Title: The Pandora Room

Author: Christopher Golden

From the New York Times bestselling and Brian Stoker Award–winning author of Ararat comes the sensational new novel that will turn ancient lore into a modern-day horror. In one ancient variation on the myth of Pandora’s Box, there wee two jars, one for Pandora and one for her sister, Anesidora. One contained all the blessings of the gods, the other all the world’s curses.

Archaeologist Sophie Durand has spent her life studying ancient mythology and languages. Years of work have led her to the greatest discovery of her career, a subterranean city deep in the heart of Northern Iraq. No one has set foot within these walls for thousands of years. When Sophie’s team uncovers a secret chamber whose walls are covered in cuneiform, along with a warning from Alexander the Great himself, history and mythology begin to merge. The writings confirm the old Pandora tale of two jars. but the chamber guards only one. It’s a find that could make history, or start a war.

Weird-science expert Ben Walker is called in to join Sophie’s crew as the mystery deepens and grows ugly. Those who believe the myth want to know which jar has been found in the Pandora Room, the one containing blessings or the one full of curses. Governments rush to lay claim, but jihadi forces aren’t waiting for the dust to settle. Whatever the jar contains, they want it, no matter who they have to kill or what will emerge when they open it. For Sophie, Walker, and the others, the Pandora Room may soon become their tomb.

In a novel that breathes new life into the supernatural thriller, Christopher Golden’s pulse-pounding tale is not to be missed.

Title:  Th e Malta Exchange

Author:  Steve Berry

The pope is dead.  A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin.  Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the fourth century and Constantine the Great.

Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that disappeared in 1945 and could rewrite history.  But someone else is after the same letters, and when Malone obtains, then loses, them, the ensuing hunt attracts the attention of the legendary Knights of Malt.

The knights have existed for more than nine hundred years, the only warrior-monks to survive into modern times.  Now they are a global humanitarian organization, but within their ranks lurks trouble–the Secreti–an ancient sect of the knights intent on affecting the coming papal conclave.  With the help of Magellan Billet agent Luke Daniels, Malone races the rogue cardinal, the knights the Secreti

, and the clock to find what has been lost for centuries.  The final confrontation culminates behind the walls of the Vatican, where the election of the next pope hangs in the balance.

Title:  Cemetery Road

Author:  Greg Iles

So begins Cemetery Road, Greg Iles’s most captivating and propulsive novel to date.  Marshall M McEwan is one of the most successful journalists in Washington, D.C.  But as a chaotic presidential administration lifts him from print fame to television stardom, Marshall discovers that his father is terminally ill, and he must return to his childhood home–a place he vowed he would never  go back to.

Bienville, Mississippi, is no longer the city Marshall remembers.  His family’s 159-year-old newspaper is failing, and Jet Talal, the love of his youth, has married into the family of Max Matherson, one of a dozen powerful patriarchs who rule the town through the exclusive Bienville Poker Club.  To Marshall’s surprise, the Poker Club has offered economic salvation to this community on the brink of extinction, in the form of a billion-dollar Chinese paper mill.  But on the verge of the deal’s consummation, two deaths rock Bienville to the ore, threatening far more than the city’s economic future.

Joining forces with his former lover–whose husband stands to inherit a seat in the Poker Club–Marshall begins digging for the truth.  but he and Het soon discover that the soil of Mississippi is a minefield whose explosive secrets can be far more destructive than injustice.  By the time Marshall grasps the long-buried truth about hos own history–and the woman he loves–he would give almost anything not to have to face it.

Title:  The Border

Author:  Don Winslow

What do you do when there are no borders?  When the lines you though existed simply vanish?  How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know what side you’re on?

The war has come home.

For more than forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: the war on drugs.  His obsession with defeating the world’s most powerful, wealthy and lethal kingpin–the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adan Barrera–has left him bloody and scarred, cost him the people he loved, even taken a piece of his soul.

Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster he has created thirty more, who are wreaking even more chaos and suffering in his beloved Mexico.  And not just there.

Barrera’s final legacy is the heroin epidemic scourging America.  Throwing himself into the gap to stem the deadly flow.  Keller finds himself surrounded by enemies, men who want to kill him, politicians who want to destroy him, and worse, the unimaginable–as incoming administration that’s in bed with the very drug traffickers Keller is trying to bring down.

Art Keller is at war not only with the cartels, but with his own government.  And the long fight has taught him more than he ever imagined.  Now he learns the final lesson: There are no borders.

In a study that moves from the deserts of  Mexico to Wall street, from the slums of Guatemala to the marbled corridors of Washington, DC, Winslow follows a new generation of narcos, the cops who fight them, street traffickers, addicts, politicians, money launderers, real estate moguls, and mere children fleeing the violence for the chance of a life in a new country.

The Border is an unflinching portrait of modern America, a story of–and for–our time.

Title:  We Must Be Brave

Author:  Frances Liardet

December 1940:  As German bombs fell on Southampton, England the city’s residents flee to the surrounding villages.  In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly married Ellen Parr finds a girl asleep, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus.  Little Pamela, it seems, is entire alone.

Ellen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home, the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband, Selwyn, had dreamed for themselves.  As the war wages on, love grows where it was least expected, surprising then all.  But with the end of the fighting comes the realization that Pamela was never theirs to keep.

A story of courage and kindness, hardship and friendship, We Must Be Brave is a luminous and profoundly moving novel about the people we rescue, and he ways in which they rescue us in return.

Title:  Judgment

Author: Joseph Finder

It was nothing more than one-night stand.  Juliana Brody, a judge in the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit and maybe someday, the highest court in the land.  While at a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle, vulnerable man and has an unforgettable night with him–something she’s never done before.  They part with an explicit understanding that this must never happen again.

But back home in Boston, Juliana realizes that this was no random encounter.  The man from Chicago proves to have an integral role in a case she’s presiding over-a sex-discrimination case that’s received national attention.  Juliana discovers that she’s been entrapped, he night of infidelity captured on video.  Strings ae being pulled in high places, a terrifying conspiracy unfolds that will turn her life upside down.  But soon it becomes clear that personal humiliation–even the possible destruction of her career–is the least of her concerns, as her own life and the lives of her family are put in mortal jeopardy.

In the end, turning the tables on her adversaries will require her to be as ruthless as they are.