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Dark Chapter

Winnie M. Li · Polis Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager, living a neglected life on the margins of society. He has grown up in a family where crime is customary, violence is a necessity,...
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The Tragedy of Brady Sims

Ernest J Gaines · Vintage
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady...
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DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense

JOYCE CAROL OATES · Mysterious Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Including "The Crawl Space," winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction and a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Short StoryJoyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most...
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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 Divided City

Luke McCallin · Berkley Books
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Luke McCallin, author of The Pale House and The Man from Berlin, delivers a dark, compelling thriller set in post-World War II Germany featuring ex-intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. A year after Germany's defeat, Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian...
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The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel

Martin Walker · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Bruno, the beloved chief of police of the idyllic French town of St. Denis in the Dordogne, is back! This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present When a woman's body is found...
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Before This Is Over

Amanda Hickie · Little
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In the midst of a devastating epidemic, how far will a desperate mother go to keep her loved ones safe?There is a deadly virus spreading around the world. At first it is a distant alarm bell in the background of Hannah's comfortable suburban life. Then suddenly, it has arrived on the doorstep.The...
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Vicious Circle

C J Box · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box.The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then...
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Blood flies upwards

E. X Ferrars · Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A woman gets a job as a housekeeper in the same house in the country that her sister disappeared from. She thinks that by keeping an eye on the household she'll be able to work out what happened. The author also wrote "Alive and Dead", "A Legal Fiction" and "Murder...
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Whirlwind: A contemporary thriller set in Rhode Island

Hilary Norman · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A ruthless psychopath with a long-held grudge unleashes a terrifying scheme of revenge on a small New England town in this tautly-paced, compelling thriller. Liza Plain, a Boston-based journalist hoping for her big break, is dreading spending Christmas in Shiloh, Rhode Island, with...
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Murder at the house of rooster happiness

David J Casarett · Redhook
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Meet Ladarat Patalung - the first and only nurse detective in Thailand. Two nights ago, a young woman brought her husband into the emergency room of the Sriphat Hospital in Thailand, where he passed away. A guard thinks she remembers her coming in before, but with a different husband - one who also...
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The Red-Haired Woman: A novel

Orhan Pamuk · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain....
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My Sister's Bones: A Novel of Suspense

NUALA ELLWOOD · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

In the vein of Fiona Barton's The Widow and Renée Knight's Disclaimer, a psychological thriller about a war reporter who returns to her childhood home after her mother's death but becomes convinced that all is not well in the house next door - but is what she's seeing real or a symptom...
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Everything I Don't Remember: A Novel

Jonas Hassen Khemiri · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE, SWEDEN'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS LITERARY HONOR One of Sweden's most celebrated young writers and activists spins an exhilarating, innovative, and gripping murder mystery reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial.A young man named Samuel dies in a horrible car crash....
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