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The Body in the Casket: A Faith Fairchild Mystery

Katherine Hall Page · William Morrow
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For most of her adult life, resourceful caterer Faith Fairchild has called the sleepy Massachusetts village of Aleford home. While the native New Yorker has come to know the region well, she isn't familiar with Havencrest, a privileged enclave, until the owner of Rowan House, a secluded...
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Insidious Intent

Val McDermid · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful . . . McDermid's prose is pure pleasure to read . . . The plot is tight, the story is thrilling, the ending is as satisfying as they come . . . A master operating at the height of her considerable powers. Prepare to be swept away." -- Mystery Scene on Splinter the SilenceWidely...
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Bryant & May - Wild Chamber

Christopher Fowler · Bantam
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are back on the case in this whip-smart and wildly twisting mystery, in which a killer in London's parks is proving to be a most elusive quarry. Helen Forester's day starts like any other: Around seven in the morning, she takes her West Highland...
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Bloodstains with Bronte: A Crime with the Classics Mystery

Katherine Bolger Hyde · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Classic novels and crime solving intertwine in Katherine Bolger Hyde's charming series. Bloodstains with Bronte is the second in a series that will puzzle and please fans of mystery and masterpieces alike.Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writers' retreat. Two of the young workers,...
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MURDER IN THE MANUSCRIPT ROOM

CON LEHANE · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The second in Con Lehane's 42nd Street Library mystery series, Murder in the Manuscript Room is a smart, compelling mystery in which the characters themselves are at least as interesting as the striking sleuthing."Not to be missed." -- Megan Abbott"A story utterly relevant...
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Beau Death

PETER LOVESEY · Soho Crime
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might have been the victim of a centuries-old...
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Missing Persons: A Buddy Steel Mystery

Michael Brandman · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

MISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times best selling author, Michael Brandman.Steel...smart, aggressive, ironic, spare and cynical...has been content working homicide at the LAPD until his father, the legendary Sheriff Burton Steel, falls...
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The Ghosts of Galway

KEN BRUEN · Mysterious Press
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

Ken Bruen is a singular voice in crime fiction "with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows" (New York Times Book Review) . In The Ghosts of Galway, he brings those elegiac talents to bear on a case...
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Murder in an English Village

JESSICA ELLICOTT · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they're the perfect match . . .1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl...
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A Dark So Deadly

Stuart MacBride · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Format: Audiobook

Sometimes the worst thing you can imagine is just the start... Gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Welcome to the Misfit Mob... It's where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can't get rid of, but wants to: the outcasts,...
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Casualty of War: A Bess Crawford Mystery

CHARLES TODD · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes a haunting tale that explores the impact of World War I on all who witnessed it - officers, soldiers, doctors, and battlefield nurses like Bess Crawford.Though the Great War is nearing its end, the fighting rages on. While waiting...
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Even If It Kills Her: A Bailey Weggins Mystery

KATE WHITE · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Kate White returns to her New York Times bestselling Bailey Weggins' Mystery series, with this favorite true-crime journalist turned sleuth's most chilling case to date.Bailey Weggins' great new friend in college, Jillian Lowe, had everything going for her. Pretty, popular, and whip-smart,...
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The Family Lawyer

JAMES PATTERSON · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 471
Format: Paperback

From the world's #1 bestselling writer--3 pulse-pounding novels in one book!THE FAMILY LAWYER with Robert Rotstein: Matthew Hovanes is living a parent's worst nightmare: his young daughter is accused of bullying another girl into suicide. But this loving father is also a skilled criminal...
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Quick & Dirty

STUART WOODS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington gets entangled in the intricate and rarefied art business in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington's office, little does he know his association with her will...
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Murder on Amsterdam Avenue: Gaslight Mystery

Victoria Thompson · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this Gaslight Mystery from the national bestselling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City ... In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding...
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Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel

JANET EVANOVICH · Bantam
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This Jersey girl hits hard - twenty-four seven. The blockbuster Stephanie Plum series continues with Hardcore Twenty-Four from #1 New York Times bestselling Janet Evanovich.
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The Ghost of Christmas Past

Rhys Bowen · Minotaur Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From Rhys Bowen, the author of In Farleigh Field, comes the next Molly Murphy mystery: The Ghost of Christmas Past.Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906....
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The Western Star

CRAIG JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The thirteenth novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix series LongmireSheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts...
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How the Finch Stole Christmas!: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

As in her previous Christmas mysteries, Six Geese a-Slaying, Duck the Halls, and The Nightingale Before Christmas, Andrews continues to write "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail) .New York Times bestselling author Donna...
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