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BEFORE THEY ARE HANGED: THE FIRST LAW – BOOK TWO by Joe Abercrombie – Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. There is only one problem: He commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world.

THE ALIBI MAN by Tami Hoag – The Palm Beach elite go to great lengths to protect their own – and their own no longer includes Elena Estes. Once upon a time a child of wealth and privilege, Elena turned her back on that life. Betrayed and disillusioned by those closest to her, she chose the life of an undercover cop, the hunt for justice her own personal passion. Then a tragic, haunting mistake ended her career. Now Elena exists on the fringes of her old life, but a shocking event is about to draw her back into the painful vortex she’s fought so hard to leave behind.

THE ACCIDENT MAN by Tom Cain – For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver will arrange a death. A ruptured gas line, an automobile crash, a fall from a window; anything can look like an accident. But when Carver is to carry out a job in a tunnel in Paris, and when the job goes wrong for him, and when he is pursued by the very forces that hired him, Carver must execute his most daring feat yet. THE ACCIDENT MAN races above and below the streets of Paris, across Europe, and through storms at sea.

THE ELYSIUM COMMISSION by L.E. Modesitt – A brilliant scientist on the planet Devanta has created a small universe contiguous to ours, and a utopian city on one of the planets. But a utopia for whom? Blaine Donne is a retired military special operative now devoted to problem-solving for hire. He investigates a series of seemingly unrelated mysteries that arise with the arrival of a woman with unlimited resources who has neither a present nor a past. The more he investigates, the more questions arise, including the role of the two heiresses who are more – and less – than they seem, and the more Donne is pushed inexorably toward an explosive solution and a regional interstellar war.

TWISTED by Andrea Kane – Former FBI Special Agent Sloane Burbank trains law enforcement and private organizations in crisis resolution. But when one of her closest childhood friends mysteriously disappears, and the woman’s devastated parents beg for her help, Sloane takes the case, even though her ex-lover Derek Parker is the FBI agent in charge. Parker has no time to spare for a year-old case he sees as a dead end. He’s pursuing the leader of a Chinese gang and trying to solve a series of grisly murders in Chinatown. But as more women disappear and others turn up brutally murdered, Derek’s priorities shift, and he and Sloane come to the sickening realization that these random crimes are linked to the same crazed killer.

THE NIGHT FOLLOWING by Morag Joss – Driving along a winding country road, the wife of a doctor fails to see 61-year-old Ruth Mitchell riding her bicycle. She hits her, killing her instantly. And drives away. The hit-and-run driver is never found. But the doctor’s wife, horrified by what she has done, begins to unravel. Soon she turns her attention to Ruth’s bereaved husband, a man staggering sleeplessly through each night, as unhinged by grief as the killer is by guilt. Arthur Mitchell does not realize at first that someone has begun watching him through his windows, worrying over his disheveled appearance, his increasingly chaotic home. And when at last she steps through his doorway, he is ready to believe that, for reasons beyond his understanding, his wife has somehow been returned to him.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE GAME’S AFOOT edited by David Stuart Davies – In 20 new adventures, the celebrated detective, along with his friend and biographer Dr. Watson, investigate a variety of baffling mysteries that will delight fans of the famous sleuth. Striding through the foggy gas lit streets of London, Holmes tackles such cases as the puzzle of the Green Skull, the secret of the Brown Box, the conundrum of the Dragon of Lea Lane, as well as coming face to face once again with the Sussex Vampire. We also learn what really happened at the Reichenbach Falls when Holmes had his fateful encounter with Professor Moriarty. David Stuart Davies, Denis O. Smith, Mark Valentine, Matthew Booth, M.J. Elliott and the other talented writers who have contributed to this collection have followed closely in the footsteps of Arthur Conan Doyle.

AIRMAN by Eoin Colfer – Conor Broekhart was born to fly. In the 1890s, Conor and his family live off the Irish coast, where he spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king’s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy’s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king. When Conor tries to expose the plot, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There, he has to fight for his life as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions. There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So he passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines into the prison walls. Eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the skies.

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