"He is a son of privilege, an inheritor of billions from his deceased parents. He owns a fleet of the finest cars and a hangar full of planes, and has countless technological gadgets at his command. Donning a mask and long flowing cape, he's a man fighting relentlessly for a cause he believes in."--Publisher's description.

16 Exciting Detective Stories for Readers to Solve A good detective keeps her hands clean. That means staying out of trouble . . . and using lots of soap. There's something mysterious going on in Odyssey . . . again. But the Jones and Parker Detective Agency is on the case. No mystery is too big (or too small) for Emily Jones and Matthew Parker. And this new adventure promises to be a real doozy. It all starts with a mysterious phone caller...

They told me not to get involved with him, because he had a bad reputation. I didn't listen. Why? Maybe it was those eyes. Most probably it was his body. Or maybe it was his quick wit, easy charm and the way he made me feel so at ease. Like I was perfect-just the way I am, flaws and all. I realize now that he wanted me to feel that way, so I'd accept him, just the way he was. He wanted to have his cake, and eat it too. He wanted a game, so I gave...

Ein Club. Ein grausames Spiel. Eine Frau, die zurückschlägt: Auf einer Müllkippe in Florida wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau aufgefunden: enthauptet, der Körper brutal zugerichtet und gebrandmarkt wie ein Stück Vieh. CJ Townsend, vor Kurzem als Staatsanwältin nach Miami zurückgekehrt, ist alarmiert, als sie das Brandmal auf der Schulter der Toten sieht: ein Blitz in einem Kreis, eindeutig die Handschrift eines Clubs, der bereits vor einigen...

The alien is changing the world, and she's not nearly finished. Falling from the sky, a creature arrived more powerful than anything imagined on Earth: Morena, an alien Queen banished from her home world. Now, she's ready to start again, repopulating the world with her species. The government's first defense failed to stop the alien. Turning to one of the smartest men to ever live, they ask Kenneth Marks to save the world. Except as Marks assesses...

BETTER TO FIGHT FOR SOMETHING, THAN LIVE FOR NOTHING Lexi has survived much since a super-EMP ended the world she knew. She emerged from the ashes a determined foe of those who prey upon the weak, but now she's the one needing a protector. Nine months pregnant and alone, she is a wanderer in desperate need of a home to raise and eventually train her child for the world they are being born into. Her one main obstacle is that she's created many enemies...

She's here, and now she wants to stay . . . The alien crashed into Earth without anyone knowing. She escaped her ship without being caught. Escape isn't enough, though. Morena wants to conquer Earth. It's the only chance for the survival of her entire species. Now, Morena is taking over a small town in Georgia, possessing those she comes in contact with and readying the birth of her alien kind. The U.S. government is finally mobilizing to the...

"From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women's Prize, comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples. Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks fly as they exchange...

Civil War? Nothing. Kick-Ass? A warmup. What if the smartest, toughest costumed bad ass in the world was totally evil? Meet Nemesis. He's systematically been destroying the lives of every police chief in Asia, and he's now set his sights on Washington, DC. Between you and me, the police don't have a chance. Do not miss the book that everyone is talking about by the creative team that made Civil War the biggest book of the decades.

Roth's "Nemesis" is the story of a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.