Fall into These Four Thrilling New Mysteries

The Scam, by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Evanovich and Goldberg return to the popular crime-fighting team of Nick Fox, charming thief, and Kate O’Hare, FBI agent. They’re the unlikely pair that secretly tracks criminals the law can’t touch. The Scam features one of the great underused thriller glamor scenarios: the offshore casino, where our heroes get to dress to the nines and fight crime in elegant, expensive surroundings. Fox and O’Hare are after Evan Trace, the powerful owner of a casino in Macau who launders money for the worst people in the world: criminals, dictators, and terrorists. Undercover as high-rollers, with a hilariously shaky backup team as their only support, they risk everything to bring Trace down in a book that promises to continue a winning streak of charming thrillers filled with banter and action.

Devoted in Death, by J.D. Robb
Robb—a.k.a. Nora Roberts—offers up a 41st entry in her In Death series that reads as fresh and thrilling as the first. NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to a gruesome crime scene in an alleyway of her beloved New York City of the future, a crime scene so gory she almost misses the sweet, romantic clue carved into the body, which sets her on the trail of a pair of twisted lovers in the Natural Born Killers-mode: a recently released ex-con and his girlfriend, who celebrate their love by killing and torturing. A kidnapping ratchets up the tension as Dallas races against time to save an innocent life and bring these monsters to justice.

The End Game, by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison
The third entry in the A Brit in the FBI series kicks off with a rush of nonstop action that pulls you and sets the table for an action-filled plot: responding to a tip about terrorist group Celebrants of Earth (COE), an anti-Muslim group intent on punishing the U.S. for its energy policies, FBI Special Agent Michaela “Mike” Caine and the titular “Brit in the FBI,” Nicholas Drummond, barely survive a dual bombing at a New Jersey refinery. They return to the tipster’s home to find him (and the team left to guard him) murdered, a brutal crime quickly eclipsed by massive cyber-attack against major energy companies. The CIA reveals they have a deep-cover operative inside COE: enter bomb expert Vanessa Grace, who teams up with Caine and Drummond to track down a rogue assassin believed to be delivering COE’s masterstroke—but no one knows who hired him, or who his target is.

Dance of the Bones, by J.A. Jance
The big name crossover is a time-honored event, and Jance achieves something incredible in Dance of the Bones, spinning a tale that involves two of his most popular creations: Sheriff Brandon Walker (now retired) and J.P. Beaumont, formerly of the recently-disbanded Special Homicide Investigation Team. When a man Walker arrested for murder in 1970 refuses a plea bargain that would release him from prison, instead demanding that Walker identify the real killer in the case, the sheriff comes out of retirement and engages Last Chance to help him investigate a very cold case. When the trail leads him to an unsolved crime in Seattle, he teams up with Beaumont, and their partnership that crackles with energy—energy that only intensifies when two boys from the reservation are kidnapped, and evidence suggests all three crimes are connected.