John Sandford Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter - and he reckoned one was plenty strange enough. That was before the Russian got...

Robert Goddard In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an intruder moments before her life is brutally taken. The crime stuns the elderly spinster’s family—especially Beatrix’s niece, Charlotte Ladram....

Robert Ludlum The name on the computer screen is James Barbour Matlock, college professor and Vietnam veteran. He’s Washington’s choice to stop a far-reaching conspiracy in an undercover assignment destined...

Patricia Cornwell From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an...

Steve Martini When Jack Vega's new wife is found slain execution-style, Laurel becomes the prime suspect. Paul — remembering his promise to his wife — has no choice but to...

Colleen McCullough The thrilling new novel from the author of The Thorn Birds One day, one city, twelve murders.The year is 1967 and the world teeters on the brink of...

Erskine Childers Brimming with heart-stopping action, "The Riddle of the Sands" is one the earliest spy novels. This spell-binding story is set in the period before the start of the...

Stuart WoodsA Southern lawyer with political aspirations defends a white man accused of raping a black woman and finds himself the target of a fiery TV evangelist and murderous white...

Sarah Dunant In Birth Marks, private investigator Hannah Wolfe gets a case worthy of the great detective novels she so admires. At first glance, this one doesn't fit the she's...

Susan Wittig Albert Business is booming at China Bayles' newest venture, Thyme for Tea -- but she's too distracted to revel in her latest entrepreneurial triumph. When the former big-city...

Benjamin Tammuz An Israeli secret agent falls hopelessly in love with a young English girl. Using his network of contacts and his professional expertise, he takes control of her life...

Emily Ruskovich Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of...