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Darkness Bound
by Larry BrooksA twisting thriller that taps into a deep well of erotic obsession, sexual betrayal, madness, and murder, and goes to fearless extremes to become the most authentically original and shocking suspense novel of the year.
Dying to Get Published
by Judy FitzwaterINTRODUCING JENNIFER MARSH What does it take to get a book contract? That's the lament of every unpublished author--including aspiring murder-mystery novelist Jennifer Marsh. After submitting eight diligently crafted manuscripts to every prominent publisher in New York, Jennifer has collected enough rejection letters to wallpaper a room. But that doesn't stop her from concocting one killer of a scheme for her next novel. And suddenly Jennifer's lifelong love affair with crime fiction brings her face to face with real-life murder. . . .
Blanche on the Lam
by Barbara NeelyIt's hard enough making ends meet on the pittaful Blanche White earns doing day work for the Southern families of North Carolina. But when her fourth bad check lands her a jail sentence, Blanche goes on the lam. Inadvertently, she finds work at the summer home of a well to do family, the members of which have plenty of secrets of their own And when a dead body is discovered, Blanche finds herself the prime suspect. Using her wit and intelligence-not to mention the remarkably efficient old-girl network among domestic workers-she gets to work uncovering the real duller before she lands in more hot water.
The Tower
by Richard Martin SternThis is one of the two books that the movie "The Towering Inferno" was based upon.
Havoc
by Jack Dubrul"Dear Albert, Nicola was right." The opening lines of a letter lost long ago is the answer to a question no one ever thought to ask, a question that could well reshape the future of the United States as a world power. Seventy years ago, Chester Bowie, a genius driven to madness, unlocked the mystery of how a weapon of unimaginable lethality allowed one man and his small army to conquer so much of the ancient world. The secret, however, died with Bowie in a fiery disaster that was no accident. Yet a series of cryptic clues were left behind, clues that geologist, and sometime government operative, Philip Mercer must follow if he is to prevent terrorists from unleashing the weapon on today's world. On the front lines of an African civil war, a chance meeting between Mercer and Cali Stowe, a researcher for the Centers for Disease Control, propels the two of them into the epicenter of the greatest act of terrorism ever conceived. With a group of savage rebels backed by a one-eyed mercenary bearing down on an isolated village, Mercer and Cali discover a long-abandoned mine that had first been excavated millennia ago and that was worked again around the time of the Second World War. What mineral was wrenched from the earth and by whom? What is the significance behind the stone pillar erected in the middle of the village? And who is the enigmatic man with the scholar's mind and the killer's skills who rescues them at the last minute only to kidnap Cali upon her return home? Again and again Mercer's path crosses that of his savior and the mercenary - at a glittering Atlantic City casino, on a barge high atop Niagara Falls, and in Russia where Mercer must stop a runaway train to prevent Armageddon. Each time they meet the bloodshed grows worse while the mystery deepens. Nobody is who they seem. Nobody. With a blend of history, exotic locales, and unparalleled action, Havoc explodes from the pages and climaxes in the heart of an archeological treasure buried under the sands of Egypt. Following the cleverly laid clues, Mercer must match wits with one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world in the most spectacular adventures of his career - one that will leave a city in ruins and reveal the truth about one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century and what lay behind three thousand years of legend.
Tropic of Fear (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys SuperMystery #14)
by Carolyn KeeneNancy, Frank and Joe team up again in an all-new adventure in this bestselling series. Greed and corruption have put a posh hotel at the eye of a gathering storm and the menace becomes real when Nancy discovers a murdered man. Meanwhile, the Hardys' investigation of a gang of art thieves leads them straight to the Grand Hawaiian Hotel--and to a terrifying connection between their case and Nancy's.
The Coffin Tree (John Coffin Mystery #26)
by Gwendoline ButlerThe career of Butler's policeman, John Coffin, keeper of the peace in London's Second City, has been recorded in twenty-odd volumes as he moved steadily upward in the force. Faced with having to replace two officers who have died recently under mysterious circumstances, Coffin discreetly recruits a policewoman to find out the real story behind their "accidents." From the Publisher That summer when the old Docklands of London sweltered in the great heat... was the summer when John Coffin walked his Second City of London and felt that life was unraveling about him... Something had to be done and it was for him to do it. Two of Coffin's young detectives had died - deaths that were said to be accidental. In Coffin's view, however, two accidents are two too many. Commander John Coffin is not a fanciful man, but somehow the half-dead tree, its top killed by lightning, standing in a sad patch of rough earth, seems to him to epitomize his problems. Why did the two policemen die? How did one dead police officer's wife come to die a grisly death herself at the foot of the coffin tree? Coffin can't believe that it was suicide. Beyond these concerns, Coffin is uneasy about his relationship with the mercurial actress, Stella Pinero, whom he married after a long on-and-off romance. It is when Stella, whose art has taught her to look deep into the human psyche, sets things right between them that Coffin is able to seek the answers he knows are there.
Mistress Of Mellyn
by Victoria HoltAn impoverished Victorian girl must take a position as a governess to a resentful, eight-year-old girl and her distant, enigmatic father.. The house in which the child lives, the child herself, and the child's father are hiding dark secrets. The governess puts her life in danger as she tries to unravel the mysteries and falls in love with the child and her father.
The Magdalen Martyrs
by Ken BruenFROM THE PUBLISHER Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned. Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious Magdalen laundry, where young wayward girls were imprisoned and abused. Jack doesn't like the odds of finding the woman, but counts himself lucky that the task is at least on the right side of the law. Until he spends a few days spinning his wheels and is dragged in front of Cassell for a quick reminder of his priorites. Bill's goons do a little spinning of their own, playing a game of Russian roulette a little too close to the back of Jack's head. It's only blind luck and the mercy of a god he no longer trusts that land Jack back on the street rather than face down in a cellar with a bullet in his skull. He's got one chance to stay alive: find this woman. Unfortunately, he can't escape his own curiosity, and an unnerving hunch quickly turns into a solid fact: just who Jack's looking for, and why, aren't nearly what they seem. The Magdalen Martyrs, the third Galway-set novel by Edgar, Barry, and Macavity finalist and Shamus Award-winner Ken Bruen, is a gripping, dazzling story that takes the Jack Taylor series to explosive new heights of suspense.
Nicki Holland Mysteries #8: The Secret of Cravenhill Castle
by Angela Elwell HuntNicki and her friends are thrilled when they receive an invitation to spend a few days at a 500-year-old Irish castle. Shrouded in mystery and fairy legend, the castle is everything they expect, and more! The girls must battle the sea, superstition, and their own fears as they undertake a dangerous search for the legendary treasure of the Cravenhill Castle.
The Rival
by Brenda JoyceEmotionally abused Garrick De Vere could never please his father, the Earl of Stanhope. After his brother Lionel disappears and is assumed dead, Garrick escapes to Barbados. His father resorts to trickery to get his son to return and emotional blackmail to get him to marry and produce an heir. Olivia Grey is married to Arlen Grey, Earl of Ashburn. Arlen is having an incestuous relationship with his sister, Elizabeth, and delights in belittling and hitting Olivia whom he fears for her psychic gifts. Olivia and Arlen's daughter, Hannah, blind from birth, also has the gift of foresight. Olivia fears for her daughter and has hidden her powers from Arlen. While at their country estate, Olivia and Hannah awake one night in time to prevent one of their guests, Susan Layton from committing suicide. Susan is upset because she's been betrothed to Garrick and believes him a murderer. Olivia accompanies Susan to London to meet her fiancé. Garrick is cruel and rude to Susan, and manages to proposition Olivia, who finds him dangerously compelling, before he leaves. Despite vowing not to get involved with him, Olivia finds herself in love with Garrick and plunged into an affair that imperils both she and Hannah. Then Lionel reappears and Garrick must try to prove that this Lionel is not his real brother while at the same time rescuing Olivia and Hannah from the evil Arlen.
The House That Jack Built (Matthew Hope #8)
by Ed McbainAfter Ralph Parrish exchanges angry words with his brother Jonathan, he is charged with murder when Jonathan is found dead on the kitchen floor.
Bird In A Cage
by Lee MartinFort Worth policewoman Deb Ralston is celebrating her 25th anniversary in one of the city's new restaurants when a young performer plunges to her death from a golden velvet bird cage. Deb begins to sort through a maze of family secrets and circus traditions to find a murderer before he strikes again.
Kill and Tell
by William X. KienzleFather Koesler and his bishop are plunged into mystery they must solve when a wealthy parish member is murdered. Complicating the situation is the fact that some of what the priest knows has been revealed in the whispered confession, a secret he is required to keep because of the sanctity of the confessional. Can Father Koesler bring the murderer to justice without breaking his vow of silence? This is a great mystery with richly drawn characters interwoven with information about recent changes in the Catholic church.
Downtown
by Ed McbainIt's Christmas and Florida orange grower Michael Barnes is in the Big Apple with a couple of hours to kill. In no time, he's scammed by a shady blonde and robbed by a bogus policeman. His rental car is stolen by a "good Samaritan" and he's framed for the murder of a slimy, two-bit movie producer.
No Time Like Show Time: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure
by Michael HoeyeFor ages 9-12. Watchmaker-mouse Hermux Tantamoq enters the exciting and shady world of show business to investigate a mysterious blackmailer at the Varmint Theater.
When Did We Lose Harriet?
by Patricia SprinkleA teenage girl has been missing from her Montgomery, Alabama, home for six weeks. She may be a runaway, a crime victim, or both. What's amazing is other people's lack of concern. Just one person cares that she's gone: a spunky amateur sleuth on the sunset end of sixty. Armed with razor-sharp insight, a salty wit, and tenacious faith, MacLaren Yarbrough follows a trail of clues -- a wisp of a hint, a shadow of a lie -- in search of answers to questions that come hot and fast and that grow increasingly alarming. How did a fifteen-year-old girl come across a large sum of money? Why did she hide it instead of taking it with her? Where is she now? And who is willing to kill to keep MacLaren from probing too far? Masked by Dixie charm and the scent of honeysuckle, a deadly secret lies coiled . . . one that holds the ultimate answer to the question, When Did We Lose Harriet? When Did We Lose Harriet? is the first of the MacLaren Yarbrough Mysteries, featuring plucky, sixty-some heroine MacLaren Yarbrough.
Claudia's Shadow
by Charlotte Vale AllenWhen her sister, Claudia, dies mysteriously, Rowena Graham cannot accept the verdict of suicide. Desperate to find out the truth and to learn more about her sister's life, Rowena moves into Claudia's home and takes over as manager of Claudia's restaurant. Claudia had been beautiful, difficult and unpredictable--warm and affectionate one day, cruel and calculating the next. And their relationship had always been strained: Rowena had disliked and feared Claudia, but loved her nonetheless. Rowena was convinced her sister would not have taken her own life. As she sorts out Claudia's affairs, Rowena stumbles upon a trove of dark family secrets, learning more than she ever expected. Unraveling the tangle of lies and distortions, Rowena uncovers the truth about Claudia. And finally sets herself free from the shadows of the past.
Dolly and the Singing Bird (Johnson Johnson #1)
by Dorothy DunnettJohnson Johnson and his lovely yacht Dolly are the principal players in the Dolly mysteries. In this book, a romantic rendezvous uncovers not coloratura soprano Valentina Rossi's lover but a corpse.
Seneca Falls Inheritance
by Miriam Grace MonfredoFilled with historical detail, this mystery is set in Western New York in 1848. Spinster and town librarian Glynis Tryon is asked by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to help organize the Women's Rights Convention of 1848 in Seneca Falls New York. When the body of a well-dressed lady turns up in the canal, and the constable must leave town to pursue train robbers, she starts sleuthing. When 2 more murders take place, Glynis knows she is playing a dangerous game with a remorseless killer.
Crossfire (Kirk McGarvey Series #3)
by David HagbergGlasnost and Perestroika are in, and the KGB is out to save hard currency, the Politburo slashes the foreign Operations budget. But Colonel Didenko, the hard-line KGB commander, will get his own funding by hijacking a vital United States middle east gold shipment and bring glasnost crashing down. To protect the project he assigns Arkady Kurshin-Russia's top agent and most deadly assassin. CIA man Kirk McGarvey is America's top agent-as fast and deadly as Kurshin. But when Kurshin frames McGarvey for bombing the CIA's Paris headquarters, McGarvey finds himself on the run in South America, pursued by friend and foe alike. Can McGarvey stay alive long enough to solve a fifty-year-old billion-dollar mystery-and save the US gold shipment half a world away?
Without Honor (Kirk McGarvey series #1)
by David HagbergThe skyjacking of a plane bound for Cuba left four people dead, two of them CIA operatives. To reveal the true nature of the incident, the CIA knows of one man that can get them the answers they need; a man whom they had relied on before... Kirk McGarvey is a man with a past; a past that has recently resurfaced and threatens to darken a present in which he tries to put the days of "The Company" behind him. However, drawn back in to help the agency ferret out a spy who has penetrated the upper echelon of the U.S. Government, he discovers that who he was then had never really been that far away from who he is now. In a world where deception is a survival trait, can McGarvey trust anyone to tell him the truth?
Shadow Family
by Miyuki Miyabe Juliet Winters CarpenterMurder mystery/police procedural set in Tokyo; dealing with interpersonal relationships on the internet and in the real world.