By Stephen King
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture.

By Anne Holt
Series Hanne Wilhelmsen Novels
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

“Follows the experiences of travelers who are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest (From the Publisher).”

By Val McDermid
Series Allie Burns Novels #1
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Journalist Allie Burns teams up with another aspiring investigative journalist, Danny Sullivan, for a series of stories in 1979 Glasgow about international tax fraud and a domestic terrorist group that create enemies and get one of them killed.

By Will Ferguson

When her father falls victim to an Internet scam, which results in his death, editor Laura Curtis sets out to track down - and corner - her father's killer, playing a dangerous game involving a scarred woman from the African Sahel and a young man trapped in a world of violence and deceit.

By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces, and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

By Paul Levine

Atlantica Airlines president Max Wanaker, the wealthy benefactor who transformed her from stripper to Supreme Court law clerk, insists that Lisa Fremont use her influence to secure a favorable ruling for his airlines, or face the consequences.

By Blake Crouch

Hiring back-country guides, a psychic, and a paranormal photographer to aid their investigation into the bizarre and abrupt disappearances of every citizen from a gold-mining town over a century earlier, a history professor and his journalist daughter embark on the journey aware that the last team that attempted to solve the mystery was never heard from again.

By Donna Leon
Series Guido Brunetti Mysteries
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

“With her 18th stellar entry in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Leon continues to live up to the increasingly high standards set by each novel. Her latest brings the Venetian policeman into intertwining cases involving dangerous environmental hazards: mounting trash heaps, air & water pollution (Library Journal Review).”

By Linwood Barclay

Baffled when his non-drinking wife dies in a drunk-driving accident that she caused, Glen Garber struggles as a single father while trying to understand other inconsistencies, which add up to a conspiracy involving virtually everyone he knows.

By Chris Pavone
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attentions of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book’s secrets from being exposed.

By Charles Robbins

Smarting over his role in an embarrassing failed gubernatorial campaign, ambitious young politico Henry Hatten lands a lucky job as a communications director for a senator's presidential campaign only to find himself embroiled in brutal dealings that make him question his sense of morality.

By Perri O’Shaughnessy
Series Nina Reilly Mysteries

When defense attorney Nina Reilly takes the case of Jim Strong, a member of one of South Lake Tahoe’s most prominent families, who has been accused of killing his brother, she finds her life threatened by a terrifying confrontation with a psychopath.

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“When his pregnant wife and child are kidnapped and he discovers that he has been set up as a traitor, brilliant CIA agent Sam Capra begins a desperate hunt for the unknown enemy who he believes has targeted the wrong man (From the Publisher).”

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

When her daughter Anna is murdered and her new husband Noah is accused of the crime, Maggie searches for the truth, where she uncovers something darker than she could have ever imagined.

By Michel Bussi

In the aftermath of a tragic plane crash in the Swiss Alps in which a baby is the only survivor, two families-one poor, one wealthy and dangerous – step forward to claim her.

By Steve Berry
Series Cotton Malone Novels

When his son is kidnapped, Cotton Malone discovers a link to a conspiracy involving the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria.

By Mary Higgins Clark

A student obsessed with her English professor is accused of his murder, but cannot remember how her fingerprints could possibly have been found.

By Megan Miranda
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

In a story told in reverse over the course of fifteen days, Nicolette Farrell, returning to her rural hometown ten years after the disappearance of her best friend, attempts to unravel the truth about the disappearance of another young woman.

By Olen Steinhauer

After a failed rescue attempt of a hijacked plane in Vienna, two retired spies, former lovers, can’t help but relive the past and determine if the mission went wrong because of a compromised agent on the inside.

By James Patterson
Series Alex Cross Series
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

A Washington, D. C. police detective, Alex Cross becomes caught up in a kidnapping case that may involve a schizophrenic psychopath.

By Philip Carter

A resourceful woman on the run and a vengeance-driven man forge a reluctant partnership in an international cat-and-mouse race to survive and find answers.

By Mark Mills

It is 1947 and GI Conrad Labarde has returned to his east end Long Island home. One day he finds the body of a beautiful young millionairess tangled in his fishing nets.  Initially appearing as a drowning, the autopsy raises the possibility of murder, with Lebarde as a main suspect.  Taut and engrossing.

By Steve Berry

When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War.

By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp Novels
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn’s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nation’s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin (From the Publisher).”

By Jeanine Cummins
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Selling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.

By Jacqueline Winspear
Series Maisie Dobbs Novels
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“…An intriguing psychological mystery about the damage war inflicts on a person's soul, as well as a thought-provoking look at the lengths to which the hopeless and mentally unstable might go to be heard (Library Journal Review).”

By Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Participating in a psychological study under the mysterious Dr. Shields, Jessica endures intense, invasive sessions and oppressive behavioral restrictions before she begins to lose her grasp on reality.

By Shari Lapeña
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Weathering a storm that has cut them off from the outside world, the guests at a Catskills skiing lodge panic as an unknown assailant starts killing them off one by one.

By Agatha Christie
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, March 12, 2013.  7:30 PM.

When ten people arrive on private Indian Island off England's southwest coast, lured to a mansion by invitations from a mysterious host, terror mounts as one guest after another is murdered, in a classic whodunit that is an elaboration of the famous children's rhyme "Ten Little Indians."

By Nora Roberts
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The sole survivor of a brutal crime, Reece Gilmore seeks refuge from the terror of the past in Angel's Fist, Wyoming, only to become an eyewitness to a possible murder, but when all evidence of the crime vanishes, no one seems to believe her, except for Brody, a gruff loner who becomes her only hope of escaping a killer.

By Russell Andrews

The brutal murder of a young female journalist draws Justin Westwood, a small-town Long Island cop, into a dangerous investigation into a conspiracy that forces him into a dangerous confrontation with his fellow cops, the FBI, and an oddball team of professional killers.

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa V., Library Clerk

A family of tennis stars debate whether or not to report their mother as missing because it would implicate their father.

By Sue Miller

A series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in an affair with a local journalist.

By Brock Clarke

“… a delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the "accidental arsonist and murderer" narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love and life … (Publishers Weekly).”

By B.A. Shapiro
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 26, 2014. 1:30 PM.

An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared twenty-five years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner, until she realizes that the art she is forging may itself be a forgery.

By Helen MacInnes

A British officer pretending to be French tries to find the Nazi plans for resisting invasion off the coast of France during World War II.

By Charles Brokaw
Series Thomas Lourds Novels

When the ancient ruins of Atlantis are discovered along the Spanish coast, linguist and archaeologist Thomas Lourds joins a violent competition to be the first of its explorers, an effort marked by a series of puzzles that must be solved in order to gain entry into the lost civilization.

By Zoje Stage
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

An ailing woman fights to protect her family from her mute daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes, which are complicated by her doting husband's denial about their daughter's true nature.

By Catherine Coulter
Series FBI Thrillers

When a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident.

By Jim Butcher
Series The Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Thomas Raith, Harry Dresden's incubus half-brother, comes up with a plan to save Harry from the evil Stygian Sisterhood while continuing to conceal his involvement in the Oblivion War (From the Publisher).”

By Joy Fielding
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Estranged from her family because of her complicated relationship with her stepmother, Robin returns home after her family experiences a brutal home invasion, only to uncover horrible family secrets that may have led to the attack.

By William March

 “The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before (From the Publisher).”

By Harry Dolan
Series David Logan Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

 “The story takes place in Ann Arbor, Mich., where David Loogan has just accepted a position at Gray Streets mystery magazine - and embarked on an affair with his new boss's wife. It's not long before bodies begin turning up left and right, and a young investigator is involved (Publishers Weekly).”

By Richard North Patterson
Series Kerry Kilcannon Novels

The marriage of President Kerry Kilcannon and TV journalist Lara Costello is marred by a massacre of innocent civilians by gunfire, setting in motion events that reveal the hidden connections among guns, money, and power in Washington.

By Cristina Alger
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When her husband disappears after a plane crash in the stormy Swiss Alps, Annabel Lerner determines that his death was no accident, and that she is now in the crosshairs of his powerful enemies.

By Jo Nesbø
Series Detective Harry Hole series
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.

By Kōshun Takami
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

A group of ninth–grade students are confined to a small isolated island where they must fight each other for three days until only one survivor remains, as part of the ultimate in reality television.

By Josh Bazell
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

In this debut thriller, an intern at a run-down Manhattan hospital who's atoning for his former life as a mob hit man encounters in the course of a single day a patient with a mystery illness, a 21-year-old girl about to have a leg amputated, and a former mob associate.

By Annie Ward
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Starting a therapeutic journal in the aftermath of a scarring accident, former travel writer Maddie is forced to reckon with her husband's PTSD, her son's safety, and her family's complicated history with her best friend, Jo.

By Lisa Unger

A young New York writer, a privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother does a good deed which has terrible consequences and leaves her running for her life.