Adult

When Judge Alvin Canter quietly expires in his chambers on December 31st, his loyal clerk and secretary know their jobs will vanish at closing time --- unless they can conceal the judge’s death until after midnight. Neither Tom Carroway nor Carol Scilingo can afford to be out of work, and they both have secrets they’re desperate to keep hidden. They plan to make it look like the judge died at home on New Year’s Day, but when other people get involved, Tom and Carol find themselves over their heads in an increasingly dangerous conspiracy.

In the spring of 1994 in Cooperstown, New York, Joanie Cole unexpectedly died in her sleep. For the first time, three generations of the Obermeyer family are living together under one roof. At the heart of the Obermeyer’s present-day tremors is the scandal of The Sex Cure, a thinly veiled roman à clef from the 1960s, which shook the small village of Cooperstown to the core. Anne discovers a battered copy underneath her parents’ old mattress and the Obermeyers cannot escape the family secrets that come rushing to the surface.

While Alex McKnight swore to serve and protect Detroit as a police officer, the city will forever remind him of his partner’s death and of the bullet still lodged in his own chest. Alex soon gets a call from his old sergeant, who informs him that the man he helped put away will be getting out of prison. He is reminded of his gut feeling that they arrested the wrong man --- and that the real killer is still out there killing.

Julia’s life has been turned upside down by her daughter’s death. While she expects to find nothing more than peace and solitude as she house-sits, she finds herself drawn to the handsome man who oversees the lemon orchard. Roberto reveals to Julia the heartbreaking story of his own loss --- yet, unlike Julia, his daughter was lost but never found. Despite the odds, cannot bear to give up hope.

Richard Manning, raised on a piece of farmland in Michigan, had a father who was a jack of many trades: farmer, carpenter, builder. His mother concealed her own troubled childhood beneath a religious faith. IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY traces Manning’s journey away from his family, through the fire-ravaged wilderness of Montana, and finally to a remote village in Panama, where he comes to pursue a past he had vowed to leave behind.

Phillip Quinn has done everything to make his life seem perfect, but one look at Seth reminds him of the boy he once was. While Phillip intended to fulfill his father’s dying request and considered Seth to be a duty, he has grown to love Seth. When a stranger arrives in town to secretly study the Quinns, Phillip is determined to uncover her motives. But the secret she holds threatens the life the brothers have made for Seth.

The stakes are raised even higher in book two of Iris Johansen’s new Eve Duncan trilogy as Eve battles the man who is holding her prisoner. Secrets about why Eve has been targeted come into the light, bringing her even closer to danger. With its cliffhanger ending, HUNTING EVE sets up perfectly for the finale, SILENCING EVE.

Two sisters set out across a remote stretch of Montana road, and it is the last time anyone hears from them again. Cody Hoyt, who has just lost his job as police investigator, begins the drive south to the girls’ last known location. Meanwhile, his former rookie partner, Cassie Dewell, discovers that Gracie and Danielle Sullivan aren’t the first girls who have disappeared in this area. This majestic landscape is the hunting ground for a killer whose viciousness is outmatched only by his intelligence.

Tsippy Silberberg is only in Tel Aviv to collect an old suitcase unexpectedly willed to her by a distant aunt. So, when an odd old woman named Bella Kugelman barges into her hotel room and starts telling her stories, Tsippy is more than a little bit annoyed. But Mrs. Kugelman's strange and wonderous tales soon win over Tsippy in spite of herself; tales of the Polish town of Bedzin before the war and its many inhabitants. As she watches the town come back to life in Mrs. Kugelman's words, Tsippy finally pieces together her aunt's strange bequest and starts to see her own place in the story unfolding before her.