Liz Dunn lives an Eleanor Rigby-ish life until a series of strange events jolts her out of her stagnant existence. A meteorite drops to earth almost at her feet. The baby she gave up for adoption 20 years ago--now a desperately sick m...
Lieutenant Jonathan Stride knows his partner Maggie Bei is in trouble when she reports a deadly crime on a bitter winter night. She's obviously hiding a terrible secret. And her silence only feeds suspicion. But Maggie isn't the only ...
On her thirtieth birthday, Annalise Blakely gets a strange package. Inside, along with one of her company's hand-crafted dolls, is a note: I don't need this anymore. I have my own. Annalise puts the package aside-she has enough on her...
Red Leaves (Otto Penzler Book)
Thomas H. CookWhen his teenage son, Keith, is accused in the disappearance of an eight-year-old girl, Eric Moore struggles to shelter Keith from the subsequent police investigation and local suspicion while seeking legal counsel and wondering in th...
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Umberto EcoAfter his heart attack, Milanese bookseller Yambo Battista's memory for the events of his life utterly deserts him: even his name is gone. All that's left is the culture, pop and otherwise, he has absorbed over his 60+ years--includin...
A historical novel set during the Gilded Age in turn-of-the-century San Francisco chronicles Lizzie Hayes's rebellious odyssey away from the pretensions of the city's social elite and her journey toward liberation and passion, with th...
From the bestsellng author of "The Fourth Perimeter"--the riveting story of a quiet lawyer who takes matters into his own hands after his daughter is attacked by a sexual predator.
Trade paperback re-issue of Gwen Hunter's award winning international bestseller. BETRAYAL is set in an exotic, violent world where storms crash in from the Gulf, where crushing vines of wisteria are drenched with pungent lavender, wh...
The best of the street chronicles today, Ghetto Girls Too is a wonderfully hypnotic adventure that delves into the convoluted minds of criminals and the dark world of police corruption. Yet, there is something thrilling and surprising...
One woman's reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships.Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and y...
Carla had it allandmdash;big job, big house, a successful husband. But she longed for a child to complete her marriage and family. Her born-again husband refused to submit to medical scrutiny. His excuse: andquot;If God wanted to give...
I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side o...
Glen DuncanGlen Duncan has been hailed by the Times Literary Supplement (London) as one of Britain's twenty best young novelists, alongside such writers as Hari Kunzru and Zadie Smith. His new novel, I, Lucifer -- shortlisted for the Geoffrey Fa...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fa...
Raised by her uncle, a Catholic priest, until he is falsely accused of molesting her and dismissed from his church, and she is sent awy to boarding school, Lizzy Mitchell is now thirty years old and struggling to deal with a failing m...
Deep in a coma, Louis Drax, a brilliant but strange nine-year-old boy, meets a mysterious bandaged figure called Gustave and narrates the story of his life, including the series of violent accidents that have nearly claimed his life o...
You Think You're SafeThe first victim is found floating in a creek-naked, beautiful, brutally garroted. Lily Slocum was a college student with everything to live for and nothing to fear...until a madman made her his obsession... You T...
Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider's hunger to belong. On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to ...
One of Us Is Lying: A totally grippin...
Shalini BolandTia never harmed anyone. So why does someone want to destroy her? Tia is walking home with her children, along the lakeside of their quiet, safe town, when she realises something is wrong with her five-year-old daughter, Rosie. S...
An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.She can’t ignore a cry for help. But in this remote hunting town, it’s open season.Gwen Proctor escaped her serial-killer husband and saved her family. What she can�...
Hanna's Daughters (Ballantine Reader'...
Marianne FredrikssonA Swedish writer chronicles more than a century in the lives of three extraordinary women against the background of the unforgiving Swedish countryside, in an evocative novel that captures the contributions of women to Scandinavian hi...
After years of unrequited love, a lonely man commits a desperate act that affects the lives of everyone it touches, triggering a chain of events no one could have anticipated.
By the Light of My Father's Smile (Ba...
Alice WalkerThe story of an American family--would-be writer Susannah, her sister Magdalena, and her parents--who take up life with an endangered mixed race of Black Indians in the Mexican Sierras, explores how a woman's denied sexuality leads to...
In the tradition of Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, and Don DeLillo, comes this extraordinary story of searing humor and sublime horror, of blindness, bewilderment, and that achingly familiar feeling that the world has suddenly stopped ma...
Before I Go to Sleep tie-in: A Novel
S. J. WatsonThe sensational New York Times bestseller—now a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winners Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth."As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this mor...
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefe...
From the bestselling author of The Best of Friends comes a heart-stopping psychological thriller about the shades of truth and the power of lies in the wake of one mother’s unspeakable loss. Therapist turned stay-at-home mom Ju...
My dearest daughter, I will never forget the day I nearly lost you. The day you learned the secrets that would tear our lives apart...Time stops for Jen when her beloved daughter, Gracie, is involved in a terrible car crash. After the...
The Perfect Friend: A gripping psycho...
Barbara CopperthwaiteMy name isAlex, and my world has been shattered.My husband has left me.My children won't speak to me.My friend Carrie is the only person I have.She's the only one I can trust to keep all my secrets. She'd never do anything to let me d...
Sleep Sister: A page-turning novel of...
Laura ElliotTwo childhoods destroyed. One story they will never tell. Until now.Beth ran away from her family when she was a teenager. She left behind a terrible evil that took her innocence. She also left behind her sister, Sara.When Beth retu...
Jane Doe 235: A Psychological Thrille...
John EllsworthSomething is wrong with Heidi. She regains consciousness in a hospital with no memory of who she is or how she got there. A man claiming to be her husband--Cooper--arrives at her bedside. He's relieved and upset and caring all at onc...