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  • Full of Grace

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    The move from New Jersey to Hilton Head, South Carolina, wasn't easy for the Russo family -- difficult enough for Big Al and Connie, but even harder for their daughter Maria Graziella, who insists on being called Grace. At thirty-one and still, shock...

  • Definitely Dead

    Charlaine Harris

    Since Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has so few living relatives, she hates to lose one-- even her cousin Hadley, undead consort of the vampire Queen of New Orleans. Hadley's left everything she has to Sookie, but claiming that inherit...

  • Don of the Dead

    Casey Daniels

    She sees dead people Beautiful, smart, and chic, Pepper Martin never had to work a day in her life -- until her surgeon daddy was convicted of fraud, her wealthy fiance took a powder, and the family fortune ran bone dry. Suddenly desperate, t...

  • Drops of Corruption

    Jason M. Hardy

    When a notorious crime boss offers him the job of a lifetime, Scottish mage Bannickburn, living the life of luxury, must destroy a power-hungry rival mob with the help of shadowrunners, professionals who will do anything for money. Original....

  • Proven Guilty

    Jim Butcher

    There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Wa...

  • Thunderbird Falls

    C.E. Murphy

    IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD...AGAIN. For all the bodies she's encountering, you'd think beat cop Joanne Walker works in Homicide. But no, Joanne's a reluctant shaman who last saved mankind three months ago -- surely she deserves more of a break! Yet...

  • Widdershins

    Charles de Lint

    Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced in the first Newford story, "Timeskip," back in 1989, their friends and readers alike have been waiting for them to realize what everybody else already knows: that they belong together....

  • Dead Watch

    John Sandford

    Senator Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barbwired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and missing his head. ...

  • The Eagle's Throne

    Carlos Fuentes

    Here is a true literary event -- the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world's great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle's Throne is a seriously entertaini...

  • Fever in the Blood

    Robert Fleming

    Eddie Stevens is burning inside... ...and he's burning mad at the world. He's mad at the family he lost--his parents and sisters viciously killed by a gang in their own home; and he's mad at the foster family that "rescued" him--headed up by a power...

  • Ghost Force

    Patrick Robinson

    The year is 2011. An oil-hungry world is starving... . . . and Argentina, with Russia's help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum-rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Brit...

  • The Julian Secret

    Gregg Loomis

    Don Huff was Lang Reilly's friend, and now he's been brutally murdered. Could someone be willing to commit murder to prevent the book he was writing from ever seeing the light of day? What secrets are worth killing for? Lang is determined to find the...

  • Killer Instinct

    Joseph Finder

    Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for an electronics giant, a competitor to Sony and Panasonic. He's a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office, but he lacks the "killer instinct" necessary ...

  • The Lost Van Gogh

    A.J. Zerries

    When Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Monsieur Trabuc turns up unexpectedly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art--a $50 million painting shipped from Argentina via UPS, like an ordinary package--the case goes to Clay Ryder, the NYPD Major Case Squad detec...

  • Once Lost

    Kirsten Beyer

    A strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market, and the seller has showcased the wares by infecting an African village. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims ma...

  • Rash

    Pete Hautman

    Consumption of alcohol: Illegal. Football and other "violent" sports: Illegal. Ownership of guns, chain saws, and/or large dogs: Illegal. Body piercings, tattoos: Illegal. It's late in the twenty-first century, and the United Safer States of America ...

  • Resistance

    Daniel Kalla

    No treatment. No cure. No hope Once it seemed as though penicillin and other antibiotics had won humanity a lasting victory over harmful bacteria. But now hardier bugs, resistant to most common classes of antibiotics, are emerging -- with potentia...

  • Echoes of Coventry

    Richard C. White

    WHAT'S PAST A special six-part S.C.E. event that flashes back to previous adventures of the S.C.E. crew from the 23rd century to the height of the Dominion War, with special guests from all across the Star Trek universe! 2375: Before he joined the ...

  • Last Full Measure

    Michael A. Martin; Andy Mangels

    Without warning or provocation, a Xindi weapon appears above Earth and unleashes a blast that kills millions across two continents. It is only the first such weapon: a second is being built, and this time it might very well destroy the entire planet....

  • The Ladies of the Lake

    Jennifer Allison

    If you think a school for girls is simply a place to wear ribbons in your hair and expose your dimpled knees, you've never been to Our Lady of Sorrows. When her mother suggests she apply for a scholarship to Our Lady of Sorrows, an exclusive Catholi...

  • Christopher Killer

    Alane Ferguson

    As the daughter of a Colorado County coroner, seventeen-yearold Cameryn Mahoney is no stranger to death. in fact, she's always been fascinated by the science of it. so she's thrilled to finally get some hands-on experience in forensics working as her...

  • Decimation: X-Men - The Day After

    Chris Claremont

    It was the worst day in X-Men history. Now it's the day after. The House of M is over, but the effects will be felt for the rest of their lives. How do the X-Men pick up the pieces in a world that has completely changed? Plus: Something's amiss at th...

  • Essential Classic X-Men - Volume 2

    Roy Thomas

    Enemies both infamous and obscure abound in another archive of the X-Men's early adventures! Mainstay malefactors like Magneto and the Juggernaut are joined by the thunderous threat of Factor Three! Plus: the first appearances of Banshee and Polaris!...

  • The Gate

    Kevin D. Randle

    When scientists open a Gate, which is a portal into a wormhole that allows travelers to bend and shape space at will, several test subjects, who believe they are hunting aliens, discover a deadly threat that could destroy humanity. Original....

  • Hulk Visionaries: Peter David - Volume 3

    Peter David

    The gray Hulk's life as a Las Vegas legbreaker is broken into by a circle of cyborgs, with Spider-Man in the middle! Next up is a triple threat by Doctor Doom, the Thing and... the green Hulk?! Follow the Hulk from casino conclaves to interdimensiona...

  • Journey Between Worlds

    Sylvia Engdahl

    Eighteen-year-old Melinda Ashley never wanted to go to Mars. she had her life all planned out--marry ross and become a teacher. but when her estranged father convinces her to take an interplanetary vacation, she finds herself tempted to leave behind ...

  • Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four Vol. 10

    Stan Lee

    Certifiably the World's Greatest Comic Collaboration, the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby Fantastic Four run stands as one of the high-water marks in the history of the medium. Their ten titanic years together laid the foundation of the Marvel Universe, and birt...

  • Mindswap

    Robert Sheckley

    In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which...

  • Moonsinger

    Andre Norton

    BEWARE THE MOON OF THREE RINGSIt was the time of the Moon of the Three Rings when the Free Trader ship Lydis landed on the planet Yiktor and junior crew member Krip Vorlund visited a beast show. He was strangely attracted to the owner of the show ani...

  • New Mutants Classic - Volume 1

    Chris Claremont

    Collects Marvel Graphic Novel #4, New Mutants #1-7 & Uncanny X-Men #167. Cannonball. Sunspot. Moonstar. Karma. Rahne. Teenagers, thrown together by the one thing they had in common -- the X-Factor in their genes that made them different, made the...

  • New X-Men Vol. 5: Assault on Weapon Plus

    Grant Morrison

    Collects New X-Men #139-145. More secrets of the world's deadliest mutant are exposed! Wolverine, Cyclops and the enigmatic mutant known as Fantomex travel to the other side of the world and beyond in search of the keys to their pasts. However, what ...

  • New X-Men: Childhood's End - Volume 1

    Craig Kyle

    Red-hot X-23 writers Craig Kyle and Chris Yost, and rising star Mark Brooks (Ultimate Spider-Man Annual, Amazing Fantasy), take New X-Men in a bold new direction. Spinning directly out of House of M, the New X-Men deal with the changed world. Will X-...

  • Queen of Blades

    Aaron Rosenberg

    Former marshal-turned-rebel Jim Raynor has broken away from the power-crazed Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. Enraged over Mengsk's betrayal of the powerful telepath, Sarah Kerrigan, to the ravenous Zerg, Raynor has lost all faith in his fellow humanity. ...

  • Rainbows End

    Vernor Vinge

    The Mysterious Stranger and Mr. Rabbit World-famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored. reality's a shock. Book...

  • Regeneration

    Julie E. Czerneda

    With the alien Dhryn cutting a pathway through the inhabited spaceways-bringing about the annihilation of many of the races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following-time is running out for all sentient life-forms. Can bi...

  • School's Out Forever

    James Patterson

    IT'S YOUR BEST DREAM AND WORST NIGHTMARE: SCHOOL'S OUT-FOREVER! Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, Angel, and Maximum Ride: six incredible kids genetically engineered with the ability to fly, free as birds ... until Max and her gang are discovered by an FBI ...

  • Slipstreams

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Blending science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and westerns, twenty noted authors, including Tanya Huff, Alan Dean Foster, and Jean Rabe, present an imaginative collection of hybrid stories, from a mountain man who encounters a demon in Yellows...

  • Ultimate X-Men / Fantastic Four

    Mike Carey

    Cerebro has been stolen - and the trail points directly at the government's premier think tank, the Baxter Building! The X-Men aren't happy about it - and the Baxter Building's most famous residents, the Fantastic Four, aren't happy about an angry te...

  • Watchers on the Walls

    Christopher L. Bennett

    For years, many have believed that the rise of superpowered mutants represents a threat to the survival of ordinary humans. The uncanny X-Men have dedicated their lives to proving that peaceful coexistence is possible. When a refugee spacecraft crash...

  • What If?: Mirror Mirror

    Daniel Way

    What if... Captain America fought in the Civil War? What if... the Fantastic Four were Cosmonauts? What if... Daredevil lived in feudal Japan? What if... Namor grew up on land? Hacking into the internet of an adjacent reality, teenager Hector Espejo ...

  • Wolverine Classic, Volume 3

    Peter David

    "I'm the best there is at what I do... Nobody's better at gettin' into trouble than me." The first of Peter David's occasionally seen and always entertaining Wolverine arcs, "The Gehenna Affair" sets Logan, Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman) and their frien...

  • X-Men 3: The Last Stand

    Chris Claremont

    TAKE A STAND. The world has acquired a lethal new weapon against X-gene mutants, whose superhuman powers separate them -- for better, for worse, forever -- from ordinary mortals. Now, for the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their godlike...

  • X-Men and Power Pack: The Power of X

    Marc Sumerak

    Power Pack returns... and this time they've brought some very special friends! Marvel's merry mutants team up with our super-powered siblings for more fun-filled all-ages adventures! Collects X-Men and Power Pack #1-4....

  • X-Men: Firestar

    Tom Defalco

    Before the Avengers, before the New Warriors, mutandom's fiery favorite almost had a vocation in villainy thanks to the teacher from Hellfire, the White Queen! Can she find her way to heroism before things get too hot? Guest-starring the New Mutants!...

  • American Jihad

    William W. Johnstone

    Art Jensen is a born warrior. A direct descendant of the legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen, he is destined to continue his ancestor's legacy of heroism. For the courage, strength, and honor of a man never dies... Into The Dark Lieutenant Colon...

  • Aztec Rage

    Gary Jennings

    The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues . . . . Don Juan de Zavala was the most skilled fighter in all of New Spain--as gifted with weapons and horses as he was with women. These plea...

  • Betrayal In Blood

    Michael Benson

    Her Cheating Heart"Mommy...won't be with us anymore." That's what attorney Kevin C. Bryant, 45, told his two young sons in the spring of 2003. At the time, blonde, pretty, 26-year-old Tabatha Bryant was alive and well in an upscale suburb of Rocheste...

  • Black Duck

    Janet Taylor Lisle

    It is spring 1929, and Prohibition is in full swing. So when Ruben and Jeddy find a dead body washed up on the shore of their small coastal Rhode Island town, they are sure it has something to do with smuggling liquor. Soon the boys, along with Jeddy...

  • Candles Burning

    Tabitha King; Michael McDowell

    Calliope "Galley" Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears things that maybe a little girl shouldn't hear--and knows things a little girl should never know. Just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women wi...

  • Capturing Paris

    Katharine Davis

    After twenty five years of marriage, Annie and Wesley are living the type of elegant, sophisticated life in Paris that many Americans dream about. Their apartment in the Marais district is filled with wonderful food, accomplished friends, and good wi...

  • City of Shadows

    Ariana Franklin

    A cultured city scarred by war.... An eastern emigre with scars and secrets of her own.... A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess.... A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for ju...

  • Dead Before Dying

    Deon Meyer

    Someone in Cape Town has chosen a conspicuous murder weapon--a century-old German handgun, with ancient bullets to match, bullets that tear through flesh and bone. The killer has a preferred method: one shot to the head and one shot to the chest, lea...

  • Dirty Sweet

    John McFetridge

    In the middle of the afternoon on a busy downtown Toronto street a man is shot in the head behind the wheel of his SUV. The killer drives away before the light changes. It could be road rage, or it could be a random act of violence. It could be, but ...

  • Don't I Know You?

    Karen Shepard

    In 1976 in New York City, Gina Engel was murdered in her front hall. The police believed the victim had known her attacker. But they had few suspects, and as time went on, the case remained unsolved. Yet the suspicions of those who knew Gina both int...

  • The Expendable One

    Jason M. Burns; Bryan Baugh

    Twigs Dupree recently acquired the gift of immortality and has chosen to play hero. Shoot him in the head and he will keep walking. Strangle him with a wire and he will keep talking. Send him up against a killer that views entrails as Christmas tinse...

  • Eye of Vengeance

    Jonathon King

    When a convicted murderer is dramatically gunned down in front of a corrections facility with a single bullet to the head, journalist Nick Mullins is quickly dispatched by his newspaper to cover the story. A veteran crime reporter, Nick is no strange...

  • A Field of Darkness

    Cornelia Read

    There are people who can be happy anywhere. I am not one of them. When the house on the next street went up in flames for the second night in a row, I wondered again what I was doing in Syracuse. Madeline Dare would be the first to tell you her mone...

  • Firetrap

    Earl Emerson

    No one writes with the power, authority, and poetry that Earl Emerson has demonstrated in his action-packed novels about fire and the people who make their living fighting it. In Firetrap, Trey Brown is a man tormented by race, by family, and now by ...

  • Hell in a Briefcase

    Phil Little

    Author/counselor Christine Dorn has thought of everything. Along with the baby basics, Getting to Know You includes colorful illustrations, display areas for mementos, a how-to section on journal writing, and guidelines that ensure this book will be ...

  • The Husband

    Dean Koontz

    We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modest means, gets a phone call out of his worst nightmare. The caller is dead serious. He doesn't care that Mitch can't raise that...

  • In The City of Dark Waters

    Jane Jakeman

    Fleeing the scandal and rumors that plagued them in Paris following a murder, Claude Money and his wife Alice have escaped to Venice, but the dark secrets of the past continue to haunt them when their fellow guest at a Venetian palazzo, Revel Callend...

  • Living On a Prayer

    Sheila Quigley

    A week before Christmas Debbie Stansfield’s life falls apart. Her son -- her funny, cheeky, kind Richard -- has been found hanging from a tree at the Seven Sisters. The police think it’s suicide but Debbie won’t -- can’t -- accept it....

  • Ludmila's Broken English

    D.B.C. Pierre

    A wild and brilliant tale by the winner of the Man Booker Prize and one of our most original storytellers. On a Tuesday in terror-struck London, Blair and Bunny Heath become the first adult conjoined twins ever successfully separated. On a Tuesday in...

  • Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox

    Bennett Madison

    The last thing Lulu Dark needs is a mystery getting in the way of her Important Summer Plans (which include snacking, sunbathing, and trash TV). But when Lulu's mother, B-list celebrity Isabelle Dark, drops into town to shoot a movie, Lulu gets just ...

  • Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls

    Bennett Madison

    Having little interest in being one of the so-called popular crowd, Lulu Dark steps to the beat of her own drummer, but when her purse is stolen during a concert, Lulu's city-smart attitude transforms her into detective-extraordinaire as she hunts do...

  • MIA: Operation Mockingbird

    Thomas Holland

    As the director of the Department of the Army's Central Identification Laboratory, Robert Dean "Kel" McKelvey has made a career solving some of the country's most complex identification cases. The CIL is responsible for identifying all U.S. war dead ...

  • One Cold Night

    Kate Pepper

    "Jam-packed with heart stopping suspense." -Book Fetish ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED... New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of ...

  • Slipstream

    Leslie Larson

    In Slipstream, Leslie Larson traces the intertwining paths of five characters as each struggles to stay afloat in the face of major setbacks, minor failures, and a reckless pursuit of elusive second chances. When Rudy loses his job cleaning jets at t...

  • Snatched

    Pete Hautman

    From award-winning author Pete Hautman and Mary Logue comes a lively mystery series. When high school student Alicia Camden suddenly disappears, the small town of Bloodwater is in shock. And it’s up to Roni Delicata, reporter for the school newspap...

  • The Soul Hunter

    Melanie Wells

    "WHAT DOES PETER TERRY WANT WITH MY SON?" "THE SAME THING HE WANTS WITH ALL OF US. PETER TERRY IS A HUNTER," I SAID. "HE'S HUNTING SOULS." DYLAN FOSTER, A PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, IS PREPARING FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT DA...

  • Suffering Fools

    Ed Gaffney

    Attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach -- friends, partners, and complete opposites -- have perfected the recipe for legal disaster. Begin with a fool for a client -- a man who can't even testify convincingly to his own name, much less to an alibi. ...

  • Sun Storm

    Asa Larsson

    On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled -- and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall....So begins sa Larsson's spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden's Best First C...

  • There Will Never Be Another You

    Carolyn See

    “Carolyn See has written a novel alive with wit and love and energy"a book about things falling apart that turns out to be a day at the beach. . . . Pure joy.”"Joan DidionAccomplished author Carolyn See triumphantly returns to fiction"seven...

  • The Thief

    Ruth Rendell

    From the author of End in Tears comes a chilling thriller for “Quick Reads” -- books for emergent readers, published as part of the UK’s World Book Day Adult Literacy Initiative 2006.

    What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you...

  • Three Days to Never

    Tim Powers

    When Albert Einstein told Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made, something so extreme and horrific it remained a secret . . . until now. This extraordinary new ...

  • The Valley of Secrets

    Charmian Hussey

    Stephen Lansbury is an orphan. He thinks he has no relatives at all -- until the day a letter arrives telling him that a distant uncle is dead. Suddenly Stephen finds himself the only heir to a great estate in the countryside. So Stephen sets off to ...

  • Walk Back the Cat

    Pamela Binnings Ewen

    From AD 33, to the 1950s, to 2005, Walk Back the Cat tells the intricate, page-turning story of Wesley Bright. A corrupt, mediasavvy clergyman, he's out to destroy the Christian church of the God who was never there during his childhood.Like a cat re...

  • White Shadow

    Ace Atkins

    Tampa, Florida, 1955: a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The bludgeoning death of retired kingpin Charlie Wall shocks the city and sends cops and reporters and associates scrambling to discover...

  • Beyond the Limit

    Lindsay McKenna

    NOTHING'S MORE DANGEROUS THAN A LOVE YOU DIDN'T EXPECT... He's tackled tough military projects in hot spots around the globe...but Marine engineer Major Pete Trayhern has never faced anything as challenging as civilian Calandra Roland. Attractive ...

  • Code Name: Blondie

    Christina Skye

    Miki is living every woman's fantasy -- stranded on a desert island with a rugged Navy SEAL. But little does Miki know she's a suspect in an international high-tech robbery, and her steely-eyed companion is ready, willing and able to do anything to m...

  • The Deadliest Denial

    Colleen Thompson

    The worst day of Claire's life begins with a 5:00 AM knock on her door, the summons every cop's wife dreads. But instead of telling her Spence has been killed in the line of duty, his sergeant has even worse news for Claire. Her husband is in jail. F...

  • Drawing a Blank

    Daniel Ehrenhaft

    I don't know how this happened One day I'm snug in my loner existence at Carnegie Mansion School, and the next I'm tramping through the Scottish wilderness looking for my dad. Who's been kidnapped. Because of a feud that started in medieval times...

  • The Final Kill

    Meg O'Brien

    Abby Northrup finally has the quiet life she's dreamed of, living in Carmel at the former monastery she purchased and renovated. But The Prayer House is more than a peaceful home for Abby -- unofficially it is an underground safe haven for abused wom...

  • Hide in Plain Sight

    Michele Albert

    APPEARANCES ARE DECEIVING Fiona Kennedy can tell a forgery from the genuine article in a snap. Drop-dead-sexy Grif Laughton, however, is not so easy to read. He's clearly a masterpiece of the male variety -- and the attraction he sparks is defini...

  • High-Heeled Alibi

    Sydney Ryan

    His allies murdered and his identity erased, secret agent Mick James was as good as dead. His only chance -- blow the conspiracy that set him up and turned his covert agency against him. His only hope -- a resistant alibi in stilettos named Bitsy Lei...

  • Impulse

    JoAnn Ross

    Hazard, Wyoming, is a quiet mountain town where there's snow on the ground from October until June, the wind blows all the time, and nothing much ever happens. But that's all about to change. Because, just when the wind suddenly stops, a killer comes...

  • Invisible Recruit

    Mary Buckham

    BEING BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON DIDN'T MEAN YOU COULDN'T TOSS IT ASIDE TO RAPPEL DOWN A BUILDING... For debutante Vaughn Monroe, joining the clandestine IR-5 Agency, a group trained to infiltrate the enemy by becoming one of them, was her true callin...

  • Killing Me Softly

    Jenna Mills

    ONE WOMAN'S MEMORIES...BEHIND ANOTHER WOMAN'S FACE When investigative reporter Savannah Trahan disappeared and was presumed dead, police immediately arrested Cain Robichaud, Savannah's boyfriend and a New Orleans police officer. Without sufficient...

  • Look-Alike

    Meredith Fletcher

    SISTER V. SISTER They looked alike, fought alike...but when it came to spy games, Samantha St. John and Elle Petrenko had different codes. Upstanding CIA agent Sam played by the rules. Russian spy Elle had more colorful ways of getting the job done....

  • No Safe Place

    Judy Fitzwater

    HOW DID THEY KEEP FINDING HER? For years, professor Elizabeth Larocca had prepared for the day her late husband's dangerous secret life would catch up to her. So when her husband's dead body showed up for the second time and his former associates ar...

  • Once A Thief

    Suzann Ledbetter

    If there's anything Ramey Burke requires from life, it's harmony. But now her well-ordered existence is shot. Ramey's elderly uncles and aunt, Ed, Archie and Melba Jane Dillinger, are out of the slammer -- and the gang swears they've finished robbing...

  • Operation: Midnight Guardian

    Linda Castillo

    MIDNIGHT IN MONTANA When a federal transport was ambushed and overturned in the wilds of Montana, MIDNIGHT agent Sean Cutter was given forty-eight hours to track down a desperate woman. But falsely accused, Mattie Logan didn't want to be saved. It...

  • Protective Measures

    Dana Marton

    Congresswoman Kaye Miller didn't survive the honed jaws of politics to fall prey to a deadly hate crime. So when sexy bodyguard Daniel DuCharme was assigned to protect her, they found themselves sharing every waking moment...and Kaye worried that his...

  • Raw Talent

    Debra Webb

    NEW BLOOD...LITERALLY When a confidential file was stolen from the prestigious Colby Agency, it was A. J. Braddock's mission to retrieve it. His assignment: locate Gabrielle Jordan, the enigmatic woman who'd vanished with it. Except he never ex...

  • Return To Falcon Ridge

    Rita Herron

    P.I. PROTECTOR As a child, Elsie Timmons had barely escaped Wildcat Manor with her life. As an adult, she'd mysteriously inherited the crumbling structure, ghosts and all. Now, after a lifetime spent running from her past, Elsie was ready to confr...

  • Secret Weapon Spouse

    B.J. Daniels

    WEDDING PLANNER UNDER COVER By day, quiet and reserved Samantha Peters worked for a high-end wedding planner. By night she was a top-notch agent with Miami Confidential. Then she met sexy Alex Graham after tragedy struck outside the Weddings Your Wa...

  • Small Town Secrets

    Sharon Mignerey

    EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE... Finally back on her feet after a nasty divorce from local cop Foley Blue, Lea Webster was getting ready to adopt the baby she'd always wanted. But Foley was stalking Lea and his once-idle threats were escalatin...

  • The Spy With The Silver Lining

    Wendy Rosnau

    THEY CALLED HER THE ACTRESS Known as a cool seductress with a taste for couture, chic superspy Casmir Balasi had played her role too well this time -- getting love-struck master criminal Yuri Petrov to propose on bended knee...and fall into her trap...

  • Strictly Confidential

    Terri Reed

    From the desk of Colleen Montgomery: Alessandro Donato -- there's more to Lidia Vance's nephew than meets the eye. * Says he's an accountant for the European Union (but spends a lot of time here in Colorado Springs). * Pops up whenever anyth...

  • A Student of Living Things

    Susan Richards Shreve

    In the Washington, D.C., of a near future, a city of floods and frequent terrorist bombings, the tightly knit Frayn family has carved out its own comfortable, if eccentric, existence. Then, in the moment it takes Claire Frayn to dig into her book bag...

  • Unspoken Fear

    Hunter Morgan

    A DANGER THAT CAN'T BE SEEN... Vineyard manager Rachel Gibson's once-blissful marriage crashed to an end with the imprisonment of her husband following a series of senseless tragedies that peaked one night on a bloody stretch of Delaware highway. Fi...

  • Vanished

    Karen Robards

    Ten years ago, Sarah Mason's six-year-old daughter vanished during an outing at a local park in Beaufort, South Carolina. Despite a furious search, little Lexie was never found, and Sarah was left to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and go on...

  • Call of the Wolf

    Susan Krinard

    Two sensuous werewolf romances come together in an omnibus edition containing Secret of the Wolf, in which a tormented Quentin Forster, plagued by spells of amnesia, comes to hypnotist Johanna Schell for help, and To Catch a Wolf, in ...

  • Calypso Wind

    Sandra Dark

    Fresh out of high school, Carrie Washburn was left alone in the world when her only living relative mysteriously turned his back on her. Since that terrible encounter with her Uncle Price Carmichael, she has struggled to pay her way through college b...

  • Chasing Destiny

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    lie (aka "Ducati") is known as much for her extraordinary beauty as for the sexy yellow motorcycle she rides through the mean streets of Los Angeles. Tough, talented, and self-assured, Billie's used to doing things her way--but that was before love t...

  • Chicks Ahoy

    Lynda Sandoval

    While working on the cruise ship that her father captains during summer vacation, Camille and her friend Jiggy, trying to make the best of a bad situation, party with their co-workers, but when Jiggy's partying gets out of control, Camille learns the...

  • Coupon Girl

    Becky Motew

    Hi, you've reached the voice mail of Jeanie Callahan. I'm auditioning right now for the lead role in the The Sound of Music. Hopefully, I am not throwing up or fainting. Oh yes, if you're a business owner and would like to offer your customers coupon...

  • Darcy & Elizabeth

    Linda Berdoll

    Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have an exceedingly passionate marriage in this continuing saga of one of the most exciting, intriguing couples in the Jane Austen Literature. As the Darcys raise their babies, enjoy their conjugal felicity and manage the great ...

  • Diary of a Street Diva

    Ashley & JaQuavis

    After the phenomenal success of their first novel, Dirty Money, Ashley and JaQuavis are back with their spellbinding sophomore novel, Diary of a Street Diva. Come with them as they take you into the world of Remy Morgan, the wife of Cease, a young hu...

  • Doppelganger

    David Stahler Jr.

    Doppelgangers are monsters, hardwired for murder.They are not supposed to have doubts, but this one does. He wishes he could be different. More human, maybe. But even that can't stop him from killing people so he can take their places and live their ...

  • Down on My Knees

    Victor McGlothin

    In this highly entertaining, uplifting page-turner from acclaimed author Victor McGlothin, a successful single mother takes a vow of celibacy.... But she has no idea that trying to be good will make her want to be so bad... A single mom and busy ad...

  • Ex-Girl to the Next Girl

    Daaimah S. Poole

    Ever since Shonda stole Malik from his fiancee--at the altar, no less--she's believed that marrying him would be her ticket to happiness. But when he finally steps up and makes it happen, Shonda is in for a rude awakening. From the day he moves his e...

  • Finishing Touches

    Deanna Kizis

    When aspiring L.A. interior designer Jesse Holtz loses her dearest friend, Cecile, in a car accident, shes sideswiped by grief. Cecile was always the most beguiling girl in the roomthe kind of girl Jesse always wished she could be. With no manual for...

  • Girl in Development

    Jordan Roter

    Vintage-chic, East Coast transplant Samantha Rose would rather be reading Virginia Woolf than Variety. So when her uncle arranges a surprise summer internship at a hot film development company, Sam is not prepared for the Tinsel-town twist. From her ...

  • Heart's Revenge

    Julia C. Porter

  • A Higher Geometry

    Sharelle Byars Moranville

    Anna loves math, and her boyfriend, Mike. Will she have to choose between them?Anna Conway sometimes wishes her relationships would come as easy to her as math does. A natural math talent, Anna is at odds with what's expected of her as a teenager in ...

  • I Did (But I Wouldn't Now)

    Cara Lockwood

    Are you ready to rock? Lily Crandell has always lived in the shadow of her older sister, Lauren, who has a successful career as a wedding planner and a perfect husband and baby boy. Known within her family for being an aimless, impulsive trouble-...

  • Immediate Family

    Eileen Goudge

    What does it mean to be a family? New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge's engaging new novel is a powerful adventure into the heart of marriage, motherhood, and four friends who discover they may be the best family they ever had. Fiftee...

  • Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn

    Sarah Miller

    The narrator of Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn tells us the story of her beloved Gid, an adorably clueless boy who flukes his way into one of the fanciest New England prep schools. Gideons more than a little out of his league at Midvale, especiall...

  • King of the Creeps

    Steven Banks

    Tom is an undersized nerd with an oversized nose. He’s got frizzy hair and glasses. He’s the flag monitor. He knows it -- he’s a creep. What girl will ever like him?

    The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. Tom may not look like ...

  • Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

    Lyah Beth Leflore

    Last Night a DJ Saved My Life takes readers behind the velvet rope and inside A-list nightlife. At thirty-five, Destiny Day is at the top of her game. Having escaped her hardscrabble beginnings in the small Midwestern town she calls "East Boogie, Ill...

  • Leaves of Hope

    Catherine Palmer

    An adventurous spirit has always set Beth Lowell apart in her family, creating tension with her mother, Jan, who cherishes stability. Beth, a risk taker who traverses the globe for her job, wonders how Jan, now widowed, can endure her staid, predicta...

  • London Is the Best City in America

    Laura Dave

    London is the Best City in America, is the insightful, wickedly funny story of two siblings who have found themselves at a crossroads. In mapping their struggles over one wild and emotional wedding weekend, Laura Dave gives us a brilliantly subtle an...

  • Love Lottery

    Cathy Hopkins

    "Get him and his big words," said Cat. "But I agree. Kiss. You must..." "Kiss the next boy who comes onto the beach," Squidge finished for her. Becca's on a losing streak with boys and she's willing to resort to anything to have a little f...

  • Make Him Look Good

    Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

    The "him" in MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD is Ricky Biscayne, sexy Latin singing sensation who has taken the pop world by storm. The women who orbit him include: --Milan, Ricky's new publicist, smart as a whip and chubby as only a girl who still lives at ho...

  • Malinche

    Laura Esquivel

    When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortes, she -- like many -- believes that he is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is to help Cortes destroy the Aztec ...

  • Passion

    P.F. Kozak

    Teach Me A highwayman comes riding... Lost in her books, shy and beautiful Pash is free to explore her fascination with sexy rogues. Her wickedest fantasies are of bold, sensual and powerful men, who release the passions she keeps locked deep inside...

  • Pink Ghetto

    Liz Ireland

    Sometimes Life Imitates Art. And Sometimes Life Imitates Really Bad Art... Rebecca Abbot's life has just gone from vintage feather boas to boring office casual. Thanks to Sylvie Arnaud's heart attack, she's out of a job. But it's Sylvie's French, v...

  • Pool Boys

    Erin Haft

    Dive right in... Welcome to the exclusive Silver Oaks Country Club, where scandals, secrets, and forbidden hookups are part of the lush scenery -- along with all those beautiful boys and girls. There's the filthy-rich princess lounging in her Vers...

  • The Queen's Soprano

    Carol Dines

    ANGELICA VOGLIA HAS THE VOICE OF AN ANGEL.... But in seventeenth-century Rome, her talent is considered downright sinful. The pope has forbidden women to sing in public, so the gifted seventeen-year-old is forced to hide behind her shuttered windo...

  • Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes

    Cathy Holton

    kud zu kud-z n: a ubiquitous vine/weed found in Southern climes that, left uncontrolled, will grow over any fixed object in its path, including trees, power lines, and the entire state of Georgia. debutante de-byu-tnt n: a young woman makin...

  • Savannah by the Sea

    Denise Hildreth / Denise Hildreth Jones

    First, I had to lie to my boss. (Sort of.) Then my parents had a fight. (They never fight.) The pint-sized lapdog that is treated better than I am has thrown up. (Twice.) This vacation hasn't even started...and I'm ready to go home. No one in her ...

  • Scrambled Eggs at Midnight

    Brad Barkley

    Calliope (or Cal as she calls herself) wants nothing more than to stay put; to stop traveling cross-country with her mother, sleeping in a tent, and abandoning all belongings whenever they pull up stakes. Meanwhile, eliot misses the happy times he le...

  • Second Chances

    Judy Hinson

    Lynn Bowman is in love with Steve Rogan, the man of her dreams. When she discovers she is pregnant, she tries to give him the happy news, but before she can tell him, he drops a bombshell. He tells her he is tired of the boring life in Raleigh and in...

  • Silent Wager

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    From the banks of Texas's Buffalo Bayou to the blue waters of Hawaii, this powerful novel from acclaimed author Anita Bunkley tells the story of one resilient woman's fight to save a family legacy--and create a future for herself and her daughter... ...

  • A Sin and a Shame

    Victoria Christopher Murray

    After fleeing Los Angeles when her attempt to break up her best friend's marriage fails, Jasmine is now a changed woman...and a Christian. She vows to attend church every Sunday, swears off married men, and begins her search for the soul mate she is ...

  • Sister Girls

    Angel Hunter

    Jealousy, envy, and pure hateration. Maybe you've been there, or maybe you know someone who's going through it. Whatever the case, you know when things get rough, you can always count on your Sister Girls to be there for you. Take a look inside the l...

  • Stupid and Contagious

    Caprice Crane

    HEAVEN'S IN HELL... There's very little I know for sure. I know that men who wear khakis are immediately suspect, and that waitressing is what karma makes you do when you've been unforgivably bad. That pretty much covers it. AND BRADY JUST MOVED...

  • Sweet Home Carolina

    T. Lynn Ocean




    Jaxie Parker is a sexy, savvy advertising executive content to savor Atlanta's nightlife in expensive suits, sipping martinis and gossiping with her best friend. She is enjoying life in the fast lane when, all of a sudden, she's put in ch...

  • Sweet Ruin

    Cathi Hanauer

    Thirty-five-year-old Elayna Leopold lives with her young family in suburban New Jersey. Working from home so that she can raise her six-year-old daughter, Hazel, while her husband, Paul, puts in long hours as a corporate lawyer, Elayna is typical of ...

  • Tale of Two Summers

    Brian Sloan

    08:06 p.m. Saturday 07.29.06You are in L-O-V-E. Notice how I have no hesitation spelling it. At all. Reason? That was just the wildest entry you've posted! Ever....You are so seeing the world through the eyes of L-O-V-E.A ten-year best friendship is ...

  • Ten Thousand Charms

    Allison K. Pittman

    Unfit for Love? Pregnant - by a man who will never know or care. Gloria, born into a life of prostitution, sees only one solution: get rid of the child. But then she meets John William MacGregan, a miner, left with a newborn daughter and no one to ca...

  • Theft

    Peter Carey

    Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-"really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when ...

  • These Darn Heels

    Julie Stone

    Swingin' single gal Alex Sanders has everything she's always wanted--terrific friends, a loyal dog, and her own business, a card and invitation shop called Correspondence, located in the trendy Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.

    But as her thi...

  • True Riches

    Gail Gaymer Martin
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    Amid the rich history of Mackinac Island, the power of faith and love is tested. When Neal Wellington is forced to seek help, Ninette Curvier comes to his rescue. Will her faith give him the strength to face his past? When Jane Douglas nurses "Mad" A...

  • When Harry Hit Hollywood

    Mara Goodman-Davies

    Brad and Jen were fun to watch. Britney and Kevin, even better.

    But...what if you woke up on the A List?

    Jessica used to paint idly in her East Hampton garden. Now she ducks paparazzi hiding in the bushes. She used to live quietly, happ...

  • When He Hollers, Let Him Go

    Teresa McClain-Watson

    Matty Johnson, the handsome new pastor of rural Georgia's Fountain Hope Baptist Church, hasn't been anywhere near a pulpit in six years. He was ousted from his last church under a cloud when a woman he hardly knew became obsessed with him and took dr...

  • When Light Breaks

    Patti Callahan Henry

    New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry delivers a novel that explores the power of lasting love through the connected stories of two women from opposite sides of the sea.Twenty-seven-year-old Kara Larson is bogged down in the stress o...

  • Where Seagulls Soar

    Janet Woods

    Following a romantic shipboard marriage, Joanna Morcant has everything her heart could desire: a dashing new husband and an adorable baby son.But an unforeseen tragedy leaves Joanna destitute and with no choice but to return to her childhood home, th...

  • Where the Shadow Falls

    DiAnn Mills
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    Amid the rich history of Mackinac Island, the power of faith and love is tested. When Neal Wellington is forced to seek help, Ninette Curvier comes to his rescue. Will her faith give him the strength to face his past? When Jane Douglas nurses "Mad" A...

  • Wife Living Dangerously

    Sara Susannah Katz

    She's recycling glass with plastic. She's passing off store-bought brownies as homemade. And she's thinking of doing more than flirting with that hot college professor... WIFE LIVING DANGEROUSLY She went from being the good girl to the good w...

  • The Write Match

    Margaret Carroll

    Kit McCabe may be a newly minted associate editor at New York's most exclusive bridal magazine, but her personal life owes more to bad karma than to romance. That is until she falls into a cab with Wall Street player Mark Dawson III, who is gorge...

  • You, Maybe

    Rachel Vail

    Josie is an independent, self-assured sophomore who doesn't care what anyone thinks about her -- until Carson Gold, senior and hottest guy around, suddenly shows an interest. Neither Josie nor her best friends quite understand why she tentatively ind...

  • Mad Mouse

    Chris Grabenstein

    It's almost Labor Day, and the end of summer could mean the end of someone's life in this exciting sequel to Chris Grabenstein's Tilt-a-Whirl. Young Danny Boyle, the part-time summer cop "down the shore" in Sea Haven, New Jersey, gets taken on a w...

  • Witch's Sabbath

    J.M. Gregson

    Chief Inspector Percy Peach, Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake and the team, hindered as usual by the direction of Chief Superintendent Thomas Bulstrode Tucker, have one of their most puzzling and compelling mysteries to solve.In an area famous for the L...

  • Again

    Sharon Cullars

    In this breathtakingly sexy novel, Sharon Cullars invites you into two worlds--modern Chicago and 1879 New York--and into the lives of two lovers whose unforgettable passion transcends time. But will their attraction bring an undying love...or set in...

  • Date Me, Baby, One More time

    Stephanie Rowe

    IF YOU THINK LIFE IS COMPLICATED, TRY IMMORTALITY. Justine Bennett is cursing her life. She's the Guardian of the Goblet of Eternal Youth, she hasn't left the house in ages, and it's been over 200 years since she's had sex. Oh, and the Goblet has ...

  • Drop Dead, Gorgeous!

    Maryjanice Davidson

    Fast. Powerful. Deadly. With bitchin' highlights. Ah, weddings--every single woman's reminder that she'll probably die alone, covered in cat hair and dressed in unflattering sweatpants. And as far as bad wedding experiences go, my friend Stacy's co...

  • Even Vampires Get the Blues

    Katie MacAlister

    Paen Scott is a Dark One: a vampire without a soul. And his mother is about to lose hers too if Paen can't repay a debt to a demon by finding a relic known as the Jilin God in five days. Half-elf Samantha Cosse may have gotten kicked out of the Or...

  • Much Ado In the Moonlight

    Lynn Kurland

    A wonderfully romantic tale about an eight-hundred-year-old ghost and the modern woman who turns his plans for a peaceful afterlife upside down... When Victoria McKinnon's brother offers to finance her production of Hamlet, she leaps at the chance...

  • Pistols at Dawn

    Nancy Warren
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    Uptight Sylvia Preston is terrified when she time travels to a twenties party. But when Tucker Green gets her dirty dancing, Sylvia wants to see just how uninhibited she can be -- in bed with Tucker....

  • Rhiana

    Michele Hauf

    Winter, 1433 -- and Jeanne d'Arc's ashes still glow... In the battle between Good and Evil, the Black Knight's sword fells enemies with silent grace. The Knight has sworn that fallen angel Lucifer de Morte and his cruel brotherhood will pay for t...

  • Second Chances

    Rebecca York
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    A magical painting, a mystical gateway... Legend has it that a heartbroken artist used magical paint to create thel beautiful "Midnight Magic"--and then stepped into the painting and was never seen again. Or so Sara Drimmon is told when she visits...

  • Tall, Dark & Dead

    Tate Hallaway

    The first Garnet Lacey novel in the delightful paranormal series by the author of The Vampire Princess of St. Paul novels!The line between magic and sanity is very thin.That’s part of why I, Garnet Lacey, quit cold turkey.Never touch the stuff. No ...

  • A Taste of Darkness

    Nina Bangs

    He'd lived a thousand years for this? Reinn Mackenzie was one ticked-off vampire. Werewolves--furry pains in the butt. Werecats--sneaky whisker-twitching manipulators. Reinn hated them all. But most of all, he hated his job. Guardian of the Blood....

  • Temptation

    Jeanie London
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    A magical painting, a mystical gateway... Legend has it that a heartbroken artist used magical paint to create thel beautiful "Midnight Magic"--and then stepped into the painting and was never seen again. Or so Sara Drimmon is told when she visits...

  • Those Were the Days

    Julie Kenner
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    After breaking off her engagement, Natalie Bowman finds herself in the 1800s being auctioned off as a sex slave! She's even more shocked when the highest bidder is Andrew Greenwood -- the fiance she dumped....

  • Time After Time

    Jo Leigh
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    When history student Betty Kroger is transported to WWII, it feels right -- and even more right to show sailor John Stevens what sex is like twenty-first-century style!...

  • Ulterior Motives

    Susan Kearney
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    A magical painting, a mystical gateway... Legend has it that a heartbroken artist used magical paint to create thel beautiful "Midnight Magic"--and then stepped into the painting and was never seen again. Or so Sara Drimmon is told when she visits...

  • The Untamed One

    Ronda Thompson

    Running from angry villagers and the man who ravaged her, the witch Lucinda flees into the forest to have her child. But Lord Jackson Wulf hunts her down, believing her death will break the family curse that transforms him into a monster. Instead of ...

  • Bishop's Reach

    Kathryn R. Wall

    Bleached-blond call girls rarely bring good news, especially the one who bursts through the door of Bay Tanner's struggling inquiry agency and into her already complicated life. Karen Zwilling swears she's been viciously attacked but can't--or won't-...

  • Corpse Suzette

    G.A. McKevett

    Despite New Year's resolutions to avoid irritating houseguests and nerve-wracking cases, California RI. Savannah Reid finds herself playing host to her assistant's cranky cousin--in town for an unwanted makeover at a local spa. But when the spa's ren...

  • Deadman's Bluff

    James Swain

    A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world's largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters wh...

  • Feet of Clay

    Ruth Birmingham

    Sunny Childs, the Atlanta PI helps her younger, flightier sister, Lee-Lee, make a documentary about a prisoner on death row. Convicted of the brutal sex murders of two local women, Dale Weedlaw is scheduled to be executed in a few days. No sooner doe...

  • Heart of the World

    Linda Barnes

    When private investigator Carlotta Carlyle is wakened by a late-night phone call, she discovers that her "little sister," Paolina, the child with whom she was paired years ago by a local mentoring program, is missing. Carlotta combs the Bosto...

  • Hitched

    Carol Higgins Clark

    The date is Saturday, April 2. Five April brides discover their wedding dresses have been stolen. One of the brides is private investigator Regan Reilly. Her wedding is in seven days. Regan Reilly and her fiance, Jack "no relation" Reilly...

  • Pretty Girl Gone

    David Housewright

    Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie has a lot of old girlfriends, but only one went on to marry the current governor of the state of Minnesota. And only one is calling him with a desperate request to meet in secret. First Lady Lindsay Barrett is carrying an anon...

  • Blown Away

    Shane Gericke

    A serial killer is playing a deadly game. There are no rules except one: The killer always wins. The loser always dies. Since joining the force, rookie cop Emily Thompson has had one ambition: to work homicide. Now she's got her chance. A twist...

  • The Cold Moon

    Jeffery Deaver

    On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks inves-tigators fear ticked away the victims' ...

  • In Plain Sight

    C.J. Box

    Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them must have done her in, and when he becomes th...

  • Unsafe Harbor

    Jessica Speart

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Rachel Porter's devotion to endangered creatures has carried her to many remote, exotic places. Now she's in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, trying to help stop the import of illegal flora and fauna. This is a differe...

  • Another Lost Angel

    Steven B. Mandel

  • Behind the Curtain

    Peter Abrahams

    In echo falls you never know what's coming next -- and everyone has a secret. Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane: Ingrid's dad's job is in jeopardy, but he won't explain why. Ingrid's brother, Ty, is getting buff -- really buff -- but when Ty starts g...

  • Best Laid Plans

    Anne White

    Preparations for Emerald Point's lucrative tourist season are well under way, but Mayor Loren Graham fears murder could be this year's major attraction. First, she finds a body in a locked display case of French and Indian War memorabilia--but it dis...

  • The Big Boom

    Domenic Stansberry

    The Big Boom features the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon, an obsessive private investigator working the streets of his San Francisco neighborhood. He is a dark-eyed, complex figure---melancholic, tender, with fie...

  • Bust

    Ken Bruen; Jason Starr

    5 IMPORTANT LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST: 1. When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath. 2. Drano is not the best tool for getting rid of a dead body. 3. Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure. 4. A ...

  • The Case of the Monkey Burglar

    John R. Erickson

    There’s never a dull moment on the ranch when Hank the Cowdog is around. In this latest installment to the series, Hank learns about a tool thief on the loose who uses a monkey to help him do his dirty work. And before long, Hank finds himself f...

  • Dark Backward

    Julia Buckley

    Tough. Unflappable. Stubborn. Crazy? Everyone, even her husband, believes Lily Caldwell went off the deep end when her partner Danny died in a mysterious shooting that nearly killed her, too. Based on the life-changing vision she experienced while te...

  • Desert Crossing

    Elise Broach

    There are some kinds of trouble you never see coming, like those thunderstorms that start from nothing at all. One minute the sky is bright blue and distant. Then, all of a sudden, it's dark and thick with clouds, pressing down right on top of you. T...

  • The Detection Collection

    Simon Brett

    The Detection Club is the oldest and most exclusive crime writing organization and it has always represented the cream of British crime writing talent. The founding and early members were amongst the most famous and best loved figures in the golden a...

  • Detective Camp

    Ron Roy

    Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are off to summer camp! And this isn't just any camp . . . it's a camp for detectives. The kids can't wait to spend a whole week following clues and learning about the science of crime solving. Soon the counselors have all t...

  • Dirty Laundry

    Tori Carrington

    Sofie Metropolis is the newest P.I. on the mean streets of Astoria, Queens. She's known for her trademark frappes and her itchy trigger finger. She even shot one of her own clients! Well, he was trying to kill her at the time . . . and she only hit ...

  • Dressed to Keel

    Candy Calvert

    Leaving behind a cheating ex-boyfriend and her stressful job as an ER nurse, Darcy Cavanaugh goes on a fall foliage cruise with her best friend Marie. Lost in a sea of senior citizens, Darcy and Marie, the shipboard nurse, do their best to enjoy the ...

  • Dying Flames

    Robert Barnard

    Some memories are better left buried in the past. Well-known author Graham Broadbent has managed to repress one particularly dangerous memory for many years, but a trip home to a school reunion brings back the shocking reality of a desperate youthful...

  • Fireworks at the FBI

    Ron Roy

    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for the election season!  In the sixth book of the Capital Mysteries -- an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous ...

  • Flamethrower

    Maggie Estep

    In the newest Ruby Murphy mystery, New York’s inadvertent sleuth discovers more about her shrink than she could have ever imagined as the doctor turns the tables, enlisting her help in the hunt for a one-legged man who’s been kidnapped and hidden...

  • A Girl in Mind

    Mark P. Dunn

  • The Hard Way

    Lee Child

    Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man ...

  • How to Succeed in Murder

    Margaret Dumas

    Charley Fairfax--heiress, theatrical producer, newlywed--is intent on living happily ever after with her tall, dark, and sarcastic husband Jack. The only mysteries before her are which play to choose for next season and how to decorate her dining roo...