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WAITING FOR WEDNESDAY MISSING YOU INFLUX A Frieda Klein Mystery HARLAN COBEN DANIEL SUAREZ NICCI FRENCH It’s a profile, like all the others on the online When particle physicist John Grady finally When the brilliant yet reclusive psychothera- dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Dono- achieves the technology that makes antigrav- pist Frieda Klein is called in to investigate the van focuses on the accompanying picture, she ity possible, he expects celebration. Instead, death of Ruth Lennox, housewife and mother feels her whole world explode. his lab is locked down by a secret government of three, she discovers that the mother was A Dutton hardcover group—and he is thrown into a highly hiding a scandalous secret. March • 400 pp. • 978-0-525-95349-4 • $27.95 advanced prison built to hold the world’s most A Pamela Dorman hardcover intelligent scientists. April • 384 pp. • 978-0-670-01577-1 • $27.95 DEEP WINTER A Dutton hardcover Also available as a Penguin Audiobook SAMUEL GAILEY February • 384 pp. • 978-0-525-95318-0 • $26.95 Digital only, 13.5 hours • 978-0-698-14939-7 • $39.95 When the local bully-turned-deputy finds Also Available as a Penguin Audiobook Digital only, 13.5 hours • 978-1-10-163063-1 • $39.95 mentally damaged Danny with a young wom- NORTH OF BOSTON an’s lifeless body, it seems obvious that the ELISABETH ELO normally kindhearted man has finally hurt STANDUP GUY “An utterly riveting debut thriller! Pirio Kasp- someone. But his arrest gravely upsets the A Stone Barrington Novel arov is one of the best protagonists I’ve read in delicate balance of the town order. STUART WOODS years, tough, cynical, wry and compelling. Her A Blue Rider Press hardcover Returning to Manhattan, Stone is visited by determination to discover the truth behind February • 304 pp. • 978-0-399-16596-2 • $25.95 an unexpected new client, a gentleman who her friend’s murder will earn your admiration, faces an unusual dilemma involving two mil- while her growing desire to be a better daugh- THE PURITY OF VENGEANCE lion dollars stolen in a famous heist twenty ter, friend, and person will win your heart.”— A Department Q Novel years ago. Lisa Gardner, author of Fear Nothing. JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN A Putnam hardcover A Pamela Dorman hardcover Twenty years after the fact, new evidence January • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-16415-6 • $26.95 January • 432 pp. • 978-0-670-01565-8 • $27.95 comes to light in the case that sent Detective Also available as a Penguin Audiobook 6 CDs, 7 hours • 978-1-61176-244-0 • $29.95 Carl Mørck to Department Q and destroyed Digital • 978-0-698-15000-3 DEAD MAN’S FANCY the lives of his two partners. A Sean Stranahan Mystery A Dutton hardcover KEITH MCCAFFERTY January • 400 pp. • 978-0-525-95401-9 • $26.95 THE POLARIS PROTOCOL When a riderless horse returns at sunset to A Pike Logan Thriller the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison THE ROME PROPHECY BRAD TAYLOR Valley, Sheriff Martha Ettinger launches a SAM CHRISTER Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are in Turk- search for Nanika Martinelli, better known as menistan with the Taskforce when Jennifer the Fly Fishing Venus. When a woman is arrested in the streets of gets a call from her brother, Jack—his last A Viking hardcover Rome, claiming to be an ancient prophet in before he’s kidnapped by a Mexican drug January • 336 pp. • 978-0-670-01469-9 • $26.95 search of a mystical amulet hidden somewhere cartel. within the city, ex-priest Tom Shaman teams A Dutton hardcover up with a headstrong policewoman to unravel January • 400 pp. • 978-0-525-95397-5 • $26.95 AUNT DIMITY AND the mystery. THE WISHING WELL An Overlook hardcover NANCY ATHERTON January • 368 pp. • 978-1-4683-0109-0 • $26.95 A WANTED WOMAN A strapping young Australian named Jack ERIC JEROME DICKEY MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late FEAR NOTHING When hitwoman Reaper runs afoul of the Bar- uncle’s affairs. When Lori volunteers to help, A Detective D. D. Warren Novel barians, she is marooned on Barbados with no they discover something even more shocking LISA GARDNER passport, no credit cards, and no way out. than a stranger turning up in Finch. Until the sister she never knew she had shows Just because D. D. is seriously injured, unable up. A Viking hardcover to move her left arm and unable to return to March • 288 pp. • 978-0-670-02669-2 • $25.95 A Dutton hardcover work, doesn’t mean she’s not back on the April • 386 pp. • 978-0-525-95427-9 • $26.95 hunt—because the Rose Killer isn’t just targeting lone women. He is targeting D. D. Email us to receive our new A Dutton hardcover January • 400 pp. • 978-0-525-95308-1 • $27.95 monthly e-newsletter! [email protected]

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CELL CONCEALED IN DEATH STONE COLD ROBIN COOK J. D. ROBB A Joe Pickett Novel Radiology resident George Wilson is about to When Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband begins C. J. BOX enter the profession as the smartphone is the demolition of a long-empty building in When Pickett investigates a massive remote poised to become a fully customizable per- New York, he finds two skeletons wrapped in ranch in the Black Hills of Wyoming, he finds sonal physician. But then he finds his fiancée plastic. He summons his wife immediately— two men. One is a stone-cold killer; the other dead, not long after she participated in an iDoc and by the time she’s done with the crime Joe knows all too well. The first man doesn’t beta test. scene, there are twelve murders to be solved. frighten Joe. The second is another story A Putnam hardcover A Putnam hardcover entirely. January • 448 pp. • 978-0-399-16630-3 • $26.95 February • 384 pp. • 978-0-399-16443-9 • $27.95 A Putnam hardcover Also available as a Penguin Audiobook March • 384 pp. • 978-0-399-16076-9 • $26.95 11 CDs, 14 hours • 978-1-61176-242-6 • $39.95 Digital • 978-0-698-14998-4 THE COUNTERFEIT AGENT ALEX BERENSON BONE DEEP When Iran kills a CIA station chief, John Wells A Doc Ford Novel ROBERT B. PARKER’S BULL RIVER is called in to investigate—and brace for the RANDY WAYNE WHITE ROBERT KNOTT next tip: We’ve put a package on a ship from When a Crow Indian asks for help in recover- No sooner do Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole Dubai to the United States. A radioactive one. ing a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc and Tom- and Deputy Everett Hitch take into custody A Putnam hardcover linson run afoul of the ruthless subculture of bandito Captain Alejandro Vasquez than a February • 384 pp. • 978-0-399-15973-2 • $27.95 black-marketers and the multibillion-dollar major bank robbery occurs—to which Vasquez Also available as a Penguin Audiobook phosphate industry. holds the key. 9 CDs, 11 hours • 978-1-61176-240-2 • $39.95 A Putnam hardcover A Putnam hardcover Digital • 978-0-698-14996-0 March • 384 pp. • 978-0-399-15813-1 • $26.95 January • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-16526-9 • $26.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook THE LAST DEAD GIRL 8 CDs, 11 hours • 978-1-61176-243-3 • $39.95 RIVER ROAD HARRY DOLAN Digital • 978-0-698-14999-1 JAYNE ANNE KRENTZ In the prequel to his highly acclaimed Bad Thirteen years after her previous visit—and Things Happen, a chance encounter draws KILL FEE ignominious departure—Lucy Sheridan returns David into a romance with a beautiful young OWEN LAUKKANEN to Summer River as a forensic genealogist. law student. But when she is brutally mur- On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint And finds that the boy who rescued her is now dered, David becomes the prime suspect. Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Ste- a serious (and seriously attractive) man. An Amy Einhorn hardcover vens and his occasional colleague, FBI special A Putnam hardcover January • 432 pp. • 978-0-399-15796-7 • $25.95 agent Carla Windermere, witness the assassi- January • 336 pp. • 978-0-399-16512-2 • $26.95 nation of one of the state’s wealthiest men. THE BOOTLEGGER A Putnam hardcover THE DEATH TRADE CLIVE CUSSLER WITH JUSTIN SCOTT March • 400 pp. • 978-0-399-16552-8 • $26.95 During Prohibition, Isaac Bell investigates a Also available as a Penguin Audiobook JACK HIGGINS Digital only, 11 hours • 978-0-698-14936-6 • $39.95 After making a startling breakthrough in rum-running vessel—and quickly finds himself up against a team of Bolshevik assassins nuclear weapons research, an eminent Iranian HELSINKI DEAD scientist can’t stand the thought of his regime and saboteurs, intent on overthrowing the owning the bomb. It is up to Sean Dillon and government of the United States. An Inspector Vaara Novel the Prime Minister’s private army to think of a A Putnam hardcover JAMES THOMPSON plan. March • 416 pp. • 978-0-399-16729-4 • $28.95 As the new national police commissioner of Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Putnam hardcover Finland, Kari Vaara replaces the corrupt com- 8 CDs, 10 hours • 978-1-61176-245-7 • $39.95 January • 336 pp. • 978-0-399-16589-4 • $26.95 missioner of SUPO, Finland’s secret police, Digital • 978-0-698-15001-0 with Milo—who quickly finds that the com- monly held belief that there are no serial kill- ers in Finland is false. Find us on Facebook at A Putnam hardcover Email us to receive our new Penguin Group USA March • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-16550-4 • $26.95 monthly e-newsletter! Librarian’s Den [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @penguinlibrary

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EGGS IN A CASKET DEATH COME QUICKLY GAME FOR FIVE A Cackleberry Club Mystery A China Bayles Mystery MARCO MALVALDI LAURA CHILDS SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis The ladies of the Cackleberry Club are prepar- When China’s friend is killed, she begins to In the first installment of the Bar Lume series, ing for the Memorial Cemetery’s 150th Anni- suspect the death is connected to a fifteen- between shots of espresso and hands of cards versary when they stumble across the body of year-old murder case and a valuable piece of in a small coastal bar near Pisa, four old-timers the prison warden lying in someone else’s Mexican art. Naturally, she enlists the help of and Massimo the Barman wile away the time grave. her San Antonio lawyer friend Justine Wyzin- trying to solve the murder of a young woman A Prime Crime hardcover ski—aka the Whiz. in their town. January • 336 pp. • 978-0-425-25558-2 • $25.95 A Prime Crime hardcover A Europa Editions paperback original April • 304 pp. • 978-0-425-25563-6 • $25.95 January • 144 pp. • 978-1-60945-184-4 • $15.00 CURSED IN THE ACT A Bram Stoker Mystery THE POISONED PAWN THE MASTER OF KNOTS RAYMOND BUCKLAND An Inspector Ramirez Novel MASSIMO CARLOTTO The business manager for London’s Lyceum PEGGY BLAIR Translated from the Italian Theatre, one Bram Stoker, investigates the Detective Mike Ellis returns home after he is by Christopher Woodall murder of a cast member. cleared in the death of a young boy while on When a woman goes missing, her husband— A Prime Crime paperback original vacation in Cuba, only to discover that his too ashamed to admit to the police that he and January • 320 pp. • 978-0-425-26801-8 • $15.00 estranged wife, Hilary, is dead—and he’s the his wife were part of a ring of sexual adventur- main suspect. ers that organized sadomasochistic orgies— A Pintail paperback original turns instead to Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the THE DROWNING SPOOL Alligator. A Needlecraft Mystery March • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-318976-3 • $16.00 A Europa Editions paperback original MONICA FERRIS MR. MONK GETS ON BOARD January • 144 pp. • 978-1-60945-180-6 • $15.00 When a young woman is found floating in the HY CONRAD therapy pool at the local senior center, Betsy Devonshire’s sleuthing skills are immediately After Natalie completes her P.I. license and SECOND SHOT called upon. decides to go to a business conference at sea, CATHERINE COULTER Monk insists on going with her, even if it A Prime Crime hardcover The FBI thrillersEleventh Hour and Blindside— February • 304 pp. • 978-0-425-27008-0 • $24.95 means spending a week on a cruise ship. together for the first time in one volume— An Obsidian Mysteries hardcover showcase agents Savich and Sherlock at their January • 288 pp. • 978-0-451-24095-8 • $23.95 INDIA BLACK AND THE very best. A Berkley paperback original GENTLEMAN THIEF January • 560 pp. • 978-0-425-27134-6 • $16.00 A Madam of Espionage Mystery WHY KINGS CONFESS A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery CAROL K. CARR C. S. HARRIS DESPERATE AND DECEPTIVE When a ghastly murder leads brothel opera- When the gruesome murder of a young French The Guinevere Jones Collection, tor—and spy—India to London’s docks, she physician draws St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Volume 1 makes a startling discovery: she has a history Hero, into a decades-old mystery, they find JAYNE CASTLE with the chief suspect. themselves at lethal odds with the ruthless Meet Guinevere Jones—a woman with a tal- A Prime Crime paperback original daughter of Marie Antoinette. ent for love and trouble—and Zac Justis—her February • 320 pp. • 978-0-425-26248-1 • $15.00 An Obsidian Mysteries hardcover sexy and dangerous partner in crime—in the March • 368 pp. • 978-0-451-41755-8 • $24.95 first two books in the bestselling series. STEEPED IN EVIL A Berkley paperback A Tea Shop Mystery MURDER, SHE WROTE: January • 384 pp. • 978-0-425-27183-4 • $16.00 LAURA CHILDS ALOHA BETRAYED Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is JESSICA FLETCHER AND DONALD BAIN called in to solve a murder at an upscale Charleston winery after a body is found in a Jessica finds herself in a tropical paradise Find us on Facebook at wine barrel. where “aloha” means both hello and goodbye. But when a local environmentalist is found A Prime Crime hardcover Penguin Group USA March • 336 pp. • 978-0-425-25295-6 • $25.95 dead at the bottom of a cliff, the goodbye is Librarian’s Den permanent. An Obsidian Mysteries hardcover April • 288 pp. • 978-0-451-46654-9 • $23.95 Follow us on Twitter at @penguinlibrary

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