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Paula Daly · Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the YearFrom breakout thriller writer Paula Daly, the story of a husband and wife and the devious best friend who comes between them.Natty and Sean have a rock-solid marriage - with two daughters, a successful business, and a beautiful...
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Prussian Blue

Philip Kerr · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther, our compromised former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer. With his cover blown, he is waiting for the next move in the cat-and-mouse game that, even a decade after Germany's defeat, continues...
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A Plague of Lies

Judith Rock · Berkley Trade; Original edition
Format: Paperback

In her historic mysteries The Rhetoric of Death and The Eloquence of Blood, Judith Rock created an atmosphere that "takes you back to fascinating and dangerous seventeenth-century Paris so well that I suspect her of being a time-traveler who's been there" (Ariana Franklin,...
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The Agent Runner: A Novel

Simon Conway · W W Norton
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

From the winner of an Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, a spy who came in from the cold for today's wars.British by birth, foreign by descent, and agnostic by conviction, Edward Henry Malik is an MI6 handler - an agent runner. For four years he has been running an agent codenamed Nightingale...
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Perfect Is Overrated

Karen Bergreen · St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

Think you want to be the perfect mom? Think again..Kate Alger has finally found the cure for her post-partum depression. After years of suffering, all it takes to bring this mommy back to life were a few gruesome homicides! When someone starts offing the alpha-moms from Kates daughters...
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Golden Prey

John Sandford · Putnam
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Thanks to some very influential...
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Hotel Bosphorus

Esmahan Aykol · Bitter Lemon Press
Format: Print book

What matters is that Esmahan Aykol uses the genre to tell us a little more about the world than were used to hearing from more commercial writersNewsdayA wonderful novel about Istanbul The Turkish way of life prejudices men politics corruptionEsmahan Aykol writes about all these with a light...
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Daisy in Chains

Sharon Bolton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks.But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story -- he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story.Maggie...
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The Hollow Men: A Novel

Rob Mccarthy · Pegasus Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Police surgeon Harry Kent is determined to help those the world would rather brush aside, in a smart and electrifying new crime series that evokes the often-hidden medical world of the London Metropolitan Police. Dr. Harry Kent likes to keep himself busy -- juggling hospital duties with...
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The Masque of a Murderer: A Mystery

Susanna Calkins · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In Susanna Calkins's next richly drawn mystery set in 17th century England, Lucy Campion, formerly a ladies' maid in the local magistrate's household, has now found gainful employment as a printer's apprentice. On a freezing winter afternoon in 1667, she accompanies the magistrate's...
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The Bone Garden: A Novel

Tess Gerritsen · Ballantine
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural...
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Farmed and Dangerous

Edith Maxwell · Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Snow is piling up in Westbury, Massachusetts, and Cam Flaherty's organic farm has managed to survive the harsh New England winter. Unfortunately murder seems to be the crop in season ... Cam is finding the New Year just as hectic as the old one. Her sometimes rocky relationship...
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The Stranger You Seek : A Novel

Amanda Kyle Williams · Bantam Books
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback

Offered a second chance by the Atlanta Police Department to catch a serial killer who has eluded them for years, former FBI profiler and alcoholic Keye Street begins a deadly cat-and-mouse chase with an adversary who has taken a personal interest in her. Title: The Stranger You SeekAuthor:...
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A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon

Laurie R. King · Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pages: 385
Format: Paperback

BESTSELLING AUTHORS GO HOLMES IN AN IRRESISTIBLE NEW COLLECTION edited by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives...
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Terror in Taffeta: A Mystery

Marla Cooper · Minotaur Books
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

Wedding planner Kelsey McKenna is just a few hours away from wrapping up her latest job: a destination wedding in the charming, colonial Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. The reception is all set up, the tequila donkey is waiting outside, and the bride and groom are standing on the altar,...
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