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The Black Marble
by Joseph WambaughRussian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide detective who gets teamed with Natalie Zimmerman, twice-divorced with a grudge against men. These unlikely partners are assigned the strange case of a stolen show dog being held for ransom. In this bittersweet tale that the Los Angeles Times called “terrifying and romantic,” the partners will find much more than they ever could have imagined. Cosmopolitan called it “fast, colorful and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining.”
Heart of War
by Lucian K. Truscott IVHarassment of women in the military is much discussed in the press these days. In showing up that problem for what it is, Truscott, author of two previous best-sellers, Dress Gray (1979) and Army Blue 1989), offers a much more gracefully written and affecting novel than its predecessors.
Murder At the National Cathedral
by Margaret TrumanThe brutal murder of a friend drags Mac Smith and Annabel Reed from their newlywed bliss into an unholy web of intrigue and danger. When a second murder is commited in England, which the honeymooners had just visited, the Smiths go back across the seas, and straight into the center of an ungodly plot of secret agents, a playboy priest, a frustrated lover, a choleric cleric...and a murder so perfect it's a sin.
Deadly Rich
by Edward StewartHomicide cop Vince Cardozo returns in another unstoppable thriller by the bestselling author of Privileged Lives.<P> For alcoholic former actress Leigh Baker, the moment will always be suspended in time: seeing her daughter plunge to her death from the terrace of a sixth-floor apartment. Months later, the man responsible is convicted by a jury of his peers. Four years after that, he is out on parole. And one by one, those whose testimony helped put James Delancey away meet violent ends.<P> Manhattan doyenne Oona Aldridge is the first. She is found in the dressing room of a trendy Manhattan boutique, her throat slashed. As more grisly murders follow, NYPD cop Vince Cardozo assembles a task force to stop the serial killer dubbed the “Society Son of Sam.”<P> Is Delancey himself the culprit? With the city in a panic and Cardozo’s attraction to Leigh threatening to undermine the investigation, he follows a twisting trail that exposes the sins and excesses of the rich and infamous... and a vendetta more chilling than anyone can imagine.
Dragon's Breath
by Frank SmithAn international thriller centered on the events at a Global Atmospheric Research Seminar being held in Canada to determine why the weather has been different. CIA, China, Russia, and others are all involved...
Archangel
by Gerald SeymourWhen British Intelligence asks Michael Holly, a mechanical engineer, to run an errand for them in the Soviet Union, the consequences of capture are never mentioned. But what seems a simple handover carries unimaginable risks, and now Holly is facing fifteen years imprisoned in a gulag in the midst of the frozen tundra. Along with his fellow inmates, Holly has to find the strength to fight the camp's brutal regime in any way he can. But Camp 3 is the place where hopes and dreams are brought to die. Against the might of the Soviet state, is Michael Holly strong enough to sustain his will to survive?
Rules of the Hunt
by Victor O'ReillyBringing an end to the reign of the terrorist mastermind known as Hangman, Irish ex-soldier and war photographer Hugo Fitzduane is forced to protect himself from a fierce retaliatory group on the streets of Tokyo
Midtown South
by Christopher NewmanA police novel about the brutal murders of prostitutes who look uncannily like each other. Joe Dante, undercover detective in the precinct bordering Manhattan's Times Square, finds this case as hard as they get.
The Mermaids Singing
by Val McdermidThis was the summer he discovered what he wanted--at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling. The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is criminal psychologist Tony Hill. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. But profiling the psychopath is not beyond him. Hill's own past has made him the perfect man to comprehend the killer's motives. It's also made him the perfect victim. A game has begun for the hunter and the hunted. But as Hill confronts his own hidden demons, he must also come face-to-face with an evil so profound he may not have the courage--or the power--to stop it...
A Matter of Honor
by William P. McgivernMark Weir of the Chicago Police Department's Homicide Division suspects a connection in the murders of several army men in the Chicago area and asks his father, a retired Army General, to help him get access to the soldiers' records in the hope of discovering the connection. Meanwhile, Durham Lasari, Army private gone AWOL, is chosen by a drug smuggling ring with Army connections to be the next courier in their drug loop between Frankfort, West Germany, and Chicago. This is Lasari's story, and it is through him and his dealings with the ring in Chicago and Frankfort that intrigue and suspense build. Conflicts that arise between Chicago Police and U. S. Army over jurisdiction and methods, and the General's private investigation following the death of his son jeopardize Lasari's safety and heighten suspense. A Matter of Honor presents good views of contrasting neighborhoods and lifestyles as the action moves from Cicero to the Gold Coast to Cabrini Green to the O'Hare complex and other sites in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross
by Harry KemelmanOn a pleasure trip to the Holy Land, Rabbi David Small looks in on the troubled son of friends. Young Jordan Goodman has embraced the extreme ideals of a controversial fundamentalist Jewish group. Now his newfound beliefs lead him to perform an act of dubious heroism that results in a murder charge. Can Rabbi Small show him the error of his ways... and save him from the murder rap?
Just Cause
by John KatzenbachAt first report Matt Cowart doesn't believe the claims of innocence from Robert Earl Ferguson, Death Row inmate. But the more Coward digs into his case, the more he believes that, as a black man, Ferguson is a victim of hate and prejudice, and that the wrong man is going to be executed. Cowart lets fly a series of hard-hitting investigative articles that ultimately frees Ferguson and gets Cowart a Pulitzer Prize. He's a hero, a celebrity, a big-hearted guy--who has unwittingly set in motion a scenario of horror and death....
Price of Honor
by David HackworthWith a golden name and a platinum future, U.S. Army Special Forces Captain Sandy Caine was born to soldier. For eight generations, his family has served duty, honor, and country on the battlefield, save one--Sandy's father, who cracked under fire in Vietnam, disgracing the Caine family as a coward. At least, that's what Sandy'd been led to believe. Little does he know that what happened to his father has grown into a thirty-year legacy of silence and deception perpetrated by the most powerful players in Washington. Because in times of war, the first casualty is truth. And Sandy Caine knows that the truth is the only thing that can set him free ... if it doesn't kill him first.
French Kiss
by Eric LustbaderThe murderous search for the Prey Dauw is on--the trio of weapons so imbued with mythic power that it is said whoever possesses them can dominate Indochina and control its opium. Two men have aleady been murdered for the Pray Duaw, and now their brothers, New York lawyer, Chris Haye, and NYPD detective Steve Guarda, are ready to face the savage madman who will stop at nothing to destroy them.
Chiefs (Will Lee #1)
by Stuart WoodsIn the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia; the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the body bears marks of what seems to be a ritual beating. The investigation falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano's first chief of police. Lee's obsession with the crime begins a story that weaves through the decades, following the life of a small southern town and the role of three police chiefs in unraveling the crime. Chiefs is the best kind of thriller, where the investigation plays out against the drama beneath the surface of a seemingly placid community, seething with the pressures of race, love, hate, and; always; political power, extending from the town fathers all the way to Washington, DC.
Murder On the Potomac (Capital Crimes #12)
by Margaret TrumanLaw professor Mac has unflagging passion for two things in his life: his wife Annabel and the majestic Potomac River. When Mac discovers a weed-shrouded body in the latter, the former gets edgy. Lovely Annabel, owner of a flourishing Georgetown art gallery, must not only endure her husband's obsession with another killing, but she must believe Mac when he says that a stunning female former student is one of the only people who can help him. They discover that the corpse was once the confidante of a wealthy Washingtonian, which leads to the Scarlet Sin Society, a theatrical group that--perilously--reenacts historical murders. And soon, the only thing that matters more to Mac than solving this serpentine case is preventing Annabel's untimely death.
Murder in Georgetown
by Margaret TrumanBeautiful twenty-year old Valerie Frolich, a Senator's daughter, is killed at a posh Georgetown party. And when Joe Potamos, of the Washington Post's police beat, is assigned to report the murder, he finds out a number of things about Valerie which lead him to a number of startling questions about Georgetown's most powerful men and women--questions whose answers have the power of life or death....
Island in the Sun
by Alec WaughI AM sitting on top of a political vol cano," wrote Carl Bradshaw, the American journalist, in his first dispatch from sunny, beautiful Santa Marta. For his sharp eyes saw beneath the placid surface of the little Caribbean island to the pressures below, which were bound to erupt in a blaze of violence. About the main story of jealous love - and a "perfect" crime - the author has woven the many threads that make up the complex pattern of West Indian li fe. The impact of British colonial administration, the centuries-old friction between white planters and their native workers, the well-to-do society which carries on its pursuit of pleasure while explosive forces gather - these are among the dynamic elements that sweep Island in the Sun to an affecting climax.
First Strike
by Douglas TermanCan the Kremlin pull off a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the USA? ...