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Hammond Aerospace’s executives are on retreat, as far away from cell phones and Blackberrys as they can get at an exclusive wilderness lodge on an isolated stretch of coastline.  When the power players are taken hostage for the largest ransom in history, only an uninvited junior executive, standing in for his boss, has the skills learned in his shady past to save them all.  This is a nonstop, high-stakes, heart-stopping thriller. 

The fictional alter egos of country superstars Brooks & Dunn spring to life in this novel.  It seems no matter where Slim (Ronnie Dunn) and Howdy (Kix Brooks) travel, trouble finds them.  Whether it’s turning the tables on a crooked card shark who takes everything they have or fending off the raging boyfriend of that friendly gal from last night, the guys are constantly needing to outwit the world.  Clever, sharp and funny, this novel will take readers into the imaginative setting where Brooks & Dunn’s songs are born. 

Summertime has arrived in Lake Eden and Hannah is helping her business partner, Lisa, get ready for a big family reunion, but when long lost Uncle Gus is found dead with two pieces of carrot cake beside him, it’ll be Hannah who has to sift through the suspects and find the killer.

In 1989, Ken Follett published a sweeping epic novel to great critical acclaim that was set in twelfth-century England and centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected.  Now there’s a sequel.  World Without End takes place in the same town two centuries after the townspeople finished building the Gothic cathedral at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth.  The men and women of that town find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas – about medicine, commerce, architecture and justice.  In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race – the Black Death.

Rima Lanisell is a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer.  She has come to Santa Cruz at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima’s father well – perhaps too well.  Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.  Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty and over the years, has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive.  Wit’s End is many things – a quest novel of a young woman in search of the truth about her dead father’s past, a mystery involving a long-ago murder in which her father may have been complicit, and a game that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate truth from fiction.

Meg Gardner is an author that Stephen King compares to Sue Grafton, Lee Child, and Michael Connelly! Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is hired by the SFPD to do psychological autopsies on a recent string of high profile murder/suicide victims, shedding light on the circumstances of any equivocal death. But soon Jo makes a shocking discovery - all of the suicides  belonged to the Dirty Secrets Club, a group of A-listers with plenty of money and secrets to hide. As the deaths continue to mount up, Jo delves into the motives behind the group until she receives a letter containing a dark secret she thought she’d left in the past and ending with the chilling words: “Welcome to the Dirty Secrets Club.”

After the senseless murders of both his wife and unborn child, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley turned in his badge and walked away from Scotland Yard. Returning to his family home, he has spent weeks hiking the trails of the Cornish coast, trying to deal with his grief. On a lonely stretch of coastline Lynley discovers the dead body of a young man and so begins a quest to catch a killer. But this time, Lynley’s not in charge; he’s a witness and possibly a suspect. The local detective in charge of the case soon realizes that Lynley can help in the investigation, as does Scotland Yard who sends Barbara Havers, ostensibly to assist on the case, but unofficially to check on Lynley and possibly bring him back to the Yard. This is the novel Elizabeth George fans have been waiting for her to write!

How else could we start the new year other than with Lee Goldberg? Yes, Lee returns with a new series based on the Monk T.V. show.  While Monk’s house is being fumigated, his assistant Natalie and her daughter are kind enough to welcome him into their home. Unfortunately, it’s not quite up to Monk’s standards. But as he tries to get his surroundings straightened out, he also needs to straighten out the mystery of the death of a dog at a local firehouse that occurs on the same night as a fatal house fire. And, much to his horror, Monk will have to dig through a lot of dirt to find answers.

Monk has followed his assistant Natalie on her vacation to Hawaii – she’s not too thrilled and is even less thrilled when Monk decides to investigate the death-by-coconut of Helen Gruber, a rich tourist.  The investigation leads to a TV psychic who claims to have a message from Helen Gruber’s spirit.  Can Monk solve the murder and expose the psychic for the fraud he is while dealing with geckos and the horror of unsynchronized ceiling fans?  As author Lee Child says, “Can books be better than television? You bet they can—when Lee Goldberg’s writing them.” – and we agree!

Mr. Monk has met his match – obsessive-compulsive science fiction fans!  Monk must deal with the crazed fans of the hit TV series BEYOND EARTH when Monk investigates the murder of Conrad Stipe, the show’s creator.

Monk is horrified when he learns there's going to be a blue flu in San Francisco-until Capt. Stottlemeyer explains that it just means the police plan to call in "sick" until they get a better contract. The good news is the labor dispute will give Monk a chance to get back on the force. The bad news is it means he'll be a "scab"-and he doesn't like the sound of that either.  But before he knows it, Monk has his badge back, and his own squad to command. Unfortunately, some of the squad members make Monk look like a paragon of mental health. But despite the challenges, they'll have to pull together to catch an astrologer's killer, solve a series of mysterious fatal assaults, and most importantly, clean up their desks.

“His name was Rob Castor. Quite possibly, you've heard of him. He became a minor cult celebrity in his early twenties for writing a book of darkly pitch-perfect stories set in a stupid upstate New York town.  About a dozen years later, he murdered his writer-girlfriend and committed suicide. . . .”  The deaths of Rob Castor and his girlfriend begin a wrenching and enthrallingly suspenseful story that mines the explosive terrains of love and paternity, marriage and its delicate intricacies, family secrets and how they fester over time, and ultimately the true nature of loyalty and trust, friendship and envy, deception and manipulation.   This is an amazing novel!

Kinsey Milhone becomes involved in a case that directly confronts her with evil when she crosses paths with a sociopath The plot builds with excruciating tension, and the suspense in this story is overwhelming. Touching upon themes involving elder abuse and identity theft, this novel has deservedly received raves and stars from reviewers and fans alike. 

The Hunters picks up right where The Hostage left off.  Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have led Carlos Castillo and his team to an estancia in Uruguay where the man they seek is murdered right before their eyes.  Who is responsible?  There's just enough of a trail for Castillo to trace the conspirators, and with carte blanche from the President of the United States, he's free to follow the trail wherever it may take him.  This novel brims with rich characters, strong action and all of the drama you've come to expect from a Griffin novel!

Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable.  And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life – the shapeshifter Quinn – but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit.  This fall a new HBO series, True Blood, based upon the Sookie Stackhouse novels, is scheduled to debut.

Nine years ago, Chocolat charmed and captivated readers everywhere, and now Joanne Harris has given us another helping of this delightful confection. Vivianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk have started a new life with a new identity opening, a chocolaterie in Montmarte. All is calm until Zozie de l’Alba arrives on the scene.  At first she seems to bring positive new energy with her but it is a false friendship as she seeks to drive a wedge between mother and daughter. Once again the temptation is to flee, but perhaps this time Vivianne will stand her ground and face the consequences.  Recommended for our readers who sometimes hunger for a change of pace from dark urban noir, this spirited modern fairy tale is the perfect literary repast for a summer evening.

The game is afoot once more as those two wacky Sherlock Holmes loving cowboys, the Amlingmeyer brothers, return in their third full-length mystery adventure. After their unsuccessful stint as railway policemen, “Old Red” and “Big Red”, arrive in San Francisco in the summer of 1893 looking for work but finding trouble. Murder and mayhem abound as the boys get entangled in a web of intrigue involving crooked cops, Barbary Coast thugs, and Chinese gangsters. Fans of old-time movie serials and screwball comedies will feel right at home on this mystery range.

Cork O’Connor is back in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota and has set up shop as a private investigator. When his spiritual advisor, Ojibwe medicine man, Henry Meloux, asks him to find the son he fathered long ago, Cork can’t refuse.  With little to go on, his investigation leads him to Henry Wellington, a wealthy reclusive industrialist living in Ontario. When a murder attempt is made on Meloux’s life and all signs point north across the border, the question becomes why? Cork’s investigation takes him on a journey through history to unravel the story- one of treachery, greed and murder that leads back to the present. Action-packed and suspenseful, this may be Krueger’s finest work yet.

The bushwhack killing of a deputy sheriff in Lincoln County and the brutal murder of the deputy’s wife in Santa Fe bring Police Chief Kevin Kearney and his Mescalero Apache son, Sergeant Clayton Istee, back together in a double homicide investigation that is soon linked to a major drug trafficking scheme and the cold-blooded slaughter of two women in Albuquerque.  With few clues, no known motives and no suspects, the investigation turns into a search for the son of the slain officer, a teenager who left Santa Fe under suspicious circumstances before his father’s death.

Lying low in South America, Michael Forsythe has been running security for the Miraflores Hilton in Lima, Peru, juggling temperamental tourists, irksome dignitaries and the occasional lady of the night.  When two Colombian hit men trap him in the hotel and force him to take a call from Bridget Callaghan in Ireland, Bridget offers him a choice – come back to Ireland and find her daughter or die immediately.  Arriving in Dublin on Bloomsday, in the span of a single day, Michael penetrates the heart of an IRA network, is kidnapped, escapes, then worms his way into the criminal underground in search of the missing girl.  You won’t want to miss this fantastic finale to McKinty’s ‘Dead’ trilogy!

Neil will be dropping into MTDF for the first time to sign the sequel to the acclaimed Lone Creek.  Hugh Davoren and his pal, Madbird, are thrown into the middle of an unsolved double homicide when the daughter of a deceased professor discovers a cache of photographs and a silver earring in her father’s old Helena home.  The earring belonged to her stepmother who was murdered after protesting the opening of a controversial silver mine.  There are plenty of people who may have had a hand in the murders, including a state legislator, a low-life house squatter, a real estate mogul and the owner of the silver mine.  Moving from cowboy bars and prairie shacks to majestic old Helena homes and breathtaking vistas of Montana’s back country, Davoren and Madbird will follow a trail of clues to the killer.

In 1891 young Leonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive at the mountain estate of their widowed aunt, Domain de la Cade.  There they find the villagers claim their aunt’s husband died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre high on the mountainside.  As Leonie delves deeper into the ancient mysteries of the Domain, she finds that evil stalks her family.  More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in France to study the life of Claude Debussy.  She checks into a grand old hotel, the Domain de la Cade.  Something about the hotel feels eerily familiar and strange dreams and visions begin to haunt her waking hours.  A chance encounter leads her to a pack of tarot cards painted by Leonie Vernier which may hold the key to Meredith’s fate just as it did to the fate of Leonie Vernier more than a century earlier.