Adult

The only woman in a line of famous psychics to not inherit the family gift, Charley Bryde spends her days inside Crimson House, the coveted family mansion in Memphis, living in the shadows of her talented older sister, Miranda. But when a shocking tragedy scatters the Brydes across the globe, Charley is forced to grow up on her own. As the money runs dry and Charley’s ownership of Crimson House is put at risk, she turns the manor into a haunted attraction using lies, cons, and expertly read tarot cards. A skeptic starts targeting Charley for the fraud that she is, but their arrival cracks something open in her that the Brydes wanted to remain buried. And when Miranda shows up unannounced after eight years away, the two will come to realize that Crimson House, and their own family, hold secrets even the greatest psychics couldn’t foresee. Secrets that will threaten to destroy them.

He has a secret. She knows he’s lying. Nadeeka is certain Jamie is having an affair. She knows the tell-tale signs. She’s been here before. When Jamie claims to be at work late, she knows he’s lying. He’s with another woman, and she’s determined to catch him in the act. But when Nadeeka arrives home to confront him, Jamie can’t explain himself. The house has become a crime scene…Jamie is dead.

After years of violence, Solomon leaves the brutal backdrop of New York and its underworld to find peace in California where he settles for the quiet life of a gardener defined by routine, restraint, and a fragile kind of peace that had alluded him. Having been a former child soldier, mercenary, and hit man, he is determined to put his past behind him. But as violence erupts on the grounds he tends, his hard-won tranquility shatters when he encounters a young boy named Gaby whose life is in danger. Protecting the child pulls Solomon back into a world he swore he’d buried. As they set out on an unexpected journey, hunted by men who will stop at nothing to get what they want, Solomon must confront not only the threat closing in but the darkness he carries within.

For 25 years, DI Lyla Rondell has lived with one unsolved case: her best friend’s disappearance. The only clue --- a poisoned apple --- earned it the nickname “Snow White.” It’s haunted her ever since. Now, when a woman is taken in a crime that has striking similarities to the story of Cinderella, Lyla is charged with investigating. As more murders take place, each one based on a different classic fairytale, Lyla is determined to finally uncover the truth --- and it becomes increasingly clear that these killings, and the messages left within them, are addressed directly to Lyla. As the murders get more gruesome, Lyla becomes entangled in a web of crime and storytelling that goes far deeper than she ever could have imagined. Someone out there is pulling her strings, and to turn the final page on the killings, Lyla will have to take a little creative license of her own. 

Milly can’t divine the future anymore, and maybe that’s a good thing. Lately, her life has been bleak enough, she doesn’t need the now-silent tea leaves to tell her. Her estranged younger sister thrives miles away in a shiny new life with a shiny new marriage, and Milly doesn’t blame Francis for wanting nothing to do with her. Not after what happened in that Tennessee meadow a decade before. But when Francis shows up on Milly’s doorstep with a black eye and a plea for help --- Milly can’t say no. Especially when the tea leaves are finally crystal clear: if the sisters don’t kill Francis's husband, he’ll kill her. The sisters have no choice but to return to the one place they’d left behind. A place where another body --- and a multitude of secrets --- were buried. Because this isn’t the first time the sisters have needed to dispose of a bad man. In fact, they might be pretty good at it.

When celebrated and enigmatic artist Victor D’Arcangelo dies unexpectedly, his nearest and dearest receive an irresistible summons: attend his weekend memorial --- or forfeit their inheritance. But once they arrive, the paradise begins to feel more like a prison. Someone knows their secrets. Someone wants revenge. As the weekend spirals into chaos, one question hangs in the sultry, tropical air: Who, if anyone, will survive?

DCI Ryan is looking forward to a quiet Easter weekend with his fiancée --- until Good Friday shatters his plans. When a redheaded woman is discovered in a shallow grave in one of Newcastle’s largest cemeteries, Ryan is called to investigate. He finds that she has been posed with wings, made to look like an angel. Then another body is found. And another. All women, and all in different cemeteries. Panic spreads like wildfire as it becomes clear a new serial killer has taken over the city, and no one is safe. With time running out, Ryan and his band of detectives must unmask the monster before the next victim

When an old friend from his days on the police force makes a plea for him to come and help with what seems to be a murder case, jazz guitarist Bishop steps back into a former life. Two major problems, though. The job’s in the town where he grew up, to which he vowed never to return. And his friend disappears, leaving Bishop with responsibilities he never anticipated or wanted. Not to mention a couple more murders. Bishop slips into his old role as easily as into well-worn, comfortable old clothes. Getting his bearings in the town’s close society and among his own memories is a different matter. This breathtaking novel from grandmaster of noir James Sallis is both a resonant detective procedural and a poignant examination of human nature.

London, 1807. Lady Abigail Worthing’s marriage of convenience to James Monroe, the Lord Worthing, is over. But James is out of her life quicker than Abigail anticipated when she finds his body in St. James’s Park. Shocked by her husband’s brutal murder, Abigail is determined to catch his killer. But when she discovers that James’s transgressions ran far deeper and darker than she thought possible, Abigail questions her own judgment. Did she make a terrible mistake when solving a past crime, and does the key to James’s death lie in the letters he was writing shortly before his demise? With her neighbor and good friend Stapleton Henderson by her side, Abigail confronts jealousy, resentment, and stunning betrayal that will shake her to her core...

Chicago, the turn of the 21st century. Our narrator recounts her decades-long relationship with the heiress, Katherine Stern. Through the years since boarding school, she has seen Katherine as a daughter who wants for nothing but respect from her psychotherapist father, as a woman with a kind, but fortune-hunting fiancée, and as a mystery even more confounding than the gothic horror stories she evaluates from the slush pile at her job. Sometimes, despite their estrangement, she has even seen Katherine as a friend. Moving through wintery Michigan avenue to the creeping mansions of the rich to the world of melodrama, ghosts, and girls --- MOROCCO confronts the ambiguity of memory, the horrors of history, and what it means, or does not mean, to read a book and tell a story.