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By Blood We Live

Glen Duncan · Random House Inc
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover

First Glen Duncan gave us his monstrously thrilling, genre-reinventing The Last Werewolf: the tale of Jake, a werewolf with a profoundly human heart, considering bringing to an end the timeless legend of his kind . . . Then Talulla Rising: Jake's werewolf lover, mother to newborn twins,...
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The Murder Code: A Novel

Steve Mosby · Pegasus
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Crime Writersx Association Dagger in the Library AwardnbspThe American debut of CWA Dagger winner Steve Mosby who delivers a riveting psychological crime novel in the vein of Ian Rankin and Denise MinaDetective Inspector Andrew Hicks thinks he knows all about murder However...
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Mississippi Blood: A Novel

Greg Iles · William Morrow
Pages: 694
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author

The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi - Greg Iles's epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that...

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The Whitstable Pearl Mystery

Julie Wassmer · Constable
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

'What Colin Dexter did for Oxford, Julie Wassmer is intent on doing for Whitstable' Daily MailPearl Nolan always wanted to be a detective but life, and a teenage pregnancy, got in the way of a police career and instead she built up a successful seafood restaurant in her coastal...
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Plum Deadly

Ellie Grant · Gallery Books; Original edition
Format: Print book

CHOCOHOLIC CREAM. BOUNTIFUL BLUEBERRY. LOTSA LEMON MERINGUE. EVEN DANGEROUSLY DAMSON. Who could resist such pies? Who would even want to resist the pie shop that makes them? Certainly not the residents of Durham, North Carolina, and the little bakery and café called Pie in the Sky is one of the most...
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Fog of Dead Souls: A Thriller

Jill Kelly · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

When college professor Ellie McKay walks into the Maverick Bar in Farmington, New Mexico, late one evening, she plans to get drunk, not engaged. But within thirty minutes, she’s met cowboy Al Robison, he’s proposed to her, and she’s accepted. Al only knows that Ellie is attractive,...
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Judgment of Murder

C S Challinor · Midnight Ink
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

It's a dark day for Scottish barrister Rex Graves when he learns that Lord Gordon Murgatroyd has passed away. Referred to as "Judge Murder" by Rex's colleagues, the famously severe judge supposedly died of natural causes -- but his daughter Phoebe thinks otherwise. Wanting...
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Proof of Life: A J. P. Beaumont Novel

J A JANCE · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

J. P. Beaumont's latest investigation strikes too close to home in this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.

Be careful what you wish for . . .

Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days all to himself. But too much...

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The Glow of Death

Jane K. Cleland · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

As a warm ocean breeze ruffles the tall grass along Rocky Point's sandy dunes, Josie Prescott visits the house of a wealthy local couple, Edwin and Ava Belcher. She's been called in to appraise their Tiffany lamp, which everyone is delighted to find is genuine.

Josie's good friend,...

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Remember Me Like This: A Novel

Bret Anthony Johnston · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review bull Esquire bull BookPageA gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canonrsquos most beloved novels Remember Me Like This introduces Bret...
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The Dante Chamber

MATTHEW PEARL · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Memories, fears, the fog of nightmares...

Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings stunned Boston, a politician is found in a London park with his neck crushed by an enormous stone device etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When other shocking deaths...
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The Missing Masterpiece

JEANNE M DAMS · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 215
Format: Hardcover

Quelle horreur! A French holiday leads to disaster for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin in this engaging new cozy mystery.

When Dorothy Martin goes to France - alone because Alan is stuck back home in Sherebury with a broken ankle - she worries about her ability to get along...
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Let It Burn: An Alex McKnight Novel

Steve Hamilton · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Let it Burn is the newest novel in the acclaimed Alex McKnight series by two-time Edgar award-winner and New York Times bestselling author Steve Hamilton.Even though Alex McKnight swore to serve and protect Detroit as a police officer, a trip to Motown these days is a trip to a past he'd...
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A Basket of Trouble

Beth Groundwater · MIDNIGHT INK
Format: Paperback

A death at her brother’s stable ropes Claire into a basket of trouble When gift basket designer Claire Hanover saddles up for the opening event at her brother Charley’s new riding stable, the last thing she expects is for Kyle Mendoza, one of the stable hands, to be found dead....
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Say Nothing: A Novel

Brad Parks · Dutton
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Terrific book. Truly terrific. Tension throughout and tears at the end. What could be better than that?" - Sue Grafton

"Outstanding - starts with a bang and gets tenser and tenser. Say Nothing shows Parks is a quality writer at the top of his form."...
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