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The Heretic's Creed: An Elizabethan mystery featuring Ursula Blanchard

Fiona Buckley · Creme De La Crime
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Ursula Blanchard must acquire a mysterious medieval manuscript in the latest enthralling historical adventure. February, 1577. Sir William Cecil has a dangerous new mission for Ursula Blanchard. He has asked her to visit Stonemoor House on the bleak Yorkshire moors, the home of a group...
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A People's History of the Vampire Uprising: A Novel

RAYMOND A VILLAREAL · Mulholland Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this ambitious and wildly original debut--part social-political satire, part international mystery--a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it. This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young...
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That Old Black Magic

Mary Jane Clark · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

That Old Black Magic is New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark’s savory and suspenseful confection filled with murder, mystery, history and voodoo, in which Piper Donovan must unmask a devious killer striking in New Orleans’s legendary French Quarter.Aspiring actress...
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Tell Me You're Mine

ELISABETH NOREBACK · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

In this riveting domestic suspense debut, a woman's life shatters when she meets a girl she believes is the daughter she lost years ago--and she finds that reclaiming the life she lost might cost her the life she has. Tell Me You're Mine is a story of guilt, grief, and the delicate...
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Whispering Shadows: A Novel

Jan-Philipp Sendker · Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover

"American expat Paul Leibovitz was once an ambitious advisor, dedicated father, and loving husband. But after living for nearly thirty years in Hong Kong, personal tragedy strikes and Paul's marriage unravels in the fallout. Now Paul is living as a recluse on an outlying island...
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Final Strike: A Sean Falcone Novel

William S Cohen · Forge Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In his political, apocalyptic thriller, Final Strike, former Secretary of Defense and US Senator William Cohen dramatizes one of the most terrifying global security nightmares: an asteroid hurtling towards EarthSixty million years ago, the K-T Asteroid obliterated the dinosaurs, and now its apocalyptic...
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The Third Brother: An Andy Hayes Mystery

Andrew Welsh-Huggins · Swallow Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

It's a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute he's finishing up some grocery shopping ahead of a custody visit with his sons. The next, he must come to the rescue of a Somali-American mother and her young children as anti-immigrant bullies...
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Archie in the Crosshairs

Robert Goldsborough · MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Format: Print book

When Archie Goodwin's life is threatened, Wolfe must find the gunman or lose his right-hand man Archie Goodwin is chipper as he strolls home from his weekly poker game, money in his pocket and a smile on his lips. He has just reached Nero Wolfe's stately brownstone on West Thirty-Fifth...
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Poisoned Pages

LORNA BARRETT · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Mystery bookstore owner Tricia Miles learns that nothing kills a good party like a murder in the latest entry in the New York Times bestselling Booktown Mysteries.Tricia Miles, mystery bookstore owner and amateur sleuth, throws a housewarming cocktail party in her new apartment and has cooked...
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Forget You Ever Knew Me

Judy Dailey · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

FOR FANS OF: Laura Lippman, Sara Paretsky, and Sue GratonThis story is recommended for readers that care about strong women struggling to make sense of their past and a daughter's enduring love for her imperfect mother.It's 1952. Maggie Kendall, an idealistic young doctor, must...
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A Steep Price

ROBERT DUGONI · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's thrilling series continues as Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is plunged into a case of family secrets and murder ... Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary...
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What You See: A Jane Ryland Novel

Hank Phillippi Ryan · Forge Books, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 382
Format: Print book

BEST OF 2015! Library Journal"Superb...highly entertaining."
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Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel

Yiyun Li · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, "one of America's best young novelists" (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China...
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The Willow King

Meelis Friedenthal · Pushkin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A deeply engrossing, philosophical novel by a rising Estonian literary star.Wrapped into his long coat against the incessant rain and accompanied by a strange parrot, the young Dutch student Laurentius arrives in Estonia on an icy day at the end of the seventeenth century. On the run from...
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Potter's Field

ROB HART · Polis Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Ash McKenna is my favorite kind of hero, a tough guy romantic with a smart mouth and a dark past." -- Chelsea CainThe final book in Rob Hart's acclaimed Ash McKenna series shows that Ash can go home again...but it might cost him everything.Amateur private investigator Ash McKenna...
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