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11/22/63 by Stephen King Published 2011 by Scribner Book Company
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781451627282
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Jacket Notes: King's heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. Jake Epping is a 35-year-old high-school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program.... More...
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77 Shadow Street by Dean R Koontz Published 2011 by Bantam
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780553807714
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Jacket Notes: "I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. . . . "
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The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace built in the late 1800s as a tycoon's dream home.... More...
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Bone Tree by Greg Iles Published 2012 by Scribner Book Company
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781439140291
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Jacket Notes: In the tradition of "The Quiet Game" and "Turning Angel" comes "Unwritten Laws," the new Penn Cage novel by Greg Iles, and a stunning sequel to the best-selling "The Devil's Punchbowl." This is classic Greg Iles territory, where the South's past and present lie eternally entangled; where the sins of the father pass unerringly from generation to generation; and where a murder from yesteryear finds new life - and victims - in the present.... More...
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Dead Last by James W Hall Published 2011 by Minotaur Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312607326
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Jacket Notes: "From an acclaimed "master of suspense""(New York Times Book Review) "comes a thriller in which Thorn must confront an assassin whose victims and methods are taken directly from the script of a popular TV show
"April Moss writes obituaries for the "Miami Herald.... More...
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Alpine Winter by Mary Daheim Published 2011 by Ballantine Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780345502599
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Jacket Notes: The picturesque town of Alpine in Washington's Cascade Mountains is decked out in holiday finery, but family troubles are brewing at the "Alpine Advocate: "Editor and publisher Emma Lord is fretting over how her brother and her son--both priests--will react when she confesses her passionate affair with Sheriff Milo Dodge; House & Home editor Vida Runkel realizes that her spoiled grandson has gone off the rails; and Emma's star reporter goes AWOL after learning that his son has escaped from prison.... More...
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Black Thunder by Aimee Thurlo Published 2011 by Forge
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780765324511
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Jacket Notes: A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation.
Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation with the New Mexico police.... More...
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Devil's Elixir by Raymond Khoury Published 2011 by Dutton Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780525952435
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Jacket Notes: FBI agent Sean Reilly and his girlfriend, archaeologist Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar novels, return in another edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from present day back to 1700s Mexico-and possibly beyond. What if there was a drug, previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous-and so unsettling-that it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization?What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got wind of that drug and launched a vicious, uncompromising pursuit to possess it?In Raymond Khoury's million-copy-selling Templar novels, Reilly and Tess traveled the globe to unravel ancient mysteries with present-day ramifications.... More...
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Drop by Michael Connelly Published 2011 by Little Brown and Company
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780316069410
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Jacket Notes: Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.
DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.... More...
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Forgotten Affairs of Youth by Alexander McCall Smith Published 2011 by Pantheon Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780307379184
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Jacket Notes: In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, our inquisitive heroine helps a new friend discover the identity of her father.
Isabel and her fiance know who they are and where they come from. But not everybody is so fortunate.... More...
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley Published 2011 by Delacorte Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780385344012
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Jacket Notes: It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce--an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving--is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern.... More...
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