Mary Higgins Clark Is Back With Another Heart-Rending Mystery

Mary Higgins Clark.
Just take my heart
Criminology professor Emily advocates on behalf of a dangerously ill friend from childhood whose life can be saved by a heart transplant from an injured mutual friend, a situation that turns deadly when Emily discovers that the injured friend was not hurt accidentally.

F. Paul Wilson.
Aftershock & others : 19 oddities
A third collection of short works by the best-selling author of the Repairman Jack series features the Bram Stoker Award-winning title novelette and additional stories including "Aryans and Absinthe," "When He Was Fab," and "The November Game."

Alexis Wright.
Carpentaria
A tale inspired by the plight of the Australian Aborigines follows a clash between a powerful family, tribe leaders, and mobsters in a sparsely populated northern Queensland town, a conflict marked by the machinations of a religious zealot, a murderous politician, and an activist.

Christian Moerk.
Darling Jim
A reclusive aunt and her two nieces turn up dead and a young postal worker finds a diary in the dead letter office which offers clues about Jim Quick, a mysterious Irish storyteller, who had become obsessed with the aunt.

Brian Freeman.
In the dark
Jonathan Stride, a widower, is haunted by the death of his sister-in-law, who was beaten to death thirty years earlier, and from the author who is writing about the murder he learns secrets about his late wife that lead him to question his past life.

Alys Clare.
The joys of my life
May 1199. Abbess Helewise has been summoned by Queen Eleanor to discuss the building of a chapel at Hawkenlye Abbey. Meanwhile, Sir Josse d'Acquin is on the trail of a group of mysterious knights rumored to be devil worshippers. As Helewise heads for home, Josse follows his quarry to Chartres, where he meets the last person he expects: Joanna. And she has grave problems of her own

Tony Hays.
The killing way
When Merlin is implicated in the brutal murder of a young woman, his charge, Arthur, a young warrior who is favored to become the next king of Britain, finds his reputation at stake; a situation for which he turns for help to a wise man who blames Arthur for the death of his wife.

Anne Argula.
Krapp's last cassette
Hollywood screenwriter Alex Krapp is adapting the memoir of a child who has suffered unspeakable abuse and whose health is so precarious that they've never met, but when a reported suggests that the story is a fraud, Krapp hires the feisty and tough-talking Quinn to prove that the boy is real.

Georgina Harding.
The spy game
Years after their German refugee mother disappears on the same day the media releases a story about a spy family, Anna and her brother, Peter, struggle to sort out facts and lies about their mother's identity and wonder if she had a secret life. By the author of The Solitude of Thomas Cave.

Walter Jon Williams.
This is not a game
In a near-future world that is dominated by an alternate-reality game without boundaries, players find their real lives increasingly and violently overshadowed by the game and its escalating demands.

Favorites Carolyn Hart and Jim Butcher Have New Novels on the Shelves

David A. Rollins.
A knife edge
Pulled off of a top secret research program for the US Department of Defense, Major Vin Cooper is asked to look into the death of a military buddy killed while making a routine parachute jump, but when the two cases collide, he finds himself on a new mission with the highest of stakes.

Philip Kerr.
A quiet flame : a Bernie Gunther novel
A fifth installment in a series featuring Bernie Gunther finds the detective fleeing to Per=n-era Argentina in the wake of wrongful accusations about his war criminal activities and reluctantly investigating the double case of a murdered girl and a missing banker's daughter; a situation with suspicious ties to an unsolved twenty-year-old case.

Rich Lowry & Keith Korman.
Banquo's ghosts
CIA agent Stewart Banquo recruits journalist Peter Johnson to assassinate an Iranian scientist, but when the plot fails, Banquo and Johnson turn their attentions to saving New York City from a nuclear terrorist attack and Johnson's daughter from kidnappers.

Martin Walker.
Bruno, chief of police
When the murdered body of an elderly French army soldier is found with a swastika carved into his chest, Benoit Courreges, the chief of police in a small French village in the South of France and affectionately nicknamed Bruno, turns his suspicions toward a tortured period of French history when the government turned on its own citizens to help the Germans wage war.

Carolyn G. Hart.
Dare to die : a death on demand mystery
When the arrival of a mysterious former Broward's Rock resident sparks a town-wide feud that pits neighbor against neighbor, Annie and Max Darling find their own circumstances affected by a murder that takes place at a pavilion party that the newcomer attends.

Spencer Quinn.
Dog on it : a Chet and Bernie mystery
Intrepid canine detective Chet accompanies his human police officer partner, Bernie, on a first assignment involving the disappearance of a teenage girl who ran with the wrong crowd, a case that is complicated by Bernie's dysfunctional personal life.

Conn Iggulden.
Genghis : bones of the hills
Brings the legendary warrior and conqueror a new challenge, this time from the west, as his viciously effective armies push deep into what is now Afghanistan and the Balkan states, and as his time grows short, he must seal his legacy and name the leader for the new generation.

Paul Levine.
Illegal
Fingered for a crime he didn't commit, brash lawyer Jimmy Payne goes on the most terrifying run of his life, from bloody Mexicali to the bullet-riddled San Joaquin Valley, and when he meets a foul-mouthed Mexican teenager in search of his missing mother, the unlikely duo attempt to find the woman against startlingly violent odds

Kyle Mills.
Lords of corruption
Josh Hagarty takes a position at a charity organization in Africa, but soon discovers it has ties to the country's genocidal dictator and he has become entangled in a billion-dollar worldwide conspiracy.

Jim Butcher.
Turn coat : a novel of the Dresden files
Accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council, Warden Morgan goes in search of Harry Dresden in a desperate attempt to clear his name and stop the deadly punishment from taking place in this latest thrilling addition to the Dresden Files series.

Chiaverini Is Back With Another Glimpse of Women’s History and Mystery In Her Quilts Series

Jennifer Chiaverini.
The lost quilter : an Elm Creek quilts novel
A continuation of The Runaway Quilt finds master quilter Sylvia Compson investigating her ancestry and discovering unexpected connections to a runaway slave and quilter who traveled the Underground Railroad to Elm Creek Farm before she was captured and returned to Virginia.

A.E. Roman.
Chinatown angel
Private investigator Chico Santana is hired by an eccentric family to find Tiffany, a Chinese American teenager who has disappeared, but when he surmises that a maid's suicide is really a murder and uncovers other suspicious events, his own life suddenlyis in danger.

Joyce Carol Oates.
Dear husband : stories
A volume of short works establishes a redefinition of family as marked by violence, in a collection that includes such titles as "Landfill," "Magda Maria," and "Suicide by Fitness Center."

Alan Brennert.
Honolulu
Journeying to 1914 Hawaii as a mail-order "picture bride," Korean-born Jin finds her hopes for education and a better life devastated by the realities of a rushed marriage to an embittered laborer; a situation throughout which she works to overcome limited opportunities and prejudice in order to improve circumstances for her fellow brides.

Emily Fox Gordon.
It will come to me
Ben, a professor of philosophy in the Humanities department of a large southern university, and his wife Ruth, a writer whose early literary success never quite blossomed into a career as a novelist, have settled into a dull routine of pot-luck dinners and endless committee meetings, until a celebrated young memoirist and her husband arrive on campus bringing with them the promise of rediscovery. A first novel

Harlan Coben.
Long lost
Contacted by a woman with whom he shared an affair years earlier, Myron Bolitar learns how she has been wrongfully accused of murdering her ex-husband, a situation that is further complicated by a long-hidden family secret.

Peter Rock.
My abandonment
Living with her father in an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon, thirteen-year-old Caroline only merges with the civilized world once a week, when they venture into the city to buy groceries and attend church, but an encounter with a backcountry jogger derails their entire existence.

Kris Saknussemm.
Private midnight
Struggling with guilty secrets from his past, detective Birch Ritter is introduced to a mysterious woman who claims to have an almost supernatural capacity for understanding the inner motivations of men and who seductively tempts Ritter beyond his better judgment to uncover concealed evidence.

Michael Robotham.
Shatter
When Joe O'Loughlin fails to save a naked and distraught woman sobbing on a cell phone from jumping off a bridge into a flooded gorge below, he is shattered by the suicide, until her teenage daughter finds him and reveals that she never would have committed such a desperate act and that the answer to the mystery may lie with the voice on the other end of the phone.

Peter V. Brett.
The warded man
As darkness falls each night, the corelings rise, demons who well up from the ground like a hellish steam, and when young Arlen decides to brave the night roads and face the demons, he attempts something not dreamt of since ancient times: a stand against the night.

Korzenko’s “Devil’s Gold” Is One of Many New Suspense Novels

Julie Korzenko.
Devil's gold
Chastised for not cooperating with the oil company giant New World Petroleum, zoologist Cassidy Lowell is reassigned from the jungles of the Niger Delta to Yellowstone National Park, where wolves are disappearing. Jake Anderson, Special Forces operative,is working within the shadows of Cassidy's organization, Zoological Environmental Bio Research Agency. An alarming genetic mutation of the parvovirus is discovered: CPV-19: human parvovirus merged with canine, and the virus is loose in Yellowstone. Murder, execution, and deadly helicopter rides lead Jake and Cassidy down a road rife with double-crossing and an underlying plot that forces them back to the Niger Delta.

Rhonda Pollero.
Fat chance
Buying her mother's ramshackle but affordable Palm Beach cottage, bored paralegal Finley Anderson Tanner discovers a dead body in her closet that the police quickly dismiss but Finley begins to suspect may be tied to something more nefarious, a suspicion that forces her to turn for help to handsome private investigator Liam McGarrity.

Ariana Franklin.
Grave goods
When the bodies of two people are discovered in the remains of an arson fire that destroyed Glastonbury Abbey, Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, is ordered by Henry II to determine if one of the sets of bones belongs to the legendary Celtic savior Arthur.

Margit Liesche.
Hollywood buzz
Pucci Lewis steps in for her sister-WASP on a make-or-break documentary on Women Airforce Service Pilots, landing her in the middle of Hollywood stars, studio moguls, Washington bureaucrats, and a high-profile homicide.

Tom Cain.
No survivors : an Accident man novel
A follow-up to The Accident Man finds a broken Samuel Carver pursuing his lover, Alix, in an adventure during which he uncovers a messianic Texas billionaire's plot to trigger an international holy war by reactivating stolen Soviet nuclear bombs.

Solomon Jones.
Payback : the return of C.R.E.A.M.
Acquitted of being an accomplice in the murders of two drug dealers, thanks to the deathbed confession of her lover, Duane Faison, Karima "C.R.E.A.M." Thomas is confronted by an all-new tragedy when her mother is found dead, an apparent suicide, and joins forces with unlikely ally Captain Kevin Lynch in a dangerous quest to uncover the truth.

Howard Jacobson.
The act of love
In a dual tale that contrasts an antique bookstore owner's sexually obsessive marriage with a literary romance found on the shelves of his store, Felix Quinn becomes so enamored of his wife that he allows her to conduct an affair with another man. By the author of the Mighty Walzer.

David Hagberg.
The expediter
When a confrontation between the Chinese government and Kim Jong-Il over the assassination of an intelligence general escalates into nuclear threats, University of South Florida professor and special agent Kirk McGarvey is enlisted to prove that North Korea did not authorize the hit.

Ben Kane.
The forgotten legion
Born into first-century slavery under an abusive owner, twins Romulous and Fabiola are respectively sold into gladiator school and prostitution at the age of thirteen; a situation that separates them from their beloved mother and introduces Rabiola to one of the most powerful men in Rome.

Tim Gautreaux.
The missing
After World War I, Sam Simoneaux returns to New Orleans determined to leave mayhem and destruction behind, but when a little girl disappears from the department store where he works, he has no choice but to board a Mississippi excursion steamboat hoping to unearth clues somewhere along the river.

Jeffrey Rotter.
The unknown knowns
His marriage unraveling with his wife's increasing impatience with his obsessive underwater experiments, Jim Rath attracts the attention of homeland security in his pursuit of a mythical ancient aquatic race and shares an incrementally volatile rivalry with an equally delusional agent.

Lisa Lutz is Back With the Zany Spellman Clan in Another Fun Mystery

Lisa Lutz.
Revenge of the Spellmans
A third installment in a series that began with The Spellman Files and Curse of the Spellmans finds Isabel pursuing therapy while trailing her newest client's errant wife, Rae facing skyrocketing expectations in light of her high SAT score, and Henry disrupting the family with a new love interest.

A.J. Hartley.
Act of Will
Fleeing his homeland after being accused of sedition, medieval actor and playwright Will Hawthorne finds himself in a distant land with a band of adventurers who are charged with investigating and defeating a ruthless army of mystical horsemen, a mission that tests Will's pragmatic beliefs.

Keith Donohue.
Angels of destruction
Margaret Quinn has never gotten over the loss of Erica, her runaway child, and when Norah, a nine-year-old girl who seems to materialize out of thin air, arrives one bitterly cold night on Margaret's doorstep, she is finally forced to confront her own past to explain this strange child's connection to her missing daughter.

Jack Coughlin, with Donald A. Davis.
Dead shot : a sniper novel
A follow-up to Kill Zone finds former marine sniper Kyle Swanson confronting a defected enemy sniper, Juba, who is working with a fringe terrorist organization that has created a devastating new weapon of mass destruction recently used by Juba to kill hundreds at a British royal wedding.

Earlene Fowler.
Love mercy
Living a solitary life as a writer for a regional magazine and pondering past events that ripped her family apart, Love Mercy Johnson gets a chance at redemption when her granddaughter unexpectedly arrives at her door and gives her the opportunity to heal old wounds.

Mary Robison.
One D.O.A., one on the way
When Jay's husband is diagnosed with a grave illness and returns home to the care of his parents in Louisiana, Jay--a location scout for a movie production company--struggles to stay on the good side of her husband's extended family. By the author of Why Did I Ever.

Bryan Gruley.
Starvation Lake : a mystery
When pieces from a fatal snowmobile accident that ended the life of a legendary youth hockey coach are discovered a decade later five miles from the scene, local paper editor and disgraced former hockey goalie Gus Carpenter hopes to salvage his reputation by attempting to solve the case.

William Dietrich.
The Dakota cipher : an Ethan Gage adventure
Hoping to return home after an unwise affair that ended with a bounty on his head, adventurer Ethan Gage teams up with grizzled Norwegian Magus Bloodhammer on a quest to find a legendary artifact that some believe possesses the power to control the weather; an endeavor for which he must locate a tribe of fair-haired Native Americans.

Todd Johnson.
The sweet by and by
Brought together by circumstance, five North Carolina women protect and provoke each other while they struggle with limited prospects, career ambitions, and vulnerable hearts. A first novel.

Sandi Ault.
Wild sorrow
After taking refuge during a storm in an abandoned Indian School where children were "Americanized" after being taken from their homes, BLM agent Jamaica Wild discovers the desecrated body of an elderly Anglo woman.