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The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

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Date with Death: A Dales Detective Mystery

Julia Chapman · Minotaur Books
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

Samson O'Brien has been dismissed from the police force -- quite unfairly, according to him. Now back in his home town of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales, Samson sets up the Dales Detective Agency while he fights to clear his name. However, the people of Bruncliffe aren't entirely welcoming...
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Keep Her Safe: A Novel

SOPHIE HANNAH · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

LIANE MORIARTY says that "No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah." Packed with twists and clues, simmering with tension, this electrifying new thriller shows why. She's the most famous murder victim in America. What if she's not dead? Pushed to the breaking...
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First Strike

Ben Coes · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 471
Format: Print book

Deep within the Pentagon, a covert, multi-billion arms-for-influence program was created. The objective was to protect the United States and its allies from terrorist acts by secretly enabling a hand-picked man to emerge as the most powerful leader in the Middle East. But the charismatic...
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You Will Know Me: A Novel

MEGAN ABBOTT · Back Bay Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

One of the Best Books of 2016--NPR, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Elle, Thrillist, Publishers Weekly, Time Out New York, Self and KirkusThe audacious new novel about family and ambition from "one of the best living mystery writers" (Grantland)...
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The Secrets of Wishtide

Kate Saunders · Bloomsbury
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let rooms to John Keats, Laetitia makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister...
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The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger

Lucy Banks · Amberjack Publishing
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback

"A thoroughly engaging read for anyone, whether new to the series or not." - BOOKLIST Only a few months have passed since the day Kester Lanner forced an angry ghost through the spirit door, but business prospects for Dr. Ribero's supernatural agency haven't improved. Things...
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Christmas Caramel Murder

Joanne Fluke · Kensington
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover

Christmas normally descends on Lake Eden, Minnesota, as gently as reindeer alighting on a rooftop - but this yuletide season the only thing coming down Hannah Swensen's chimney is a case of murder . . . The holidays have arrived, and Hannah and her good pal Lisa have agreed to provide...
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The Body on the Doorstep

A J Mackenzie · Bonnier Zaffre
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Kent, 1796: shocked to discover a dying man on his doorstep - and lucky to avoid a bullet himself - Reverend Hardcastle finds himself entrusted with the victim's cryptic last words. With smuggling rife on England's south-east coast, the obvious conclusion is that this was a falling...
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Act of Revenge

DALE BROWN · William Morrow
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

When terrorists attack Boston, Louis Massina races against time to save the city with a high-tech counteroffensive . . . On Easter Sunday morning, the city of Boston is struck by a widespread and coordinated series of terrorist attacks: an explosion in the T, a suicide bomber at Back Bay Police...
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Blue Light Yokohama

Nicolas Obregon · Minotaur Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Newly reinstated to the Homicide Division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself,...
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The Bones of You

Debbie Howells · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

I have a gardener's inherent belief in the natural order of things. Soft-petalled flowers that go to seed. The resolute passage of the seasons. Swallows that fly thousands of miles to follow the eternal summer. Children who don't die before their parents. A community in shock When...
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Dead in the Water

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

A twister, a kidnapping, and a murder -- oh my! Scumble River may never be the same.For school psychologist Skye Denison, there's certainly no place like home. When a violent tornado devastates her small hometown of Scumble River, she can't see how the community will ever recover-especially...
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The Bookshop at Water's End

Patti Callahan Henry · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it... Bonny Blankenship's most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand...
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Til Death Do Us Party

VICKIE FEE · Kensington
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Las Vegas knows how to party, and for once, event planner Liv McKay won't be entirely behind the scenes. The Dixie gang is in Sin City to celebrate Mama and Earl's rockin' Elvis-themed wedding. And between juggling the botched bachelorette party and a problem-plagued soirée back home,...
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