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The Age of Treachery: Duncan Forrester Mystery 1

Gavin Scott · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

It is the winter of 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations Executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior Ancient History Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a much-disliked Fellow is found dead in the quad, stabbed and pushed from an upper window....
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Brighton: A Novel

Michael Harvey · Ecco
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"The f**king bomb! I loved it." - Stephen KingA gritty and suspenseful Boston thriller for fans of Dennis Lehane and The DepartedAn extraordinary thriller - gripping, haunting, and marvelously told - about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the sins...
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The Capitalist: A Thriller

Peter Steiner · Thomas Dunne Books, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The villains who abuse our monetary system get what's coming to them in this ingenious fifth novel in the critically acclaimed Louis Morgon series, written by cartoonist, painter, and novelist Peter Steiner.St. John Larrimer is a Wall Street investment banker, a pure capitalist by his own definition....
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Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Walter Mosley · Doubleday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Walter Mosley's indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins finds his life in transition. He's ready - finally - to propose...
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Dishonorable Intentions

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Stone Barrington gains an adversary that he can't seem to shake in the electrifying new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Stone Barrington's latest lady friend is full of surprises, both good and ill. A sensual woman with unexpected desires, Stone finds her revelations...
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Fatal Pursuit: A novel

Martin Walker · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 301
Format: Print book

A pair of murders, a romance and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of unfathomable value - Bruno, chief of police, is busy in another mystery set in the beautiful Dordogne At the annual fête in St. Denis, Bruno's biggest worry is surviving as a last-minute replacement navigator...
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Hard Light: A Cass Neary Crime Novel

Elizabeth Hand · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

As her passionately devoted fans know, Elizabeth Hand is a uniquely gifted storyteller. Her iconoclastic series of crime novels which features offbeat photographer Cass Neary, began with the underground classic Generation Loss, and that was followed by the brilliant Available Dark. Katherine...
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The Highwayman

Craig Johnson · Viking
Pages: 190
Format: Print book

Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear embark on their latest adventure in this novella set in the world of Craig Johnson's New York Times bestselling Longmire series - the basis for the hit drama Longmire, now on Netflix When Wyoming highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred...
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House Revenge: A Joe DeMarco Thriller

Mike Lawson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In House Revenge, Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco is dispatched to his boss Congressman John Mahoney's hometown of Boston. Mahoney wants him to help Elinore Dobbs, an elderly woman fighting against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building for a massive new development....
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The Invisible Guardian: A Novel

Dolores Redondo · Atria Books, 2015.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Already a #1 international bestseller, this tautly written and gripping psychological thriller forces a police inspector to reluctantly return to her hometown in Basque Country - a place engulfed in mythology and superstition - to solve a series of eerie murders.When the naked body of a teenage...
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Murder on the Quai

Cara Black · Soho Crime
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

The world knows Aimée Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a très chic, no-nonsense private investigator - the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimée first became a detective . . .November...
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An Old Fashioned Murder: A Moonshine Mystery

Carol Miller · Minotaur Books
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

Secrets, lies, and a splash of moonshine: a classic country house whodunit with a distinctly Southern twist.After losing her husband and her home, small-town girl Daisy McGovern moves in with her invalid mother at an old inn in sleepy southwestern Virginia. When the inn's eccentric proprietor,...
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One Foot in the Grove: An Olive Oil Grove Mystery

Kelly Lane · Berkley Prime Crime, 2016.
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

First in a delicious new mystery series about Eva Knox and her family's Georgia olive plantation. In the sweet Southern town of Abundance, Georgia, home of the Knox family's olive farm, gossip isn't the only thing that can kill you... After leaving a man at the altar for the second...
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Panther's Prey: A Leo Maxwell Mystery

Lachlan Smith · The Mysterious Press
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

In Panther's Prey, the latest novel from Shamus Award winner Lachlan Smith, tragedy once again strikes near the heart for lawyer-detective Leo Maxwell.After working to free his father from prison in Fox Is Framed, Leo has now left private practice and is working as a public defender in San Francisco....
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The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum

Kirsten Weiss · Midnight Ink, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

When Maddie Kosloski's career flatlines, she retreats to her wine-country hometown for solace and cheap rent. Railroaded into managing the local paranormal museum, she's certain the rumors of its haunting are greatly exaggerated. But a new ghost may be on the loose. A fresh corpse...
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The Poison Artist

Jonathan Moore · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"An electrifying read ... I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon." - Stephen King "Patient, stylish and incredibly suspenseful" - Lee Child A tale of desire, obsession, and deadly mystery, with echoes of Vertigo Dr. Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist...
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The Pursuit: A Fox and O'Hare Novel

Janet Evanovich · Bantam Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again in their rollicking, New York Times bestselling Fox and O'Hare series!Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI's...
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Quiet Neighbors: A Novel

Catriona Mcpherson · Midnight Ink, 2016.
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

It's the oldest bookshop in a town full of bookshops; rambling and disordered, full of treasures if you look hard. Jude found one of the treasures when she visited last summer, the high point of a miserable vacation. Now, in the depths of winter, when she has to run away, Lowell's...
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South of Nowhere: A Mystery

Minerva Koenig · Minotaur, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Reformed criminal Julia Kalas travels from small-town Texas to Mexico on the trail of a missing persons case in the second installment in this atmospheric, critically-acclaimed seriesJulia Kalas has found a place for herself in small-town Texas. After being forced to relocate by the Aryan...
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A Thousand Falling Crows

Larry D. Sweazy · Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books, 2016.
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

Sonny Burton was forced to retire from the Texas Rangers after taking a bullet from Bonnie Parker in a shoot-out. The bullet so damaged Sonny's right arm that he had to have it amputated. While Sonny struggles with recuperating and tries to get used to the idea of living a life with only...
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