Suspense/Thrillers

Borthwick, J. S. Coup de Grace
The bludgeoning death of an art teacher at a prestigious New England bording school leaves amateur detective Sarah Deane wondering if the real target was not the school's ultra-strict French teacher. (Main)

Box, C. J. Open Season
As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves. (West)

Cook, Robin.  Vector
A disillusioned Russian emigre threatens to unleash a bioweapon on New York City, before returning to his homeland. Two forensic pathologists must try to stop him. (Main & West)

Elkins, Aaron J. Loot: a Novel
Stumbling across a rare painting from the fabled Nazi truck that disappeared while transporting looted treasure in 1945, ex-curator Ben Revere must journey to Europe and discover the truth about the Nazi truck before a half-century of hatred, revenge, and betrayal destroy him. (Main)

Ephron, G. H. Amnesia
Forensic psychologist Dr. Peter Zak attempts to separate truth from fantasy as an amnesiac woman who was shot and left for dead begins to slowly remember details of the crime, implicating her ex-husband. (Main)

Evanovich, Janet.  Hot Six
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tries to get her mentor Carlos off the hook when he becomes a murder suspect. (Main)

Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina.  Havana heat: a Lupe Solano mystery
Miami P.I. Lupe Solano overhears a conversation and finds herself drawn into a hunt for a legendary masterpiece, the eighth Unicorn Tapestry, a piece of art for which someone is willing to kill. (Main)

Greeley, Andrew M. The Bishop and the Missing L Train: a Blackie Ryan Story
When incompetent auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill mysteriously vanishes, Bishop Blackie Ryan is forced to turn sleuth to find a churchman that everyone would prefer to remain missing. (Main)

Green, Tim. The Letter of the Law
After defense attorney Casey Jordan gets her client, a brilliant but arrogant professor, acquitted of the murder of a law student, she discovers that her client is guilty and is forced to make a choice between justice and the law. (West)

Hart, Carolyn G. Dead Days of Summer: a Death on Demand Mystery
Bookstore owner Annie Darling goes undercover to pursue a clever killer who has framed her husband Max for murder, when Max mysteriously vanishes en route home and his car is found near the body of a beautiful young woman.. [Audio Book] (West)

Henry, Sue.  Dead North: an Alaska Mystery
Jessie Arnold accepts an offer to drive a friend's RV up to Alaska after a fire in her home leaves Jessie with nothing. She picks up a teenage runaway named Patrick along the way. He disappears and shortly thereafter Jessie is stopped and interrogated by police in connection with two murders they believe Patrick is responsible for. (Main)

Kellerman, Jonathan. Capital Crimes
San Francisco homicide detectives must sift through long-buried secrets to uncover the killer of a controversial activist, while in Nashville, detectives investigate the murder of recently retired music legend John Wallace "Jack" Jeffries. (Main)

McCrumb, Sharyn. The PMS Outlaws, : an Elizabeth MacPherson Novel
Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson and her brother are on the trail of the "PMS Outlaws"--an escaped convict and her fugitive attorney who attack men in pickup joints. (Main)

Ondaatje, Michael. Anil's Ghost
A young forensic anthropologist is sent by an international human rights group to her homeland, Sri Lanka, to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. (Main)

Parker, Robert B. Hush Money
Popular Boston private investigator Spenser and his sidekick Hawk investigate untoward doings at a venerable university that involve politics, sex, and race and develop into a vast racial conspiracy, even as Spenser copes with stalkers and a love problem. (Main & West)

Peters, Elizabeth. The Serpent on the Crown
The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue. (Main)

Peters, Elizabeth. Tomb of the Golden Bird
In 1922, as her husband Radcliffe Emerson unsuccessfully tries to persuade his rival Howard Carter to turn over digging rights in the Valley of the Kings to him, Amelia Peabody and her family head for Luxor to search for the long-lost tomb of King Tut. (Main)

Tanenbaum, Robert.  Act of Revenge
Marlene Ciampi finds herself involved in an organized crime plot, while her husband, Butch Karp, supervises the investigation into a Mafia don's murder and their daughter Lucy witnesses a murder. (Main)

White, Stephen. Kill Me
Dr. Alan Gregory confronts the case of a man who, having survived a near-fatal accident, makes an agreement with a shadowy organization that ends the lives of clients who do not want to be a burden in the event of dire illnesses or injuries. (Main)

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