<div>The Native American rescue artist goes back on the job in &ldquo;another excellently engineered thriller&rdquo; from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling mystery author (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on the job, Jane McKinnon, n&eacute;e Whitefield, has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New York. But that all changes when she sees all eight female leaders of the Tonawanda Seneca clan parked in her driveway in two black cars. Jimmy, a childhood friend of Jane&rsquo;s from the reservation, has been accused of murdering a local white man. But instead of turning himself in, he&rsquo;s fled, and no one knows where he&rsquo;s hiding. At the clan mothers&rsquo; request, Jane retraces a walking trip she and Jimmy took together when they were fourteen in hopes that he has gone the same way again. But it turns out the police are the least of Jimmy&rsquo;s problems, and soon enough Jimmy and Jane are on the run together in this &ldquo;first-rate suspense&rdquo; novel from the Edgar Award&ndash;winning author (Booklist, starred review). &ldquo;Whitefield is an indelible figure&mdash;whip-smart, resourceful, brave and big-hearted.&rdquo; &mdash;The Seattle Times &ldquo;Jane Whitefield is unique in the annals of detective fiction. She is a throwback to a tribal world, still loyal to the beliefs of the Seneca Indians and still adhering to the call of a lost era. Thomas Perry has once again resurrected a remarkable character who seems imbued with a strange immortality and an unusual morality, and he is to be congratulated.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Times</div>

A String of Beads

<div>Married sleuths cross paths with married assassins in this &ldquo;priceless&rdquo; mystery by the bestselling author of the Jane Whitefield series (The New York Times). Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both ex-LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a Glock 17, the couples have little in common&mdash;until they&rsquo;re hired to do damage control on the same murder. The body of research scientist James Ballantine has been pulled from a storm sewer, with two bullet holes in the back of his head. With the case turning cold, Ballantine&rsquo;s former employers bring in the Abels to succeed where the police have failed. As for the Hoyts, their mysterious contractors want to make sure that the facts about Ballantine&rsquo;s death stay hidden. Now the Abels must try to survive as they circle ever closer to the truth, and to a dangerous pair guarding it with their lives. From &ldquo;a master of nail-biting suspense&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times), comes a &ldquo;propulsive, darkly humorous&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly) &ldquo;double-barreled Southern California thriller that moves almost faster than a speeding bullet&rdquo; (The Wall Street Journal).</div>

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Forty Thieves

<div>A cunning thief is on the run for her life in a breakneck thriller from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling &ldquo;master of nail-biting suspense&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief&mdash;with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, she can easily stroll through ritzy Bel Air neighborhoods and pick out the perfect home for plucking the most valuable items. This is how Elle has always gotten by&mdash;she is good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. But after stumbling upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from the home of a wealthy art dealer, Elle discovers that she is no longer the only one sneaking around. Somebody is searching for her. As Elle realizes that her knowledge of the high-profile murder has made her a target, she races to solve the case before becoming the next casualty, using her breaking-and-entering skills to uncover the truth about exactly who the victims were and why someone might have wanted them dead. With high-stakes action and shocking revelations, The Burglar will keep readers on the edge of their seats as they barrel towards the heart-racing conclusion. &ldquo;The fact is, there are probably only half a dozen suspense writers now alive who can be depended upon to deliver high voltage shocks . . . Thomas Perry is one of them.&rdquo; &mdash;Stephen King</div>

The Burglar

<div>A California PI hunts for a killer in the shadowy world of online escorts in a &ldquo;cool, tough-minded&rdquo; thriller by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (The New York Times). Jack Till, a retired LAPD homicide detective, is now happy to take routine cases as a private investigator. But when a murdered girl&rsquo;s parents ask for his help, Till can&rsquo;t say no. The victim had been working as a high-class prostitute, and Till soon finds that she was one of several escorts killed in different cities in the same manner&mdash;all had strawberry blonde hair, and all were shot with a 9mm in their home. Till must enter the secretive world of online escorts, decoding ads placed by women who are always on the move, often using false names and other women&rsquo;s pictures. But the perpetrator is more dangerous than Till ever imagined. As the body count rises, Till must find a ruthless seducer whose murderous spree masks an even deadlier agenda. &ldquo;Clever protagonists, cunning killers, white-knuckle action . . . Thomas Perry delivers all that good stuff in The Boyfriend.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

The Boyfriend

<div>The Native American guide is hunted for her knowledge in this &ldquo;tour de force&rdquo; thriller from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Vanishing Act (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Jane Whitefield of the Seneca Nation has spent years helping desperate people disappear. But now she is about to become the hunted one. When James Shelby is unjustly convicted of his wife&rsquo;s murder, Jane spirits him out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. Then, within minutes, Jane is kidnapped. The person who killed Shelby&rsquo;s wife now wants him dead, and Jane&rsquo;s captors will put her through excruciating torment to discover his whereabouts. Though Jane manages to escape, she is wounded and weak, thousands of miles from home without money or identification . . . and hunted by both police and criminals. Attempting to rejoin Shelby and get to safety, Jane is caught in a waking nightmare, as many of the pursuers she has eluded for years gather to bid on her capture in a multimillion-dollar auction. The winning bidder buys the chance to access Jane&rsquo;s memory, and the locations of everyone she has helped disappear. &ldquo;Fans of Jane Whitefield know what to expect from this fearless Indian guide in Thomas Perry&rsquo;s quick-witted capers: cunning strategies, clever disguises, ingenious escape tactics and breathtaking cross-country chases. Perry delivers to order in Poison Flower.&rdquo; &mdash;Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review</div>

Poison Flower

<div>Now an original series from FX starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, and Amy Brenneman: a retired intelligence officer living off the grid is caught in &ldquo;[a] harrowing hunt-and-hide adventure&rdquo; (The New York Times). To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don&rsquo;t have multiple driver&rsquo;s licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, or two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run. Thirty-five years ago, as a young army intelligence hotshot, Chase was sent to Libya to covertly assist a rebel army. When the plan turned sour, Chase acted according to his conscience&mdash;and triggered consequences he never could have anticipated. To this day, someone still wants him dead. And just when he thought he was finally safe, Chase is confronted with the history he spent much of his life trying to escape. Edgar Award&ndash;winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move &ldquo;almost faster than a speeding bullet&rdquo; (Wall Street Journal). The Old Man is his latest whip-smart standalone novel, and has been adapted into a critically acclaimed television series starring Jeff Bridges as retired CIA Agent Dan Chase. &ldquo;Perry drives deep into Jack Reacher territory in this stand-alone [novel] . . . Swift, unsentimental, and deeply satisfying.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Old Man

<div>A small-town cop seeks vengeance on twelve escaped inmates in this novel of &ldquo;jaw-dropping twists . . . crisp in execution and thrilling until the very end&rdquo; (The Wall Street Journal). When twelve inmates pull off an audacious prison break, it liberates more than a thousand convicts into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the quiet community&mdash;burning down homes and businesses. An immense search ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, the local and federal police agencies have yet to find them. Then, the mayor calls in Leah Hawkins, a local cop who lost a loved one that terrible night. She&rsquo;s placed on sabbatical to travel across the country learning advanced police procedures. But the sabbatical is merely a ruse. Her real job is to track down the infamous twelve&mdash;and kill them. Leah&rsquo;s mission takes her from Florida to New York and from the beaches of California to an anti-government settlement deep in the Ozarks. But when the surviving fugitives realize what she&rsquo;s up to, a race to kill or be killed ensues in this nonstop tale of vengeance from the Edgar Award&ndash;winning author of The Butcher&rsquo;s Boy. &ldquo;Leah proves to be both a brilliant detective and a cunning predator.&rdquo; &mdash;Associated Press &ldquo;Perry is an expert storyteller . . . A Small Town unfolds like a 1950s film noir.&rdquo; &mdash;Wall Street Journal</div>

A Small Town

<div>A hit man is called back into action in this explosive thriller from the New York Times bestselling author and &ldquo;master of nail-biting suspense&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael&rsquo;s life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion&rsquo;s den&mdash;the States&mdash;to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and how to stop them. Eddie&rsquo;s Boy jumps between Michael&rsquo;s current predicament and the past, between the skillset he now ruthlessly and successfully employs and the training that made him what he is. We glimpse the days before he became the Butcher&rsquo;s Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war, to his childhood spent apprenticed to Eddie, a seasoned hired assassin. And we watch him pit two prominent mafia families against each other to eliminate his enemies one by one. He&rsquo;s meticulous in his approach, using his senior contact in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department for information, without ever allowing her to get too close to his trail. But will he be able to escape this new wave of young contract killers, or will the years finally catch up to him? As the San Francisco Chronicle said about this Edgar Award-winning series, &ldquo;The best thing about Thomas Perry&rsquo;s thrillers are the devilishly ingenious schemes his protagonists devise to outwit their pursuers . . . Perry can really write.&rdquo;</div>

Eddie's Boy

<div>A &ldquo;twisty, timely, and pulse-pounding&rdquo; thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Butcher&rsquo;s Boy novels (Entertainment Weekly). A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad and when tragedy ensues, the fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Just returned from a tough job in Mexico, Stahl is at first reluctant to accept the offer, but his sense of duty to the technicians he trained is too strong to turn it down. On his first day back at the head of the squad, Stahl&rsquo;s three-person team is dispatched to a suspected car bomb. And it quickly becomes clear to him that they are dealing with an unusual mastermind&mdash;one whose intended target seems to be the Bomb Squad itself. As the shadowy organization sponsoring this campaign of violence puts increasing pressure on the bomb maker, and Stahl becomes dangerously entangled with a member of his own team, the fuse on this high-stakes plot only burns faster. The Bomb Maker is Thomas Perry&rsquo;s biggest, most unstoppable thriller yet. &ldquo;Plenty of character, plenty of emotion, plenty of insider expertise, but most of all plenty of irresistible momentum toward a fantastic climax&#8213;in other words, The Bomb Maker is typical Thomas Perry.&rdquo;&mdash;Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author &ldquo;Mr. Perry, in this first-rate thriller, proves as cagy as his criminal mastermind: The reader rarely anticipates his next move. He balances breathtaking suspense with romantic intrigue.&rdquo;&mdash;The Wall Street Journal &ldquo;The intense thrills of Thomas Perry&rsquo;s The Bomb Maker are almost unbearable.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

The Bomb Maker

<div>&ldquo;A master class in thriller writing&rdquo; from the New York Times bestselling author of The Butcher&rsquo;s Boy and Sleeping Dogs (Los Angeles Times). In Thomas Perry&rsquo;s Edgar Award&ndash;winning debut The Butcher&rsquo;s Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believes he ever existed. Many years later, the Butcher&rsquo;s Boy finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they won&rsquo;t stop coming and decides to take the fight to their door. Soon Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department, receives a surprise late-night visit from the Butcher&rsquo;s Boy. Knowing she keeps track of the Mafia, he asks her whom his attackers worked for, offering information that will help her crack an unsolved murder in return. So begins a new assault on organized crime and an uneasy alliance between opposite sides of the law. As the Butcher&rsquo;s Boy works his way ever closer to his quarry in an effort to protect his new way of life, Waring is in a race against time, either to convince him to become a protected informant&mdash;or to take him out of commission for good. &ldquo;Accentuates the best of Mr. Perry&rsquo;s gift for using pure logic and gamesmanship to generate breathless nonstop suspense.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;No one makes killing bad guys more fun, no one is smarter at blending research and invention, and no one offers a higher body count of ingenious hits.&rdquo;&mdash;Library Journal (starred review)</div>

The Informant

<div>&ldquo;An ingeniously plotted and tightly written novel of taut psychological suspense&rdquo; from the New York Times bestselling author of the Butcher&rsquo;s Boy novels (Nelson DeMille). Six years ago, private investigator Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no longer enough. Their fee just went up. Full of masterful plotting and unnerving psychological insight, Silence is a mesmerizing thrill ride. &ldquo;Ingenious.&rdquo;&mdash;George Pelecanos &ldquo;Brilliant.&rdquo;&mdash;Robert B. Parker &ldquo;Mr. Perry spins an elaborate web of cat-and-mouse machinations . . . driven as much by the characters&rsquo; fears and neuroses as by ordinary motives . . . Expertly wrought.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;As good as [Perry] gets . . . Silence entertains until the very last page.&rdquo;&mdash;New York Daily News &ldquo;Another intelligent, literate thriller . . . As always, Perry excels at the procedural details, keeps up the pace throughout and will have readers guessing until the end.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Silence

<div>The New York Times bestselling author &ldquo;blend[s] the frenetic pacing of a top-notch thriller with Native American mysticism&rdquo; in Jane Whitefield&rsquo;s return (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;The world&rsquo;s foremost specialist in hiding fugitives from their pursuers is back with a vengeance&rdquo; in this &ldquo;high-potency thriller&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). For more than a decade, Jane Whitefield practiced her unusual profession: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a guide . . . I show people how to go from places where somebody is trying to kill them to other places where nobody is.&rdquo; Then she promised her husband she would never work again, and settled in to live a happy, quiet life as Jane McKinnon, the wife of a surgeon in Amherst, New York. But when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of guns-for-hire. That night, regardless of what she wants or the vow she&rsquo;s made to her husband, Jane must come back to transform one more victim into a runner. Her quest for safety sets in motion a mission that may be as much of a rescue operation as it is a chance for revenge. &ldquo;Readers who have been clamoring for the return of Thomas Perry&rsquo;s most popular heroine can stop waiting. After a nine-year absence, Jane Whitefield is back.&rdquo;&mdash;The Associated Press &ldquo;A first-class thriller and the welcome return of an outstanding series.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist (starred review)</div>

Runner

<div>&ldquo;An amazingly entertaining crime novel&rdquo; from the New York Times bestselling author of the Butcher&rsquo;s Boy thrillers (Chicago Sun-Times, Favorite Books of the Year). One of Stephen King&rsquo;s &ldquo;Must-Reads for Summer&rdquo; (Entertainment Weekly) A New York Times Notable Crime Book An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu &ldquo;Manco&rdquo; Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank&rsquo;s night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make Kapak wish he&rsquo;d chosen someone else. Meanwhile, the real culprit, Jefferson Davis Falkins, and his new girlfriend Carrie seem to believe they&rsquo;ve found a whole new profession: robbing Manco Kapak. Lieutenant Nick Slosser, the police detective in charge of the puzzling and increasingly violent case, has his own troubles, including worries about how he&rsquo;s going to afford to send the oldest child of each of his two bigamous marriages to college without making their mothers suspicious. As this odd series of difficulties explodes into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war over Kapak&rsquo;s little empire, while Falkins and Carrie journey into territory more strange and violent than either had imagined. &ldquo;Perry is at his wicked best in Strip.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;[A] rambunctiously entertaining L.A. crime novel . . . escapist reading at its best.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review)</div>

Strip

<div>A dead detective leaves his wife flat broke and in mortal danger in this crime thriller by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Silence. When Los Angeles P.I. Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. How could Phil leave her penniless? What was he going to do with the money? And, most of all, who was this man she had married? Meanwhile, professional hit man Jerry Hobart has some questions of his own. It&rsquo;s none of his business why he was hired to kill Phil Kramer. But now that he&rsquo;s been ordered to take out Kramer&rsquo;s widow, he senses a deeper secret at work&mdash;and maybe a bigger payoff from Ted Forrest, the mysterious wealthy man behind the hit.</div>

Fidelity

<div>A long lost manuscript by Geoffrey Chaucer draws Professor Dominic Hallkyn through the streets of Boston and into a mysterious plot. When Professor Dominic Hallkyn receives an anonymous phone call late one night from a voice claiming to possess a priceless Chaucerian manuscript presumed lost forever, he doesn&rsquo;t know how to react. He soon finds himself scrambling to meet the caller&rsquo;s demands amid uncompromising suspense that culminates in a devilish plot twist. Perry takes his readers on a mad dash through the winding streets of Boston in pursuit of the unique artifact that may be doomed to disappear from history . . . this time, for good. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.</div>

The Book of the Lion

<div>A quartet of crime stories about deadly books&mdash;penned by award-winning contemporary mystery writers. The Little Men by Megan Abbott: Rumors and strange experiences lead a washed-up actress in 1950s Hollywood to question the suspicious circumstances surrounding the alleged suicide of a former occupant of her low-rent bungalow&mdash;especially after she discovers an ominous inscription in a book that&rsquo;s closely guarded by her mysterious landlord. &ldquo;Noir&rsquo;s reigning crown princess.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist What&rsquo;s in a Name? by Thomas H. Cook: Rare books dealer and amateur historian Franklin Altman has always wondered how the world might have turned out if the First World War had ended differently. On the fiftieth anniversary of the Armistice Treaty, an ancient German mysteriously appears and presents him with a personal manuscript, the contents of which, he claims, have the power to change history. &ldquo;A gifted novelist, intelligent and compassionate.&rdquo; &mdash;Joyce Carol Oates The Book of the Lion by Thomas Perry: An anonymous phone call sends Professor Dominic Hallkyn on a mad dash through the streets of Boston in pursuit of a priceless Chaucerian manuscript. But the caller&rsquo;s demands will lead to a devilish plot twist. &ldquo;Thomas Perry is, quite simply, brilliant.&rdquo; &mdash;Robert B. Parker From the Queen by Carolyn Hart: When a priceless, first edition of Agatha Christie&rsquo;s Poirot Investigates, autographed and inscribed to the Queen of England, disappears from her South Carolina thrift shop, Ellen Gallagher calls on her friend Annie Darling, owner of the mystery bookstore Death on Demand, to track it down. &ldquo;Carolyn Hart&rsquo;s work is both utterly reliable and utterly unpredictable.&rdquo; &mdash;Charlaine Harris</div>

Book 'Em

<div>Get the backstory on an amazing heroine in this suspenseful kidnapping tale from the bestselling author of Vanishing Act and The Left-Handed Twin. A Native American of Seneca descent, Jane Whitefield helps people in harm&rsquo;s way disappear without a trace and take on entirely new lives with new identities. Of course, not everyone is a fan of Jane&rsquo;s work . . . There is a group of men who would like to speak with the elusive woman. That&rsquo;s why they&rsquo;ve kidnapped three people connected to Jane to serve as bait. One of the poor souls is Jane&rsquo;s longtime friend and neighbor, Jake Reinert. As the three hostages ponder their escape, Jake begins to tell the story of the one person who could rescue them from a horrible death: Jane Whitefield. Praise for Thomas Perry and the Jane Whitefield Novels &ldquo;A master of nail-biting suspense.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &ldquo;At a time when franchise characters are publishing gold, [Jane Whitefield] is the sort of protagonist most crime novelists would kill for.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal &ldquo;Whitefield is an indelible figure&mdash;whip-smart, resourceful, brave and big-hearted.&rdquo; &mdash;The Seattle Times &ldquo;The tension is thick, the story unfolds at a rapid pace, the characters are well developed, and, as usual in a Thomas Perry novel, the tale is tightly written.&rdquo; &mdash;Associated Press &ldquo;Layer upon layer of deception and intrigue . . . Smooth action writing and a remarkable mastery of escape techniques&mdash;one would hate to be a debt collector in search of the author.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

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