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The Death Instinct
by Jed Rubenfeld
A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller, The Interpretation of Murder. September 16, 1920. Under a clear blue September sky, a quarter ton of explosives is detonated in a deadly attack on Wall Street. Fear comes to the streets of New York . Witnessing the blast are war veteran Stratham... (more)
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Kurt Wallander: Book 11
The Troubled Man
by Henning Mankell
The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective Kurt Wallander. Håkan von Enke, a retired naval officer, disappears during a walk in a forest near Stockholm. Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation, but he is personally affected—von Enke is his daughter’s father-in-law—and Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility. He is confounded by... (more)
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Cold Shot to the Heart
by Wallace Stroby
“Just when you think that you can’t be surprised anymore, a writer like Wallace Stroby ups the ante.” ---Laura Lippman, author of I’d Know You Anywhere Crissa Stone is a career criminal. A complete pro, she never works too close to her New York City home, rarely signs on with the same crew, and never rushes a job. These are the rules that have kept her from getting caught, from doing time. They’re the rules her... (more)
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The David Sloane Series: Book 4
Murder One
by Robert Dugoni
New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni delivers another gripping legal thriller in his popular David Sloane series. The case? Defending the woman he loves against a charge of murder. year after the devastating murder of his wife, attorney David Sloane has returned to Seattle after three months in Mexico. At a black-tie dinner where he’s been persuaded to give the keynote ad-dress, Sloane reconnects... (more)
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Emily, Alone
by Stewart O'Nan
From the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a moving vision of love and family. A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, Stewart O'Nan's intimate new novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long moved away. She dreams of visits by her grandchildren while mourning the turnover of her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood, but when her sole companion and sister-in-law Arlene... (more)
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To End All Wars
A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
by Adam Hochschild
World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain’s leading investigative... (more)
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Maisie Dobbs: Book 8
A Lesson in Secrets
by Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor—and leads to the investigation of a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs' career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior... (more)
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Berlin Trilogy: Book 3
The Second Son
by Jonathan Rabb
An Intriguing Historical Thriller Set in the Barcelona of the Spanish Civil War On the eve of Hitler’s Olympics, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner, a half Jew, has been forced out of the Kriminalpolizei. Luckily, Hoffner’s focus is elsewhere. His son Georg is missing in Spain, swept up in the sudden outbreak of the civil war. He has already lost Sascha, his elder son, who is fully entrenched in the Nazi... (more)
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Bloodmoney
by David Ignatius
From the author of the best-selling Body of Lies and The Increment : in a tragedy of revenge, the CIA falls victim to its own daring operation in the Middle East. Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why.... (more)
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Walt Longmire: Book 7
Hell Is Empty
by Craig Johnson
Well-read and world-weary, Sheriff Walt Longmire has been maintaing order in Wyoming's Absaroka County for more than thirty years, but in this riveting seventh outing, he is pushed to his limits. Raynaud Shade, an adopted Crow Indian, has just confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago and burying him deep within the Big Horn Mountains. After transporting Shade and a group of other convicted murderers through a... (more)
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The Greater Journey
Americans in Paris, 1830-1900
by David G. McCullough
Bestselling author David McCullough tells the story of the American artists and scientists who studied in Paris, and changed America through what they learned there.
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Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Medicine, Madness and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard
An enthralling and detailed true story of the amazing people and facts surrounding the assassination of President James Garfield.
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra Fuller
In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Alexandra Fuller braids a multi-layered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war-torn Africa of her... (more)
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Tides of war
by S. K. Tillyard
An epic romantic novel of the Peninsular War from the acclaimed historian, author of Aristocrats . A brilliant debut by a wonderful historian, Tides of War is a sweeping, romantic, panoramic historical novel, set in Regency London and in Spain during the Peninsular War, which shows again the narrative talent of Aristocrats, as well as Tillyards's genius for period, atmosphere, character and description. At... (more)
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Department Q: Book 1
The Keeper of Lost Causes
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Original title: Woman in a CageCarl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen's best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl--who didn't draw his weapon--blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl's got only a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl... (more)
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The Time in Between
by María Dueñas
La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona Madrid en los meses previos al lanzamiento, arrastrada por el amor desbocado hacia un hombre a quien apenas conoce. Juntos se instalan en Tanger, una ciudad mundana, exotica y vibrante donde todo lo impensable puede hacerse realidad. Incluso, la traicion y el abandono. Sola y acuciada por deudas ajenas, Sira se traslada a Tetuan, la capital del Protectorado espanol en... (more)
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An Accident in August: A Novel
by Laurence Cosse
In An Accident in August, Laurence Cossé takes one of the most famous news events of recent world history as the starting point for a novel as intelligent as it is gripping. On the now infamous night of August 31, 1997, a young woman's life is thrown into turmoil when fortune places her at the scene of the fatal car crash in which Lady Diana Frances Spencer, then Princess of Wales, lost her life. Scared and... (more)
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1948
Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America
by David Pietrusza
David Pietrusza is the award-winning author of: 1960-LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies ( Booklist : "an outstanding re-examination"; Kirkus: "colorful . . . lively") 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents (included among Kirkus Reviews Books of the Year 2007; a Selection of the History Book Club) Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius who... (more)
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The House at Tyneford
by Natasha Solomons
It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlour maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay, where servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn. But war is coming, and the world is changing. When the master of Tyneford's young son, Kit, returns... (more)
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Elvis Cole, P.I.: Book 15
Taken
by Robert Crais
When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike—and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers, who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another—buying, selling, and stealing victims... (more)

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