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.