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Berentson, Jane. Miss Harper can do it. [Smart Funny Women]
Diary format

Bond, Larry. Cold choices. [SUSPENSE]
Captained by former naval pilot Jerry Mitchell, the USS Seawolf is on a reconnaissance mission deep in the frigid Barents Sea when the Russian nuclear sub Severodvinsk attempts to run it off. A miscalculation on the Russian captain’s part, however, damages the Seawolf and sends his own sub to the sea floor. As the air runs out in both subs, Captain Mitchell must decide–does he put his own crew at risk in a desperate attempt to rescue the aggressors, or does he return his badly damaged sub to port?

Brennert, Alan. Moloka’i. [HISTORICAL]
Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family’s 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world.

Bruen, Ken. Sanctuary. [MYSTERY]
When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, P.I. Jack Taylor tells himself that its got nothing to do with him. He has enough to do just staying sane. His close friend Ridge is recovering from surgery, and alcohols siren song is calling to him ever more insistently. A guard and then a judge die in mysterious circumstances. But it is not until a child is added to the list that Taylor determines to find the identity of the killer, and stop them at any cost. What he doesnt know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks. And its about to become deeply personal.

Cantrell, Rebecca. A trace of smoke.
Even though hardened crime reporter Hannah Vogel knows all too well how tough it is to survive in 1931 Berlin, she is devastated when she sees a photograph of her brothers body posted in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Ernst, a cross-dressing lounge singer at a seedy nightclub, had many secrets, a never-ending list of lovers, and plenty of opportunities to get into trouble. Hannah delves into the city’s dark underbelly to flush out his murderer, but the late night arrival of a five-year-old orphan on her doorstep complicates matters.

Chenoweth, Emily. Hello goodbye.
Mothers & daughters/New Hampshire

Child, Lee. Gone tomorrow: a Reacher novel. [SUSPENSE]
In this 13th Reacher novel, the former army MP confronts a possible suicide bomber on a nearly deserted Manhattan subway car — a confrontation that will lead him back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and forward to the war on terrorism. It turns out that Susan Mark’s life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, and Afghanistan … from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate to a beautiful young woman with a story to tell, but can Reacher sort through their lies in time to save himself and help a woman police officer.

Coben, Harlan, Long lost. [SUSPENSE]
Myron Bolitar hasn’t heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to turn for help. Myron heeds the call but then a startling piece of evidence turns the entire case upside down.

Connelly, Michael, The scarecrow. [SUSPENSE]
Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow’s so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar–and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.

Cook, Claire, The wildwater walking club.
Female friendship

Coyle, Harold, Rapiers and goose quills. [SUSPENSE]
Friendly Fire Iraq

Davis, Lindsey. Alexandria: a Marcus Didius Falco novel. [MYSTERY]

De Jonge, Peter. Shadows still remain. [MYSTERY]
New York

Drake, John, Flint and silver: a prequel to Treasure Island. [HISTORICAL ADVENTURE]

Fitten, Marc, Valeria’s last stand.

Freveletti, Jamie. Running from the devil. [SUSPENSE]

Gordon, Emily Fox, It will come to me.
Teachers

Grant, Andrew, Even. [SUSPENSE]
David Trevellyan is a Royal Navy intelligence operative who usually works undercover, sometimes with the approval of his masters and sometimes not. Now he has no choice but to go it alone. If Jack Reacher had a younger brother, he’d be David Trevellyan. Lee Child does have a younger brother, and his name is Andrew Grant.

Gunn, Robin Jones, Sisterchicks in wooden shoes!: a sisterchicks novel. [Smart Funny Women]

Hart, John, The last child. [MYSTERY]
After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.

Housewright, David, Jelly’s gold. [MYSTERY]
Rushmore McKenzie, a retired St. Paul policeman and unexpected millionaire, often works as an unlicensed P.I., doing favors as it suits him. When graduate students Ivy Flynn and Josh Berglund show up with a story about $8 million in missing stolen gold from the ’30s, McKenzie is intrigued. But they aren’t the only ones looking. So are a couple of two-bit thugs, a woman named Heavenly, a local big-wig, and others. When Berglund is shot dead outside of Ivy’s apartment, the treasure hunt turns unexpectedly deadly. McKenzie is looking for more than a legendary stash from seventy-five years ago, he’s looking for a killer and the long hidden truth behind Jelly’s gold.

Huston, James W. Marine One. [SUSPENSE]
On its way to a top-secret meeting at Camp David, the helicopter carrying the president crashes, killing everyone on board. Annapolis attorney Mike Nolan is hired by the helicopter’s manufacturer to defend it against lawsuits, but the more that Mike learns, the more questions he has. First of all, was there a mechanical defect, or was the helicopter sabotaged?

Jones, Wendy P. Waves crashing.
Riley Brennan is a freshman at the only high school in the small, quaint New England town. When tragedy strikes her family, she is forced to search deep inside her core for the strength to handle its rip tide effects. Riley’s journey compels her to discover who she is, as well as the difference between family values and the value of family.

Keane, Mary Beth. The walking people.
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York. Labeled a “softheaded goose” by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living. Though she longs to return and show her family what she has made of herself, her decision to spare her children knowledge of a secret in her past forces her to keep her life in New York separate from the life she once loved in Ireland, and tears her apart from the people she is closest to. Even fifty years later, when the Ireland of her memory bears little resemblance to that of present day, she fears that it is still possible to lose all when she discovers that her children–with the best of intentions–have conspired to unite the worlds she’s so carefully kept separate for decades.

Khoury, Raymond. The sign. [SUSPENSE]
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived–the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in Boston, Matt Sherwood learns that his brother’s death may have been actually murder related to this erupting worldwide controversy over the meaning of this “sign” in the sky.

Lalami, Laila, Secret son.
Morocco

Larsen, Reif. The selected works of T.S. Spivet.
Debut–with drawings & text

Leonard, Elmore, Road dogs.
LA Swindlers

Liang, Diane Wei, Paper butterfly: a Mei Wang mystery.

Lipman, Elinor. The family man.

Listfield, Emily. Best intentions.

Lowry, Elizabeth. The Bellini Madonna.
Art Historians

Mandanipur, Shahriyar. Censoring an Iranian love story.

Marshall, Michael, Bad things. [SUSPENSE]

Marsot, Vanina. Foreign tongue: a novel of life and love in Paris.

McNulty, Bridget. Strange nervous laughter.
Set in the hottest summer Durban has ever known, this debut novel follows six quirky characters as they muddle their way through life.

Michaels, Anne, The winter vault.

Michaels, Fern. Razor sharp.
Sisterhood

Milne, Kevin Alan. The nine lessons: a novel of love, fatherhood, and second chances.

Palahniuk, Chuck. Pygmy.

Parker, John L., Jr. Once a runner.
Reissue

Patterson, James, The 8th confession. [MYSTERY]
The Women’s Murder Club faces its toughest challenge as Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder of two San Francisco millionaires and reporter Cindy Thomas digs into the brutal slaying of a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless.

Pears, Iain. Stone’s fall.
In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe’s first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century’s arms race.

Pelecanos, George P. The way home. [MYSTERY}

Peterson, Tracie. A dream to call my own.
Brides of Gallatin County; 3

Preston, Douglas J. Cemetery dance. [SUSPENSE]
After New York Times reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Pendergast–the world’s most enigmatic FBI Special Agent–returns to New York City to investigate a murderous Obeah cult.

Robinson, Patrick. Diamondhead. [SUSPENSE]
Iraq War

Rosenberg, Liz. Home repair.

Sandford, John, Wicked prey. [SUSPENSE]
Danger stalks Lucas Davenport at work and all too close to home when petty thief and paraplegic Randy Whitcomb targets Lucas’s pretty fourteen-year-old adopted daughter and a young man with the .50 caliber sniper rifle and the right-wing-crazy background roams through the city filled with the most powerful politicians on earth . . . .

See, Lisa. Shanghai girls. Two sisters leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles in this fresh, fascinating adventure.

Sekaran, Shanthi. The prayer room.
Searching for identity

Smith, Tom Rob. The secret speech. [MYSTERY]
Soviet Union

Smith, Wilbur A. Assegai. [SUSPENSE]
Espionage

St. John Mandel, Emily, Last night in Montreal.

Toibin, Colm, Brooklyn.

Updike, John. The widows of Eastwick.
Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie return to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne.

Urrea, Luis Alberto. Into the Beautiful North.
Immigration

Waters, Sarah, The little stranger.
Ghost Story

Whitehead, Colson, Sag Harbor.
Adolescence

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