Vanishing Act

by John Feinstein

Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson return in another fast-paced, action-packed sports mystery. The two hopeful sports reporters have kept in touch after their wild time at the Final Four, and when Susan Carol manages to score a press pass to cover the first week of the US Open Tennis Tournament in New York, Stevie works out a way to be there as well. The behind-the-scenes action in the world of professional tennis is overwhelming and occasionally bewildering, but it turns downright inconceivable when a young Russian phenom, Natalia Makarova, disappears right before her second-round match.

Two Little Girls in Blue

by Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark's psychological thriller explores the close and sometimes telepathic link between twins. After three-year old twin sisters Kathy and Kelly Frawley are kidnapped from their Connecticut home and held for ransom, Kelly is returned safely but Kathy is believed to be dead until Kelly incredibly begins imparting information about her sister's whereabouts and the identity of her ruthless abductors.

Prey for a Miracle

by Aimee Thurlo and David Thurlo

Sister Agatha is an extern nun in the cloistered order at Our Lady of Hope Monastery near a small New Mexican desert town. As such, she is the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. Usually this means running errands but sometimes it means something a bit more; like now when the diocese is upset by reports of a young girl whose parents claim is receiving visitations from the Virgin Mary and providing insight into future events. Wanting neither to ignore a real miracle, nor give credence to what might be merely an attempt to defraud the faithful, they ask Sister Agatha to investigate. Her inquiries are soon complicated when the girl herself disappears, apparently having been kidnapped.

The Christopher Killer

by Alane Ferguson

The sleepy town of Silverton, Colorado hasn’t seen a murder in years according to Pat Mahoney, the county coroner. So when his teenage daughter, Cameryn, asks if she can be his assistant as preparation for a career in forensic pathology he figures it’s a safe bet. But neither of them imagines that their first case will involve someone Cameryn knows; the fourth victim of a serial killer. Before long, Cameryn is plunged into a disturbing mystery, matching wits with everyone from the cantankerous medical examiner who doubts her abilities to the famous psychic who is predicting yet another death soon.

The Angel of Death

by Alane Ferguson

As assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado, Cameryn Mahoney has seen more gore than the average seventeen-year-old. But even Cameryn is shocked when Kyle O'Neil, the most popular guy in school, discovers the gruesome corpse of their English teacher murdered in his own bed. Kyle is drawn to Cameryn, who wonders if she can trust him with the secret she can't tell her father, that her vanished mother is back in her life. As her relationship with Kyle speeds into romance, Cameryn struggles to unravel her teacher's bizarre death. Is she too preoccupied to identify the killer in time?

Boy Heaven

by Laura Kasischke

They were seventeen, with perfect tans and perfect bodies. They planned on a joyride in a convertible on a hot summer day. They planned on skinny-dipping in a beautiful, secluded lake. They planned on making it back to camp before anyone noticed they were gone. What they didn't plan on was being followed by two guys in a beat-up station wagon. Their day soon takes a drastic turn all because Kristy Sweetland smiled at the wrong time, in the wrong place, at the wrong boys. Now boys are stalking them, leaving threatening notes on their beds, and watching their every move.

At Risk

by Patricia Cornwell

Winston Garano's boss has big ideas. With visions of the governor's mansion dancing in her head, this Massachusetts district attorney decides to solve a famous cold case with radical new DNA technology. The result? A new round of violence. She needs help,Win's help. This forensic thriller begins with a simple premise but leads you quickly into some dark, scary places.

The Death Collector

by Justing Richards

What starts as an ordinary picket-pocketing incident in Victorian London unites three teens against a madman. Eddie is the pickpocket; George is an assistant at the British Museum; Elizabeth has a nose for trouble and all of them are being hunted by Augustus Lorimore. Lorimore is a sinister factory owner, a villain bent on reanimating the dead, both humans and dinosaurs, and one of each is already terrorizing the streets of London. It's up to Eddie, George, and Elizabeth to stop Lorimore's monsters or die trying.

Beach Road

by James Patterson

The life of Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy bears no resemblance to those of his TV counterparts. Day after day, he scrapes by with routine real estate closings. Then one day, out of the blue, he is hired to defend a local hero accused of a triple homicide. Almost immediately, this honest advocate realizes that his hapless client is only a fall guy, but proving it involves dangerous liaisons with people privy to sordid secrets of the Hamptons rich. To solve the case, Dunleavy reconnects with former girlfriend and hotshot attorney Kate Costello.

Blue Bloods

by Melissa De La Cruz

When the Mayflower set sail in 1620, it carried on board the men and women who would shape America. But some among the Pilgrims were not pure of heart; indeed, they were not even human. They were vampires. The vampires assimilated quickly into the New World. Rising to levels of enormous power, wealth, and influence, they were the celebrated "blue bloods" of American society. The Blue Bloods vowed that their immortal status would remain a closely guarded secret. And they kept that secret for centuries. But now, in New York City, the secret is seeping out.

Desert Crossing

by Elise Broach

For fourteen-year-old Lucy Martinez, the moment when everything changes comes one night during a long car trip with her older brother and his friend Kit. They are on their way to visit Lucy's father for spring break, but never make it. While driving across northern New Mexico through a blinding rainstorm, their car hits something—an animal, they think. But when they backtrack, they find a dead body on the side of the road. With amazing insight and compelling prose, Elise Broach charts a suspenseful journey full of danger, loss, and painful self-discovery.

Tabula Rasa

by Shelly Reuben

Arson investigator Billy Nightingale rescues a baby from a burned-out house where two children are found dead. Though Billy and his wife raise little Meredith without knowledge of her past, everything goes up in smoke when Meredith's school project requires her to research her family tree and her biological mom returns, evidently ready to kill again.

Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls

by Bennett Madison

Lulu Dark, smart and outspoken, is a high school junior at an ultra-exclusive schooldetermined not to be Nancy Drew or any of those other "prissy busybody" girl detectives who run around solving mysteries. But when her fabulous purse is stolen, a mystery lands in her lap whether she wants it or not. A girl she knows at school disappears; she is stalked by someone whose real name she does not even know, and she gets a phone call in the middle of the night from someone claiming to be "Lulu Dark." Then friends report seeing her all over town doing things she has never done. What is going on?

S is for Silence

by Sue Grafton

Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the almost seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, her absence has never been explained or forgotten. Now, thirty-four years later, Daisy wants the solace of closure.

Mary Mary

by James Patterson

For the best sleuths, vacations are impossible. This time, FBI agent Alex Cross is relaxing with his family at Disneyland when he gets a call from the director. An A-list actress has been murdered outside her Beverly Hills home. At first, the killing appears to be an isolated incident, but Cross quickly deduces that a star-obsessed serial killer known as Mary Smith is on the loose. Before long, every Hollywood celebrity is running scared, hoping not to become next week's deadly attraction.

The Lighthouse

by P.D. James

Combe Island, located off the Cornish coast of England, has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty. Owned for centuries by the same family, it now serves as a place where over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority can come to find serenity in conditions of guaranteed security. But when one of its distinguished visitors is found hanging from Combe's famous lighthouse, the peace of the island is shattered. The Lighthouse is P. D. James's 13th mystery featuring Scotland Yard's Commander Adam Dalgliesh and a richly complex tale of crime and passion.

Finding Lubchenko

by Michael Simmons

Evan MacAlister always has a scheme. Since his millionaire father never gives him any money, Evan “liberates” equipment from Dad's business and sells it on eBay. But when a man is murdered and Mr. McAlister is accused, Evan is fresh out of plans. He alone can clear his father's name but only by revealing his own theft operation, and then he'll be grounded forever. There's just one thing to do, find the real murderer. Armed only with a cryptic e-mail from someone named Lubchenko, Evan sets off on a quest that catapults him and his two best friends into a world of danger and international intrigue.

Fake I.D.

by Walter Sorrells

Sixteen-year-old Chastity and her mother have been on the run since Chass was a baby, assuming new identities in every town. She doesn't know why they are running, who her father is, or even her real name. On the night of Chass's sixteenth birthday, her mother disappears. Police find her abandoned car, blood matching her DNA, and a purse containing six ID cards. Chass doesn't believe her mother is dead, only that she had to run again. If Chastity doesn't find her mother in six days, she'll be put into foster care, if she isn't murdered first.

Last Shot

by John Feinstein

Danny Jordan is one of two lucky winners of the US Basketball Writer's Association's contest for aspiring journalists. His prize is a trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It's a basketball junkie's dream come true! But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court. After Danny and his fellow winner, Brigid-Ann Robinson, overhear what sounds like a threat to throw the championship game, they have just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of MSU's star players and why.

P is for Peril

by Sue Grafton

Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one, a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secret, and now a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what Kinsey should have seen all along: a killer standing right before eyes.

The Rule of Four

by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason

On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. As the deadline looms, research has stalled until an ancient diary surfaces. What Tom and Paul discover inside shocks even them: proof that the location of a hidden crypt has been ciphered within the pages of the obscure Renaissance text.

Speak Now

by Margaret Dumas

Charley Van Leeuwen is about to find out through kidnappings, murders, and nasty relatives just how much work marriage is. Charley can tell by a man’s kiss whether he’s been drinking Taittinger or Veuve Clicquot, not that she kisses many men, a fact her friends deplore. So imagine their surprise when she comes home to San Francisco with her new husband, Jack Fairfax, who is the definition of tall, dark, and handsome. But is he the mild-mannered meteorologist he claims to be? Sometime between finding a dead body in her bathtub, tagging along on a ransom drop, and getting rescued by her husband in a hail of bullets, Charley begins to believe there’s more to Jack’s past than he’s willing or able to admit.

Island of Bones

by P. J. Parrish

A young woman's bullet-ridden corpse is found tangled in mangrove roots on Florida's beautiful, tropical seacoast. Kincaid, a former cop turned private investigator, is hired by a woman who fears that her father, Frank Woods, a middle-aged, nondescript librarian with murky connections to several missing women dating back as far as 35 years, may be the killer. Although all signs point to Woods's guilt, his confession and apparent suicide never sit well with Kincaid.

I Am the Messenger

by Markus Zusak

Meet Ed Kennedy, an underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he's hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first Ace arrives. That's when Ed becomes the messenger.

Lost Light

by Michael Connelly

Only the money was real. Four years ago, LAPD detective Harry Bosch was on a movie set asking questions about the murder of a young production assistant when an armored car arrived with two million dollars cash for use in a heist scene. In a life-imitates-art firestorm, a gang of masked men converged on the delivery and robbed the armored car with guns blazing. Bosch got off a shot that struck one of the robbers as their van sped away, but the money was never recovered. And the young woman's murder was in the stack of unsolved-case files Bosch carried home the night he left the LAPD.

Murder on the Leviathan

by Boris Akunin

Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby's mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner "Papa" Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a ticket of passage for the Leviathan, a gigantic steamship soon to depart Southampton on its maiden voyage to Calcutta. The murderer must be among its passengers.

Brimstone

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, is fact, come to collect his due. Teaming with Police Officer Vincent D'Agosta, Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy all logic.