by Simon Beckett
When a retired detective stumbles upon the body of a young woman, incinerated along with her island cottage, forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter uncovers evidence of murder and secrets in the isolated island community.
The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry
A miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great – in a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years – is the coveted prize for a cunning despot unless Cotton Malone can beat her to it.
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Addicted to painkillers and still bound to the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a murderer targeting teenage girls.
Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
Hired by a murder victim's wealthy father to defend the case's chief suspect, Phoenix criminal attorney Dan Morgan endeavors to prove his client's innocence but triggers an unexpected chain of consequences.
Third Strike by Philip R. Craig (Mystery)
When an explosion destroys a boat's engine room and kills the striker who apparently planted the bomb, J.W. Jackson, once a Boston cop but now a Martha’s Vineyard man-of-all-work, reluctantly agrees to the widow's pleas that he attempt to prove her husband innocent of the crime. As J.W. begins inquiries, he discovers a complex series of relationships among strikers, scabs and boat owners and encounters violence of his own.
Requiem for an Assassin by Barry Eisler
Blackmailed by a rogue CIA operative to carry out three assassinations or lose his best friend, reluctant killer-for-hire John Rain struggles with moral dilemmas as well as his growing certainty that the operative is hiding a more sinister agenda.
Power Play by Joseph Finder
Cut off from the outside world at a remote resort for a corporate retreat, Jake Landry, a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace Corporation, is forced to draw on the skills of his secret past when the executives are taken hostage.
Dead Heat by Dick Francis (Mystery)
With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton caters an exclusive luncheon at the Two Thousand Guineas horse race, a party devastated by a bomb blast that kills many of the guests.
The Abduction by Mark Gimenez
The kidnapping of his 10-year-old granddaughter Gracie brings Ben Brice, a veteran drowning his memories of Vietnam with alcohol, back from the New Mexico wilderness to help save her, but dark family secrets could threaten the child's survival.
The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
Nineteenth-century Philadelphia physician Ephraim Carroll draws on the new techniques of forensic medicine to investigate the brutal murder of a beautiful young woman and the horror that led to her death.
The Sonnet Lover by Carol Goodman
Drawn by a letter from a student who dies under mysterious circumstances, literature professor Rose Asher journeys to Italy in search of a missing folio containing what some believe are lost sonnets penned by William Shakespeare.
Night Work by Steve Hamilton (Mystery)
New York juvenile probation officer Joe Trumbull matches wits with a deadly, unknown adversary responsible for the deaths of his fiancée and other women with whom he has been involved, as he takes on an enemy intent on destroying him.
Down River by John Hart
Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Chase returns to North Carolina, only to find himself trapped in the middle of a new murder case as people around him begin to die, and he is once again a suspect.
The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury
More than 250 years after a pretender marquis escapes the palazzo of his vengeful prince, an American Army unit discovers a secret lab in Baghdad where victims have been subjected to torturous experiments, a finding that places two women on the trail of an ancient mystery.
Acts of Nature by Jonathon King
On a technology-free vacation in an isolated region of the Florida Everglades, P.I. Max Freeman and detective Sherry Richards are caught in the path of a violent hurricane that tests their survival skills and pits them against murderous looters.
Darkness Falls by Kyle Mills
Living reclusively in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend, Erin Neal suddenly finds himself back on the international stage when a number of important Saudi oil resources are threatened by a mysterious new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil.
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo (Mystery)
Police detective Harry Hole is a borderline alcoholic who lands the assignment of assisting the U.S. Secret Service during a presidential visit to Oslo. It all goes hopelessly wrong and Hole winds up shooting a secret service agent. Normally, that would spell the end of a career, but with true Murphy's Law precision, Hole gets a promotion. It will catapult him into the strangest case of his career, a modern-day murder mystery with tendrils reaching back to World War II, when Norway forged an uneasy alliance with the Axis powers.
Disturbing the Dead by Sandra Parshall (Mystery)
Working as a detective for the Richmond, Virginia, Police Department, Tom Bridger returns to his mountain community roots to take on the role of county sheriff's deputy to investigate the killing of a Melungeon woman whose bones have been discovered on a remote mountaintop.
Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs (Mystery)
Discovering the skeleton of a young girl in the neighborhood of a childhood best friend who had gone missing 30 years earlier, Tempe Brennan investigates suspicions that victim and her friend are one and the same.
The Betrayal Game by David L. Robbins
In 1961, Professor Mikhal Lammeck, a specialist in the history and weaponry of assassins, becomes caught in the middle of a series of failed assassination attempts as the CIA, Cubans in Miami, the American mob and the KGB all target Fidel Castro.
The Reincarnationist by M.J. Rose
After surviving a bombing in Rome, photojournalist Josh Ryder is plagued by strange memories from an ancient time that instruct him to save a woman named Sabina, and, desperate for answers, he consults an expert on past life experiences.
At the City’s Edge by Marcus Sakey
When his brother is murdered, Jason Palmer finds himself protecting his eight-year-old nephew from two killers with a mysterious agenda, while his Chicago South Side neighborhood erupts in a bloodbath of gang warfare and high-level political corruption.
Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline
Astonished when a childhood rival begs her for protection from a violent drug-dealer boyfriend, Mary finds her family, her career and eventually her life placed on the line when she investigates the woman's subsequent disappearance.
Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell
Learning that he had fathered twins in icy remote Canada 15 years earlier, a Welsh surgeon finds his career and marriage rapidly unraveling in the face of changes that compel him to confront past demons.
Flawless by Joshua Spanogle
Leaving his job at the Centers for Disease Control to build a new life in San Francisco, Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is confronted by a vicious murder that takes him from the high-tech labs of the cosmetic industry into a dangerous, high-stakes black market.
Malice by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Barely escaping an assassination attempt, New York district attorney Butch Karp works to uncover a criminal empire that hires terrorists to further their interests and has lately targeted schoolchildren.
Dead Time by Stephen White
Psychologist Alan Gregory struggles to adapt to a shaky marriage and new fatherhood, a situation that is complicated by his ex-wife's entreaty to help her find her pregnant surrogate.