Bones
Jonathan Kellerman
Release date: October 21
The remains of murdered prostitutes are found in an environmentally protected marshland just outside Los Angeles. Detective Milo Sturgis, Kellerman's recurring, crafty sleuth, is called to the case. He discovers that the latest victim dredged from the swamp isn't a streetwalker at all, but rather a young lady who'd served as a music tutor to the scion of a vastly wealthy family. Milo turns to his tried-and-true friend, psychiatrist Alex Delaware, to assist him in tracking down a frenzied killer.
Just After Sunset
Stephen King
Release date: November 11
Renowned horror storyteller King is praised for his chilling novels, but he is also an acclaimed master of short fiction. This anthology of stories probes the bizarre and macabre in the Kingliest fashion: a Port-A-Potty becomes one hapless man's prison, a stationary bike takes its passenger on a wildly nightmarish ride, and a woman who innocuously peeps into a neighbor's driveway, only to suddenly become the would-be victim of a maniacal serial killer.
Cross Country
James Patterson
Release date: November 17
Patterson's beloved hero Alex Cross discovers his old friend Ellie Cox has been brutally murdered in her Washington, D.C., residence (the same metropolis Cross and his family call home) . His investigation leads him and girlfriend Brianna Stone into the seamy underworld of the Nigerian mob. Alex must eventually voyage to Africa to track down, and vanquish, a demonic criminal mastermind.
Private Patient
P. D. James
Release date: November 18
Commander Adam Dalgliesh returns to the printed page to probe the death of journalist Rhoda Gradwyn, who is murdered at an upscale private plastic surgery clinic housed on a sumptuous estate in the English countryside. James' reputation for highly-polished and deftly-crafted prose, married with ingenious plot devices, shines forth in her latest effort.
Your Heart Belongs To Me
Dean Koontz
Release date: November 25
Creepiness seeps from this plotline as the reader meets Ryan Perry, a young, wildly successful dot-com tycoon whose enviable existence is abruptly compromsied when he is diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition. Against the odds, he receives a transplant, and his life slowly regains its former luster. A year after the surgery he starts getting mysterious tokens, all heart-themed, each one bearing the statement "Your heart belongs to me". Apparently the cardiac donor wants the organ returned to owner...
Scarpetta
Patricia Cornwell
Release date: December 2
Kay Scarpetta has departed her private forensic practice in Charleston, South Carolina, for New York City, where she is asked to interview a psychopath named Oscar Bane in the infamous Bellevue Hospital. As has happened with other perpetrators with whom she has worked, Bane evidences an unhealthy fixation on Kay. Her husband, Benton Wesley, and her technophile niece Lucy lend their unstinting support as Scarpetta unravels a string of bloodthirsty murders that may--or may not--have been committed by Bane the clinically insane.
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