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Home at night (A Mercy Carr Mystery #5)
Par Paula Munier. 2023
Beware the blackbirds... It's Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a…
crowd in Mercy Carr's small cabin. She needs more room—and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it's haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but Mercy loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body in the library. There's something about Grackle Tree Farm that people are willing to kill for—and Mercy needs to figure out what before they move in. A coded letter found on the victim points to a hidden treasure that may be worth a fortune—if it's real. She and Captain Thrasher conduct a search of the old place—and end up at the wrong end of a Glock. A masked man shoots Thrasher, and she and Elvis must take him down before he murders them all. Under fire, she and Elvis manage to run the guy off, but not before they are wounded, leaving Thrasher fighting for his life in the hospital, Mercy on crutches, and Elvis on the mend. Now it's up to Mercy and Troy and the dogs to track down the masked murderer in a county overflowing with leaf peepers, Halloween revelers, and treasure hunters and bring him to justice before he strikes again and the treasure is lost forever, along with the good name of Grackle Tree Farm.... A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur BooksAutumn princess, dragon child (Tale of the Shikanoko #2)
Par Lian Hearn. 2016
In book two of Lian Hearn's Tale of Shikanoko series, a self-assured warrior stumbles into a game of Go that…
turns fatal. An ambitious lord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother. A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne. A woman of the Old People seeks five fathers for her five children, who will go on to found the Spider Tribe and direct the fate of the countryThat others may live (F.B.I. K-9 #8)
Par Sara Driscoll. 2023
The stakes are higher than ever before as FBI handler Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, race to find…
survivors after a building collapses in Sara Driscoll's gripping, timely new mystery featuring a K-9 search-and-rescue unit in Washington, D.C. For friends of harder-edged crime fiction by authors like Melinda Leigh, Kendra Elliot, Iris Johansen, and Robert Krais. There are situations that fill even the most seasoned FBI K-9 handlers with shock and horror. Meg Jennings is preparing for another workday when she gets word of a catastrophic scene in downtown Washington, D.C. Part of a twelve-story condo building has collapsed, and the rest of the structure could soon follow. Every search-and-rescue worker and K-9 team is needed on-site immediately to find survivors—and assess the casualties. Putting aside her fears for her firefighter fiancé, who's already inside the unstable building, Meg turns to the task at hand. If anyone is still alive within the rubble, she and Hawk, working alongside other K-9 teams, must find them. Every hour, every moment counts—and a wrong move could trigger a deadly chain reaction for those buried beneath. But beyond the present danger is a deeper threat, as evidence indicates that this wasn't a random tragedy, but an act of domestic terrorism. And identifying the culprit and the motivation, in time to stop another attack, means taking on an enemy with terrifying skills—and nothing left to loseCrosshairs (Michael Bennett #16)
Par James Patterson. 2024
New York City detective Michael Bennett faces his most terrifying killer ever. It could be anyone. They could be anywhere.…
A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets. Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD's Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people. When his new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty, only Bennett can prove whether the decorated officer is a lonely hunter or a hardened assassinAdherent
Par Chris W Kim. 2023
The residents of an isolated village in a dreamlike world scavenge for supplies in the surrounding forest, collecting scattered items…
left over from a long time past. No one strays far from this community, fearing what may lie beyond it. When they find a stack of notebooks by an unknown author, a young villager becomes obsessed with their contents. She sets out on a quest to find the writer. As she ventures into the unknown, she discovers a world both barren and increasingly complex. The closer she gets to her goal, the more she realizes that the encounter she's been seeking probably won't be what she wanted. --back coverLeave No Trace (An FBI K-9 Novel #5)
Par Sara Driscoll. 2021
FBI handler Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue K-9 partner are heading south where it&’s hunting season. But this time the…
prey is human. &“For dog lovers and action fans. Dogs-in-action junkies will be transported.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“Fascinating…Fans will look forward to Meg&’s further adventures.&” —Publishers Weekly One arrow through the heart could be a tragic hunting accident. A second one, within days, looks more like a crime. That&’s when Meg Jennings and Brian Foster of the FBI&’s Forensic Canine Unit head to Georgia to investigate. With their dogs Hawk and Lacey, Meg and Brian are enlisted to follow the scent of a killer. At first, nothing seems to connect the two victims–a county commissioner and State Patrol officer. But the blood sport around the southern town of Blue Ridge is just beginning. As the body count rises, the compound bow killer becomes even more elusive, appearing and vanishing like a ghost. However, with each new slaying Meg is beginning to suspect the grim design that&’s escalating in the shadows. At its heart, a tragic event that reaches back nearly two centuries in Georgia&’s history is now turning Blue Ridge into a hunting ground. But as Meg gets closer to solving the puzzle, the closer she is to stepping into the crosshairs of an elusive murderer with deadly aim, and motives as deep and dark as the woods . . .Where the Dead Sleep: A Novel (Ben Packard #2)
Par Joshua Moehling. 2023
"One of the best new voices in the mystery genre." —William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author"Observant and authentic…
(and funny, too)...the literary descendant of Fargo and Mare of Easttown." —Adam White, bestselling author of The MidcoastA small town's dark secrets turn deadly…When an early morning call brings Deputy Ben Packard to the scene of a home invasion. Everyone Packard talks to has a story about Bill, but no one has a clear motive for wanting him dead. The business partner. The ex-wife. The current wife. The high-stakes poker buddies. Any of them—or none of them—could be guilty.As the investigation begins, tragedy strikes the Sheriff's department, forcing Packard to make a difficult choice about his future: step down as acting Sheriff and pursue the quiet life he came to Sandy Lake in search of, or subject himself to the scrutiny of an election for the full-time role of Sheriff, a job he's not sure he wants.There's a hidden history to Sandy Lake that Packard, ever the outsider, can't see. Bad blood and old secrets run deep. But an attempt on Packard's life means he's getting uncomfortably close to the dangerous legacy of the quiet Minnesota town. And someone will do anything to keep it hidden.Edenfrost #4 (Edenfrost #4)
Par Amit Tishler. 2024
As the Russian Civil War spreads across two continents, the siblings, Yuli and Alex, find themselves in an explosive run-in…
with the soldiers who killed their parents. In a moment of desperation, Yuli makes a blood pact with the Golem and unleashes a violent assault against the attackers. While struggling to survive the bloody conflict, Alex desperately tries to save his sister from her uncontrollable rage before it consumes her whole.Heavens Above!
Par Janet Roberts. 2024
The Afterlife: in the Tribunal of the Dead, the recently deceased Glaikit, an incorrigible cheat in life, is about to…
be sentenced to a new and very tedious form of existence by Judge Prudence Drinkwater. The sudden appearance of the chariot-driving hero Sleekit allows Glaikit to cheat her fate one more time, before she changes her mind yet again, reincarnating as the surprisingly spry 70-year-old Australian Merci, married to an American ex-marine and living with a small, slightly suspicious dog… Full of inventive situations and witty insights, Janet Roberts’ sharply written novella combines imaginative fantasy with a sly, surrealistic humour.The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme Novel #7)
Par Jeffery Deaver. 2019
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI. Lincoln Rhyme, the…
quadriplegic detective made famous in The Bone Collector is back in a thriller from the masterful Jeffery Deaver. When a sadistic killer leaves clocks at his murder scenes, will time run out for the criminologist and his partner Amelia Sachs?On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges from two equally brutal murder scenes, where a killer&’s calling card is a moon-faced clock that seemingly ticked away the victims&’ last moments. From his wheelchair, criminologist Lincoln Rhyme tracks the Watchmaker, a time-obsessed genius. With every passing second, the Watchmaker is moving with razor-sharp precision to his next act of perfectly orchestrated violence—and Rhyme can&’t afford to have his trusted partner Amelia Sachs distracted by a daunting homicide case of her own. Up against a brilliant madman, Rhyme and Sachs are locked in a blood-chilling race with their deadliest enemy: time itself.Rupture: An Ari Thor Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series #4)
Par Ragnar Jónasson. 2012
A huge bestseller in England, France, and Australia, the fourth book in the Ari Thor thriller series from a spectacular…
new crime writer. Hailed for combining the darkness of Nordic Noir with classic mystery writing, author Ragnar Jónasson’s books are haunting, atmospheric, and complex. Rupture, the latest Ari Thór thriller, delivers another dark mystery that is chillingly stunning with its complexity and fluidity.Young policeman Ari Thór tries to solve a 50-year-old murder when new evidence surfaces. But the case proves difficult in a town where no one wants to know the truth, where secrets are a way of life. He's assisted by Ísrún, a news reporter in Reykjavik who is investigating an increasingly chilling case of her own. Things take a sinister turn when a child goes missing in broad daylight. With a stalker on the loose, and the town in quarantine, the past might just come back to haunt them.Snowblind: A Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series #1)
Par Ragnar Jónasson. 2010
Taut and terrifying, Snowblind is a startling debut from Ragnar Jónasson, an extraordinary new talent.Where: An isolated fishing village in…
the fjords of northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors.Who: Ari Thór is a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavík.What: A young woman is found lying half naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed elderly writer falls to his death. Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life.*BONUS CONTENT: This edition of Snowblind includes a new introduction from the author and a discussion guideThe Girl Who Died: A Thriller
Par Ragnar Jónasson. 2018
THE NAIL-BITING NEW STORY FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR"Is this the best crime writer in the world today? If…
you're looking for a mystery to get lost in during lockdown..." —The Times, UK"A world-class crime writer...One of the most astonishing plots of modern crime fiction" —Sunday Times, UK"It is nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction." —The Times, UK From Ragnar Jónasson, the award-winning author of the international bestselling Ari Thór series, The Girl Who Died is a standalone thriller about a young woman seeking a new start in a secluded village where a small community is desperate to protect its secrets.Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the WorldUna wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skálar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and get her life back on track.But Skálar isn’t just one of Iceland’s most isolated villages, it is home to just ten people. Una’s only students are two girls aged seven and nine. Teaching them only occupies so many hours in a day and the few adults she interacts with are civil but distant. She only seems to connect with Thór, a man she shares an attraction with but who is determined to keep her at arm’s length.As darkness descends throughout the bleak winter, Una finds herself more often than not in her rented attic space—the site of a local legendary haunting—drinking her loneliness away. She is plagued by nightmares of a little girl in a white dress singing a lullaby. And when a sudden tragedy echoes an event long buried in Skálar’s past, the villagers become even more guarded, leaving a suspicious Una seeking to uncover a shocking truth that’s been kept secret for generations.The Island: A Thriller (The Hulda Series #2)
Par Ragnar Jónasson. 2019
The newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene has arrived with a superb followup to The Darkness. Shortlisted for…
the Crime Novel of the Year Award in IcelandThird Place, Novel of the Year Award 2016 in Iceland, selected by booksellersOne of the bestselling novels in Iceland in 2016Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday—a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences.Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is determined to find the truth in the darkness.Ragnar Jónasson burst onto the American scene with Snowblind and Nightblind, the first two novels in the Ari Thor thriller series, and the praise was overwhelming. With The Darkness, he launched a new series featuring a completely new sleuth, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik Police department. The Island is the second book in this series.Nightblind: A Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series #2)
Par Ragnar Jónasson. 2015
Chilling and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from Ragnar Jónasson, an undeniable new talent.Ari Thor Arason is a local…
policeman who has an uneasy relationship with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland—where no one locks their doors.The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by a murder. One of Ari’s colleagues is gunned down at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark Arctic waters closing in, it falls to Ari Thor to piece together a puzzle that involves a new mayor and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavik. It becomes all too clear that tragic events from the past are weaving a sinister spell that may threaten them all.Don't Let It Be True: A Novel
Par Jo Barrett. 2009
A few Texas society gals are hiding sordid pasts as strippers, pole dancers, call girls, Democrats . . . But…
socialite Kathleen Connor King's secret is far, far worse.The flamboyant oil heiress, philanthropist, shopaholic, and hostess of the city's most prestigious annual gala, Kathleen King has a skeleton in her closet that, if revealed, will obliterate her good name and cherished social standing: She's broke! Her longtime beau, Dylan Grant, is similarly busted, ever since his now-deceased father lost the last of the family's oil properties to A-List wannabe Bo Harlan in a poker game. So Kat and Dylan have a plan, and with the help of a small cadre of loyal friends and allies, they're ready to resort to outrageous tactics—not all of them legal—to keep up appearances, win back the lost Grant oil money, elude a psycho Vegas mobster...and solidify their lofty positions among the crème de la crème. From the acclaimed author of This Is How It Happened (Not a Love Story) and The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom comes a hilarious tale of love and deception in the world of the Texas oil uppercrust.The Glass Kitchen: A Novel of Sisters
Par Linda Francis Lee. 2014
With The Glass Kitchen, Linda Francis Lee has served up a novel that is about the courage it takes to…
follow your heart and be yourself. A true recipe for life.Portia Cuthcart never intended to leave Texas. Her dream was to run the Glass Kitchen restaurant her grandmother built decades ago. But after a string of betrayals and the loss of her legacy, Portia is determined to start a new life with her sisters in Manhattan . . . and never cook again. But when she moves into a dilapidated brownstone on the Upper West Side, she meets twelve-year-old Ariel and her widowed father Gabriel, a man with his hands full trying to raise two daughters on his own. Soon, a promise made to her sisters forces Portia back into a world of magical food and swirling emotions, where she must confront everything she has been running from. What seems so simple on the surface is anything but when long-held secrets are revealed, rivalries exposed, and the promise of new love stirs to life like chocolate mixing with cream. The Glass Kitchen is a delicious novel, a tempestuous story of a woman washed up on the shores of Manhattan who discovers that a kitchen—like an island—can be a refuge, if only she has the courage to give in to the pull of love, the power of forgiveness, and accept the complications of what it means to be family.The Look-Alike: A Novel
Par Erica Spindler. 2020
From Erica Spindler, the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Girl and Justice for Sara comes The Look-Alike,…
a thrilling psychological drama about a woman who believes she escaped a brutal murder years ago—but does anyone else believe her?Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother’s paranoid delusions. Now, she's returned home to confront her past and the unsolved murder that altered the course of her life. In her mother’s shuttered house, an old fear that has haunted Sienna for years rears its ugly head—that it was she who had been the killer’s target that night. And now, with it, a new fear—that the killer not only intended to remedy his past mistake—he’s already begun. But are these fears any different from the ones that torment her mother?As the walls close in, the line between truth and lie, reality and delusion disintegrate. Has Sienna’s worst nightmare come true? Or will she unmask a killer and finally prove she may be her mother’s look-alike, but she’s not her clone?The Heretic's Wife: A Novel
Par Brenda Rickman Vantrease. 2010
From the bestselling author of The Illuminator comes a magnificent tale about the power of love and the perils of…
faith Tudor England is a perilous place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who sell forbidden translations of the Bible. Caught between warring factions—English Catholics opposed to the Lutheran reformation, and Henry VIII's growing impatience with the Pope's refusal to sanction his marriage to Anne Boleyn—Kate embarks on a daring adventure that will lead her into a dangerous marriage and a web of intrigue that pits her against powerful enemies. From the king's lavish banquet halls to secret dungeons and the inner sanctums of Thomas More, Brenda Rickman Vantrease's glorious new novel illuminates the public pageantry and the private passions of men and women of conscience in treacherous times.The Murderer's Daughters: A Novel
Par Randy Susan Meyers. 2009
Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father propels them into…
a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girls' self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly. Lulu had been warned not let her father in, but when he shows up drunk, he's impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past Lulu, who then listens in horror as her parents struggle. She runs for help, but discovers upon her return that he's murdered her mother, stabbed her five-year-old sister, Merry, and tried, unsuccessfully, to kill himself.Lulu and Merry are effectively orphaned by their mother's death and father's imprisonment. The girls' relatives refuse to care for them and abandon them to a terrifying group home. Even as they plot to be taken in by a well-to-do family, they come to learn they'll never really belong anywhere or to anyone—that all they have to hold onto is each other. For thirty years, the sisters try to make sense of what happened. Their imprisoned father is a specter in both their lives, shadowing every choice they make. One spends her life pretending he's dead, while the other feels compelled--by fear, by duty--to keep him close. Both dread the day his attempts to win parole may meet with success.A beautifully written, compulsively readable debut, Randy Susan Meyers's The Murderer's Daughters is a testament to the power of family and the ties that bind us together and tear us apart.