On the day before his twenty-first wedding anniversary, David Sullinger buried an ax in his wife’s skull. Now, eight jurors must retire to the deliberation room and decide whether David committed premeditated murder—or whether he was a battered spouse who killed his wife in self-defense.

Told from the perspective of over a dozen participants in a murder...

**The powerful follow-up to the bestselling book

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky**

Blackstone Publishing is proud to announce the forthcoming release of DISTURBED IN THEIR NESTS: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights [Blackstone Publishing; November 6, 2018; paperback original] by Alephonsion Deng and Judy A. Bernstein. 

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100 fathoms below …

The depth at which sunlight no longer penetrates the ocean.

1983. The US nuclear submarine USS Roanoke embarks on a classified spy mission into Soviet waters. Their goal: to find evidence of a new, faster, and deadlier Soviet submarine that could tip the balance of the Cold War. But the Roanoke crew isn’t alone. Something is on board with...

In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease … a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes.

The Chinese government says the rumors aren’t true, but no one is allowed in or out of Tibet.

At the Pentagon, Admiral James Curtiss is...

Somewhere between hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and getting married to a new husband, thirty-three-year-old Susan Purvis loses her way.

Susan comes to believe that a puppy and working on ski patrol at the last great ski town in Colorado will improve her life. When she learns about avalanches that bury people without warning, she challenges...

Kurt Holland wants the best for his younger brother, which is why he moves Sam to Bridgeport. It’s just the place to give his little brother more opportunities—maybe even a scholarship. Emily Springer is passionate about helping all of her students succeed, but there’s something about Sam Holland that makes her want to go the extra mile. When he’s caught in...

The battle is one of wits and cunning, where the strong heart will overcome his enemy.

Ex-marine Arthur Nakai spent years as a member of the Shadow Wolves, an ICE tactical unit tasked by the US government to hunt human traffickers and drug smugglers on the US/Mexico border. He put that life of confronting violence in the darker contours of the desert...

A school shooting in snowbound Vermont; an American journalist beheaded in war-torn Syria; a passenger jet exploding in the Thai jungle—everything connects to Kate Swift, CIA assassin turned whistleblower, on the run from a sinister intelligence unit.

With her six-year-old daughter, Suzie, she flees across the Canadian border to begin a perilous journey to...

Left for dead on the nightmarish surface of the planet, Commander Michael Everhart and his team of Hell Divers barely escape with their lives aboard a new airship called Deliverance. After learning that Xavier “X” Rodriguez may still be alive, they mount a rescue mission for the long-lost hero.

In the skies, the Hive is falling apart, but Captain Jordan is...

In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in the forest. In an effort to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston and a desire to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division, she hopes to find a kind of peace in...

A page-turning whodunit set in the wilds of a remote movie ranch, Bottom Feeders describes the hapless Hollywood cast and crew that eke out a living working on low-budget fare.

Their ambitious TV movie needs to be made fast and cheap, but a brutal murder grinds production to a halt. An approaching forest fire forces everyone to evacuate. In the confusion not...

A disbarred lawyer and an ex-arsonist cross paths and find themselves organizing an elaborate real estate scam to bilk a shady rich speculator out of twenty million dollars. The sting is personal for ex-arsonist Stan and for a woman named Vee, who plays an essential role in the caper. Glen, the narrator and former lawyer, finds himself at first just along...

HER FIRST LOVE CONFESSED TO FIVE MURDERS… BUT THE TRUTH WAS SO MUCH WORSE.

THE LIAR’S GIRL [Blackstone Publishing; February 27, 2018; hardcover, e-book, audiobook] is a riveting new psychological thriller, by Catherine Ryan Howard, award-winning and USA Today best-selling author of Distress Signals.

Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive...

Atz Kilcher's memoir centers on his life on the Alaskan frontier and the lessons he learned growing up with a hard father in a hard land. Known to many as the patriarch of Discovery Channel’s Emmy-shortlisted program Alaska: The Last Frontier, Kilcher is also an artist, a writer, a musician, and the man who taught his daughter, music superstar Jewel...

"The Night Child is a powerful, beautifully written, transformative novel that struck a rare chord with me.  When I recall Nora’s journey, I am affected viscerally, as if I were reliving her painful memories alongside her.  ‘Must Read’ is not a phrase I use often; I am using it now:  you must read this book!"

-Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling...

"...A thrilling WWII spy adventure..."
-Booklist

Based on the true story of the Nazis’ attempt to intervene in the 1940 United States presidential election, this World War II–era spy thriller has an uncanny relevance to today’s real-life political intrigue. 

In August 1940—eighteen months before Pearl Harbor—Anglo-American MI6 agent Roy Hawkins is...

The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida, just a short way down the coast, are rising, and slaves are starting...

“As the saying goes, for want of a nail the kingdom was lost… But you’ll find nothing missing in Kris Lackey’s Nail’s Crossing, as fine a mystery series debut as I’ve read in a long time--you’re going to want more of Tribal Lighthorse Policeman Bill Maytubby and Deputy Hannah Bond.”

-Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels, the basis for...

Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everheart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team. While Michael dives to help keep the Hive in the air, Captain Leon Jordan rules with an iron fist at the...

Ambitious, genre-busting, and grippingly believable, Fata Morgana (available June 13, 2017 from Blackstone Publishing) is a beautifully crafted thrill ride that is part WW2 adventure, part mind-bending science fiction, and part love story that is literally timeless.

At the height of the air war in Europe, Captain Joe Farley and the baseball-loving...