Category: Mystery

By Lisa Gardner

On my own . . . Massachusetts nation Trooper Bobby evade watches a annoying hostage standoff spread throughout the scope of his sniper rifle. simply around the road, in filthy rich again Bay, Boston, an armed guy has barricaded himself together with his spouse and baby. The man’s finger tightens at the set off and keep away from has just a break up moment to react . . . and ceaselessly pay the consequences.

Alone . . . that’s the place the nightmare all started for cool, appealing, and dangerously attractive Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years in the past, she was once buried underground in the course of a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has simply been killed. Her spouse's father, the strong pass judgement on Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s loss of life . . . and for the sequence of unexplained health problems that experience despatched her personal younger son many times to the health center.

Alone . . . a madman survived solitary confinement in a greatest safety criminal the place he’d performed challenging time for the main sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a loose guy, invisible, nameless . . . and full of an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them jointly is a second of violence—but what connects them is a fondness a ways deeper and lots more and plenty extra harmful. For a killer is free who’s woven such an tricky net of evil that not anyone is above suspicion, nobody is past damage, and nobody will see loss of life coming till it has them cornered, helpless, and alone.

From the Hardcover edition.

By Gloria Skurzynski

Jack and Ashley's look for eight-year-old Sammy has left them hopelessly misplaced in a twisted maze of tunnels deep inside of Carlsbad Caverns. Bats are in every single place, and the echoes in their screeching cries sends a sit back during the trio. the single gentle is the candle of their lantern. what is going to ensue whilst it burns out, leaving them in overall darkness?

By Tess Gerritsen

NEW YORK instances BESTSELLER

Detective Jane Rizzoli and health worker Maura Isles are back—and they’re going into the wild to discover a killer. Die Again is the most recent heart-pounding mystery in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling sequence, the foundation in the back of TNT’s hit convey Rizzoli & Isles.

When Boston murder detective Jane Rizzoli and health worker Maura Isles are summoned to a criminal offense scene, they discover a killing helpful of the main ferocious beast—right right down to the claw marks at the corpse. yet in simple terms the main sinister human fingers may have left well known big-game hunter and taxidermist Leon Gott gruesomely displayed just like the once-proud animals whose heads embellish his partitions. Did Gott unwittingly wake up a predator extra harmful than any he’s ever hunted?
 
Maura fears that this isn’t the killer’s first slaughter, and that it won’t be the final. After linking the crime to a chain of unsolved homicides in wasteland parts around the kingdom, she wonders if the solutions may possibly really be present in a distant nook of Africa.
 
Six years past, a bunch of visitors on safari fell prey to a killer of their midst. Marooned deep within the bush of Botswana, with out technique of verbal exchange and not anything yet a rifle-toting advisor for cover, the terrified travelers desperately was hoping for rescue prior to their worst instincts—or the wild animals prowling within the shadows—could tear them aside. however the deadliest predator was once already between them, and inside per week, he walked away with the blood of all yet certainly one of them on his hands.
 
Now this killer has selected Boston as his new searching flooring, and Rizzoli and Isles needs to have the opportunity to trap him out of the shadows and right into a cage. whether it ability dangling the bait no hunter can withstand: the only sufferer who bought away.

Advance compliment for Die Again
 
“With Die Again, Tess Gerritsen proves that she continues to be on the best of her video game. i like this beautifully gripping tale and can’t look ahead to more.”—Karin Slaughter
 
“Tess Gerritsen regularly supplies, and this is often Gerritsen at her darkish, addictive top. What supplies Die Again its unusual cost is the belief, by no means faraway from the skin, that we people are predatory animals like several different. might be we should always no longer be so stunned to discover hunters between us.”—William Landay

“Animal intuition turns savage—and guy is an animal. A Rizzoli and Isles mystery is a assured nice learn, yet this trip Gerritsen fairly brings at the scary!”—Sandra Brown
 
“Tess Gerritsen once more proves her masterful dominance in tales delving into the legal brain and forensic sciences. Die Again left me breathless as Rizzoli and Isles examine a bad homicide, one with ties to an unsolved bloodbath in years previous. here's a tale either harrowing and as intellectually sharp as a dagger’s side. I dare you to aim to forestall studying this as soon as you’ve started.”—James Rollins
 
“Harrowing! Seamlessly melding the gritty streets of Boston with the golden plains of Africa, Tess Gerritsen units up a crafty predator who’s spent years perfecting his online game. Now input Rizzoli and Isles, of Boston’s top decided to seize one of many world’s worst in a conflict of wits the place in simple terms the powerful can live to tell the tale. this is often Tess Gerritsen at her finest!”—Lisa Gardner

From the Hardcover edition.

By Tony Hillerman

Old Joseph Joe sees all of it. strangers spill blood on the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. the opposite drives off into the dry lands of the large Reservation, yet now not earlier than he exhibits the outdated Navajo a photograph of the fellow he seeks.

This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee must set him off on an odyssey that strikes from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an historic therapeutic rite the place dying is the healing, and into the darkish middle of homicide and revenge.

By Elizabeth Daly

What starts off as a courtesy name on his wife's pal, pass over Julia Paxton, becomes one other case for Henry Gamadge, Elizabeth Daly's sleuth and professional in infrequent books, during this, the eleventh e-book within the sequence, set in post-World conflict II long island.

Miss Paxton provides Gamadge with a secret: a framed etching that had regularly hung within the hallway of the Ashbury mansion has all at once sprung an inscription dated 1793. omit Paxton swears not anything were written on that portrait ahead of the former Sunday. Did Iris Vance, a relative medium, made it ensue? and the way? Henry Gamadge is lovely convinced the answer to this secret has not anything to do with the supernatural, yet he can't rather make out what all of it potential. was once it a comic story? Petty larceny? Or is anything even more risky happening, and has Gamadge by some means stumbled onto a felony conspiracy?

By Michael Innes

At Mullion citadel, luxurious stately domestic, we meet the Earl and his family members, who comprise his pleasant daughters, Patty and Boosie, and dotty Great-aunt Camilla. old-fashioned friend, Charles Honeybath, who has been commissioned to color a portrait of the Earl's spouse, reveals himself on the helm of a fancy research concerning ancestral artworks and a tender under-gardener, Swithin, who turns out to own the family members positive factors slightly strikingly.

By Martha Grimes

For waitress and cub reporter Emma Graham, tragedy defines the place she lives. Spirit Lake, l. a. Porte, and Lake Noir were held in thrall by way of intertwined crimes: the murders of Mary-Evelyn Devereau, Rose Queen, and Fern Queen; the meant kidnapping of a four-month-old child from the Belle break lodge two decades formerly; and, such a lot lately, the assault on Emma. And with the arriving of an unforeseen customer and a drifter, it feels like the undesirable occasions have purely begun...

By Trenton Lee Stewart

Subscribe to the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a bold new event that threatens to strength them except their households, neighbors, or even one another. while an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome needs to resolve clues when it comes to a nefarious new plot, whereas their look for solutions brings them toward possibility than ever before.

Filled with page-turning motion and mind-bending mind teasers, this wildly artistic trip is bound to please.

By Laurie R. King

The Edgar-award successful writer of A Grave expertise returns with Kate Martinelli in a narrative of the San Francisco homeless and Brother Erasmus, a pacesetter who brings pleasure into desolate lives--and may even be a assassin.

By Jussi Adler-Olsen

The New York Times and # 1 foreign bestselling writer Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the 3rd ebook in his exhilarating division Q series. 

Detective Carl Mørck holds in his arms a bottle that comprises previous and decayed message, written in blood. It is a cry for aid from younger brothers, tied and certain in a boathouse by way of the ocean. may perhaps it's actual? who're those boys, and why weren’t they said lacking? may perhaps they in all likelihood nonetheless be alive?

Carl’s research will strength him to move paths with a lady caught in a determined marriage- her husband refuses to inform her the place he is going, what he does, how lengthy he'll be away. For days on finish she waits, and whilst he returns she needs to undergo his desires, his moods, his threats. yet sufficient is enough. She will discover the reality, irrespective of the associated fee to her husband—or to herself.

Carl and his colleagues Assad and Rose needs to use all in their assets to discover the scary fact during this heart-pounding Nordic mystery from the number 1 foreign bestselling writer Jussi Adler-Olsen.