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  • Blood Bound

    Patricia Briggs

    Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an aver...

  • The Chick and the Dead

    Casey Daniels

    PEPPER MARTIN HAS A GIFT...AND SHE'D LOVE TO GIVE IT BACK! Ever since the former rich girl-turned-Cleveland cemetery tour guide banged her head on a headstone, she sees dead people. Worse still, she hears them--and they won't shut up! Now it's Did...

  • Night Rising

    Chris Marie Green

    WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD -- AFTER DARK... Stuntwoman Dawn Madison is a girl with a lot of attitude. And a lot of issues, mostly about living up to the legacy of her mother, a world-famous movie star and sex symbol, whose untimely death left Dawn to be r...

  • Possession

    Jennifer Armintrout

    My father always said fear was a weakness. Well, that's easy to say when you don't have to worry about vampire slayers or holy water. I hate fear, but undead life goes on. In the two months since I was attacked in the hospital morgue and turned into ...

  • The Scent of Shadows

    Vicki Pettersson

    When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert. By rights, she should be dead. Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset--a grim, secret Sin City where Light batt...

  • Silent Echoes

    Carla Jablonski

    What happens to a teenage girl who starts hearing voices? The answer is vastly different for two girls living in two different eras.When a "spirit" contacts Lucy Phillips at a séance in nineteenth-century Manhattan, Lucy quickly gains fame as a tale...

  • Unshapely Things

    Mark Del Franco

    As long as there are desperate people, there will be the Weird, and I will have a reason to get up in the morning. I may not work in the big power leagues these days, but I still pull my weight even if now I'm poor Connor Grey, crippled druid. At lea...

  • The Alexandria Link

    Steve Berry

    "You have something I want. You're the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don't hear from you, you will be childless." Cotton Malone's teenage son has been kidnapped, and an anonymous e-mail from those...

  • Allah's Scorpion

    David Hagberg

    A swarm of terrorist activity has put the United States on its most heightened alert level since September 11, 2001 Investigations into each of these seemingly unrelated acts uncover the same cryptic codeword: Allah's Scorpion. Former CIA Director K...

  • Bermuda Schwartz

    Bob Morris

    A young scuba guide, scouting new dive sites in the shipwreck-laden reefs that rim Bermuda, makes a fatal discovery: A treasure more valuable than gold or jewels. And some people are willing to kill for it. Enter Zack Chasteen, knockabout palm-tree f...

  • Black Monday

    Bob Reiss

    A plague that will cause the death of millions. A plague that will destroy countries. A plague that will plunge the world into a dark age. A plague that will make nobody sick... When the first planes go down -- in Europe, in California, in Asia ...

  • The Broken Shore

    Peter Temple

    Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won't be long before he is recognized as what he really is--one of the nation's finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of l...

  • Choke Point

    Jay MacLarty

    WHEN HIGH-RISK COURIER SIMON LEONIDOVICH IS DRAWN INTO A GAME OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE IN THE NEW GAMING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, THE ODDS ARE STACKED AGAINST HIM LIKE NEVER BEFORE. While overseeing the frenzied but suspiciously troubled construct...

  • Dead Head

    Allen Wyler

    Brain Surgery or Murder? When brain surgeon Russell Lawton is abducted at gunpoint by terrorists, he's sure there's a mistake: how could he be useful to them? To his horror, he learns they have kidnapped his only child, eight-year old Angela. Unle...

  • The Echelon Vendetta

    David Stone

    CIA AGENT MICAH. DALTON is a "cleaner" He takes care of other agents' mistakes. And he is very good at his job. But when a friend and mentor appears to have committed a grotesque suicide, Dalton's investigation leads him into the snare of a madman...

  • The Fifth Vial

    Michael Palmer

    A novel of medical suspense that begins with these chilling questions: Who ends up with the blood samples you routinely give for tests? What else are they being used for? Why don't you know? Take a Deep Breath. . . . In Boston, a disgraced medic...

  • Into the Darkest Corner

    Elizabeth Haynes

    Catherine Bailey has been enjoying the single life long enough to know a catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic and spontaneous, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. And her friends clearly agree, as each in turn falls under his spell. ...

  • Lion Eyes

    Claire Berlinski

    In Lion Eyes, a fictional Claire -- the author of a novel about love among young CIA trainees -- is unsuccessfully dodging a deadly Paris heat wave and her even deadlier ex-boyfriend. When she receives an e-mail from an Iranian admirer who wonders ho...

  • Pandora's Legion

    Harold Coyle; Barrett Tillman

    In this explosive new series from New York Times bestselling author Harold Coyle and noted military author Barrett Tillman, a new type of war is being fought by private paramilitary companies at the beck and call of the highest bidder. With the milit...

  • The Presidential Affair

    Clive Egleton

    Who would blackmail the President of the United States when war in the Middle East is about to erupt? - It is the eve of the 1956 US presidential election and war is about to erupt in the Middle East. Suddenly, love letters come to light suggesting I...

  • Storm Runners

    T. Jefferson Parker

    Stromsoe was in high school when he met the boy who would someday murder his wife and son ... Once Matt Stromsoe was best friends with brilliant, unpredictable Mike Tavarez. That was before Stromsoe joined the San Diego P.D. and Mike left Harvard ...

  • Sunset and the Major

    Julian Jay Savarin

    A Muller and Pappenheim adventure - Muller is trying to come to terms with having led the shadowy Semper organisation to the Australian Outback where they murdered his parents. Meanwhile, Pappenheim has discovered that a trusted friend has betrayed h...

  • Allegiance

    Timothy Zahn

    Never before has the incendiary mix of action, politics, and intrigue that has become Timothy Zahn's trademark, been mmore evident that in this new Star Wars epic. On the heels of the stunning events chronicled in Star Wars: A New Hope, the newly min...

  • The Darkness Drops Again

    Christopher L. Bennett

    Mere Anarchy A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek ® history, continuing with an adventure that takes place between The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan ! Book 4: The Darkness Drops Again The rebuilding of Mestiko is startin...

  • Deliverer

    C.J. Cherryh

    THE PRODIGY In the aftermath of civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to their seat of...

  • Demands of Honor

    Kevin Ryan

    The United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire stand on the brink of war. Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise™ are sent back to System 7348 -- site of a previous skirmish with the Klingons -- for a confrontation with the I.K.S....

  • Exile

    Aaron Allston

    In the Stars Wars galaxy, evil is on the move as the Galactic Alliance and Jedi order battle forces seen and unseen, from rampant internal treachery to the nightmare of all-out war. With each victory against the Corellian rebels, Jacen Solo become...

  • Fearless

    Jack Campbell

    Outnumbered by the superior forces and firepower of the Syndicate Worlds, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous retreat across the enemy star system. Led by the legendary Captain John "Black Jack" Geary, who returned to the fleet after a hundred...

  • Glass Empires

    David Mack
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    There are moments glimpsed only in shadow, where darkness rules and evil incarnate thrives. You hope against hope that in your lifetime, evil is relegated to the shadows. But what if it wasn't? What if you lived in a universe where your life was mea...

  • The Good That Men Do

    Michael A. Martin; Andy Mangels

    Pax Galactica. Enemies become allies. Old secrets are at last revealed. Long-held beliefs and widely accepted truths are challenged. Man turns to leisurely pursuits. In this golden age, two old friends are drawn together. They seek to understand,...

  • The Star to Every Wandering

    David R. George III

    IN A SINGLE MOMENT . . . the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but...

  • Games of Command

    Linnea Sinclair

    The universe isn't what it used to be. With the new Alliance between the Triad and the United Coalition, Captain Tasha "Sass" Sebastian finds herself serving under her former nemesis, biocybe Admiral Branden Kel-Paten -- and doing her best to hide a ...

  • Insufficient Mating Material

    Rowena Cherry

    Fewmet! Shot down...for failing to mate in public. Marooned on an island with the ultimate fashionista, who wouldn't take off her clothes to save her own life, Djetth discovers that when a Tiger prince is honor bound to hide his true identity, when ...

  • Fear Itself

    Michael Reaves

    Batman strikes fear in the hearts of criminals, but there's a killer stalking Gotham who's even better at inspiring fright -- and his method just might be unbeatable . . . because it's invisible. Unbeknownst to the general public, a powerful new d...

  • The Best of the Best, Volume 2

    Gardner Dozois

    For more than twenty years The Year's Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005 the original Best of the Best coll...

  • Breakfast with the Ones You Love

    Eliot Fintushel

    Meet Lea Tillim, aka Cadaver Dimples, Star of Morgues and Emergency Rooms. Scarecrow thin, with a sharp crew cut and a dead face, Lea's a girl with a talent. She can think you into a heart attack if you cross her -- or, if she's feeling kind, just a ...

  • Echoes of an Alien Sky

    James P. Hogan

    Eighteen years have passed since the first manned mission to Earth arrived from Venus. With the first colonists already establishing themselves across the bright, sunny world of clear blue skies and wonderlands of towering mountains and ice deserts, ...

  • The Elysium Commission

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to SF with a whole new future world on the brink of destruction. A brilliant scientist on the planet Devanta has created a small universe contiguous to ourswith a utopian city on one of the planets. The question is, an uto...

  • Essential Ghost Rider - Volume 2

    Gerry Conway

    Demons, vampires, cults, actors - nothing's too intense for the Sizzling Cyclist of the Seventies! After mowing down a mob of motorcycling miscreants, the Ghost Rider faces what waits in the Wild West of the Phantom Rider and the Two-Gun Kid! Plus: S...

  • Essential Ms. Marvel - Volume 1

    Gerry Conway

    Ms. Marvel's current successes are only the latest in a line of earth-shaking adventures that began in her original series, reprinted here in its entirety! New nemeses like Steeplejack and the Doomsday Man vie for the female fury's attention alongsid...

  • Fashion Babylon

    Imogen Edwards-Jones

    What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what's in and what's out? Why is it green one year and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth five thousand dollars and another worth fifty? Is the catwalk really that catty? What makes a ...

  • Franklin Richards: Lab Brat

    Marc Sumerak

    Move over, Mr. Fantastic - Marvel's First Family has a brand-new star! Franklin Richards finally hits the big time with this collection of all four critically acclaimed Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius one-shots! Join Franklin and his robot pal H.E...

  • From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain

    Minister Faust

    They're Earth's mightiest superteam -- and dysfunctional as hell. OMNIPOTENT MAN -- a body with the density of steel, and a brain to match THE FLYING SQUIRREL -- aging playboy industrialist by day, avenging krypto-fascist by night IRON LASS ...

  • Ghost Rider Team-Up

    Steven Grant

    The Spirit of Vengeance rides roughshod over Spider-Man, the Thing and the rest of the Marvel Universe! The Spider, the Ghost and the soul-stealer who hates them both - who will survive the Carnival of Fear? The Thing vs. the Ghost Rider in Death Rac...

  • Gods and Pawns

    Kage Baker

    In the Company, youre either a God or a Pawn, but sometimes you have to be both. These eight stories, reprinted for the first time, delve further into the history and exploits of the Company and its operatives, including Mendoza, Lewis, and Alec. The...

  • Ink

    Hal Duncan

    Once, in the depths of prehistory, they were human. But in a moment of brutal transfiguration, they became unkin, beings who possessed the power to alter reality by accessing the Vellum: a realm of eternity containing every possibility, every paradox...

  • Lifeblood

    Hugh Matthews

    Troubled by memory flashes about his time in the Canadian army during World War II, Logan soon discovers that he had been a POW in a Nazi concentration camp, where he had fallen victim to the experimentation of ruthless Nazi scientist Wolfgang von St...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes, Volume 1

    Marvel Book Group

  • Marvel Romance Redux: Another Kind of Love

    Jeff Parker

    Continuing the noble pursuit of taking funny old pictures and putting funny words on top of them! We've asked some of the funniest writers in comics today to look at the romance comics of yesteryear and put in some new dialogue that'll make us laugh!...

  • Marvel Team-Up - Volume 4: Freedom Ring

    Robert Kirkman

    An all-new hero is introduced into the Marvel Universe, but is the world ready for Freedom Ring? And what does all this have to do with a reality-altering ring crafted from broken shards of the cosmic cube? Featuring Wolverine, Cable, Captain America...

  • Masters of War

    Michael A. Stackpole

    THE LATEST ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE... As Clan Wolf launches a daring campaign of reprisal against The Republic, three warriors will find their destinies intertwined on the field of battle, and in the fight for their futures. Alaric is a legen...

  • Mimzy and Other Stories

    Henry Kuttner

    THE LAST MIMZY IS THE IDEAL INTRODUCTION TO AN AUTHOR WHO WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME -- AND WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME. These seventeen classic stories create their own unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm...

  • Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Volume 1 - This is What They Want

    Warren Ellis

    Collects Nextwave #1-6. Action! Excitement! Explosions! The Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, or H.A.T.E. (a subsidiary of the Beyond Corporation) put Nextwave together to fight Bizarre Weapons of Mass Destruction. When Nextwave discovers H.A.T.E. and B...

  • Principles of Desolation

    Randall N. Bills

    When her mission ends in defeat and disgrace, Danai Liao-Centrella is assigned a battalion of her own as well as a new battlefield where she discovers that guarding the Capellan Confederacy takes precedence over everything in her life, even her own f...

  • Spider-Man: Reign

    Kaare Andrews

    Collects Spider-Man: Reign #1-4. In the future, a cold and hostile Manhattan has long ago traded freedom for security, imposed by the brutal soldiers of the Reign. But the long-vanished hero is a tired old man now. Can Peter Parker rediscover his onc...

  • Time's Child

    Rebecca Ore

    Earth, 2308. Multiple pandemic plagues have ravaged the earth beyond recognition. Working desperately, the Philadelphia National Archives uses a mysterious time machine to bring key members of the past into the future, to save humanity from destroyin...

  • Ultimate Annuals - Volume 2

    Charlie Huston

    In Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual #2, something strange has happened at Nursery Two, the Baxter Building's Think Tank counterpart in Oregon. It's disappeared, seemingly swallowed up by the earth itself! And if you think that heralds the return of the...

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 12: Hard Lessons

    Brian K. Vaughan

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #58-60 & Annual #1. Storm & Wolverine travel to the Great White North, but find an all-new threat to the Ultimate Universe…Lady Deathstrike! Plus, witness the return of Ultimate Juggernaut! Only two small things sta...

  • X-Factor Visionaries: Peter David - Volume 2

    Peter David

    Look back to Multiple Man, Quicksilver, Strong Guy and Wolfsbane's earlier days together as the U.S. government's motley mutants meet murder and mayhem in the Middle East! Then, it's stateside struggles against the Nasty Boys and the Mutant Liberatio...

  • Am I Right or Am I Right?

    Barry Jonsberg

    Calma Harrison is in love. Not just with herself, but also with the handsome checkout guy at Crazi-Cheep. So stocking shelves at the Crazi- Cheep seems like the perfect job--until that annoying customer tries to hold up the store. . . . And then t...

  • Art of Standing Still

    Penny Culliford

    Nothing much ever happens in Monksford. Even so, reporter Jemma Durham dreams of the story that will take her from the small Monksford Gazetteto a national newspaper. Then the town revives the tradition of the medieval mystery plays that were perform...

  • The Blood Spilt

    Asa Larsson

    It's midsummer in Sweden--when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest--who made enemies and acolytes in equal number--has been f...

  • Falling

    Christopher Pike

    In Falling, Christopher Pike explores the depth and breadth of human emotion through two brilliantly etched characters: Kelly Feinman, who pays a terrible price to understand the nature of true evil; and Matt Connor, a classic anti-hero who captures ...

  • The Four Dorothys

    Paul Ruditis

    Every performance needs a little scandal and . . . DRAMA! Spawned from Hollywood's A-list glitterati, nearly every student at the exclusive Orion Academy is a singer, dancer, model, or actor -- with the ego to match. So how do you fit ...

  • The God of Mischief

    Paul Bajoria

    Sent to live with their nearest living relative, Sir Septimus Cloy, the eccentric widower of their late mother's cousin, Mog and Nick spend a lot of time on their own. They explore the Cloy mansion, with its towers and turrets, staircases leading now...

  • Hard Luck and Trouble

    Gammy L. Singer

    From one of today's most compelling writers comes this unforgettable novel set in legendary Harlem, New York--a place brimming with vitality, tarnished glory, and new beginnings... Amos Brown knows trouble comes in threes. First off, he's got a not...

  • Hot Laps

    Steve Eubanks

    A brain-dead hayseed named Troy Slackherd's been caught red-handed trying to hijack an eighteen-wheeler filled with die-cast toy race cars. The culprit's the step-brother of pro-racing's most popular speed demon, Junior Senior Jr.--which means Redbal...

  • The Invisible

    Mats Wahl

    One ordinary Monday morning in May, Hilmer Eriksson walks into his high school classroom and discovers that he has become invisible. No one can see him, no one can hear him. In fact, a police detective named Harald Fors arrives at school that very mo...

  • Jack Knife

    Virginia Baker

    Whitechapel, London, 1888. For Inspector Jonas Robb, each night brings new terror. But this night is different. It's brought two strangers-David and Sara-who have arrived in London seemingly with no past. What they do have is incredible knowledge...

  • Kiss Her Goodbye

    Robert Gregory Browne

    In a gripping thriller that matches one cop's love for his only daughter against the diabolical cunning of a charismatic madman, debut novelist Robert Gregory Browne announces his presence in territory long ruled by the likes of Dean Koontz and John ...

  • The Liar's Diary

    Patry Francis

    Answering the question of what is more powerful--family or friendship? this debut novel unforgettably shows how far one woman would go to protect either. They couldn't be more different, but they form a friendship that will alter both their fates...

  • Lost Echoes

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Since a mysterious childhood illness, Harry Wilkes has experienced horrific visions. Gruesome scenes emerge to replay themselves before his eyes. Triggered by simple sounds, these visions occur anywhere a tragic event has happened. Now in college, Ha...

  • Lucky at Cards

    Lawrence Block

    AT CARDS AND WITH WOMEN, BILL MAYNARD KNEW HOW TO CHEAT On the mend after getting run out of Chicago, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard is hungry for some action -- but not nearly as hungry as Joyce Rogers, the tantalizing wife of Bill's latest ...

  • The Lying Tongue

    Andrew Wilson

    Fresh from finishing university in England, Adam Woods arrives in Venice to begin a new chapter in his life. He soon secures employment as the personal assistant of Gordon Crace -- a famous expatriate novelist who makes his home in a dank and crumbli...

  • The Masada Scroll

    Paul Block; Robert Vaughan

    At the heart of this timely novel is the discovery of a previously unknown gospel that predates the four gospels of the New Testament. The scroll introduces a mysterious symbol that combines the Star of David, the Cross of Christianity and the Cresce...

  • Most Likely to Die

    Lisa Jackson
    in

    New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton, and Wendy Corsi Staub join forces to create a thrilling novel about love, revenge, and the dark secrets three women hold to a terrifying murder... A Killer Who Gets Away With Murder...

  • Most Likely to Die

    Beverly Barton
    in

    New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton, and Wendy Corsi Staub join forces to create a thrilling novel about love, revenge, and the dark secrets three women hold to a terrifying murder... A Killer Who Gets Away With Murder...

  • Most Likely to Die

    Wendy Corsi Staub
    in

    New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton, and Wendy Corsi Staub join forces to create a thrilling novel about love, revenge, and the dark secrets three women hold to a terrifying murder... A Killer Who Gets Away With Murder...

  • Napoleon's Pyramids

    William Dietrich

    What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids? The world changes for Ethan Gage -- one-time assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin -- on a night in post-revolutionary Paris, when he wins a mysterious medallion in a card game. Framed soon afte...

  • No Legal Grounds

    James Scott Bell

    How far will a man go to protect his family? Attorney Sam Trask will go farther than he ever dreamed, even in his worst nightmare. Because his worst nightmare is about to come true... At age forty-seven, attorney Sam Trask finally seems to have h...

  • Outlaw

    Roy Glenn

    Returning to New York to spend time with his wife and newborn baby daughter, crime lord Mike Black finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit and as his family goes to war, he finds an unlikely ally in a detective who believes in his innocenc...

  • The Pact

    Roberta Kray

    For 34-year-old Eve Weston, life couldn't get much bleaker. Her con artist father recently committed suicide and her younger brother Terry was sent to jail. Then she lost her job too, because a close friendship with married solicitor Henry Baxter was...

  • Past Perfect

    Susan Isaacs

    In Past Perfect, Susan Isaacs gives us one of her most glorious characters ever: bright, buoyant, and borderline luscious Katie Schottland. Katie seems to have the ideal life: a great husband, a precocious and winning ten-year-old son, and a dream jo...

  • Push

    Relentless Aaron

    Reginald "Push" Jackson was a good kid from Harlem. He never meant to do anyone any harm. His parents raised him better than that...But then they were murdered and he was left on his own. And that's when the real trouble began... Street fights. Gu...

  • Red Cat

    Peter Spiegelman

    With a troubled past and a job that attracts too much attention from the law, March has always been the black sheep of his staid merchant-banking family. Which makes the identity of his latest client all the more surprising: his smug older brother Da...

  • Rex Zero and the End of the World

    Tim Wynne-Jones

    Why does everyone seem so scared? That's what the new boy in town, Rex Norton-Norton, aka Rex Zero, wonders as he rides his bike through Ottawa's streets. Is it spies? Kidnappers? Or is it because of the shadowy creature some say is stalking Adams Pa...

  • School's Out

    Christophe Dufosse

    A vertiginous black comedy by one of France's most exciting new novelists

    Winner of France's most prestigious prize for a first novel, School's Out is a gripping re-imagining of Lord of the Flies, at once scarier and funnier than its protot...

  • The Strangler

    William Landay

    Boston, 1963. A city on edge. On street corners, newsboys hawk the shocking headline: KENNEDY IS DEAD. In the city's underworld, a mob war rages. But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claimed a dozen victims, a m...

  • Stray

    Sheri Joseph

    A musician is torn between his perfect wife and a young actor in an unconventional, inescapable love triangle. Thirty-year-old Kent McKutcheon has come to Atlanta with little ambition beyond his earnest desire to grow up and be a good person. But aft...

  • Surveillance

    Jonathan Raban

    In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obsessed with intelligence-gathering. The government's scrutiny is omnipresent, civilians freely indulge their curiosity on the Internet, journalists pursue ...

  • Travels in the Scriptorium

    Paul Auster

    A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the r...

  • Wedgewood Grey

    John Aubrey Anderson

    John Aubrey Anderson continues the compelling story of the conflict between the physical and spirit worlds played out in the lives of Missy Parker and Mose Washington. When Mose Washington comes to the aid of a brutally attacked black woman in th...

  • Written on Silk

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    A royal wedding masks the unfolding of Catherine de Medici’s murderous plot against the Huguenots. Will any of the Huguenot princes survive? Life and death rest with two people … Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet, couturiere from a celebrated silk-makin...

  • Arousing Suspicions

    Marianne Stillings

    Detective Nate Darling has put up with a lot of weird things since he's moved back to San Francisco--healing crystals, free range tofu, the SF Giants. But he's drawing the line at psychic dream interpretations. Tabitha March claims she can see ot...

  • Big Sky Standoff

    B.J. Daniels

    LIKE A SHOWDOWN IN THE OLD WEST...THERE WOULD BE ONLY ONE MAN STANDING WHEN THE DUST CLEARED There was a standoff brewing between Dillon Savage and cattle inspector Jacklyn Wilde. Toe to toe, they were an equal match, but together they were an imp...

  • Cold Case Cowboy

    Jenna Ryan

    IS NICK LAW MAN ENOUGH TO SOLVE THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL -- THE HEART? For Nick, the case of the Snow Globe Killer had grown as cold as the snow-covered Colorado mountains. Then architect Sasha Myer came to town--fitting the profile of every ...

  • Count to Ten

    Karen Rose

    1, 2 I'M COMING FOR YOU. In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday has never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires--devastating, vicious, and, in one case, homicidal. He has another problem--hi...

  • Dark Reunion

    Justine Davis

    A face that haunted her dreams... Security agent Reeve Fox had never wanted to see Zack Westin again. Their mutual attraction had caused trouble the moment they met. And the last time she saw him was the most traumatic day in both their lives--he ...

  • Dead Giveaway

    Brenda Novak

    The Reverend Lee Barker went missing nineteen years ago... And the people of Stillwater, Mississippi, believe they know why. They're convinced he was murdered--by his stepson, Clay Montgomery. But only Clay--and his mother and sisters--can say for...

  • Double Deception

    Terri Reed

    Her faith had always been strong enough to see her through tragedy--until Kate Wheeler's world turned deadly. Her husband had been murdered, and the discovery of his double life sent her on the run... into the protective custody of Sheriff Brody McCl...

  • The English Detective And The Rookie Agent

    Pat White

    Jeremy Barnes was the Blackwell Group's top investigator for one reason: he got the job done. Even while breaking in the team's new recruit, Mercedes Ramos. Their mission: find the son of a powerful computer magnate. Tracking the missing boy only ...

  • The Forbidden Enchantment

    Nina Bruhns

    A passionate kiss was the last thing Elizabeth Hamilton expected to share with Magnolia Cove's fire chief -- minutes after meeting him! And that was before she suspected the mysterious man was really none other than Sullivan Fouquet, legendary ei...

  • Her Lawman On Call

    Marie Ferrarella

    dical personnel were dropping like flies and Dr. Sasha Pulaski wasn't going to just stand by and do nothing. She believed in her work and would do anything for her patients. But how could she help when she was next on a murderer's hit list? The only ...

  • Little Girl Lost

    Shirlee McCoy

    Boy, is Mick Campbell infuriating! The police detective is only doing his job, looking into the death of the private investigator my sister had hired to find our presumed-dead mother (it's been a very eventful month!), but does he really believe a me...

  • More Than A Hero

    Marilyn Pappano

    Falling for him was not an option... Everything about Jake Norris, from the determined gleam in his eye to his tight, worn denims, screamed rebel with a cause. And Kylie Riordan knew that Jake's probing questions-- and soul-searing glances--could on...

  • A Murder Among Friends

    Ramona Richards

    The death of bestselling author Aaron Jackson turned Maggie Weston's world inside out. The manager of Jackson's Writers Retreat, Maggie knew a murderer hid among her colleagues and friends. Was it actress Lily Dunne, target of a stalker's obsession? ...

  • No Regrets

    Shannon K. Butcher

    NO SURRENDER Renowned cryptologist Noelle Blanche refuses to have blood on her hands. So when the military asks for her help in a covert operation, she refuses--until masked gunmen raid her home and threaten her life. Suddenly it's all too clear th...

  • No Safe Place

    JoAnn Ross

    Chicago homicide detective Kate Delaney fiercely defends victims. Which is why -- despite death threats -- she's testifying to a federal grand jury about local police corruption. It's also why she's infuriated by the New Orleans police department's b...

  • A Perfect Frame

    Beverly Clark

    Toni Carlton is in trouble. Sheââ,¬â"¢s ambitious and outgoing, on her way to the top when she is found with the dead body of her boss, company president, J. V. Townsend in her arms. Before he collapses, he tries desperately to tell her something, b...

  • See No Evil

    Allison Brennan

    A cunning killer hides in plain sight. A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote ou...

  • See No Evil

    Gayle Roper

    My home-decorating business was booming, thanks to that new account for model homes in a posh neighborhood. Of course, it didn't seem quite so posh when I came face-to-face with a man escaping the scene of his crime--a murder right next door to the h...

  • Shadow Mountain

    Leona Karr

    After tragedy struck, Caroline Fairchild reluctantly moved her young son to the remote Colorado lodge she'd been hired to redecorate. There she had no choice but to deal with owner Wes Wainwright, the Texas millionaire who represented everything she ...

  • Shadow Surrender

    Linda Conrad

    He'd dreamed about her Navajo medicine man Lucas Tso had a special gift--psychic powers, coupled with vivid dreams about a mysterious woman. But when he came face-to-face with her, he wasn't prepared for the feelings that stirred within him. FBI a...

  • Sleeping Beauty Suspect

    Dani Sinclair

    "HE RUSHED UP THE STEPS TO FIND A HONEY-BLOND HEIRESS WAITING TO BE ROUSED FROM HER DEEP, TERRIBLE SLEEP..." Flynn O'Shay never thought twice about rushing into a deadly blaze if it meant saving someone's life. But untangling the mystery of the en...

  • Tongue In Chic

    Christina Dodd

    GETTING IN WAS THE EASY PART.... How can one little lie land Meadow Szarvas in such trouble? Sure, Devlin Fitzwilliam catches her breaking into his mansion to steal a priceless painting. And, yes, in sheer desperation she tells him she has amnesia...

  • Trace Evidence In Tarrant County // For Justice and Love

    Delores Fossen

    Sheriff Carley Matheson had her hands full: A sixteen-year-old unsolved murder and a strong hunch that the killer had resurfaced and struck again. As if things couldn't get any worse, the Texas Rangers had sent Sloan McKinney--the one man she'd alway...

  • White Lies

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    The bestselling author of All Night Long and Falling Awake takes us beyond the everyday boundaries of the mind--and the heart--in a compulsively readable new novel of power, deception and danger. Level-ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster has resigne...

  • Anything But Ordinary

    Valerie Hobbs

    From the moment their romance begins in eighth grade, Winifred and Bernie are individualists. They pride themselves on being different, and have each other for support through the tough years of high school. So when they consider college, they send o...

  • The Blonde Theory

    Kristin Harmel

    Do gentlemen really prefer blondes? Harper is the youngest attorney in her firm to make partner and, at thirty-five, the oldest one to remain unmarried. It seems the more successful she gets, the faster men run for the door. What to do? Apply her ve...

  • Broken Paradise

    Cecilia Samartin

    In Broken Paradise Cecilia Samartin offers heart wrenching insight into the tender balance between hope and grief that shapes the immigrant heart and exposes the struggles of everyday people amid political turmoil. Cuba, 1956: Cousins Nora and A...

  • Changing Light

    Nora Gallagher

    Nora Gallagher's elegant debut novel, Changing Light, is a love story set in Los Alamos during the summer of 1945, in the shadow of the creation of the first atomic bomb. During the last summer of the war, in the beautiful New Mexico desert, a man...

  • China Dolls

    Michelle Yu; Blossom Kan

    Set in New York City, China Dolls is the irresistible story of three best friends from childhood--each an unforgettable Asian woman--tackling their late twenties over drinks, laughs, and dim sum: M.J., a sportswriter struggling to fit into her fam...

  • A Compton Chick

    Alex Tyson

    After her father leaves, stranding her mother with six children, sixteen-year-old Jackie Smalls discovers that she is pregnant, and with no one to turn to after the baby's father denies paternity, she meets a loving guy who vows to take care of her, ...

  • Confessions of a Rookie Cheerleader

    Erika J. Kendrick

    A savvy young music exec for Rockstar Records, Hannah Love has a glamorous apartment and a tight pack of equally fine friends. But luxury and loyalty can't protect her from a broken heart, courtesy of her super-rich fiance. To recover, Hannah acc...

  • Fever-Hot Dreams

    Jaci Burton

    Jaci Burton Dream On When her husband Jack disappeared five years ago, Katie McKay was devastated - left only to dream about the passionately erotic nights they spent together. So when Jack reappears one night without any explanation, looking as irre...

  • Forever

    Karen Kingsbury

    A DREAM COME TRUE Katy Hart is thrilled about her future with Hollywood's Dayne Matthews. But as she plans a wedding and looks for a house on the shores of Lake Monroe, she receives tragic news. Now everything about the future they planned together ...

  • Good Things

    Mia King

    A charming debut novel about a lifestyle maven who learns that living simply isn't simple. Deidre McIntosh became famous teaching women to live simply, and simply live-ironic for a woman who thrives on the chaos of a television career, and shares...

  • Halfway To Tomorrow

    Rena A. Finney

  • Harmless

    Dana Reinhardt

    There was a man. He had a knife. He attacked us down by the river. It was just a harmless little lie. Anna, Emma and Mariah concoct a story about why they're late getting home one night--a story that will replace their parents' anger with conc...

  • Hellfire Canyon

    Max McCoy

    2007 Spur Award for Best Paperback Novel by  the Western Writers of AmericaHeading For A Showdown.  .  . Towering, flame-haired Alf Bolin is a ruthless young outlaw with a passion for quoting fine literature, slaughtering anyone who ge...

  • Herself

    Leslie Carroll

    Who says sex, politics, religion, and the merits of Star Trek are conversational taboos? The author of PLAY DATES takes all this on, and a little bit more, in a delicious new novel full of New York wit and Irish charm. Forty is fabulous for Tessa Cr...

  • A Hire Love

    Candice Dow

    In Candice Dow's witty, romantic new novel, a woman whose young husband dies unexpectedly comes up with the perfect plan to find a new man, and learns that writing her own happy ending comes with a few surprises... Fatima Mayo had it all--a gorgeou...

  • Holy Hustler

    P.L. Wilson

    When rumors about his sexuality and the many indiscretions of his three sons start circulating through his congregation, Reverend Goodlove the Third must get his personal life in order so that he can expand his church. Original....

  • Kiss of the Wolf

    Morgan Hawke

    Passion In Any Form Thorn Ferrell is a courier for the new American Secret Service, entrusted with carrying a secret message into Rumania in the dead of winter. It would be impossible for anyone to pass the Carpathian Mountains, but not Thorn, for s...

  • Living Consequences

    Brittney Holmes

    In this compelling debut novel, several students, each dealing with their own problems, provide their perspective on high school life, including Nevaeh, a straight-A student who finds her relationship with her boyfriend of three years--and her faith-...

  • Lose Yourself

    Kendall Adams

    I broke up with my boyfriend because he was cheating on me. Now he's come begging for forgiveness and wants to take me to the prom. I never imagined sharing that night with anyone but him . . . until I looked around and realized how many other hot pr...

  • Method Man

    Naomi Neale

    Becca Egan is quickly working her way up the Yes Ladder when A. J. Daye rescues her from a "git it, hit it, and forgit it" lounge lizard. A pro pickup artist, A.J. knows all the lingo. He offers to teach Becca more secrets of The Method--a system to ...

  • The Prince and the Snowgirl

    Simon Cheshire

    Everyone thinks Tom Miller is lucky. For starters, Tom looks so much like England's Prince George that he makes money impersonating him. Unfortunately, that usually involves signing autographs at the latest supermarket opening. Still, Tom is one of t...

  • The Queen Gene

    Jennifer Coburn

    In this hip, outrageous, so-funny-and-true-it-hurts novel, Jennifer Coburn explores the ties that bind--and sometimes strangle--between mothers and daughters... If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother. "You are so lucky to have a mother like An...

  • Queen of Broken Hearts

    Cassandra King

    It's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she's preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads, on a slice of breathtaking prop...

  • Remember to Forget

    Deborah Raney

    One morning changed everything about her life But could it also set her free? Maggie Anderson Graphic designer Maggie Anderson has lived under her boyfriend's tyranny for nearly two years...until she's carjacked in New York. Will this te...

  • Renovating Becky Miller

    Sharon Hinck

    Young mom Becky Miller daydreams about the happy endings she sees during her weekly movie nights with her husband. But problems mount with the remodeling of the new house. Her mother-in-law moves in, her eldest son gets in trouble at school, her sist...

  • Risk

    Ann Christopher

    A Spark Of Desire... Fine and fearless, Justus Robinson doesn't hesitate to hit on gorgeous law student Angela Dennis at his brother's wedding even though she's the bride's sister. That night the two share an unforgettably sexy dance, but nothing mo...

  • Roses Are Thorns, Violets Are True

    Shelia M. Goss

  • Sheer Pleasure

    Maggie Shayne

    In "Daydream Believer," a clairvoyant haunted by visions of a mysterious stranger finds herself drawn to a lawman with a psychic gift of his own. But it will take more than a glimpse of the future to save her from a killer-it will take the man of her...

  • SoMa

    Kemble Scott

    Welcome To The Neighborhood To outsiders, San Francisco is all one big city. But to those in the know, there is SoMa, South of Market, where sleek eateries are squeezed between bail bonds storefronts and high-priced lofts look out over still rough e...

  • Summer of Light

    W. Dale Cramer

    From the Christy Award-winning Author of Levi's Will "You never know what the day will bring..." Mick Brannigan, a construction worker, loses a good-paying job because of some freak accident, sort of his fault but not his fault. Adding insult to inju...

  • The Tailor's Daughter

    Maggie Bennett

  • Tempting Grace

    Sasha White
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    What is your most wicked fantasy? Pleasure beckons and satisfaction is guaranteed in seven titillating stories of love that know no boundaries. Surrender to the passion and follow your desires into unexplored realms of sensuous delights. Awaken t...

  • Trouble In Paradise

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    She vowed to stay true to her dreams . . . After a lifetime of putting herself last, Shayla Vincent was finally on the right track. The rustic, secluded cabin her aunt had left her was the answer to prayer, the perfect spot to start her writing c...

  • ttfn

    Lauren Myracle

    SnowAngel: it's true. true blue, me and u, and don't forget to add maddie 2. SnowAngel: do u like my rhyme? zoegirl: very impressive SnowAngel: wait, there's more! er, let's c...since 7th grade they did not part, they stayed connected in their hea...

  • The White Knight

    Gilbert Morris

    A fighter pilot in Spain, Luke Winslow loses the woman he loves and turns from his faith. When he accidentally kills an old friend while drunk, out of guilt, he tries to help his friend's sister, Joelle, in her work with troubled girls. In the Army A...

  • Within This Circle

    Deborah Raney

    After a tumultuous courtship, John and Julia Brighton have a second chance at happiness! With tragedy behind them and their children grown, they're looking forward to a new and promising era in their lives. Only, such a promise is never guaranteed. A...

  • Strangled

    Brian McGrory

    Deadly and deep-seated political conspiracies are nothing new to Jack Flynn, the popular lead reporter of the Boston Record. But in Strangled, he finds himself in the middle of a case that everyone thought had closed forty years ago -- the Boston Str...

  • Hide

    Lisa Gardner

    There's no use locking the doors... It was the case that nearly killed him. Now a gruesome discovery in an underground chamber is about to resurrect his worst nightmare. And Massachusetts State Police detective Bobby Dodge has only one lead: a young...

  • Innocent in Death

    J.D. Robb

    New York Lieutenant Eve Dallas doesn't like to see innocent people murdered. And the death of Craig Foster is clearly a murder. He was seemingly ordinary history teacher, but uncovers some extraordinary surprises. Foster's death devastated his young ...

  • Step on a Crack

    James Patterson; Michael Ledwidge

    From America's favorite thriller writer, James Patterson, comes his most sensational hero yet--Detective Michael Bennett, NYPD. The first lady was only the first victim. After her mysterious death, the world's most powerful people gather in New York ...

  • Water Like a Stone

    Deborah Crombie

    Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner, Sergeant Gemma James, take their sons to picturesque Cheshire for their first family Christmas with Duncan's parents -- a holiday both dreaded and anticipated. But not even the charming town of...

  • Beneath The Skin

    Savannah Russe

    No one can tell that Daphne Urban is a vampire. But the government knows-and she's been recruited to spy for them. To get over a recent break-up, Daphne must throw herself into her work, joining her colleagues to chase down a ruthless enemy. Mysterio...

  • Blood Secrets

    Vivi Anna

    Caine Valorian and his Otherworld Crime Unit crack all the unusual cases before any humans take notice. When a young woman is found ritualistically murdered it's his team of professionals with paranormal gifts who must stop the nameless evil stalking...

  • Dead Sexy

    Amanda Ashley

    IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT The city is in a panic. In the still of the night, a vicious killer is leaving a trail of mutilated bodies drained of blood. A chilling M.O. that puts ex-vampire hunter Regan Delaney on the case, her gun clip packed with ...

  • The Dream Hunter

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    IN THE ETHEREAL WORLD OF THE DREAM-HUNTERS Condemned by the gods to live eternity without emotions, Arikos can only feel when he's in the dreams of others. For thousands of years, he's drifted through the human unconscious, searching for sensation. N...

  • A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest

    Marianne Mancusi

    If Chrissie Hayward knew that morning she'd be traveling back through time to rescue her crazy coworker Kat, she'd have worn better shoes. Doubly so if she'd expected to meet her true love. Robin of Locksley is no Prince Charming. All...

  • Island Heat

    Susan Kearney

    He dominated with an otherworldly seductive power . . . What was happening to her? Former screen siren Shara Weston lived on an exotic and private South Pacific island as a recluse . . . until disturbingly masculine and utterly captivating Cade A...

  • The Nymph King

    Gena Showalter

    Enter a mythical world of dragons, demons and nymphs...enter a world of dark seduction and powerful magic...enter Atlantis Females young and old, beautiful and plain crave Valerian's touch. None can resist his blatant sensuality and potent allure....

  • Spellstruck

    Jaclyn Reding

    Jaclyn Reding returns to Ipswich-by-the-Sea, the charming New England seaport of The Second Chance, with a spellbinding tale of love and healing.... Jenna Wren's customers leave her salon feeling physically and emotionally reborn, almost as if by ...

  • Warrior Angel

    Margaret Weis

    HE WILL MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TO SAVE HER... Once a dedicated soldier of the Knights Templar, Derek de Molay was betrayed and killed. So instead of an eternity in Heaven, he has decided to battle the Dark Angels of Hell. But as the war between good ...

  • Murder Can Depress Your Dachshund

    Selma Eichler

    Two deaths for the price of one? Zaftig Manhattan PI Desiree Shapiro is ogling the earrings at Bloomingdale's when her friend Blossom Goody catches up with her. The son of one of Blossom's old pals has been mysteriously shot and killed, and Blosso...

  • Murder on the Celtic

    Conrad Allen

    George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have crossed the Atlantic Ocean numerous times in their capacity as ships detectives for many of the huge passenger lines of the early twentieth century. On several of those crossings theyve had the pleas...

  • Stealing the Dragon

    Tim Maleeny

    In the midst of a cutthroat mayoral election, a ship smuggling Chinese refugees runs aground on Alcatraz. With the entire crew murdered, the crime screams professional assassin. Is it a coincidence that Cape Weathers friend Sallytrained to be a deadl...

  • X-Rated Bloodsuckers

    Mario Acevedo

    When Felix Gomez returned from the War in Iraq with a disdain for daylight and a raging thirst for blood, he knew he couldn't settle for an ordinary 9-to-5 job. So after his discharge, the newly undead ex-infantryman chose the career that he felt bes...

  • The Collaborator of Bethlehem

    Matt Beynon Rees

    For decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favorite former pupil, George Saba, a member of the Palestinian Christian minority, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of a Palest...

  • Dead Past

    Beverly Connor

    Beverly Connor's "fabulous forensic investigation series" (Books 'n' Bytes) featuring forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon proves that the past is never really forgotten -- and that some memories can kill.... As a young girl, Juliet Price witnessed ...

  • Field of Fire

    James O. Born

    Now Born takes it to the next level with a remarkable novel of corruption, fraud, and the messy business of murder by explosives. Since returning from Bosnia, ATF agent Alex "Rocket" Duarte has been slowly reacclimating to life in South Florida. ...

  • The Fourth Sacrifice

    Peter May

    Margaret Campbell had finally decided to leave Beijing---and the man she loved---and return home to the States. She had first come to Beijing to conduct a seminar on her specialty, forensic pathology, for the city's police. The invitation turned out ...

  • The Next Victim

    Jonnie Jacobs

    Enthusiastic fans of Jonnie Jacobs's thrillers know what they're getting in bestseller after bestseller: riveting suspense, knockout writing, and a smart, world-weary heroine who can kick butt and take names when she needs to. Now Jacobs delivers ano...

  • Suddenly a Stranger

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Gail Nicholson made many enemies leaking police records to aide criminals and political smear campaigns, including Detective Marti MacAlister, who served under her when she was a lieutenant at the Lincoln Prairie Police Department. For two years Nich...

  • Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters

    Mary Pope Osborne

    It’s a new kind of adventure for Jack and Annie! Join them as they research tsunamis and other natural disasters and find out the facts behind the fiction! Facts -- Photos -- Illustrations -- Definitions -- And Much More! ...

  • Aye Do or Die

    Candy Calvert

    ER nurse Darcy Cavanaugh is sailing the high seas again--this time for a wedding cruise. The wedding party includes raucous firefighters with a taste for practical jokes and raunchy ties. Leagues away from "The Love Boat," it promises to be a wild ri...

  • The Case of the Booby-Trapped Pickup

    John R. Erickson

    Hank the Cowdog is about to go on the ride of his life! When Slim’s pickup truck breaks down, the ranch ends up with a brand-new model on loan while the old one gets fixed. But a ranch dog like Hank isn’t used to power windows and door locks, and...

  • The Commission

    Michael Norman

    Levi Vogue, Chairman of the powerful Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, is gunned down in the driveway of his home as he returns from a late evening tryst with Sue Ann Winkler, an exotic dancer employed in a Salt Lake City strip club. Sam Kincaid, ...

  • The Conjurer

    Cordelia Frances Biddle

    Intrigue, passion, and murder surround the suspicious disappearance of famed Philadelphia financier Lemuel Beale in the winter of 1842. As his daughter and only child, Martha searches for her father. She begins to develop a romantic attachment to Tho...

  • Consequences of Sin

    Clare Langley-Hawthorne

    The stunning first novel in a new Edwardian mystery series featuring the young heiress Ursula Marlow An Oxford graduate, an aspiring journalist, and a devoted suffragette, Ursula Marlow is no ordinary Belgravian heiress. Despite her father's insi...

  • Curse of the Holy Pail

    Sue Ann Jaffarian

    It's just a %$&# lunch box! Probably reeks of sour milk seasoned with rust. At least, that's what Odelia Grey thinks when millionaire Sterling Price shows her the crown jewel of his lunchbox collection. So why are people willing to cheat, lie, steal,...

  • Family Concern

    Anthea Fraser

    A new Rona Parish mysteryJournalist Rona Parish is eager for a fresh challenge. A chance encounter with an old friend, Kate, now married into the Tarlton family, gives her an idea. Rona will research the histories of several long-established family f...

  • Fever Moon

    Carolyn Haines

    With Penumbra, Carolyn Haines branched out from the cozy Southern mysteries that made her name and into more serious territory. With her next literary crime novel, she moves to 1944 New Iberia, Louisiana, where Henri Bastion, a wealthy plantation own...

  • The Grave Tattoo

    Val McDermid

    From bestselling author Val McDermid comes a modern thriller about an ancient murder set on the high seas... After summer rains uncover a corpse bearing tattoos like those of eighteenth- century seafarers, many residents of the English Lake Distri...

  • Hurricane Punch

    Tim Dorsey

    WELCOME TO ANOTHER TYPICAL SUMMER IN FLORIDA, THE SEASON OF THE STORMS. SERGE STORMS. That lovable, under-undermedicated dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia is back with a vengeance--just as his cherished home state is about to take a beat...

  • Looks to Die For

    Janice Kaplan

    SAVVY AND STYLISH LACY FIELDS HAS A KILLER INSTINCT FOR TRACKING DOWN PRICELESS ANTIQUE FURNITURE. BUT CAN SHE ALSO FIND A MURDERER? As the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a dedicated mother of three, and an absolutely fabulous ...

  • Lose This Skin

    Jerry Sykes

    Months after the shooting that left DI Frank Roscoe's foot shattered, the gunman is still out there. A friend appears asking if he'd be willing to look into the death of her son. Could this be the impetus he needs to sharpen skills he fears are lost ...

  • The Mosaic Crimes

    Giulio Leoni

    Florence, June 1300. The body of an artist, his face covered in quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had almost completed. Dante Alighieri, the newly appointed prior of the city of Florence (and the man who will one day write that exhaustiv...

  • The Prairie Grass Murders

    Patricia Stoltey

    THE SWEET SMELL OF SOMETHING ROTTEN Vietnam veteran Willie Grisseljon is hiking through the rural Illinois countryside of his youth when he stumbles over a dead body hidden in a raspberry patch. When Willie reports his discovery, the local deputy t...

  • Prodigy

    Charles Atkins

    James "Jimmy" Martin IV should never have been released from the mental institution. But thanks to incredible wealth and a devoted twin sister, that's just what happens. Once a gifted cellist who wowed audiences at Carnegie Hall, Jimmy is now confine...

  • Remains to Be Scene

    R.T. Jordan

    Polly Pepper is a living legend, straight from television's golden age, complete with the star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. But these days, it seems her only time in the spotlight is accepting some yes-your-career-is-over Lifetime Achievement Award. ...

  • Shadow of the Raven

    David Sundstrand

    David Sundstrand has written a thriller with all the suspense and terror of the roughest big city and set it against the harsh background of the vast Mojave Desert, where it is possible to kill a man simply by abandoning him without water or shoes. A...

  • The Star

    David Skibbins

    After two recent encounters with crime, Warren Ritter is determined to live the quiet life. But Fate isnt paying any attention. Warrens daughter, Fran, and her husband, Orrin, are separated, and now Orrin has taken their five-month-old son and refuse...

  • The Sweet Scent of Murder

    Susan P. Baker

    A teenage girl from a well-to-do family disappears. Was she kidnapped or did she runaway? P.I. Mavis Davis' high school worker, Candy, brings in the girl's older brother to hire Mavis. Mavis doesn't work for kids, she says. Kids have no authority to ...

  • The Unexpected

    Weyman Jones

  • The Water Thief

    Ben Pastor

    Summer, 304 AD. Aelius Spartianus, historian and envoy, is researching the nearly two hundred year-old unsolved drowning of Emperor Hadrians male favorite, Antinous. Soon he finds himself embroiled in murder and mystery involving a lost letter by Had...

  • Damage Control

    Robert Dugoni

    Dana Hill is accustomed to stress: she's a successful attorney at a prestigious Seattle law firm, the mother of a young daughter, and the wife of a busy, self-involved man. But her carefully-balanced world is rent asunder when she is diagnosed with b...