Too many people see Rutherford, Minnesota, as a safe haven, an escape from the woes of the big cities, like St. Paul or Minneapolis. For Jake Hines - recently promoted to Chief of detectives in Rutherford - however, the picture is different. He's too aware of the deterioration of the old downtown section, and too involved in dealing with the kids who've turned to drugs, not only as a habit but as a way to get rich quick. And he knows that many of those kids - users and dealers alike - aren't local. It's because of those dealers that he's now facing a Critical Incident debriefing. As Jake puts it: "Dodging an occasional bullet is an inconvenience I can live with, but spilling my guts in public is not." He's saved from the ordeal when word comes of a robbery at a bar in the center of the city. It's a place he knows: He worked there once, and, like most of the men and boys back then, he really liked the owner, a woman named Babe. Rescuing her from the chair she's been duct-taped to is easy, but it's only the beginning; it releases a trail of robbery and murder that leads Jake to places he never expected to have to go in Rutherford, no matter how much it may have changed.

Witches. Ghosts. An ancient secret. Enter a world of myth and magic through this contemporary fantasy reimagining of Jane Austen's beloved classic, Sense and Sensibility.The small New England town of Tarryville, Maine is steeped in history, having been settled by the Dartwood and Farris families who fled Salem during the witch trials. The Dartwood sisters, Eden, Mariah, and Melissa, unexpectedly return home after their parents are found murdered. Upon their arrival, the girls are plagued by dreams in which dark spectral beings haunt them. When the hellish creatures seem to be more than just nightmares, another mystery begins to unravel as they discover that the circumstances around the murder of their parents may be far more menacing than they appear. Frantic for answers, they must untangle the mystery of their parents' murders and reconstruct the pieces of an ancient secret. With the help of the young assistant...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about friendship and the memories that haunt us—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more. On the night of her high school graduation, Kathryn Campbell sits around a bonfire with her four closest friends, including the beautiful but erratic Jennifer.  “I’ll be fine,” Jennifer says, as she walks away from the dying embers and towards the darkness of the woods. She never came back. Ten years later, Kathryn has tried to build a life for herself, with a marriage and a career as a journalist, but she still feels the conspicuous void of Jennifer’s disappearance. When her divorce sends her reeling back to the Maine town where she grew up, she finds herself plunged into a sea of memories. With nothing left to lose, she is determined to answer one simple question: What ever happened to Jennifer Pelletier?

***Return to Newford Familiar to Charles de Lint's ever-growing audience as the setting of the novels Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, The Onion Girl*, and many others, Newford is the quintessential North American city, tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with hidden magic for those who can see. In the World Fantasy Award-winning Moonlight and Vines, de Lint returns to this extraordinary city for another volume of stories set there, featuring the intertwined lives of many characters from the novels. Here is enchantment under a streetlamp: the landscape of our lives as only Charles de Lint can show it.

Lady Noelle Bromleigh is determined to unravel the mystery shrouding her birth. She coaxes information from her loving adoptive parents -- information on the unscrupulous Franco Baricci, who seduced and abandoned her mother. But knowledge alone is not enough, for Noelle can't rest until she makes peace with her past. Despite the danger Baricci represents, she travels to London to investigate him. There, she finds both peril and excitement greater than she ever imagined when she meets an enigmatic but seductive stranger with a dark mission. Ashford Thornton, the earl of Tremlett, is hot on the trail of the art thief Baricci, and he has good reason to suspect that lovely Noelle could be involved. She may seem an innocent, but her interest in Baricci is highly suspect. And even if Noelle isn't Baricci's accomplice, Ashford cannot afford to let her steal his heart. For Baricci is not the only man with secrets -- and the one Ashford is hiding could endanger the woman he is fast coming to love.

From School Library JournalYA-Braun continues the adventures of the odd, but successful, sleuthing team of Jim Quilleran and his cats. When Koko begins knocking books off the library shelf, Jim knows that his feline is once again using his unusual talents to prophesy future events of the murderous kind. Taking hints from the cat, and clues from the murder of his elderly neighbor and the disappearance of a young artist, the man sorts out the motive for and perpetrator behind the mayhem. By providing background on the various characters and their relationships and mentioning previous events, the author makes sure that even first timers to the series can enjoy this title. The strongly defined personalities of the main characters lend interest and the plot has realistic complexities that assure a steady turning of pages. Braun's use of details and discussions about everyday events enhances the feeling of community interconnections and concerns. Koko's quirky predictions and other cat-ly antics add spice to an already enticing mystery. A light, entertaining whodunit that offers the added appeal of cats and their often mysterious ways.Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsMore dire doings in Pickax (``400 miles north of everywhere''), where bachelor zillionaire Jim Qwilleran keeps a paternalistic eye on the town from his opulent barn house and his columnist job on Moose County Something, the local paper. Pickax has been saddened by the death of 93-year-old recluse Maude Coggin in a supposedly accidental fire in her decrepit house soon after she'd sold her hundred-acre farm, at a giveaway price, to buyers called Northern Land Improvement. Qwill's suspicions of this deal, reinforced by prescient cats Koko and Yum Yum, lead to his finding the company nonexistent. Some big-time chicanery is afoot, not to mention other odd happenings: a break-in and theft at the recently opened art center; an old scandal new to Qwill; the misgivings of boutique owner Elizabeth Hart about her boyfriend Derek's being offered a job as manager of Chet's Barbecuea downscale bar owned by town councilman Chet Ramsbottom. And then there's young butterfly-breeder Phoebe Sloan, whose unsavory boyfriend Jake is bartender at Chet's. When the town's major annual event takes placeit's a spelling beePhoebe is missing from her team. With help from Qwill and, of course, Koko and Yum Yum, the discovery of her body in Bloody Creek brings about the downfall of Pickax's corrupting elements. Braun's terminally arch mixture (The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, 1997, etc.) is even more extreme than before as confusion reigns, characters proliferate, and Qwill, with his second-sighted assistants, once more solves Pickax's problems. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Sector GeneralIt's where human and alien medicine meet: a massive hospital space station on the Galactic Rim, with 384 levels and a multispecies staff of thousands.In the course of practicing deep-space medicine, that staff has seen more than its share of challenges—from plagues caused by cafeteria food, to cafeteria food that resembles alien species. But now they face a disquieting new development: the terrifying Chief Psychologist, Dr. O'Mara, has been promoted to head of the hospital.Worse, he's been given the job on a temporary basis, for just as long as it takes him to train his own replacement. After that, he is up for mandatory retirement. Nobody at Sector General can begin to imagine what they'll do without him—assuming they last long enough to find out.

The Barnes & Noble Review Award-winning author Deborah Crombie has been delighting readers for years with her English procedural series featuring Scotland Yard sleuths Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, including the 1997 Macavity Best Novel winner, Dreaming of the Bones . Now comes Kissed a Sad Goodbye , the sixth book in the series. This time, Duncan and Gemma are struggling to sort out some weighty personal issues as they work together to solve a murder with roots that go back more than 50 years. Annabelle Hammond, the second daughter of tea magnate William Hammond, seems to have life by the tail. She is director and part-owner of her father's highly successful tea company, a job she not only enjoys but has an obvious flair for. She is a stunningly beautiful woman who turns heads wherever she goes. And she is engaged to Reg Mortimer, who is both her childhood sweetheart and an assistant at Hammond's Teas. But Annabelle's life is cut tragically short; she is found in an East London park, dead from a massive head wound. The corpse has been left carefully and respectfully laid out, hinting that Annabelle may well have known her killer. Duncan and Gemma are called in to help local DI Janice Coppin investigate the murder, and it doesn't take long for them to discover that Annabelle's life wasn't at all what it seemed. The deeper they dig, the longer the list of both suspects and motives grows. First there is Annabelle's older sister Jo, whose marriage fell apart several years ago when Annabelle had an affair with Jo's husband, Martin Lowell. Jo seems to have reconciled with her sister, butMartinlays all the blame for his divorce firmly at Annabelle's feet. His bitterness has grown to the point where he tells his eleven-year-old son what happened, thus convincing the boy that the woman who was once his favorite aunt is really nothing more than a whore. There is also Lewis Finch, a wealthy older man who has bought up much of the dock area surrounding Hammond Teas. He wants to buy the Hammond warehouse as well, but so far he has been unsuccessful. When it's discovered that Finch had an erratic but drawn-out affair with Annabelle in the recent past, Duncan and Gemma suspect some highhanded manipulations may have been going on. What's more, Finch's son, Gordon, a street musician whose bohemian lifestyle and support of the working class is a direct rejection of everything his father stands for, also had an affair with Annabelle, though he claims he recently broke it off. Finally, there is Reg Mortimer, Annabelle's fiancé. When Duncan and Gemma discover that Reg learned about at least some of Annabelle's many indiscretions just before she was murdered, he becomes their most likely suspect. Yet his shock at her death seems genuine, and he appears to have a solid alibi. Complicating the professional part of Duncan and Gemma's lives are a few personal crises, including the still-tentative quality of their relationship with one another. Duncan is trying to get to know Kit, the eleven-year-old son he never knew he had until his ex-wife's recent murder. But balancing the demands of fatherhood with those of his job proves to be a frustrating and monumental task. For Gemma, the challenge comes in the form of an unexpected love interest. As she tries to sort out the tangle of her emotions, she risks jeopardizing both her career and her relationship with Duncan. As the two dig deeper into Annabelle's life and murder, they realize that the key lies some fifty years in the past, when both William Hammond and Lewis Finch were evacuated from a bombed-out London during World War II. Something happened during those years they spent together, something that spawned an intricate web of lies and deceit which has grown for more than half a century. Kissed a Sad Goodbye is a richly textured addition to Crombie's series which also offers the gift of two stories in one. Interwoven with the modern-day story of Annabelle's murder is a moving and affecting tale of two boys who were brought together by the circumstances of war, then thrust apart by the burden of a terrible shared secret. — Beth Amos Beth Amos is the author of several mainstream suspense thrillers, including Second Sight, Eyes of Night and Cold White Fury . She lives in Richmond, Virginia, and is at work on her next novel.

The TENTH book in The Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series is now out as an eBook!The Pennyfoot hides many secrets and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs, or gambling in the forbidden card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly murderer, however, it is up to Cecily Sinclair to restore order before Scotland Yard steps in and shuts down her infamous seaside hotel. DEATH WITH RESERVATIONSMichel’s cooking is renowned far and wide, and many of the guests patronize the Pennyfoot Hotel simply to enjoy his excellent cuisine. Therefore, when Lord Sittingdon appears to have died from ingesting Michel’s famed lobster salad, the reputation of the hotel is at stake. Cecily is faced with a dilemma that could very well signal the end of her illustrious career. Until circumstances suggest that the aristocrat was murdered, giving her a chance to save the hotel and bring a killer to justice. The twenty-first Pennyfoot book, MULLED MURDER, one of Kingsbury’s beloved Christmas editions, will be published in November 2013 by Berkley Books. Reviews"The author draws as much from Fawlty Towers as she does from Agatha Christie, crafting a charming…cozy delicately flavored with period details of pre-World War I rural England." --- Publishers Weekly "Clever and cunning…Delightfully unique and entertaining. A most delicious teatime mystery with just the right atmosphere and a charming cast of characters." ---The Literary Times "Combines the feel of an Agatha Christie whodunit with a taste of Upstairs, Downstairs." ---Cozy Library "Kate Kingsbury is the Queen of English cozy mysteries."---Fresh Fiction

William Kent Krueger joined the ranks of today's best suspense novelists with this thrilling, universally acclaimed debut. Conjuring "a sense of place he's plainly honed firsthand in below-zero prairie" (Kirkus Reviews), Krueger brilliantly evokes northern Minnesota's lake country -- and reveals the dark side of its snow-covered landscape. Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota. Embittered by his "former" status, and the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago's South Side, there's not much that can shock him. But when the town's judge is brutally murdered, and a young Eagle Scout is reported missing, Cork takes on a mind-jolting case of conspiracy, corruption, and scandal. As a lakeside blizzard buries Aurora, Cork must dig out the truth among town officials who seem dead-set on stopping his investigation in its tracks. But even Cork freezes up when faced with the harshest enemy of all: a small-town secret that hits painfully close to home.

With Out of Your Mind, you are invited to immerse yourself in six of Alan Watts's most compelling explorations on experiencing your life beyond the limits of the intellect and expanding your awareness and appreciation for the cosmic game of hide-and-seek in which we—as aspects of the unfolding universe—are eternally at play.

He spent ten years in prison, framed for killing his best friend—my brother. Beckett Brooks wasn't just cute—he was beautiful. He's never denied what happened that night. So why did he push me down to save me? After I woke up in a hospital bed, my grandparents hid me from the world. Everyone on the island thought I died. Now Beckett's been paroled. He's made it clear he only wants me. Time has made him sexy as sin. I should stay far away—I can't. Yet there's a reason Beckett never told the truth. And the past is still trying to destroy us. Kiss of Redemption is the first installment of the Brooks Family Saga. This friends to lovers, brothers best friend, dark romance is an epic journey of one family's struggle of forgiveness, hope, and new beginnings amidst dangerous situations. Each story intertwines and focuses on a new sibling trying to find their Happily Ever After. Please...