The Eye of Heaven
Library Journal 04/01/2014 On a climate-control expedition to the Arctic, husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo uncover a Viking ship neatly preserved in ice—and carrying pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. Puzzling out this conundrum leads to their being chased through the jungles of Central America by crime cartels, other treasure hunters, and worse.
The Secret Place
Publishers Weekly ★ 07/28/2014 In French’s mesmerizing fifth Dublin Murder Squad mystery (after 2012’s Broken Harbor), Det. Stephen Moran, who works in the cold-case unit, is biding his time until he can make the Murder Squad. When 16-year-old Holly Mackey, a colleague’s daughter, shows up with a clue to an old crime, Moran sees his […]
Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good
Library Journal 04/15/2014 After his retirement and a much-anticipated vacation in Ireland, Episcopal priest Father Timothy Kavanaugh returns to Mitford with his wife. The first Mitford outing since 2005 from the New York Times best-selling author.
The Button Man
Publishers Weekly 07/07/2014 In Pryor’s energetic fourth Hugo Marston novel (after The Blood Promise), Hollywood star Dayton Harper and his actress wife, Ginny Ferro, kill a farmer in a hit-and-run car accident while filming a movie in Hertfordshire. Days later, Ginny’s body is discovered hanging from a tree in a London graveyard. When Hugo, the […]
Designated Daughters
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/09/2014 In MWA Grand Master Maron’s outstanding 19th mystery featuring judge Deborah Knott of North Carolina’s Colleton County (after 2012’s The Buzzard Table), Deborah’s elderly aunt, Rachel Morton, lies near death in a hospice. Rachel attracts a crowd of friends and relatives as she talks of “babies, fires, and unpaid debts, of […]
Eden In Winter
Kirkus Reviews 2014-05-18 Patterson (Loss of Innocence, 2013, etc.) concludes his Blaine family trilogy with Adam home on Martha's Vineyard coping with the fallout from the death of his estranged father, Benjamin, a world-famous novelist.Opening with Ben dead, this novel chronologically follows the first in the series, Fall from Grace (2012). The state is determining […]
Mean Streak
Publishers Weekly: 06/23/2014 At the start of this solid novel of romantic suspense from bestseller Brown (Deadline), heiress Emory Charbonneau, a successful Atlanta-based pediatrician, disappears while training for a marathon; the police, along with her colleagues and husband, are soon engaged in efforts to locate her. Awakening after a painful collapse, Charbonneau finds herself in […]
The Lost Island
Publishers Weekly 05/12/2014 In Preston and Child’s sparkling third Gideon Crew novel (after 2012’s Gideon’s Corpse), Eli Glinn of Effective Engineering Solutions orders Crew to steal the Book of Kells, “the finest illuminated book in existence,†from New York’s Morgan Library, where it’s on loan from the Irish government—and protected by a highly sophisticated security […]
The 6th Extinction
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2014 When a research site blows up in a remote California desert, releasing a virulent pathogenic entity, the operatives of the secret U.S. agency, Sigma Force, swing into action, in bestseller Rollins's exciting, well-researched 10th Sigma Force novel (after 2013's The Eye of God). Under the command of Grayson Pierce, the Sigma team […]
The Long Way Home
Publishers Weekly 06/02/2014 In Edgar-finalist Penny’s perceptive, perfectly paced 10th mystery featuring Chief Insp. Armand Gamache of the Quebec Sûreté (after 2013’s How the Light Gets In), Three Pines resident Peter Morrow has pledged to show up for a dinner with his wife, Clara, exactly one year after their separation. When Peter fails to materialize […]