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Bryant & May - Wild Chamber
Christopher Fowler · Bantam Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are back on the case in this whip-smart and wildly twisting mystery, in which a killer in London's parks is proving to be a most elusive quarry. Helen Forester's day starts like any other: Around seven in the morning, she takes her West Highland... |
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Dark Asylum: A Novel
E S THOMSON · Pegasus Books Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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Set in a crumbling Victorian asylum where a gruesome murder is committed, this sequel to Beloved Poison explores the early science of brain study while giving chilling insight into an asylum's workings. 1851, Angel Meadow Asylum. Dr. Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found... |
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The Dark Lake
Sarah Bailey · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 380 Format: Hardcover
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Rosalind's secrets didn't die with her.The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability... |
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Dark Traces
Martin Steyn · Catalyst Press Pages: 352 Format: Paperback
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They find her body in the veld near Cape Town, South Africa. A teenager. She's not the first. Recently widowed Detective Jan Magson has to look mothers and fathers in the eye. Has to answer their questions. He can't. He can't even answer his estranged son's questions about how his wife... |
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Death Overdue: A Haunted Library Mystery
BROOK ALLISON. · Crooked Lane Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims... |
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Dying to Live: A Detective Kubu Mystery
MICHAEL STANLEY · Minotaur Books Pages: 324 Format: Hardcover
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Michael Stanley's Dying to Live is the sixth crime novel to feature the humble and endearing Detective Kubu, set against the richly beautiful backdrop of Botswana."A fantastic read. Brilliant!" -Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author of The Long Way HomeA Bushman is discovered... |
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Fools' River
Timothy Hallinan · Soho Crime Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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The two most difficult days in Bangkok writer Poke Rafferty's life begin with an emergency visit from Edward Dell, the almost-boyfriend of his teenage daughter, Maiow. The boy's father, Buddy, a late-middle-aged womanizer who has moved to Bangkok for happy hunting, has disappeared, and money... |
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The Ghost of Christmas Past
Rhys Bowen · Minotaur Books Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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From Rhys Bowen, the author of In Farleigh Field, comes the next Molly Murphy mystery: The Ghost of Christmas Past.Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906.... |
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Gin and Panic: A Mystery
MAIA CHANCE · Minotaur Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Former socialite Lola Woodby, not-so-discreet private eye in Prohibtion-era New York City, along with her grim Swedish sidekick, Berta, take on a piece-of-cake job: retrieving a rhinoceros trophy from the Connecticut mansion of big game hunter Rudy Montgomery. After all, their client,... |
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The Glamorous Dead
SUZANNE GATES · Kensington Pages: 336 Format: Paperback
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Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder . . . The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway - no pun intended. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub,... |
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Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel
JANET EVANOVICH · Bantam Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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This Jersey girl hits hard - twenty-four seven. The blockbuster Stephanie Plum series continues with Hardcore Twenty-Four from #1 New York Times bestselling Janet Evanovich. |
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Her Last Day
T.R. Ragan
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"With action-packed twists and turns and a pace that doesn't let up until the thrilling conclusion, Her Last Day is a brilliant start to a gripping new series from T.R. Ragan." - Robert Bryndza, #1 international bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice< |
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Hidden Scars
Mark de Castrique · Poisoned Pen Press Format: Hardcover
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When Asheville, NC, private eyes Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson are asked by an eighty-year-old client to investigate the suspicious death of her brother, they caution there is little chance of success. Paul Weaver died nearly seventy years earlier, and the only documentation she has is the sole... |
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How the Finch Stole Christmas!: A Meg Langslow Mystery
Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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As in her previous Christmas mysteries, Six Geese a-Slaying, Duck the Halls, and The Nightingale Before Christmas, Andrews continues to write "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail) .New York Times bestselling author Donna... |
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A Hunt in Winter: A Joe Swallow Mystery
Conor Brady · Crooked Lane Books Format: Hardcover
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In Dublin, newly promoted detective inspector Joe Swallow's life looks to be taking a turn for the better. In addition to his promotion, he's settled into a comfortable arrangement with his landlady and paramour, Maria Walsh. That is, until his newfound peace is chaotically uprooted when... |
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Insidious Intent
Val McDermid · Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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"Powerful . . . McDermid's prose is pure pleasure to read . . . The plot is tight, the story is thrilling, the ending is as satisfying as they come . . . A master operating at the height of her considerable powers. Prepare to be swept away." -- Mystery Scene on Splinter the SilenceWidely... |
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Lost Luggage
Wendall Thomas · Poisoned Pen Press Pages: 258 Format: Paperback
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Cyd Redondo, a young, third-generation Brooklyn travel agent who specializes in senior citizens, has never ventured farther than New Jersey. Yet even Jersey proves risky when her Travel Agents' Convention fling, Roger Claymore, leaves her weak in the knees-and everywhere else-then sneaks... |
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The Man in the Crooked Hat
Harry Dolan · G.P. Putnam's Sons Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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"A new master mystery writer emerges."--Forbes MagazineOne cryptic clue leads a desperate man into a labyrinthine puzzle of murder in the electrifying new novel from national bestselling author Harry Dolan. There's a killer, and he wears a crooked hat.Private investigator Jack... |
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Mrs. Jeffries and the Three Wise Women
Emily Brightwell · Berkley Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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As the holidays approach, all is merry and bright for Inspector Witherspoon, Mrs. Jeffries, and the staff at Upper Edmonton Gardens...but murder knows no season.MURDER UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEARChristopher Gilhaney isn't a popular man, and he proves why once again when he insults every guest... |
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MURDER IN THE MANUSCRIPT ROOM
CON LEHANE · Minotaur Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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The second in Con Lehane's 42nd Street Library mystery series, Murder in the Manuscript Room is a smart, compelling mystery in which the characters themselves are at least as interesting as the striking sleuthing."Not to be missed." -- Megan Abbott"A story utterly relevant... |
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Next of Kin
James Tucker · Thomas & Mercer Pages: 348 Format: Paperback
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A New Year's Eve celebration begins with the pop of a champagne cork - and ends with the bone-chilling screams of a killer's victims. Ten-year-old Ben Brook is the lone survivor of the brutal murder of his wealthy family at their upstate New York compound. But from the moment he evades... |
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Nine Lessons: A Josephine Tey Mystery
NICOLA UPSON. · Crooked Lane Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John's-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church's organist is found in an opened grave, together with a photograph of a manor house and a cryptic... |
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The Nine-Tailed Fox
Martin Limo?n · Soho Crime Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Three American GIs have gone missing in different South Korean cities. Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, agents for the Army CID, link the disappearances to a woman locally rumored to be a gumiho, a legendary thousand-year-old nine-tailed fox disguised as a woman. George suspects... |
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Old Scores: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel
WILL THOMAS · Minotaur Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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In 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office, is enlisted to display his personal Japanese garden to the visiting dignitaries.Later that night, Ambassador Toda... |
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Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder
Bonnie MacBird · Collins Crime Club Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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The new novel from the author of the Art in the Blood.December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite... |
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