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BLOOD AND ICE by Robert Masello — Journalist Michael Wilde hopes that a monthlong assignment to the South Pole will give him a new lease on life. On a routine dive in to the polar sea, he unexpectedly finds something else entirely: a young man and woman, bound with chains and sealed forever in a block of ice. Beside them a chest filled with a strange, and sinister, cargo. Wilde must unravel the mystery of this doomed couple. Were they the innocent victims of fear and superstition — or were they something far darker? His search will lead from the barracks and battlefields of the Crimean War to the unexplored depths of the Antarctic Ocean, from the ill-fated charge of the Light Brigade to an age-old curse that survives to this day. As the ice around the murdered lovers begins to melt, Wilde will have to grapple with a miracle — or a nightmare — in the making.
BEYOND RECALL by Robert Goddard — On a bright autumn afternoon, the Napier family celebrates one couple’s golden wedding anniversary and another’s marriage. But for one member of the clan, the day turns dark. Chris Napier suddenly spots the ragged specter of a former friend, Nicky Lanyon — a man whose own family was ruined by the same twist of fate with which the Napiers were blessed. And the next morning, Chris is horrified to find Nicky dead, hanging from a tree where the boys once played. For Chris, the suicide opens a floodgate of doubt and suspicion. How did his family’s wealth slip out of the hands of a great-uncle, brutally murdered before he could change his will? Were the men convicted of the crime truly guilty? And who is the mysterious, seductive woman who claims to know the Napiers’ darkest secrets?
THE LIE by Chad Kultgen — Reach deep into the craven inner workings of some of most depraved minds in America: college students. The subjects are Brett, Kyle and Heather: the manipulative rich kid with a disdain for women and a closet full of sex toys; his best friend, the brooding science dork who’s a secret dynamo in bed; and the social climbing sorority girl who, with one lie, can destroy them all. As Heather makes a play for Brett’s money and the ultimate relationship — one that calculatingly leads her into Kyle’s bed and heart — guys will be second-guessing at just how cutthroat an average sorority girl can be. Told from all three shockingly uncensored points of view, THE LIE opens up a dark reality where sex is a social tool and status means everything.
THE RUBBER BAND / THE RED BOX by Rex Stout — What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services in THE RUBBER BAND, it becomes Nero Wolfe’s job to look deeper and find the connection. A 40-year-old pact, a 5,000-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked to an international scandal that could rebound on the great detective and his partner, Archie, with fatal abruptness. And murder by chocolate? That’s the premise Wolfe must operate from when a beautiful woman is poisoned after indulging in a box of candy in THE RED BOX. It’s a case that the great detective — no stranger himself to overindulgence — is loath to take for a variety of reasons, including that it may require that he leave his comfortable brownstone. But he and Archie are compelled by a mystery that mixes high fashion and low motives … and a killer who may have made the deadliest mistake.
