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New & Notable Novels

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Patterson, James
10th Anniversary

Detective Lindsay Boxer's anniversary celebration is forgotten when she is called to investigate a badly injured teenage girl whose newborn baby is missing.

Roberts, Nora
Chasing Fire

When a dark presence stalks female smoke-jumping firefighter Rowan Tripp in Montana, she wonders if she can get help from rookie smoke jumper Gulliver Curry.

Russell, Mary Doria
Doc

After the burned body of mixed-blood boy Johnnie Sanders is discovered in 1878 Dodge City, Kansas, part-time policeman Wyatt Earp enlists the help of his professional-gambler friend Doc Holliday.

Connelly, Michael
The Fifth Witness

Mickey Haller must defend a client who is accused of killing the banker involved with her foreclosure, a case that reveals strong suspicions, black-market dealings, and a threat to Mickey's own life.

Wiggs, Susan
The Goodbye Quilt

Linda Davis, the owner of a shop where women gather with their quilts commemorating important events of their lives, and her daughter Molly share one last adventure together as Molly goes off to college, making special memories along the way.

Brown, Rita Mae
Hiss of Death: a Mrs. Murphy Mystery

After a hospital employee ends up dead, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen - along with her sleuthing animal companions Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker - must find the murderer, all while Harry deals with a health crisis herself.

Perry, Thomas
The Informant

In Perry's Edgar-winning debut The Butcher's Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believes he ever existed. Many years later, the Butcher's Boy finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they won't stop coming and decides to take the fight to their door.

Winspear, Jacqueline
A Lesson in Secrets: a Maisie Dobbs Novel

Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge, and leads to the investigation of the deadly acts being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.

Campbell, Jack
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier

Captain John Geary is awoken from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people - and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens occupying the far side of Syndic space.

Clark, Carol Higgins
Mobbed: a Regan Reilly Mystery

Private investigator Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, hop from one Jersey shore resort town to the next in hopes of solving a tough case, one which is complicated when Regan bumps into an old friend she hardly recognizes.

Quick, Amanda
Quicksilver

A paranormal killer pushes an unlikely duo's powers and passions to the limit. Virginia Dean wakes at midnight beside a dead body, with a bloody knife in her hand and no memory of the evening's events. Dark energy, emanating from the mirrors lining the room, overpowers her senses. With no apparent way in or out, she is rescued by a man she has met only once before, but won't soon forget.

Baldacci, David
The Sixth Man

After the lawyer of institutionalized alleged serial killer Edgar Roy ends up dead, Dean King and Michelle Maxwell must figure out whether Roy is really a killer or if other evil is afoot.

Martin, Kat
A Song For My Mother

After returning to her hometown to visit for the summer, divorced mother Marilys Hanson fights what seems like her destiny to stay there for good, despite the attentions of a young sheriff who lives next door to her mother.

Brown, Dale
A Time For Patriots

When the country explodes in violence after the president institutes an unprecedented austerity program, retired Air Force general and aviator Patrick McLanahan trains a new generation of dedicated patriots to hunt down those who threaten America.

Orullian, Peter Vance
The Unremembered

Millennia after a god is condemned to live among the hateful creatures he has created, the magical veil entrapping the god and his monsters weakens, compelling bow hunter Than Junell and his companions to undertake a dangerous and secret journey to protect their people.

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