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Death Runs Adrift

Karen MacInerney · Midnight Ink
Format: Book

With her own wedding fast approaching and her mother-in-law dating an unexpected beau, the last thing Natalie Barnes needs is to find a young man shot dead in a dinghy. A note she finds with the body suggests the dearly departed had a secret rendezvous planned with somebody on the island....
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Gale Force

Owen Laukkanen · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

For all lovers of maritime adventure comes an electrifying thriller of treachery and peril on the high seas featuring a dynamic new heroine, from multi-award-nominated suspense star Owen Laukkanen.

In the high-stakes world of deep-sea salvage, an ocean disaster can mean a huge payoff--if...
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Accidents Happen: A Novel

Louise Millar · Emily Bestler Books; Original edition
Format: Paperback

A MAGNETIC AND CHILLING NEW THRILLER FROM HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR LOUISE MILLAR Kate Parker has weathered unimaginable horrors - her parents died in a traffic accident on her wedding night, and her husband, Hugo, was murdered in a tragic break-in gone wrong. All she has left is her young...
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Now and in the Hour of Our Death: A Novel of the Irish Troubles

Patrick Taylor · Forge Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Nine years ago, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland tore apart two young lovers, consuming their hopes and dreams and changing their lives forever. Now, in , Davy McCutcheon and Fiona Kavanagh find themselves worlds apart.Davy, once a bomb-maker for the Provisional IRA, is serving a twenty-five-year...
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Permanent Sunset: A Sabrina Salter Mystery

C Michele Dorsey · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Former television meteorologist Sabrina Salter's new life in paradise was idyllic, sprinkled with new friendships, romance and a successful villa rental business, which just landed Villa Nirvana, the newest and most opulent villa in the Virgin Islands. But island life isn't all sun and sand.During...
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The Unforgotten: A Novel

Laura Powell · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Louise Penny and Tana French, this haunting debut novel "with a slight Broadchurch feel" (Sunday Herald) explores the devastating repercussions of a long-ago crime as it delves into forbidden relationships, the emotional bond between mothers and daughters,...
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Prussian Blue

Philip Kerr · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther, our compromised former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer. With his cover blown, he is waiting for the next move in the cat-and-mouse game that, even a decade after Germany's defeat,...
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Grist Mill Road: A Novel

Christopher J Yates · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel from the author whose debut was called "The smart summer thriller you've been waiting for...The novel you should be reading tonight" (NPR's All Things Considered) and was named a Book of the Year by NPR and an Entertainment Weekly...

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The Yellow Diamond: A Crime of the Super-Rich

Andrew Martin · Faber & Faber
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Detective Superintendent George Quinn - Mayfair resident and dandy with a razor-sharp brain - has set up a new police unit, dedicated to investigating the super-rich. When he is shot in mysterious circumstances, DI Blake Reynolds is charged with taking over. But Reynolds hadn't...
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Robert B. Parker's Damned if You Do

Michael Brandman · G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't...
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An Echo of Murder: A William Monk Novel

ANNE PERRY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting new William Monk novel, Anne Perry delves into the diverse population of Victorian London, whose disparate communities force Monk to rethink his investigative techniques--lest he be caught in the crosshairs of violent bigotry. In the course of his tenure with the Thames...
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The Butterfly Sister: A Novel

Amy Gail Hansen · William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition
Format: Paperback

In The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansena moving Gothic tale that intertwines mystery madness betrayal love and literaturea fragile young woman must silence the ghosts of her pastTen months after dropping out of all-girl Tarble College Ruby Rousseau is still haunted by the memories of her senior...
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Exhibit Alexandra: A Novel

NATASHA BELL · Crown
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

He thought he knew everything about her until she went missing.

Before she disappeared, Alexandra Southwood lived an average, happy life: devoted to her wonderful husband, Marc, and caring for her two beautiful daughters. But now, held in a room against her will, Alexandra is forced...
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Two Nights: A Novel

KATHY REICHS · Bantam
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A standalone thriller featuring a "tough-talking, scarred heroine"* from the author of the Temperance Brennan series, the basis for the hit TV show Bones.

Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer...
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Flying Shoes

Lisa Howorth · St Martins Pr
Pages: 325
Format: Hardcover

Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities,...
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