This week, two masters of California suspense mysteries show what happens when, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, “the past is close behind.” No doubt about it, there’s blood on the tracks...

FICTION:

"Stromsoe was in high school when he met the boy who would someday murder his wife and son." So begins T. Jefferson Parker’s 14th novel, Storm Runners, as it follows the story of former Orange Country detective Matt Stromsoe as he picks up the pieces of a life shattered and a career given up when he lost his wife and son in an explosion intended for him. To get by, he accepts a private security job protecting a San Diego TV personality from a stalker, but events conspire against Stromsoe when an old nemesis sets out to exact a cold serving of revenge.

In The Watchman, Robert Crais returns with his two most popular characters, L.A. private investigator Elvis Cole and his cryptic sidekick Joe Pike. But this time out their roles are reversed as Pike, paying back an old debt, is poked and prodded into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying and spoiled rich young heiress whose life is in danger. But Pike and the girl come under immediate and intense fire, and Pike discovers someone is leaking information that could get them both killed. This is where Elvis enters the building…

The Accidental Florist: A Jane Jeffry Mystery by Jill Churchill

Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella

Wreckers' Key by Christine Kling

The Taste of Innocence by Stephanie Laurens

Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir

NON-FICTION:

Cause of Death: Forensic Files of a Medical Examiner by Stephen D. Cohle, Tobin T. Buhk, With Tobin T. Buhk

Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook

Innovation in Medical Technology: Ethical Issues and Challenges by Margaret L. Eaton, Donald L. Kennedy

Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras by Jeff Henderson

The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran by Yossi Melman, Meir Javedanfar

Words and Music of Bob Marley by David Moskowitz

Dr. Dre: The Biography by Ronin Ro

Atheism of Hume's Treatise by Paul Russell

Hitler's Headquarters: From Beer Hall to Bunker, 1920-1945 by Blaine Taylor

Poor People by William T. Vollmann

In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing by Lee Woodruff, Bob Woodruff