1. Title: The Black Box
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Synopsis: Harry Bosch dubbed "one of the greats of crime fiction" is on the most perilous case of his career as a detective. Spanning across two decades, Bosch traces a bullet used in the killing of a young female photographer during the Los Angeles race riots to a 1992 file. Originally investigating the murder, Bosch was subsequently removed from the case as it was handed over to the Riot Crimes Task Force, but was never solved. As his search for the "black box" intensifies, he realises that her death was not arbitrary violence but a part of a deep intrigue.
2. Title: Cold Days
Author: Jim Butcher
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: Harry Dresden realises that he is probably no longer Chicago's only professional wizard. After being murdered by an unknown assailant, flitting from the realms of life and death, it begins to dawn on him that death is not that bad after all. Harry Dresden, now the Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, has no choice but to swear his loyalty, with her word being his command. Harry carries out her orders regardless of what she wants him to do, where she wants him to go, and who she wants him to kill. Only time will tell which she wants first.
3. Title: Notorious Nineteen
Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: Random House Publishing
Synopsis: Stephanie Plum is a New Jersey based bounty hunter who takes on the assignment to trace Geoffrey Cubbin. Cubbin was being tried for duping Trenton's premier assisted-living facility until he disappears from the hospital after undergoing an emergency appendectomy. That leaves Stephanie with no option but to work alongside Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli. Notorious for finding trouble, Stephanie's case complicates when another felon manages to escape from the hospital. With two con men on the loose and no rent to pay, Stephanie takes up a secondary job of guarding Ranger. But the troubles don't end here. Threatening notes, some food poisoning, and an unidentified bridesmaid's dress pushes away her chances of acquiring a stable pay check.
4. Title: The Forgotten
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: Agent John Puller has till date cracked the toughest crimes facing the nation and that makes him the most reliable man in the US Army. He's a veteran of combat and a relentless one at that. But now he is faced with a personal loss. His aunt has been found dead in the beach town Paradise in Florida and the local police have shrugged off responsibility by calling the incident as simply unfortunate and tragic. However, a letter from his aunt to Puller's father confirms the grimy details behind the picture-perfect facade of Paradise. Puller sets off on a personal mission to probe the truth behind his aunt's mysterious death and to unveil the conspiracies beneath Paradise's sandy beaches and palm trees.
5. Title: The Racketeer
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: Malcolm Bannister, an ex-lawyer currently serving jail sentence at the Federal Prison Camp, Maryland, knows why Judge Raymond Fawcett was murdered and by whom. From the site of murder, the FBI couldn't deduce much for there was no forced entry, no sign of struggle, only two dead bodies, one of the Judge and the other of his young secretary's, and an opened and emptied extremely secure safe. Malcolm would like to give out every last detail, but there is one tiny hitch. He wants his freedom in exchange.
6. Title: Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Synopsis: Nineteenth in James Patterson's bestselling 'Alex Cross' series, Merry Christmas, Alex Cross is a poignant tale of a man who is on a mission to save a family from a terrible hostage situation but at the same time misses being home on Christmas eve. Alex left a mission behind him when he decided to come back home and decorate the Christmas tree with his kids and wife. However, he could not stay for long. A phone call informs him about an out-of-control situation learning which he rushes to the site. Separated from his own family to save another, will Alex Cross return alive on this festive day? For readers, this can be a holiday classic read this Christmas.
7. Title: Gone Girl
Author: Gillian Flynn
Publisher: Crown Publishing
Synopsis: On her fifth wedding anniversary Amy Dunne suddenly goes missing without a trace from her rented home in North Carthage, Missouri. Under pressure from the police, media and Amy's doting parents, Husband-of-the Year, Nick grapples with a never-ending chain of lies, deceits, and his own oddly evasive behaviour. As events get murkier, the needle of suspicion points at Nick as the killer of his beautiful wife. With his sister Margo by his side, Nick pleads innocence. Then what was in that silver gift box in the back of Amy's bedroom closet?
8. Title: The Last Man
Author: Vince Flynn
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Synopsis: Joe Rickman, a CIA agent known for his clandestine operations in Afghanistan has gone missing and his absence has created a stir in the team. Rickman was part of many life-threatening operations in the war-torn state of Afghanistan pervaded by the Taliban, Iranians, Russians and Pakistanis- all fighting to claim their land. Director of CIA sends Mitch Rapp on a mission to find Rickman before he is brought to wrong hands. Rapp heads to Afghanistan in search of his friend and while navigating the conflict-ridden state of Afghanistan he feels something dreadful is awaiting Rickman. In the meanwhile, the FBI too has started hunting for the missing CIA agent and there are enemies all around. Will Rapp get to the truth and solve the case of his kidnapped friend?
9. Title: Life of Pi
Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers
Synopsis: Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winning novel is back in news, this time for its adaptation into a film by director Ang Lee. Pondicherry-based Piscine Molitor Patel, known as Pi, is a bookish fellow. His family runs the local zoo and he spends most of his time among goats, bears, hippos and swans. He is sixteen when his parents decide to move to Canada along with their animals. Tragedy strikes and their ship sinks, leaving behind Pi as the lone human survivor on the lifeboat, along with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. An epic story begins spread over 227 days spent castaway, teaching Pi the lessons - adventure, survival and companionship.
10. Title: Fifty Shades of Grey
Author: E.L. James
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: E.L James, a former TV journalist and mom of two in West London, fulfills her childhood dream of writing a book with Fifty Shades of Grey, the first of the trilogy, and turns into a bestselling author. Serving erotica to the audience with a plot that revolves around a drop-dead-gorgeous billionaire Christian Grey and his dangerous liaison with literature student Anastasia Steele who goes to interview the young tycoon, and ends up falling for him. They embark on a passionate physical affair while Ana unravels Grey's dark desires including her own.
11. Title: Shadow's Claim
Author: Kresley Cole
Publisher: Pocket Books
Synopsis: Author Kresley Cole continues to build on the royal bloodline of Dacia, a vampire kingdom that no one knows about and brings to you, a brand new paranormal romance. Trehan Daciano, the vampire Prince of Shadows has been protecting the kingdom for eons. His latest prey is Caspian, the Tracker and while on the mission to trace and kill him, Trehan encounters Caspian's bride, the very beautiful Princess Bettina. He stands by her window hypnotized and doesn't hesitate to enter her bedroom when she invites him inside, taking him to be Caspian in the dark. Soon, Bettina discovers her mistake and is horrified at his presence, but Trehan is now devoted to win her. He swears to possess the princess sorceress by fighting Caspian in a blood-sport tournament.
12. Title: The Edge of Never
Author: J.A. Redmerski
Publisher: J.A. Redmerski
Synopsis: Camryn Bennett is a 20-year-old woman who wishes to discover something new in life. She detests repetitive patterns and monotony in life. Wanting to break-free therefore, Camryn decides to move in with her friend and start a new job in an attempt to find something 'new', something that's missing which she cannot define. Things do not work that well in North Carolina and on a sudden impulse she boards a Greyhound bus alone in search of her 'real' self. It is here that she meets Andrew Parrish, a guy who loves to live in the moment and is quite similar to how Camryn perceives life. Camryn has resolved not to fall in love but it is with Andrew that she realises she is alive. Andrew has a dark secret to be unravelled; will that spoil everything?
13. Title: Agenda 21
Author: Glenn Beck with Harriet Parke
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Synopsis: Eighteen-year-old Emmeline is living in a slave society after a UN-led programme called Agenda 21 changed America into a "Republic" where there is no president, no court, no freedom but "Authorities" that dictate people to live a life based on illogical norms and totalitarian ethics. Confined to a concrete space of living, Emmeline tries to define the vacuum in her life post her parents' death. Love is discouraged in this barren society, there is no communication between human beings, they are lifeless entities and constantly under surveillance. Categorised as a dystopia novel, (on the lines similar to George Orwell's 1984) Glenn Beck and Harriet Parke follow a thought-provoking narrative style, a kind of story-telling that forces us to imagine a world without love or humanitarian concerns. Will Emmeline's questions be ever answered in this hell-like world, can she escape it?
14. Title: Fifty Shades Darker
Author: E.L James
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: The second of the trilogy, Fifty Shades Darker explores the dilemma of Anastasia after her separation from Grey. She has moved on in her career, yet desires to go back to him, for the memories of their torrid physical affair still dominate her mind, and eventually she lands up with him in a new arrangement. Grey's inner demons grow darker, and as Ana delves deeper into his harrowing past, she is faced with the anger and jealousy of the women who came in his life before her.
15. Title: The Perfect Hope
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: Book 3 in The Inn Trilogy, Nora Roberts takes us through the lives of three Montgomery brothers- Beckett, Ryder, and Owen. Hope Beaumont, the innkeeper is particularly put off by the infuriating brother of them all, Ryder Montgomery. Hope is someone who delights in the joys of small-town living but is also used to appreciating glamour and adventure in life. Then, there comes the New Year's eve when Hope and Ryder share a kiss and the tough and stern Ryder begins discovering his emotional side toward Hope. There's however a past that threatens to appear like an uninvited guest in Hope's present. Will she be able to ward off the darkness of the past or will Ryder come to the rescue?
(Compiled by Anwesha Mittra, Arunima Mazumdar and Ipshita Mitra)
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