On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will ...
Laura Brandon had promised her dying father she would visit Sarah Tolley, but her own agony is drowning out the old woman's ramblings. Her husband killed himself, and the only witness--her daughter, Emma--now refuses to speak. Despera...
Take the sensuous, fecund New Orleans setting, add a generous helping of tangled Southern family history, and season liberally with a sensitive teenage boy rejected by his friends and frightened of his own homoerotic impulses and you ...
Every time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Now her eyes are open, and he's not going away.Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic a...
A Patchwork Planet (Ballantine Reader...
Anne TylerIn this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaki...
The newspaper reported the case with relish. Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tried to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiance, Leo Wallader. Leo has disappeared - together with Jinx's be...
Two Women. One Nightmare.Except for their gorgeous faces, identical twins Mercedes and Marcie Calder are nothing alike. Mercedes is a movie star in L.A. with a sexy husband, two beautiful children, and an exciting, glamorous lifest...
'Lucid and magnificent.' --James McBride, author of The Color of Water 'Senna's remarkable first novel [will] cling to your memory. There's Birdie, who takes after her mother's white, New England side of the family--light skin, stra...
Turning Angel: A Novel (The Penn Cage...
Greg Iles#1New York Times bestselling author of Mississippi Bloodand The Bone Tree keeps the secrets of the South alive in this “powerful...heartfelt...entirely gripping” (The Washington Post) novel of infatuation, murder, and sexu...
From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of The Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series comes the first book in a new series featuring identical twin sisters made to act, look, and feel truly identical by their pe...
Best known for the provocative and powerful novel, Midwives (an Oprah Book Club® Selection), Chris Bohjalian writes beautiful and riveting fiction featuring what the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed 'ordinary people in heartbreaking...
Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake Series...
Rachel CaineEvery time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Now her eyes are open, and he's not going away.Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic a...
The Wire in the Blood (Dr. Tony Hill ...
Val McDermidAcross the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when ...
No matter what you see, no matter what you’ve heard, assume nothing.Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State’s Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It’s the perfect getaway to ...
From their first meeting as new roommates at Oberlin College in 1973, the friendship of two very different women--one, the daughter of a Protestant working family in Ohio, and the other, a wealthy, sheltered Jewish girl from L.A.--spa...
The scent is unmistakable gardenias, sweet and delicate, the same perfume that his beautiful first wife, Jennifer, always wore. Opening his eyes in the hospital room where he's recovering from an accident, New Orleans detective Rick B...
MALICE opens with New Orleans Detective Rick Bentz in the hospital. He thinks he smells his first wife's perfume, and sees Jennifer in the doorway; but she's been dead for 12 years. Rick begins to see Jennifer regularly, as if she is ...
Back When We Were Grownups (Ballantin...
Anne Tyler...GROWNUPS...doesn't deliver. Its lightness isn't unpleasing and its story isn't unaffecting. But Tyler's darker books insinuate themselves more deeply into one's heart....It pains me to say this, but Tyler seems a little spent in GR...
Ever since her father was stabbed to death in a home invasion, Julia "Jules" Farentino has been plagued by nightmares. Her half-sister, Shaylee, now seventeen, has had her own difficulties since the tragedy, earning a rap sh...
This novel by a short-story writer is a collection of fragmented, storylike chapters about two brothers, Troy and Jonah, who have grown up without knowing each other--Troy is given up for adoption by his teenage mother, who later give...
"[A] beautifully crafted thriller that will give you chills." (People magazine) From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2014, and a brilliant and terrifying novel for the social ...
A follow-up to the best-selling Back Roads finds coal mining community deputy Ivan Zoschenko remembering the injury that ended his football career, preparing for a former teammate's release from prison, and confronting a secret that h...
With 13 ½, Nevada Barr, New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Anna Pigeon novels, has written a taut and terrifying psychological thriller. It carries the reader from horrifying 1970's murder spree of a child-dubbed...
Ever since her father was stabbed to death in a home invasion, Julia "Jules" Farentino has been plagued by nightmares. Her half-sister, Shaylee, now seventeen, has had her own difficulties since the tragedy, earning a rap sh...
An alienated history teacher named Tertuliano M'ximo Afonso is watching a video one night when he spots an actor who looks exactly like himself, right down to the last little mole and scar. Becoming obsessed with the man, Afonso goes ...
The "EXHILARATING "(Midwest Book Review) new thriller from the New York Times bestselling authorPsychologist Alan Gregory's ex- wife needs his help. The surrogate mother of her unborn child has vanished without a trace—a m...
Set in her hometown of Newark, NJ, this popular bestselling author brings you a hip, sexy, and drama-filled story of four friends with choices to be made, sins to be forgiven, and lessons to learn. BOOK DESCRIPTION IIt's 24/7 mone...
The Year of Fog (Bantam Discovery)
Michelle RichmondLife changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason—photographer, fiancee soon-to-be-stepmother—looks into her camera and commits her greatest error. Heartbreaking, uplifting, and beautifully told,...
When Eric Lavender, New York psychotherapist, meets the sexy, stylish Colleen O'Brien Golden, his bachelor life quickly loses its appeal. He moves to Scarsdale to join Colleen and finds a life of domestic bliss as a husband and fathe...