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The monk and scholar Roger Bacon claimed to have seen many marvels of nature and science, and he concealed these in a book written in an unbreakable code. Sir Hugh Corbett has been instructed to orga

Never say die. That's the philosophy Agatha Raisin clings to when she comes home to cozy Carsely and finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbor, James Lacey. The

Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, to escape a dark past: both the ex-wife who'd left him for an investment banker, and the tragic death of his brother, a

When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, P.I. Jack Taylor tells himself that it's got nothing to do with him. He has enough to do just staying sane. His close friend Ridge is r

Huck Doyle is a professional golfer, a PGA "middler" who just manages to hold onto his tour card as he plays the small tournaments on the circuit. He also happens to be the son of a disgraced LAPD cop

Milo Weaver used to be a "tourist" for the CIA - an undercover agent with no home, no identity - but he's since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager at the CIA's New York headquart

It’s back to school for plump girl turned Thin Woman Ellie Haskell!“The headmistress wants to see you.” Words to strike terror in the heart of any inmate of St. Roberta’s boar

Inside Alaska's biggest national park, around the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park are uneasy. "But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an

As night sets in, Chaucer's weary pilgrims find themselves in a Kent copse that is rumored to be haunted. Huddling around the fire, they persuade the Clerk of Oxford to tell a ghostly tale of love an

Meet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move from the big city to the suburbs to start a gardening business. Paula can handle deer,

Jane Thistle and Phoebe Twigg are as different as two best friends can be: Phoebe has never seen any reason to leave her small Alabama hometown, while Jane, once happily married to a career military

Leslie McHugh is married to an undercover cop. She thinks she knows what it’s like to share her life with a man who spends his days living a lie, who keeps secrets for a living, who trusts no o

Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent from "North of the Border" to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop he wants to trust but c

Boston attorney Brady Coyne finds his own past coming back to haunt his professional life when his ex-girlfriend Alex Shaw, long out of touch, reappears, wanting Brady to represent her brother. Augus

476 A.D. The Roman Empire, staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts and riddled with corruption, now faces its greatest challenge—not only to its power and prestige, but to its very exist

From ducks to penguins to peacocks to parrots, Donna Andrews knows her birds! And she’s channeled all her skill and winning humor into one of the most accomplished, entertaining cozy series around.It

Detective Sergeant Logan McRae’s only chance ofgetting out from under Detective Inspectors Steel andInsch is to get noticed. Not that any of his cases are the type that he wants to

Advice columnist Molly Forrester has been working her heels to the ground trying to getrecognized as aninvestigative journalist…and has even solved afew murders along the way.

Frank Coffin had been a well-respected Baltimore homicide detective. But when he started having panic attacks at crime scenes, he was forced to go home to Cape Cod, where the worst crimes were usuall

In A.D. 1204, Theophilos, jester and agent for the Fool's Guild, is sent to Toulouse with his jester wife, infant daughter, and young apprentice, with one simple mission: Get the current bishop to qu

Since Josie Prescott left a high-paying job in New York to set up shop as an antiques appraiser on the rugged New Hampshire coast, her life has not gone exactly according to plan. In many ways, it's

Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady (who actually couldn't solve a crossword puzzle to save her life), is surprisingly good at sudoku, so it's no problem when a Japanese publisher asks her to write a sudoku

A spring day brings attorney Avery Andrews a new case. Fran French comes from Atlanta looking for her friend Neanna, who's more like a sister to her. Neanna went to the town of Dacus looking for info

Safely outside the New York City limits, St. Thomas College was supposed to promise peace and quiet. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. She recently div

It is winter on Gotland, and fourteen-year-old Fanny is missing. She had no friends to speak of other than the horses she took care of at the local racing stable, and seems to have been an unhappy an

Nineteenth-century Attorney Sarah Woolson is still trying to get her life together. Against her family's wishes, she opens her own San Francisco law firm, only to find that clients - paying clients,

Jackson Workman Pickens—known to most as “Work”—mindlessly holds together his disintegrating life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disap

Elizabethan England comes alive as its young queen struggles to stop a serial killer who uses fire as a weapon. From commoner to courtier, from the delights of rural England to the streets of teemi

Twenty-year-old Amanda Derrington is on an extended cruise with her uncle when she decides to make a short trip to the sun-washed island of Cyprus. But even before the ship arrives in the port, there

Charlie Leathers was not the most popular man in the charming English village of Ferne Basset, but few people seemed to hate him enough to murder him. Still, that was his fate one night, and it bring

The Snake Eater: Brady Coyne agrees to represent a Vietnam vet arrested for possession of marijuana, which he uses to alleviate the pain of his Agent Orange poisoning, but things turn deadly when the

Time and again, Emily-- Em-- Hansen uses her geological training and her unflinching scientist's eye to sniff out a killer. Now in her newest case, Em heads to Utah for a paleontology conference and

When Roman junior senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger has a chance to join a diplomatic mission to Alexandria, he welcomes the opportunity to temporarily elude his enemies in the Eternal Cit

Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a complex and challenging mystery―several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidenceA popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned out house. There’s a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn’t indicted, he returns to mock the girl’s family. And this isn’t the first time he’s been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.The neighborhood in which the murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street festival, featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During the parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is suspiciously convenient but the people wit

Evan Smoak, from the international bestselling Orphan X and The Nowhere Man, returns.“Do you need my help?”Evan Smoak, Orphan X, was taken from a group home at age twelve and raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin. After he broke with the Orphan Program, Evan disappeared and reinvented himself as the Nowhere Man, a man spoken about only in whispers and dedicated to helping the truly desperate.But this time, the voice on the other end is Jack Johns, the man who raised and trained him, the only father Evan has ever known. Secret government forces are busy trying to scrub the remaining assets and traces of the Orphan Program and they have finally tracked down Jack. With little time remaining, Jack gives Evan his last assignment: find and protect his last protégé and recruit for the Orphan Program.But Evan isn’t the only one after this last Orphan―the new head of the Orphan Program, Van Sciver is mustering all the considerable assets at his disposal to take out both Eva

Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future.When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes, known as the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that riveted Canada in the early nineties. Reyes knows who Paris really is, and when she's unexpectedly released from prison, she th

An eerie, windswept island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappearance in this new thriller in Paul Doiron's bestselling Mike Bowditch series.On a sea kayaking trip, Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens visit a remote archipelago that has been turned into a research center and sanctuary for endangered seabirds. The researchers on the island have been plagued by misfortune, including the suicide of an intern, and the mood is uneasy. A lone lobsterman has been silently spying on the three female biologists, and they suspect he might even be sneaking ashore to prowl among their tents.Camped on a nearby islet for the night, Mike and Stacey hear a single gunshot. When they return at dawn, their fears are confirmed: two of the researchers have been brutally murdered and the third is missing, along with the island skiff. Mike’s search for the missing woman and the official murder investigation reveals a host of suspe

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes The Half SisterMeet the half sister, and unravel the ties that blind us.THE TRUTH: Sisters Kate and Lauren meet for Sunday lunch every week without fail, especially after the loss of their father.THE LIE: But a knock at the door is about to change everything. A young woman by the name of Jess holds a note with the results of a DNA test, claiming to be their half sister.THE UNTHINKABLE: As the fallout starts, it's clear that they are all hiding secrets, and perhaps this family isn't as perfect as it appears.

With 2 million copies of his books sold worldwide, "world-class crime writer" Ragnar Jónasson brings us a chilling new standalone thriller (The Sunday Times, UK).Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive . . .When a deadly snowstorm strikes the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in a small, abandoned hunting lodge.It is in the middle of nowhere and there's no way of communicating with the outside world.They are isolated, but they are not alone . . .As the night darkens, and fears intensify, an old tragedy gradually surfaces - one that forever changed the course of their friendship.Those dark memories could hold the key to the mystery the friends now find themselves in.And whether they will survive until morning . . .

A rebellious Amish woman leaves the Plain life, but the secrets she takes with her will lead Kate Burkholder to danger and death.When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of