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Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel

Sara Paretsky · William Morrow
Pages: 433
Format: Hardcover

LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."

P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers.

STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels.

And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary...

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Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

DONNA LEON · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral...
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The Red Hunter: A Novel

Lisa Unger · Touchstone
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

What is the difference between justice and revenge? In this buzzworthy new standalone thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, two wronged women on very different paths find themselves in the same dark place ...

Claudia Bishop's perfect life fell apart when...
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A Death in the Dales

Frances Brody · Minotaur Books
Pages: 372
Format: Print book

An intricate plot set in the 1920s English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) Kate Shackleton make A Death in the Dales an absorbing 7th installment in this mystery, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Agatha Christie.

A...

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Celine: A novel

Peter Heller · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.

Working...
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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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The Last Chance Olive Ranch

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this exciting new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him...

Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of the Huntsville prison...
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A Rustle of Silk: A new forensic mystery series set in Stuart England

Alys Clare · Severn House Publishers L
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Introducing physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner in the first of an intriguing series of mysteries set in early 17th century Devon.
1603. Former ship's surgeon Gabriel Taverner is attempting to re-establish himself as a country physician in rural Devon. But it's...
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All By Myself Alone

Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from "Queen of Suspense" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark.

Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia...
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Best Served Cold: A small town Police Procedural set in Oklahoma

Susan Rogers Cooper · Severn House Pub Ltd
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Sheriff Milt Kovak and his team must track down a determined killer hell-bent on revenge against them and their families. Someone is out to get revenge against Milt Kovak, sheriff of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, and his team with a series of pranks. First a sinister note is found taped...
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Nasty Cutter: A mystery set in New York

Tim O'Mara · Severn House
Pages: 251
Format: Print book

Danger gets a little too close to home for ex-cop Raymond Donne . . .When his father's former law partner, Harry Stover, is murdered while being celebrated as Williamsburg, Brooklyn's "Man of the Year," ex-cop turned schoolteacher Raymond Donne fights his old police instincts...
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One Perfect Lie

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Scottoline keeps the pace relentless as she drops a looming threat into the heart of an idyllic suburban community, causing readers to hold their breath in anticipation." -BOOKLIST

"Readers can be assured that the author nails the high school milieu, from...

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The Murder Book: A new 1920s mystery series

Jane A. Adams · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"Introducing Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series. ""Lincolnshire, England. June, 1928. "When three freshly-buried bodies are unearthed in the front yard of a rented cottage, DCI Henry Johnstone, a specialist...
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A Good Death

Chris Collett · Severn House
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

Detective Inspector Tom Mariner investigates a suspected arson attack and a missing bridegroom in this latest intriguing mystery. When an elderly man dies in a house fire, the investigating officers are left baffled as to whether the blaze was accidental or started deliberately. If arson,...
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Denny's Law: A Sarah Burke police procedural

Elizabeth Gunn · Severn House Publishers L
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

A murder leads Sarah Burke to investigate a money-laundering ring with connections extending far beyond Tucson - but does the key to solving the case lie closer to home than she realises?

The murder of a man seen fighting in a house during a Fourth of July street parade...
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Song of the Lion: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

Anne Hillerman · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings.

When...

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