Summer of Fear

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

T. Jefferson Parker

Mystery

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Black Water

New psychological suspense novel from bestselling American author of The Blue Hour, Red Light and Silent Joe.  'Parker has only one rival -- Thomas Harris' Washington Post  Where Sergeant Merci Rayborn is concerned, opinion within the sheriff's department is sharply divided. To some she's a hero for exposing the biggest scandal in the department's history and bringing down the former sheriff. Others cannot forget that, in making her case, she was prepared to implicate her own father and arrest her lover, both well-respected police officers.  Just as the hostility is beginning to die down, a young deputy named Archie Wildcraft is found shot in the head outside his home, next to the gun that has just been used to kill his wife. The evidence points to murder-suicide, and Wildcraft, his memory impaired by the bullet lodged in his brain, can offer nothing to contradict this. But with the arrest of one innocent deputy still plaguing her conscience, Merci is determined to defy the district attorney and pursue the unlikely scenario that Deputy Wildcraft has been framed. Wildcraft, in the meantime, is pursuing his own agenda!

California Girl

Another Robert Parker, addictive as candy.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

William Morrow/HarperCollins, [

California Girl: A Novel

A different world then, a different world now ... California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, strange new ideas in the air about war, music, sex, and drugs, and new influences, ranging from Richard Nixon to Timothy Leary. For the Becker brothers, however, the past is always present -- and it comes crashing back full force when the body of the lovely and mysterious Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned orange-packing plant. The Beckers and the Vonns have a history, beginning years ago in high school with a rumble between the brothers of each clan. But boys grow up. Now one Becker brother is a cop on his first homicide case. One's a minister yearning to perform just one miracle. One is a reporter drunk with ambition. And all three are about to collide with the changing world of 1968 as each brother, in his own unique way, tries to find Janelle's killer. As suspects multiply and secrets are exposed, the three Becker brothers are drawn further into the case, deeper into the past, and closer to danger.

William Morrow Company

Laguna, where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas—where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of torture, murder, and blood-red secrets—where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence—with a fiery vengeance—and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery that reaches back across forty years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past, and sweats out a deadly truth in the sweltering Laguna Heat.

Laguna Heat

MYSTERIOUS PRESS

Swift Vengeance (A Roland Ford Novel Book 2)

G.P.Putnam's Sons

Where Serpents Lie

Headline

Face off

JOHN SANDFORD

Steve Martini

Steve Berry

DENNIS LEHANE

JOHN LESCROART

RAYMOND KHOURY

IAN RANKIN

Douglas, Preston

M.J. ROSE

Linwood, Barclay

Heather, Graham

james-rollins

peter-james

Short Stories & Anthologies

SPHERE

Homicide cop Tom McMichael is on the rotation when Pete Braga, an 84-year-old city patriarch, businessman and former mayor is found by the beautiful young nurse hired to watch after him--bludgeoned to death. The Irish McMichaels and Portuguese Bragas share a violent history: as a commercial tuna clipper captain way back in 1952 Pete Braga shot dead a young crewman who believed he was owed a paycheck. That man was Franklin McMichael, Tom&#39;s grandfather. Pete Braga&#39;e son, Victor, who was then thirteen, is then severely beaten behind a waterfront bar one night. Most people believe that Franklin&#39;s son--Tom&#39;s father--did it in revenge. Victor survives the attack, but he&#39;s mentally stunted. Though his body matured his mind remains that of a ten-year-old. The alleged attacker--Gabriel--has denied it for his whole dissolute, waster, booze-filled life. The nurse looks good as a suspect. She claims to have gone out for firewood that night, then returned from the store to find Pete dead. She&#39;s covered with blood and not forthcoming with McMichael and his partner, Hector Paz. The investigation expands to Pete&#39;s business acquaintances, his family,

Cold Pursuit

Hyperion Books

Black Water (Merci Rayborn)

Playaway

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