1. Title: Alex Cross, Run
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Synopsis: James Patterson is one of the most popular and oft-repeated authors featured on the New York Times Bestseller Lists. This time, our detective Alex Cross is preoccupied with three cases and he realises he does not have much time on him to nab the serial killers who have wrecked havoc in Washington DC. While a woman was found murdered with a lock of her hair ripped off, the second woman's body was discovered hanging from a sixth-floor window and the brutally bruised body of the third victim sent chills down the spines of many. Alex is unable to handle the pressure, so much so that he is oblivious to the conspiracy being planned somewhere against him. He is under someone else's investigation mission he is unaware of. Where will this game of vengeance, rumours, killings and conspiracies end? Who is this someone who is obsessively after Alex?
2. Title: Safe Haven
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: Katie, a young woman has just relocated to the small town of Southport in North Carolina. Naturally, the neighbours are intrigued by her self-effacing nature. Slowly, she drops her guard and starts opening up to Alex, a widower with two kids and Jo, her next door neighbour. Katie is apprehensive about revealing her tumultuous past that led her to travel across another country, nevertheless, she begins to confide in them. Jo's empathetic support and Alex's kind love eases her troubles of the dark past and she eventually realises that it is nothing but love that will rescue her to a safe haven.
3. 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?
4. Title: Wait for Me
Author: Elisabeth Naughton
Publisher: Elisabeth Naughton
Synopsis: When life gives a second chance, it becomes hard to believe at first, but, slowly one begins to realise how fortune can indeed strike more than once. This is what happens with Kate Alexander and Ryan Harrison who have lost much in the past but are eventually getting drawn into an unfamiliar present that assures to change their future. An accident claimed Kate's memory and she saw herself beginning a family with people she does not feel at ease. Her husband dies one day and she comes to know about a girl who can be the daughter she had never known. Ryan is busy being a good father to his daughter after his wife's death. The one thing after many years that he feels is missing in his life is love, a partner he longed to be with. As fate would have it, Kate and Ryan meet on the same road, the road that promises to help them search for answers they have not uncovered yet. Will their separate lives soon merge into one?
5. Title: A Week in Winter
Author: Maeve Binchy
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: Maeve Binchy finished writing this book days before she died in 2012. A grand storyteller, her books are a sheer joy to read. A Week in Winter celebrates the magic of life in all colours. A small town located on the west coast of Ireland is almost like one big family where everybody knows everybody. All families in Stoneybridge have their own little heartwarming stories and the way they live is unique and a lot of fun. Everyone thinks Chicky has lost her mind when she decides to turn a decaying mansion overlooking the Atlantic Ocean into a quaint place for a holiday by the sea. All done up, Chicky welcomes her first guests to Stone House's big warm kitchen, log fires, impressive bedrooms and what not. With a gang of characters from John, the American movie star, Winnie and Lillian, Nicola and Henry, Anders who has a knack for music to Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher; this holiday brings together innumerable stories and mysteries readers are sure to get engrossed in.
6. 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.
7. Title: Touch and Go
Author: Lisa Gardner
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: The bestselling author of Catch Me and Love You More, Lisa Gardner returns with a nail-biting thriller Touch and Go. Justin and Libby Denbe have had a perfect life until then, a cute 15-year-old daughter, Ashlyn, many friends, a swanky house. One day the entire family vanishes without a trace. Investigator Tessa Leoni arrives at the scene of crime, the Denbe home. Apart from some scuff marks and confetti in the foyer, Tessa cannot put a finger on anything that'll lead her to the culprit. But what do you do when there is no witness, no ransom call, and no established motive?
8. Title: Rush
Author: Maya Banks
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: Gabe Hamilton desperately wants Mia Crestwell from the time she walked into the ballroom for the grand opening of his hotel. But Gabe knows his limits, for Mia is his best friend's little sister. But now they are no longer kids, and they'll have to rein in their innermost desires. For Mia, Gabe since childhood has been the man of her dreams, but she knew he was out of her league. When Mia and Gabe decide to take this mutual attraction to the next level, they discover something deeper while their affair grows susceptible to a big betrayal.
9. Title: If You Stay
Author: Courtney Cole
Publisher: Courtney Cole
Synopsis: Pax's mother died when he was just 7 and he grew up with an inexplicable emptiness of guilt and loneliness. To hide his void he has built an exterior side of him - a tattooed, rugged boy, hard to please and a terrible attitude to keep up with. He does all the wrong things to get away from the emptiness but isn't able to until he meets the pretty and innocent Mila. A part of him wants to hurt her (to overcome his void) and yet he finds it impossible to reveal his ugly side to her. Slowly, he begins to understand it is only she who can help him understand his inner-self and consequently, save him from being a bad human that he never was, and never will be.
10. Title: The Silver Linings Playbook
Author: Matthew Quick
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Synopsis: American author Matthew Quick's debut novel released in 2008 is back on the Bestseller List thanks to David O. Russell's film adaptation by the same name (starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) that now has eight nominations to its credit for Academy Awards 2013. It is a heartwarming story about a history teacher named Pat Peoples, who after spending years in a neurology hospital struggles to reconcile his lost and scattered memories. Wishing to reunite with his estranged wife Nikki, Pat continues to visit his therapist to resume a life he had left behind and forgotten about as a mental patient. Soon Pat is introduced to Tiffany who he befriends and agrees to train for a dance contest. As Pat yearns to meet Nikki, Tiffany falls in love with him. Will Pat Peoples ever get back with his wife or will he welcome a new love?
11. Title: Waiting for Love
Author: Marie Force
Publisher: Marie Force
Synopsis: He nearly lost his brothers in a boating accident. His ex-girlfriend has just double-crossed him. For Adam McCarthy, the only way to get normalcy back into life is to go home on Gansett Island where he can take a breather. But on the ride back home he meets Abby Callahan, an old family friend who is looking for a shoulder to cry after heart break. An unintentional intimacy sparks between them with Adam helping become emotionally stable. But what both thought was just a fling is now turning out to be a serious affair and to make things worse, Adam's ex-girlfriend is back in the scene. Who's waiting for whose love, it's hard to tell.
12. Title: Guilt
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher: Random House Publishing
Synopsis: The up-market Los Angeles neighbourhood comes under the cloud for a series of macabre events. First an infant's body buried sixty years ago is unearthed during a backyard renovation, then at a nearby park the body of a young woman shot in the head is uncovered. Investigating the case is LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis with help from maverick psychologist Alex Delaware. The duo backtrack six decades into past to dig up tales of a beautiful nurse and her handsome lover, a wealthy doctor, a hospital with a chequered track record, and missing records of a newborn. In an attempt to string the pieces of the jigsaw together, they are faced with a grisly truth.
13. Title: Fifty Shades Freed
Author: E.L James
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: Since their first encounter, the third of the trilogy, and driven by their searing sexual desire for each other, Anastasia and Grey's lives have changed irrevocably. Initially repelled by Grey's need to control in bed, and his erotic tastes, Ana subsequently comes to terms with it, and demands from him a greater commitment. Grey agrees, and now they have everything going for them, from love, wealth, passion, to intimacy. But deep down Ana fears they'll never be able to stay together without her sacrificing her own identity.
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: Hard to Resist
Author: Shanora Williams
Publisher: Shanora Williams
Synopsis: Natalie Carmichael was in a steady relationship for good four years with Bryson Daniels until that fateful graduation night when she walked in on him cheating on her. With a badly broken heart she leaves for Florida. There, she wants to make a new start, lead a happy life as a single, but then she runs into the charismatic Nolan Young. Natalie wants to steer clear of him as she doesn't want to be heartbroken again given his tormented past. But Nolan is head-over-heels for her, and cannot restrain his desires. How long will the two hold back? Will they give their relationship an honest chance?
(Compiled by Anwesha Mittra, Arunima Mazumdar and Ipshita Mitra)
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