When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies—but the kidnappers aren't demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death. And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she'd face—with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.

A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Showdown.

Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker - two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers - have joined forces for the first time to craft a story unlike any you've ever read. Enter House - where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose...and the only way out is in.

The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman - or worse - could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed.

One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn.

A TOUR OF HELL
Hell has become a sprawling metropolis where evil translates into order and monsters mate with the damned. Here Golems stand watch in smoking alleys, while gargoyles prowl the ledges of mile-high skyscrapers made of pulverized bone. Horror is harnessed as energy, and atrocity, torture, and murder are public law. And now Satan has discovered a method to bring little bits of his demented city to earth.
Cassie is the only woman in the world who has the power to enter this unspeakable domain. Will she succeed in foiling the most diabolical plot of all time? Or will she fail and be damned forever in the never-ending streets of the city of Hell?

The prologue of a novel arrives in the Manhattan offices of a bookeditor, who's intrigued enough to chase its mysterious author, identified onlyby his initials, to his decrepit plantation on an island off the Georgia Coast.That's the first clue that fiction is stranger than fact; few publishers (ifany) would go to that sort of trouble for anything less than a new J.D. Salingernovel. But bestselling author Sandra Brown makes the most of her far-fetchedpremise, setting up a convoluted plot that keeps the reader engrossed despiteits flaws and foibles.Maris Matherly-Reed is more than an editor. She's also the beloved daughter ofthe publishing house's highly respected and successful leader, and the wife ofMatherly Press's second-in-command, the smooth, suave, double-dealing Noah Reed.Reed, it develops, is the real target of the literary scam set up by thereclusive writer of the novel whose opening pages so captivate Reed's spouse.P.M.E., the writer, has a score to settle with Maris's husband, and he doesn'tcare whom he hurts as long as he brings Noah down. At least, not until he meetsMaris, who has an unfortunate habit of falling in love with her authors (seeabove; that's the second clue). Brown is a master at romantic suspense, andEnvy displays the talents that have won her a devoted following: a defthand at evoking the vulnerability and humanity of her protagonists, a surecommand of narrative tension, and a nice sense of place. This is a terrifichammock read, just right for a summer day as sultry and humid as Envy'sLow Country setting. —Jane Adams

Perry Berg is president of Benthic Marine and a passenger aboard The Benthic Explorer, a 450-foot research ship endeavoring to drill into, and sample for the first time, the earth's magma core. Also onboard are the lovely Dr. Suzanne Newell; ex-navy commander and present submersible skipper Donald Fuller; and navy-cum-Neanderthal divers Richard Adams and Michael Donaghue. It is this cast of characters who, with the reluctant Perry, dive to the stilled drill site in order to make repairs. En route, they are sucked into a defunct undersea volcano and deposited into an otherworldly wonderland.

Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy, a woman's secret, and a man's lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business—where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.

In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction—Myron Bolitar—a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.

Vector is a page-turning thriller rooted in up-to-the-minute biotechnology, which begins with New York city cab driver Yuri Davydov, a disillusioned Russian émigré and former Soviet technician of biological weapons who wants to lash out at his adoptive nation of America.

Including the Hieroglyphic Transcript and English Translation of the Papyrus of Ani
Fascinating compendium of ancient Egyptian mythology, religious beliefs and magical practices. Includes spells, incantations, hymns, magical formulas and prayers. All explained by one of the most knowledgeable and respected Egyptologists of the early 20th century. B&W illustrations, photographs and hieroglyphics throughout. 704 pages.

Returning to the entrancing supernatural territory of her popular novels Dream Man and Son of the Morning, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard has written a sizzling new novel that is her most daring, exciting, and original yet.

In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home–with no sign of forced entry or indication of a struggle. One by one, others who had placed items in the time capsule are murdered.

Besides his suspicions about the sudden, mysterious appearance of Nikita Stover, the chief investigator, Knox Davis, has absolutely no leads. And while Nikita’s no murderer, she seems to be hiding plenty of secrets. With more at stake than anyone else realizes, the smart-talking Nikita is determined to catch this cunning killer–while at the same time battling her own deepening feelings for a man and for a world in which she doesn’t belong.

When readers crave a seductive novel of unrelenting suspense with a paranormal twist, Linda Howard delivers time and again . . . make that Killing Time–a captivating, character-rich story that races along on a breathless plot full of action and intimacy, romance and danger, thrills and intrigue.

From the Hardcover edition.