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The Burden of Proof
by Scott Turow
A lawyer's wife dies, and he is accused of her murder. He must prove his innocence while dealing with his own grief and family secrets.
Turow's acclaimed second novel, which topped international bestseller lists, is now available in trade paperback. Sandy Stern, the brilliant defense attorney from Presumed Innocent , faces an event ... (Goodreads)
Chasing Darkness
by Robert Crais
Private investigator Elvis Cole investigates a case involving a missing woman and a serial killer.
Elvis Cole is Back–In a Desperate Fight to Clear his Name... It's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied ... (Goodreads)
Special Circumstances
by Sheldon Siegel
Attorney Mike Daley defends a young man accused of murder, uncovering a web of corruption and deceit in the process.
Meet Mike Daley. Ex-,priest,. Ex-,public defender,. And as of yesterday, ex-,partner, in one of San Francisco's most prominent law firms. Today he's out on his own, setting up practice on the wrong ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Sentry
by Robert Crais
A private investigator uncovers a deadly conspiracy while investigating a missing persons case.
Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his ... (Goodreads)
This Body of Death
by Elizabeth George
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his team investigate a murder in London.
"George explores her characters' dreams and fears with a penetrating grace that makes reading her books a joy." — Washington Post Book World "Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre. ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Deep Blue Good-By
by John D. MacDonald
Private investigator's search for the truth behind a missing woman and the secrets lurking beneath the surface.
The Deep Blue Good-by introduces readers to McGee, his place of residence, the Busted Flush (a houseboat he won in a poker game), and its mooring place, slip F-18 at the Bahia Mar Marina in Fort ... (Wikipedia)
The Scarecrow
by Michael Connelly
A detective's search for justice amidst a web of conspiracy and corruption.
The story begins with Jack McEvoy's termination by the, Los Angeles Times, due to the newspaper's financial crisis. He is given two weeks to train his replacement, Angela Cook, on the "cop beat" and ... (Wikipedia)
Time to Hunt
by Stephen Hunter
A group of Vietnam veterans embark on a daring mission of revenge against the crime syndicate that betrayed them.
The book begins about four or five years after the events in Black Light . Swagger's daughter is now around 8, and he owns a "lay-up" horse ranch, where he cares for horses. He has been slipping into ... (Wikipedia)
The Reversal
by Michael Connelly
A high-profile murder case is retried with a new defense team, uncovering corruption and secrets in the justice system.
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller finds himself recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, new DNA evidence means ... (Goodreads)
The Black Box
by Michael Connelly
A police detective's pursuit of justice in the face of a relentless killer.
Bosch tackles a 20-year-old cold case which took place during the 1992 Los Angeles riots . A white photojournalist is found killed near a burned-out store. Harry Bosch and Jerry Edgar were the ... (Wikipedia)
Faithful Place
by Tana French
A woman's search for the truth behind her childhood sweetheart's disappearance.
When 19-year-old Frank Mackey was left waiting outside of an abandoned house one fateful night, he believed that his lover backed out on their plans of elopement. After finding a note inside the ... (Wikipedia)
Matterhorn
by Karl Marlantes
A Vietnam War novel about the journey of a Marine lieutenant and his platoon in the jungles of Vietnam.
Featured in PBS's, The Vietnam War, series by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick. The, New York Times, bestselling, "powerhouse" (,TIME, Magazine) debut from Vietnam War veteran, Karl Marlantes. An incredible ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
A man's search for solace and understanding in his troubled family's past.
Tom Wingo is a middle-aged man with a wife and three young daughters who has recently lost his job as a high school English teacher and football coach. He learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has ... (Wikipedia)
Defending Jacob
by William Landay
A father must defend his son who is accused of murder, unraveling the truth of a complex crime.
Andy Barber is an assistant district attorney in Newton , Massachusetts. He is investigating the murder of a 14-year-old boy, Ben Rifkin, who was a classmate of his son Jacob and was found stabbed to ... (Wikipedia)
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
A woman awaits her execution in 19th-century Iceland, reliving her story of hardship, loss and faith.
Burial Rites tells the story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, a servant in northern Iceland who was condemned to death after the murder of two men, one of whom was her employer, and became the last woman put ... (Wikipedia)
Model Misfit
by Holly Smale
Geeky Harriet Manners navigates the fashion world as a model, but struggles to fit in.
You can make a geek a model, but you can't make her chic. More hilarity and high fashion await in the second book in the internationally bestselling Geek Girl series! Harriet Manners is a model—but ... (Barnes & Noble)
Sycamore Row
by John Grisham
A lawyer in Mississippi must unravel a mysterious will and its secrets.
The title refers to a row of sycamore trees in the countryside near the fictional town of Clanton, in fictional Ford County, Mississippi . The trees play an important role in the book's plot, though ... (Wikipedia)
Justice Burning
by Scott Pratt
A small-town lawyer takes on a case that could bring down a corrupt police department. But the stakes are high and danger lurks around every corner.
Former defense attorney Darren Street is desperately trying to put his life back together after spending two years in a maximum-security prison for a murder he didn’t commit. He’s rebuilding his law ... (Goodreads)
After the Kiss
by Lauren Layne
A steamy romance between a playboy and his best friend's little sister. But can they keep it a secret?
Lauren Layne kicks off her Sex, Love & Stiletto series with a delightful short novel! In, After the Kiss,, the star columnist of, Stiletto, magazine will do anything for a story. Anything . . . ... (Goodreads)
Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
A young girl's coming of age amidst poverty, abuse, and a broken family.
The book opens with Bone relating the details of her birth. Bone's 15-year-old mother Anney gives birth to her after being seriously injured in a car accident. Anney, who is comatose during the ... (Wikipedia)
Best Kept Secrets
by Sandra Brown
A woman's life is turned upside down when she discovers her father's dark secrets. She must navigate through the lies and deceit to uncover the truth.
In this steamy thriller from #1, New York Times, bestselling author Sandra Brown, a savvy attorney in small-town Texas will stop at nothing to catch the man who murdered her mother. , Alexandra ... (Barnes & Noble)
Broken Promise
by Linwood Barclay
After his wife's death, David Harwood returns to his hometown and uncovers dark secrets that threaten his family.
From, New York Times, bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes an explosive novel set in the peaceful small town of Promise Falls, where secrets can always be buried—but never forgotten…, After his ... (Goodreads)
The Senator's Wife
by Sue Miller
A story of two women, one married to a senator and the other her neighbor, whose lives become intertwined in unexpected ways.
Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding ... (Goodreads)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
A murder mystery set in an alternate reality, with characters that explore the boundaries of identity and tradition.
The book opens with Meyer Landsman, an alcoholic homicide detective with the Sitka police department, examining the murder of a man in the hotel where Landsman lives. Beside the corpse lies an open ... (Wikipedia)
Mr. Mercedes
by Stephen King
Detective investigates a series of murders by a maniacal driver in a stolen Mercedes.
Many jobless people are standing in line for a job fair , but then a Mercedes plows into the crowd, killing sixteen and severely injuring many. Bill Hodges, a recently retired detective from the ... (Wikipedia)
Roses
by Leila Meacham
A multigenerational saga of two families in a small Texas town, their secrets, and the power of love and loyalty.
Two East Texas families must deal with the aftermath of a marriage that never happened leading to deceit, secrets, and tragedies in a sweeping multigenerational Southern saga "with echoes of Gone ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Midnight Club
by James Patterson
Terminally ill teens form a club where they share their deepest secrets and make the most of their remaining time.
"The Midnight Club, is the novel I wrote just before, Along Came A Spider,. I'm certain that both Alex Cross and Sampson originated in ideas I had while writing this story. It's one of my favorites." ... (Barnes & Noble)
What Was Mine
by Helen Klein Ross
A woman kidnaps a baby from a store and raises her as her own. The story follows the lives of the kidnapper, the birth mother, and the daughter.
Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in ... (Goodreads)
Split Second
by Catherine Coulter
FBI agents investigate a string of murders with a supernatural twist, leading them to a dangerous cult. Fast-paced thriller with a touch of the paranormal.
The number-one, New York Times,-bestselling author returns with another pulse-pounding thriller featuring FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, and introducing Speical Agents Lucy Carlyle and ... (Goodreads)
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collection of stories exploring the struggles of Indian-American immigrants in the US.
A married couple, Shukumar and Shoba, live as strangers in their house until an electrical outage brings them together when all of sudden "they [are] able to talk to each other again" in the four ... (Wikipedia)
