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Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels

Ross Macdonald (Editor) · Library of America
Pages: 940
Format: Hardcover

From his vantage point in Southern California - and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer - Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual exploitation, intergenerational...
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The Visitors

CATHERINE BURNS · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Once you start Catherine Burns's dark, disturbing, and enthralling debut novel, it's hard to stop. The Visitors is bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable." - Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things With the smart suspense of Emma...
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Come Home

Patricia Gussin · Oceanview Publishing

Torn between two cultures--allegiance to two families--a child in the middle Nicole Nelson and Ahmed Masud are a dynamic, highly successful Philadelphia couple. They are partners in a thriving plastic surgery practice, are very much in love, and they adore their young son, Alex. But cracks...
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The Party

Elizabeth Day · Little Brown and Company
Format: Audiobook

The Party tells the story of two married couples who, in a single evening, will come to question everything they thought they knew about each other, as the long-buried secret at the heart of their friendship comes to the surface, culminating in an explosive act of violence. Ben, who hails...
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Against The Light: An Irish Nationalist mystery set in Edwardian London

Marjorie Eccles · Severn House
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

A baby is kidnapped - and the repercussions reach the highest levels of government in this absorbing historical mystery. London, April, 1912. The third Irish Home Rule Bill is passing through Parliament and the situation is growing ever more tense. Closely involved in the negotiations,...
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Death Among Rubies: A Lady Frances Ffolkes Mystery

R J Koreto · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Lady Frances Ffolkes is incensed when she finds out that her dear friends Gwendolyn and Thomasina have been subject to vicious threats. Promising to uncover their attacker, she travels with them to Kestrel's Eyrie, the fabled estate belonging to Gwen's family. But soon Frances faces...
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A Devious Death

ALYSSA MAXWELL · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the sobering yet hopeful years following the First World War, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, find their summer plans marred by an instance of murder . . . Phoebe and her sister Julia are eager for a summer getaway at High Head Lodge, the newly purchased...
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Wagging through the Snow

LAURIEN BERENSON · Kensington
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"If you like dogs, you'll love Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries!" - Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling author Melanie Travis needs a little peace from her busy life this Christmas. But the usual holiday hubbub is a joy compared to the killer surprise she finds...
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The Stranger Inside

Jennifer Jaynes · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback

In this tautly crafted tale of psychological suspense, a recently widowed mother resorts to the unthinkable to protect her shattered family. But does she go too far?After mystery author Diane Christie loses her husband to suicide, she and her son move to the small coastal town of Fog Harbor,...
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Renting Silence: A Roaring Twenties mystery

Mary Miley · Severn House
Pages: 231
Format: Print book

Can 1920's script girl Jessie do Mary Pickford's bidding and uncover a real killer? When Jessie is asked by her idol, the famous actress Mary Pickford, if she can do some private investigating for her, Jessie reluctantly accepts. A girl was found stabbed in her bedroom with another...
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Chain of Events: A Novel

Fredrik T. Olsson · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A stunning debut thriller about a code that threatens humanity - and the only man can crack it.William Sandberg, once a well-respected military cryptologist pursuing cutting-edge research, is a ruined man. His career is in shambles, his marriage is over, and hes succumbed to a dark depression....
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Death of a Bachelorette

LAURA LEVINE · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Freelance writer Jaine Austen thought working for a knock-off reality show in the tropics would be paradise. But when she and her kitty Prozac find themselves trapped between a dimwitted leading man, catty contestants, and a cold-blooded murderer, the splashy gig becomes one deadly nightmare...Jaine's...
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Pel and the Predators

Mark Hebden · Walker & Co
Pages: 183
Format: Hardcover

There has been a sudden spate of murders around Burgundy where Pel has just been promoted to Chief Inspector. The irascible policeman receives a letter bomb, and these combined events threaten to overturn Pel's plans to marry Mme Faivre-Perret. Can Pel keep his life, his love and his career...
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The House of Secrets

Brad Meltzer · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Large Print Hardcover

A secret worth killing for.A woman with no past.An act of treason that changed America.#1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer returns with
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Sunset City: A Novel

Melissa Ginsburg · Ecco, 2016.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A taut, erotically charged literary noir set in Houston about a woman caught up in her friend's shocking murder, and the dark truths she uncovers.Before the drugs, Danielle Reeves was Charlotte Ford's most loyal and vibrant friend. She helped Charlotte through her mother's illness and death,...
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