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Written Off: A Mysterious Detective Mystery

E J Copperman · Crooked Lane
Pages: 329
Format: Print book

Rachel Goldman writes mysteries in which Duffy Madison, consultant to the county prosecutor's office, helps find missing persons. Rachel is busy finishing up her next book, when a man calls out of the blue asking for help in a missing persons case. The caller's name? Duffy Madison.

Is...
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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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A Separation: A Novel

Katie M Kitamura · Riverhead Books
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover

"Kitamura's prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with the tensions of a top-notch whodunit." - Elle

"Kitamura is a writer with a visionary, visual imagination." - The New Yorker

This is her story. About the end of her marriage....
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The Orphan Choir: A Novel

Sophie Hannah · St Martins Pr
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover

A MOTHER WITH AN EMPTY NEST IS BEING HAUNTED BY A GHOSTLY CHILDREN'S CHOIR. ARE THEY GIVING HER AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE THAT ONLY SHE CAN HEAR, OR ARE THEIR MOTIVES MORE SINISTER?Louise Beeston is being haunted.Louise has no reason left to stay in the city. She can't see her son, Joseph,...
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Smile and Be a Villain: A Dorothy Martin Investigation

Jeanne M Dams · Severn House Publishers L
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A holiday on the picturesque island of Alderney leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin.

When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, decide to visit the beautiful island of Alderney in the English...
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Field of Graves

J T Ellison · Mira Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

With FIELD OF GRAVES, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison goes back to where it all began ...

All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops trying to catch him are almost...
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Hostage

Kay Hooper · Jove
Format: Book

Haven operative Luther Brinkman has been sent into the wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains to locate escaped bank robber Cole Jacoby—an assignment that leaves Brinkman severely injured, alone, and with no way to convey his location to Haven. Luckily, Agent Callie Davis of the FBI’s...
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Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

Christopher Fowler · Bantam
Format: Hardcover

London's wiliest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back on the case in this fiendishly clever new mystery. And when a cemetery becomes the scene of a crime, neither secrets - nor bodies - stay buried. Romain Curtis sneaks into St. George's Gardens one evening with his date,...
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Willnot

James Sallis · Bloomsbury
Pages: 178
Format: Print book

In his celebrated career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them thoughtful observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the black New Orleans private investigator; retired detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive....

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Surrender, New York: A Novel

Caleb Carr · Random House
Pages: 598
Format: Print book

Imaginative and fulfilling . . . an addictive contemporary crime procedural. Michael Connelly, "The New York Times Book Review" Caleb Carr, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Alienist" and "The Angel of Darkness, "returns with a contemporary,...
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Presumption of Guilt.

Mayor Archer. · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

ARCHER MAYOR, in addition to writing the New York Times bestselling Joe Gunther series, is an investigator for the sheriff's department, the state medical examiner, and has twenty-five years of experience as a firefighter/EMT. He lives near Brattleboro, Vermont.
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White Mirror, The

Elsa Hart · Minotaur Books
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

In The White Mirror, the follow-up to Elsa Hart's critically acclaimed debut, Jade Dragon Mountain, Li Du, an imperial librarian and former exile in 18th century China, is now an independent traveler. He is journeying with a trade caravan bound for Lhasa when a detour brings...

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The Curse of Tenth Grave

Darynda Jones · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover

If one door closes and another one opens,
your house is probably haunted.
-- Bumper Sticker

As a Part-time PI and fulltime grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who is the hot supernatural...

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Spell Booked

Joyce and Jim Lavene · Berkley; first Berkley Prime Crime Edition edition
Format: Book

The national bestselling authors of the Missing Pieces Mysteries summon up the first Retired Witches Mystery in a brand new supernatural series...Once upon a time in Wilmington, North Carolina, three witches ran a curio shop named Smuggler's Arcane. But as the years passed, their magical...
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Wolf

Mo Hayder · Pgw
Pages: 410
Format: Hardcover

Edgar Award winner and internationally best-selling author Mo Hayder has made her name with nightmarishly dark, impeccably-plotted thrillers that hook readers from the first page and won't let them go. With her latest novel, Wolf, the frighteningly talented Hayder ratchets up the terror...
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