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Bone Dust White: A Novel

Karin Salvalaggio · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adamss house and wont stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she looks out her bedroom window, she sees a woman she doesnt recognize walking on the trails behind her home. The woman isnt alone for long before a man emerges from the dark...
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Cobra

Deon Meyer · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Celebrated as the King of South African crime, Deon Meyer is a world-class writer whose page-turning thrillers probe the social and racial complexities of his native country. In Cobra, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed at a guest house in the beautiful...
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The Cinderella Killer: A theatrical mystery starring actor-sleuth Charles Paris

Simon Brett · Crème de la Crime; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

A Christmas production of Cinderella is marred by a series of killings in the waspishly funny new Charles Paris mystery Landing a minor part in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne's Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles Paris soon discovers that his main role is to gently introduce...
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The Poor Boy's Game

Dennis Tafoya · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

When US Marshal Frannie Mullen gets one of her best friends shot during a routine apprehension, her career is over. Still reeling from the loss, Frannie is trying to sort out her feelings for Wyatt, the reformed outlaw who loves her, and to support her newly-sober sister, Mae, as she struggles...
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Dead for a Spell

Raymond Buckland · Berkley

Bram Stoker business manager for Londons Lyceum Theatre is never surprised to find the supernatural waiting in the wingsespecially when a chilling murder appears to have origins in the occultMarch The Lyceum is abuzz with the news that American actor Edwin Booth is going to be sharing...
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The Charmers

Elizabeth Adler · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

When Mirabella Matthews' Aunt Jolly dies unexpectedly and under mysterious circumstances Mirabella suddenly finds herself the new owner of a villa in the South of France. But with the inheritance come unexpected mysteries ... and dangers.On her way to the villa, Mirabella is run off the road...
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The Transcriptionist: A Novel

Amy Rowland · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

"A haunting and provocative novel about the mysteries of life and a death, the written word, things seen and unseen, heard and forgotten. Amy Rowland's writing is compelling and masterful." -- Delia Ephron, author of The Lion Is InOnce, there were many transcriptionists at the Record,...
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Last Licks

Claire Donally · Berkley; First Berkley Prime Crime Edition edition

Sniffing out a murdererWhen Sunny Coolidges curmudgeonly boss, Oliver Barnstable, lands in rehab after breaking his leg, Sunny is stuck shuttling between their offices in Kittery Harbor, Maine, and the facility where Ollie is recuperating. And if putting up with temper tantrums from her boss...
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Those We Left Behind

Stuart Neville · SOHO Crime, 2015.
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

Blood has always been thicker than water for two Northern Irish brothers caught in the Belfast foster system, but a debt of past violence will be paid by not just them, but also by those they left behind.Ciaran Devine, who made Belfast headlines seven years ago as the "schoolboy killer,"...
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An Officer and a Spy: A novel

Robert Harris · Random House Inc
Pages: 429
Format: Hardcover

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted...
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