New Mystery & Suspense titles added to the collection include:
I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson
(also in graphic novel format)
A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires,
Robert Neville leads a desperate life in which he must barricade himself in his
home every night and hunt down the starving undead by day. 1/08
SHARP TEETH by Toby Barlow
Sweet-natured dogcatcher Anthony doesn't know that his
girlfriend is a werewolf no longer with her pack, whose ousted leader is doing
time as a family pet while plotting his revenge. 1/08
MAXIMUM RIDE -- SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER
by James Patterson
Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon leaves his family and
begins life as a cowboy, but his mentally retarded twin brother follows him and
joins the journey. 11/07
BEATING HEART: A GHOST STORY by
A. M. Jenkins
Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old
Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a
teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.
11/07
THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION by
Michael Chabon
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has
become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer
Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a
heroin-addled chess prodigy. 11/07
DOUBLE CROSS
by James Patterson
(sequel to Cross)
Rejoining the police force in the wake of a series of
elaborate murders in Washington, D.C., detective Alex Cross finds himself
working to outmaneuver the killer's penchant for inducing hysteria with
increasingly sensational killings. 11/07
THE ROAD OF THE DEAD by Kevin Brooks
Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave
London and travel to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal
killer of their sister. 04/07
THE ANGEL OF
DEATH by Alane
Ferguson
(sequel to Christopher Killer)
Seventeen-year-old high school senior Cameryn Mahoney uses
skills learned as assistant to her coroner father to try to unravel the mystery
of a local teacher's gruesome death, while also awaiting a possible reunion with
her long-missing mother. 4/07
THE RULES OF
SURVIVAL by Nancy Werlin
(award winner)
Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at
a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally
and physically abusive mother. 4/07
CHASING THE
JAGUAR by Michele Doninguez Greene
After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter
of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a
descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special
powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words. 4/07
PRETTY LITTLE
DEVILS by Nancy Holder
Life seems rosy for the Pretty Little Devils, the most
popular girls' clique in high school, until its members begin to experience
threats and assaults. 4/07
SLEEPER CODE
by Tom Sniegoski
(part 1 of series)
Just when he has met a beautiful girl and his outlook is
improving, sixteen-year-old narcoleptic Tom Lovett begins to suspect that his
dreams and hallucinations of killing people may be something more real and
terrifying. 4/07
BAD KITTY by
Michele Jaffe
While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas,
seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to
solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California. 4/07
TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE by Zoran
Drvenkar
From the point of view of each person, tells how Alissa finds
an odd plant that gives her strange powers, how Simon stalks Alissa because he
can't get over their break-up, and how Evelyn tries to help Alissa with
everything. 4/07
UNDER THE BRIDGE by Rebecca Godfrey
Traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of
fourteen-year-old Reena Virk by eight of her peers, in an account that offers
insight into the social tensions that provoked the crime and the minds of
teenage killers. True story!! 4/07