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Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can... (more)

Beyond Reach

by Karin Slaughter

With over 13 million copies of her books sold in twenty-two countries, #1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter delivers “crime fiction at its finest.” Now she returns to Grant county, Georgia where the lightning-fast plot, vivid forensic detail, and heart-stopping suspense will thrust readers into the darkest corners of their own imaginations—and push Slaughter to the top of the national bestseller... (more)

Chinatown Beat

by Henry Chang

"Here's a dark slice of New York's Chinatown that most of us...have probably never seen. Henry Chang takes us on an unforgettable guided tour of its lower depths. In a field awash with pallid noir thrillers, this one is the real thing. A genuine winner."-Herbert H. Lieberman, author of City of the Dead and Shadow Dancers "A dramatic evocation of the exotic. . . . More rewarding than a trip to Chinatown."-Qin... (more)

Blood Trail

by C. J. Box

Award-winning writer C. J. Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. It’s elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains—strung up, gutted, and flayed, as... (more)

Stalking Susan: A Novel

by Julie Kramer

Inside the desperate world of TV ratings, an investigative reporter discovers that a serial killer is targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day each year. Television reporter Riley Spartz is recovering from a heartbreaking, headline-making catastrophe of her own when a longtime police source drops two homicide files in her lap in the back of a dark movie theater. Both cold cases involve women... (more)

Hardly Knew Her: Stories

by Laura Lippman

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. Lippman sets... (more)

Murder in the Latin Quarter

by Cara Black

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Three Weeks to Say Goodbye

by C. J. Box

New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box’s novels have been called “red hot,”* “edge-of-your-seat read<s>,” † and “unforgettable, powerful.” ‡ Now he delivers a novel that will steal your sleep as much as it will wrench your heart. It’s a novel about something that could be anyone’s worst nightmare. . . . Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come... (more)

Life Sentences: A Novel

by Laura Lippman

Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers—and herself. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that will enable her triumphant return to nonfiction. When Cassandra... (more)

Flipping Out: A Lomax & Biggs Mystery

by Marshall Karp

Nora Bannister is a bestselling mystery novelist who buys run-down houses in LA. While her business partners turn the house into a showpiece, Nora makes it the scene of a grisly murder in her House To Die For series. As soon as the new book goes on sale, so does the house — and the bidding frenzy begins. It seems a lot of people are willing to pay a lot of money to live in a real house where a fictional... (more)

The Lord of Death

by Eliot Pattison

Praise for the Tao Yun Shan series: “Majestic.”— The New York Times Book Review “A powerful picture of courage in the face of tyranny.”— The Washington Post “Nothing I’ve read or seen about how China has systematically crushed the soul of Tibet has been as effective.”— Chicago Tribune Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to... (more)

The Samaritan's Secret

by Matt Rees

Praise for the Omar Yussef series: "Astonishing."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Matt Beynon Rees has taken a complex world of culture clash and suspicion and placed upon it humanity."-David Baldacci "Omar's probe of a West Bank ruled by political intrigue, religious hatred, and militia thugs lets ex-Time Jerusalem bureau chief Rees make the Mideast conflict personal."- Entertainment Weekly ... (more)

The Merry Misogynist

by Colin Cotterill

Praise for Colin Cotterill: “<A> series of terrifically beguiling detective novels steeped in local color and history.”— The New York Times Book Review “A delightfully fresh and eccentric hero.”—John Burdett “Unpredictable. . . . Tragically funny and magically sublime.”— Entertainment Weekly “A crack storyteller and an impressive guide to a little-known culture.”— The Washington Post Book World... (more)

Living Witness: A Gregor Demarkian Novel (Gregor Demarkian Novels)

Living Witness: A Gregor Demarkian Novel (Gregor Demarkian Novels)

by Jane Haddam

In her 91 years, Ann-Victoria Hadley has often been the most hated person in Snow Hill, Pennsylvania. But now, it’s worse than ever. After a new school board inserted “intelligent design” into the curriculum, they were sued by a coalition including Hadley, the one member of the board who wouldn’t go along with the rest. With the trial about to start and the town a national laughing stock, Annie-Vic is found... (more)

The Secret Speech

by Tom Rob Smith

Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a better tomorrow is found in the most... (more)

A Trace of Smoke (Hannah Vogel)

by Rebecca Cantrell

Even though hardened crime reporter Hannah Vogel knows all too well how tough it is to survive in 1931 Berlin, she is devastated when she sees a photograph of her brother’s body posted in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Ernst, a cross-dressing lounge singer at a seedy nightclub, had many secrets, a never-ending list of lovers, and plenty of opportunities to get into trouble. Hannah delves into the city’s dark... (more)

The Arms Maker of Berlin

by Dan Fesperman

This powerfully suspenseful new novel from Dan Fesperman takes us deep into the early 1940s in Switzerland and Germany as it traces the long reach of the wartime intrigues of the White Rose student movement, which dared to speak out against Hitler. When Nat Turnbull, a history professor who specializes in the German resistance, gets the news that his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, has been arrested for... (more)

Bones of Betrayal LP: A Body Farm Novel (Body Farm)

Bones of Betrayal LP: A Body Farm Novel (Body Farm)

by Jefferson Bass

Dr. Bill Brockton is in the middle of a nuclear-terrorism disaster drill when he receives an urgent call from the nearby town of Oak Ridge—better known as Atomic City, home of the Bomb, and the key site for the Manhattan Project during World War II. Although more than sixty years have passed, could repercussions from that dangerous time still be felt today? With his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady,... (more)

Red April: A Novel

by Santiago Roncagliolo

A chilling, internationally acclaimed political thriller , Red April is a grand achievement in contemporary Latin American fiction, written by the youngest winner ever of the Alfaguara Prize–one of the most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world–and translated from the Spanish by one of our most celebrated literary translators, Edith Grossman. It evokes Holy Week during a cruel, bloody, and terrifying time in... (more)

The Dead of Winter: A John Madden Mystery

The Dead of Winter: A John Madden Mystery

by Rennie Airth

The murder of a young Polish girl in wartime London puts John Madden on the trail of a ruthless hired killer On a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. The police suspect she was the victim of a random act of violence and might have dropped the case if former police investigator John Madden hadnÂ’t been the victimÂ’s employer. MaddenÂ’s old colleagues at Scotland... (more)

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