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Digging Up the Dirt: A Southern Ladies Mystery
Digging Up the Dirt: A Southern Ladies Mystery

Miranda James · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Dead with the Wind and Bless Her Dead Little Heart is back with more of those sleuthing Southern belles, the Ducote sisters...An'gel and Dickce Ducote, busy with plans for the Athena Garden Club's spring tour of grand old homes, are having trouble...
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NYPD Red 3
NYPD Red 3

James Patterson · Little
Pages: 10
Format: Hardcover

PROTECT THE RICH. SERVE THE FAMOUS. HUNT THE GUILTY. NYPD Red is the elite, highly trained task force assigned to protect the rich, the famous, and the connected. And Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald-the woman who broke his heart at the police academy-are the best of the best,...
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A Black Sail
A Black Sail

Rich Zahradnik · Camel Press
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

On the eve of the U.S. Bicentennial, newsman Coleridge Taylor is covering Operation Sail. New York Harbor is teeming with tall ships from all over the world. While enjoying the spectacle, Taylor is still a police reporter. He wants to cover real stories, not fluff, and gritty New York City...
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Twelve Angry Librarians
Twelve Angry Librarians

Miranda James · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of No Cats Allowed and Arsenic and Old Books is back with more Southern charm and beguiling mystery as Charlie and Diesel must find a killer in a room full of librarians... Light-hearted librarian Charlie Harris is known around his hometown of Athena,...
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Don't You Cry
Don't You Cry

Mary Kubica · MIRA
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Riveting psychological thriller." - Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author "Wickedly smart page-turner about the razor thin line between suspicion and obsession" - Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author New York Times bestselling author...
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Walleye Junction
Walleye Junction

Karin Salvalaggio · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

When outspoken radio talk show host Philip Long is kidnapped and murdered, Detective Macy Greeley leaves her young son in the care of her mother and heads up to remote Walleye Junction, Montana to take charge of the investigation. It is initially believed that Long's murder is the result...
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Wake the Devil: A Thriller
Wake the Devil: A Thriller

Robert Daniels · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Seven months after their last encounter, retired FBI agent, Jack Kale and Atlanta Police Detective, Beth Sturgis are reunited by a new case that pits them against the Sandman, a nearly perfect assassin who leaves no clues, can change his appearance seemingly at will, and who has eluded...
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The Vanished
The Vanished

Lotte Hammer · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead. At first glance, his death appears to be a simple fall, a straightforward accident and the perfect case for Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen to return to after a severe heart attack. But when he is called...
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The Wisdom of Perversity
The Wisdom of Perversity

Rafael Yglesias · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

I should have told. Julies right I would have saved dozens of others. Jeff, Julie, Sam, the academy kids, the Huck Finn boys, everyone else was ignorant or greedy or scared or confused or overwhelmed by bullies, but I was strong enough—I couldve pushed him away. I did push him away. I saved...
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Stolen Memories
Stolen Memories

Mary Miley · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 267
Format: Print book

A brutal attack along the banks of the Seine in 1928 leaves a young Englishwoman close to death in a Paris hospital, without a memory in her head. She soon comes up against a vengeful husband who accuses her of the theft of priceless art, the French gendarmes who have linked her to a murder...
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In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear · Harpercollins
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany,...
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The Liar's Lullaby
The Liar's Lullaby

Meg Gardiner · Dutton Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner returns with a third propulsive, groundbreaking thriller about forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett and the lies that are even more dangerous than fame. Tasia McFarland is a washed-up country-pop singer desperate for the break that will get her topping the charts...
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The Mayakovsky Tapes: A Novel
The Mayakovsky Tapes: A Novel

Robert Littell · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 243
Format: Print book

In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow's deluxe Hotel Metropol. They have gathered to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complicated figure.The ladies, each of whom could...
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The Black Book
The Black Book

James; Ellis David Patterson · Little
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Three bodies in a beautiful and luxurious bedroom.Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy's tempestuous, adrenaline-junkie partner, there's nothing...
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The Mirror Thief
The Mirror Thief

Martin Seay · Melville House
Pages: 582
Format: Print book

A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece in the tradition of Cloud Atlas.Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay's debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural...
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