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The last time Jesse Stone saw Crow Cromartie, he was racing away in a speedboat after executing one of the most lucrative and deadly heists in Paradise’s history.  Ten years later Crow shows up in Jesse’s office and he’s asking for Jesse’s help by asking him to stay out of his way.  Crow’s mission is to find young Amber Francisco and bring her back to her father, Louis, in Florida, but there are complications.  Amber is mixed up with members of a Latino gang and Louis has ordered Crow to kill Amber’s mother.  Crow may be a bad guy but he doesn’t kill women so he’s going to need Jesse’s protection.

L. A. Sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood is still on assignment with the AFTE in the continuing effort to stem the tide of guns and drugs that flow back and forth over our southern border. Agent Sean Ozburn, who we last saw as part of the gutsy rescue team in Iron River, has gone undercover as a meth and gun dealer. Ozburn ends up going rogue and it is Charlie who has the unenviable task of having to bring Ozburn in. This series is almost operatic in its scope and expresses and explores the tensions and conflicts of the border with a haunting clarity that is remarkable.

Investigative reporter Carter Ross is back on the beat in this utterly authentic and engaging follow-up to Faces of the Gone. A house fire in Newark, New Jersey claims the lives of two young brothers. What at first seems like a tragedy resulting from a faulty space heater takes on a more sinister edge when it is discovered that the mother of the victims had been carrying on romantically with a married city councilman who has gone missing. The more Carter digs into the background the more he uncovers some ugly facts about political corruption in the housing market. A timely and entertaining mystery that also provides a behind the scenes look into the mechanics of a big city newsroom.

A young couple, Nick and Sara, are on their way to Reno to formally cement their union. At a rest stop in rural Nebraska they encounter ailing Sylvester White who offers them five hundred dollars for a ride to Omaha. Any chance that this is a fortunate event is soon put to rest as the passenger’s condition like the weather outside worsens. They stop at an isolated roadside motel to take stock of the situation when Syl stops breathing altogether. A search of his luggage reveals he was travelling with almost two million dollars in cash and the couple face the dilemma of what do you do next? This is a pressure cooker of a thriller that is a red-hot debut that stays with you long after you’ve read the last page.

This is the first in a new series about two brothers who rent offices on Baker Street. Reggie Heath is a London solicitor whose lease contains a clause binding him to keep and respond to missives sent to Sherlock Holmes. When his brother Nigel runs off to Los Angeles to an answer a letter sent over twenty years ago concerning her missing father, Reggie is duty bound to board a plane and follow him to keep his Nigel from getting into more trouble.

New Jersey Attorney Andy Carpenter is an unrivaled advocate and protector of canines, and thanks to a windfall inheritance of $22 million he can pursue cases he cares about without worrying about the cost. A German Shepherd witnesses a murder, and if the dog’s owner is convicted of the crime, the dog could possibly face the needle. Andy argues with a judge that the dog should be set free, but a further investigation reveals that the dog and his owner, an Iraq war veteran and former cop who is now a thief, may be connected to an even bigger case. And this former police dog may be the key to solving another crime and preventing a huge disaster from taking place.

Journalist Richard Kilner is driving with his fiancé Jennifer Ryan from their apartment in Manhattan on their way to her hometown of Kendrick Falls when the car veers off the road as they are climbing a mountain on their journey. The bizarre thing that happens is that Jen disappears without a trace. Richard can’t find her at the scene and neither can the authorities. The nightmare is just beginning for Richard as everyone, including Jen’s family and her friends deny to have ever known her. What’s worse is Richard’s friends claim never to have known her. What could possibly explain such a situation? Hitchcock couldn’t have come up with  a more intriguing puzzler in this dynamite stand-alone from the ever inventive creator of the Andy Carpenter series.

Kalogeros Vassilis a revered and beloved monk is slashed to death during Easter week in the town square on the island of Patmos. Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis arrives on the island on which twenty monasteries have been built. This is where St. John is believed to have written the Book of Revelation. Kaldis with his assistant Yianni Kouros and Mykonos cop Tassos Stamatos are treading into volatile territory not just with their secular superiors but also the considerable power of the Eastern Orthodox Church.  This is the third entry in this exotic and provocative series. Kaldis and his team of investigators are engaging guides for the reader as they confront and unearth a strange world of hidden identities, secret meetings and cryptic images in their search for the motive for this outwardly senseless crime.

Kate Shugak, the dynamic and scrappy Aleutian PI, is tasked with a difficult quest. Old Sam, her eighty-seven year uncle and foster father has died and left almost everything in his will to Kate including a terse instruction to “Find my father.”  As Kate and Mutt her half-wolf companion set out to honor his request, she becomes a target of deadly attacks. This is an outstanding entry in the series, and written with flashbacks of major events in Alaska’s history making this an absolute must for  fans of the series and a wonderful entry for newcomers to see why Stabenow is Alaska’s answer to Tony Hillerman.

Set in England in 1923, Charles Jessold is a rising young composer who on the eve of the premiere of his first opera Little Musgrave poisons his wife and her lover, and then commits suicide. The situation closely resembles the plot of the opera resulting in the cancellation of the production. The events leading up to this tragic turn of events are set forth by Leslie Shepherd a critic who helped write the opera. This trade paperback original novel is a an ambitious, intricate and haunting tale that twists and turns with the narrator’s ever slightly shifting description of events.

Stand up and cheer because the fabulous Monkeewrench crew is back in action.  FBI agent John Smith and Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth enlist the help of Grace MacBride and her crime-busting computer jocks in solving a brutal series of murders being shot for the Web.  The challenge for the whiz kids is to design a program that can distinguish between faked death scenes and the genuine article.  Long time fans will be eager to pick up this unique blend of wit and mayhem, and newcomers will have no trouble admiring this sparkling gem of a thriller.

Ben and Chon are two longtime friends who run a very lucrative marijuana operation out of Laguna Beach. Trouble starts brewing when the Mexican Baja Cartel sends them a gory e-mail displaying the butchered bodies of other independent dealers as a calling card to show they want a piece of the action and that “no” is not on the table. The boys don’t fold and this wild thrill ride into the underworld of the border drug trade really takes off. Absurdly funny and scary, the story is told in a spare style with a staccato and terse rhythm that is mesmerizing. This is not just a great story. It is a true work of art.

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