New bestsellers are now available by Jonathan Kellerman, Henning Mankell and Jean Auel.
Mystery, by Jonathan Kellerman, is the 26th book in the Alex Delaware series. When Lt. Milo Sturgis of LAPD homicide asks psychologist Alex Delaware to view the faceless corpse of a young woman, Alex is shocked to recognize the victim as someone he and his wife saw the night before in a restaurant bar. A link turns out to exist between the dead woman and a sinister-looking man Alex observed outside the bar that night. An anonymous tip leads to an online service that matches "sugar daddies" with "sweeties." The victim, who called herself "Mystery," had a "daddy," Markham McReynolds, whose wealthy family offers plenty of suspects, including McReynolds's wife, two sons, and two daughters-in-law.
The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell, is the 11th book in the Kurt Wallander series. At the 75th birthday party for Håkan von Enke, von Enke, a retired Swedish naval commander, tells Wallander about a 1980 incident involving an unidentified submarine that "invaded Swedish territorial waters." Von Enke was about to fire depth charges to bring the sub to the surface when higher-ups ordered him to abort. A few days after von Enke confides in the detective, he disappears; shortly after, his wife goes missing as well. Wallander's digging into the commander's life leads to what appears to be a cold war scandal that could rock the current government.
The Land of Painted Caves, by Jean Auel, is the sixth novel in the Earth Children series. Cro-Magnon Ayla; her mate, Jondalar and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are settling in with the clan of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonaii. Ayla is an acolyte in training to become a full-fledged Zelandoni (shaman) of the clan. During the course of the story, there are wild animals to face and earthquakes to survive, as well as a hunter named Balderan, who has targeted Ayla for death, and a potential cave-wrecker named Marona.
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