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Murder On Insel Poel
Murder On Insel Poel

D-L Nelson · Five Star
Format: Book

Annie Young's forte is tech writing and historical research. But with disconcerting frequency as she travels for projects around the world, she finds herself in the middle of murder investigations. American-born Annie thinks she's landed an easy assignment translating a book about...
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The 8th Circle: A Thriller
The 8th Circle: A Thriller

Sarah Cain · Crooked Lane Books, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A year ago, Danny Ryan lost his wife and son in a car accident. He's still reeling from the tragedy when Michael Cohen, his friend and fellow journalist, drives into the pond in front of his house with a bullet through his gut.With Michael's death ruled a murder, Danny must work...
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Wolverine Bros. Freight & Storage: A Conway Sax Mystery
Wolverine Bros. Freight & Storage: A Conway Sax Mystery

Steve Ulfelder · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Conway Sax is back in a thrilling and heartrending new novel from critically acclaimed, Edgar-nominated author Steve UlfelderConway Sax is a man on a mission-this time in Los Angeles, where he uses his race-driving experience in a desperate bid to rescue Kenny Spoon, a washed-up TV star...
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Panacea
Panacea

F Paul Wilson · Tor
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Medical examiner Laura Hanning has two charred corpses and no answers. Both bear a mysterious tattoo but exhibit no known cause of death. Their only connection to one another is a string of puzzling miracle cures. Her preliminary investigation points to a cult in the possession of the fabled...
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Zigzag
Zigzag

Bill Pronzini · Forge
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective """Zigzag "is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. "Grapplin,...
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Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories
Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories

Andrea Camilleri · Penguin Books, 2016.
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, twenty-one short stories spanning the beloved detective's career Inspector Montalbano has charmed readers in nineteen popular novels, and now in Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories, Andrea Camilleri...
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Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Walter Mosley · Doubleday
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

Walter Mosley's indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins finds his life in transition. He's ready - finally - to propose...
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The Delta
The Delta

Tony Park · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Assassin-for-hire Sonja Kurtz is on the run. Kurtz, an ex-soldier turned mercenary, is given a high profile job--to kill the president of Zimbabwe. But its a set up, the assassination attempt fails, Kurtz has been burned and her exfiltration plan are in ruins. Kurtz now heads for her only...
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Black Water: A Novel
Black Water: A Novel

Louise Doughty · Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

From the author of Apple Tree Yard comes a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemption.John Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what...
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Quarry in the Black
Quarry in the Black

Max Allan Collins · Hardcase Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

WHERE DOES A HIT MAN DRAW THE LINE? With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate...
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The Alpine Yeoman
The Alpine Yeoman

Mary Daheim · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Mary Daheim's bestselling novels, set in Alpine, a picturesque village tucked away in the Cascade Mountains, have charmed a generation of mystery lovers with suspenseful tales of the peril that bubbles up from below the serene surface of small-town life. An ill wind blows through...
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The Competition
The Competition

Marcia Clark · Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

In Marcia Clark's most electrifying thriller yet, Los Angeles District Attorney Rachel Knight investigates a horrifying high school massacre. A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers....
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Fall from Grace
Fall from Grace

Tim Weaver · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

International bestselling author Tim Weaver returns with his next David Raker mystery, a high-stakes search for a recently retired detective who vanishes from his own home After decades of service, Leonard Franks has stepped down from the Metropolitan Police as a high-ranking detective...
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Telling Tails
Telling Tails

Sofie Ryan · Berkley Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of A Whisker of Trouble returns as secondhand shop owner Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, get caught up in a case of she said, she said.... When Sarah Grayson opened a secondhand shop in the quaint town of North Harbor, Maine, she was expecting...
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The Woman in Cabin 10
The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware · Scout Press
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN A DARK, DARK WOOD Featured in TheSkimm An Entertainment Weekly "Summer Must List" Pick A New York Post "Summer Must-Read" Pick Included in Summer Book Guides from Bustle, Oprah.com, PureWow, and USA TODAY...
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