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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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Why Kill the Innocent

C S HARRIS · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits.London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful...
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Queen Anne's Lace

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

China Bayles hunts for answers when a ghost begins to haunt her shop in the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert.It's August in Pecan Springs, and Ruby has decided that it's time to clean out the loft over Thyme and Seasons and the Crystal...
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Hold Back the Dark

Kay Hooper · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An SCU team investigates an inexplicable string of murders committed by men and women with no memory of their crimes in the latest in this New York Times bestselling series.Madness has taken ahold of Prosperity, North Carolina. Residents are killing one another, as if in a dream, and waking...
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Shot in the Dark

CLEO COYLE · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Dead Cold Brew, comes a delicious new entry in the "fun and gripping" (The Huffington Post) Coffeehouse Mysteries.A new smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hot spot, until one dark night, when...
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The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery

MARTHA GRIMES · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

With their signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, Martha Grimes's New York Times bestselling Richard Jury mysteries are "utterly unlike anyone else's detective novels" (Washington Post) . In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard...
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Golden Prey

John Sandford · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Lucas Davenport's first case as a U. S. marshal takes him into unexplored territory in this thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey series. The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Thanks to some very influential...
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Lost Books and Old Bones: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery

Paige Shelton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A delightful new mystery featuring bookseller and amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols, set in Edinburgh, Scotland.Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at The Cracked Spine in the heart of town. She's recently befriended...
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Case of the Unsuitable Suitor, The

Cathy Ace · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 203
Format: Hardcover

The Women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are back.When the village's prodigal son, Huw Hughes, returns and sets his cap at Annie Parker, village publican Tudor begs Annie's colleagues at the WISE Enquiries Agency to unearth the truth behind Huw having been widowed three times.With...
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Death on the Prairie

Kathleen Ernst · Midnight Ink
Pages: 334
Format: Print book

Chloe Ellefson and her sister, Kari, have long dreamed of visiting each historic site dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder. When Chloe takes custody of a quilt once owned by the beloved author, the sisters set out on the trip of a lifetime, hoping to prove that Wilder stitched it herself....
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Memento Mori: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire

Ruth Downie · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The eighth gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which Ruso and Tilla investigate the death of the wife of Ruso's friend in the sacred hot spring of Aquae Sulis.A scandal is threatening to engulf the popular spa town of Aquae Sulis (modern-day Bath) . The wife of Ruso's...
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Tango Down

CHRIS KNOPF · Permanent Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

A routine visit to one of Sam Acquillo's job sites becomes anything but. The home's owner, Victor Bollings, is lying in a pool of blood, the back of his head bashed in. One of Sam's closest friends in the cabinetry trade is quickly behind bars as the obvious suspect. For the cops, this...
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To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Maisie Dobbs - "a female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air) , faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II in this poignant entry (#14) in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling...
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A Brush with Shadows

Anna Lee Huber · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Sebastian Gage returns home to battle the ghosts of his past and prevent them from destroying his future with Kiera in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series.July 1831. It's been fifteen years since Sebastian Gage has set foot in Langstone Manor. Though...
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Help I Am Being Held Prisoner

DONALD E WESTLAKE · Hard Case Crime
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

JAILED FOR A JOKEIt isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants...
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