Thrillers on the Ocean

Nick Cutter delivers a thrilling tale in The Deep. "A strange plague called the ‘Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget—small things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things, like how to drive or the letters of the alphabet. Their bodies forget how to function involuntarily. There is no cure. But far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a universal healer hailed as “ambrosia” has been discovered. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. But when the station goes incommunicado, a brave few descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine." (from Amazon.com)

Devour is a suspenseful tale of survival by Kurt Anderson. "IT LURKS Deep beneath the ice of the Arctic Circle, something has awakened. A primordial creature frozen in time, it is the oldest, largest, most efficient predator that nature has ever produced. And it is ravenously hungry… IT HUNTS Thirty-five miles off the Massachussetts coast, a small research ship is attacked. All but one of its crew is killed by the massive serpentine horror that rises from the sea. The creature likes this human prey. The chewy outer hide. The tender saltiness within. And it wants more… IT FEEDS Responding to a distress signal, fishing-boat captain Brian Hawkins arrives in time to save the ship’s last survivor. But the nightmare is just beginning. A casino cruise ship carrying high-stakes passengers—and a top-secret cargo—becomes the creature’s blood soaked hunting ground. Desperate but determined, Hawkins goes after the biggest catch of the century." (from Amazon.com)

"In Black Horizon, a riveting and timely thriller drawn from tomorrow's headlines, New York Times bestselling author James Grippando brings back popular Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck in an international case involving a devastating oil spill that pits him against his most villainous adversaries yet. Three summers after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, oil is again spewing into the ocean—from a drilling explosion in Cuban waters sixty miles off the Florida Keys, creating a politically complex and volatile situation. Representing an American woman whose Cuban husband was killed on the rig, Jack finds himself in dangerous waters when he discovers that his incendiary case may be lethally connected to his new wife Andi's undercover assignment for the FBI . . . and that the looming environmental catastrophe may have been no "accident" at all." (from Amazon.com)

The Delta Solution by Patrick Robinson is "an action-packed novel pitting Navy SEAL Mack Bedford (from Diamondhead and Intercept) against the Somali pirates operating off the southerly reaches of the lawless East African republic on the Indian Ocean. For the past three years, these heavily armed tribal brigands have been capturing and holding for ransom massive cargo ships, and violently demanding millions of dollars for their return. When the "Somali Marines" make a big mistake, seizing at gunpoint two United States ships and demanding a $15 million ransom for their return, hero Mack Bedford is deployed to obliterate them in the middle of the Indian Ocean, at all costs, once and for all." (from Amazon.com)

Legal Thrillers for Your Enjoyment

The Most Dangerous Place is a Jack Swytek novel by James Grippando. According to the FBI, the most dangerous place for a woman between the ages of twenty and thirty is in a relationship with a man. Miami lawyer Jack Swytek is waiting at the airport for his old high school buddy, Keith Ingraham. The high powered banker and his wife Isabelle are based in Hong Kong, but they are coming to Miami so Keith's young daughter can have surgery. No sooner do they arrive than the police arrest Isabelle for conspiracy to murder the man who sexually assaulted her in college. Jack agrees to take her case, but the seasoned attorney doesn't know exactly what he has gotten himself into as he begins sifting through the secrets and half-truths surrounding the case.

Testimony by Scott Turow sees former prosecutor Bill ten Boom--now fifty--reflecting on all the things he loves: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, and his country. Bill is soon tapped to work on a case in front of the International Criminal Court based in Holland. It seems that more than ten years ago, in the chaos of the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp disappeared. Ferko Rincic has come forward as a witness claiming that a group of armed men marched the entire camp to a nearby cave during the night and blew the opening with a grenade burying 400 Gypsies alive. Ferko was the only survivor. Bill is now charged with finding out if Ferko's testimony is true and reliable. Bill sorts through a host of suspects including Serb paramilitaries, organized crime gangs, and even the U.S. government. He can't shake the feeling that Ferko knows a whole lot more than he is telling.

Things aren't going so well for Grayson Hernandez in The Outsider by Anthony Franze. Gray has just graduated from a fourth tier law school and he's drowning in debt. The only job he can get is as a messenger at the Supreme Court; which makes Gray sad because all he can do is watch the elite law graduates clerk for the justices of the nations highest court. One day, Gray comes to the aid of a man who is being violently mugged. Turns out the victim is none other than the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, so Gray finds himself as the newest--and unlikeliest--clerk at the court. Soon, the FBI approaches Gray and asks him to keep his eyes and ears open inside the court. It seems that a serial killer is connected to the court somehow. Eventually, Gray becomes a suspect; and he will stop at nothing to clear his name.

New Fiction Novels by Patron Favorites

We have recently added three new novels to our collection from authors that many of our patrons enjoy.

First is the latest book by American lawyer and novelist James Grippando.  Gone Again is the twelfth novel in the series featuring Jack Swyteck, Miami criminal defense attorney.

In this fast paced novel, Swyteck takes on his first death-row client since The Pardon (the first in the Jack Swyteck series, also available in our collection).







The next novel is Once a Rancher by popular romance novelist Linda Lael Miller.  The first book of her newest series, The Carsons of Mustang Creek, follows the eldest of three brothers.  Slater Carson is a documentary filmmaker by trade, but still a rancher at heart.  He shares the running of the family ranch with his two younger brothers, Drake and Mace.

Things change when former Seattle cop Grace Emery comes to town to manage the local resort spa with her ward in tow, Ryder - the rebellious son of her ex-husband.

Last is The Other Side of Silence, the eleventh novel in the Bernie Gunther series by Scottish author, Philip Kerr.

The year is 1956 and Bernie Gunther is hiding in plain sight under an assumed name with fake papers.  Posing as a concierge at the Grand Hotel, he is drawn into a nest of vipers when he is asked to assist author W. Somerset Maugham, who is being blackmailed.




These and many other titles can be found on our New Adult Fiction shelves.  Enjoy!