Piranha
Library Journal 12/01/2014 In 1902, owing to the eruption of Mt. Pelee on the island of Martinique, a nearby ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of something big hits ocean bottom. A century later, an evil American weapons designer who's wrapped up the scientist's work clearly has it in for Juan Cabrillo and […]
The Liar
Library Journal 04/15/2015 Appalled by the depth of her husband's deceit and the debt he leaves behind when he is lost in a boating accident, Shelby Pomeroy Foxworth takes her three-year-old daughter, Callie, and heads home to her family and her Smoky Mountain roots. Reconnecting with her past and building a life for herself and […]
Gathering Prey
Publishers Weekly 03/23/2015 At the start of bestseller Sandford’s engrossing 25th thriller featuring Lucas Davenport of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (after 2014’s Field of Prey), Lucas’s daughter, Letty, a Stanford student, offers to buy a meal for young buskers Skye and Henry in San Francisco’s Union Square. Over hamburgers at McDonald’s, Skye tells […]
Hot Pursuit
Publisher Weekly Review At the start of Edgar-winner Woods's glossy 33rd Stone Barrington novel (after Insatiable Appetites), the bourbon-sipping lawyer and aviator takes possession of a brand-new private jet on a chilly winter's day at an airfield in Wichita, Kans. The Citation M2 comes complete with an attractive female copilot, Pat Frank, with whom widower […]
Obsession In Death
Publishers Weekly 12/15/2014 Bestseller Robb reaches a milestone with the 40th entry in her near-future New York City series that debuted in 1995 with Naked in Death. As 2060 nears its end, Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department, has a lot to celebrate, including a long history of successful cases. […]
Insatiable Appetites
Publishers Weekly 11/10/2014 Stone Barrington faces unusual problems in bestseller Woods’s rousing 32nd novel featuring the high-powered New York City attorney (after 2014’s Paris Match). After celebrating the election of his friend Kate Lee to the U.S. presidency, Stone is saddened by the death of his elderly mentor, Eduardo Bianchi. Because of Eduardo’s rumored past […]
Rain On the Dead
Library Journal 07/01/2014 Two Chechen mercenaries are wiped out in a failed attempt to assassinate former U.S. president Jake Cazalet on Nantucket—thank goodness black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague Afghan war hero Capt. Sara Gideon were with him at the time. But how the mercenaries learned that Cazalet was on the island is […]
Paris Match
Publishers Weekly 08/04/2014 Edgar-winner Woods’s intriguing 31st Stone Barrington novel (after Cut and Thrust) takes the New York City attorney to Paris for the opening of his new hotel, l’Arrington. Stone leaves behind his love, Ann Keaton, to manage the campaign of the first-ever pregnant presidential candidate, their mutual friend, Kate Lee, the wife of […]
Havana Storm
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2014 After 40 years of nautical derring-do, Dirk Pitt is still going strong, as shown in bestseller Cussler’s winning 23rd novel featuring the underwater expert, the sixth coauthored with son Dirk (after 2012’s Poseidon’s Arrow). In 1898, Ellsworth Boyd, a Yale anthropologist who specializes in native Caribbean cultures, arrives in Cuba with something […]
Festive In Death
Lieutenant Eve Dallas has good reason to be overstressed. She's staggering under the weight of her Christmas shopping, plus wrangling with holiday bash guest list possibilities—and, oh yes, there is that pestiferous homicide case of Trey Ziegler, the sexy exercise conditioner whose bulging roster of castoff lovers made him a prime target for many enemies. […]