Alvarez, Julia. Saving the World.
Suffering from writer's block, Alma finds herself enamored of a story she
stumbles upon which involves Isabel, director of La Casa De Expositos, who
selected twenty-two orphan boys to be live carriers of the smallpox vaccine
in 1803.
Barry, Brunonia. The Lace Reader.
Having left her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, fifteen years ago under troubling
circumstances, psychic Towner Whitney reluctantly returns after her eighty-five-year-old
great-aunt Eva suddenly disappears.
Berry, Steve. The Templar Legacy.
Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.S. Justice Department
prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and
secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies prevail.
Bradley, Alan. Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison,
is propelled into a mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of
her family's decaying English mansion and Flavia's father becomes the main
suspect.
Brown, Dan. Digital Fortress.
A computer whiz takes on the government in defense of the right to privacy.
On hearing the National Security Agency has secretly installed a program that
can read anyone's e-mail, Ensei Tankado comes up with a program to paralyze
it and cripple the NSA.
Byatt, A.S. Possession.
As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they
uncover their letters, journals, and poems. Now they must race across England
and discover their secrets before a corrupt businessman stops them.
Charney, Noah. The Art Thief.
Full of fascinating art-historical detail, crackling dialogue, and a brain-teasing
plot, Noah Charney's debut novel is a sophisticated, stylish thriller, as irresistible
and multifaceted as a great work of art.
Crichton, Michael. Andromeda Strain.
A team of scientists struggles to define and contain a deadly bacteria brought back from outer space by a satellite.
Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park.
A breakthrough in genetic engineering leads to the development of a technique
for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA, a method that brings about the creation
of Jurassic Park, a tourist attraction populated by creatures extinct for
eons.
Ferraris, Zoe. Finding Nouf.
Stumbling upon the drowned body of Nouf, the teenage daughter of a prominent,
wealthy Saudi Arabian family, Nayir, a desert guide hired by her family to
search for her, feels compelled to discover what really happened to her.
Fukada, Andrew Xia. Crossing.
When a series of mysterious abductions rattles Xing Xu's adopted hometown, his position on the outskirts of society helps him investigate the kidnappings with the hope of proving his worth to his classmates and his crush.
Hewson, David. A Season for the Dead.
Detective Nic Costa trails a serial killer who stalks and kills victims according
to a heavenly play book--Catholic martyrs--leaving behind a trail of clues
that read like bloddy chapters from "Lives of the Saints."
Kostova, Elizabeth. The Historian.
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
Larbalestier, Justine. Liar.
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
Larson, Erik. Thunderstruck.
Larson combines historical fact with masterful storytelling. With the Edwardian
Age as the backdrop, the author weaves the lives of Gugliemo Marconi in his
quest to perfect a wireless device with Scotland Yard’s pursuit of the
murderous Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippin.
Larsson,Steig. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
Lehane, Dennis. Mystic River.
Boyhood trauma returns to haunt the lives of Boston childhood friends Jimmy,
Sean and Dave when the daughter of one of them is murdered and another, now
a homicide detective, takes the case.
O’Flynn, Catherine. What Was Lost.
Twenty years after her brother is hounded from his home by rumors about his alleged
role in a young girl's disappearance, Lisa and her security guard friend become
increasingly curious about a child they glimpse on a mall's surveillance cameras.
Pearl, Matthew. The Dante Club.
In 1865, the preparations of the Dante Club--led by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
and Oliver Wendell Holmes--to release the first translation of Dante's "The
Divine Comedy" are threatened by a series of murders that re-create episodes
from "Inferno."
Pratchett, Terry. Nation.
After a tidal wave destroys his island village, Mau and another survivor, an
English girl, have to figure out how to take care of themselves and the other
refugees, fight cannibals, and deal with different ideas of civilization and
religion.
Sansom, Ian. The Case of the Missing Books.
Israel Armstrong, a new Emerald Isle bookmobile attendant, discovers that the
roving library's 15,000 books have disappeared and that he cannot resign from
his job until he finds them.
Sierra, Javier. The Secret Supper.
Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's The Last Supper, Dominican inquisitor
Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and
use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message in the
painting.
Stewart, Mary. The Ivy Tree.
Mary Grey has nothing to look forward to except a future as colorless as her
name. So if she looks, walks, and smiles so much like the glamorous missing
heiress Annabel Winslow, why not be her for a little while?