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The Woman in Blue

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 358
Format: Print book

In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town. Known as England's Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparitions....
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A Cajun Christmas Killing: A Cajun Country Mystery

ELLEN BYRON. · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Maggie Crozat is back home in bayou country during the most magical time of the year. In Pelican, Louisiana, Christmastime is a season of giant bonfires on the levee, zydeco carols, and pots of gumbo. Except, this year, the Grinch has come to stay at the family-run Crozat Plantation B&B....
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The Burial Hour

Jeffery Deaver · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 729
Format: Hardcover

DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER.Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver's New York Times bestselling series.A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman's...
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High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread

Joyce Carol Oates · Grove
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover

Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human flaws. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals - a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway - in the fearless prose for which she's become so celebrated. In the title...
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The Hush

JOHN HART · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Set in the world of his most beloved novel The Last Child ("A magnificent creation" -- The Washington Post) , John Hart delivers a stunning vision of a secret world, rarely seen.It's been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon's life and rocked his hometown...
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Bloody Point

Linda J. White · Christian Mystery Series
Pages: 500
Format: Large Print Library Binding

Looking for some peace in her life, FBI Special Agent Cassidy McKenna leaves the Bureau and retreats to a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay. She is struggling with the recent murder of her husband, who was also an FBI agent, and her shaken faith in God.
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Heartbreak Hotel: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex's most mysterious patient to date in the sensational new thriller from the master of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman.At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from...
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Night and Day

Iris Johansen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan risked it all to protect Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead. The journey has led them from California to a remote mountain in the Scottish highlands--and earned Eve the distinction of becoming their next target. When, despite all precautions, Cara...
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The Jezebel Remedy: A novel

Martin Clark · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 381
Format: Print book

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST MYSTERY OF THE YEARLisa and Joe Stone, married for twenty years and partners in their small Virginia law firm, handle routine, run-of-the-mill cases, including never-ending complaints from their cantankerous client Lettie VanSandt. When Lettie dies in a suspicious accident...
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The Forsaken

Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins acclaimed series about the real Deep South—a joy ride into the heart of darkness The Washington Post. Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes...
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The Muse: A Novel

Jessie Burton · Ecco
Pages: 393
Format: Print book

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women - a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain - and the powerful mystery that ties them together.England, 1967. Odelle Bastien...
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New Boy

TRACY CHEVALIER · HOGARTH PR
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy...
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Diabolical

Jana DeLeon · Jana DeLeon
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the third book in the Shaye Archer thriller series. Nine years ago, the police found Shaye Archer wandering in the French Quarter, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, not even her name. Now, at twenty-four,...
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The Frozen Dead: A Novel

Bernard Minier · Minotaur Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Saint-Martin-de-Comminges is a small town nestled in the French Pyrenees. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens. Until the winter morning when a group of workers discover the headless, flayed body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge...
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The English Boys: A Mystery

Julia Thomas · Midnight Ink
Pages: 329
Format: Print book

Dark and Twisted Secrets Emerge in the Wake of a Deadly Wedding Daniel Richardson and his best friend, Hugh Ashley-Hunt, both rising British actors, are in love with the same woman, the free-spirited Tamsyn Burke. Daniel reluctantly steps aside when Tamsyn decides to marry Hugh, but right...
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