Best Mystery & Thrillers

The #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Da Vinci Code Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself . On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch’s shocking discovery . Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 international bestsellers, including The Da Vinci Code, Inferno , The Lost Symbol , Angels & Demons , Deception Point, and Digital Fortress .

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lee Child returns with a gripping new powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, “one of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes” ( The Washington Post ). Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness. Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Praise for The Midnight Line “Puts Reacher just where we want him.” — The. New York Times Book Review. “A gem.” — Chicago Tribune “A timely, suspenseful, morally complex thriller, one of the best I’ve read this year . Child weaves in a passionately told history of opioids in American life. I don’t know another author so skilled at making me turn the page, at putting me in the thick of it all.” — The Times “Reacher is the purest distillation of the white knight in contemporary mystery fiction. As always in a Child novel, pace is fast, twists and turns surprise, characters are well-developed, dialogue is exactly right, and the plot is very plausible. One of the best thrillers I’ve read this year.” — The Washington Post “Jack Reacher has become arguably the most iconic fictional hero we have.” — Men’s Health “Compelling and moving . bold and mysterious.” — Associated Press “This, Child’s twenty-second book in the series, has heart to spare, and it proves the franchise has plenty of gas left in its tank.” — Minneapolis Star-Tribune. It’s automatic: Reacher gets off a bus, and Child lands on the New York Times bestseller list.” — Booklist “The book is very smart . [and] suggests something that has not been visible in the series’ previous entries: a creeping sadness in Reacher’s wanderings that, set here among the vast and empty landscapes of Wyoming, resembles the peculiarly solitary loneliness of the classic American hero. “Child does a stellar job this time by not following his customary formula; his usually stoic hero who rarely displays softness and compassion is hit hard emotionally by this case.”’ — Library Journal (starred review).

A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017. An Amazon Book of the Month Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him, and seems to have new evidence to prove it. "[Connelly's] immaculate plotting and gift for bringing procedural intricacies to life now seem as strong as ever...he writes the best detective novels around. "Connelly's immaculate plotting and gift for bringing procedural intricacies to life now seem as strong as ever...he writes the best detective novels around. "[Two Kinds of Truth] is a reflection of Connelly's talent that after 19 books chronicling Bosch's career, this iteration feels fresh and authentic. "Expertly juggling both plots, Connelly mines the double murder for fascinating and frightening details...Connelly remains atop a heap of contemporary crime writers thanks to his rare ability to combine master plotting and procedural detail with a literary novelist's feel for the inner lives of his or her characters.

Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. Elizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was a New York Times bestselling author whose novels were often set against historical backdrops.

Hope to Die propels Alex Cross's greatest challenge to its astonishing finish, proving why Jeffery Deaver says "nobody does it better" than James Patterson. "Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent--which is what James Patterson has, in spades. "It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer: his uncanny skill in creating living, breathing characters we truly feel for and seamless, lightning-fast plots. "Twenty years after the first Alex Cross story, he has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages."

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with his next blockbuster thriller featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme. With an unmatched ability to create the perfect characters...Deaver takes fans to the edge in this one and dangles them over the cliff...One of the best books of 2016. "Clever...entertaining...Convincing characters and an unexpected closing twist will remind readers why Deaver is one of today's top thriller writers. "Deaver delivers another heart-stopping thriller in his Lincoln Rhyme series...The action, suspense and horrific crimes continue unabated. "Fans will marvel at the creative manner in which Deaver incorporates current technological and societal trends into the plots of his thrillers.

The second thrilling novel in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series following The Cinderella Murder , featuring intrepid television producer Laurie Moran as she investigates the case of a missing bride—new from Encore at a great price! "Fans of MWA Grand Master Clark will find plenty of intrigue and excitement in this contemporary thriller...Clark keeps readers guessing and in suspense."

Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone’s arrival in Paradise, but the dead girls were close friends of Jesse’s right hand, Officer Molly Crane. Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch Westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels.

[Read by Richard Poe]. Grand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as ''the best writer of crime fiction alive'' ( Newsweek ) -- and, in fact, one of the very best ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker. ''Although known for his mysteries, Elmore Leonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.''.

By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. #1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER Notable Book of 2016 -- Washington Post 10 Favorite Books of 2016 -- Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times 10 Best Mysteries of 2016 -- Adam Woog, Seattle Times Detective Harry Bosch must track down someone who may never have existed in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. But as he begins to uncover the haunting story--and finds uncanny links to his own past--he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth. Swift, unpredictable, and thrilling, The Wrong Side of Goodbye shows that Michael Connelly "continues to amaze with his consistent skill and sizzle" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer ). Few mystery novelists make background facts and simple descriptions sing the way this writer does. And no writer exploits Los Angeles - its geography, its historical power wars, its celebrity culture, its lore - as compellingly as Connelly....he must be read." "If any novelist is worthy to walk once more through the front door of Raymond Chandler's iconic Sternwood mansion, it's Michael Connelly. For over two decades, Connelly has been brilliantly updating and enlarging the possibilities of the classic L.A. hard-boiled novel, first bestowed upon the world in 1939 with Chandler's debut, The Big Sleep . Moving effortlessly between Bosch's private and public cases, he ratchets up the tension...pulling off in the final few chapters a California noir sleight of hand that would make Ross Macdonald envious." "In each novel, Connelly has dug deeper into Harry's psyche, as he skillfully does in The Wrong Side of Goodbye ....Connelly's melding of the police procedural, private detective novel and intense character study remains solid. "....it is immensely satisfying to see Bosch's sustained and deepened passion for his mission- "Everybody count or nobody counts" - undiminished by age or circumstance, even as a younger generation of detectives of all colors and orientations share the stage to carry on the work that has given Bosch, and this series, such an enduring appeal.

Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill . "John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got in the United States these days." "John Grisham is exceptionally good at what he does—indeed, right now in this country, nobody does it better."

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone confronts her darkest and most disturbing case in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Grafton. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents—until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. Y Is For Yesterday might make you wish the alphabet had a few more letters.”— Tampa Bay Times-Review More Praise for Sue Grafton and the Alphabet Series “Grafton’s endless resourcefulness in varying her pitches in this landmark series, graced by her trademark self-deprecating humor, is one of the seven wonders of the genre.”— Kirkus Reviews.

With over 110 million copies of his novels in print, David Baldacci is one of the most widely read storytellers in the world. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything. His family destroyed, their killer's identity as mysterious as the motive behind the crime, and unable to forget a single detail from that horrible night, Decker finds his world collapsing around him. "Brilliant use of language...vivid supporting characters and numerous sudden and unexpected plot twists...[Baldacci] doesn't let the action sag at any point...In [Chung-Cha], Mr. Baldacci has created one of his most memorable characters. "Baldacci has been on a hot streak for the past few years, and The Target continues the trend. This isn't a garden-variety thriller or even a garden-variety Baldacci. "Its pace is relentless, and Baldacci's reworking of his perennial theme - absolute power corrupts absolutely - gives the book a sense of urgency and cultural relevance that many thrillers lack. By then, Baldacci has planted an emotional hook that remains long after readers have turned the last page of the book.

Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. “[Le Carré's] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.”— New York Times Book Review. Praise for John le Carré. “One of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man’s land.”. — Los Angeles Times “No other writer has charted—pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers—the public and secret histories of his times.”. — The Guardian (UK). “I would suggest immortality for John le Carré, who I believe one of the most intelligent and entertaining writers working today.”. —Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune “The constant flow of emotion lifts le Carré not only above all modern suspense novelists, but above most novelists now practicing.”. — Financial Times “A writer of towering gifts.”. — The Independent (UK). --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. "In her twenty-second Scarpetta novel, Cornwell's forensic knowhow is still at the cutting edge - even though Scarpetta was the prototype for most of TV's crack forensic investigators today - and her final scenes are both logical and shocking." "This is in many ways the best of the recent Scarpetta novels, boasting an involving story and some fine writing. This never-stop action plot is yet another gift to readers from Patricia Cornwell-a literary artist that is never going to stop writing some of the best and most memorable thrillers out there." Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her family and friends just keep growing as characters, and Cornwell's plots are still taut and tangled. VERDICT Deduction is the key to solving this mystery, and Scarpetta fans will relish this nail-biting novel, Cornwell's debut with publisher Morrow." "Dr. Kay Scarpetta... [is] an awesome force in the field of forensic science." "Bestseller Cornwell's thrilling 22nd novel featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta . pits the chief medical examiner against a threat uncomfortably close to home. is an unslacking commitment to doing their jobs right-getting to the bottom of things, in Scarpetta's case; providing complexity and depth and suspense and thrills, in Cornwell's. This is in many ways the best of the recent Scarpetta novels, boasting an involving story and some fine writing. Everyone knows Scarpetta; she has the wit, intelligence, and strength that any forensic sleuth should own. This never-stop action plot is yet another gift to readers from Patricia Cornwell-a literary artist that is never going to stop writing some of the best and most memorable thrillers out there. Bestseller Cornwell s thrilling 22nd novel featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta . pits the chief medical examiner against a threat uncomfortably close to home. Dr. Kay Scarpetta [is] an awesome force in the field of forensic science. In her twenty-second Scarpetta novel, Cornwell s forensic knowhow is still at the cutting edge - even though Scarpetta was the prototype for most of TV s crack forensic investigators today - and her final scenes are both logical and shocking. VERDICT Deduction is the key to solving this mystery, and Scarpetta fans will relish this nail-biting novel, Cornwell s debut with publisher Morrow. Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her family and friends just keep growing as characters, and Cornwell s plots are still taut and tangled. is an unslacking commitment to doing their jobs right-getting to the bottom of things, in Scarpetta s case; providing complexity and depth and suspense and thrills, in Cornwell s. I should warn you that there s a cliffhanger ending.

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Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. ''A document of persecuted love -- perfect.''. very recognizably Highsmith, full of tremor and of threat and of her peculiar genius for anxiety.''. very recognizably Highsmith, full of tremor and of threat and of her peculiar genius for anxiety.''.

It’s going to be hard for Stephanie to keep her hands off all that ice cream, and even harder for her to keep her hands off Ranger. He lives alone in the back room of his auto body shop on Baker Street in north Trenton, and he hasn’t cut his hair in at least ten years. He has a reputation for drinking too much and abusing women, and he has a hotdog with testicles tattooed on his forehead. None of this would be any of my business, but a couple months ago Trenton’s finest caught Virgil hijacking an eighteen--wheeler filled with cases of premium bourbon. Virgil was arrested and subsequently bonded out by my bail bondsman cousin and employer, Vincent Plum. If Virgil isn’t brought back into the system in a timely fashion, Vinnie will lose his bond money. I’m a college graduate with virtually no marketable skills, so for the past several years I’ve been tracking down Vinnie’s skips. What I lack in expertise I make up for with desperation and tenacity, because I only get paid when I catch someone. It was ten o’clock at night in mid--September, and cool enough for me to need a sweatshirt over my T--shirt. I was currently pulling surveillance on Larry Virgil’s three--bay garage, hoping to catch him entering or exiting. “He isn’t answering his phone, and there aren’t any lights on in the building.”. Lula is a former ’ho who Vinnie hired as a file clerk a while back. When files went digital he didn’t have the guts to fire her, so now Lula shows up every day for work and pretty much does whatever she wants. I have shoulder--length mostly unmanageable curly brown hair that’s usually pulled into a ponytail, and I’ve been told I look a little like Julia Roberts when she played a hooker in Pretty Woman. Only time this man goes out is to hijack a truck, and he got a crimp put in that activity.”. Lights flashed at the cross street and an eighteen--wheeler chugged toward us and parked in front of the lot attached to the garage. The lot was enclosed by a six--foot--high chain link fence topped with razor wire. “It’s him,” Lula said, sticking her hand into her big bedazzled purse and rooting around in it looking for her gun. Lula was out from behind the wheel of her Firebird, running across the road, waving her gun and yelling, “Bond enforcement!”. Virgil went deer in the headlights for a moment, then bolted for the corner with Lula in pursuit. Even in the dark of night I could see that Lula was running flat--out in her spike--heeled Via Spigas. Her spandex miniskirt was up around her waist, and one of her basketball--sized boobs had popped out of her tank top. He reached Lula’s red Firebird, wrenched the door open, jumped in, and took off. And it got all my makeup in there.”. “Guess you left the key in the ignition,” I said, gasping for air, coming alongside Lula. “Then go around and pull me in.”. I climbed into the cab from the passenger side, crawled over, and gave Lula a hand up. “There’s a awful lot of doohickeys here.”. “I thought you said you knew how to drive one of these.”. “I’m just sayin’ this here’s a fancy rig. I used to drive my Uncle Jimmy’s dump truck before I got established as a ’ho.”. She planted a Via Spiga on the clutch pedal and shifted. “It don’t matter if we lose a gear or two on account of this baby got a lot of them.”. We slowly drove down the street. Good thing there weren’t any cars there.”. I caught flashing strobes in my side mirror. “It’ll waste my time and I gotta get to the chop shop before they start on my Firebird. He’ll come in handy when we get to Stark Street and we confront Larry Virgil. This is our lucky day.”. The cop car zipped past us and came to a stop just before the next intersection, blocking our way. The patrolmen jumped out of the way, and Lula punted the patrol car halfway down the block before bringing the semi to a stop. That moron Larry Virgil stole my car and I gotta get to Stark Street before my baby’s nothing but spare parts. “Lula didn’t totally have the hang of driving this thing.”. Eddie’s partner, Jimmy, was standing alongside him. “Her grandmother would make my life a living hell.”. “What do you want to do about the car?” Jimmy asked Eddie. And I can get him to check with the chop shop to make sure they don’t take Lula’s car apart.”. Ranger is a former Special Forces operative turned businessman and security expert. He owns Rangeman, an exclusive security firm housed in a stealth building in downtown Trenton. I made a short call to Ranger and joined Lula and Eddie at the side of the truck. “That would be if I had a gun,” Lula said, thinking twice about her offer since she didn’t have a permit to carry concealed. Eddie took the key, opened the door to the freezer truck, and a body fell out. It was a chocolate--covered man, sprinkled with chopped pecans, totally frozen. “I’m going to see if I can get the trunk open on the squad car so I can get some crime scene tape and rubber gloves.”. Lula looked into the trailer. Somebody’s gonna be real disappointed in the morning if they don’t get their ice cream delivery. Not that I’d turn my nose up at a carton of this here ice cream if it accidentally fell out of the truck.”. “That would be tampering with evidence,” Jimmy said. “Just sayin’.”. Eddie returned with some yellow tape and a box of disposable gloves. “They wouldn’t look good on me, and they’d ruin my nail varnish.”. A shiny black Porsche Cayenne drove up and eased to a stop, and Ranger got out. He’s the boss, but he still works alongside his men if the threat level is high or if they’re short--handed. “I don’t want to go through his pockets and ruin the chocolate.”. Eddie and Ranger pulled on rubber gloves, crammed the stiff back into the truck, and closed the door on him. We drove to Stark Street in silence, and Ranger parked in front of the chop shop. A Rangeman guy who looked like the Hulk except for the part about being green got out of the Explorer and walked over to us. Tonight it was said softly with an undertone of desire, as if he might take me home and stay awhile. It gave me an instant rush, and heat curled through a bunch of my internal organs. It was a good moment, but I think it’s a little like planning on winning the lottery or contemplating losing five pounds. What were you doing with the freezer truck?”. “Lula and I were staking out Larry Virgil, and he drove up in the semi. And Lula crashed the truck into Eddie Gazarra’s squad car.”. “And the deceased?”. “We opened the door to look inside and the guy fell out.”. “As it turns out,” Ranger said, “I’ve been hired by Harry Bogart. In the past it’s been confined to competitive pricing, ripping off recipes, ads that pushed the boundaries of libel, and occasionally a shouting match at a family function.”. “They’re related?”. “Cousins.”. “And I guess they don’t like each other.”. “Not even a little. Bogart is sure it’s Mo Morris out to ruin him, but he can’t prove anything.”. “So he’s hired you.”. “His factory is old--school. He says ice cream is happiness and comfort and his customers would turn to birthday cake and mac and cheese if they thought his ice cream was under siege.”. “He sounds like a nice man.”. “He’s ruthless and miserly. I’m told that everyone gets to take a pint of ice cream home with them at the end of the shift in Mo Morris’s plant.”. “Hard to pass that up.”. Ranger stopped in front of my apartment building’s back door. The kiss was light but lingering, sending a clear message of checked passion. “I’ll make the arrangements for you to start work at Bogart’s plant and be back in touch,” Ranger said. “Have a good night?”. “Eddie Gazarra called you, didn’t he?”. “Cupcake, everyone called me, including your mother and the Trenton Times.”. “News travels fast.”. “Not every day someone gets dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with nuts. Usually people in Trenton just get stabbed and shot.”. I squeezed between Morelli and Bob, flipped the lid up on the pizza box, and took a piece.

Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena -- once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. Accompanied by an inappropriate railroad accountant from Brooklyn, a reluctant Texas deputy and gangling, awkward Pea Eye Parker (who is trying to give up the Ranger life and settle down to farming and family with the lovely ex-whore Lorena), Call sets off, roaming the border country in his competent, unassuming fashion. As in some great 19th-century saga, the story has more than its share of improbable coincidences--people meeting fortuitously in thousands of square miles of empty territory, hearing vital news at appropriate and inappropriate moments--but these seem only mild contrivances to shape a story packed with action, terror, humor and pathos.

Exploring both the nature of human evil and the nerve-racking anatomy of a forensic investigation, Harris unleashes a frightening vision of the dark side of our well-lighted world. Graham, in turn, enlists the aid of his old adversary, Hannibal Lecter, to find the killer, who poses family members on film after murdering them.

The #1 New York Times -bestselling author and master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team. Mark Greaney is the national bestselling author of The Gray Man series of books, the most recent of which is Dead Eye .

Enter into The Hiding Place to relive Corrie ten Boom's heart-pounding account as a leader in the Dutch Underground during World War II.

In Jurassic Park , Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller. An island off Costa Rica will soon be the world's most ambitious theme park--a dinosaur preserve.

Army records show that the only officer named Fertig in the Philippines is a reserve lieutenant colonel of the Corps of Engineers, reported MIA on Luzon. Here, he uses guerrilla action behind the lines in the Philippines as foreground to tell the behind-the-lines tale of the power struggle among Marine General Fleming Pickering, General Douglas MacArthur and Bill Donovan of the fledgling OSS, all of whom are galvanized into action by a radio message from a self-proclaimed general named Wendell Fertig, who has established himself as a guerrilla leader against the Japanese.