Rough Country (A Virgil Flowers Novel)

By John Sandford

The 3rd Virgil flora novel from number 1 New York Times bestselling writer John Sandford

While competing in a fishing event in a distant quarter of northern Minnesota, Virgil plants gets a decision from Lucas Davenport to enquire a brutal homicide at a close-by hotel for girls in basic terms. As Virgil starts investigating, he unearths an online of connections among the folk on the lodge, the sufferer, and a few neighborhood girls, significantly a skilled and renowned kingdom singer. The extra Virgil digs, the extra he discovers the arrows of suspicion aspect in lots of instructions, encompassing a large number of motivations: jealousy, blackmail, greed, anger, and fear.

Then Virgil discovers anything that sends his research reeling. this isn't the 1st homicide attached to the Eagle Nest inn. Nor will or not it's the last...

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Panic

By Jeff Abbott

From New York Times bestselling writer Jeff Abbott...

What if every thing approximately your existence was once a lie?

Evan Casher is a winning documentary filmmaker with an ideal life--until the day his mom is brutally murdered. by surprise pursued via a ruthless circle of killers, Evan discovers his complete prior has been a delicately built lie. With just one probability at survival and not anyone he can belief, Evan needs to detect the stunning fact approximately his family--and himself...

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The Dead Zone

By Stephen King

Now on hand for the 1st time in a mass-market top class paperback edition—the number 1 New York instances bestseller of a reluctant clairvoyant who needs to weigh his strategies while he abruptly sees the bad destiny looking forward to mankind.

"There used to be basically blackness and that common emptiness... chilly limbo. Johnny Smith stayed there a protracted, lengthy time."

When Johnny Smith used to be six-years-old, head trauma attributable to a foul ice-skating twist of fate left him with a foul bruise on his brow and, now and then, these hunches…infrequent yet exact snippets of items to return. however it isn’t until eventually Johnny’s a grown man—now having survived a scary car harm that plunged him right into a coma lasting four-and-a-half years—that his unique skills really push to the fore. Johnny Smith comes again from the void with a unprecedented reward that turns into his life’s curse…presenting visions of what used to be and what is going to be for the blameless and in charge alike. but if he encounters a ruthlessly bold and amoral guy who grants a terrifying destiny for all humanity, Johnny needs to have the ability to avoid a harrowing predestination from changing into fact.

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Alex: The Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy

By Frank Wynne

Upon successful the celebrated 2013 Crime Writers organization overseas Dagger Award, the judges praised Alex by way of asserting, "An unique and soaking up skill to leash incredulity within the identify of the fictitious agreement among writer and reader... A police procedural, a mystery opposed to time, a race among hunted and hunter, and a whydunnit, written from a number of issues of view that discover numerous it appears parallel tales which eventually meet."

Alex Prevost--kidnapped, savagely crushed, suspended from the ceiling of an deserted warehouse in a tiny wood cage--is operating out of time. Her abductor seems to need in simple terms to observe her die. Will starvation, thirst, or the rats get her first?

except a shaky eyewitness record of the kidnapping, Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has not anything to head on: no suspect, no leads, and no relatives or buddies frightened to discover a lacking friend. The diminutive and terrific detective is aware from sour adventure the urgency of discovering the lacking girl as speedy as possible--but first he needs to comprehend extra approximately her.

As he uncovers the main points of the younger woman's singular background, Camille is compelled to recognize that the individual he seeks is not any traditional sufferer. She is gorgeous, sure, but additionally super difficult and imaginative. prior to lengthy, saving Alex's existence often is the least of Commandant Verhoeven's huge challenges.

A 2013 Financial Times ebook of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2014 RUSA studying checklist Horror Award

From the Hardcover edition.

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The Fifth Witness (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel)

By Michael Connelly

Mickey Haller has fallen on difficult occasions. He expands his company into foreclosures protection, purely to determine one among his consumers accused of killing the banker she blames for attempting to remove her domestic.

Mickey places his workforce into excessive equipment to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even supposing the proof and his personal suspicions inform him his purchaser is accountable. quickly after he learns that the sufferer had black marketplace dealings of his personal, Haller is assaulted, too--and he is yes he is at the correct path.

Despite the chance and uncertainty, Haller mounts the easiest protection of his profession in an ordeal the place the final shock comes after the decision is in. Connelly proves back why he "may rather well be the easiest novelist operating within the usa at the present time" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Breakthrough (Deathlands)

Merciless Interdiction

More than a century after a multi-warhead nuclear strike burnt up the majority of earth's inhabitants, humanity's feral intuition to outlive has spawned a savage new the United States. the following, the brutality of guy and nature conspire opposed to wish. but regardless of its chaos and bloody turmoil, Deathlands is a moment probability for the human race . . . and for a gaggle of warrior survivalists led by way of a guy referred to as Ryan Cawdor.

Manifest Doomsday

Deathlands is a residing hell, yet there's somewhere worse: a parallel Earth the place the atomic mega-cull by no means occurred. Now this Otherworld Earth is in its ultimate loss of life throes. but for an elite few, the truth portal deals a brand new frontier of uncooked strength, expendable slaves -- a bastion of energy for Dredda Otis Trask. Her invasion strength of genetically engineered warrior ladies has became the ruins of Salt Lake urban into the lethal mining grounds of a gruesome new order -- person who lies in look ahead to Ryan and his partners.

In the Deathlands, threat lurks past the imagination.

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Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, No. 1)

By Martin Cruz Smith

“Brilliant . . . sufficient enigmas inside enigmas inside enigmas to reel the mind.”
–The New Yorker

A triple homicide in a Moscow leisure heart: 3 corpses stumbled on frozen within the snow, faces and palms lacking. leader murder investigator Arkady Renko is significant, delicate, sincere, and cynical approximately every thing other than his occupation. to spot the sufferers and discover the reality, he needs to conflict the KGB, FBI, and the recent York urban police as he pursues a wealthy, ruthless, and well-connected American fur broker. in the meantime, Renko is falling in love with a stunning, headstrong dissident for whom he might possibility everything.

“Once one will get going, one doesn’t are looking to cease. . . . The motion is gritty, the plot advanced, [and] the overriding caliber is intelligence.”
–The Washington Post

“Reminds you simply how pleasurable a easily became mystery can be.” –The long island occasions e-book Review

“An incredible success . . . brilliant, witty . . . thoroughly fascinating.”
Boston bring in American

“Gripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original.”
Cosmopolitan

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In the Morning I'll Be Gone: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel (The Troubles Trilogy)

By Adrian McKinty

Detective Sean Duffy works to crack a locked room secret whereas monitoring an escaped IRA grasp bomber.

The early Eighties. Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop within the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by means of MI5 to seek down Dermot McCann, an IRA grasp bomber who has made a bold get away from the infamous Maze felony. during his investigations Sean discovers a lady who may possibly carry the most important to Dermot’s whereabouts; she herself desires justice for her daughter who died in mysterious situations in a pub locked from the interior. Sean is familiar with that if he can crack the "locked room mystery," the larger secret of Dermot’s whereabouts may be published to him as a gift. in the meantime the clock is ticking right down to the Conservative occasion convention in Brighton in 1984, the place Mrs. Thatcher is because of provide a keynote speech....

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Enemy of Mine (Pike Logan)

By Brad Taylor

A tentative peace among Israel and Palestine has been brokered by way of the us. however the Taskforce—a clandestine staff working outdoor folks legislations to guard the rustic from terrorism—hears of an assassination test at the American envoy despatched to solidify the treaty. The Taskforce needs to dedicate each source to saving his life—and fighting one other bloody outbreak of violence.

Taskforce operator Pike Logan and his accomplice, Jennifer Cahill, needs to search out the murderer during the heart East, following a path that turns into extra perilous at each flip. they usually needs to care for terrorist organisations, autonomous killers, and shaky allies to discover the most important probability of all: an American citizen hiding a mystery that simply may possibly spoil every thing, together with the Taskforce.

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The Liveship Traders Trilogy: Ship of Magic; Mad Ship; Ship of Destiny

By Robin Hobb

Set within the similar sprawling delusion international as her FitzChivalry Farseer novels, Robin Hobb's Liveship investors trilogy unravels the tale of a once-thriving urban, an excellent and mythic species dealing with extinction, and the extended family whose future is intertwined with either. organize to be swept away during this breathtaking publication bundle:

SHIP OF MAGIC
MAD SHIP
SHIP OF DESTINY

Bingtown is a hub of unique exchange and residential to a service provider the Aristocracy famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient know-how. Now the fortunes of 1 of Bingtown's oldest households leisure at the newly woke up liveship Vivacia.

For Althea Vestrit, the send is her rightful legacy. For Althea's younger nephew, wrenched from his spiritual experiences and compelled to serve aboard the send, the Vivacia is a existence sentence. however the destiny of the ship--and the Vestrits--may eventually lie within the arms of an intruder: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to grab strength over the Pirate Isles by means of taking pictures a liveship and bending it to his will.

Praise for Robin Hobb and the Liveship investors Trilogy

"Fantasy because it needs to be written . . . Robin Hobb's books are diamonds in a sea of zircons."--George R. R. Martin

"A really outstanding saga . . . The characterizations are continually very good, and [Hobb] animates every little thing with love for and information of the sea."--Booklist

"A significant paintings of excessive delusion, studying like a pass among Tolkien and Patrick O'Brian . . . one of many best delusion sagas to bridge the millennium."--Publishers Weekly

"Rich, advanced . . . [Hobb's] plotting is advanced yet tightly managed, and her descriptive powers fit her first-class visible mind's eye. yet her leader advantage is that she delineates personality tremendous well."--Interzone

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