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  Without a Trace

  Phil M. Williams

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  A pulse-pounding crime thriller that proves you don't need a badge to fight evil—just the guts to face it. 
   
  A missing girl. A team of unlikely misfits. One terrifying descent into darkness. 
   
  When a teen girl vanishes without a trace, everyone assumes she ran from her strict father. But Justin Boyle knows something sinister is afoot.He saw her at the mall. He saw the twisted intentions of the strangers with her. And he knows she's in danger.The police dismiss his warning. So Justin turns to the only allies he has: Edwin Arroyo, a disgraced UFC fighter living in a homeless camp with his loyal dog, Grace Turner, a true crime fanatic stuck working the food court, and Rakesh Abbasi, a quiet tech whiz running his family's crumbling electronics store.Together, they form an unlikely team of amateur sleuths, diving headfirst into a twisted mystery that exposes depravity, danger, and the limits of their own courage. Time is running out. If they fail, a young life will be lost—and the evil will spread.From bestselling author Phil M. Williams comes a heart-pounding crime thriller perfect for fans of gritty thrillers, razor-sharp twists, and flawed heroes who refuse to quit.

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  The Man Who Didn't Burn

  Ian Moore

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  A KILLER. A SAINT. A TOWN FULL OF WHISPERS 
   
  When an English expat is brutally murdered, his charred corpse left on a Loire Valley hillside, the police turn to juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard to find the killer. 
   
  Instead, Lombard discovers a wealth of secrets, grudges and feuds in the idyllic town of Saint-Genèse-sur-Loire. He begins to suspect that the remaining members of the Comité des Fêtes know more about the death than they are letting on. 
   
  But rather than leading to an arrest, each clue he uncovers seems to point in one, unexpected direction: Joan of Arc. Is the answer to the murder hiding in the barroom gossip of the Lion d’Or? Or in another century altogether? 
   
  The thrilling new crime series from the Times bestselling author of Death and Croissants

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  Hero

  Thomas Perry

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  Justine Poole takes her job seriously providing security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients—killing two of the five armed robbers in the process—she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But the spotlight soon puts her in the crosshairs of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries. 
   
   
   
  Unable to stand the embarrassment of his lackeys having been defeated by a lone woman, Mr. Conger puts in a call to the one man who can make his problems disappear. Known for his swiftness and subtlety, Leo Sealy will kill anyone for a price. All he needs is a name and a face, any starting point to pick up his victim's trail. Luckily for him, the local news is as eager as he is for any information about the heroic bodyguard—and quick to broadcast their findings, regardless of what it might mean for her safety. But Sealy isn't prepared for just how quick and resourceful Justine can be. So begins a cat and mouse game between two people who know more about how to take down one's enemies than anyone else in the business. 
   
   
   
  Justine finds herself up against both a hardened killer and a fickle media landscape that can just as soon turn on her as celebrate her in this high-stakes thriller from the author of The Old Man.

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  No Big Easy Love

  Lorilyn White

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  While traveling in Paris, Maurice and Grace receive an urgent message to return home. The stock market crash, aka Black Monday, has devastated their finances. Together, they make the bold decision to escape the exorbitant rents of New York City to live in a house Maurice inherited in New Orleans, hoping to restore their financial stability. 
   
   
   
  Yet, as they settle into their new life, Maurice encounters an unfamiliar branch of his family tree—the criminal branch, led by his illegitimate father, Philippe. His half-sisters, Sophie and Marie, extend their welcome as well, but beneath the surface, deception lurks. Foreseeing no real danger, Grace encourages her husband to explore this newfound connection. 
   
   
   
  A surprise visit from the FBI reveals shocking truths about Philippe's dark side. Fear grips Grace as the depth of their peril becomes evident, but an unexpected bond develops between Maurice and his father. 
   
   
   
  Torn between loyalty and survival, Maurice grapples with impending fatherhood, and protecting his wife while attempting to unearth Philippe's secrets and free them from a dangerous entanglement. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Rockin' Around the Chickadee - A...

  Donna Andrews

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  "Listening to Bernadette Dunne perform the Meg Langslow audiobooks gives listeners a sense of coming home to a beloved family." —AudioFile on The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Earphones Award winner) Bells are ringing and alarms are sounding in Donna Andrews' latest cheery addition in the New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow series.Meg's sister-in-law, Delaney, is pregnant. Since her due date is on or around Christmas Day, this is putting a bit of a damper on the usual holiday festivities. Meg and Michael are NOT hosting the usual house full of relatives and parties. Instead, Meg, along with her mother, her grandmother, her cousin Rose Noire, and her good friend Caroline, are militantly doing everything they can think of to keep Delaney quiet and healthy. All the relatives are farmed out to friends and neighbors; all the parties are being held somewhere else; and while Delaney is bored and mutinous, she's doing well, and they're managing to maintain a serene, peaceful environment for her . . . until a body is found in Meg and Michael's yard.The body turns out to be an attendee at Presumed Innocent, a nearby conference that Meg’s grandmother has organized. Some of the attendees want to learn how to exonerate a friend or family members who has been unjustly convicted, while the rest are avid true crime aficionados. And since the dead guy has been very vocal about his belief that most actual and would-be exonerees are guilty, guilty GUILTY!, nearly everyone at the conference dislikes him. But would any of them hate him enough to kill him? And can Meg still keep Delaney calm in the middle of a murder investigation, all while trying to catch the killer?A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

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  What Happened That Night - A Novel

  Nicci French

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  From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a hair-raising locked-room thriller about a group of old university friends with a killer in their midst. 
  Old friends, new secrets, one deadly reunion. 
  Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend Leo at a student house party in 1993, has been released after almost three decades in prison. He has always protested his innocence. 
  On a warm evening in London, Tyler summons eight of his university friends who were present on that fateful night. Is it just a reunion - or something else? With wine—and accusations— flowing liberally, the reunion descends into violent chaos, and one friend will end the night with their throat slit in the upstairs bedroom…the same way that Leo’s was in 1993. 
  When Detective Inspector Maud O’Connor gets called to investigate, she has her own doubts about Tyler’s guilt, despite what his old friends, the rest of the Metropolitan Police Force, and even the Home Secretary would like her to believe….

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