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| Title | ISBN | Review Snippet |
| Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner | 978-0-553-80433-1 | This mystery sounds eerily family. It's the story of a small town in Georgia near Atlanta where young girls are going missing. The crimes |
| Last Kiss by Luanne Rice | 978-0-553-80512-3 | In Luanne Rice's latest book "Last Kiss", we return to Hubbard's Point, Connecticut where country singer Shreidan Rosslare has hidden herself |
| In this Rain by S.J. Rozan | 978-0-385-33924-7 | Joe Cole was a man sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. He was a building inspector who was blamed for an accident in which a child |
| Mercenary (Starship, Book 3) by Mike Resnick | 978-1-59102-599-3 | Being a sucker for swashbucklers and a long-time science-fiction fan, I've been reading this series with a sense of guilty pleasure. The plot |
| Killswitch: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel by Joel Shepherd | 978-1-59102-598-6 | Killswitch is the third title in the Cassandra Kresnov series by Joel Shepherd. Its a twist on the crumbling galactic empire theme, featuring |
| Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper | 978-0-553-80484-3 | Noah Bishop and his FBI Special Crimes Unit are tracking a particularly ruthless serial killer whose latest victim is the daughter of a US senator. |
| The Wrath Of Zar (The Demons of Destiny) by Shayne Easson | 0-9789840-1-3 | Adan Cayne is desparately searching for his missing brother after learning many secrets about his father. Meanwhile, there's evil afoot in |
| The Betrayal Game by David L. Robbins | 978-0-553-80442-3 | David Robbins takes us back almost 50 years to the CIAs ill-conceived attempt to assasinate Cuban president Fidel Castro with his own vision |
| The Purrfect Murder by Rita Mae Brown | 978-0-553-80365-5 | Our favorite feline sleuth Mrs. Murphy is back with her human Mary "Harry" Haristeen, the Jessica Fletcher of Cozet, Virginia - except that |
| Puss 'n Cahoots: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery by Rita Mae Brown | 978-0-553-58682-4 | Bantam reprints this popular Mrs. Murphy mystery in paperback form. While at a horseshow with cats in tow, newlyweds Harry and Fair Haristeen, |
| The Alibi Man by Tami Hoag | 978-0-553-58360-1 | Popular mystery writer Tami Hoag gives us another excellent mystery with unofficial (ie. unlicensed) P.I. Elena Estes, the former undercover |
| The Night Following by Morag Joss | 978-0-385-34118-9 | The quiet, unassuming wife of a middle-aged anesthetist has discovered that her husband is having an affair. It happens one day when she finds |
| Immortal by Traci L. Slatton | 978-0-385-33974-2 | This is a mystical tale of a boy born in the 14th century near the beginning of the Rennaisance in Florence Italy who posesses an innate beauty |
| A Flaw in the Blood by Stephanie Barron | 978-0-553-80524-6 | Another entry in the recent stream of historical novels comes in the form of this Victorian-era mystery. Irish barrister Patrick Fitzgerald |
| Selling Out by Justina Robson | 978-1-59102-597-9 | Here's a treat for the Fantasy/Sci-Fi fans. Its the second book in the Quantam Gravity series by Justina Robson. Our cyborg secret agent hero |
| Black's Beach Shuffle by Corey Lynn Fayman | 0-595-40267-4 | Poor Rolly Waters is one of those people who never really caught on in life. He's still trying to make it as a guitar player with a rock-and-roll |
| The Book of Old Houses by Sarah Graves | 978-0-553-80430-0 | We welcome back Jacobia 'Jake' Tiptree in this 11th installment in the series of "Home Repair Is Homicide" mysteries. This time out, Jake discovers |
| The Banana Shooter II by Dick DeBold | 978-0-9776556-7-0 | Few Americans realize how often the United States intervened in Central and South America during the early 1900s. Following the era of the Mexican-American |
| Touchstone by Laurie R. King | 978-0-553-80355-6 | In this everything-old-is-new-again historical novel, we're in London in the mid-1920's. An American agent, Harris Stuyvesant, is searching |
| The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone | 978-0-385-34134-9 | Noted historian Lawrence Goldstone gives us a historical novel set in Philidelphia in 1889. Young Dr. Ephraim Carroll is appalled when his new |
| Life's Golden Ticket: An Inspirational Novel by Brendon Burchard | 978-0-06-117390-5 | Referred to as an "inspirational novel", Brendon Burchard presents a fantasy that many of us share - the chance to start life over again. Folded |
| Resurrection by Tucker Malarkey | 978-1-59448-254-0 | Young Gemma Bastian has travelled to Egypt to take care of the remains of her father who was recently found dead. There she meets David Lazar, |
| The Indian Bride by Karin Fossum | 978-0-15-101182-7 | "The Indian Bride" brings us a new episode in the Inspector Sejer series by Karin Fossum. It's 1955 and Gundar Joman is a 51 year-old man from |
| Secret Asset by Stella Rimington | 978-1-4000-4395-8 | MI-5 Agent Liz Carlyle returns in this new thriller from Stella Rimmington. On her return from convalescing from her previous case, Carlyle |
| Ruby Tuesday: An Eddie Dancer Mystery by Mike Harrison | 978-1-55022-792-5 | Canadian Private Eye Eddie Dancer is back in this third novel of the series. It's a tale of a man who's decided to find a better way to end |
| Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay | 978-0-385-51833-8 | Dexter Morgan is a serial killer. Naturally, American TV network Showtime thought he'd make a great television series. And he did. He works |
| The Senator and the Sin Eater by William J. Buchanan | 978-0-8263-3894-5 | The last mystery by William Buchanan, "The Senator And The Sin Eater" takes us to The Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia and a story about |
| The Winged and Garlanded Nike by S. G. Scott | 978-1-58790-143-0 | The small California town of Fernville in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains was the beneficiary of the Defence Department's spending |
| The Martian General's Daughter by Theodore Judson | 978-1-59102-643-3 | We find ourselves two centuries in the future when a nanotech plague threatens the technology that supports the great Pan-Polarian Empire. |
| The Bible of Clay by Julia Navarro | 978-0-385-33963-6 | Julia Navarro's new novel takes place in Iraq shortly before the first Gulf War. Iraqi archeologist Clara Tannenberg has discovered two tablets |
| Tug of War by Barbara Cleverly | 978-0-385-34183-7 | The France of 1926 is still recovering from the War when Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands takes his vacation and is sent to France to |
| The Crystal Skull by Manda Scott | 978-0-385-34010-6 | Cambridge scholar Stella Cody and Kit O'Connor are two newlyweds whose honeymoon treat to each other is exploring a cave for the lost Crystal |
| Barrington Street Blues by Anne Emery | 978-1-55022-813-7 | Here's a whodunit fan's whodunit. What looked at first like a murder-suicide may, in fact, be a double murder. Corey Leaman had recently been |
| A World Too Near by Kay Kenyon | 978-1-59102-642-6 | In the second book of the Entire series by Kay Kenyon, star pilot Titus Quinn finds himself in another quandary as he desperately seeks to destroy |
| MultiReal by David Louis Edelman | 978-1-59102647-1 | This is the second book in the "Jump 225" trilogy by Dvid Louis Edelman. Following his victory over the Defense and Wellness Council for control |
| Fractured by Karin Slaughter | 978-0-385-34195-0 | Karin Slaughter's latest mystery featuring FBI Agent Will Trent is a delicious thriller set in a wealthy Atlanta neighborhood. Abigail Campano |
| The Garden of Evil by David Hewson | 978-0-385-33957-5 | Set in modern Italy, this new thriller begins when police find two bodies in an artist's studio in Rome where an eerie painting by Caravaggio |
| Son of Man by Robert Silverberg | 978-1-59102-646-4 | Robert Silverberg proves once again that his imagination remains unmatched in science fiction. "Son of Man" tells the tale of a man named Clay |
| Stalking the Unicorn: A Fable of Tonight by Mike Resnick | 978-1-59102-648-8 | P.I. John Justin Mallory is a throwback to the noir detectives we all love. He's had a bad year, which exmplains why he's pouring one burbon |
| The Black Path by Asa Larsson | 978-0-385-34101-1 | Swedish attorney Rebecka Martisson is back, investigating the case of a woman found murdered on a frozen lakebed. Drawn into the case by Inspector |
| Fractured by Karin Slaughter | 978-0-385-34195-0 | In this engaging thriller, Karin Slaughter brings back Abigail Campano, whose posh life in an exclusive Atlanta neighborhood is once again thrust |
| Fade Away by Harlan Coben | 978-0-385-34250-6 | This re-release of the third in the Myron Bolitar series finds the sports agent and former FBI Agent drawn back into the world of basketball. |
| Nothing to Lose by Lee Child | 978-0-385-34056-4 | In the latest from author Lee Child, Jack Reacher is on a sort of hitchhiking trip across America. Near the midpoint in Colorado, he comes |
| Stalking the Vampire by Mike Resnick | 978-1-59102-649-5 | In the latest of the John Justin Mallory series by Mike Resnick, we're treated to a festival of the supernatural. It's Halloween night in an |
| The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti | 978-0-385-33745-8 | We meet young Ren in St. Anthony's Orphanage in 19th Century New England. His left hand had been cut off before he was left at the orphanage |
| The Swap by Antony Moore | 978-0-385-34234-6 | Harvey Briscow owns a comic book shop in London. To his lasting regret, 20 years ago he traded a copy of the first issue of the Superman comic |
| Scared to Live by Stephen Booth | 978-0-385-33907-0 | British mystery writer Stephen Booth's latest novel features the return of DC Ben Cooper and his partner DS Diane Fry. Fry is looking into |
| Red Hook: An Artie Cohen Mystery by Reggie Nadelson | 978-0-8027-1638-5 | Scrappy Russian-American New York detective Artie Cohen is back. Having just married Maxine Crabbe, Artie and his bride are planning their honeymoon |
| Out of Calabria by Peter Chiarella | 142514218-4 | "Out of Calabria" is the story of a prominent family in the Calabria area of Italy (the toe of the penninsula), several of whom emigrated to |
| The Stormcaller: Book One of the Twilight Reign by Tom Lloyd | 978-1-59102-693-8 | "Stormcaller" is a fantasy tale of a world of powerful gods and a man named Isak who was born with powers of his own. Such men are called "white |
| Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay | 978-0-553-80556-7 | In a classic "wrong place at the wrong time", young Derek Cutter was excited when he concocted a plan to "borrow" his neighbor's house while |
| The Darker Side by Cody McFadyen | 978-0-553-80694-6 | In this third mystery from Cody McFadyen to feature FBI Agent Smoky Barrett, the world of politics comes crashing down on Smoky when she's assigned |
| Company of Liars by Karen Maitland | 978-0-385-34169-1 | It's the 14th Century and Europe is in the grips of The Black Plague. Nine strangers travel together on England's country roads seeking to |
| Bright Hair About the Bone by Barbara Cleverly | 978-0-385-33989-6 | Our heroine and budding archaeologist Laetitia Talbot is in the middle of another sterling mystery. Laetitia is stunned when her godfather, |
| Past Caring by Robert Goddard | 978-0-385-34117-2 | A very Brittish mystery novel by Robert Goddard set in the late 1970's, "Past Caring" tells the story of Martin Redford, a divorced former teacher |
| The Vansellars: Story of a New York Family by Chris Durer | 978-1-57197-491-4 | The history of the Vansellar family in America dates back to the days when New York was still called New Amsterdam. Chris Duer's third novel |
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