April 2013

Albert, Susan Wittig Widow's Tears Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles must solve the mystery behind the murder of her friend. China's investigation takes her to a haunted house and puts her in very real danger.

Archer, Jeffrey Best Kept Secret Harry and Emma finally have begun building a happy life – but a dangerous family enemy is about to resurface… a face from the past with grudges against both Harry and Emma's brother, Giles.

Atherton, Nancy Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince Lori Shepherd is dismayed when a silver sleigh figurine she recognizes from a museum exhibit shows up in her thrift shop. Aunt Dimity's otherworldly guidance helps her track down the real owner, a quest that leads from posh English country estates all the way back to the Russian Revolution.

Atkinson, Kate Life After Life On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.

Baldacci, David The Hit Will Robie's assignment is to kill a government assassin who has turned rogue. Robie begins to see that the rogue has a point, but he changes his mind when a loved one lands in the rogue's crosshairs.

Barnes, Linda The Perfect Ghost Painfully shy Em Moore mourns her biography-writing partner Teddy, killed in an accident, even as she continues the interviews for their next project that Teddy would have conducted. But something is not quite right between her subject – reclusive film director Garrett Malcolm – and a former star, and then Teddy's accident starts looking suspicious.

Berg, Elizabeth Tapestry of Fortunes Craving change, Cecilia Ross takes time off, disposes of her home, and moves into a grand old house in St. Paul with three roommates. The four women decide to take a road trip, one to connect with the daughter she gave up; another with a former husband; and a professional chef wants to check out other restaurants. As for Cecilia, that unexpected letter from a former heartthrob has her sailing on the wind.

Bradford, Barbara Taylor Secrets from the Past After her famed photographer father's death, American photojournalist Serena Stone returns to New York to write her father's biography. Alas, she must soon head to Europe to rescue a former lover, but as she nurses him back to health at the family home in France, she discovers a secret in her father's photographic archive that changes the course of her life.

Clark, Mary Higgins Daddy's Gone A Hunting Why did a family-owned furniture firm, including the mansion stocked with all those antiques, burst into flames in the middle of the night? What was CPA Kate Connelly doing there? Why was the trustworthy Gus, a retired employee, with her? And what's Kate's sister, fashion designer Hannah, to do now that Kate is in the hospital and Gus is dead?

Estleman, Loren Alive! L.A. film detective Valentino discovers the whereabouts of footage showing Bela Lugosi, the iconic screen Dracula, testing for Frankenstein (and it's supposed to be bad). Alas, someone out there would kill for that footage.

Fforde, Katie A Perfect Proposal Escaping her too presumptuous family, Sophie Apperly flees England for the Big Apple, where she's befriended by a generous high-society type with a handsome but decidedly distant grandson named Luke. Once Sophie is back in England, however, Luke does look her up while he's passing through.

French, Nicci Tuesday's Gone Frieda Klein is asked by Chief Inspector Karlsson to investigate when a social worker finds a client serving tea to a naked, decomposing corpse. When Frieda discovers that the victim is a notorious con man, she wonders whether someone is conniving to get her involved in a dangerous investigation – that could end with her death.

Graves, Sarah A Bat in the Belfry Jake Tiptree is readying her house for a predicted monster nor'easter, even as the town shoos out tourists and secures the 200-year-old Seaman's Church steeple. More trouble comes when the corpse of a local teen beauty queen is discovered in the belfry.

Gross, Andrew No Way Back Suburban mom Wendy Gould has "no way back"; off-the-rail feds want to shut her up forever after she's witnessed a murder at a hotel. She joins forces with Lauritzia Velez, a nanny in hiding until she can clear her name, and together they figure out some nasty business involving drug lords, arms dealers, and bad guys in the government.

Hannah, Kristin Fly Away In Kristin Hannah's novel Firefly Lane, women embraced the story of Tully and Kate's enduring friendship. They laughed with Tully and cried with Kate and anguished over Tully's fractured relationship with her mother. Now, five years later, in Fly Away, Hannah returns to the world of these unforgettable characters and asks the question… How do you hold yourself together when your world has fallen apart? Fly Away is the story of three women who have lost their way and need each other—plus a miracle—to transform their lives.

Hill, Joe NOS4A2 In a 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith whose license plate reads NOS4A2, Charles Talent Manx takes children on a terrifying ride out of the real world to an amusement park of sorts called Christmasland that mirrors his sick imagination. Finally, he's stopped by Victoria McQueen, who can find anything after riding her bike across a weather-beaten covered bridge that, inexplicably, takes her wherever she wants to go. Now, decades have passed, and Manx is rolling again – with Vic's son as his target.

Jackson, Lisa Ready to Die After the murders of five people in the community of Grizzly Falls, detectives Reagan Pescoli and Selena Alvarez head up the search for the killer, but they don't realize how personal and dangerous the case is going to be. Pescoli tracks the clues straight to a monster that has had her and Alvarez in his sights all along.

Johansen, Iris Taking Eve Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan's job is to bring closure to those who have lost loved ones. Now she's doing it for Jim Doane, whose 25-year-old son has vanished, leaving behind only a skull fragment. For reasons of his own, Jim can't go to the police, so he turns to Eve.

Kenyon, Sherrilyn Born of Fury Hauk is a fierce Andarion warrior, one of the five founding members of the Sentella. Sumi Antaxas is one of the League's surest assassins, newly assigned to execute Hauk. Then, carrying crucial information, Sumi's trapped by enemies – with Hauk's help as her only recourse.

Kerr, Philip A Man Without Breath German police detective Bernie, now a member of the War Crimes Bureau, is asked to investigate a mass gravesite in the Katyn Forest containing bodies of Polish army officers, bound and shot. The aim is to blame the Soviets, but Bernie suspects that he's the one on the line.

Keyes, Marian The Mystery of Mercy Close Floundering at her job, Helen has returned home to Mammy. Soon she's on a case that doesn't entirely thrill her; she's to find Wayne Diffney ("the Wacky One"), a member of Ireland's legendary 1990s boy band, Laddz; the other members (minus the "Talented One," long since decamped) are eager to launch a reunion tour.

Kinsella, Sophie Wedding Night When Lottie's old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. After a straight wedding march to the altar, the couple honeymoon on the Greek island where they first met. Not everyone is thrilled with the rushed marriage and they are determined to intervene. Will Lottie and Ben have a wedding night to remember?

Lovesey, Peter The Tooth Tattoo Detective Peter Diamond investigates when a dead woman is fished from the canal, the only means of identity is a musical note tattooed on one of her teeth.

Lowell, Elizabeth Dangerous Refuge Big-city cop Tanner and Shaye, who works for an environmental conservancy that acquires old ranches, meet up at the legendary Davis family ranch when Tanner returns to settle his uncle's estate. Shaye's preservation goals lead to conflict, but the two join forces to investigate the troublesome death of Tanner's uncle, and that leads to sparks.

Macomber, Debbie Starting Now Libby Morgan arrives at a fabulous place called A Good Yarn after the law job she's sacrificed everything for comes crashing down. Libby becomes close to Good Yarn owner Lydia, her teenage daughter, and the daughter's best friend and even has time to fall for the local doctor. Then she faces a tough decision.

Margolin, Phillip Sleight of Hand Charles Benedict, a criminal defense lawyer, amateur illusionist, and professional hit man, has framed a millionaire for the murder of his much younger wife. Private investigator Dana Cutler must conjure a few tricks of her own to expose Benedict's plot.

Michaels, Fern The Blossom Sisters After losing everything to his gold-digging wife, Gus must return to his feisty grandmother Rose's Virginia farmhouse. Rose and her sisters, Iris and Violet are running a lucrative Blossom Farm business and Gus must work to make amends with his family. He begins to repair the damage he has done while helping the residents of Blossom Farm begin the next phase of their business.

Parker, T. Jefferson The Famous and the Dead L.A. County sheriff's deputy Charlie Hood works undercover to stem the flow of arms across the border. Bradley Jones, son of Charlie's beloved Suzanne, a notorious L.A. outlaw now dead, is both a sheriff's deputy and an employee of the Baja Cartel. Then there's Mike Finnegan, who touches both men's lives and might be immortal.

Patterson, James 12th of Never On her next "Women's Murder Club" outing, Det. Lindsay Boxer must return to work directly after having a baby. An upcoming football player for the San Francisco 49ers has been accused of a particularly gruesome murder, and a dotty English professor is having nightmares about another gruesome murder that turns out actually to have happened.

Perry, Anne Midnight at Marble Arch Thomas Pitt has no jurisdiction over the rape and apparent suicide of Catherine Quixwood, wife of a rich banker, but he steps in quietly to help and must cross swords with some powerful men.

Poyer, David The Whiteness of the Whale The activists aboard the racing yacht Black Anemone are heading into Antarctic waters, intent on challenging a Japanese whaling fleet. Everyone aboard is shadowed by a dark secret, and they all pull together when they come upon a sperm whale with a temper to challenge Moby Dick's.

Quick, Amanda The Mystery Woman Conjuring up the skills he once used as a spy for the Crown, Joshua North is hunting down his sister's blackmailer. At first he suspects Beatrice Lockwood, who's also being hunted by a scientist intent on resurrecting a dead lover with an ancient Egyptian formula for preserving dead bodies. Beatrice's special paranormal talents are needed to make the formula work. Soon, Joshua and Beatrice join forces, and these two cases connect in an explosive way.

Roberts, Nora Whiskey Beach Eli Landon and his wife had just about split when she's murdered and he's accused of the crime. He's not arrested, though, and takes refuge at Bluff House, the family home above rugged Whiskey Beach. There, housekeeper Abra Walsh – into yoga, jewelry
making, and massage therapy – would be helping him heal peacefully were it not for a secret from the past that someone is using to try and destroy his life.

Ross, Ann Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble Miss Julia and her neighborhood friends pitch in to help when Hazel Marie's housekeeper has a terrible tumble. The appearance of Hazel Marie's wastrel uncle spells trouble.

Rutherford, Edward Paris The novel starts in the Roman times, then sweeps along from the building of Notre Dame to the Hundred Years' War, the glories of Versailles, the Revolution, the Belle Epoque, the remarkable Twenties, and finally, World War II.

Scottoline, Lisa Don't Go Dr. Mike Scanlon's life is in chaos. Returning home from service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in a freak accident, he finds that his medical practice has all but collapsed and that he hardly knows his baby daughter. Then he learns an ugly secret that sends him back to Afghanistan, at least until he comes to his senses and fights to retrieve his daughter, his life, and the truth.

Sheldon, Sidney & Tilly Bagshawe The Tides of Memory The De Vere family, whose members glide gracefully among grand homes in London, Oxfordshire and on Martha's Vineyard, soon see old family hatreds and the indiscretions of youth come damagingly to the fore.

Snelling, Lauraine A Place to Belong After a train trip to a shooting competition, Cassie Lockwood realizes that she is not missing her fiancé Lucas, but instead finds herself dreaming of Ransom Engstrom. Lucas begins having feeling for another woman while Ransom discovers that he cares for Cassie but can't bring himself to express his true feelings to her.

Willig, Lauren The Ashford Affair Almost a partner at a prestigious New York law firm but discontented, Clementine Evans attends grandmother Addie's 99th birthday party and becomes intrigued with Addie's stories of growing up in England with her aristocratic aunt and uncle.

Wolitzer, Meg The Interestings Six adults who met as teenagers at a summer camp for the arts navigate their way through adulthood. While creativity is often rewarded at age fifteen, it is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty. The friends must give up their artistic dreams to make a living, with the exception of two, Ethan and Ash, who have become very successful.

Woods, Stuart Unintended Consequences Stone Barrington wakes up in a hospital in Paris with no idea what happened to him and no memory of the previous four days. His clue hunting starts with a dinner invitation from a mysterious woman.

May 2013

Atkins, Ace Robert B. Parker's Wonderland Spenser and apprentice Zebulon Sixkill help Henry Cimoli, Spenser's old boxing trainer, when he's pressured by thugs to sell his condo. Seems that someone wants to develop some oceanfront land north of Boston – the land where the old
Wonderland dog track once stood – to make way for a casino.

Brown, Dan Inferno In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces… Dante's Inferno. Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science.

Coonts, Stephen Pirate Alley After Somali pirates capture a cruise ship, things go from bad to worse. A rescue attempt fails bloodily, a $200 million ransom must be paid or the hostages will be slaughtered. Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini discover that the hostages might be
slaughtered anyway to provoke an all-out attack by America that will set the Islamic world on fire.

Cussler, Clive Zero Hour It is called zero point energy - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however—until one scientist discovers a way. The problem is that his machines also cause great earthquakes. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren't able to find and destroy them, the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism.

Dietrich, William The Barbed Crown Adventurer, treasure hunter, ladies' man, spy: American expatriate Ethan Gage is all those things and a supporter of Napoleon to boot – until the emperor kidnaps his son and nearly gets his wife killed. Now Ethan is out to stop Napoleon's grand ambitions, starting with a plot to replace the crown with the Crown of Thorns at Napoleon's coronation and moving right along to the crucial Battle of Trafalgar.

Evans, Richard Paul A Step of Faith Having lost his wife, his business, and his home, Alan Christoffersen determines to heal by launching on a cross-country journey that will take him from Seattle to Key West. So far, this journey has taken him through three "Walk" books: The Walk, Miles to Go, and Road to Grace. Now, however, the walk may be in danger.

Feehan, Christine Leopard's Prey New Orleans bayou cop Remy Boudreux has a special gift, the ability to shift into a leopard. A serial killer is loose, snatching victims from the French Quarter with pitiless rage and unnatural efficiency. While Remy is investigating the serial killer, he meets a beautiful and seductive jazz singer who is as mysterious as her songs. And as their passions swell, his keen instinct for survival will be challenged like never before. By a killer – and by a woman.

Feist, Raymond Magician's End Feist here wraps up the Chaos Wars, climax of his Riftwar Cycle, begun with the novel Magician. That book recounted how the orphan Pug became a Master Magician. Now, to destroy the ultimate evil and save millions of lives, he'll have to make a huge sacrifice.

Fowler, Karen Joy We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and our narrator, Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I spent the first eighteen years of my life defined by this one fact: that I was raised with a chimpanzee," she tells us.

Godwin, Gail Flora Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work during the final months of World War II. Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories while Flora is determined to do her best for Helen. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.

Harris, Charlaine Dead Ever After There is a shocking murder in Bon Temps and Sookie Stackhouse is arrested for the crime. Evidence against Sookie is weak and she makes bails. Investing the killing, she'll learn that what passes for truth in Bon Temps is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough…

Hosseini, Khaled And the Mountains Echoed Hosseini's new novel explores how we love and care for others, particularly family members, and how choices we make can have long-term consequences not just for us but for those we hold dear.

Koontz, Dean Deeply Odd Odd Thomas, reluctant hero, is drawn once more into a strange encounter with the lingering dead. Intuition compels Odd to attend the Eventide Festival, where thousands gather every year for three days and nights to celebrate the outr. As Odd finds himself among nihilistic celebrants with sinister intentions, Eventide Festival proves to be a little bit Woodstock and a lot of Hell.

Le Carré, John A Delicate Truth A top-secret counterterrorist operation codenamed Wildlife launched in 2008 on the British Crown colony of Gibraltar. The intention of Wildlife is abducting a jihadist arms buyer, but it may have gone badly awry. That's what Toby Bell, the foreign office
minister's private secretary, is trying to determine three years later as he weighs duty against conscience.

Lescroart, John The Ophelia Cut Dismas Hardy and Moses McGuire have been friends since fighting together in Vietnam; their daughters are first cousins. Now Moses' daughter, Brittany, has been raped by an obsessive ex-boyfriend, and Moses is charged with murder when the boyfriend turns up dead. Dismas is defending him but worries that an unstable Moses will spill the beans about a dark secret they share.

Morrell, David Murder as a Fine Art Thomas De Quincey is the prime suspect in a series of horrific murders that paralyze London. The killer seems to be imitating De Quincey's true-crime essay. Desperate to prevent more atrocities but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his brilliant daughter, Emily, and two Scotland Yard detectives.

Mosley, Walter Little Green Easy Rawlins is back (almost literally from the dead after the car wreck that ended Blonde Faith, his last outing) and cruising the hippified streets of the Sunset Strip circa 1967, in search of a young black man who has gone missing – and maybe of his own rebirth.

Roby, Kimberla Lawson A House Divided Charlotte and Curtis Black's son, Matthew, is expecting a baby with girlfriend Raquel, but antagonism between the two grandmother's-to-be causes Raquel to go into early labor.

Rose, M.J. Seduction When Victor Hugo's 19-year-old daughter drowned in 1843, Hugo sought to contact her through séances and claimed that in the process he chatted with Plato, Shakespeare, Jesus, and others whose comments he transcribed and published – but for one, the mysterious Shadow of the Sepulcher. Now Jac L'Etoile is hunting for the transcript of that conversation.

Sandford, John Silken Prey Lucas Davenport is back, investigating the disappearance of a political fixer who we know has been carted off by two particularly nasty thugs sometime in the night. Clues point to the Minneapolis police force and one breathtakingly manipulative woman.

Shaara, Jeff A Chain of Thunder Continuing the trilogy that began with A Blaze of Glory, Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. The action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted "Gibraltar of the Confederacy," a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general – and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.

June 2013

Andrews, Mary Kay Ladies' Night When hot new media star Grace Stanton wreaks revenge on her cheating husband by gear-shifting his sports car into the swimming pool, she loses everything – McMansion, bank account, and even access to her lifestyle blog. But she gains fast friends when she attends court-mandated therapy sessions, as she and three other women in the sessions eventually dump the therapist and meet regularly for "Ladies' Night" at her mother's funky beachside bar.

Berry, Steve The King's Deception Cotton Malone is heading to Europe with his 15-year-old son Gary. Cotton has agreed to assist the Justice Department by escorting a teenage fugitive back to London. There, with both teenagers having vanished, he finds himself in the midst of international intrigue. To stop the British from releasing the Libyan terrorist convicted of bombing Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, the CIA is digging up evidence dating back to the Tudors that challenges Britain's legal hold on Northern Ireland.

Burke, Alafair If You Were Here When magazine journalist McKenna Wright sees the video of an unidentified woman who rescued a teenager from the subway tracks, she believes that the woman is Susan Hauptmann, a friend who vanished ten years ago. Why did Susan leave, and is she angling to be found?

Castillo, Linda Her Last Breath A speeding car hits and kills an Amish father and two of his children. He leaves behind his young son, who had also been in the accident and is in the intensive care wing of a hospital and unable to communicate, and a grieving widow. What at first seems like a tragic accident, suddenly takes on a more sinister cast as evidence emerges that nothing about the crash is accidental. Desperate to find out who killed her best friend's husband, Kate begins to suspect that she is on the trail of a cold blooded killer.

Cook, Claire Time Flies Melanie, a recently separated woman, faces her highway driving phobia and takes a road trip with her best friend to their high school reunion.

Deaver, Jeffery The Kill Room A man known to have strong anti-American sympathies was assassinated by the U.S. government. New Yorkassistant district attorney, Nance Laurel, unwilling to let the government get away with ignoring the rule of law, brings a criminal case against the director of the National Intelligence and Operations Service and the sniper. The director of NIOS sends one of the eeriest villains in recent fiction, Jacob Swann, to eliminate witnesses with his favorite "companion," a unique and deadly knife.

Dekker, Ted Sovereign Nine years after Rom Sebastian was thrust into the most unlikely of circumstances as hero and bearer of an unimaginable secret, the alliance of his followers is in disarray. An epic battle with The Order has left them scattered and divided. Only 49 true followers remain and they must fight for survival as The Order is focused on their total annihilation.

Delinsky, Barbara Sweet Salt Air When travel writer Nicole heads back to the island house where her family always summered, she decides to invite Charlotte, a childhood friend who often joined her at the house but from whom she's grown apart. The gregarious Charlotte, a food blogger, could help with the book Nicole is planning about the island's cuisine. But both women harbor secrets that could wreck the relationship forever.

Evanovich, Janet & Lee Goldberg The Heist What's an FBI agent to do after she's caught the world's most wanted – and irresistibly charming – con man? Partner up with him.

Frank, Dorothea Benton The Last Original Wife Leslie Anne Greene Carter is the only first wife among her husband's friends, all of whom have moved on to perky second marriages. She's proud of her secure if not scintillating situation until, when out golfing with the crowd, she falls into a manhole and no one notices she's missing. Thereafter, Leslie Anne determines to rouse her inner sexy goddess and take South Carolina's white-sand beaches by storm.

Gardiner, Meg The Shadow Tracer Single mother Sarah Keller makes a living by tracking down folks on the run from debt or prison. But maybe she's on the run herself; after her five-year-old, Zoe, is in a school but accident, tests show that she's not the daughter of Sarah but of Sarah's sister, Beth who was murdered. Now Sarah has a lot to prove.

Hiaasen, Carl Bad Monkey Former Miami police officer Andrew Yancy—now of the Key West Police, but for how long?—has a frozen arm in his refrigerator. He really doesn't believe the shark-snack explanation he's been fed about this particular situation and is out to prove murder. But first he must deal with the anxious widow, a voodoo witch, nasty real estate developers, and the Bad Monkey of the title.

Hilderbrand, Elin Beautiful Day At a wedding on Nantucket uniting the Carmichael and Graham families, plans are proceeding according to instructions left by the bride's late mother. Husband and wife to be are very happy, but everyone around them is coming apart at the seams.

Hoag, Tami The 9th Girl The ninth unidentified body to turn up in Minneapolis in 2012 is nicknamed Jane Doe 9. Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska take on the case and discover a shocking fact: This victim has been found without any identifiable characteristics. The detectives dive deep into the life and death of a teenage girl who wanted nothing more than to be "normal." They will learn about the bullies who tormented her, the twisted dynamics in her family, and the haunting details of a young love that just may hide the secret of Jane Doe 9's terrible fate.

Jackson, Lisa Tell Me The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, Blondell was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter and wounding her two other children. The prosecution said that beautiful, selfish Blondell wanted to be rid of them to be with her lover. Now Blondell's son has recanted his testimony and demolished the case. Reporter Nikki Gillette is determined to get the true story.

King, Stephen Joyland Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

Lindsey, Johanna One Heart to Win Tiffany Warren must travel to meet her estranged father and marry his enemy's eldest son, Hunter Callahan, in order to end a feud. Instead, Tiffany assumes the identity of her father's new housekeeper so she can live with the father she never knew and assess his true character, as well as the cowboy to whom she is betrothed. Tiffany's charade does not go as planned and she still ends up in the enemy camp and under the same roof as her fiancé.

McCall Smith, Alexander Trains and Lovers Four strangers sitting on a train tell stories about love that manage to weave together.

Mead, Richelle Gameboard of the Gods Justin March is living on the margins, having blown his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. But he's given a reprieve and dragged back to the Republic of United North America by top-tier soldier Mae Koskinen, who wants his help in solving a spiraling number of ritualistic murders.

Michaels, Fern Classified

Palmer, Diana Protector Hayes Carson is a lawman investigating who killed his brother. He is convinced that the mysterious and beautiful Minette Raynor was involved in giving his brother the drugs that killed him. Minette, an undercover DEA agent, can't get Hayes off her mind, or off her back. His investigation of her is a nuisance until she finds herself in great danger…and Hayes is the only one who can save her.

Patterson, James Second Honeymoon A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite--and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear that someone is targeting honeymooners, and it's anyone's guess which happy couple is next on the list. FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into solving the case, while Special Agent Sarah Brubaker is hunting another ingenious serial killer, whose victims all have one chilling thing in common.

Pearson, Ridley Choke Point When an award-winning foreign journalist reveals the existence of an Amsterdam-based sweatshop known as "knot shop" that employs and enslaves young girls as laborers, private security firm Rutherford Risk is hired by a philanthropist to find it and shut it down.

Rollins, James The Eye of God It's bad enough that a U.S. military research satellite sent skyward to study dark energy has crashed somewhere along the border between China and Mongolia. What's scarier is that its last projected image was a view of America's East Coast in utter, flaming ruin. Then there's the package sent to the head of Pontifical studies at the Vatican containing a skull and a book bound in human skin. Soon Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma have joined with two Vatican scholars to uncover a secret, tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, that goes to the heart of Christianity.

Sefton, Maggie Close Knit Killer Years ago Jared Rizzoli, a former financial advisor, operated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded countless Fort Conner residents – including Barbara, a knitter at the House of Lambspun. When Jared is found dead in his car outside of Lambspun, Barbara becomes the prime suspect. To save her, the knitting community needs to sort through a long list of suspects to pin the crime on the true killer.

Stevens, Taylor The Doll Information specialist Vanessa Munroe is kidnapped by a human trafficking ring to transport a high-profile starlet. She's prepared to destroy those responsible – until she discovers that to save one life, she will condemn the person she loves most.

Thayer, Nancy Island Girls When Rory Randall dies, his three daughters from three different marriages are set to inherit his Nantucket mansion—but only if they can live there peaceably for a summer. Distrustful TV show host Arden, not-in-this-world academic Meg, and IT specialist Jenny haven't been exactly sisterly, but now's their chance.

Walls, Jeannette The Silver Star Two sisters, "Bean" and Liz Holladay, wind up in a crumbling antebellum mansion in Virginia with widowed Uncle Tinsley when their footloose artistic mother vanishes from their California home. Twelve-year-old Bean looks up to assured and inventive big sister Liz, but it's Liz who stumbles when they enroll at their new school and finally runs into some very adult trouble.

Weisberger, Lauren Revenge Wears Prada Readers everywhere cheered when Andrea "Andy" Sachs turned her back on Runway magazine's claws-and-all high priestess, Miranda Priestly, the boiling hot center of Weisburger's huge hit, The Devil Wears Prada. They'll cheer when they learn in this sequel that Andy is getting married and that she and Emily, another of Miranda's victims, er, assistants, have set up their own high-fashion bridal magazine, Plunge. But visions of Miranda still haunt Andy, and as Plunge ramps up there's every good chance she will encounter Miranda again.