Hardcover Fiction

by Rosamunde Pilcher · Thomas Dunne/ St. Martin's

by Tami Hoag · Bantam

by Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press

by E. Lynn Harris · Doubleday

He is John Henderson, a magnetic, handsome ex-football player, now a rising sports agent. He is a man¿s man, a commitment-phobe, known for his ability to charm - and wound. She is Yancey Harrington Braxton, an up-and-coming Broadway actress who oozes charm and ambition. A femme fatale who has left more than a few broken hearts in her wake. Both believe that in each other they¿ve finally met their match. A lavish wedding is planned for this ultimate power couple. But just before the nuptials, ghosts from both their pasts emerge to threaten the rosy future.

by Mario Puzo · Random House

“A splendid piece of crime fiction . . . a fitting cap to a tremendous career . . . Through it all, Puzo keeps the heat on and keeps the reader enthralled with his characters and his story.”—The Denver Post To Don Raymonde Aprile’s children, he was a loyal family member, their father’s adopted “nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him . . . and how, while the don’s children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come. That time has arrived. The don is dead, his murder one bloody act in a drama of ambition and deceit—from the deadly compromises made by an FBI agent to the greed of two crooked NYPD detectives and the frightening plans of a South American Mob kingpin. In a collision of enemies and lovers, betrayers and loyal soldiers, Astorre Viola will claim his destiny. Because after all these years, this moment is in his blood. . . . “In Omerta (the Sicilian code for silence), Puzo sements his reputation as a page-turning storyteller.”—Detroit Free Press “More tasty twists than a plate of fusilli . . . Cunning entanglements with an FBI gangbuster, crooked cops and strong women sauce up this deft and passionate last novel by the Balzac of the Mafia.”—Time

by James Lee Burke · Doubleday

by Faye Kellerman · Morrow

Perennial New York Times bestseller Faye Kellerman ratchets up the tension a when a new generation done the blue. Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father's wishes. But police work is in her blood, and she's determined to make it on her own. She begins to feel a nagging sense that she is being watched. The feeling of dread escalates when she finds some personal effects have been crudely destroyed. It'd a harrowing trip down a dark canyon road that substantiates Cindy's worst fear: for some unknown reason, someone fiendishly relentless is stalking her. Cindy begins to covertly probe her personal and professional lives for identity of the person who wants her frightened, harmed -or dead. As her stalker grows bolder and more devious, Cindy finds her options limited and her friends and colleagues offbounds as the well-concealed rages and dark secrets of those surrounding her slowly come to light and threaten to pull a nightmare out of the shadows and in for the kill.

by Anne Rivers Siddons · HarperCollins

When Peyton's older cousin Nora comes to the small town of Lytton, Georgia, things begin to change.

by Linda Howard · Pocket

by Catherine Coulter · Putnam

When Eugenia Paxon tries to rescue her father's Baltimore shipyard from bankruptcy, she finds herself confronted with both a business proposition and the romantic attentions of British sea captain Alec Carrick

by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins · Tyndale

A compilation of books 7-9 in the Left Behind series: The Indwelling--It's the midpoint of the seven-year Tribulation. A renowned man is dead, and the world mourns. In heaven, the battle for the ages continues to rage until it spills to earth and hell breaks loose. The Mark--Nicolae Carpathia is back, resurrected and indwelt by the devil himself. Terror comes to the believers in Greece as they are among the first to face a GC loyalty mark application site and its hideous death contraption. Desecration--Believers in Jerusalem must flee or take the mark of the beast. Carpathia has ordered every Morale Monitor armed as he travels along the Via Dolorosa and on to the temple. God inflicts the first Bowl Judgment.

by John Grisham · Doubleday

by Kathy Reichs · Scribner

Investigating two murders, the first of a nine-year-old Montreal girl and the second of a North Carolina teenager, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan delves into the world of motorcycle gangs.

by Perri O'Shaughnessy · Delacorte Press

MOVE TO STRIKE New York Times bestselling author Perri O'Shaughnessy takes the courtroom thriller to breathtaking new heights in Move to Strike, a page-turning masterpiece of suspense. Featuring Nina Reilly, hailed by critics as "one of the most interesting heroines in legal thrillers today," * Move to Strike is a spellbinding tale of stolen treasure and twisted revenge set in the high desert of Nevada and the mountains of Lake Tahoe. An attorney and single mother, Nina Reilly runs her one-woman law practice in South Lake Tahoe, balancing compassion and cunning with a passion for justice. But Nina is wholly unprepared for her latest client--sixteen-year-old Nicole Zack, a rebel, a thief, and the best friend of Nina's teenage son, Bob. Did Nikki steal something from her uncle, a prominent plastic surgeon, and then kill him with an ancient samurai sword? The district attorney is trying Nikki as an adult and the charge is first degree murder. With the stakes this high, Nina calls in private investigator Paul Van Wagoner, her ex-lover and constant ally, whose bravado conceals a troubling personal secret. As Paul investigates the eerily coincidental death of the surgeon's son--killed in a plane crash the same night his father was murdered--Nina sorts through the twisting lies surrounding Nikki, uncovering a bitter struggle over a mining claim, enraged former patients, and two old crimes. Finally, Nina must confront the central question she needs to answer in order to save her client: What did Nikki really see the night of her uncle's murder? Taut, thought-provoking, and utterly gripping, Move to Strike grapples with the profound question of what to do when the law does not suffice. It is a novel you won't want to put down until the last twist is unraveled and the last satisfying page is turned. * San Jose Mercury News

by Janet Evanovich · St. Martin's

You can count on a double good time with Stephanie Plum novels in this two-in-one edition! HOT SIX Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, along with New Jersey’s hunkiest vice cop Joe Morelli, join forces in their latest madcap adventure that will put them in the path of a ruthless killer, a dog with an eating disorder, a curious hamster named Rex, and too many donuts to count. Anything can happen—and everything does—as Stephanie tries to apprehend a fugitive. . .and not end up dead in the process. SEVEN UP When Mobster Eddie DeChooch is caught trafficking contraband cigarettes, Stephanie Plum is tasked with dragging his decrepit derrière back to jail. Not so easy, it turns out, since DeChooch has friends in high places and isn’t afraid to use his gun. Mud wrestling, motorcycles, fast cars, fast food, fast men, and good ol’ Grandma Mazur—Stephanie’s up against it all with this case. Will she make it out alive? “Evanovich is funny and ceaselessy inventive.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review