Assistant district attorney Andy Barber has never experienced a case as agonizing as this: the prosecution of his 14-year-old son for a classmate's murder.

When 15-year-old Jake forwards a sexually explicit video that a female classmate emails him, his whole well-to-do Manhattan family suffers from the scandal.

The first book in a series about Japanese-American assassin John Rain is a fast-paced thriller with lots of mixed martial arts action, smoky jazz clubs, and oriental philosophy.

A newcomer to the Nordic noir scene, Ohlsson presents a disturbing tale of a child murderer striking terror throughout Sweden.

 In this darkly funny genre-bender set during the California Gold Rush, two hired-assassin brothers set out to kill a gold prospector and find their plans changed.

 In 1930s New York, life gets exciting for working-girl friends Katey and Eve after they befriend a seemingly wealthy, upper-class socialite named Tinker.

In the final installment of the Cedar Cove series, the residents of this small Washington State town experience the stresses, surprises, and joys of this special time of year.

A stray cat desperate to hold on to his ninth life, a commitment-shy firefighter, and a charming, insecure animal lover come together in this heartwarming story set during the holiday season.

Twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian immigrant, finds her life taking a complicated turn when Albanian "brothers" befriend her.

While World War II keeps her husband away from their Guernsey home, Vivienne falls in love with a German soldier staying next door.

Stephanie Plum romps through another Jersey ‘burg adventure. The eternal conflict over Morelli or Ranger spices up the mix along with assorted mayhem, car explosions, and murder.

Robb once again hits just the right mix of romance, murder and intrigue as Dallas has to face her worse nightmares far from her beloved New York.

Like many sons in ancient Greece, Nicolaos is expected to follow in his father’s footsteps. But Nico doesn’t want to be a sculptor. So when he stumbles over the dead body of an Athenian politician and is asked to investigate the murder, Nico knows it’s fate offering him a different career. 
 

Marylou Ahearn has waited over 50 years to punish Dr. Wilson Spriggs for giving her the radioactive cocktail that eventually caused her daughter’s death. What kind of revenge can she take when she tracks him down and learns he has Alzheimer’s and his family is already falling apart? 

 

An encounter with her extramarital lover from 26 years ago upsets Annabelle’s marriage again.

The perfect book for putting Baltimore’s hot, steamy summer days on the back burner of the mind, set as usual in Iceland’s Reykjavik. Police Inspector Erlendur has his doubts about suicide when the body of a young woman is found. He thinks she’s been murdered and he sets out to find out why and by whom.

Ian Rankin’s latest novel is a departure from his beloved long-running Rebus series. The new character is Matthew Fox, a smart, tough detective in Edinburgh’s version of internal affairs. His first case gets personal as he tries to find his sister’s lover’s killer. 

When Shetland Island Police Inspector Jimmy Perez brings his fiancée to tiny Fair Isle to meet his parents, he finds himself singlehandedly investigating the murder of the director of the renowned bird observatory. 

Relationships suffer and women’s desires wane in suburban Stellar Plains, N.J. after new high school drama teacher Fran Heller begins rehearsals of the classic Greek play “Lysistrata” in which women withhold sex as an anti-war protest. 

The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when
green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable.

Major Ernest Pettigrew’s quiet life in an English village grows unexpectedly rich when he becomes friends with Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village.

Tim and Cynthia finally take their long overdue trip to Ireland in this spinoff tale from Jan Karon’s Mitford series. As always Karon combines spirituality, earthiness, and intrigue in equal measures for a satisfying good read.

A fast-paced noir look at the future as NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas takes on ruthless killers who think they can outwit and outthink her. One of Robb’s best yet, especially the scenes with  Dallas’ beloved husband Roarke.into a bigger conspiracy.

Until age five, Jack’s Ma, the room they shared, and the nightly visitor he called “Old Nick” were all Jack knew of the world.

Lawyer Andy Carpenter agrees to represent a thieving German Shepherd belonging to a man accused of murder, but stumbles into a bigger conspiracy.

 

Chef Hassan Haji tells of his rise to culinary success in Paris via Bombay and London. It all begins, however, in a small town in the French Alps where his budding genius is grudgingly recognized by Madame Mallory, owner of the restaurant across the street.

A transatlantic cruise to New York to make amends to an old friend gives Vi Hetherington the chance to examine her past, appreciate the present, and consider the future.

Trouble brews in a peaceful suburb when overweight, crazy Annie moves in and develops an unrequited crush on her next-door neighbor.

A strange friendship forms between Leo, a teacher at an all-girls' prep school and a new male teacher who had an affair two years ago with Leo's wife.

 

After most of the world’s population is destroyed by a virus and many of the survivors have transformed into deadly creatures, the fate of humanity is tied to that of a young girl.

When a do-gooder attempts to return an envelope of money found on Portobello Road in London, it sets off a series of dangerous events.

Two couples – tech moguls Emily and Jonathan and eco-activists Jessamine and George – confront issues of love, loyalty, greed, and social responsibility in a story set in the dot-com era but reminiscent of Jane Austen.

The murder of a former British head of intelligence triggers a desperate resistance movement led by a group called the Bell Ringers. Their enemy isn’t a terrorist cell; it’s an out of control, security-obsessed government.

In linked, tragicomic episodes, the staff of a Rome-based newspaper pursue not only the news but also dreams of love, friendship, family, and professional success.

When Margaret Mayfield marries a brilliant scientist in 1906, she has no clue how much his crazed visions
will cost her.

Eddie Russett, citizen of Chromatacia, where status is completely based on color vision, begins to question his society after being sent to a remote town.

The wizards of Unseen University reluctantly accept their latest challenge: to assemble a team and remake soccer as a civilized game.

Devoted to her three teenagers and her husband, Mary Beth Latham leads a busy, contented life. When a shocking act of violence shatters her world, she must struggle to rebuild it.

A plan hatched by three art-loving citizens to “liberate” stored paintings from an Edinburgh museum’s warehouse goes awry when a local gangster becomes involved. But who is the real villain?

A playwright uses her newest drama and a new relationship to work through her mixed feelings about her lover's death in 9/11.

Life turns around for Liam, a 60-year-old detached from his own emotions, after he meets a 38-year-old woman.

When the monarchy of Ethiopia falls and is replaced by the totalitarian Derg, one family is torn apart.

Recovered addict Ricky Rice receives an unexpected invitation to join the Unlikely Scholars, a group of misfits searching for evidence of the supernatural.

Their discovery of fossils of extinct animals calls into question accepted scientific and religious beliefs, subjecting Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot to ridicule and prejudice in 19th century England.

In an era when gangsters like John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson were antiheroes, bank robbers Jason and Whit Fireson (dubbed the Firefly Brothers) held an additional fascination: they seemed to be immortal.

By reviving an old play at their Catholic school in the 1950s, two girls raise questions about the past and dramatically change their own futures.

A 65-year-old failing actor hopes a romance with a 40-year-old woman will revitalize him.

Ren and Toby, two women who have survived the plague known as the “waterless flood”, look back on the choices they’ve made and attend to their future survival.

On his visits to the residents of a crumbling mansion named Hundreds Hall, Dr. Faraday witnesses phenomena that shake his belief that hauntings cannot exist.

Brothers Rod and Fred Troy find themselves in surreal situations in Great Britain at the outset of World War II: While journalist Rod deals with internment as an enemy alien, Scotland Yard Sergeant Fred is searching for the serial killer of East End rabbis despite the chaos of the Blitz.

Walls (author of Glass Castles) recreates the unconventional life of her grandmother Lily Casey Smith who taught school at fifteen, helped run a ranch of over 100,000 acres, and sold liquor during Prohibition, while always seeking what her father called her Purpose.

Grace takes her 4-year-old daughter to the Irish seaside, hoping to uncover a trauma the child experienced in a past life.

Thassa, a Chicago college student and Algerian immigrant, makes a worldwide sensation when a scientist taps her chronic cheerfulness for “the happiness gene.”