Maestra
“What makes a woman who’ll do anything to get what she wants so threatening . . . and thrilling? . . . It’s Judith’s modes of retaliation that make her a radical heroine. She deploys a uniquely female arsenal. . . weaponizing femininity. . . It’s hard not to feel vicariously empowered by a woman […]
The Gangster
02/01/2016 Set in 1906, bestseller Cussler’s thrilling ninth Isaac Bell adventure (after 2015’s The Assassin, also coauthored with Scott) pits Bell, an operative in the Van Dorn Detective Agency, against Antonio Branco, who’s outwardly a respectable New York City businessman but is in fact a ruthless crime boss. Branco is willing to bribe and murder […]
Black Rabbit Hall
Publishers Weekly 12/21/2015 This leisurely paced modern British gothic is the debut novel from journalist Chase. Thirty-two-year-old schoolteacher Lorna and her fiancé, Jon, a carpenter who works for his family construction business, are Londoners in Cornwall to inspect possible venues for their marriage celebration. One place fetching Lorna’s eye is the estate Pencraw Hall, better […]
The Pharaoh's Secret
“Cussler’s latest is the most breathtakingly suspenseful, wildly inventive, enjoyable thriller in the NUMA Files series to date! Hard-core fans will snap it up” —Library Journal
Host
Publishers Weekly 08/10/2015 Bestseller Cook’s engrossing medical thriller revisits themes from 1977’s Coma. Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at the Mason-Dixon University Medical Center in Charleston, S.C., has her life upended when her lawyer boyfriend, Carl Vandermeer, suffers severe brain damage during a routine orthopedic procedure. Baffled by what went wrong, Lynn and a […]
Saturn Run
Publishers Weekly ★ 07/27/2015 In this thoroughly absorbing first-contact yarn from author Sanford (the Lucas Davenport thriller series) and photographer Ctein, the Americans and Chinese reenact the fable of the tortoise and the hare in a race to claim the richest scientific find in human history. When Sanders Heacock Darlington takes a position at the […]
Foreign Affairs
07/20/2015 Edgar-winner Woods’s appealing 35th Stone Barrington novel (after Naked Greed) takes the peripatetic New York lawyer, playboy, and investor to Rome, where the Arrington Group, of which he is a board member, is planning to build a palatial new hotel. On Stone’s last-minute flight from JFK, he meets Hedy Kiesler, a beautiful artist, with […]
Come Rain or Come Shine
Library Journal ★ 09/01/2015 Karon's 11th addition to her popular series (after Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good) tells the story of Dooley (Father Kavanagh's adopted son) and Lacey's wedding. Before the big knot is tied, however, Dooley must graduate from vet school, establish a herd of cattle, and take over Hal Owen's practice. At the […]
Brush Back
Publishers Weekly ★ 05/25/2015 South Chicago provides the setting for MWA Grand Master Paretsky’s electrifying 18th novel featuring PI V.I. “Vic†Warshawski (after 2013’s Critical Mass). Vic thought she had left her old neighborhood—and her former teenage flame, Frank Guzzo—years ago, until he approaches her with a sensitive issue: his mother, Stella, just finished 25 […]
Naked Greed
Library Journal 02/01/2015 Who knew beer making and distribution could cause so much trouble? Stone Barrington finds out when he rescues a prominent brewery owner from two rogue policemen. Woods on his usual roll.