Jennifer Weiner is still in form with her latest novel Goodnight Nobody. When Kate Klein, semi-accidental mother of three, moves to a scenic Connecticut town, she falls victim to the drudgeries of suburbia. Her days are filled with endless games of Candy Land, the other mothers at the playground snub her, and her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. However, when a fellow mother is murdered, Kate decides to pursue an unofficial investigation into her death for the sake of having something interesting to do, despite both her husband’s and the chief-of-police’s warnings to leave it in the hands of the authorities. With the help from her best friend, Janie Segal, and old flame Evan McKenna, Kate is unwittingly drawn into a web of double lives, secrets, and lies that the small town of Upchurch have been attempting to conceal behind a pretty facade.

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David Baldacci delivers another thriller full of twists of turns in his latest novel The Camel Club. Every week, four men who make up The Camel Club meet to talk about political conspiracies they believe to exist and possible solutions to combat them, but one fateful night, the four members witness the murder of a Secret Service employee, unwittingly thrusting them into a web of lies, deceit, and treachery — all in all, a bigger conspiracy than they could have ever imagined. With fasincating characters, several complex subplots, interesting detail in historical facts and high-tech lore, The Camel Club attracts and holds your suspense throughout the long build-up until the climax, which is a doozy in and of itself.

Author Tess Gerritsen is back with her latest nail-biting story of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli in this year’s Vanish. Still reeling from the latest revelations about her family in 2004’s Body Double, Maura is given another shock when one of the corpses in her morgue turns out to be very much alive. The presumed-dead woman is quickly rushed to the hospital where doctors work fast to revive her, but tables are turned when the woman ends up taking six people in the hospital hostage, include an about-to-give-birth Jane.

Now it’s up to Jane’s FBI husband, Gabriel Dean, to use all his negotiating and investigative skill to find out why higher-up officials are so interested in the situation while trying to save his wife and child, and what he discovers is a shocking conspiracy that touches the very highest levels of government.

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[Tess Gerritsen has come under some criticism for expressing disappointment over her latest book's sales number. -Ed]

In the wake of real life natural disasters come author Clive Cussler’s latest NUMA novel, Polar Shift, plays upon another horrifying what if? scenario–this time man-made. A polar shift is a natural phenomena that has occurred many times over Earth’s history. On the minor scale, it can disorient animals and damage electrical equipment, but at its worst, it can cause earthquakes, eruptions, climactic shifts, and the complete obliteration of Earth’s living matter.

Sixty years ago, a Hungarian genius discovered a way to engineer artificial triggers to create polar shifts, but his work was then thought to be lost. However, a charismatic and lethally charming leader of an anti-globalization terrorist group wants to use this weapon to scare industrialized nations for a short time before reverting it, only, what he doesn’t know is that once put into motion, the polar shift cannot be reversed.

Now it’s up to readers’ favorite duo, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala of the National Underwater Marine Agency (NUMA), to attempt and stop this worldwide distaster before it even starts.

Author Sandra Brown takes a departure from her usual romance novels to explore mystery and suspense in Chill Factor. Lilly Martin and Dutch Burton are calling their marriage quits after being unable to survive the death of their three-year-old daughter. As the divorce becomes finalized, the last thing the estranged couple needs to do is close up their summer vacation cabin in North Carolina’s wintry mountains. Dutch is the chief of police in nearby small town Cleary while Lilly works as a magazine editor in Atlanta.

As Lily tries to return to her home after selling Dutch and her’s former cabin, she gets caught up in a blizzard, loses control of her car, and ends up hitting handsome, travel writer Ben Tierney, whom she had met and flirted with last summer on a kayaking trip. With no other choice, she brings the injured Ben back to her cabin in order to wait out the storm and things heat up between them. Meanwhile back in Cleary, Dutch receives a call from the FBI that Ben Tierney might just be the serial killer responsible for the disappearance of five girls in the area over the past two years. Learning that Lilly is snowed in with the man that may possibly be a serial killer, the race is on for Dutch to save his ex-wife (and potentially stop a budding romance between her and Ben) and unravel the mystery surrounding Cleary, N.C. and its seemingly innocent residents who hold deeper, darker secrets.

Read a review of Chill Fact here.

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Picking up where 2004’s Caught Stealing left off, Charlie Huston’s Six Bad Things: A Novel catches back up with former minor league baseball player Hank Thompson, who’s living a quiet life on the Yucatan peninsula with the $4 million he managed to steal from the Russian mob. But when a Russian backpacker shows up to his beach hut asking questions and death threats are issued against his family, Hank heads north to California. There, he tangos with a memorable cast of smugglers, mobsters, corporate thugs, and Vegas drug dealers as he tries to sort things out. Hank’s funny and sympathetic character makes the reader root for him even as he puts his family in danger and as the author reminds us that he’s killed six people in New York.

Publisher’s website (Ballantine)

Review of “Six Bad Things” at Blogcritics.

Things are looking good for Lifeguard’s Ned Kelly, a former Bostonian who left chilly Massachusetts winters behind for the warm sun of Palm Beach, Florida. He’s met a beautiful woman, spends most of his time on the beach, and works part-time as a lifeguard, pool guy, and errand runner. But when his childhood friends enlist his help for a $60 million art heist, everything goes wrong. Soon enough, his friends are dead, and Ned is the number one suspect. But with the help of an FBI agent named Ellie Shurtleff, he might be able to find the killers and clear his name. Published by Little, Brown, & Company.
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When Llewelyn Moss decides to take a leisurely hunting trip down the Rio Grande, he finds several dead men, a supply of heroin, and $2.4 million in cash. Moss is a man running from both the law and a psychopathic murderer. Cormac McCarthy’s novel is one of desperation and consequence, good and evil. McCarthy’s inspired style is compared to the greats of Hemmingway and Faulkner.

Cormac McCarthy has written eight novels. He is the recipient of a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. The publisher of No Country for Old Men is Knopf of Random House.
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Max Bhagat is the commander of an FBI counterterrorism unit. He is a man of example; driven by determination, power and iron will, Max lets nothing come between him and his work, not even love. That is, until his love interest Gina Vitagliano gets caught in a deadly trap. Max finds himself placing Gina in the priority of his work as he risks his life for his love.

Suzanne Brockmann has written over 40 books in a little over ten years. She is an award-winning author of romantic suspense. The publisher of Breaking Point is Ballantine Books.
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In Lee Child’s latest crime novel, expert investigator Jack Reacher is called upon for yet another arcane crime. This time, the cops think they have it solved immediately; then the denying accused requests that Jack Reacher step in to find the real sniper that killed five people in six shots. Reacher teams up with a young lawyer who is working against her District Attorney father. The originally open-and-shut case turns into a typical Reacher case—one full of complexity, secrets and ruthlessness.

One Shot is the ninth of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher thriller series which includes his award winning debut, Killing Floor. Child is an England native and is currently working on his tenth Reacher novel in New York City. Delacorte Press, part of Bantam Dell Publishing Group, is the book’s publisher.
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