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by Dennis Lehane  
Powells.com Staff Pick When it's too darn hot, open Shutter Island for a thoroughly chilling experience. Lehane describes the book as gothic noir. I'd say it was that, plus intelligent and riveting. Two policemen investigate a disappearance on a remote island psychiatric... (read more)
Publisher Comments High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human... (read more)
Publisher Comments A woman with a talent for numbers, Alexandra Scott wanted to escape the rat race and go someplace where the men outnumber the women. Trading in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a rundown cabin in the woods. She's now Alaskan Wilderness Woman. It... (read more)
by Dennis Lehane Publisher Comments The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in this terrifying tale of darkness and redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist... (read more)
Publisher Comments The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world's most inhospitable rainforest-; a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified... (read more)
Publisher Comments The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel. A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her.... (read more)
Publisher Comments Once again the remarkable J.A. Jance-the New York Times bestselling author of Kiss of the Bees and Devil's Claw—returns us to a world of desolate beauty and lonely terror in an extraordinary new novel as heartbreaking and real as it is grippingly... (read more)
Publisher Comments Edgar Award-winner Laura Lippman is developing a reputation as one of the most exciting new detective fiction authors in years. Now she delivers her most suspenseful novel yet, and places Baltimore's Tess Monaghan . . . In Big Trouble. First as a... (read more)
Publisher Comments Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find the Earth burning. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the... (read more)
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Publisher Comments This coming February look for Dennis Lehane's newest hardcover, Mystic River.Prayers for Rain Karen Nichols was pert, blonde, in love with her fiance and her life when Patrick Kenzie first met her. But six months later, she jumped naked from Boston's... (read more)
Publisher Comments “ TRIGGERFISH TWIST makes for twisted fun....a must-read book on this summer’ s list.”... (read more)
Publisher Comments Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had been murdered ... Now they're after his little girl... From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands,he's running front the bottle, a homicide rap, aprofessional killer ... and the demons of his past.... (read more)
by Tim Dorsey Publisher Comments There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover cops.... (read more)
Publisher Comments When serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, no one is safe -- not Russian hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat boys, women's book clubs, drug dealers, bad Vegas-rejected local lounge acts -- especially when $5 million... (read more)
Powells.com Staff Pick Dennis Lehane's gripping, moving Mystic River blurs the line between genres; at times you can't be sure if you're reading "literature" or "crime fiction." With characters this rich and a setting so vivid that you can feel yourself inhabit it, one assumes... (read more)
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