The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York
Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky.
He’d picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an
abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and
quiet. The only problem was something smelled bad — like, really bad. He
mentioned it to a county deputy he knew, and when the cop took a look,
he found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another, and another.
By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, the police were up to fifteen
bodies and counting. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, when Lucas began
to investigate, he made some disturbing discoveries of his own. The
victims had been killed over a great many years, one every summer,
regular as clockwork. How could this have happened without anybody
noticing?
Because one thing was for sure: the killer had to live close by. He was probably even someone they saw every day.
The iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser returns in an outstanding
new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace
Atkins.
Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots’ marquee players — a
hard-nosed linebacker who’s earned his reputation as one of the toughest
guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in
the news, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says
have been harassing his client.
Heywood’s troubles seem to be tied to a nightclub shooting from two
years earlier. But when Heywood’s nine-year-old son, Akira, is
kidnapped, ransom demands are given, and a winding trail through
Boston’s underworld begins, Spenser puts together his own all-star team
of toughs. It will take both Hawk and Spenser’s protégé, Zebulon
Sixkill, to watch Spenser’s back and return the child to the football
star’s sprawling Chestnut Hill mansion. A controversial decision from
Heywood only ups the ante as the clock winds down on Akira’s future.
The highly anticipated complete novel of The Professional — the first
installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole’s
scorching Game Maker series, an erotica collection that has readers
asking: How hot is too hot?
He makes the rules
Mafiya enforcer Aleksei “The Siberian” Sevastyan’s loyalty to his boss
knows no bounds, until he meets the boss’s long-lost daughter, a curvy,
feisty redhead who haunts his mind and heats his blood like no other.
Ordered to protect her, Aleksei will do anything to possess her as well —
on his own wicked terms.
Rules are made to be broken
Grad student Natalie Porter had barely recovered from her first sight of
the dark and breathtaking Sevastyan before the professional enforcer
whisks her away to Russia, thrusting her into a world of extreme wealth
and wanton pleasures. Every day under his protection leads her deeper
under his masterful spell.
Are you ready to play?
Yet all is not as it seems. To remove Natalie from an enemy’s reach,
Sevastyan spirits her into hiding. From an opulent palace in Russia to
the decadent playgrounds of the mega-wealthy in Paris, the two lovers
will discover that even their darkest — and most forbidden — fantasies
can come true.
Toni Holmes is the best gluten-free baker in Oiltop, Kansas — okay,
she’s the only one — but when her grandmother becomes a murder suspect,
she’s more concerned with keeping Grandma free. When Toni’s
beloved — and eccentric — grandma Ruth is arrested for the murder of her
archenemy, Lois Striker, it’s time for a senior moment of truth.
Telltale tracks from a scooter like the one Grandma Ruth rides lead the
police to suspect the outspoken oldster, but Toni knows her grandmother
wouldn’t burn a cookie, let alone extinguish a life.
In fact,
the case has Grandma more revved up than her infamous scooter. A former
investigative journalist, she decides to solve the murder herself — with
help from Toni — by digging up long-buried town secrets. But as Grandma
scoots in where others fear to tread, Toni needs to make sure she not
only stays out of jail but out of harm’s way.
INCLUDES GLUTEN FREE RECIPES
When a normally mellow tiger at a rescue facility trees a terrified
vet, animal behaviorist Grace Wilde needs to use her psychic ability to
get to the root of the problem. A tiger can’t change his
stripes — but if his behavior changes suddenly, there’s a reason. So
when even-tempered Boris the Siberian tiger goes into attack mode, Grace
knows there’s more to the story. Something is agitating the big cat. As
she uses her telepathic ability to calm the tiger, she realizes he has
witnessed a theft — not of something but of someone. A teenaged
volunteer at the animal rescue facility has been taken kidnapped.
The problem is Brooke Ligner’s parents believe their troubled daughter
ran away and Grace can’t exactly reveal her source. Even though sexy cop
Kai Duncan is aware of Grace’s secret ability, he can’t initiate an
investigation based on the word of a tiger. Now, as Grace searches for
solid clues to rescue the missing teen, it’s the human predators she’ll
need to watch out for.
FIRST IN A NEW SERIES! After her dreams of romance are
crushed, Piper Lamb decides to pursue her dream of opening her own shop
of pickles and preserves, called Piper’s Picklings, in the idyllic small
town of Cloverdale. But she isn’t in town long before she encounters a
barrelful of trouble.
The Cloverdale fair offers Piper a sweet
opportunity to promote her business. With her new assistant, Amy, she
sets up a booth centered around an eye-catching display of the
ever-popular dills in an old-fashioned barrel of brine.
But
things soon turn sour when fairgoers witness a fight between Amy’s
boyfriend, Nate, and town council blowhard — and bagpipe player — Alan
Rosemont. When Rosemont is found floating in Piper’s barrel, Nate
becomes the prime murder suspect. With Amy’s boyfriend in a pretty
pickle, there’s no time to dillydally. But as Piper searches for the
real killer, she needs to be careful to preserve her own life or she may
end up a pickled Piper herself.
INCLUDES RECIPES
Daisy Buchanan thinks of her shop, Sometimes a Great Notion, as more
than just a business. For her, it’s a haven of vintage sewing notions
and other treasures, excellent coffee, and camaraderie. But when an
antique dollhouse provokes some bizarre behavior on the part of a
customer, Daisy makes it her business to find out what secrets are
hidden behind its tiny doors.
At an estate auction, Daisy is
delighted to find the perfect present for a young girl she knows — a
charming dollhouse in need of restoration. But when local collector
Harriet Kunes tries to strong-arm Daisy into selling it, she’s in for a
shocking — and deadly — surprise.
After an intruder breaks in
and tries to steal the dollhouse, Daisy wonders why everyone has
developed such an obsession over it. As she builds her collection of
clues, she suspects that the miniature Victorian holds the key to a
second unsolved murder, and soon she stumbles across much more than she
bid on.
Includes creative tips for vintage notions!
