 Bad Men
John Connolly
$4.00
On the Maine Island once known as Sanctuary, policeman
Joe Dupree is the guardian of its secrets, keeper of its
memories. He knows that Sanctuary had been steeped in
carnage once, centuries ago, when its settlers were
betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered.
Now, a strange, otherworldly evil is about to descend
again…With rookie officer Sharon Macy, Joe stands
guard against a bloodthirsty band of men set on murder,
robbery, and retribution. But unleashing the fury of the
ghosts of the past will have unimaginable consequences
for any who spill innocent blood on Sanctuary’s
shores.
 Final Scream
Lisa Jackson
$4.00
When there’s no escape from a cold-blooded
killer…
As white-hot flames sear the dark night, a killer waits
in the trees, watching the mill burn, listening for the
screams—the only proof that justice has finally
begun for the sins of long ago.
Scream…scream as loud as you can…
For journalist Cassidy Buchanan, this inferno is a living
nightmare: a reminder of the horrible, mysterious fire
that destroyed her wealthy family seventeen years
ago—and of Brig McKenzie, the handsome hellraiser
accused of setting the blaze. That tragic crime has never
been solved, and already the whispers have begun in
Prosperity, Oregon: Another fire, more deaths, and one
common denominator—Cassidy herself.
Or it may be the last sound you ever make…
Cassidy came home to
Prosperity to put the past behind her, but it seems the
past isn’t finished with Cassidy. Someone
doesn’t want her to uncover the chilling
truth…someone who has killed before and will kill
again…a cold-blooded psychopath who is only waiting
to hear her final scream…
 Gone Too Far
Suzanne Brockmann
$3.50
In his career as one of America’s elite warriors,
Lt. Sam Starrett can do no wrong. In his private life, he
has done little right. Waiting for a divorce, Sam is
determined to stay active in his young daughter’s
life. But when he shows up at the door of his
ex-wife’s home in Sarasota, Florida, he makes a
grisly discovery. His daughter is gone and the body of a
brutally murdered woman lies on the floor.
FBI agent Alyssa Locke’s relationship with Sam has
been intense and nearly catastrophic, yet it refuses to
end. Now Alyssa is assigned to lead the murder
investigation and once more the two are face to face.
While Alyssa tries to fight their intense attraction, Sam
tries to heat things up. And the complex case pushes them
both to the wrong side of the law—and on the run to
discover the truth. With Sam’s daughter still
unaccounted for, neither Alyssa nor Sam can predict just
how hot this deadly situation is about to become…
 Haunted
Heather Graham
$3.50
When does a gift become a curse?
Matt Stone doesn’t believe in ghosts. But there are
those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia
estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is
haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange
happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison
Investigations explore the house. But he isn’t ready
for beautiful, intriguing Darcy Tremayne.
As a paranormal investigator, Darcy has learned to
believe in the unbelievable. And she’s given Matt
fair warning: sometimes people don’t like the
skeletons she finds. She never dreamed that warning would
apply to herself. For she’s about to discover that
Melody House holds much more than a simple mystery from
the distant past. What it holds is a very real and lethal
danger, one that will cast her into a struggle against
the worlds of both the living and the dead.
 Blind
Alley
Iris Johansen
$4.00
One obsessed killer…One deadly trap…One
woman’s darkest nightmare…
Her job is to put a face on the victims of violent
crimes. But as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan works on the
skull of a newly discovered victim, she’s about to
get the shock of her life. The murdered Jane Doe’s
face has been erased beyond recognition. But whoever
killed her wasn’t trying to hide her identity. The
plan is far more horrifying. For as Eve’s skilled
hands reveal the murdered girl’s face, she
recognizes someone she knows all too well. Someone who
isn’t dead. Yet.
To stop this twisted psychopath, Eve must put her own
life in the balance. But that’s not the worst of
it—when her adopted daughter Jane reveals a bizarre
connection to the case, Eve can’t stop her from
joining the hunt for the killer. A hunt that will lead to
a terrifying confrontation.
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 People
of the Raven
Kathleen O’Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear
$4.00
Award-winning archaeologists Michael and Kathleen Gear
spin a vivid and captivating tale around one of the most
controversial archaeological discoveries in the world:
the Kennewick Man—a Caucasoid male mummy dating back
more than 9,000 years, found in the Pacific Northwest on
the banks of the Columbia River!
A white man in North America more than 9,000 years ago?
What was he doing there?
With the terrifying grandeur of melting glaciers as a
backdrop, People of the Raven reveals animals and
humans struggling for survival amidst massive
environmental change. Mammoths, mastodons, and giant
lions have become extinct, and Rain Bear, the chief of
Sandy Point Village, knows his struggling Raven People
may be next.
 The Secret Sister
Elizabeth Lowell
$3.50
“Call Jo-Jo. Urgent.”
The message greeting fashion writer Christy McKenna fills
her with apprehension. Twelve years have passed since she
last heard from her estranged sister, the celebrated
supermodel known to an admiring world as “Jo”.
It had been bad news then; it would be bad news now.
A desperate plea from the one person she cannot refuse is
drawing Christy from Manhattan to the mysterious red-rock
canyons of the Four Corners country—but too late for
Jo, who has vanished without a trace. Suddenly trapped in
a world of perilous secrets, in a West she thought
she’d escaped forever, Christy’s only ally is
the outlaw archaeologist Aaron Cain—who could
ultimately be a friend, a lover, or a threat—as they
chase a fortune in ancient Native American
artifacts…and the answers to a strange disappearance
that could be the death of them all.
 State of Fear
Michael Crichton
$4.00
In Paris, a young physicist performs an oceanographic
experiment—then dies mysteriously after a romantic
tryst with a beautiful stranger.
In the jungles of Malaysia, powerful hypersonic
cavitation technology—capable of toppling mountains
with sound—is purchased by a private interest for an
unspecified purpose.
In Vancouver, a businessman leases a small research
submarine for use in the waters off New Guinea.
In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica, in the Solomon
Islands…an intelligence agent races to put all the
pieces together to prevent a global catastrophe.
 The Chosen
Sharon Sala
$3.50
One man murdered. One more dug from his grave.
Twelve others missing. This is no coincidence.
Respected Washington, D.C., journalist January DeLena is
positive the threads of each victim’s disappearance
are intertwined. But who’s behind these horrific
crimes? All signs point to the man who calls himself The
Sinner—a disturbed homeless man trawling the streets
of the nation’s capital luring victims into his
fanatical world of salvation and redemption.
January can’t keep her suspicions private. And soon
she’s got the ear—and interest—of homicide
detective Benjamin North. But January has a secret. One
that places her directly in the path of the twisted,
self-proclaimed messiah’s rage. Suddenly, getting
this story has January and Benjamin headed to hell and
back.
 Whispers at Midnight
Karen Robards
$3.50
Carly Linton returns to her hometown of Benton, Georgia,
to open a bed-and-breakfast in the house she inherited
from her grandmother. She’s also dead-set on burying
her former good-girl image—by seducing the one man
who can give her a guided tour of the wild side…Matt
Converse, the local sheriff, was once the town’s bad
boy who shared one magical night with Carly at her senior
prom. But igniting the sparks of the past can lead to a
blaze of danger: first, her house is burglarized, then
someone comes after her. A mysterious enemy wants
Carly out of Benton for good, and now she needs Matt more
than ever—to keep her alive.
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