NY Times Fiction Bestsellers at Howard County Library

12th of never /

Author: Patterson, James,
ISBN: 9780316210829
Year: 2013
Date added: 04/22/2013
Summary: A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real, in this new addition to the best-selling series.
Subjects: Women detectives - California - San Francisco - Fiction. - Murder - Investigation - San Francisco (Calif.) - Suspense fiction.
Call number: F PAT

Best kept secret /

Author: Archer, Jeffrey,
ISBN: 9781250000989
Date added: 04/18/2013
Subjects: Families - England - History - 20th century - Fiction. - Family secrets - Political fiction. - Suspense fiction
Call number: F ARC

Daddy's gone a hunting /

Author: Clark, Mary Higgins.
ISBN: 9781451668940
Date added: 04/03/2013
Summary: When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.
Subjects: Family-owned business enterprises - Fiction. - Antique dealers - Family secrets - Sisters - Arson investigation - Murder - Investigation - Suspense fiction.
Call number: F CLA

Dead ever after /

Author: Harris, Charlaine.
ISBN: 9781937007881
Date added: 04/29/2013
Summary: When Sookie learns the reason why Eric's vampires are keeping their distance from her, she is devastated. Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime in this final Sookie Stackhouse novel.
Subjects: Stackhouse, Sookie (Fictitious character) - Fiction. - Vampires - Werewolves - Louisiana - Occult fiction.
Call number: F HAR

A delicate truth /

Fly away /

Author: Hannah, Kristin.
ISBN: 9780312577216
Date added: 04/12/2013
Summary: A follow-up to "Firefly Lane" returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.
Subjects: Female friendship - Fiction. - Life change events
Call number: F HAN

Gone girl : a novel /

Author: Flynn, Gillian,
ISBN: 9780307588364
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/01/2012
Summary: On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of hi
Subjects: Married people - Fiction. - Wives - Crimes against - Husbands
Call number: F FLY

The hit /

Author: Baldacci, David,
ISBN: 9781455521210
Date added: 04/15/2013
Summary: Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole worl
Subjects: Assassins - Fiction. - Betrayal - Intelligence officers - United States - Conspiracies - Suspense fiction.
Call number: F BAL

Life after life : a novel /

Author: Atkinson, Kate.
ISBN: 9780316176484
Year: 2013
Date added: 03/28/2013
Summary: "What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is b
Subjects: Reincarnation - Fiction. - Great Britain - History - 20th century - Alternative histories (Fiction) - Humorous fiction.
Call number: F ATK

NOS4A2 : a novel /

Author: Hill, Joe.
ISBN: 9780062200570
Year: 2013
Date added: 04/29/2013
Summary: Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever
Subjects: Children - Crimes against - Fiction. - Missing children - Good and evil - Psychic ability - Horror fiction. - Suspense fiction.
Call number: F HIL

The Ophelia cut : a novel /

Author: Lescroart, John T.
ISBN: 9781476709154
Date added: 05/06/2013
Summary: "Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges in New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart's most suspenseful and intricately plotted novel to date"--
Subjects: Glitsky, Abe (Fictitious character) - Fiction. - Legal stories. - Hardy, Dismas (Fictitious character)
Call number: F LES

Paris : the novel /

Author: Rutherfurd, Edward.
ISBN: 9780385535304
Date added: 04/20/2013
Summary: The story of a Parisian family that starts in Roman times, then sweeps along from the building of Notre Dame to the Hundred Years' War, the glories of Versailles, the Revolution, the Belle Epoque, the remarkable Twenties, and, finally, World War II.
Subjects: Families - Fiction. - Paris (France) - History - Epic fiction. - Historical fiction.
Call number: F RUT

Robert B. Parker's Wonderland /

Author: Atkins, Ace.
ISBN: 9780399161575
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/02/2013
Summary: Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along.
Subjects: Spenser (Fictitious character) - Fiction. - Private investigators - Massachusetts - Boston - Political corruption - Mystery fiction
Call number: M ATK

Silken prey /

Author: Sandford, John,
ISBN: 9780399159312
Date added: 04/26/2013
Summary: At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and
Subjects: Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character) - Fiction. - Private investigators - Minnesota - Minneapolis - Minneapolis (Minn.) - Mystery fiction.
Call number: M SAN

A step of faith : the fourth journal of the walk series /

Author: Evans, Richard Paul.
ISBN: 9781451628296
Date added: 05/06/2013
Subjects: Life change events - Fiction. - Walking - United States - Loss (Psychology) - Executives
Call number: F EVA

Whiskey Beach /

Author: Roberts, Nora.
ISBN: 9780399159893;0399159894
Date added: 04/04/2013
Summary: Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiance's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is
Subjects: Murder - Investigation - Fiction. - Women household employees - Boston (Mass.) - Romantic suspense fiction. - Legal stories. - Love stories.
Call number: F ROB