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The Black Painting: A Novel

Neil Olson · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed

There were four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive,...
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Daisy in Chains

Sharon Bolton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks.

But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story -- he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story.

Maggie...

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Identical

Scott Turow · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon...
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The Enchanted: A Novel

Rene Denfeld · HarperTorch
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover

A wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King."This is an enchanted place. Others don't see it, but I do." The enchanted...
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Whispers of Vivaldi: A Tito Amato Mystery

Beverle Graves Myers · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Book

Venice, 1745—an age of reckless pleasures, playful artifice, and baroque excess. An accident has reduced Tito Amato’s glorious singing voice to a husky croak. A tragedy— but also an opportunity. The once celebrated male soprano is now determined to prove himself as a director....
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Tom Clancy Point of Contact

MIKE MADEN · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 485
Format: Hardcover

In the latest electrifying adventure in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series, Jack Ryan, Jr., learns that sometimes the deadliest secret may be standing right next to you.

Former U.S. Senator Weston Rhodes is a defense contractor with an urgent problem. His company...
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Reckless Creed

Alex Kava · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Alex Kava, Ryder Creed, his K-9 search-and-rescue dogs, and FBI agent Maggie O'Dell find themselves at the center of a dire and mysterious case.

In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-story...
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Murder, Stage Left

Robert Goldsborough · Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback

It's curtains for a famous Broadway director, and private investigator Nero Wolfe is on the case - but his assistant, Archie Goodwin, is a suspect. When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls in Nero Wolfe. Though the corpulent genius...
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Shark Skin Suite: A Novel

Tim Dorsey · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Bottom feeders beware: the Sunshine State's favorite psychotic killer and lovable Floridaphile Serge Storms has found a new calling, legal eagle, and he's going to make a killing as a crusading attorney - and star as a dashing lawyer on the big screen - in this madcap escapade from...
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In the Morning I'll Be Gone: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel

Adrian Mckinty · Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

Detective Sean Duffy works to crack a locked room mystery while tracking an escaped IRA master bomber.The early 1980s. Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC Royal Ulster Constabulary, is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made...
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The Storm King: A Novel

BRENDAN DUFFY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Haunted by dark secrets and an unsolved mystery, a young doctor returns to his isolated Adirondacks hometown in a tense, atmospheric novel in the vein of Michael Koryta and Harlan Coben.

Burying the past only gives it strength - and fury.

Nate McHale has assembled...
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Blood Flag: A Paul Madriani Novel

Steve Martini · William Morrow
Pages: 330
Format: Print book

Defending a client accused of killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy dating to World War II in this enthralling installment in the New York Times bestselling series.

Paul Madriani and Harry Hinds have a new client: Emma Brauer, a woman...

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Unti Karin Slaughter #18: A Novel

KARIN SLAUGHTER · William Morrow
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter - a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before.

What if the person you thought...

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Tracking Game: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery

Margaret Mizushima · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

November 2019 Top Pick, Library Reads

Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mountains plunge Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo into a sinister vortex.

An explosion outside a community dance sends Mattie Cobb...
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