The Black Wolf: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Book 20)
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The Black Wolf: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Book 20) 🇨🇦
NEW RELEASE | International Mystery & Psychological Thriller 🐺
The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series deepens the narrative with a terrifying shift from domestic terror to an insidious national threat.
Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a Black Wolf is feeding on fear and division.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team recently averted a major domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the individual they named the Black Wolf. But their relief curdles into dread as Gamache realizes the horrific truth: the initial plot was merely a distraction—perhaps even a decoy—for a far more extensive, darker conspiracy now gaining momentum across the country. Gamache fears he arrested the wrong person, allowing the true terrorist network to grow, spreading a poison of hatred, misinformation, and division that mirrors the contemporary global political climate.
Still physically and emotionally scarred from the confrontation, Armand is confined to the safe haven of Three Pines, the idyllic village that always offers comfort but is now his forced headquarters. From the quiet security of a church basement, he leads a covert investigation with his trusted senior agents, Jean-Guy Beauvoir and Isabelle Lacoste. Their scant evidence consists of two cryptic notebooks, a few mysterious numbers marked on a tattered map of Québec, and a single, chilling phrase repeated by the operative they dubbed the Grey Wolf—a warning of what’s yet to come. Gamache must move with extreme caution to prevent the Black Wolf from knowing that he’s onto their true, devastating plan. The stakes are profoundly personal and national: to save the soul of Québec from a rising tide of authoritarian menace and misinformation.
The Girl from Devil’s Lake (Joanna Brady Mysteries)
NEW RELEASE | Traditional Detective Mystery & Cold Case Suspense 🏜️
Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most complex and geographically ambitious case yet, tying a gruesome discovery in her desert jurisdiction to crimes spanning decades and multiple states, in the thrilling latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
Sheriff Joanna Brady is attempting to balance the demands of her busy office with the joys of the season, particularly the milestone of celebrating her daughter Jenny’s graduation from the police academy. This personal high note contrasts sharply with the professional nightmare that begins when a young boy’s body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the unforgiving Arizona desert. The meticulous details of the crime scene immediately signal a chilling pattern: this killer is a prolific predator, and his next move is imminent.
As Joanna dives deeper, the local murder proves to be just the tip of a vast, interconnected iceberg. She uncovers dormant leads and unlikely connections to mysterious deaths and decades-old missing persons cold cases that reach far beyond the borders of Cochise County, even stretching to the unsettling discovery of remains near Devil’s Lake, North Dakota. This forces Joanna to lead a wide-ranging, multi-jurisdictional manhunt. Simultaneously, her every move is scrutinized by a dogged journalist sniffing out a story and complicated by leaked, privileged information. This internal pressure makes Joanna question whom among her colleagues she can truly trust, raising the terrifying possibility that a prolific, methodical killer might be hiding in plain sight within her community, prepared to do anything to keep his long history of crimes concealed.
Gone Before Goodbye
NEW RELEASE | High-Stakes International Conspiracy Thriller 💉
An unforgettable suspense novel—a landmark collaboration between Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben—plunges a woman into a deadly, high-tech conspiracy where the truth is the most dangerous secret of all.
Maggie McCabe has always been drawn to high-risk environments, initially as a highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, a life lived successfully on the edge of impact. However, a series of devastating personal tragedies resulted in the revocation of her medical license, leaving her adrift and without purpose. Her nerve and passion remain, and at her lowest point, a former colleague offers a clandestine lifeline: a role working for an elite plastic surgeon with a clientele who demand unparalleled care and absolute, ironclad discretion.
Maggie is whisked halfway across the globe to a world of unspeakable opulence and cutting-edge technology. Her patient is one of the world’s most mysterious and powerful men, requiring unconventional medical assistance that few surgeons possess the skill to provide. Maggie fulfills her agreement, but the situation violently explodes when her patient suddenly and inexplicably vanishes while still under her care. With her unique combat and medical training, Maggie must instantly switch from surgeon to fugitive, as she realizes she has been implicated in a deep, international cover-up. If she doesn’t uncover the conspiracy behind the man’s disappearance, she knows with grim certainty that she will be the next person who is... Gone Before Goodbye.
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