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Death of a Mad Hatter

Jenn McKinlay · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback

ONE IN A MILLINERScarlett Parker and her British cousin, Vivian Tremont, are hard at work at Mim's Whims - their ladies' hat shop on London's chic Portobello Road - to create hats for an Alice in Wonderland themed afternoon tea, a fund-raiser for a local children's hospital. It seems like...
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A Death by Any Other Name: A Mystery

Tessa Arlen · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Building on the success of her last two mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe full of secrets, intrigue, and, this time, roses in A Death By Any Other Name. The elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson, investigate a murder...
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The Freedom Broker

K J Howe · Quercus
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

There are twenty-five elite kidnap and ransom (K&R) specialists in the world. Only one is a woman: Thea Paris. And she's the best in the business.Twenty years ago, a terrified young boy was abducted in the middle of the night by masked intruders while his sister watched, paralyzed...
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The Lost Island: A Gideon Crew Novel

Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected...
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The Strings of Murder: A Novel

Oscar de Muriel · Pegasus Books
Pages: 412
Format: Print book

The brutal slaying of a violinist in his home in 1888 sparks a locked room murder mystery investigated by two diametrically opposed Edinburgh detectives.1888: a violinist is brutally murdered in his Edinburgh home. Fearing a national panic over a copycat Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard send...
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The Lost Order: A Novel

Steve Berry · Minotaur Books
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth...
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Skeleton Crew: Stories

Stephen King · Pocket Books
Pages: 784
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Features "The Mist" now a TV series event on Spike Stephen King's #1 New York Times bestseller - an anthology of stories from the outer limits of the imagination!From one of the greatest storytellers in modern times comes this classic collection of twenty-two works of fright...
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A Disguise to Die For: A Costume Shop Mystery

Diane Vallere · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Someone is dressed to kill in the debut Costume Shop Mystery from the national bestselling author of the Material Witness mysteries. No sooner does former magician's assistant Margo Tamblyn return home to Proper City, Nevada, to run Disguise DeLimit, her family's costume shop, than she gets...
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River Road

Carol Goodman · Touchstone
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident.When one of her students is killed in a hit-and-run on River Road, it raises memories of Nan Lewis's...
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Ivory

Tony Park · St. Martin's Press, 2015. ©2009
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Alex Tremain is a pirate in trouble. All he really wants is to reopen his parents' five-star hotel on the Island of Dreams, off the coast of Mozambique. But instead he's facing a mounting tide of debt, his crew of modern-day buccaneers is getting restless, and he has just been dumped...
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Forget You Ever Knew Me

Judy Dailey · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

FOR FANS OF: Laura Lippman, Sara Paretsky, and Sue GratonThis story is recommended for readers that care about strong women struggling to make sense of their past and a daughter's enduring love for her imperfect mother.It's 1952. Maggie Kendall, an idealistic young doctor, must...
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The Wrong Side of Goodbye

Michael Connelly · Little
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Detective Harry Bosch must track down someone who may never have existed in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works...
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Ghost to the Rescue: A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel

Carolyn G Hart · Berkley Prime Crime, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Hart's ghostly gumshoe Bailey Ruth Raeburn is frequently amusing ... but this is the first time she's been a muse.When you wish upon a star, you get ... Bailey Ruth? You do if you're a little girl whose mom needs help and you touch the soft heart...
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The Mark

Kiki Swinson · Dafina Books
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

Her "unrelenting" (Publishers Weekly) and "tension-packed" (Library Journal) novels have made Kiki Swinson a bestselling chronicler of the Virginia's most glittering, treacherous streets. In the explosive follow-up to her high-octane The Score, amaster thief's...
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Border War

Lou Dobbs · Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

Border War is a timely thriller about the struggles of US law enforcement officers on the Mexican border by TV broadcaster Lou Dobbs.The border is a tough place to work, especially for FBI agent Tom Eriksen. With a history of violence, he cannot afford any on-duty screw-ups. So when an investigation...
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