Losing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community, where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets. (Publisher Summary)
The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
Detective Bosch and new rookie partner Lucia Soto chase elusive leads in a case involving a victim who succumbs to complications from a bullet wound sustained nine years earlier. By the best-selling author of The Black Box. (Publisher Summary)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred. (Publisher Summary)
Personal by Lee Child
A follow-up to the best-selling Never Go Back traces the fallout of game-changing events, placing Jack Reacher in a unique environment while pitting him against adversaries whose fates transform in unexpected ways.
Burn by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Back home in New York, Detective Michael Bennett investigates a burnt body left where a strange party had been held in a condemned building, in the seventh novel of the series following Gone. (Publisher Summary)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. (Publisher Summary)
Already coping with Afghanistan battle fatigue, a journalist receives a tip he can't ignore about a potentially huge story involving the son of terrorists at-large for 40 years in this new thriller from the author of Tough Customer. (Publisher Summary)
Leaving Time by Jodi Piccolt
Abandoned by a grief-stricken father and scientist mother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, thirteen-year-old Jenna Metcalf approaches a disgraced psychic and a jaded detective in the hopes of finding answers. (Publisher Summary)
The Escape by David Balducci
When his older brother escapes a military prison, John Puller finds himself part of the manhunt for him and discovers troubling details about the case. (Publisher Summary)
Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated. (Publisher Summary)
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Forced to take in lodgers in economically challenged 1922 South London, widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter find their lives profoundly and disturbingly changed by the arrival of a modern young couple. By the best-selling author of The Little Stranger. (Publisher Summary)
Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
A conclusion to the epic trilogy by the best-selling author of Winter of the World continues the experiences of five intertwined international families as they confront the social, political and economic turmoil of the second half of the 20th century. (Publisher Summary)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue in this new novel by the author of The Secret History. (Publisher Summary)
Paris Match by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington has returned to Paris to attend to some business concerns, and finds himself embroiled in high-stakes trouble on both sides of the pond. An old enemy is still in hot pursuit, and this time he might have a powerful local resource on his side: a gentleman with his own ax to grind against Stone. (Publisher Summary)
Mean Streak by Sandra Brown
After being abducted from a mountain road in North Carolina, a pediatrician and avid runner, Dr. Emory Charbonneau, finds herself held captive by a violent man with a dark past who may ultimately end up being her savior, in the new thriller from the author of Deadline.
This list was published in the January 13, 2015 edition of Library Journal Reviews. Click here to read the full article.
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