Before the Poison

Trade Paperback | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-7710-7624-4 (0-7710-7624-X)

June 5, 2012 | $19.99



From bestselling author Peter Robinson comes this atmospheric, suspenseful, and thrilling standalone novel

Through the years of success in Hollywood composing film scores, Chris always promised his wife they'd return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now a widower, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he...

Gone Girl

Hardcover | 432 pages | Crown | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-58836-4 (0-307-58836-X)

June 5, 2012 | $29.95

Marriage can be a real killer. 
   One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work “draws you in and keeps...

Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, No.1)

Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Suspense
978-0-307-88545-6 (0-307-88545-3)

June 5, 2012 | $16.00



An extraordinary fiction debut, Think of a Number is an exquisitely plotted novel of suspense that grows relentlessly darker and more frightening as its pace accelerates, forcing its deeply troubled characters to moments of startling self-revelation.
 
Arriving in the mail over a period of weeks are taunting letters that end with a...

Fatal Frost

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-593-06539-6 (0-593-06539-5)

June 4, 2012 | $22.00



Jack Frost returns in this gripping sequel to bestseller First Frost.
 
May, 1982. Britain celebrates the sinking of the Belgrano, Jimmy Savile has the run of the airwaves and Denton Police Division welcomes its first black policeman, DC Waters -- recently relocated from Bethnal Green. While the force is busy dealing with...

Fatal Frost

Hardcover | 400 pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-593-06538-9 (0-593-06538-7)

June 4, 2012 | $35.95



Jack Frost returns in this gripping sequel to bestseller First Frost.
 
May, 1982. Britain celebrates the sinking of the Belgrano, Jimmy Savile has the run of the airwaves and Denton Police Division welcomes its first black policeman, DC Waters -- recently relocated from Bethnal Green. While the force is busy dealing with...

A Question of Proof

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-956535-2 (0-09-956535-8)

June 4, 2012 | $21.95



In the first book in the Nigel Strangeways classic crime series an obnoxious schoolboy is found dead at his school Sports Day; can amateur detective Nigel Strangeways help find the killer?
 
The annual Sports Day at respected public school, Sudeley Hall, ends in tragedy when the headmaster's obnoxious nephew is found strangled...

The Mandel Files, Volume 2: The Nano Flower

Trade Paperback | 624 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Science Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Science Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-345-53314-2 (0-345-53314-3)

May 29, 2012 | $23.95



Peter F. Hamilton’s groundbreaking Mandel Files series concludes with The Nano Flower, a tour de force of unbridled imagination and cutting-edge scientific speculation.
 
Greg Mandel is a psychic detective whose skills have been augmented by powerful but dangerous biotechnology. Those abilities have won him success and almost killed him many...

Playing Dead

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction - Psychological
978-0-345-52701-1 (0-345-52701-1)

May 29, 2012 | $18.00

“A compelling family mystery that kept me turning the pages. Highly recommended.”—Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author of Three Day Town
 
“Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?”
 
The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after...

The Stranger You Seek

Paperback | 400 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-553-59380-8 (0-553-59380-3)

May 29, 2012 | $9.99

In the sweltering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer is pushing the city to its breaking point, preying on the unsuspecting, writing taunting letters to the media, promising more death. Desperate to stop the Wishbone Killer, A.P.D. lieutenant Aaron Rauser turns to the one person he knows can penetrate a...

The Wild Zone

Paperback | 432 pages | Seal Books | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-4000-2579-4 (1-4000-2579-6)

May 29, 2012 | $10.99



From New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Joy Fielding comes a pulse-racing story of a harmless bet gone deadly wrong.

This is how it starts. With a joke.

Two brothers - Will and Jeff - and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar when...

Now You See Me

Paperback | 432 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-15980-7 (0-552-15980-8)

May 21, 2012 | $11.99



Lacey Flint is a London policewoman with a secret past, a morbid fascination with serial killers and a curiously empty flat. On the job she's quiet and plainly dressed. At night she has an unusual social life.

When Lacey returns to her car one evening to find a woman fatally stabbed right...

Darkness, My Old Friend

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Suspense
978-0-307-46518-4 (0-307-46518-7)

May 15, 2012 | $18.00



The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies and Fragile returns to The Hollows, delivering a thriller that explores matters of faith, memory, and sacrifice.
 
After giving up his post at the Hollows Police Department, Jones Cooper is at loose ends. He is having trouble facing a horrible event from his...

El Prisionero del Cielo

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction - Occult
978-0-345-80330-6 (0-345-80330-2)

May 15, 2012 | $



Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que...

Explosive Eighteen

Paperback | 352 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction - Humorous; Fiction - Romance
978-0-345-52773-8 (0-345-52773-9)

May 15, 2012 | $10.99

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.
 
Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare...

Southern Seas

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Melville International Crime | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Political
978-1-61219-117-1 (1-61219-117-7)

May 15, 2012 | $14.95



Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year.
 
In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long...