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TABLE OF CONTENTS Adventure, Crime, Thriller _______________________________ 1 Adventure, Crime, Thriller Series ________________________ 10 Amish Fiction _________________________________________ 11 Amish Fiction Series ____________________________________ 12 Christian Fiction _______________________________________ 13 Christian Fiction Series _________________________________ 17 Christmas ____________________________________________ 17 Classics ______________________________________________ 18 Cozy Mystery _________________________________________ 19 Cozy Mystery Series ____________________________________ 22 Fantasy and Science Fiction _____________________________ 23 Historical Fiction ______________________________________ 24 Historical Fiction Series _________________________________ 27 Historical Mystery _____________________________________ 27 Historical Mystery Series ________________________________ 29 Historical Romance ____________________________________ 29 Historical Romance Series _______________________________ 32 Horror/Occult _________________________________________ 33 Horror/Occult Series ___________________________________ 33 Humorous Fiction ______________________________________ 33 Humorous Fiction Series ________________________________ 34 Legal Fiction __________________________________________ 34 Legal Fiction Series ____________________________________ 35 Literary & Psychological Fiction _________________________ 35 Paranormal Romance __________________________________ 40 Paranormal Romance Series _____________________________ 41 Romance and Romantic Suspense ________________________ 41 Romance and Romantic Suspense Series ___________________ 48 Women’s Lives & Relationships __________________________ 49 Women’s Lives & Relationships Series ____________________ 53 Non-Fiction ___________________________________________ 53 Biography ____________________________________________ 57 Adventure, Crime, Thriller Bauer, Belinda Darkside Investigating the murder of a Atkinson, Kate paralyzed woman in a small Started Early, Took My Dog English town, local cop Jonas (Jackson Brodie) Holly is forced to relinquish the British author Atkinson’s case to an abrasive detective magnifi cently plotted novel who is unable to stop subsequent takes Jackson Brodie, a “semi- killings, a situation that causes retired” PI, back to his Yorkshire Holly to be targeted with hometown to trace the biological resentment and blame. parents of Hope McMasters, a woman adopted by a couple in the 1970s at age two. Block, Lawrence A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Matthew Scudder) Baldacci, David After a childhood friend is shot The Sixth Man (Sean King and down while attempting to atone for Michelle Maxwell) past sins, Scudder is drawn into a King’s old law professor Ted murder investigation that threatens Bergin, who has hired King and to upset his path toward recovery Maxwell to assist in his defense and get him killed in the process. of a serial murderer who has been apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, is found dead in a Bolton, S. J. car by the side of the road before Now You See Me the PIs can meet with him. Young detective constable Lacey Flint stumbles onto a murder scene that a reporter likens to the crimes Berry, Steve of Jack the Ripper and as she races The Jefferson Key against time to prevent additional (Cotton Malone) deaths, she realizes that the killer Cotton Malone battles a group of is taunting her with secrets from families whose infl uence dates her past. back to the U.S. Constitution and who seek to crack a code devised by Thomas Jefferson himself in their quest for power. 1 Box, C. J. Burke, James Lee Back of Beyond Feast Day of Fools In this stand-alone from Edgar- (Hackberry Holland) winner Box, Cody Hoyt, an Interviewing an alcoholic Native investigator in the sheriff’s American who witnessed a murder department of Montana’s Lewis along the Texas-Mexico border, and Clark County and a (barely) Sheriff Hack Holland and his recovering alcoholic, goes in deputy, Sam Tibbs, recognize the search of the man who burned his work of serial killer Preacher Jack Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor to Collins in an investigation that is death. assisted by the enigmatic Anton Ling. Brown, Dale A Time for Patriots Clancy, Tom (Patrick McLanahan) Against All Enemies When the country explodes When ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell in violence after the president Moore arrives at a rendezvous institutes an unprecedented to take charge of a high-ranking austerity program, retired Taliban captive, the meeting takes Air Force general and aviator a horrifi c turn with news of a Patrick McLanahan trains a new potentially devastating coalition generation of dedicated patriots between the Taliban and the to hunt down those who threaten warring Mexican drug cartels on America. the blood-soaked U. S.-Mexico border. Burke, Jan Disturbance (Irene Kelly) Clark, Mary Higgins A brood of serial killers makes I’ll Walk Alone a family business out of stalking Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, an reporter Irene Kelly when they interior designer on the threshold spring their psychopathic father of a successful Manhattan career, Nicholas Parrish from jail and he is terrifi ed to discover that picks up where he left off all those somebody is not only using her years ago, with an all-consuming credit cards and manipulating her passion to end Irene’s life. fi nancial accounts to bankrupt her 2 and destroy her reputation, but detectives, including one who is may also be impersonating her in a drawn to cases of rough urban scheme that may involve the much combat and another who is more brutal crimes of kidnapping compelled by suicide, missing and murder. persons, and supernatural cases. Coben, Harlan Connelly, Michael Live Wire (Myron Bolitar) The Fifth Witness When a pregnant tennis star (Mickey Haller) reports that her rock-artist husband Connelly brings back the Lincoln has gone missing amid scandalous Lawyer for a satisfying case that rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced pits him against a real-estate to confront deep secrets about his foreclosure mill. client’s past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal Deaver, Jeffrey life. Carte Blanche (James Bond) A James Bond thriller set in the Collins, Max Allen present day fi nds the iconic British No One Will Hear You spy engaging a horrifi c modern (J. C. Harrow) villain in a cat-and-mouse chase When an all-out sadist calling that takes him from the Balkans himself Don Juan sends in a tape and London to the African auditioning for a starring role in Continent. reality television, former sheriff and TV host J. C. Harrow has no Dietrich, William choice but to spotlight him along Blood of the Reich with another ruthless killer who Decades after a team of Nazi SS has captivated millions of viewers offi cers and an American zoologist in his quest for fame and victims. compete to locate a legendary energy source in the mountains Conlon, Edward of Tibet, modern-day software Red on Red publicist Rominy Pickett searches A gritty, darkly humorous for the truth about her family. crime novel follows an unlikely partnership between two NYPD 3 Estleman, Loren D. Hart, John The Left-Handed Dollar Iron House (Amos Walker) Michael and Julian, brothers Hired by a corrupt lawyer to abandoned as babies, lead lives of investigate an old Mafi a murder mounting desperation in a grim attempt on the life of his best orphanage tucked away in the friend, private detective Amos North Carolina high country, and Walker reluctantly follows a as adults, one of them vengefully string of vague leads in Detroit’s tracks fellow former orphans, underworld. asylum not an offer. Francis, Felix Hill, Susan Dick Francis’s Gamble The Shadows in the Street Fans of Dick Francis’s suspense (Simon Serrailler) masterpieces should rejoice: his After two prostitutes are found son Felix has produced a mystery strangled and the wife of the St. with a racing setting (the Grand Michael’s Cathedral Dean and a National, no less); a retired but respectable woman on her way to still yearning ex-jockey as the work go missing, Chief Inspector detective; and an intriguing mix of Simon Serrailler is put on