New bestsellers are now available by J.A. Jance, Barbara Delinksky and Tess Gerritsen.
Betrayal of Trust, by J.A. Jance, is the 19th book in the J.P. Beaumont series. At first glance, a video appears to be showing a childish game: a teenage girl smiles for the camera, a blue scarf tied around her neck. All of a sudden things turn murderous, and the girl ends up dead. The video has been discovered on a phone that belongs to the grandson of Washington State's governor. The governor turns to J. P. Beaumont for help. Along with his partner, Mel Soames, Beaumont soon determines that what appears to be a childish prank gone wrong has much deeper implications. But Mel and Beaumont must follow this path to its end, before more young lives are lost.
In Escape, by Barbara Delinsky, Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but she spends her days talking on the phone with victims of tainted bottled water - and she is on the bottler's side. She doesn't connect the way she used to with her sister, her friends, or her husband, Tim. Acting on impulse, Emily leaves work early one day, goes home, packs her bag, and takes off. She heads north toward a New Hampshire town tucked between mountains. During her college years, she spent a watershed summer here. Painful as it is to return, she knows that if she is to right her life, she has to start here.
The Silent Girl, by Tess Gerritsen, is the ninth book in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. When a severed hand, clutching a gun, is found in a Chinatown alley in Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to the adjacent roof-top and finds the hand's owner: a red-haired woman whose throat has been slashed. The only clues to her identity are a throwaway cell phone and an address of a long-closed restaurant. Chinatown is a closed neighborhood of long-held secrets - and nowhere is this more obvious than when Jane meets Iris Fang. Strikingly beautiful, Fang is a renowned martial arts master. Yet, despite being skilled in swordplay, neither she nor her daughter, Willow, will admit any knowledge of the rooftop murder. And pathologist Dr. Maura Isles has determined that the murder weapon was a sword crafted of ancient metal from China.
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