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Dodging and Burning: A Mystery

JOHN COPENHAVER · Pegasus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In a small Virginia town still reeling from World War II, a photograph of a beautiful murdered woman propels three young people into the middle of a far-reaching mystery. A lurid crime scene photo of a beautiful woman arrives on mystery writer Bunny Prescott's doorstep with no return address...
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The Wrong Sister

T E WOODS · Kensington
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Sometimes a perfect stranger . . . From behind the wheel of her car, Tess Kincaid glimpses a woman walking down a Madison, Wisconsin, street. They've never met, but Tess senses an undeniable familiarity about her. Hair color, square chin, wide-set blue eyes . . . Tess sees the same features...
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Cave of Bones

Anne Hillerman · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series.When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor...
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Scot Free

CATRIONA MCPHERSON · Midnight Ink
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Lexy Campbell fell in love and left her native Scotland for a golden life in California -- hitched to a hunk, building her marriage counseling practice, living the dream. Six months later she's divorced, broke, and headed home. There's just one last thing. Lexy's only client -- sweet little...
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Close to Home: A Novel

Cara Hunter · Penguin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A truly original psychological crime novel about a missing child and the scandal that erupts in the aftermath, brilliantly plotted with a shocking twistShe was certain it was Daisy in the flower costume . . . When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her family's Oxford home during...
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Bloody January

ALAN PARKS · World Noir
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

An exciting, evocative first-in-series noir novel set in 1973 Glasgow, a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic, featuring detective Harry McCoy.When an 18-year-old boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commits suicide, McCoy knows it can't be a random...
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Then She Was Gone: A Novel

Lisa Jewell · Atria Books
Format: Print book

"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty....
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A Death of No Importance

Mariah Fredericks · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"A Death of No Importance has such rich historic detail that you feel as if you've been transported to early twentieth century New York. Mariah Fredericks is the best at creating compulsively addictive, fresh, twisty reads." -- Meg CabotJane Prescott has perfected the art of serving...
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Antique Blues: A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery

Jane K Cleland · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Ever-crafty Josie must confront suspicious antiques dealers and her own friend's killer in Antique Blues, the twelfth mystery in the beloved Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series set in New Hampshire.When amateur sleuth and antiques expert Josie Prescott is called in to appraise a Japanese...
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Walking the Bones

Randall Silvis · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

When long-buried secrets come back to the surface...The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully preserved, discovered years ago... that's all Sergeant Ryan DeMarco knows about the unsolved crime he has unwittingly been roped into investigating during what is supposed to be a healing...
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Tart of Darkness

Denise Swanson · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Right when Dani thinks she's hit a dead-end in her career, she unexpectedly inherits an enormous old house in a quaint college town. This gives her the perfect opportunity to pursue her true passion -- cooking! So Dani opens Chef-to-Go, preparing delicious, ready-made meals for hungry students...
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Jar of Hearts

Jennifer Hillier · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Jar of Hearts grabs you by the throat! The perfect blend of riveting characters, chilling details, and gasping twists in this standout thriller will keep you frantically reading until the explosive end." - Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Right Behind YouThis...
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How It Happened

Michael Koryta · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?"Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie...
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Date with Malice: A Samson and Delilah Mystery

Julia Chapman · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The second book in a delightful new English village mystery series set in the Yorkshire Dales.When a pensioner turns up at the Dales Detective Agency and tells Samson O'Brien that someone in her old people's home is trying to kill her, he dismisses her fears as the ramblings of a confused...
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The Dante Chamber

MATTHEW PEARL · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From Mathew Pearl, the bestselling author of The Dante Club, a masterful tale of literature, obsession, and murderThe year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around...
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Bring Me Back: A Novel

B A PARIS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW TWISTY, GRIPPING AUDIOBOOK FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AND THE BREAKDOWNA young British couple are driving through France on holiday when they stop for gas. He runs in to pay, she stays in the car. When he returns her car door...
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Bottom Feeders: A Novel

JOHN SHEPPHIRD · Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback

A page-turning whodunit set in the wilds of a remote movie ranch, Bottom Feeders describes the hapless Hollywood cast and crew that eke out a living working on low-budget fare. Their ambitious TV movie needs to be made fast and cheap, but a brutal murder grinds production to a halt. An approaching...
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What You Want to See: A Roxane Weary Novel

Kristen Lepionka · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling follow up to The Last Place You Look, starring troubled and determined private investigator, Roxane WearyMarin Strasser has a secret. Her fiancé thinks her secret is that she's having an affair, and he hires P.I. Roxane Weary to prove it.Then, just days into the case, Marin...
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