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Ralph McInerny · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The University of Notre Dame relies on Roger Knight, the rotund professor of Catholic Studies, and his brother Philip, a semiretired PI, to investigate certain delicate situations that could put the school in a bad light. Students, faculty, and alumni, like David Williams, are all fair...
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On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service

RHYS BOWEN · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Crowned and Dangerous, Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother. But it's all in a day's work when you're thirty-fifth in line to the British Crown. When Darcy runs...
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The Grilling Season

Diane Mott Davidson · Bantam; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

For fans of Diane Mott Davidson's unique blend of sumptuous fare and first-class suspense, The Grilling Season, her seventh in the cordon bleu series, is truly a mystery to savor.Hired to cater a hockey party, Goldy comes up with a winning menu featuring zesty South of the Border Appetizers,...
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Tower Down: A Kirk McGarvey Novel

DAVID HAGBERG · Forge Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg continues his successful Kirk McGarvey series in Tower Down, a searing thriller about terrorist attacks on NYC's pencil towers.A freelance killer, code-named Al-Nassar, "the Eagle," topples a New York City pencil tower and sends...
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The Devil She Knows: A Novel

Bill Loehfelm · Sarah Crichton Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An audacious thriller from a major new talent
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A Question of Honor

Charles Todd · William Morrow
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

In the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an old murder that occurred during her childhood in India, a search for the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a troubling question:...
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U is for Undertow

Sue Grafton · Marian Wood Books/Putnam; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Calling T is for Trespass "taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific," USA Today went on to ask, "What does it take to write twenty novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?" It's a question worth pondering. Through...
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Cat's Claw

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Police Chief Sheila Dawson believes the death of Pecan Spring's computer guru, Larry Kirk, to be a suicide, perhaps triggered by his painful divorce. Further investigation reveals that Kirk's death wasn't self-inflicted. And the truth is reinforced by her friend China Bayles'...
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Man and Wife

Andrew Klavan · Forge Books; 1st edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Cal Bradleys marriage to Marie is the stuff of romance. Then one night, a 19-year-old boy named Peter Blue goes on a rampage. Friendless and suicidal, Blue is sent to Bradley for treatment. For the patient, its a last chance at redemption. For the doctor, its the beginning of a journey...
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A Corpse in the Koryo

James Church · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Against the backdrop of a totalitarian North Korea, one man unwillingly uncovers the truth behind series of murders, and wagers his life in the process.Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south. Simple orders...
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The Lost Witness

Robert Ellis · Minotaur Books
Pages: 339
Format: Print book

With his novel City of Fire, Robert Ellis debuted a dynamic new character in Los Angeles detective Lena Gamble, but also captured a vivid picture of the city of Los Angeles. Readers and critics made City of Fire an instant phenomenon, as the book became a Los Angeles Times bestseller and was named...
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Death in August: A Novel

Marco Vichi · Pegasus; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

A new crime series full of Italian flavor -- the first novel in the Inspector Bordelli series, set in 1960s Florence.Florence, summer 1963. Inspector Bordelli is one of the few policemen left in the deserted city. He spends his days on routine work and his nights tormented by the heat and mosquitoes.Suddenly...
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Deadly Appraisal (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)

Jane K. Cleland · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Josie Prescott is settling into her new life in New Hampshire. Her antiques business is thriving, she's beginning to make some close friends, and her relationship with the local police chief is becoming more interesting. Not bad for someone who has completely uprooted her life as a New York...
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