 | One Rough Man: A Pike Logan Thriller
Release Date: January 3, 2012Commissioned at the highest level of the U.S. government, thefighting team known as Taskforce operates outside the law. Pike Loganwas the most successful operator on the Taskforce until tragedypermanently altered his outlook. Pike knows what the rest of thecountry might not want to admit: the real threat is one or two men inpossession of a powerful weapon. Buried in a stack of interceptedchatter is evidence of two such men-their attack only days away. It istheir bad luck that they're about to cross paths with Pike Logan... ...
 |  | Birdman
Publication Date: July 3, 2012Now in Grove Press paperback for the first time, Birdman showcases Hayder at her spine-tingling best as beloved series character Jack Caffery tracks down a terrifying serial killer.In his first case as lead investigator with London’s crack murder squad, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called on to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been discovered near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, south-east London. Brutalized, mutilated beyond recognition, the victim is soon joined by four others discovered in the same area—all female an...
|  | A Feast of Snakes: A Novel
Release Date: January 7, 1998From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations"-- "Washington Post Book World" ...
|  | Sphere
Release Date: March 29, 2011 In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old. But even more fantastic—and frightening—is what waits inside . . ....
|  | Phantom Prey
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Series: Prey A wealthy widow returns to her large home in an exclusive Minneapolis suburb to find blood everywhere, no body - and her student daughter missing.Instantly, she suspects the involvement of the weird Goth crowd her daughter had been hanging around with.With no sign of the widow's daughter, dead or alive, a second Goth is found slashed to death - but it's only when a third dead Goth turns up that Lucas Davenport gets involved.But the clues don't seem to add up.Then there's the young Goth who keeps appearing and disappearing.Who is she?Where does she come...
|  | The Widening Gyre (Spenser Novels (Dell))
Release Date: June 1, 1992| Series: Spenser Novels (Dell) Hired as security man for Alexander's election campaign, Spenser checks out blackmail concerning the politician's wife. Aided by sidekick Hawk, and surrogate son Paul Giacomin, he is sucked into political ambition, corruption, violence, and the truth about his relationship with Susan Silverman. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Scarecrow
Publication Date: February 1, 2010The instant #1 bestseller from author Michael Connelly--"the best mystery writer in the world" (GQ)--brings back the hero of The Poet in a terrifying new thriller.Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. ...
|  | City of Bones (Harry Bosch)
Publication Date: October 2, 2006| Series: Harry Bosch On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart--or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar, and Bosch, fighting to keep con...
|  | Chasing the Dime
Release Date: August 25, 2003The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect...
|  | Quinn
Release Date: July 12, 2011#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen explores the darkest corners of the human heart as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan closes in on the killer who stole her daughter so many years ago. As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be. When he first met Eve Duncan, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearance---no matter how devastating. With the help of CIA age...
|  | The Sea Witch
Release Date: May 8, 2012Stephen Coonts weaves three unforgettable tales of men and women at war, with the sort of dramatic military action and undercover technology for which he is known. Included in this collection are: The Sea Witch… When young Dauntless dive-bomber pilot is sacked for reckless behavior, he’s reassigned to a Black Cat squadron as the co-pilot of a giant Catalina seaplane, The Sea Witch. He’s thrown into a whole new world, where a Catalina carries five tons of bombs, a half-dozen machine guns, and a crew that walks a ...
|  | Rough Country (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Series: A Virgil Flowers Novel It's a joy to announce that John Sandford is still doing everything right," wrote the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the second adventure of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers. "Virgil acts like the best series protagonists-becoming someone we just enjoy spending time with." Virgil's always been known for having a somewhat active, er, social life, but he's probably not going to be getting too many opportunities for that during his new case. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote are...
|  | Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade (Assassin's Creed (Unnumbered))
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Assassin's Creed (Unnumbered) After his family was betrayed and disgraced by the most powerful families in Italy, young Erazo chose the path of vengeance-and entered a world of mysticism and murder beyond anything he could have imagined. But his quest is far form over... ...
|  | North of Nowhere: An Alex McKnight Novel (An Alex Mcknight Mystery)
Publication Date: May 18, 2003| Series: An Alex Mcknight Mystery Steve Hamilton's debut novel A Cold Day In Paradise was the first novel to capture mystery's three most prestigious awards-the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony awards for best first novel. Now North of Nowhere returns to the beautiful and dangerous landscapes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where former Detroit cop Alex McKnight's attempts to leave civilization behind only lead to disaster...Lying facedown on the floor with a gun to the back of his head is where Alex McKnight finds himself after a game of cards turns into a pr...
|  | Devils Walk Through Galveston
Publication Date: August 22, 2012Devils Walk Through Galveston is a crime/law thriller about a schizophrenic killer who rides train lines between towns killing women.It is the story of the cops who chase and find him and the lawyers who shape the trial for their own means.It starts like a head-butt between the eyes and pushes the reader forward fast.It is literary and sometimes raw.It is about an evil man and the subtle, self-serving evil that sometimes exists in those who run the law.It tracks flawed heroes and their loversIt is a story of evil walking through as normal lives go on. ...
|  | Bangkok 8: A Novel
Release Date: July 13, 2004A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities.Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep—a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I.—is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a ...
|  | Sympathy For The Devil
Publication Date: September 2, 2012Continually at odds with the brass of the LAPD and the paparazzi, Mitch Ryan has a gift for giving himself powerful adversaries. After pulling himself off a barstool to discover a gorgeous reality-TV star bleeding-out in a back alley, the ex-cop puts himself square in the sights of an internationally feared Colombian street gang, an insanely hot Voodoo priestess, and a culture sick with celebrity. It's pop-culture flash meets suspenseful sexy noir, in a cynicalcontemporary tale, filled with ripping repartee and Old Testament consequences."(while re...
|  | The Whole Truth
Release Date: February 24, 2009"Dick, I need a war."Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating international conflicts. But Creel may have an even grander plan in mind.Shaw, a man with no first name and a truly unique past, has a different agenda. Reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency, he travels the globe to keep it safe and at peace.Willing to do anything to get back to the top ...
|  | The Godfather
Release Date: March 10, 1969When Mario Puzo's blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and "big, turbulent, highly entertaining." Since then, The Godfather has gone on to become a part of America's national culture, as well as a trilogy of landmark motion pictures. From the lavish opening scene where Don Corleone entertains guests and conducts business at his daughter's wedding...to his son, Michael, who takes his father's place to fight for his family...to the bloody climax where all family business is finishe...
|  | The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
Release Date: April 28, 2009| Series: Lincoln RhymeBestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller.Lincoln Rhyme and partner/paramour Amelia Sachs return to face a criminal whose ingenious staging of crimes is enabled by a terrifying access to information.... When Lincoln's estranged cousin Arthur Rhyme is arrested on murder charges, the case is perfect -- too perfect. Forensic evidence from Arthur's home is found all over the scene of the crime, and it looks like the fate of Lincoln's relative is sealed. At the behest of Arthur's wife, Judy,...
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