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Spend less time searching for new genre fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Kindle Store so you don't have to. Outstanding new releases in mystery and suspense fiction include:

The Affair, by Lee Child. Delacorte Press, 2011. Print Length: 416 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (21 reviews). Kindle edition $13.99; Hardcover $14.73. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. This is book sixteen in Child's Jack Reacher series.

"Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover - to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming..." - from the hardcover edition.

Lethal, by Sandra Brown. Grand Central Publishing, 2011. Print Length: 480 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (19 reviews). Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $15.98. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that 'sick' man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word. But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can't be trusted...From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives..." - Publisher.

The Detachment, by Barry Eisler. Thomas & Mercer, 2011. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (75 reviews). Kindle edition $5.99; Paperback $9.57. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"John Rain is back. And 'the most charismatic assassin since James Bond' (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy. When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott 'Hort' Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the offer: a multi-million dollar payday for the 'natural causes' demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America. But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone. He’ll need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner, the former Marine sniper, Dox. Ben Treven, a covert operator with ambivalent motives and conflicted loyalties. And Larison, a man with a hair trigger and a secret he’ll kill to protect..." - Publisher.

Feast Day of Fools, by James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, 2011. Print Length: 480 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife and locked in a perilous almost-romance with his deputy, Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds off the deeds of evil men to keep his own demons at bay. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert and reports it, Hack’s investigation leads to the home of Anton Ling, a regal, mysterious Chinese woman whom the locals refer to as La Magdalena and who is known for sheltering illegals. Ling denies having seen the victim or the perpetrators, but there is something in her steely demeanor and aristocratic beauty that compels Hackberry to return to her home again and again as the investigation unfolds..." - Publisher.

Heat Rises, by Richard Castle. Hyperion, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (13 reviews). Kindle edition $9.36; Hardcover $14.38. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. This is book three in the author's Nikki Heat series, following Heat Wave and Naked Heat.

"The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat's most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD. But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers, with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who's not a cop..." - Publisher.

The Cut, by George Pelecanos. Reagan Arthur Books, 2011. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (32 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.15. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defense attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is forty percent. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas's specialty hires him to find out who has been stealing from his operation. It's the biggest job Lucas has ever been offered, and he quickly gets a sense of what's going on. But before he can close in on what's been taken, he tangles with a world of men whose amorality and violence leave him reeling. Is any cut worth your family, your lover, your life?" - Publisher.

Sleight of Paw, by Sophie Kelly. NAL, 2011. Print Length: Amazon customer rating: Kindle edition $7.99; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. This is the second in Kelly's Magical Cats Mysteries series, following Curiosity Thrilled the Cat.

"Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson never wanted to be the crazy cat lady. But after Owen and Hercules followed her home, she realized her mind wasn't playing tricks on her - her cats have magical abilities. When the body of elderly do-gooder Agatha Shepherd is found near Kath's favorite local café, she knows Owen's talent for turning invisible and Hercules's ability to walk through walls will give the felines access to clues Kath couldn't get without arousing suspicion. Someone is hiding some dark secrets - and it will take a bit of furtive investigating to catch the cold-hearted killer." - Publisher.

Coup d'Etat, by Ben Coes. St. Martin's Press, 2011. Print Length: 480 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (17 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.15. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Wanting only a peaceful, obscure life, Dewey Andreas has gone to rural Australia, far from turbulent forces that he once fought against. But powerful men, seeking revenge, have been scouring the earth looking for Dewey. And now, they've finally found him - forcing Dewey to abandon his home and to fight for his life against a very well armed, well trained group of assassins. Meanwhile, a radical cleric has been elected president of Pakistan and, upon taking power, sets off a rapidly escalating conflict with India. As the situation spins quickly out of control, it becomes clear that India is only days from resorting to a nuclear response, one that will have unimaginably disasterous results for the world at large. With only days to head this off, the President sends in his best people, including Jessica Tanzer, to do whatever it takes to restore the fragile peace to the region. Tanzer has only one viable option - to set up and execute a coup d'etat in Pakistan - and only one man in mind to lead the team that will try to pull off this almost unimaginable task in the nerve-wrackingly short time frame, Dewey Andreas..." - Publisher.
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