The Late John Updike Leaves Us With Reflections of Later Twentieth-Century America

John Updike.
My father's tears : and other stories
A collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author includes tales set in his native Pennsylvania, the New England suburbs, and foreign countries, all depicting different facets of the American experience from the Depression through the aftermath of 9/11.

Kerry Greenwood.
Devil's food : a Corinna Chapman mystery
Corinna Chapman has more than she can handle after her estranged hippie mother shows up at her bakery, her father disappears, and two of her employees may have been poisoned by herbal tea given to them by members of a mysterious cult.

Mari Strachan.
The Earth hums in B flat
A story of dark family secrets unraveled by the shrewd insight of twelve-year-old Gwenni Morgan, a child with an irrepressible spirit living in a Welsh village that is reluctantly entering the modern age.

Chris Knopf.
Hard stop
Sam Acquillo reluctantly returns to the world of corporate intrigue when persuaded by armed intruders to discreetly locate the missing mistress of an important person in the Hamptons--his former boss.

Robert Wilson.
The ignorance of blood
Helping to track down the bombers responsible for a terror attack in Seville, Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón finds the case further complicated by the suspicious death of a gangster, a drug and prostitution turf war, and a blackmail attempt on Falcón's best friend by Islamic extremists.

adaptation by Mark Powers
Jim Butcher's the Dresden files. Storm front. Volume one, The gathering storm
A modern-day mage and consultant to the Chicago police, wizard Harry Dresden finds his stale life suddenly enlivened when he is called to share his expertise in the investigation into a grisly double murder, a crime that reveals the presence of a rival who practices the darkest of black arts, in a graphic-novel adaptation of the best-selling novel.

Dean Koontz.
Relentless
Unable to let go of a poor review of his latest best-seller, novelist Cubby Greenwich endeavors to track down the reclusive critic only to trigger a terrifying chain of events that reveal the critic's sociopath tendencies as well as the violent nature of the critic's mother.

J.M. Hayes.
Server down
Half-Cheyenne shaman Mad Dog attends Yaqui tribal Easter ceremonies in Tucson, Arizona, where he is framed for the murder of a local policeman, while back in Kansas, Sheriff English investigates the bombing of Mad Dog's home.

Ron Carlson.
The signal
Their relationship troubled, Mack and his wife backpack through the woods of Wyoming to say goodbye, but instead receive a signal from a beacon that has fallen from the sky that leads them to an even darker place.

Alice Hoffman.
The story sisters
A family drama and coming of age story follows the lives of three sisters who create a magical world on their street to escape a tragedy that has changed them forever.