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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on... (more)

The Broker

by John Grisham

In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that... (more)

Basket Case

by Carl Hiaasen

Take one dead rock & roll star, his Courtney Love-type widow, themysterious deaths of his former bandmates, and the lost tracks of a comebackalbum. Stir in Jack Tagger, a middle-aged investigative reporter obsessed withdeath since his banishment to the obit desk; a fetching young editor with a yenfor our hero; and a boss looking for a reason to fire him. Put them in the handsof a master like Carl Hiaasen, who... (more)

Rosato & Associates: Book 10

Dead Ringer

by Lisa Scottoline

Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato has her eye focused firmly on the bottom line, especially since she has three dedicated young associates and a very pregnant secretary on her payroll, and she takes a professional risk, charging into a class action lawsuit that could make -- or break -- her career. Never mind that she's never handled anything like this before. Having won nearly every civil and criminal case she's... (more)

The Last Innocent Man

by Phillip Margolin

Defense attorney David Nash has made a career out of setting monsters free -- and no one does it better. Now a case has come to "The Ice Man" that could help cleanse Nash of the guilt and doubts that torment him: that rarest of all defendants, an innocent man. A fellow lawyer has been accused of a heinous crime -- the brutal murder of an undercover vice cop. But the case that is supposed to be Nash's redemption... (more)

Whiskey Sour: A Jack Daniels Mystery (A Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)

Whiskey Sour: A Jack Daniels Mystery (A Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)

by J. A. Konrath

ieutenant Jacqueline 'Jack' Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has caused her to max out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself 'The Gingerbread Man' is dumping mutilated bodies in her district. Between avoiding the FBI and its moronic profiling computer, joining a dating service,... (more)

Mr. Monk in Outer Space

by Lee Goldberg

First time in Paperback Based on the hit USA Network series— from Edgar® Award-nominated Monk screenwriter Lee Goldberg Monk journeys into the realm of the cult science fiction show Beyond Earth —where he meets fans just as obsessive-compulsive as he is. Though he’s not preoccupied with the program himself, Monk can understand where they’re coming from. But there may be a killer among them: someone in a... (more)

No ComebacksFrederick Forsyth

No Comebacks

by Frederick Forsyth

Prayers for Rain (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels)

Prayers for Rain (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels)

by Dennis Lehane

The master of the new noir , Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Boston’s gritty blue-collar streets. Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within six months, jump naked from a Boston landmark -- the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction. What he finds is a sadistic... (more)

Adam Dalgliesh: Book 7

A TASTE FOR DEATH

by P. D. James

When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister... (more)

No Comebacks

by Frederick Forsyth

Here are ten suspenseful, serpentine stories of betrayal, blackmail, murder, and revenge...all culminating in shocking twists of fate. Within these pages live a wealth of characters you will not soon forget...people whose lives become irrevocably trapped in a world of no comebacks, beyond the point of no return--from the manipulators and the manipulated to the ultra-rich capable of buying and selling human... (more)

Alex Delaware: Book 1

When the Bough Breaks

by Jonathan Kellerman

In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn. It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try... (more)

The Echo

by Minette Walters

Minette Walters' shattering new novel unveils the secrets and betrayals, past and present, that come home to those who try to bury them. A destitute man is found dead on the property of a wealthy socialite. But the reporter investigating the dead man's identity - and the woman whose home became his deathbed - are swiftly ensnared in a web of deception as tangled and complex as the hearts and minds that spun... (more)

Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 4

Fatal Voyage

by Kathy Reichs

The fourth bestselling Temperance Brennan thriller from expert forensic anthropologist and internationally bestselling author, Kathy Reichs

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Shutter Island

by Dennis Lehane

The Broker

by John Grisham

Basket Case

by Carl Hiaasen

Dead Ringer

by Lisa Scottoline

The Last Innocent Man

by Phillip Margolin

Whiskey Sour: A Jack Daniels Mystery (A Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)

by J. A. Konrath

Mr. Monk in Outer Space

by Lee Goldberg

No Comebacks

by Frederick Forsyth

Prayers for Rain (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels)

by Dennis Lehane

A TASTE FOR DEATH

by P. D. James

No Comebacks

by Frederick Forsyth

When the Bough Breaks

by Jonathan Kellerman

The Echo

by Minette Walters

Fatal Voyage

by Kathy Reichs