Mystery & Thrillers
 Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum Novels)
by Janet Evanovich
Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, where bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is about to implode in Janet Evanovich’s wildest, hottest novel yet! Read more... |
 Everybody`s Somebody`s Fool: A Sam McCain Mystery
by Edward Gorman
It`s Christmastime 1960 in Black River Falls, Iowa, but with an Indian summer keeping the temperature at 75 degrees, it sure doesn`t feel like winter. It`s so warm, in fact, that the Lucky Star Drive-In is still open, and Rick Conroy is still drag-racing the nights away with his friends on a deadly stretch of highway outside of town. When Rick slams fatally into a bridge at 90 miles an hour, holiday cheer veers toward foul play, for the police find his brake line to be as lacerated as his spine. The solution does not come easily for struggling lawyer and sometime-investigator Sam McCain, who is dragged into the case by the incorrigible Judge Esme Anne Whitney. Leads go nowhere, tensions mount. Add to that his personal problems—his fath... Read more... |
 Doctored Evidence: A Suspense Novel
by Michael Biehl
This legal/medical thriller, written by a health-care industry insider, is set in a Midwest hospital. When the hospital`s chief financial officer dies during a normally routine surgical procedure, Karen Hayes, the hospital`s staff lawyer, begins to investigate. She soon finds herself in the middle of a web of intrigue involving an ambitious hospital administrator, scheming doctors, a Medicare fraud conspiracy--and threats, intimidation, blackmail and violence. Read more... |
 Mourners: A Nameless Detective Novel (Nameless Detective Mystery)
by Bill Pronzini
Nameless doesnt like funerals, so his new case is less than pleasant. James Troxells wife knew he was up to something and that the agency had taken the case. So far, though, the only thing strangevery strangewas the fact that Troxell was spending all his time going to funerals and sending flowers to survivors. It didnt seem that he knew the deceased any more than Nameless did. There was one similarity: the victims were all women and they had all died violently. As the days passed and the investigation stalled, it seemed the only thing moving were the emotions of the three detectives: Tamara, Jake, and Nameless. While they couldnt be certain, it seemed clear that each of them was beginning to mourn too. The author of more than sixty novels, ... Read more... |
 Wanted
by Kim Wozencraft
Diane Wellman was in the wrong place at the wrong time. On patrol one hot night in Texas, she happened across the scene of a chilling multiple murder. An idealistic young police officer, Diane questions the nature of the open-and-shut case. She knows the prosecutor has put an innocent man in prison for the crime. And Diane saw someone else that night. Gail Rubin has been in the wrong place for the past eighteen years. She was sent to prison because of her peripheral involvement in a robbery--a robbery where someone was killed. And now someone is determined to make an example of Gail. Both Diane and Gail have been done wrong. They want revenge. And they are willing to risk everything to find a way out of the nightmare their lives have become... Read more... |
 The Promise of a Lie
by Howard Roughan
A psychologist is framed for murder by a diabolical pa-tient in this superbly-paced, Hitchcockian thriller from the author of The Up and Comer. Dr. David Remler is a brilliant Manhattan psychologist and bestselling author. One afternoon he takes on a new patient, Samantha Kent, a beautiful woman trapped in a relationship with an abusive husband. During their sessions Remler develops more than professional feelings for Samantha-which he never acts upon. Late one night, she calls to say she has killed her husband, and intimates she may kill herself. Remler rushes to her home to find a dead man, but no one else. To skeptical police who believe he is the killer, his story doesn`t add up. For starters, Samantha Kent is alive and well and looks n... Read more... |
 The Highly Effective Detective
by Rick Yancey
Unassuming and adorable, protagonist Teddy Ruzak has dreamed of becoming a detective since childhood. When his ailing mother dies, leaving him a substantial nest egg, he quits his job as a night watchman to become a private eye. Teddy employs the help of his loyal secretary Felicia (formerly his favorite waitress at the local diner) in unraveling his first case, a hit-and-run of a family of geese. What can only be called a wild goose chase quickly evolves into an investigation of a vicious murder. Read more... |
 A Feast of Carrion: A Novel of Crime
by Keith McCarthy
Forensic science and law enforcement do not prove to share the same conclusions in this darkly plotted debut novel by Keith McCarthy, himself a practicing pathologist. His suspenseful and ingeniously twisted tale opens inside the walls of the venerable St. Benjamin`s Museum of Pathology, where any death would send shock waves through the academic community. But the death of Nikki Exner is far from ordinary. Not only raped and murdered, she has been grotesquely executed. That the museum employs a formerly convicted rapist and drug addict, Tim Bilroth, leads the police easily to their prime suspect, and Bilroth`s suicide while in their custody serves only to confirm his guilt. But Helena Flemming, the Bilroth family`s solicitor, is not so sur... Read more... |
 Cast of Shadows
by Kevin Guilfoile
Set in a not too distant future after human cloning is legalized, this debut thriller is a disquieting pseudo-scientific meditation on what happens when the teenage daughter of a leading fertility specialist is brutally murdered and her father uses his professional skills and a bit of DNA extracted from the death scene to create a copy of her killer. Unlucky, unlikely Justin Finn is the result of Dr. Davis Moore`s faith that one day he`ll look into the eyes and soul of the man who raped and strangled Anna Kat and understand what drove him to do it. His plan destroys his marriage, compromises his professional ethics, and threatens his own life, but all these complications pale next to the repercussion his efforts to clone Anna Kat`s murdere... Read more... |
 The Interview Room
by Roderick Anscombe
`The most original thriller I have read in a long, long time....Anscombe is a welcome new voice in suspense. His writing is lean and sharp, with characters that matter, and ideas that are totally fresh.` -Michael Palmer, New York Timesbestselling author of The Society andExtreme Measures I n The Interview Room, Roderick Anscombe delivers a taut, gripping tale of a prison psychiatrist whose twisted patient engages him in a deadly war of wits. Paul Lucas is a forensic psychiatrist in a maximum security prison for the criminally insane. His patient, Craig Cavanaugh, scion of a wealthy and influential family, is charged with stalking a Harvard teaching assistant. Paul is an expert in the detection of lying, but his patient tests his ... Read more... |