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Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud

MIKE LUPICA · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival.Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never...
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The Goat Castle Murder

Michael Llewellyn · Water Street Press
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback

The blood drying under the Mississippi moon was the bluest in Natchez. <br<br> Before the television age, when 'crime of the century' meant something, the public was unduly fascinated by murder. This was especial true during the Great Depression, when Americans were desperate...
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I Remember You: A Ghost Story

Yrsa Sigurdardottir · Minotaur Books

I Remember You won the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award and also was nominated for The Glass Key Award.In this terrifying tale, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house in a remote, totally isolated location. But they soon realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something...
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False Witness: A Novel

ANDREW GRANT · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Alabama police detective Cooper Devereaux chases a murderer who's been dubbed the "Birthday Killer" in this edge-of-your-seat thriller for readers of James Lee Burke, Craig Johnson, and Robert Crais. A woman disappears on the way to her twentieth birthday party. Three days later...
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Death on the Sapphire: A Lady Frances Ffolkes Mystery

R.J. Koreto · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

An extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times, Lady Frances Ffolkes is an Edwardian-era suffragette who has an uncanny ability to attract danger and romance.When Major Colcombe, a family friend and war veteran, dies under mysterious circumstances, the good Lady discovers that he was working...
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The Way of All Flesh

Ambrose Parry · Canongate Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Edinburgh, 1847. City of Medicine, Money, Murder.Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson.Simpson's...
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Once Upon a Grind

Cleo Coyle · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Fresh Pick - Fresh Fiction Top Pick - RT Book ReviewsA Best Books of the Year Pick - Kings River Life MagazineFrom Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Billionaire Blend, comes an enchanting new entry in the "satisfyingly rich"* Coffeehouse Mystery series. (*Kirkus)...
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The Supernatural Enhancements

Edgar Cantero · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A mesmerizing novel...what begins as a gothic ghost story soon evolves into a wickedly twisted treasure hunt in The Supernatural Enhancements, Edgar Cantero's wholly original, modern-day adventure.When twentysomething A., the European relative of the Wells family, inherits a beautiful,...
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The New Thomas Harris Thriller

Thomas Harris · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a story of evil, greed, and the consequences of dark obsession.Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack...
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Impostor Syndrome

Mishell Baker · Saga Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

In the third book of the Nebula Award-nominated Arcadia Project series, which New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire called "exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted," Millie Roper has to pull off two impossible heists - with the fate of the worlds in the balance.Three...
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Crimson Lake: A Novel

Candice Fox · Forge Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Complex, human characters, and a dark, meaty story, and fine writing, and a great sense of place - this is one of the best crime thrillers of the year. Sign me up as a big-time Fox fan!" -- Lee ChildCrimson Lake by Sydney-based, Ned Kelly award-winning author Candice Fox is a thrilling...
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The Black Hour

Lori Rader-Day · Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question...
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The Sinners

ACE ATKINS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the new novel from New York Times-bestselling crime master Ace Atkins, violence comes in many forms...and this time it may be more than Quinn Colson can handle.The Pritchards had never been worth a damn--an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and committing mayhem....
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Rust & Stardust: A Novel

T Greenwood · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Greenwood's glowing dark ruby of a novel brilliantly transforms the true crime story that inspired Nabokov's Lolita. Shatteringly original and eloquently written....So ferociously suspenseful, I found myself holding my breath." -- Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling...
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City of Sharks

Kelli Stanley · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The blonde secretary was scared when she visited Miranda Corbie's office. A shove into a streetcar track, a box of poisoned chocolates ... hateful, violent letters.Someone was trying to kill her. Miranda isn't sure of anything at first except that Louise Crowley, the blonde who works as an assistant...
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