Berry, Zahn, & Crichton add some adventure to the new book shelves.

Steve Berry.
The Paris vendetta
Awakened by a housebreaking stranger who is revealed to be a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen and the father of a young man he once tried to save, Cotton Malone flees with the intruder when they are pursued by a shadowy organization that is hiding a dangerous Napoleon-era secret.

Laura Lippman.
In big trouble
Tess Monaghan has learned to survive the streets of Baltimore, first as a reporter and most recently as a private detective, but when she investigates the disappearance of a musician she once loved and lost, she will confront painful truths from her past, and evidence of a new and deadly killer stalking the city

Dean Koontz.
Breathless
Isolating himself in the Colorado Rockies, craftsman Grady Adams encounters a pair of beautiful furred animals that challenge everything he and a local veterinarian understand about the natural world, a discovery for which they are targeted by government forces.

Timothy Zahn.
Cobra alliance
Just as most people are thinking that the Cobra warriors--a guerilla force whose weapons are surgically implanted--are not worth their high cost, from the shadows of the universe comes a new menace, one that even the formidable Cobra warriors may not be able to defeat.

James Patterson.
I, Alex Cross
Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared.

Harry Turtledove.
Liberating Atlantis
Frederick, a descendent of the family that founded the first settlement in Atlantis, must work as a slave when he is unable to prove his lineage, and becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of freedom fighters.

Lee Goldberg.
Mr. Monk in trouble
America's favorite obsessive-compulsive detective is back in a new original tale in the series based on the popular TV show.

Michael Crichton.
Pirate latitudes
English Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians sail from colonial Jamaica to infiltrate a Spanish-controlled island, commandeering the galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle, but Hunter and his crew have plenty of danger and adventure ahead of them, in this 17th-century swashbuckling tale found among the late author's files after his passing.