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A killer elite--six assassins--are on the loose.

So is Alex Cross. Then a sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives must solve the case or lose her position. Alex is tasked by the new President to lead an investigation unprecedented in scale and scope. But is the sniper's strike only the beginning of a larger attack on the nation?

You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement — a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Twisted and deliciously chilling, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.

Read between the lies. This one will keep you guessing. It's terrific and troubling. This is one scary love triangle where you won't know who to trust. A gripping plot and fascinating characters ; this book will keep you turning the pages and guessing until the very end. These authors are destined to become trail blazers in the field of psychological suspense books that explode in your hands! A favor for a dying ex-con turns into a violent battle against a mysterious enemy for Van Shaw in this emotionally powerful and gritty thriller from the award-winning author of Past Crimes and Hard Cold Winter.

A terminally ill ex-con tells him of an easy fortune in gold, abandoned and nearly forgotten after its original owner died in prison. For Van, the gold is cash he desperately needs to rebuild his destroyed family home. The grandson of a career criminal who taught him all the tricks of his trade, Van suspects that nothing is ever that easy.

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Sure enough, the safe holding the fortune is a trap—set by a mysterious player armed with tremendous resources and a lifetime of hatred. His quest leads him from an underground bare-knuckle fighting ring, which may be fronting a darker purpose, to a massive pop-culture convention, where Van and his allies, Hollis and Corcoran, play a dangerous game with foes on every side. It also introduces Van to a brash and beautiful aspiring journalist who poses a whole different kind of personal risk. For years, Van Shaw has tried to live every day above ground, on the right side of the law, even though crime is his gift.

The 1 New York Times —bestselling author of Airport reveals the inner workings of a New Orleans hotel—and the human drama unfolding behind its closed doors. The owner has four days to raise the money to save his financially ailing property. The general manager, once blacklisted from the hospitality business, struggles with one crisis after another.

A rebellious heiress will do anything to attain her secret desires. The duke and the duchess in the lavish presidential suite are covering up a crime. And within one of the many guest rooms hides a professional thief. Filled with memorable characters and authentic detail about the inner machinery and secrets of a five-star hotel, this gripping New York Times bestseller sold millions of copies and was adapted for both film and TV. Jack Ryan has devoted his life to protecting the United States.

What if this time, he can't? Freedom may have finally arrived in Iran. As protests break out across the country, the media rejoices over the so-called Persian Spring. Western leaders are ecstatic. Members of Congress and the Cabinet clamor to back the rebels. Only President Jack Ryan remains wary.

Meanwhile, he has plenty to handle at home. A deadly strain of flu is ravaging the United States as spring floods decimate the Southeast. An unethical senator wants to bring down the Ryan presidency and is willing to lean on fabricated bot-planted stories to do it. But the scariest story is the most closely guarded one. Two Russian nuclear missiles have been hijacked. The Campus gets their first break when Jack Junior connects with a rogue Russian intelligence officer in Afghanistan--only to be abducted soon after arriving.

John Clark and the rest of the Campus team race to track the missiles and rescue their colleague. As sensationalized stories spin out of control and the stolen missiles remain out of reach, President Ryan's toughest challenge emerges: How do you meet an enemy head on, when he won't even show you his face?

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Twisted Prey John Sandford. Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now a powerful U. Lucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before. A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U. Senate, where Lucas had predicted she'd fit right in. He was also convinced that she'd been responsible for three murders, though he'd never been able to prove it.

Once a psychopath had gotten that kind of rush, though, he or she often needed another fix, so he figured he might be seeing her again. A federal marshal now, with a very wide scope of investigation, he's heard rumors that Grant has found her seat on the Senate intelligence committee, and the contacts she's made from it, to be very Pinning those rumors down was likely to be just as difficult as before, and considerably more dangerous.

But they had unfinished business, he and Grant. One way or the other, he was going to see it through to the end. Stowed Away Barbara Ross. Preparations must be put on hold, however, when a mysterious yacht drops anchor in the harbor—and delivers an unexpected dose of murder. Both provide an atmospheric backdrop for a cozy that. Dark Sacred Night Michael Connelly. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger.

She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift -- and she wants in. The murder, unsolved, was of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally killed, her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy, and to finally bring her killer to justice.

Along the way, the two detectives forge a fragile trust, but this new partnership is put to the test when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn. Dark Sacred Night for the first time brings together these two powerhouse detectives in a riveting story that unfolds with furious momentum. And it shows once more why "there's no doubt Connelly is a master of crime fiction" Associated Press.

Kingdom of the Blind Louise Penny. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane? When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.

The investigation into what happened six months ago—the events that led to his suspension—has dragged on, into the dead of winter. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception. Enough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner city Montreal. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers. As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots.

And the terrible things hiding there. New York Times -bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene-modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller. When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the flu pandemic.

Fearful of a repeat on the one hundredth anniversary of the nightmarish contagion, Jack autopsies the woman within hours of her demise and discovers some striking anomalies: Although the facts don't add up to influenza, Jack must race against the clock to identify the woman and determine what kind of virus could wreak such havoc--a task made more urgent when two other victims succumb to a similar rapid death.

Drawn into the dark underbelly of the organ transplant market, Jack will come face-to-face with a megalomaniacal businessman willing to risk human lives in order to conquer a lucrative new frontier in medicine--and if Jack's not careful, the next life lost might be his own. March Violets Philip Kerr. Hard-hitting, fast-paced, and richly detailed, March Violets is noir writing at its blackest and best. Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's 1 New York Times -bestselling series.

There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best.

World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction.

Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Beyond Reason Kat Martin. Faced with bankruptcy, phone threats and the fear of failure, Carly has to team up with the last man she wants to owe—Lincoln Cain. Cain is magnetic, powerful, controlling—and hiding more than one secret. Having a partner may help him weather the wannabe vampires, wacky werewolves, and dastardly villains.

Can the crime-solving duo take down both human and unhuman criminals lurking in the shadows, or will they be consumed by metaphysical madness? The First Ever Unhuman Bundle contains the first three books in the Inspector Hobbes series of cozy paranormal mysteries.

Buy the First Ever Unhuman Bundle to solve quirky paranormal crimes today! Light It Up Nick Petrie. Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard, whose daughter runs a Denver security company that protects cash-rich cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. As the assaults escalate, Peter has to wonder: With so much on the line, his enemy will not give up quietly More than million copies sold and now a Lifetime TV movie. Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear.

On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die… Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive? A Killing by the Sea Kathleen Bridge. Trading the urban sprawl of Manhattan for the tranquility and exotic beauty of a Florida barrier island was the best decision author Liz Holt ever made. The victim was a member of a fishing crew lost at sea who may or may not have drowned.

But things go further awry when both a hurricane and a killer leave a trail of destruction. A promising start to a promising series. With a clever protagonist, wonderful details of life in the Hamptons, and plot twists on top of plot twists, Kathleen Bridge will have mystery readers clamoring for more. The Witch Elm Tana French. Get ready for the whiplash brought on by its final twists and turns. From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" The New Yorker and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" People , comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out.

Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo.

Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, when we no longer know who we are. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion—war with the West.

The only way to avoid a confrontation that could leave millions dead is to send Mitch Rapp to Russia under impossibly dangerous orders. Success means averting a war that could consume all of Europe. But if his mission is discovered, Rapp will plunge Russia and America into a conflict that neither will survive. Orphan X Gregg Hurwitz. Who is Orphan X? The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: Evan was Orphan X—until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear.

But now someone is on his tail. The Intern Gregg Hurwitz. The Nowhere Man is a figure shrouded in secrecy—a near legendary figure who helps the truly desperate, those with nowhere else to turn who are lucky enough to be able to reach out to him. When darkness closes in, the Nowhere Man is your last, best hope.

But he now lives by hiding in plain sight, keeping his head down and his eyes clear. So when a local summer intern for a tabloid news site finds herself trailing an aggressive reporter into a crime zone, things go terribly awry. The only person who can help her is a man with the background and the skills of the Nowhere Man. Also contains an extended excerpt from the Orphan X thriller— Out of the Dark. Who was the serial killer… and why were our vics all missing the same body part? He forsakes a lucrative career in medicine, and plunges headlong into the brutal, unforgiving world of a New York City homicide detective.

Known only as The Giver, he is hell bent on subjecting young women and their unborn babies to his illicit experiments. As the body count rises, New York City is engulfed in fear. Fighting an illness which threatens his job, immersed in turmoil at home due to his radical career change, Ravello struggles to understand who The Giver is and where he will strike next. Bird Box Josh Malerman. Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world—a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.

Something is out there. Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe.

Now, that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster? Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey—a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her. Under the guidance of the stalwart Tom, a motely group of strangers banded together against the unseen terror, creating order from the chaos. But when supplies ran low, they were forced to venture outside—and confront the ultimate question: Steamed Open Barbara Ross.

But which one of them was angry enough to kill? Beachcombers, lighthouse buffs, and clammers are outraged after Frick puts up a gate in front of his newly inherited mansion. As she pores through a long list of suspects, Julia meets disgruntled employees, rival heirs, and a pair of tourists determined to visit every lighthouse in America. Last Lullaby Carol Wyer.

The killer has left a chilling calling card: Can Natalie stop this twisted killer and save one of her own before more families are torn apart forever? Gripping, fast-paced and nail-bitingly tense, this book will send shivers down your spine. This story has plenty of OMG moments and you keep you guessing until the end Boy I wasn't expecting that This book is good Tense, fast-paced and totally engrossing, this is a book that will exasperate you, thrill you, chill you and truly test your detecting skills I cannot wait to read more.

Truly a superbly written book I can't wait for the next one. The Amendment Killer Ronald S. Supreme Court to determine the fate of the 28th Amendment - enacted to criminalize abuse of power on the part of our political representatives. In court to defend the amendment, retired U. District Court Judge Cyrus Brooks observes his old friend and law school classmate Hirschfeld acting strangely and dispatches veteran D.

In the meantime, Hirschfeld's precocious and feisty year-old diabetic granddaughter Cassie, brutally kidnapped to control her grandfather's swing vote upholding or invalidating the amendment, watches her insulin pump running dry and wonders which poses her greatest threat, the kidnappers or the clock. As Brooks is forced to choose between saving our nation or saving the girl. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are.

He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face—including his own—he tries to help.

Facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced to flee. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch. A Fatal Mistake Faith Martin. Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday finds herself paired with coroner Clement Ryder to investigate and it soon becomes clear that this case is not going to be easy.

The witnesses all refuse to give a straight answer, each new lead sends them in a new direction and tales of other missing youngsters add further mystery to the investigation. The Ryder and Loveday Series Book 1: Keeps you guessing from start to finish. Her plots just keep the reader thinking. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet.

Even the President himself becomes a suspect, and then he disappears from public view.

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Instant 1 New York Times Bestseller! Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine maybe too much , watching old movies, recalling happier times. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems. Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock.

The Drifter Nick Petrie. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: As Ash begins to investigate this unexpected discovery, he finds himself at the center of a plot that is far larger than he could have imagined Burning Bright Nick Petrie. The dense forest and close fog cause his claustrophobia to buzz and spark, and then he stumbles upon a grizzly, long thought to have vanished from this part of the country. There, he finds something strange: It leads to another, and another, up through the giant tree canopy, and ending at a hanging platform.

On the platform is a woman on the run. From below them come the sounds of men and gunshots. Just days ago, investigative journalist June Cassidy escaped a kidnapping by the men who are still on her trail. Only one step ahead of their pursuers, Peter and June must race to unravel this peculiar mystery. Tucker disappears, leaving the eldest, Darlene, to care for her two sisters.

Three years later, Tucker, now a radical animal rights activist, reappears after bombing a local cosmetics factory to kidnap his 9-year-old sister, Cora. Told by Darlene and Cora, Abby Geni's haunting literary thriller, The Wildlands , explores humans' relationships with nature and what drives a person to fanaticism. Eleven-year-old Wash is a slave on a sugar plantation when his master's brother—an enigmatic scientist and abolitionist—chooses him to be a personal assistant. After they have to flee the plantation in the night, a bounty is put on Wash's head. In Washington Black , Esi Edugyan depicts how even as Wash leads an adventurous and boundary-pushing life, the risk of enslavement is never far behind.

A riveting story about identity, slavery, and freedom. After the war, Juliet works a humdrum job at the BBC and believes the past is behind her when unusual happenings—old colleagues turning up on streets, a threatening note in the mail—can't be ignored. In Atkinson's quietly suspenseful novel, nothing is as it seems. At the start of Joyful , author and designer Ingrid Fetell Lee describes a struggling Albanian city that painted its buildings bright colors. Almost immediately, crime declined. People filled the sidewalks.

This was in part because color, Lee writes, universally brings people joy. In her book, Lee names 10 "aesthetics of joy," from Energy things like color to Play round objects. Blending science and tips, Lee shows readers that looking outward—at flowers in a vase or fireworks in the sky—can brighten our days.

When Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, she is shocked to see her husband, Richard, who was killed in an accident only a month before. As she follows him through the island, the lines between what is real and what isn't start to blur, and Clare is brought on a highly unusual adventure, one that may be happening only in her mind.

When newly-divorced Virginia accepts a job in the information booth at Grand Central Terminal in New York, she only wants to make enough money to support herself and her daughter. What would you do if you came home to find another family had moved to your home? But when Fiona tries to sort out what could be happening, she realizes that both Bram and the boys are nowhere to be found.

This heart-pounding thriller follows Fiona as she desperately hunts for answers and for her family, exposing how little she really knew about Bram along the way. This fascinating investigation dives into the world of heart science and the scientists and doctors pushing medical progress further—at any cost necessary. Frances de Pontes Peebles's tender novel follows this unlikely friendship and the jealousy and rivalry that come with their pursuit of fame. Kya is left to fend for herself when her mom walks out on her family.

Only 7 years old, with an absentee, alcoholic father, Kya learns to survive the wild North Carolina coast on her own. Townspeople nearby dub her the Marsh Girl and believe she is dangerous. So when a man in town is murdered, it doesn't take long for the locals to try to pin the crime on Kya. Delia Owens's gorgeous novel, Where the Crawdads Sing , is both a coming-of-age tale and an engrossing whodunit.

Misunderstood by his father, overshadowed by his sister, and dealing with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, Leon finds solace in dance class. But his nonconformity—it's the s in conservative South Dakota—creates problems at home, especially as Leon becomes more serious about ballet. Paula Saunders's The Distance Home is a somber novel about the consequences of judging others and the unintended damage loved ones can cause. Though she is expected to marry Jisoo, a wealthy soldier, she sneaks out with his cousin, her childhood friend Kyunghwan.

The man she chooses will determine her and her family's fate. Kim's heartrending saga—told from the perspectives of five characters— examines how difficult choices can test even our closest relationships. Kate Harris grew up itching for adventure but frustrated by how few untouched places were left in the world to explore.

In her 20s, desperate to make a discovery, she set out with a friend to bike the former Silk Road— a journey that took her through Tibet, Uzbekistan, Turkey, and other countries. Her captivating memoir, Lands of Lost Borders , will inspire readers to question their self-imposed boundaries and map out new adventures. This is the ultimate Austen adaptation for our time. Miranda returns to the island she was banished from and—in digging into Joseph's crime—uncovers secrets that will destroy the island's tranquil, exclusive facade.

Pack this absorbing read in your beach bag. A time-travel company starts recruiting people to work as bonded laborers in the future, in exchange for care for sick loved ones in the present.

Polly signs on to help her soulmate, Frank, and they make a plan to meet in But Polly is rerouted to and must find him. When she and her boyfriend, Ethan, take a trip to Sonoma, she finds herself questioning where her life is going and abruptly accepts a job at a failing winery. She moves through life unsatisfied—with her stormy mother, with her headstrong husband—yet resigned to her milquetoast ways. But a call from a stranger will challenge Willa to put herself first.

When newly widowed Pival hears her son, Rahi cast out of the family for being gay , has died, she refuses to believe it. Hoping to locate him, she books a tour of the U.

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Pival sets out with struggling actress Rebecca and first-time guide Satya, a Bangladeshi immigrant, on a cross-country trip that will change them all. In The Strange Case of Dr. Couney , journalist Dawn Raffel explores the career of Martin Couney, a so-called doctor who saved thousands of preemies through his baby incubator sideshow at Coney Island in the first half of the 20th century.

With fantastic detail, Raffel brings to life this complicated pioneer. Khakpour has been sick for as long as she can remember. Having run away from home years ago, Amar is estranged from his conservative Indian parents when his sister announces her engagement— and her hope that the family can reunite for the wedding in California. Amar's homecoming will reopen old wounds for all. In A Place for Us , Fatima Farheen Mirza speaks to the roles religion and expectation play in a family and the clash of values between generations.

The stories of these three women will give readers a look into the tumultuous time during which they lived. Zac Hutchinson has grown up without a father, and his mother and grandfather keep stories about his dad mostly to themselves. This delightful debut novel follows the drama between the staff members at a DC-area Chinese restaurant. Through their complicated relationships and lifetime of love, Li explores the families we choose.

In her latest novel, Providence , Caroline Kepnes You puts a supernatural spin on suspense. When Jon Bronson is freed four years after being kidnapped, he has no memory of captivity. All he wants to do is reconnect with his soulmate, Chloe, and move on. But he soon discovers he has the power to kill people in an instant, putting everyone he knows in danger. This detective novel, love story, and thriller rolled into one explores the choices we make to protect the ones we love. What's the secret to happiness?

In Katie Williams's Tell the Machine Goodnight , the answer lies in the Apricity , a device that analyzes a person's saliva and makes recommendations find religion, adopt a dog. Apricity employee Pearl is baffled when her son refuses to use the machine, and she must reckon with his choice.

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