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Mystery and Detective Fiction

Archer, Jeffrey. False Impression.  An aristocrat is murdered on September 10, 2001 for her priceless Van Gogh painting.  Anna, a World Trade Center survivor, takes advantage of her "presumed dead" status and travels throughout the world to avenge the woman's death.  (NC)

Asensi, Matilde. The Last Cato.  Sister Ottavia Salina, a Vatican archivist, an archaeologist and a captain in the Swiss Guard, investigate international relic thefts, face tests based on the seven deadly sins, and search for the True Cross. (NC)

Baldacci, David. The Collectors.  The Camel Club, a quartet of eccentrics dedicated to finding out what's really going on in America's government, becomes embroiled in an intriguing and dangerous mystery when the assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House is linked to the death of the director of the Library of Congress's rare books room. (NC)

Berry, Steve. The Templar Legacy.  Antiquarian book dealer Cotton Malone, once an operative with the U.S. Justice Department, jumps back into the world of espionage when his former supervisor Stephanie Nelle is attacked while researching the truth behind the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been hoarded by the Knights Templar. (NC)

Bond, Stephanie. The Body Movers.  Carlotta Wren is languishing as a clerk at Neiman Marcus since her parents skipped bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her in charge of her younger brother. She is forced to become a sleuth to save her own neck after her ex-fiance's wife--who happens to be a good customer--is found murdered and she is implicated in the crime. (NC)

Cabot, Meg. Size 12 is Not Fat.  Assistant dorm director Heather Wells investigates the mysterious deaths of several students when neither the police nor her colleagues believe they are victims of foul play. (SC) The next title in the series is Size 14 is Not Fat Either. (SC)

Coben Harlan. Promise Me.  A promise made on a whim comes back to haunt sports and entertainment agent Myron Bolitar when he is asked to drop off a neighborhood girl in a suburban area and she promptly vanishes.(NC)

Connelly, Michael. Echo Park.  Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch begins to question his entire career when, while taking a killer's confession, he learns that he missed a vital clue while investigating a still-unsolved 1993 murder that would not only have closed that case, but would have prevented several other killings. (NC/SC)

Cook, Robin. Crisis.  New York medical examiner Dr. Jack Stapleton is contacted by his sister requesting his help in a malpractice suit against her husband Craig, a doctor who has,built a practice based on providing personalized care to select patients, and while he is able to prove Craig is not guilty of the charge against him, Jack does learn an even more disturbing fact about his brother-in-law. (NC/SC)

Cornwell, Patricia. At Risk.   A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor decides to use a radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder, but his efforts only result in another outbreak of violence. (NC)

DeMille, Nelson. Wild Fire.   Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions. (NC)
 
Fairstein, Linda. Entombed.  Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper works to uncover a link between a serial killer and a body that has been discovered in a nineteenth-century brownstone formerly belonging to Edgar Allan Poe. (NC)

Ferguson, Alane. The Angel of Death.  While investigating the murder of her English teacher, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, who works as assistant coroner for her father, begins a romance with the most popular guy in school, awaits the arrival of her long-missing mother, and puts her life in danger. (SC)

Ferguson, Alane. The Christopher Killer.  On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger. (SC)

Forsyth, Frederick. The Afghan.  Colonel Mike Martin poses as Afghan terrorist Izmat Khan in order to help American and British intelligence gain information about an impending Al Qaeda attack. (NC)

Greene, Michele Dominguez. Chasing the Jaguar.  After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special powers. (SC)

Hillerman, Tony. The Shape Shifter.  Retired policeman Joe Leaphorn is haunted by his last case that remains unsolved. A priceless Navaho rug supposedly burned in a fire shows up in a magazine spread—and the man that showed it to Joe is missing. (NC)

Hoag, Tami. Prior Bad Acts.  Minneapolis detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska, are assigned to protect Judge Carey Moore who has come under fire for repressing accused serial killer Kurt Dahl's prior criminal record. But they are burdened with a much more urgent task when Moore is kidnapped from her home and Dahl escapes from prison. (NC)

Jackson, Lisa. Fatal Burn.  The police don't believe Shannon Flannery when she says someone is out there, watching her, trying to kill her. The only person on her side is Travis Settler. The former Special Forces agent is convinced Shannon's dark past has something to do with the disappearance of his daughter, Dani--a child whose connection to Shannon is just the beginning of a nightmare. (SC)

Johansen, Iris. Stalemate.  The suspense begins with a phone call and leads forensic sculptor Eve Duncan to the trail of a killer even killers fear to face. (NC) Other new titles include Fatal Tide and Blind Alley. (NC)

Kellerman, Jesse. Sunstroke. Gloria Mendez's boss, whom she is hopelessly in love with, disappears while on vacation in Mexico--Gloria risks everything to find him. (NC)

Le Carre, John. The Mission Song.  Bruno Salvador, the orphaned love child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese woman, is inspired by his mentor  to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages, and to become a British agent with conflicting loyalties. (NC)

Martinez, Michele. The Finishing School.  Federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas breaks all the rules when she goes undercover to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths of two girls from an exclusive Manhattan girls' school. (NC)

Meltzer, Brad. The Book of Fate.  A two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson becomes the key to a present-day conspiracy at the highest levels of Washington and the power elite of Palm Beach. (NC)

Neenan, Colin. Thick.  Nick feels powerless against his abusive father until he finds a gun and uses it. (SC)

Parker, Robert. Hundred-Dollar Baby.   Spenser, a Boston private eye, agrees to help a former client, a young prostitute who is now a well-established madam. He discovers who is trying to blackmail her and uncovers connections with local kingpin Tony Marcus. (NC)

Patterson, James.  Cross.  Forensic psychologist Alex Cross's storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005's Mary, Mary) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. (NC)

Patterson, James. The 5th Horsemen.  Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospitals reputation. (NC/SC)

Sandford, John. Dead Watch.  At the request of the White House, an Army intelligence veteran investigates the disappearance of a former Senator, but the trail of clues leads him into the heart of a scandal that could cost him his life and topple the federal government. (NC)

Shepard, Sara..  Pretty Little Liars.  When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets. (SC)

Smith, Scott. The Ruins.  Two American couples, newly graduated from college, are enjoying the final week of a Cancun vacation when they are persuaded by a new friend to accompany him into the jungle to find his brother who has gone off with an archaeological team in search of ruins, and they do not realize until it is too late that they are trapped by an unspeakable horror. (NC/SC)

Simmons, Dan. The Terror.  The HMS Terror is part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition searching for the legendary Northwest Passage.  As the ship becomes trapped in the encroaching ice and darkness, there is a new terror—an unseen predator stalking the ship, clawing to get in. (NC)

Walters, Minette. The Devil’s Feather.  When five women are found brutally killed in Sierra Leone, journalist Connie Burns suspects that a British mercenary is acting out his sadistic fantasies, but her efforts to expose him are complicated by her traumatic experiences as a hostage in Baghdad. (NC)

Winspear, Jacqueline. Messenger of Truth: a Maisie Dobbs novel.  Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs agrees to help an old college friend investigate the death of artist Nicholas Bassington-Hope, and the case takes Maisie into the dangerous underbelly of London's art world. (NC)

Woods, Stuart. Short Straw.   Santa Fe trial lawyer Ed Eagle is upset but not too surprised to learn that his wife has left him and taken a big chunk of his money, and while he sends private investigators to Mexico to find her, he becomes involved in trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of a triple homicide. (NC)