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Lightning Men: A Novel

Thomas Mullen · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Writes with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." - The New York Times, on Darktown "Reads like the best of James Ellroy." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) , on Darktown "Mullen is a wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected...
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Monster's Chef: A Novel

Jervey Tervalon · Amistad
Format: Book

From award-winning, Los Angeles Times bestselling author Jervey Tervalon comes a highly clever, twisting tale of suspense involving drugs, perverse sex, and poisonous celebrity worship, in which a man trying to rebuild his life becomes entangled in dangerous and deadly circumstances.Once...
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Outfoxed

David Rosenfelt · Minotaur Books
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them...
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Wait for Dark

Kay Hooper · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

An SCU team investigates a string of accidents, only to uncover a deadly and deliberate monster in the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. In Clarity, North Carolina, the residents have fallen victim to an unfortunate series of events. Seemingly random accidents...
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Death Comes to London

Catherine Lloyd · Kensington
Format: Print book

A season in London promises a welcome change of pace for two friends from the village of Kurland St. Mary--until murder makes a debut. . .With the reluctant blessings of their father, the rector of Kurland St. Mary, Lucy Harrington and her sister Anna leave home for a social season in London....
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The Sixth Victim

TESSA HARRIS · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

London's East End, 1888: When darkness falls, terror begins...The foggy streets of London's Whitechapel district have become a nocturnal hunting ground for Jack the Ripper, and no woman is safe. Flower girl Constance Piper is not immune to dread, but she is more preoccupied with her own strange...
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Nantucket Red Tickets

Steven Axelrod · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

It's Christmas Eve on Nantucket and prominent businessman Jackson Blum is about to live out his own version of A Christmas Carol. No visions, no ghosts-just the exhumed skeleton of his old partner Ted Coddington with a bullet from Blum's Ruger pistol in its skull. Ted was a horribly...
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Thief: A Robin Monarch Novel

Mark Sullivan · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Robin Monarch is a man with a complicated past and dangerous present. He's been a soldier, a CIA agent, a freelance operative but first and foremost, Robin Monarch is a thief of the highest order. Orphaned at twelve, Monarch originally stole for survival, then he stole for his friends...
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Gone to Dust

MATTHEW GOLDMAN · Forge Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Set in Minnesota, Gone to Dust is the debut private eye murder mystery from Emmy Award-winning Seinfeld writer Matt Goldman."Sharp wit, complex characters, and masterful plotting makes Goldman a writer to watch. Irreverent and insightful, private detective Nils Shapiro is sure to become...
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The Third Victim

Phillip Margolin · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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The Ghost Fields

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The chilling discovery of a downed World War II plane with a body inside leads Ruth and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family's secrets in the seventh Ruth Galloway mystery. Norfolk is suffering from record summer heat when a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery - a downed...
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The Vines

Christopher Rice · 47North; 1st edition
Format: Print book

The dark history of Spring House, a beautifully restored plantation mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, has long been forgotten. But something sinister lurks beneath the soil of the old estate.After heiress and current owner Caitlin Chaisson is witness to her husband’s stunning...
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Fifty Fifty

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Detective Harriet Blue is a relentless detective--but when her own brother is accused of murder, will she self-destruct? Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister,...
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Moral Defense

Marcia Clark · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Print book

For defense attorney Samantha Brinkman, it's not about guilt or innocence - it's about making sure her clients walk.In the follow-up to bestselling Blood Defense, Samantha is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left her father and brother dead, and her mother...
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Twelve Slays of Christmas: A Christmas Tree Farm Mystery

JACQUELINE FROST. · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

When Holly White's fiancé cancels their Christmas Eve wedding with less than two weeks to go, Holly heads home with a broken heart. Lucky for her, home in historic Mistletoe, Maine is magical during Christmastime -- exactly what the doctor prescribed. Except her plan to drown her troubles...
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