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If a rattlesnake kills with a little help, is it murder? Anthropologist Minoa Diamond encountered dangerous snakes doing fieldwork in Ecuador. But with her career on the skids, tending bar back in her hometown of Santa Fe, she finds out her high school buddy has died of rattlesnake bite. Everybody calls it an improbable accident. But too many rattlers are slithering around the lives of people who knew her and pretty soon another is struck and dies. Minoa must chase a rattler killer nobody ...

Stolen land, stolen custody and a stolen life. The only witnesses were some prairie dogs …With a friend detained by ICE and a contractor gig that puts her on the wrong side of the 'water wars,' things aren't going well for ex-anthropologist Minoa Diamond as she reinvents herself in Santa Fe NM. But it gets worse when her impulsiveness lands her friend in jail on a murder rap. Around the victim swarm aggrieved relatives, angry ex-lovers, corrupt lobbyists, a...

**Winner, 2025 International Latino Book Award Gold Medal in MysteryWinner, Women Writing the West 2025 WILLA Literary Award in Mystery/ThrillerWinner, Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction Writers of ColorFinalist, 2025 High Plains International Book Award in FictionThis gripping, high-stakes debut thriller about the lengths mothers will go to protect their children is perfect for fans of Wanda M. Morris and Jess Lourey.**Boots Marez is a Lat...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside Magazine**Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of mil...

TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser's skill with his fists, and Candy is about to u...

From the bestselling author of the Emperor's Edge series...When Delia chose to major in archaeology, she imagined herself as the female Indiana Jones of the Southwest. She didn’t imagine herself crawling through abandoned mine shafts, scrounging for rusty pickaxes and gold pans to sell on auction sites, but Indiana Jones didn’t have to make student loan payments.Scouring the mountains of Arizona with Simon, her best friend and computer geek extraor...

Frank, an Army Special Forces vet, screwed up, went to prison, and is now out, living in small-town Wyoming and trying to go straight.But then some old "friends" from the big house come to collect on a favor, and everything goes totally nuts, forcing Frank to go outside the law to save the one thing he cherishes most.* * * * *"A nonstop page turner!" —LARRY CORREIA, New York Times Bestselling Author“John Brown understands trouble makers and misfits....

Detective Carson Ryder faces his most terrifying adversary yet in this nail-biting thriller from the author of Her Last Scream.Carson Ryder thought he’d seen everything …A specialist in twisted crimes, Detective Carson Ryder thought he’d seen the lowest depths of human depravity. But he’s barely started his new job in Miami when called to a horrific scene: a concrete pillar built of human remains, their agony forever frozen in stone.Finding the secret of the pillar ...

"Nobody thrills like Nicholson does. Nobody." - J.A. Konrath, The ListA massive solar storm kills billions and wipes out the technological infrastructure, and the few survivors learn that some among them have...changed.AFTER: THE ECHO(Book #2 in the After series)It's six weeks after the shock.The smoke on the horizon has diminished, and Rachel Wheeler and her two traveling companions head toward the mountains where Rachel's grandfather Franklin has bu...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORSouthern Cross is the second book in the Andy Brazil series, from Patricia Cornwell.Judy Hammer has accepted the challenge of Richmond, Virginia's police department to try and reverse the escalating crime statistics in the city. She brings with her Deputy Chief Virginia West and Andy Brazil, now a full-time police officer. They find a lot of things they are all too familiar with - teenage gangs, ...

**LOCUS AWARD WINNER • In the second book of the Nsibidi Scripts series, Sunny is beginning to realize her visions are not a trauma response. She has seen the end of the world and now Sunny must stop it.“The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!”—Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Speak“Seamlessly weaves inventive juju with contemporary Nigerian culture and history.”—School Library Jou...

'A portrait of a world in fragments, a mirrorball made of razor blades' GuardianThrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women, exhaus...