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Bad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen
A severed arm and the chance for professional redemption lead off the author’s latest novel.
The Other Typist
Suzanne Rindell
A prudish typist in Prohibition-Era New York falls under the spell of her enticing coworker.
Seduction: a Novel of Suspense
M. J. Rose
A quest to uncover a lost account of Victor Hugo’s spiritualist ideas leads to hidden caverns and troubling psychic connections on the Isle of Jersey.
Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes
Matt Kindt
Rendered in an effective film noir style, this graphic novel should appeal to anyone with a taste for tales like those of Dashiell Hammett.
Inferno: A Novel
By Dan Brown
Robert Langdon embarks on another quest — this time with a Divine Comedy flavor — to save the world.
The Whiteness of the Whale
David Poyer
A novel of high, almost constant suspense, and no relief; if that’s your ticket, this is your book.
Little Green
Walter Mosley
This fast-paced crime novel brings Easy Rawlins back from the brink of death into the black man’s world of the 1960’s, to the hate and hope of a transformative era in L.A.’s Sunset Strip.
A Delicate Truth
John le Carré
A simmering outrage against injustice fuels this high-wire tale of a suspect mission in the murky war on terror.
