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The Experiment
In an isolated laboratory, a test subject discovers a human corpse with its heart removed... In New York City, a journalist investigates a homicide victim with its face and fingerprints removed... Drawn together by medicine and murder, these two men are about to make a discovery that will change everything they think about science, nature, and themselves... They share the same face. "Thrills and Haunts."-Patricia Cornwell "One of the summer's scariest novels." -New York Daily News "As compelling as Robert B. Parker's Spenser or Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta...complex and original...absorbing."-New York Times "A Roaring...X-Files-Like Tale."-Talk "Thrilling."-John Sandford "Chilling."-People "Relentless." -Houston Chronicle "Timely."-Publishers Weekly "Harrowing."-Rocky Mountain News "Satisfying."-Entertainment Weekly "You've Got To Read It."-Library Journal (Hot Picks) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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Punish the Sinners
Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined in the flames of the burning stake. Neilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School -- something evil. In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the two... while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has supernatural force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned to... Punish The Sinners.
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Double Exposure
Television critic Hoe McBride's personal life has crumbled overnight into ruin. Now, through the kitchen window of his darkened apartment, he sees a beautiful, enticing stranger in a neighboring apartment--caught in a provocative pose. And she is watching him back. Hoe is drawn into her world, and becomes a lead player in a deadly ddrama that threatens to devastate his future.
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Some Bitter Taste
Magdalen Nabb's latest in her acclaimed series of Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries. Nabb does for Florence what Donna Leon does for Venice, showing us the murky realities behind the stunning tourist exteriors. When it comes to motives for crime, the past can never be forgotten. Sara Hirsch is a nervous elderly spinster who still lives in the flat above a long-standing Florentine antiquities shop in which she was raised. Frightened, she calls Marshal Guarnaccia for help, sure that strangers have been in her apartment. The marshal knows she is a lonely old woman but he is preoccupied with an investigation into an Albanian prostitution ring. Before he can respond to her latest alarm, she is found dead. The marshal's search for the villains who precipitated her death brings him into confrontation with the past, with Jewish refugees from fascism, and with English expatriates, including the ailing heir to the elegant Villa L'Uliveto, Sir Christopher Wrothesly-
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Burning Angel
Helping the Fontenot family of sharecroppers from being forced away from their longtime home, detective Dave Robicheaux discovers a link between the eviction and the murder of a New Orleans fixer's girlfriend. Reprint. Tour. PW.
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Purity
Ex-model Amy has her own radio show with a popular phone-in slot. When two prostitutes are murdered after a caller has admitted to fantasies of rape, Amy begins to suspect that the man she loves, who lives beneath her flat, may be a murderer. A call to her program informs her that she is next.
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The Bookman's Promise
This "New York Times" bestselling installment of Dunning's series finds Denver homicide detective-turned-bookseller Cliff Janeway searching for a fabulous lost library of books by 19th-century British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton.
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The Piper's Sons
A stunning fiction debut--both a shocking thriller and a complex novel of the bond between fathers and sons. What would you do if you discovered you were adopted...and that your biological father was a serial killer? Paul Sinclair's real father is the Pied Piper, a mass murderer never caught but presumed dead. Now, decades after his disappearance, it seems the Piper is back...and has a new, even more chilling agenda, an agenda that draws him closer to Paul, to Paul's wife, Ellie, and to their son, Michael. Events unfold quickly and Paul becomes caught up in something far beyond his control. Ellie sees his increasingly erratic behavior as obsessive and dangerous, and even Paul starts to doubt himself. All of the threads of the novel come together in the unforgettable final struggle between hunter and hunted on the wreck of a World War II freighter run aground on an island north of Seattle. Terrifying and inventive, The Piper's Sons breaks new ground in psychological suspense. "[A] terrific debut...A brooding, unsettling thriller." --Stephen White, author of Manner of Death "You'll be up all night unearthing the secrets buried in The Piper's Sons, and Fergusson makes the digging a pleasure...A powerful debut that will stay with you long after you close the book." --Greg Iles, author of Mortal Fear
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One Last Kiss
The papers dubbed beautiful Thea Harper Westport a Black Widow. They said she lured Senator Simon Gallatin to her home for a night of deadly passion. But psychiatrists insisted it was a short circuit of the mind, a rare seizure disorder, that had unleashed Thea's murderous rage. Now, even after the trial, the gruesome testimony of detectives and forensic specialists, Thea can't remember the terrifying moment when she struck Simon down . . . only its hideous aftermath: the torrent of blood, the broken corpse, the cold steel bite of the handcuffs as the police led her away. After six months in a posh Connecticut mental hospital, Thea is back home with her daughter, eager to make a new start. If only the community would let her forget . . . if only the chief of police wasn't after her . . . if only the senator's mother wasn't vowing revenge. And if only Thea could be sure she's really been cured. For soon the killing begins again. And once more Thea can't remember . . . even when she wakes up with her hands stained with blood.
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Santa Baby
Four of romances hottest writers capture the joy, hope, and heartwarming hilarity that only Christmas can bring in this collection of short stories. Includes Lisa Jacksons "A Baby for Christmas," Elaine Coffmans "Under the Mistletoe," Kylie Adamss "Holiday Stud," and Lisa Plumleys "Merry, Merry Mischief." Reissue.
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Act of Violence
The market town of Mickleburgh has successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations, but the casual murder of a man trying to prevent vandalism shatters the perfect veneer. The aftermath of the violent death produces unexpected reactions between partners and friends.
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Rafa: My Story
No tennis player since Andre Agassi has captivated the world like Rafael Nadal. He's a rarity in today's sporting arena - a true sportsman who chooses to let his raw talent, dedication and humility define him. This autobiography, written by Nadal with award-winning journalist John Carlin, includes memorable highlights such as winning the Wimbledon 2008 final in what John McEnroe called, ''the greatest game of tennis ever played'' and completing a career Grand Slam after winning the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open in 2010.? This book gives Nadal's millions of fans what they've been waiting for - a glimpse behind the racquet to learn what really makes Nadal - an intensely private person who until now has never talked about his personal and family life – tick.
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The Devil's Halo
As a contract agent of the CIA Café, the agency's black-budget Contract Agents for Economics, Terry Weston played a clandestine game of espionage against the spy services of Europe in which nobody got badly hurt. But the game becomes deadly for Terry, his wife Maria and their six-year-old daughter when old allies turn into bitter enemies. The Europe where Americans once vacationed is fading from memory. Germany is bankrupt, NATO dissolved. A supersized Greater European Union, led by France and Russia, engages in political brinksmanship to American power. The new leaders of Europe are obsessed with 'the American problem,' that Europe still plays a global #2 to the U.S. Even in space, the new frontier, the Pentagon plans to deploy a Space Shield that will give the U.S. military this high ground. But the DGSE spy service has developed a technology solution. Elegant. Mathematical. Devastating. It will make Europe #1 in space, and reduce the U.S. military into a fighting force that will have to fight with its fists. Only Terry and Maria can penetrate deep into enemy territory to prevent a stunningly cynical act of sabotage from ending America's days as a superpower. But old friends and even family members can no longer be trusted, as the two great rivals of the 21st century head for a conflict as inevitable as tomorrow's headlines.