old Brandon Jones arrives at his parents' doorstep burned out, jobless, and now fianceee-less. Ellen and Guy can provide a place for him to stay only until he figures out what to do with his life. When he takes a...

  • Reluctant Burglar

    Jill Elizabeth Nelson

    The Art of Art Thievery When Hiram Jacobs is murdered, the responsibility for his internationally renowned security company falls upon his daughter, Desiree. But a container full of stolen paintings screams the ugly truth - that her father was a thie...

  • Resurrection

    Tucker Malarkey

    A lost past. A hidden Gospel. A shocking discovery. It's 1948, and British nurse Gemma Bastian travels to Cairo to close the affairs of her late father, staying at the home of David Lazar, her father's oldest friend, and his enigmatic sons. While...

  • Run for Your Life

    Lucy Hawking

    Tired of her unfulfilled, unfocused life and going-nowhere career selling fake antiques, thirty-something Fleur Bonner joins the other misfits, lonely, and lost individuals of the Battersea Park New Runner's Club to train for the London marathon, but...

  • The Slow Moon

    Elizabeth Cox

    On an early spring night, Sophie and her boyfriend Crow slip away from a rowdy high school party and sneak off into the woods. But what is meant to be an idyllic, intimate evening turns into a nightmare. Sophie is attacked and refuses to speak; Crow ...

  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics

    Marisha Pessl

    Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her f...

  • The Tenderness of Wolves

    Stef Penney

    10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION - FEATURES READING GROUP QUESTIONS AND NEW MATERIAL FROM STEF'S UPCOMING EPIC NOVEL, UNDER A POLE STARCOSTA AWARD WINNER and WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER. A breathtaking tale of mystery, buried secrets and romance, set in nineteen...

  • Tonight, Somewhere in New York

    Francis M. Nevins Jr.

  • Too Far Gone

    John Ramsey Miller

    Alexa Keen is the best the FBI has to offer, a special agent who can achieve the impossible: finding victims of abduction before they can be killed. Casey LePointe West is heiress to one of the greatest fortunes in America. Now, as Hurricane Katrina ...

  • Beautiful Beast

    Dani Sinclair

    INSIDE THE LAIR OF THE BEAST Breaking in to the home of the man suspected of killing her father was reckless. But Cassy Richards had to confront Lieutenant Gabriel Lowe and learn the truth. She found a man with the aura of a predator -- and the sc...

  • Body Movers

    Stephanie Bond

    Okay, so Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned. She didn't plan for her parents to skip bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her to raise her younger brother. She didn't plan on having the silver spoon ripped out of her mouth and ...

  • Born To Be Wild

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Get yourself ready for Mary Lisa Beverly - a soap-opera phenom who's just won her third Daytime Emmy for her role as Sunday Cavendish on Born to Be Wild. She's fun and lovable and has lots of crazy friends, most of whom hang out at he...

  • Bridal Op

    Dana Marton

    THEY WERE A KIDNAPPED HEIRESS'S LAST CHANCE... As a Confidential agent, Isabelle Rush's assignment included tracking down and rescuing a kidnapped heiress in South America -- not encouraging the attention of her infuriatingly gorgeous and highly s...

  • Comeback

    Doranna Durgin

    ATHENA ALUM SELENA SHAW JONES'S MOTTO: NEVER LET HIM SEE YOUR FEAR Her intervention in a hostage crisis had made her an instant hero. But Selena Shaw Jones still had nightmares. Now the CIA had approached her for another do-or-die mission -- to lo...

  • Dakota Meltdown

    Elle James

    24/7 For investigator Brenna Jensen, snowy Riverton, North Dakota, was the ideal home -- until it became the target of a serial killer. Not even FBI hotshot Nick Tarver could keep her from trailing the maniac who taunted her, shadowed her every mo...

  • Dead Silence

    Brenda Novak

    There's a body buried behind a Mississippi farmhouse Grace Montgomery knows who it is, and she knows why it happened. She was only thirteen the night it all went wrong. And now, like then, she has no choice but to keep her mouth shut. Grace lef...

  • Detour

    Sylvie Kurtz

    P.I. SIERRA MARTINDALE COULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS. BUT LIFE THREW HER ONE HELL OF A CURVE. Her fearless pursuit of the truth made P.I. Sierra Martindale unstoppable -- right up to the day she collapsed in the midst of a dangerous ...

  • The Grail Keepers Duo

    Evelyn Vaughn

    Reporting a break-in, avoiding my overprotective ex-lover, dodgingdangerous men out to kill me…not exactly a typical day for acomparative mythology professor. So how did I, Maggi Sanger, get mixedup in all this?It started with a family legend that ...

  • Haunted Echoes

    Cindy Dees

    THE GHOST, THE THIEF AND THE INTERPOL AGENT Interpol agent Ana Reisner has big problems. She's been ordered -- by the president of France -- to solve a murder that hasn't happened yet and recover a stolen item that the owner refuses to name. Worse...

  • The Hidden Heir

    Debra Webb

    AN HEIR AND A FORTUNE...JUST THE CASE FOR THE COLBY AGENCY Ashley Orrick would protect her son at all costs. But escaping her all-powerful ex, whose infinite resources seemed almost impossible to elude, was one thing -- shaking Victoria Colby-Camp...

  • Home Before Midnight

    Virginia Kantra

    USA Today bestselling author Virginia Kantra delivers a haunting novel of suspense and passion, in which the sins of the past are never forgiven--and murder is never forgotten... Years ago, Bailey Wells left behind her small-town North Carolina ro...

  • In the Midst of Passion

    Altonya Washington

    A Passionate Encounter Statuesque and supermodel-gorgeous, Topaz Emerson has always chosen thrills over safety, the offbeat over the ordinary. Instead of choosing a law career like her parents, she opens her own auto repair garage. And when she meet...

  • Into the Storm

    Suzanne Brockmann

    In a remote corner of New Hampshire, SEAL petty officer Mark Jenkins and Troubleshooter/security expert Lindsey Fontaine are involved in a raid-and-rescue training exercise. But practice turns into a real emergency when a team member vanishes in the ...

  • Last Kiss Goodbye

    Rita Herron

    There was no turning back Fearful yet determined, Ivy Stanton returns to the small Appalachian town she left fifteen years ago...the night her parents were murdered. But in coming home to Kudzu Hollow, she discovers she is not alone in her search ...

  • Last Whisper

    Carlene Thompson

    Someone is tracking her every move... A killer who knows that true nightmares never end... And that the perfect murder is always worth waiting for... Brooke Yeager's childhood ended the night she crept downstairs to find her beautiful, gentle mo...

  • Mixed Up With The Mob

    Ginny Aiken

    DEATH AND A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS Strange things were happening to Lauren DiStefano. Since her brother's funeral, a mysterious driver had tried to run her down, menacing mobsters threatened her and a handsome FBI agent saved her life. Something was s...

  • Sarah

    Charlotte Hardy

    A powerful love story set in 19th century Whitby Sarah Shaw arrives in the fishing port of Whitby alone and almost destitute, fleeing her abusive husband. In desperate need of accommodation and employment, she takes a post as governess in the househo...

  • Secrets Of The Rose

    Lois Richer

    WHOM COULD SHE TRUST? With a happy marriage, a thriving business and a beautiful young daughter -- Shelby Kinkaid and her husband had the perfect life. Until he was killed in a mysterious accident. After that, Shelby's life revolved around litt...

  • Spying in High Heels

    Gemma Halliday

    L.A. shoe designer Maddie Springer lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfrien...

  • Tangled Memories

    Marta Perry

    Finally meeting the wealthy family she'd never known should have given Corrie Grant the information about her father she'd craved all her life. But the Mannings of Savannah were a secretive and hostile bunch. All except Lucas Santee, her grandfather'...

  • Trace Of Doubt

    Erica Orloff

    HER GIFT FOR WORKING A CRIME SCENE PUT HER IN A SERIAL KILLER'S SIGHTS Criminalist Billie Quinn lived and breathed the evidence. People lied. But DNA never let her down. Or could it? For the case that put her fight for justice in the media spot...

  • Undeniable Proof

    B.J. Daniels

    SECRETS KEPT CAN ONLY BE TROUBLE... Though Cape Diablo had a reputation for being cursed, Willa St. Clare -- the only eyewitness to a murder investigation -- found the remote island the perfect place to disappear. Only, she never realized she was ...

  • Vow To Protect

    Ann Voss Peterson

    BLACK TIE REQUIRED The wedding invitation sent to Cordell Turner had looked innocent enough. But the person who had sent it, notorious serial killer Dryden Kane, was anything but. With the calculating murderer on the loose, Cord was headed for a m...

  • A Whisper in the Dark

    Linda Castillo

    Until now, no one has suspected the truth about down-to-earth bookseller Julia Wainwright. But the arrival of six threatening letters indicates someone has discovered her secret -- and wants her to pay for her sins... Ever since he accidentally kill...

  • Ain't Nothin' Down About It

    P.R. Hawkins

    When David and Val meet Mel, they hardly expect their marriage and outlook on life, love and sex to change completely. But the enigmatic, sexy Mel has something neither have ever imagined - something utterly tempting and completely irresistible....

  • All for Love

    Gail McFarland

    Whatever made her think she could leave well enough alone?Rachel Solomon is an unmarried woman - over 30. Everywhere she looks, family and friends are busily rounding up every single man they can find in an effort to secure a happy future...

  • Bling Addiction

    Kylie Adams

    After a hot summer of partying in sexy South Beach, the fabulous five of the Miami Academy for Creative and Performing Arts are back in school but no less scandalous! You met them in Cruel Summer: Vanity, the gorgeous celebutante; Dante, the hip-ho...

  • Chocolate Covered Forbidden Fruit

    Trista Russell

    Thalia, a 25-year-old wild girl gone good, moves back to her old neighborhood after a failed engagement and manages to catch the eye of the town's most wanted man -- the incredibly sexy, single, devoted, and charismatic Reverend Isaac. Not only is th...

  • Choices Men Make

    Dwayne Joseph

    Have you ever wondered about the choices men make and why they make them? Julie Reed wondered when Vic, her husband of six months, walked out on her for no apparent reason. Now he's happily in the arms of another woman. Roy Burges thought he'd made t...

  • The Cubicle Next Door

    Siri Mitchell

    Siri Mitchell's insightful, funny chick-lit style shines in this story of putting up walls and tearing them down--all for love. Jackie Harrison, a computer administrator at the Air Force Academy, is a self-proclaimed geek who must share her cubic...

  • Evasions

    Melanie M. Jeschke

    From the links of St. Andrews, Scotland, to the blitz of London in World War II, RAF pilot Eric MacKenzie embarks on a dark journey of the soul as he battles the Nazis, personal loss, and bitterness. Evading the bombing raids and her own distressi...

  • Fire Island Summer

    Julie Ellis

  • Found

    Karen Kingsbury

    A DESPERATE SEARCH Driven by his wife's dying wish--to find their firstborn son--John Baxter sets about the search. His prayer? That Elizabeth's wish would be fulfilled before the upcoming Baxter family reunion. One strange turn follows another, but...

  • The Guy I'm Not Dating

    Trish Perry

    Kara Richardson has finally suffered one breakup too many. She's decided to go the no-dating route to romance, although she's not quite sure how that works. She couldn't have picked a worse time to meet Gabe Paolino. Gorgeous men hardly faze Kara. A...

  • A Hearth in Candlewood

    Delia Parr

    With genteel grace and quiet fortitude, Emma Garrett presides over Hill House, a stately boardinghouse in the canal village of Candlewood, New York. She finds her purpose in caring for her guests, ministering to them with a generous dose of wisdom an...

  • Henry's Women

    Pamela Oldfield

    Millie can't escape a life dogged by romantic complications - Millie is weary of living with her sister, Esmi who is indulging in clandestine meetings with a man whom she knows only as Wally and Esmi's husband Leo, who pines for Millie. So she moves ...

  • Hook Up

    Pat Tucker

    When Yvette, Carmen, and Vicki go to Frankie Brown, the owner of The Hook Up, a customized dating service where anything can be purchased for a price, their lives are filled with incredible sex, hot drama, and unimaginable pleasure. Original....

  • The Jump Off

    Doug Dixon

    In Doug Dixon's hip, sexy novel, a dedicated player is about to discover that the free and easy lifestyle can wind up being anything but... Charming, successful engineer Troy Sanders likes his relationships short, hot, and hassle-free. Until one da...

  • Letting Go of Lisa

    Lurlene McDaniel

    Nathan Malone has been home schooled his whole life. He hasn't spent much time with kids his own age, let alone dated. Now that his mother is busy with his new twin sisters, he must enroll at the local high school for his senior year. On the first da...

  • Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

    Janette Rallison

    Josie I don't ask for much in life -- unless you count Ethan Lancaster's attention as "much." He's gorgeous, available, and unfortunately only notices me when I'm falling on my face. (Figuratively and literally.) My best friend, Cami, says she can...

  • Norah's Ark

    Judy Baer

    Hi, my name is Bentley. I'm a mutt with a dash of pit bull in the soup, and I have issues. I'm not likely to win any beauty pageants, and I'm afraid of cats. But my human, Norah Kent, thinks I'm the greatest despite all my shortcomings. The pro...

  • Nothing to Lose

    S.K. McClafferty

    Final Moves Twelve years ago, the brutal murders of the Call family rocked the sleepy town of Nazareth, New Mexico--and a copycat killer has just struck again. Another family. Same M.O. Same house where Deke Call grew up, the only person to survive ...

  • The PMS Club

    Carolyn Brown

    Dixie Nelson arrived in Florida with a mad spell sitting on her shoulders. Her two friends Faith and Jill could flirt with the tanned and gorgeous men on the beaches all they wanted. She wasn't going to do anything but try to get over her anger and e...

  • Postcards from Last Summer

    Roz Bailey

    Smart, perceptive, and deliciously funny, Roz Bailey's novels are impossible to put down. In Postcards From Last Summer, she follows the lives and loves of three girlfriends as they reconnect in the Hamptons each summer for cold margaritas, hot hooku...

  • A Promise for Ellie

    Lauraine Snelling

    Bestselling Author Lauraine Snelling Returns to Her Beloved Red River Valley.... Unforgettable stories of the next generation ELLIE WOLD CAN'T WAIT TO GRADUATE. She and Andrew Bjorklund have been waiting to get married since...well, since forever, ...

  • The Redemption

    M.L. Tyndall / MaryLu Tyndall

    Lady Charlisse Bristol sets off on a voyage in search of a father she never knew, only to find herself shipwrecked on a desert island. Near starvation, she is rescued by a band of pirates and their fiercely handsome leader, Edmund Merrick. Will Charl...

  • The Reel Thing

    Beverly Martin-Lowry; Sue Blotz

    When Megan Wakefield returns home from college, the last thing she expects is to find her father's ranch transformed into an elaborate movie set, complete with an Old West-style main street and an entire film crew on location from Hollywood. Megan ma...

  • Rise of the Phoenix

    Kenneth Whetsone

  • A Secret Design

    Heather Reed

    Life in Rock Valley is nothing like Paris, with its fashion shoots and runway shows, and that's just how Angela Kensington wants it. Five years after she left to become a famous clothing designer, Angela can't wait to come home and relax. She's made ...

  • Sex in the Hood 2

    White Chocolate

    When her world of wealth and privilege is shattered by her father's death, pampered princess Victoria is forced to live with her grandmother in one of Detroit's toughest neighborhoods, where she takes up with Duke Johnson, the leader of a gang, and t...

  • Silver Butterfly

    Janet Logan

    Silver Butterfly is a love story that spans a half-century. Junior high school sweethearts Steve and Serena are parted at fourteen when Steve's family moves from Brooklyn, New York to south Jersey. By the time fate reunites them, Serena has been marr...

  • A Simple Gift

    Karyn Witmer

    Avery and Mike thought they had the perfect American family until their daughter ran away. Now Fiona’s back in town...and nothing will ever be the same again.

    Avery Montgomery’s life changed forever in the checkout line at the Food-4-Less ...

  • Tears of a Class Clown

    Sara Faith Alterman

    Just when you thought you'd put the past behind you-; the forlorn crushes, the awkward fashions, the cliques, the pigeonholes, those rampant, raging hormones-;it sneaks up on you when you least expect it, and suddenly you're invited to turn back the ...

  • To Catch a Husband

    Lindsay Graves

    in the exclusive Southern California community of Colina Linda, money means everything. But snagging a man who has money means even more. When billionaire David Clemente files for divorce, his newly single status is the gossip among the ladies-who-lu...

  • Trick of the Mind

    Judy Waite

    Wanting to make Matt fall for her, Erin teaches him magic to lure him away from his interest in Kirsty, but when Kirsty is found dead and Erin realizes that Matt is to blame, Erin must put aside her feelings and make the right decision in order to se...

  • The Trouble with Twins

    J.E. Bright

    This follow-your-own-destiny romance series lets the reader choose her fate. Will her decisions lead to terminal embarrassment...or a delicious first kiss?

    Identical twin brothers Jeremy and Jason are both totally gorgeous...and totally into y...

  • The Unresolved

    T.K. Welsh

    In 1904 New York City, the spirit of a deceased German American teenage girl searches for the person responsible for the General Slocum steamboat fire that claimed her life and the lives of more than one thousand other passengers....

  • The Wish House

    Celia Rees

    From the best-selling author of WITCH CHILD and SORCERESS comes another engrossing, atmospheric novel following a teenage boy as he uncovers the secrets of the mysterious and provocative Wish House.
    It's the start of summer vacation, and fifteen-...

  • The Second Perimeter

    Mike Lawson

    Joe DeMarco, a political gunslinger and trouble-shooter for John Mahoney, the conniving Speaker of the House, is asked to investigate what appears to be a minor case of fraud at a U.S. naval base. DeMarco discovers instead that an Asian espionage rin...

  • Blood on the Bones

    Geraldine Evans

    Rafferty and Llewellyn are faced with an unholy puzzle of a case Lapsed Catholic DI Joe Rafferty isn?t best pleased when he learns their latest case is at the local Roman Catholic Convent, where a body was discovered in a shallow grave in the grounds...

  • Dead Wrong

    J.A. Jance

    Juggling a family and a career has never been easy for Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Now the impending birth of her second child only adds to her burden, especially when two brutal crimes fall under her jurisdiction. A corpse is discovered ...

  • Dying Light

    Stuart MacBride

    With this follow-up to COLD GRANITE, deemed an "impressive debut" by Publishers Weekly, Stuart MacBride proves himself to be a rising star of crime fiction -- and this time, the action is more explosive than ever... A FALL FROM GRACE On the coast...

  • Evanly Bodies

    Rhys Bowen

    Detective Constable Evan Evans and his new bride, Bronwen, are settling into married life in their little cottage above the village of Llanfair when they meet the daughter of one of the village's newest families, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl nam...

  • False Knight

    Peter Turnbull

    Hennesy and Yellich face a shocking crime Mary Golightly was not a happy woman. Her husband and she were locked into a perpetual marital war so violent that the whole street knew about it. Yet in the last few weeks before she went missing, she was lo...

  • Lifeless

    Mark Billingham

    It's hardly a life. But he'll take it anyway. . . . To friends and enemies alike, it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father and berated for seriously overstepping the mark on his last case,...

  • Murder in Jerusalem

    Batya Gur

    Modern Israel is a place filled with contradictions: the beautiful landscape often rife with human conflict; the tranquil and the peaceful in constant struggle with terrible destruction; and amazing human love and kindness set against a backdrop of c...

  • One Last Breath

    Stephen Booth

    Set in England's legendary Peak District, Stephen Booth's acclaimed mysteries tell tales of men and women under siege by both ordinary life and extraordinary crime. Now, in a stunning, fascinatingly intelligent novel, Booth's uneasy young policeman, ...

  • Riptide

    Donn Cortez

    The Miami Dade Crime Lab is called in to examine the body of a young woman who has washed ashore on an island in Florida Bay. Lieutenant Horatio Caine is quick to identify the probable murder weapon: a shark dart used by the navy as part of an experi...

  • Snake Eyes

    Max Allan Collins

    Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence -- miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds...

  • Triptych

    Karin Slaughter

    In the city of Atlanta, women are dying -- at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives,...

  • Always Mine

    Sophia Johnson

    A TIMELESS LOVE The great Lord Damron is no more than a shadowy, powerful presence in the ruins of Blackthorn Castle. But the compelling gaze of his portrait draws Lydia Hunter to stand before him -- and fall through time to become his beloved Lady ...

  • Captive Moon

    C.T. Adams; Cathy Clamp

    World-class entertainer and Sazi councilmember, Antoine Monier has taken his big cats all over the world without any trouble--until his latest trip to Stuttgart, where one of his tigers is stolen and killed. To Antoine's surprise, the German police h...

  • Dead End Dating

    Kimberly Raye

    BITING IS SO LAST SEASON. A vivacious vampire with a flair for accessorizing, Lil Marchette is unlike most of her kind. She prefers lively shades of pink to dismal black (soo not her color), plus she's a hopeless romantic. In need of a steady payc...

  • Edge of Darkness

    Cherry Adair

    Beneath a veil of darkness, danger threatens to strike. An anti-terrorism agent with a warrior's body and a magnetic smile, Duncan Edge is working for T-FLAC's special paranormal unit on a mission to halt a lethal terrorist cell. Along the way, Du...

  • High Stakes

    Erin McCarthy

    From the USA Today bestselling author, a vampire-meets-girl story set in the city that never sleeps-except during daylight. He's a bloodsucking freak of nature. But, unlike other politicians, Ethan Carrick is actually a nice guy. Not to mention a...

  • Midnight Moon

    Lori Handeland

    Under the midnight moon... Cassandra thought she had the perfect life until she suffered a devastating tragedy. Now she has a new identity as Priestess Cassandra, owner of a New Orleans voodoo shop, and a new purpose. A research trip for a paranorma...

  • Bye-Bye, Black Sheep

    Ayelet Waldman

    Their fledgling detective agency has spread its wings-and now Juliet and Al are finally flying high. They're used to seeing many people come through the doors of their garage-turned-office, seeking their help. But they're about to realize that they a...

  • Mask Market

    Andrew H. Vachss

    They meet in a no -- name diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, as Burke watches from an alley, his client is gunned down by a professional hunter -- killer team. Burke slips away, unsure if he's been...

  • Copper River

    William Kent Krueger

    In well-crafted settings that are beautiful and unforgiving, with unforgettable characters and jaw-dropping surprises, William Kent Krueger's Cork O'Connor thrillers have drawn a flood of awards and praise. The latest in the series finds the sheriff ...

  • The Mournful Teddy

    John J. Lamb

    Retired San Francisco cop Brad Lyon is settling into a quieter life with his wife, Ashleigh, in Virginia's mountain country, where they collect and create teddy bears. But even here, stuff happens... The Sound and the Furry The day is here -- ...

  • Crisis

    Robin Cook

    A partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice, Dr. Craig Bowman has reached an impressive level of success. But this idyllic situation comes to a grinding halt when he's served with a summons for medical negligence--and things get much, much w...

  • The Real Ghostbusters: Which Witch Is Which?

    Dan Abnett

  • As Dead as It Gets

    Cady Kalian

    Maggie Mars used to be a journalist on the East Coast, but now she's come to LaLa Land to make a name for herself as a screenwriter... and maybe live her fantasy of someday meeting Jack Nicholson. When Maggie's dear mentor Roger, the Executive Di...

  • Blarney

    Steve Hockensmith
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    Jim Fusilli
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  • The Cold, Hard Truth

    Rick McMahan
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    Tom Savage
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  • Death in West Wheeling

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    “Breakneck pace and solid atmosphere are the hallmarks here.” -- AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION When a local schoolteacher disappears from rural West Wheeling, acting sheriff Homer Deters investigates. Before long he's got three more missing perso...

  • Disco for the Departed

    Colin Cotterill

    Dr Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current government had hidden out in caves, waiting to ...

  • Entrapped

    Harlan Coben
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  • A Few Small Repairs

    Jeff Abbott
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  • Heat Lightning

    William Kent Krueger
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  • Hidden Riches

    Jerry B. Jenkins; Chris Fabry

    An unexpected chance to help the school bully gets Ashley and Bryce into a tough spot. When they’re spotted snooping around a possible crime scene, the culprits will stop at nothing to keep them from getting in the way.

    Will their quick ge...

  • Home Coming

    Charles Todd
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  • The Home Front

    Charles Ardai
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  • In Dead Man's Alley

    Dorothy R. Kliewer

    The crumbling California ghost town of North Ledge becomes the site of an exciting--and dangerous--mix of dinosaur bones and murder. Reporter Deedra Masefield packs her sleeping bag and camping gear and heads into the story, lured by the news that th...

  • A Killing on Church Grounds

    Barbara Cummings

    Five Star Mysteries are standard print, first editions from award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming authors of the Mystery genre. These hardcover first editions will consist of new novels and short story collections plus novels that have been ...

  • The Knowland Retribution

    Richard Greener

    With tainted meat the weapon and corporate greed the motive, The Knowland Retribution is an extremely topical suspense-revenge thriller. Walter Sherman, a/k/a the Locator, is a tracker who honed his skills in Vietnam. The colorful cast of characters ...

  • The Last Flight

    Brendan DuBois
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  • Lost Angel

    Mike Doogan

    Moses Wright founded the Christian commune of Rejoice. The rough-and-tumble interior of Alaska may seem a strange place for such a community, but for twenty years it has served as a beacon in the wilderness. Two decades later Moses granddaughter, Fai...

  • The Masseuse

    Tim Wohlforth
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  • The Merlot Murders

    Ellen Crosby

    Leland Montgomery's death was deemed accidental, but when his daughter Lucie returns home from France, she finds the once-thriving family vineyard run down, collapsing under huge debt. Lucie's godfather warns her that Leland's demise may have been th...

  • Missing, Maybe Dead

    Tom Mitcheltree

    The lure of a decades-old mystery finds vacationing professor Paul Fischer in a small Oregon town, where a dying colleague persuades him to follow a cold trail to a missing wife. Irene Drexler simply vanished one July night while on a milk run to the...

  • Murder a la Carte

    Prudy Taylor Board

    Shooting on location at the lush Far Horizons beach resort on Rattlesnake Key, Clyde Colby, host of Miami's hit cooking show Gourmet Galley, discovers getting out of the kitchen is too hot to handle. Never mind the sumptuous dishes prepared by guest ...

  • Murder by Committee

    Veronica Heley

    The sixth Ellie Quicke mystery - It seemed an innocent request: would widowed Ellie Quicke visit a man whose dog died in an accident? The dog's master a powerful but unpleasant businessman believes he was the intended target, and that an old enemy is...

  • The Murder Hole

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    American journalist Jean Fairbairn, on an assignment for Great Scot magazine, is covering a new effort to unravel the mystery of Nessie, Scotland's Loch Ness monster. At the helm of the controversial probe is an American scientist who believes his te...

  • Murder Passes the Buck

    Deb Baker

    Gertie Johnson may be outspoken, distrustful of banks, and a quick draw with the pepper spray, but she hasn't lost her marbles. Her son Blaze, the sheriff in a backwoods community of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is petitioning to become her legal guar...

  • A Night in Hollywood Forever

    Andrew J. Fenady

  • One Shot

    P.J. Parrish
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  • Part Light, Part Memory

    Bonnie Hearn Hill
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