Psychological Thrillers

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Virgin Lies
by Roderick Anscombe
A 9-year-old girl has disappeared in Boston, and the only witness is a homeless schizophrenic woman. Dr. Paul Lucas is called in to help with the investigation—he must crack the twisted minds of 2 suspects, and break the central oath of his profession to save the young girl’s life.

Blaze
by Richard Bachman/Stephen King
Blaze has been mentally challenged since childhood when his father threw him down the stairs. After escaping an abusive detention center, he hooks up with a seasoned criminal and enters a life of scams and robberies. When George is killed and Blaze is alone, he becomes one of the most sympathetic criminals in all of literature.

Pegasus Descending
by James Lee Burke (Spy)
When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment. It's Robicheaux's most personally painful case -- a roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret -- and it may be his deadliest.

Tin Roof Blowdown
by James Lee Burke
In a singular style that defies genre, James Lee Burke has created a hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina. Filled with complex characters and depictions of people at both their best and worst, The Tin Roof Blowdown is not only an action-packed crime thriller, but a poignant story of courage and sacrifice that critics are already calling Burke's best work.

White Night
by Jim Butcher (Suspense/Fantasy)
Someone is targeting Chicago’s magic practitioners, the members of the supernatural underclass who don’t possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. The murderer left a calling card, referencing the book of Exodus and the killing of witches.

The Woods
by Harlan Coben (Bestseller)
20 years ago, 4 teens attending summer camp were either found murdered in the woods, or were never seen again. Paul Copeland, county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, is a widower with a young daughter, and brother of one of the dead/missing teens. Clues surface that re-open the old case—could his sister still be alive?

The Overlook
by Michael Connelly (Detective, Bestseller)
On his first case since joining LA’s Homicide Special squad, detective Harry Bosch learns that the victim had access to dangerous radioactive substances from nearly every hospital in LA County. Bosch is soon in conflict with both the LAPD brass and the FBI, as he works to save all of Los Angeles from a deadly hazard.

Critical
by Robin Cook (Medical)
Angela Dawson is CEO of start-up Angels Healthcare, and is preparing to take it public. A surge of drug-resistant staph infections in three hospitals devastates Angela’s carefully constructed world, so when NYC medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton begin investigating the deaths, it opens a Pandora’s box of corporate intrigue.

Deep Black: Jihad
by Stephen Coonts (Spy Thriller)
Deep Black, the world’s most effective anti-terrorist force, plants a bug inside Al Qaeda. This story moves from Istanbul to America, as three Deep Black agents work to prevent a strike aimed at the heart of the USA.

Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell
The book is the morgue log. For Kay Scarpetta, it has a new meaning. Moving to Charleston, she opens a forensic pathology practice in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies to communities that lack access to modern technology. Seems like good business until someone attempts to run her out of town, even before the murders begin.

Double Take
by Catherine Coulter
An unknown assailant throws Julia off the pier, and FBI Special Agent Cheney Stone rescues her. Stone later senses a link between the attack and the death of Julia's husband.

The Chase
by Clive Cussler
In 1906 the west has suffered two years of a string of bank robberies by a man who then murders any witnesses and vanishes! Fed up with the “Butcher Bandit” the US government brings in Isaac Bell to solve the case. He pursues what quickly becomes clear as the best criminal mind he has ever encountered.

The Sleeping Doll
by Jeffery Deaver
To track down a “Charles Manson-like” killer, Kathryn must enlist the help of people from the killer’s past: three women who lived under his sadistic sway as well as the young girl known as The Sleeping Doll, the only survivor of her family’s slaughter.

The Bone Garden
by Tess Gerritsen
Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil – human, female, and according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder.

Lying With Strangers
by James Grippando
Peyton Shields is a resident at a Boston hospital. Driving home one night during a snowstorm, she is run off the road by another car. Authorities are treating the incident like an accident, but Peyton is convinced it was a deliberate attack. Problem is, she can't convince anyone else, not even her husband. When other, equally frightening things begin to happen to her, Peyton realizes she is alone against a nameless but exceedingly determined stalker.

An Ice Cold Grave
by Charlaine Harris
Harper Connelly and her step brother Tolliver are hired to find a missing boy. They soon find eight victims, buried in the half-frozen ground, all having come to unspeakable ends. All she wants to do is collect her fee and get out of town but an attacker prevents her from leaving.

Third Degree
by Greg Iles
Laurel Shields finds her husband agitated and pulling books wildly from the library. A home pregnancy test confirms that Laurel is pregnant, but not by her husband! With the other children at home, the tension heightens as the house becomes encircled by a nervous ring of armed men! As if Laurel doesn’t have enough on her plate!

A Killer’s Kiss
by William Lashner (Legal)
Second-rate lawyer Victor Carl has spent a lifetime making bad decisions for the worst reasons. Now he’s fighting to save his life from the beautiful woman who burned him and now wants him as a fall guy for her husband’s murder.

Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne Betrayal
by Eric Van Lustbader (Spy)
Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros has gone missing. Lindros, a CI deputy director, was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bombweaponry. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments.

The Grave Tattoo
by Val McDermid
Torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside. For centuries, there has been a story that Fletcher Christian staged a massacre, then told the story to his friend William Wordsworth, who turned it into a narrative poem. Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham feels compelled to discover whether that poem ever truly existed, and if the manuscript exists today.

Creepers
by David Morrell
On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and prepare to break into the Paragon Hotel, marked for demolition. They are "creepers": urban explorers with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their secrets. Reporter Frank Balenger joins them to profile this highly illegal activity, but he isn’t looking for just another story, and soon after they enter the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, he gets more than he bargained for.

Nemesis
by Bill Napier
From a remote Scottish mountain, Dr. Oliver Webb is whisked away by a military helicopter and routed to the Mexican border. Along with the leading men of physics and one sexy atom smasher, Webb is given an impossible task: identify the asteroid – codename Nemesis – that is on course to collide with and destroy America.

Killing Spree
by Kevin O’Brien
Years ago, Seattle police were baffled by the Schoolgirl Murders, where the killer dressed his victims in school uniforms and saddle shoes. The man was caught and the case forgotten. Now a new killing spree is taking place, and Seattle writer Gillian McBride sees disturbing coincidences among the murders.

You’ve Been Warned
by James Patterson & Howard Roughan
Struggling to make ends meet, Kristin works full-time as a nanny, waiting for her glamorous life as a photographer to begin. When her career finally gets started, the man of her dreams distracts her from the catastrophe about to happen. Now, she can only hope that it’s not too late.

Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult (Bestseller)
Set in a small town in the wake of a school shooting, this story peels away layer after layer in the main characters’ lives to reveal some hard-hitting questions about the nature of justice, the balance of power, and what it means to be different. An absorbing tale, with a surprising ending.

The Wheel of Darkness
by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
A luxury ocean liner on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic, awash in wealth and decadence… An ancient Tibetan box, its contents unknown, sealed with a terrifying warning… An FBI agent destined to confront what he fears most – himself…

Bones to Ashes
by Kathy Reichs
The inspiration for the TV series “Bones.” For Temperance Brennan, the discovery of a young girl’s skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment.

Creation in Death
by J. D. Robb
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps a future New York City safe from the likes of “The Groom,” a killer who is known to leave his calling card: a ring on his victims fingers! When a young brunette victim is found to be linked to Eve’s husband, the tension heightens as the killers’ intentions are clearly more personal. Is Eve next on the killers list?

The Judas Strain
by James Rollins (Bestseller)
A master at combining historical and scientific intrigue, James Rollins returns with a high-octane thriller. This is a terrifying story of an ancient menace reborn to plague the modern world, and of an impossible hope that lies within the language of angels.

Dark of the Moon
by John Sandford
Murder is afoot in the town of Bluestone! Several murders have occurred in the past week; a doctor and his wife, and now an exploding house which kills the town outcast. Virgil Flowers takes the case but it proves most unusual, as he must not only solve the crime but keep from becoming a victim himself!

The Messenger
by Daniel Silva (Spy Thriller)
An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer that lead to suspicions that al-Qaeda is planning an attack on the Vatican. Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, warns a friend at the Vatican, and rushes to Rome to assist in security. None of them know that the Vatican has been penetrated by an extraordinary enemy that walks among them.

The Secret Servant
by Daniel Silva (Spy Thriller)
Gabriel Allon is on assignment in Amsterdam when he discovers a conspiracy festering in the city’s Islamic underground, a plot that is about to explode in the middle of London. The target is the daughter of an American ambassador--Allon finds himself drawn into the service of American intelligence as he desperately searches for the kidnapped woman.

Shoot Him If He Runs
by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington and his cohorts, Holly Barker and Dino Bacchetti, are sent to the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Marks, courtesy of the CIA, to track down Teddy Fay, a rogue agent last seen escaping an imploding building. Stone and Holly soon discover that in St. Marks, everyone is hiding something, and Teddy Fay may just be hiding in plain sight.

Simple Genius
by David Baldacci [bestseller]
The heroes of "Split Second" and "Hour Game" are back after seeing their lives splinter around them. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are forced to take on a thankless investigation into the murder of a scientist just inside the CIA's razor-wire fence near Williamsburg.

Spy
by Ted Bell [bestseller]
MI-6 intelligence officer Alex Hawke confronts an evil like no other. Terror looms as a madman works his dark magic in the heart of the Amazon and a nightmare erupts along the Mexican border, creating a deadly combination that threatens to bring America to its knees.

Strike Force
by Dale Brown
On the run, Iranian rebel leader desperately turns to his old nemesis for help. U.S.A.F. Lieutenenat-General Patrick McLanahan is unwilling to commit US forces in an Iranian civil war, so the U.S. President authorizes McLanahan to use top-secret spaceplanes to turn the tide.

Next
by Michael Crichton [bestseller]
California scientist, Henry Kendall, mixes human and chimp DNA and produces an intelligent hybrid whom he rescues from the government and tries to pass off as a fully human child.

The Keep
by Jennifer Egan
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by the devastating consequences of a childhood prank, reunite 20 years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe - a castle stteped in blood lore and family pride. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, this time with even more catastrophic results.

Bad Blood
by Linda Fairstein
Alexandra Cooper is in court for what promises to be an unusual trial. The defendant is a young businessman charged with murdering his wife. He was out of town the day of the killing, but Cooper plans to prove that he hired a hit man.

Heartstopper
by Joy Fielding
In a small town in Florida, the prettiest, "heartstoppers," teen girls are now turning up brutally murdered. With a dead-end investigation, Sandy wishes she'd never moved her and her beautiful, teenage daughter to this seemingly quiet town.

Act of Treason
by Vince Flynn [bestseller, spy]
When an al-Qaedastyle bomb attack on the motorcade of the Democratic presidential candidate, Georgia governor Josh Alexander, in Washington, D.C., a month before the November election kills the candidate's wife and several Secret Service agents, Rapp uses all the tools at his disposal to investigate. He soon finds that the motive for the outrage may be personal rather than political.

When Darkness Falls
James Grippando [legal]
Jack Swyteck isn't looking for a new client, at least not one who is homeless. But from the moment he's called to defend the man, who goes by the name Falcon, something is amiss. For one thing, Falcon comes up with the $10,000 bail -- in cash. Then the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in the trunk of the abandoned car that he is living in.

Stalemate
by Iris Johansen [forensic, bestseller]
Little is known about one of the world's most wanted men, Luis Montalvo, except that he is extraordinarily dangerous and that he never takes "no" for an answer. Now he wants Eve's help, for he believes they have something in common -- and he's about to prove it with a grisly warning.

Trouble
by Jesse Kellerman
Young medical student, Jonah Stem, accidentally stumbles across a murder in progress, and without thinking, Jonah rushes to save the woman. Accidentally, he kills the assailant. The D.A. wants to "interview" him; the dead man's family wants to kill him; and the woman he saved becomes first his lover, then his worst nightmare.

Marked Man
by William Lashner
All Victor Carl knows is that he's woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new tattoo he doesn't remember getting: a heart inscribed with the name Chantal Adair.

The Suspect
by John Lescroart
When a marriage headed for divorce ends in homicide, no alibi can clear the surviving spouse -- but the right attorney just might.

The Testament
by Eric Van Lustbader
Not until Dexter Shaw dies in a mysterious explosion does "Bravo" Shaw discover the enormity of his father's hidden life as a high-ranking member of the Order of Gnostic Observatives. For more than 800 years, the Order has preserved an ancient cache of documents, including a Testament attributed to Christ that could shake the foundations of Christianity.

The Haunting
by Joan Lowery Nixon
When her parents decide to move into Graymoss, the old family plantation, Lia must chase away the restless and malicious spirit possessing the house. Using clues from an ancestor's diary and Edgar Allan Poe, she must discover what -- or who -- the evil wants.

The 6th Target
by James Patterson [bestseller]
Inspector Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club face their most baffling case ever. Now, one of their own is clinging to life after a gunman kills several people. The entire city is in the grip of fear as children and their nannies are being abducted. Boxer struggles to connect these horrific crimes.

Step On a Crack
by James Patterson
Detective Michael Bennett confronts the most ruthless man as the entire world watches. At the funeral of a beloved former first lady, the most powerful people in the world gather for her funeral and become trapped by one man's brilliant and cold-blooded scenario.

The Book of the Dead
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child [bestseller]
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... his brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... a young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown... an ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala...

Ghost Force
by Patick Robinson [adventure]
In 2011 America, Britain, and Russia are drawn into a battle for a gigantic oil strike. Admiral Morgan unleashes the Navy SEALs "Ghost Force" to hammer Argentina away from the Falklands.

Piece of My Heart
by Peter Robinson
The year is 1969. Rock 'n' roll, psychedelic drugs and hippies are thriving in Britain, but cold reality strikes when a woman is found murdered after a rock music festival. Detective Inspector Stanley Chadwick must reluctantly enter a counterculture world to find a killer.

Black Order
by James Rollins [bestseller]
A century-old plot threatens to destroy the current world order and alter the destiny of humankind forever. Commander Grayson Pierce joins the SIGMA Forces to save doctor, Lisa Cummings, in Nepal.

Map of Bones
by James Rollins [bestseller]
During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany, a band of armed intruders unleashes a nightmare of blood and terror, ruthlessly gunning down worshippers and clergy, then stealing the preserved bones of the Three Magi. The Vatican is in turmoil, and Grayson Pierce is called in to take commant of the investigation.

Daddy's Girl
by Lisa Scottoline [bestseller]
Law professor, Natalie Greco, agrees to teach a class at a local prison. When a violent prison riot breaks out, an injured guard asks her to deliver a message: "Tell my wife it's under the floor." His dying wish plunges Nat into a nightmare.

Out Cold
by William G. Tapply [legal]
Boston-based attorney Brady Coyne's quiet life usually keeps him far away from trouble. One cold January morning, Brady lets his dog out into the backyard only to discover the body of a girl under the newly fallen snow. She is a teenager who had apparently entered the backyard in the middle of the night and died from hypothermia and blood loss. The only clue is a small piece of paper with Brady's address on it.

Limitations
by Scott Turow

White Cargo
by Stuart Woods
They let Catledge live while they savagely brutalized his wife and daughter. Let him live to know that he could never find the killers in the drug towns of Colombia. Then, late one night back in the States, the phone rang. One word launched a one-man war against a ruthless outlaw.

The Collectors
by David Baldacci
The assassination of the Speaker of the House sets the members of the Camel Club in a race to prevent a silent yet bloody coup in Washington. Sequel to the Camel Club.

In Plain Sight
by C. J. Box
Ranch owner Opal Scarlett has vanished, and her sons are battling for control of her multi-million-dollar empire. Game Warden, Joe Pickett, begins his investigation and is beaten nearly to death. It begins to dawn on Joe that someone wishes Joe to pay with his job, his home, his family and his blood.

Edge of Battle
by Dale Brown
To combat the threat at the U.S.-Mexican border, the U.S. has executed Operation Rampart: a controversial test base in southern California. Their success is threatened by a drug kingpin and migrant smuggler named Ernesto Fuerza.

Echo Park
by Michael Connelly
Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.

The Traitor
by Stephen Coonts [spy]
The death of a French intelligence agent on a flight to Jordan is the trigger that sets off international alarms. Within the European union, the espionage agencies begin competing against each other and against the CIA. To investigate, the Americans call on 2 of their best agents. Together they uncover an Al Qaeda plot to shake the West as never before.

Dead in Vineyard Sand
by Philip R. Craig
J. W. Jackson and his gold buddies find a body in the sand trap at the golf course. As J.W. becomes one of the prime suspects, he makes it a priority to find the killer. When a second killing occurs, J.W.'s own life is in danger.

Skeleton Coast
by Clive Cussler [bestseller]
While returning from a mission on the Congo River Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. They save Sloane MacIntyre, who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area.

Wild Fire
by Nelson DeMille
Welcome to Custer Hill Club, a men's club that has members of America's most powerful business leaders, military men and government officials. One fall weekend, the club's Executive Board gathers to talk about 9/11 and finalize a retaliation plan called "Wild Fire."

Killer Instinct
by Joseph Finder
Jason is a 30-yr-old sales executive who lacks the "killer instinct" that would move him up the corporate ladder. All that changes when Jason makes a new friend, and that friend paves the way for Jason's climb. Jason soon finds that his new best friend has become the most dangerous enemy imaginable.

The Afghan
by Frederick Forsyth [bestseller]
In order to infiltrate the latest Al Qaeda threat, the U.S. decides to prepare Iraqi-born Colonel Mike Martin to pose as a former senior commander of the Taliban. Nothing can prepare Martin for the world he is about to enter...

The Mephisto Club
by Tess Gerritsen
Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and police detective Jane Rizzoli look into the murder of 28-year-old Lori-Ann Tucker, whose body is found Christmas morning in her apartment amid an unholy mess of severed limbs, black candles and satanic symbols rendered in blood.

The Creek
by Jennifer L. Holm
Around the time of her 13th birthday, Penny's suburban Philadelphia neighborhood is terrorized by a psychopath and everyone is sure that the young man just out of juvenile home is responsible.

Sleeping with Fear
by Kay Hooper [occult]
An expert on the occult, Special Crimes Unit's Riley Crane had been sent to the beachfront cottage on Opal Island to investigate reports of dangerous occult activity. Riley is alone and without backup, feeling her way through a deadly game of blindman's bluff, where no one around her is quite who or what they seem.

Dead Wrong
by J. A. Jance
Coping with the impending delivery of her second child, Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates two attacks. She'll risk everything to see that justice is done...even herself.

The Mission Song
by John Le Carre [bestseller]
By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory, the story recounts Salvo's heroically naive journey out of Western hypocrisy. Dispatched by British Intelligence to interpret for a top-secret meeting on Congolese warlords and Western financiers, Salvo's African conscience awakens in him.

Coronado
by Dennis Lehane [short stories]
At turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic, these tales journey headlong into the heart of our national myths about class, gender, freedom, and violence.

The Bancroft Strategy
by Robert Ludlum
Financial analyst Andrea Bancroft is invited to sit on the board of the Bancroft family foundation. The foundation appears less benign the more deeply involved she gets. As events escalate, Todd Belknap and Andrea form an uneasy alliance to uncover the truth.

Proof Positive
by Phillip Margolin [Oregon author]
Frustrated and confused, defense attorney Doug Weaver consults with Amanda Jaffe, star of Margolin's spine-tingler "Wild Justice," to help him with his latest client.

The Book of Fate
by Brad Meltzer [bestseller]
Washington, D.C. has a 200-yr old secret with mysterious facts buried in Masonic history, a code invented by Thomas Jefferson. Wes Holloway, a once-cocky presidential aide must undo the worst day of his life to unravel how a once dead colleague is now alive and well in Malaysia.

The Jury: Sisterhood, Bk4
by Fern Michaels
These best friends share one mission: to right wrongs and bring justice. For years Paula suffered the broken bones and shattered self esteem of abuse. The Sisterhood schedules a meeting with this powerbroker...

Cross
by James Patterson [bestseller]
Alex Cross faces the deadliest psychopath of them all -- his wife's killer. Will justice be served at long last or will this be the culminating scene in his own deadly obsession?

Judge & Jury
by James Patterson and Andrew Gross [legal]
The judge is terrified of the defendant and so is the jury. Mafia don Dominic Cavello, "the Electrician," is linked to hundreds of gruesome crimes. As the jury is about to reach a verdict, the Electrician makes one devastating move that no one could have predicted.

Triptych
by Karen Slaughter [bestseller]
From Atlanta's wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race.

The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Two American couples just out of college are enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. As one of the group goes missing, they take new-found friends along to help. From the moment the searchers begin moving into the wild, they suspect that there is a horrific "other" among them.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson [classic]
The gripping struggle of two opposing personalities -- one essentially good, the other evil -- for the soul of one man. The powerful portrayal of man's dual nature moves us over a century after its first release.

Child of Darkness, The Gemini Series, Bk 3
by V. C. Andrews
Adopted at 16, Celeste Atwell has everything a girl could desire. But her indulgence may come at a steep price -- because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps.

The Innocent
by Harlan Coben
Now 9 years after his release from prison, Matt takes nothing for granted. With his wife Olivia pregnant, things are looking up, until the day he gets an inexplicable video call from Olivia's phone.

Entombed
by Linda Fairstein
Workers demolishing a 19th-century brownstone where Poe once lived discover a human skeleton standing -- entombed -- behind a brick wall.

With No One As Witness
by Elizabeth George [British Thriller]
When an adolescent boy's nude body is found mutilated and artfully arranged on the top of a tomb, the New Scotland Yard recognizes this as the work of a serial killer. This is the 4th victim in 3 months -- but the first to be white.

Hunting Fear
by Kay Hooper
He's no ordinary kidnapper, and the profiler tracking him is no ordinary cop. Lucas Jordan has come to Clayton County, to do what he does best: hunt fear.

Havana
by Stephen Hunter [set in 1953 Cuba]
The Soviet Intelligence has taken Castro under its wing. The CIA responds by sending the legendary ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger to eliminate Castro, but Earl's target seems to have more guts and good luck than anyone else in Cuba.

Improbable Cause
by J. A. Jance [detective]
Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who was overly fond of administering pain found murdered in his own chair. For Detective J. P. Beaumont the most damning piece of evidence would shake him to the core and reveal to him the true meaning of evil.

Long Time Gone
by J. A. Jance [detective]
While undergoing hypnotherapy, a nun unexpectedly recalls the grisly details of a killing she witnessed when she was 5. Seattle Police Detective, J. P. Beaumont is handpicked to lead the investigation into the cold case.

Taking the Fifth
by J. A. Jance [detective]
All Seattle Homicide Detective J. P. Beaumont needs to do is find the woman who fills the shoe... the cobalt blue pump with stiletto heels, found damningly close to a very dead man.

Countdown
by Iris Johansen
The legend of Cira and her gold intrudes once again on Jane MacGuire's life. In Blind Alley, the streetwise adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and Atlanta detective Joe Quinn became a serial killer's pawn. Now she's a target for terrorists who believe she has the key to a lost treasure.

Robert Ludlum's: The Moscow Vector
by Patrick Larkin
It's the perfect assassination tool -- a bioweapon that, using each target's DNA, is undetectable, unstoppable, and incurable. With few clues and little time, Jon Smith must find the mysterious figure at the center of this nefarious plot.

The Motive
by John Lescroart
Abe Glitsky is thrust into a controversial investigation of a double homicide: the murder of a politically-connected, San Francisco socialite and his glamorous fiance.

Unlucky for Some
by Jill McGown [British, female detective]
It looks like an ordinary mugging, except the killer left the woman with her bingo-money neatly fanned out across her body. The stakes are raised with a 2nd murder, modeled on the 1st... and then a 3rd.

Weekend Warriors
by Fern Michaels [not a typical Fern Michaels]
If you're part of the Sisterhood when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead ... or you can get up fighting. The Sisterhood forges a bond that helps the "sisters" right the wrongs in their world.

Saving Cascadia
by John J. Nance [adventure/suspense]
Cascadia Island was once rock submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean. Then a massive eathquake moved it above sea level. As megawealthy developer Mick Walker stands to earn millions from his luxury resort on Cascadia, seismologist Dr. Doug Lam deems it unstable.

4th of July
by James Patterson
San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer's life hinges on the decision of 12 jurors. During breaks from her trial, she retreats to Half Moon Bay. But after her arrival, a string of murders punch throught the community.

Nightcrawlers: a Nameless Detective Novel
by Bill Pronzini
Cases were on the wake at the San Francisco-based detective agency Nameless founded. When Tamara doesn't show up a few days after heading out after a deadbeat father, Nameless gets a sinking feeling in his gut.

Fleshmarket Alley
by Ian Rankin [detective]
On a notorious street in the basement of a newly renovated bar, the bones of a woman and child are discovered beneath a cement floor. It's an unusually gruesome find, and Inspector John Rebus is called to investigate.

Devil's Corner
by Lisa Scottoline [legal]
Prosecutor Vicki Allegretti barely escapes being gunned down with two others, so she sets out to identify them. Her suspicions take her to Devil's Corner, a neighborhood on the brink of ruin, where she buckles up for a wild ride down a dangerous street.

Prince of Fire
by Daniel Silva [spy]
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabril Allon is in Venice when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in the hands of terrorists that lays bare his history.

Black Cat
by V. C. Andrews
When Celeste's mother marries a kindly neighbor, a new breed of poisonous secrets and vicious enemies will force Celeste to do what she must to survive the darkness.

Winter Range
by Claire Davis
When rancher Chas Stubblefield falls on hard times, sheriff Ike Parsons heads out to the rancher's spread to offer assistance. What he finds, shocks him to his core, and sends the town in crisis.

Whiteout
by Ken FOllett
Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, has no idea of the nightmare to come as a missing canister of a deadly virus goes missing.

Dark Voyage
by Alan Furst [WWII]
May 1941 at 4am, the Santa Rosa is on a desperate voyage up the Tagus River to load secret cargo at the port of Lisbon.

By Order of the President
W.E.B. Griffin
Fed up by the CIA and FBI's investigation of a hijacked 727, the president turns to an outside investigator to determine the truth. In comes Delta Force Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, West Point grad, a pilot, and a veteran of Desert Storm.

The Broker
by John Grisham
After a presidential pardon and a new identity, the question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill the broker? As the CIA sits back to watch, will it be the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese or the Saudis?

Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne in the Bourne Legacy
by Eric Van Lustbader [Spy]
Years after the events of "The Bourne Identity," Webb is living a quiet life as a professor of Eastern Studies at Georgetown University, until he finds himself the target of an assassin and framed for 2 murders.

Skinny-Dipping
by Claire Matturro [legal]
Lilly Rose Cleary is a tough-as-nails partner in a law firm. She's also an obsessive-compulsive health nut who has a bad habit of tripping over dead bodies, so who would want to come after her?

3rd Degree
by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
Patterson's "Women's Murder Club" series (1st to Die; Second Chance), features an appealing and reliable cast of four female crime busters: a cop, a prosecutor, a medical examiner, and a reporter.

London Bridges
by James Patterson
Alex Cross is back and so is the Wolf and so is the Weasel. The thought of these masterminds joining forces makes Alex's blood run cold. World leaders have 4 days to prevent a cataclysm, and Cross is catapulted into an international chase.

A Spy's Life
by Henry Porter
The lone survivor of a UN plane crash leaves British spy, Robert Harland, wondering if he was the target? He wades through the cold of the East River to grab his dead friend's phone, hoping to be rescued from the rising tide.

Wolves Eat Dogs
by Martin Cruz Smith
In his most baffling case yet, Renko enters the privileged world of Russia's new billionaire class. Pasha Ivanov has apparently leapt to his death from his Moscow condo. No signs point to homicide, but there is one puzzling bit of evidence: a mountain of salt in Ivanov's closet.

The Godfather Returns
by Mark Winegardner
A new novel based on the Corleone Family characters created by Mario Puzo. Sweeping from New York and Washington to Las Vegas and Cuba, the criminal underworld intersects with the political, legal, and entertainment empires of the mid-20th Century.

Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown [Bestseller]
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment, he discovers evidence of the Illuminati.

Digital Fortress
by Dan Brown [Bestseller]
Code-breaker, Susan Fletcher, uncovers a mysterious code that sends shock waves through the corridors of power, the National Security Agency. They're being held hostage by a code so complex if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.

Just One Look
by Harlan Coben
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture of her husband and 5 other people from 20 years ago. When her husband sees the photo, he denies it's him and sneaks off in the night, taking the photo with him.

Days of the Dead
by Barbara Hambly [historical fiction]
Mexico City in the autumn of 1835 is a lawless place, teeming with bandits and beggars. When a friend calls Benjamin and his new bride to come to his aid, they pray they'll not only find him alive . . . but live through the holy Days of the Dead themselves.

The Madman's Tale
by John Katzenbach
Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family had him committed to an asylum. Now 20 years later, he's leading an aimless, medicated life, until a reunion of old voices are heard in his head.

The Hundredth Man
by Jack Kerley
With the body count rising, detective Carson Ryder descends into his family's terrifying past by seeking advice from his brother, a violent psychopath convicted of heinous crimes. Heroes cannot succeed without madmen, and the dead are the most dangerous of all.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay
Dexter lives an ironic life. A perfect gentleman who has an aversion to blood, then as a bloodspatter analyst who keeps tabs on not only the latest crimes but also . . . his latest victims.

Now You See It
by Allison Lynn
David and Jessica share an enviable life, until she turns up missing. His search for his wife takes him far from his Manhattan neighborhood.

Killer Smile
by Lisa Scottoline [legal]
Everybody around lawyer Mary DiNunzio has decided she isn't allowed to be a young widow anymore. They're all trying to fix her up. All Mary wants to do is immerse herself in the Brandolini case, fingering a killer and laying a beloved ghost to rest.

The Blackbird Papers
by Ian Smith
Dartmouth professor Wilson Bledsoe's body is found with a racial epithet carved into his chest. Two loathsome white supremacists are arrested, but Wilson's brother, FBI agent Sterling Bledsoe, isn't buying this quick solution.

Live Bait
by P. J. Tracy
Minneapolis detectives Magozzi and Rolseth are bored, until 2 brutal homicides happen in one night. The victims are elderly and the city is again full of fear.

Deception
by John Altman
Fate gets in Hannah Gray's way, in the form of a murdered scientist whose secret formula ends up in her possession.

Celeste: Gemini Series, Bk 1
by V. C. Andrews
Desperate to keep her son "alive," Celeste's mother forces the identical twin to cut her hair and take on Noble's identity. When a boy moves in next door, Celeste will risk everything to let herself come back again.

Bitter Harvest
by Susan Bowden
Unwilling to face the Thanksgiving holiday alone, Michelle takes up her estranged grandmother Eleanor's invitation. It seems the aging monarch is convinced someone is plotting against her. While Michelle is the only one who doesn't think Eleanor is imagining things, someone is set on getting Michelle to leave.

Nighttime Is My Time
by Mary Higgins Clark
A serial killer who fancies himself a night-hunting predator: "I am the Owl," he whispers to himself after he has selected his prey, "and nighttime is my time." Once a geeky high-school student, humiliated by girls, he sets out for his 20 year reunion.

Jury of One
by David Ellis
Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award!
As the evidence against her 17-yr old client mounts, Shelly Trotter, children's rights advocate, finds that absolutely nothing will stop her from keeping her client off death row.

Empty Cradle
by Karen Harper
Determined to conceive the baby she and her late husband so passionately wanted, TV anchorwoman Alexis McCall turns to a fertility clinic for help. But all is not right at Evergreen, a clinic in New Mexico run by a husband-and-wife team.

The Havana Room
by Colin Harrison
Bill Wyeth is a real estate attorney in his late 30's who has it all: a wonderful wife and son, a successful practice, and all the benefits wealth can bestow. Then he loses it all and becomes involved in the secret Havana Room.

Retribution
by Jilliane Hoffman
Brutally raped and maimed, Chloe forges a new future as C.J., brilliant Miami prosecutor. When serial killer suspect William Bantling, stands up in court and speaks, C.J. realizes he's the man who raped her.

If She Only Knew
by Lisa Jackson
She woke up from the car accident with no memories. Restored by plastic surgery, consumed by confusion. The only thing she's left with is the unshakable feeling that she is not who everyone says she is, and that something is very, very wrong.

Truth or Dare
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Sequel to Light in Shadow. Just as Zoe Luce is settling into newlywed life in Whispering Springs, someone starts stalking her. Someone who knows all about her, and who shadows her every move.

The Color of Death
by Elizabeth Lowell
Kate has unwittingly stumbled into a conspiracy of deceit, betrayal, and cold-blooded murder. The order has already been passed down to a ruthless assassin that Kate Chandler must not be allowed to live. . .

Sleeping Beauty
by Phillip Margolin
6 yrs earlier, life was simpler for 17-yr old Ashley, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered her family home, murdering her father and best friend. Tragedy strikes again and leaves Ashley running. Her only key is the book "Sleeping Beauty."

Good Intentions
by Patricia O'Brien
Newly divorced and hoping to recapture the security she knew as a child, radio talk show host Rachel Snow buys the Chicago house she was raised in and becomes the victim of a demented fan.

Bad Business
by Robert B. Parker
When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband, Trent, is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargarined for... another investigator on the prowl.

The Body of David Hayes
by Ridley Pearson
Sworn to uphold the law, with his wife caught in the middle, Lou Boldt must skate a delicate line between duty-bound detective and jealous husband if he is to find the bank's money and keep his family whole.

A Hanged Man's Song
by John Sandford
Artist, computer whiz, and professional thief Kidd returns with his sometime partner/lover LuEllen in an electrifying novel of murder and Machiavellian intrigue.

Hidden Prey
by John Sandford
A Russian sailor is the victim of a professional assassination on the docks of Duluth. Wary of international implications, the governor of Minnesota asks Lucas Davenport, the chief investigator for the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, to investigate.

Black Creek Crossing
by John Saul
For most of her young life, 13-yr old Angel Sullivan has been outcast by schoolmates and endured the angry abuse of a bitter father. When a promising job moves the family to Massachusetts, Angel is again shunned by classmates, except for one, Seth Baker.

A Death In Vienna
by Daniel Silva
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend, but while there he encounters something that turns his world upside down. A face that feels hauntingly familiar, chills him to the bone.

Current Danger
by Marilyn Wallace
Claudia Miller is a strong and independent woman, a successful general contractor in the tough world of the Manhattan building trade. Now relatives of her colleagues are being killed and her own family is at risk. Who has a link to them all and a twisted need for revenge?

The Seduction
by Marilyn Wallace
Lee Montara is a fast-track Manhattanite who decides to escape job pressures and visit her married sister Rosie. All is peaceful until they become the target of a stalker.

No Defense
by Kate Wilhelm
Barbara Holloway is a trial lawyer who tends to take on difficult cases. Drawn to the Oregon desert, accompanied by her associates, the case itself is as dead as the desert.

Hello, Darkness
by Sandra Brown
When one disgruntled listener to Paris Gibson's popular late-night radio show claims she's to blame for his girl jilting him, the next 72 hours become a race against time. He plans to kill the girl and then Paris. Can Paris' old flame stop "Valentino."?

Blow Fly
by Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta is settling into a career as a private forensic consultant in Florida and delves into a case that left her colleagues profoundly disturbed. From his cell on death row, Jean-Baptiste Chandonne has asked to see her and tell his secrets.

Hell To Pay
by George P. Pelecanos
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a 14-yr old girl who's run away from the suburbs. It's easy for them to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s most brutal neighborhoods. What's hard is getting her to leave.

Right As Rain
by George P. Pelecanos
Together Strange and Quinn confront the ravages of an unquenchable drug trade, the realities of race in the capital police force, and some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to haunt the pages of a novel.

The Last Nazi
by Stan Pottinger
Melissa Gale is an attractive, ambitious lawyer and investigator for the Justice Department's "Nazi Hunters." Using a deadly virus born in the Nazi death-camp labs, Adalwolf, Mengele's protege, is about to unleash the ultimate weapon of mass destruction 58 years later.

Lost Boy Lost Girl
by Peter Straub
A woman kills herself for no apparent reason. A week later, her teenage son vanishes. The boy's uncle searches his hometown for clues, believing that a ghostly abandoned house is at the root of the problem.

Split Second
by David Baldacci
Michelle Maxwell has just blown her future with the Secret Service. While she let a presidential candidate out of her sight to comfort a grieving widow, the politician vanishes into thin air.

The Teeth of the Tiger
by Tom Clancy
In the New World of terrorism, old rules no longer apply. No matter what new governmental organizations come into being, the effective ones seem to be outside the system. Jack Ryan's son works for "the Campus" and finds nothing has prepared him for what he's about to encounter.

Lost
by Joy Fielding
When Julia, a beautiful 21-year-old actress, goes missing after a screen test with a famous director, her disappearance touches off a full-blown midlife crisis for her mother, Cindy.

Bad Company
by Jack Higgins
In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide for safekeeping. Now its threatening to resurface, and it's up to White House operative Blake Johnson and his colleague in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, to make sure it doesn't happen.

Presumption of Death
by Perri O'Shaughnessy
Nina Reilly needs a fresh start. She's ready to heal old wounds and heads out to where her estranged father lives. Within days of her arrival, a case of arson exposes some of her hometowns darkest secrets.

Barracuda 945
by Patrick Robinson
Off the West Coast of the United States cruises a lethal submarine in the hands of a notorious terrorist with one goal: havoc in America.

Resolved
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Vengence is powerful. A sadistic killer sets his sights on the man who put him away, New York Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp.

The Mistress of Alderley
by Robert Barnard
A mysterious man backpacking his way through the countryside arrives at Caroline's door. She recognizes him as being related to her lover. What else has her lover hidden from her?

Air Battle Force
by Dale Brown
After being chased out of Afghanistan, Taliban fighters invade the neighboring oil-rich Republic of Turkmenistan. Now it's up to the Air Battle Force to win a war in which everyone wants them to fail.

Liberty
by Stephen Coonts
As Jake Grafton hunts for terrorists, he also discovers that they don't all come from the Middle East. They come from places close to home. Some may even have the president's ear.

Life Sentence
by David Ellis
Jon Soliday is caught in a legal vise not of his own making. Someone has lied about what happened in 1979, and that same someone could benefit from his conviction. But who?

Into the Inferno
by Earl Emerson
In the freezing Pacific Northwest winter, the firefighters of North Bend Fire and Rescue respond to a freeway accident. The highway is in chaos, and six months later, those who were at the scene begin to succumb to an unknown ailment.

Last To Die
by James Grippando
Sally Fenning was worth 48 million when she died. Money had never made her happy, so she left it all to her enemies; left it for them to fight over, that is. No one gets a penny until all but one are dead.

The Lake House
by James Patterson
Six extraordinary children live with different families, but there is something powerful that connects them. The only place they feel safe is at the Lake House, so when evil surfaces, the kids reconnect on an adventure to safety.

Seven Dials
by Anne Perry
In her 23rd Victorian mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt (after 2002's Southampton Row), Thomas looks into the murder of a junior diplomat, whose corpse turns up in a wheelbarrow in a garden belonging to a mysterious and beautiful Egyptian woman.

Spook
by Bill Pronzini
Nameless enters San Francisco's underworld in search for the identity of a mentally disturbed homeless man nick-named "Spook" found dead in an alley doorway.

Dead Ringer
by Lisa Scottoline
Bennie Rosato refuses to be anyone's victim. She'll plunge headfirst into a life-and-death investigation that will bring her face-to-face with evil darker yet more familiar than anything before.

The Best Revenge
by Stephen White
Alan Gregory becomes the one person who can piece together an extraordinary puzzle of two unsolved violent deaths of vulnerable women ... and of the strange, fatal attraction between two people trapped in a horrific plot to get revenge at any price.

Dirty Work
by Stuart Woods
Cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington is assigned by his law firm to aid an important client in her quest to dump her unfaithful husband. Stone thinks its ordinary dirty work, but things take a murderous turn and the FBI and foreign intelligence service become involved.

On Thin Ice
by Susan Andersen
Unable to forget the loss of her skating partner despite her success as a single performer, ice champion Sasha Miller becomes passionately drawn to Mick Vinicor, a man who is not who he seems to be.

Small Town
by Lawrence Block
In the shadows of a city, there's an unlikely killing machine who is waging a one-man war against its eight million inhabitants.

Hollywood Tough
by Stephen J. Cannell
Shane Scully's new wife has a friend who is engaged to an all too mysterious producer who's ex-wives turn up dead.

Lost Light by Michael Connelly
Harry resurrects a cold case only to be led to the elite terrorist hunters of the new Department of Homeland Security.

The Last Detective
by Robert Crais
When attorney Lucy Chenier moves from Louisiana to L.A. to live with P.I. Elvis Cole, she never dreamed that violence would so easily touch her life. Her 10-yr old son disappears.

And Justice There is None
by Deborah Crombie
To solve this case, Inspectors Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid must walk a merciless razor's edge through a place where true justice will be a long time coming.

The Final Country
by James Crumley
For ex-private eye Milo, the end of the road is the land of his birth, Montana, where a beautiful woman, a dangerous man, and a mother lode of truth are waiting for their favorite son to come home...but it isn't that easy.

Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
One of the patients of the island hospital for the criminally insane has escaped. As the U.S. Marshal and his partner investigate, they discover that they may never leave the island.

The Last Place
by Laura Lippman
In hot legal water and court-ordered therapy for having assaulted a potential child molester, Tess Monaghan is more than ready for a distraction.

The Janson Directive
by Robert Ludlum
International financier and philanthropist Peter Novak has been captured by the near-mythical terrorist known as the Caliph. The legendary assassin, Paul Janson, is hired to head the rescue mission.

Ties That Bind
by Phillip Margolin
Amanda Jaffe agrees to handle the case no one else will touch, but powerful men from a powerful brotherhood have a "tie that binds"...murder, and Amanda and those she loves are in the way.

Shadow Boxer
by Eddie Muller
Billy Nichols is back on the beat for the San Francisco Inquirer, stumbling on evidence to exonerate the accused who was the town's top fight promoter.

Mission Compromised
by Oliver North with Joe Musser
Major Peter Newman, U.S. Marine, was a highly decorated hero, content to lead his troops into harm's way. He was good at it. But the White House had other plans for him.

Dead Aim
by Thomas Perry
Robert has been living peacefully in Santa Barbara for a decade. One day he saves a young woman from suicide, but she shoots herself hours later. Robert feels guilty and hires his old partner and now P.I. to help him uncover what motivated the woman.

Derailed
by James Siegel
Charles and Lucinda are 2 people that never should have met. Meeting as strangers on a train, they felt compelled to rendevous in a seedy Manhattan motel, derailing their lives forever.

The Eighth Day
by John Case
When starving but hopeful 26-year-old artist Danny Cray upgrades his part-time work as a private investigator to full-time, his blind acceptance of misinformation is coupled with a readiness to plunge headfirst into situations that endanger his life.

Silent Partner
by Stephen Frey
Summoned under mysterious circumstances to meet Jake Lawrence, one of the world's richest entrepreneurs, Angela Day may be on the threshold of a brighter futureor marked for death.

The Big Bounce
by Elmore Leonard
Jack Ryan doesn't know it yet, but his thrill-seeking playmate Nancy is planning the deadliest thrill of all.

The Arraignment
by Steve Martini
After a friend and fellow lawyer is killed outside a federal courthouse, Madriani wonders whether he himself had been marked for death and his friend died in his place.

The Sniper's Wife
by Archer Mayor
Detective Willy Kunkle will plummet through the dark shadows of his past, confront his demons and live up to his menacing nickname: the sniper.

Sphere of Influence
by Kyle Mills
Years of putting truth ahead of protocol have Mark Beamon languishing in a dead-end job in the FBI's Phoenix office until the war against terrorism pulls him back to the front lines.

The Jester
by James Patterson
Hugh De Luc, a poor innkeeper, returns home from the First Crusade wearied from battle and disillusioned by carnage. In his absense, his son has been killed and his beloved Sophie abducted by a ruthless duke.

Breakout
by Richard Stark
Tired of do-gooder heroes saving the day? Meet Parker, a one-man wrecking crew, cunning, fearless, and more than just a little cold-blooded. Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, Donald Westlake, is writing again under hard-boiled alter-ego Stark.

The Burying Field
by Kenneth Abel
In a small town in St. Tammanys Parish, just north of New Orleans, a small group of powerful men have a stong interest in keeping ancient secrets quiet.

Catching Water in a Net
by J.L. Abramo (award-winning debut)
Jake Diamond easily fits the traditional hard-boiled, whiskey-in-a-drawer, office-on-a-shoestring P.I. mold. His dilemma is to find the man who allegedly killed his mentor in Los Angeles.

Like Angels Falling
by Jane Adams
With his resignation from the police force now approved, Ray Flower and friend George Mahoney try to help an acquaintance whose daughter joined a cult "The Eyes of God."

Cinnamon: Shooting Stars, Book 1
by V.C. Andrews
For Cinnamon, dreaming of imaginary worlds is her only escape from her mother's breakdowns, until she discovers her talent for the theatre that would finally gives her a chance to truly escape.

Ice: Shooting Stars, Book 2
by V.C. Andrews
Ice Goodman has an incredible singing voice that makes her an object of jealousy--especially by her own mother. Her talent will hold her world together and proves her saving grace.

Rose: Shooting Stars, Book 3
by V.C. Andrews
When Rose's adored father dies, he leaves her and her mother exposed to secrets that destroy the life Rose knows. A most unlikely person will show Rose the true meaning of family.

Honey: Shooting Stars, Book 4
by V.C. Andrews
Honey grew up on a farm by her strict, religious grandfather. When a family secret comes to light, she discovers the origin of her grandfather's bitter fury and her joy may be lost forever.

Falling Stars: Shooting Stars, Bk 5
by V.C. Andrews
Cinnamon, Ice Rose and Honey meet at the Senetsky School of the Performing Arts. They soon realize this is no ordinary school and set out to untangle the Senetsky family secrets.

Bones in the Attic
by Robert Barnard
While remodeling an old house in Leeds, a childs skeleton is discovered. The ensuing investigation digs up more questions than answers.

Whispers in the Dark
by Eleanor Taylor Bland
Bland's African-American heroine, detective Marti MacAlister, and partner Matthew Jessenovik are assigned to investigate an unusual case - all they have is the victim's severed arm.

The Legacy
by D. W. Buffa (legal thriller)
On a dark, fog-bound San Francisco street, U.S. Senator Jeremy Fullerton is shot and killed in the front seat of his car.

Jolie Blon's Bounce
by James Lee Burke
The Louisiana cop, Dave Robicheaux, confronts his own demons as well as a brutal adversary in this dark thriller of savage killings and mafia big-wigs.

The Emperor of Ocean Park
by Stephen L. Carter
After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out "the arrangements" his father left behind.

Red Rabbit
by Tom Clancy
Long before Jack Ryan was President or head of the CIA, he was a historian, teacher and ex-Marine living in England.

Daddy's Little Girl
by Mary Higgins Clark
Ellie Cavanaugh was 7 when she helped convict the man who killed her 15 yr-old sister. After 22 years he was out on parole, leaving Ellie to confront not only the killer but the truth.

Nobody Knows
by Mary Jane Clark
Correspondent Cassie Sheridan is covering a hurricane moving up Floridas coast when she meets 11-yr old Vincent, who has just made a grisly discovery.

Gone for Good
by Harlan Coben
As the lies of those he loves are revealed, Will uncovers the startling truths about his lover, his gone-for-good brother and himself.

Chicago Confidential
by Max Allan Collins
Detective Nathan Heller leaves behind the glamour of Hollywood for a wild ride in the Windy City battling the mob.

Chasing the Dime
by Michael Connelly
The messages waiting for Henry Pierce when he plugs in his new telephone clearly aren't intended for him but for a woman of the night.

City of Bones
by Michael Connelly
In Bosch's 8th thriller, he and partner Jerry Edgar are working to identify a child's skeleton buried in the Hollywood forest and bring the killer to belated justice.

A Darkness More Than Night
by Michael Connelly
The suspect fits the profile of someone Terrence McCaleb has known and worked with in the past, a homicide detective for the LAPD who has perhaps stepped across the line.

Shock
by Robin Cook
An exclusive fertility clinic is seeking a few attractive, slim, athletic, Ivy-league egg donors. Two donors become obsessively curious and encounter an iron veil of secrecy around the clinic.

The Interrogation
by Thomas H. Cook
In 1952 the police race against time to interrogate a homeless man who has been picked up for murdering a child.

America: a Jake Grafton Novel
by Stephen Coonts
The newest and most sophisticated United States submarine is stolen just as it is being launched.

Eleventh Hour
by Catherine Coulter
Homeless woman Nick Jones is running from her own nightmare, from the streets of San Francisco to the television studios of Los Angeles.

The Conspiracy
by Jasmine Cresswell
In a highstakes game of international terror, Verity is called to duty. If she trusts the wrong person, it'll be the last mistake she'll every make.

A Perfect Evil
by Alex Dava (debut novel)
Ronald Jeffreys is about to be executed for the murder of three young boys, but before he dies he confesses to killing only "one." Additional victims terrorize a small community and the criminal profilers are running out of time.

The Stone Monkey
by Jeffery Deaver
Famed quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his protegee Amelia Sachs are recruited by the FBI and INS to help track down a smuggler and his human cargo.

Up Country
by Nelson Demille
Brenner's assignment will follow a trail of lies and murder to forbidding up-country Vietnam, where there lies a secret to an explosive and long-buried secret.

Betrayed
by Rosey Dow and Andrew Snaden
Feeling betrayed, the daughter of parents incarcerated for selling computer technology secrets is living under an assumed name, trying to make a life for herself.

Greenwich
by Howard Fast
In the comfortable confines of Greenwich, Connecticut, live some of the wealthiest and most brutal Americans.

Dark Inheritance
by Elaine Feinstein
Rachel OMalley is commissioned to interview a literary sensation and makes uncomfortable discoveries and similarities to her own life.

Separation of Power
by Vince Flyn
With WWIII looming, counterterrorism operatives race against impossible odds navigating Iraq and D.C.

The Veteran: Five Heart-Stopping Stories
by Frederick Forsyth
The Veteran, The Art of the Matter, The Miracle, The Citizen and Whispering Wind include murder, justice, intrigue and revenge.

The Day Trader
by Stephen Frey
Augustus, being the sole beneficiary of a million-dollar insurance policy on his murdered wife, escapes to full-time day trading while the police watch his every move.

The Survivors Club
by Lisa Gardner
Three women of the College Hill rapist survivors club are not only openly ecstatic that the rapist is dead moments before his trial, theyre the prime suspects.

The Apprentice
by Tess Gerritsen
Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her, Rizzoli is determined to finally end his awful influence.

The Lake of Dead Languages
by Carol Goodman
When Jane Hudson returns to her high school alma mater as a Latin teacher, tragic events of the past begin to resurface.

The Fourth Perimeter
by Tim Green
Former Secret Service agent Kurt Ford experienced tragedy when his wife died. Now, he's told that his son, a Secret Service agent himself, committed suicide.

Under Fire
by W.E.B. Griffin
Bestselling military author Griffin now deploys his Marines in Korea, the ninth volume in his "Corps Series."

The Summons
by John Grisham
Law professor Ray Atlee and his prodigal brother, Forrest, are summoned home by their ailing father to discuss his will. But when Ray arrives the judge is already dead.

Beyond Suspicion
by James Grippando
Criminal lawyer Jack Swytech doesn't handle civil cases, but this one is different...his gorgeous ex-girlfriend is being sued, and after winning her case, her body is found dead in his bathtub.

Mortal Allies
by Brian Haig (son of former Secretary of State Alexander Haig)
Three American soldiers were seen entering a Seoul apartment party with a young Korean male. One gets charged with strangling the Korean, and with crimes even more heinous.

Midnight Runner
by Jack Higgins
British agent Sean Dillon returns in a sequel to Edge of Danger, where the intriguing and powerful Arab/English Rashid family was introduced. Kate, the only Rashid left, has sworn to avenge her family and will do anything to humiliate the United States.

Social Crimes
by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Ruth Rendell meets Dominick Dunne in this deliciously dark and witty novel about social climbing and murder.

Dead Sleep
by Greg Iles
Photojournalist Jordan Glass visits a Honk Kong art museum. One painting reminds her of a nightmare she has fought to put behind her.

Sleep No More
by Greg Iles
John Waters was once obsessively in love, but the college affair with Mallory Candler ended long before she was killed. How could Mallorys look-a-like, Eve Sumner, know things about that affair that only Mallory could have known?

The Annex
by Russell James
Successful businessman, Miro, is about to marry beautiful Joanna until his chauffeur gets in the way.

Partner in Crime
by J. A. Jance
It's risky to bring characters from different series together, but that's just what Jance does in her latest adventure teaming J. P. Beaumont from the Washington State Attorney General's Office with Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady.

Body of Lies
by Iris Johansen
Forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan, stumbles into the heart of a chilling conspiracy in Louisianas darkest bayou country.

No Way Out
by Andrea Kane
Teacher Julia Talbot investigates the plight of her second-grade student and is drawn into a pulse-pounding place where her fate hangs in the balance with her young student.

A Few Minutes Past Midnight: a Toby Peters Mystery
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Peters returns for a 21st outing, his first since 1997. It's 1943, and a beleaguered Charlie Chaplin is in need of protection.

The Analyst
by John Katzenbach
Psychopath Rumplestiltskin will destroy his analysts loved ones, one by one, until the doctor can identify him or chooses to kill himself to save his family.

Stone Kiss: a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel
by Faye Kellerman
A brutal homicide 3,000 miles away has just shattered the tranquility of Lt. Peter Decker's household. A shocking crime propels Decker onto the streets of a city he hasn't walked in 10 years.

Flesh and Blood
by Jonathan Kellerman
As Alex Delaware investigates his young patients troubled past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and the sex industry.

Buick 8
by Stephen King
The state police deposit an abandoned vehicle in a shed near their barracks, but the car isn't exactly a car -- it may be alive, and it serves as some doorway between our world and some other dimension.

Everythings Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
by Stephen King
Titles include: Autopsy Room Four, The Man in the Black Suit, The Little Sisters of Eluria, L.T.s Theory of Pets, Lunch at Gotham Café

One Door Away From Heaven
by Dean Koontz
Leilani's 10th birthday is approaching and neighbor Michelina believes the girl will be dead by then. When Leilani's family slips away one night, Micky pursues them in order to rescue the girl from her bizarre family.

Cutter
by Thomas Laird
Someone in the city is raping and murdering women, and possibly harvesting organs for some sinister purpose.

Mr. Majestyk
by Elmore Leonard
Vincent Majestyk saw too much death in the jungles of Southeast Asia. All he wants to do now is farm his melons and forget. But peace can be an elusive commodity, even in the Arizona hinterlands.

The Oath
by John Lescroart
A string of suspicious deaths at a San Francisco HMO don't look like murder at first until Tim Markham, the head of the HMO, dies from injuries received in a hit-and-run accident.

The Sigma Protocol
by Robert Ludlum
Accompanied by a beautiful American justice department agent, Ben eludes the assassins on his trail and follows Sigma's tentacles across Europe, Brazil, Washington, and the Austrian Alps.

Ludlum died between the writing and publishing of this book. He was a master of the genre he helped to popularize.

Killing the Shadows
by Val McDermid
A demonic serial killer is murdering well-known crime writers by reenacting the most gruesome parts of their best-selling books. Profiler Dr. Fiona Cameron has a personal interest in the case...her love is a crime novelist.

The Comfort of Strangers
by Ian McEwan
Set in Venice, 2 unsuspecting tourists are vulnerable prey for a polite couple who "know their way around."

Unfit to Practice
by Perri OShaughnessy
It's every attorneys nightmare. Nina Reillys most sensitive case files have been stolen from her truck, and clients are complaining that shes unfit to practice law.

Fatal
by Michael Palmer
Palmer reaches controversial and startling new heights in this terrifying tale of microbiology, unbridled greed and murder...where either knowing too little or trusting too much can be fatal.

Death in Paradise: A Jesse Stone Novel
by Robert B. Parker
Jesse, now sheriff of small-town Paradise, Mass., tackles the murder of a teenage girl found shot dead in a local lake, and the chronic beating of a local wife by her husband.

Widow's Walk
by Robert A. Parker
Spenser is hired on to investigate the brassy young blonde with a shady past who truly does seem to have shot her 51-yr old hubby in the head.

2nd Chance
by James Patterson
Lindsay Boxer calls in her friends of the Women's Murder Club to bait a killer. If their calculation is wrong, the consequences will be lethal and there will be no second chance.

Violets Are Blue
by James Patterson
Two San Francisco joggers have been viciously murdered and found suspended, with all the blood drained from their corpses. When further brutal deaths follow, Alex is forced to contemplate the bizarre possibility of modern-day vampires.

Pursuit
by Thomas Perry
When 13 people are mowed down in a restaurant, a police consultant realizes that it's the work of a professional who has tried to make a contract hit look like a random mass killing.

Perfect Match
by Jodi Picoult
Nina, a career-driven district attorney, takes justice into her own hands when her son is sexually abused. How far can a mother go and still live with herself?

Bleeders: a Nameless Detective Novel
by Bill Pronzini
Bleeders, blackmailers, extortionists or grifters as theyre called are at the top of Nameless most-worthless-human-beings list.

Step to the Graveyard Easy
by Bill Pronzini
Caught in a trap of deceit by two grifters, Matthew Cape does things he's never dared.

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
by Ruth Rendell
Here's a serial killer known from the get go, but the suspense here comes from wondering when justice will prevail.

Conflict of Interest
by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Female district attorney, Joanne Kuhlman, attempts to reconstruct her shattered personal life when she is suddenly plunged into a moral, legal and emotional nightmare.

Open and Shut
by David Rosenfelt
Rosenfelt's debut legal thriller boasts fresh characters, an engaging narrator, and a plot that forces readers to keep flipping the pages. A defense lawyer takes on a man on death row as his client.

The Devil's Code: A Kidd Novel
by John Sandford
It looks like a simple break-in gone bad, but the victim's sister doesn't believe it. She contacts her brother's old associate, Kidd, who uncovers a vast electronic conspiracy.

Mortal Prey
by John Sandford
The Prey series reaches #13 with professional hit-woman Clara Rinker returning to take another shot at Lucas Davenport.

Midnight Voices
by John Saul
What if insidious evil flourished in the one place where you feel most safe? Terror comes home to roost in the luxurious, exclusive building called The Rockwell.

Courting Trouble
by Lisa Scottoline
A young woman lawyer is racing to find out who's trying to kill her after she had been wrongly reported murdered. Playing dead may be her only way to stay alive...

No Man Standing: a Munch Mancini Crime Novel
by Barbara Seranella
Munch is a busy woman and mother. Is she too busy and too scared to risk her daughter's life by hiding her old friend, Ellen, from a killer?

The English Assassin
by Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon is put back in the high-stakes spy game, battling wits with the rogue assassin he helped to train.

Bone Cold
by Erica Spindler
As a child, Anna North was the victim of a terrible crime. She changed her name and moved to New Orleans to put the past behind her, but the nightmare begins again.

Absolute Rage
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
The 14th book in Tanenbaum's wildly popular Karp/Ciampi series as New York Chief Assistant DA Butch Karp fights for his family in the wilds of West Virginia's coal mining country.

The Wheat Field
by Steve Thayer
Deputy Pennington has a hard time closing ranks on the powerful Kickapoo Falls elite, as he zeroes in on the truth about the dead couple found in a Wisconsin wheat field.

The Unquiet Grave
by June Thomson
When Luke Gilchrist watches his father's coffin lowered into its grave he feels little emotion for the man who showed scant affection. Now, he must face the brutality that his father may not only have been a bigamist, but a murderer.

Orchid Blues
by Stuart Woods
In the sequel to "Orchid Beach," heroine Holly Barker gets help from her father to solve the crime that nearly capsizes her life.

The Short Forever
by Stuart Woods
Mogul John Bartholomew hires Stone Barrington to fly to London to persuade his niece, Erica, to leave her cocaine-smuggling boyfriend. But relations aren't what they seem...

Action Adventure

Valhalla Rising: a Dirk Pitt novel
by Clive Cussler
As Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers of a luxury cruise ship, he has no idea what is about to engulf him.

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