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Death by Eggnog

ALEX ERICKSON · Kensington
Pages: 299
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Krissy Hancock is staying in her adopted hometown of Pine Hills, Ohio, for Christmas this year - and she even has a whole week off from her combination bookstore-café. But a killer is about to dampen her spirits . . . Unfortunately, Krissy's been roped into filling in for a sick elf in the local...
 
 
Missing, Presumed: A Novel

Susie Steiner · Random House
Format: Print book

"Detective Manon Bradshaw is 39, single, and miserable as sin. She has endured some of the worst dates in internet history. But she loves her job and performs it brilliantly; all she needs to rise up in the ranks is a big break. Edith Hind is a gorgeous, intrepid graduate student at Cambridge...
 
 
The Sandman: A novel

Lars Kepler · Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The #1 internationally best-selling thriller from the author of The Hypnotist tells the chilling story of a manipulative serial killer and the two brilliant police agents who must try to beat him at his own game.Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering....
 
 
Quarry's Choice

Max Allan Collins · Hard Case Crime
Format: Book

Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks. But in this wide-open city with sin everywhere, and betrayal around every corner Quarry must make the most dangerous choice of his deadly...
 
 
You Will Pay

LISA JACKSON · Kensington
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In a fast-paced, brilliantly twisted novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the deadly secrets of a long-ago summer stir to life once more.It starts as a prank - a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen counselors,...
 
 
Darkness, Sing Me a Song

David Housewright · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

David Housewright's Edgar Award-winning Holland Taylor series returns with a case of murder resulting from tragic, twisted drama in an extremely wealthy family in Darkness, Sing Me a Song.Holland Taylor is a PI who does simple background checks and other mostly unchallenging cases. Still...
 
 
Unlucky 13

James Patterson · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 12
Format: Book

The Women's Murder Club is stalked by a killer with nothing to lose. San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends...
 
 
Fools' River

Timothy Hallinan · Soho Crime
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The two most difficult days in Bangkok writer Poke Rafferty's life begin with an emergency visit from Edward Dell, the almost-boyfriend of his teenage daughter, Maiow. The boy's father, Buddy, a late-middle-aged womanizer who has moved to Bangkok for happy hunting, has disappeared, and money...
 
 
Death by a Whisker: A Cat Rescue Mystery

T C LOTEMPIO · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Getting used to life back home in Deer Park, North Carolina, Sydney McCall and her right-hand tabby, Toby, are helping her sister Kat run the local animal shelter. Syd and Kat are all excited about the prospect of the shelter's newest fundraiser: shopping channel queen Ulla Townsend....
 
 
Mary Russell's War

Laurie R. King · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Print book

Laurie R. King illuminates the hidden corners of her beloved Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series in this dynamic story collection. In nine short stories, seven of which have never previously been available in print, and one brand new, never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery -- available...
 
 
The Paris Key

Juliet Blackwell · New American Library
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

An American in Paris navigates her family's secret past and unlocks her own future, in this emotionally evocative novel by New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell.As a girl, Genevieve Martin spent the happiest summer of her life in Paris, learning the delicate art of locksmithing...
 
 
Moriarty Returns a Letter: A Baker Street Mystery

Michael Robertson · Minotaur Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Michael Robertson has delighted mystery readers and Sherlock Holmes aficionados everywhere with his charming and innovative Baker Street mystery series, where brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath are charged with answering letters to Holmes that arrive at their law office, located at 221B Baker...
 
 
Phantom Instinct

M G Gardiner · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover

In Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner's new stand-alone thriller, an injured cop and an ex-thief hunt down a killer nobody else believes exists.When shots ring out in a crowded L.A. club, bartender Harper Flynn watches helplessly as her boyfriend, Drew, is gunned down in the cross...
 
 
The Cat, The Collector and the Killer

Leann Sweeney · New Amer Library
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the latest mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cat, the Sneak and the Secret, a cat collector is suspected of murder. Jillian Hart and police chief Tom Stewart are enjoying peaceful, newly wedded bliss in Mercy, South Carolina, until a woman is found wandering...
 
 
Heart Trouble LP: A Novel

Mary Kay Andrews · HarperLuxe; Lgr edition
Format: Large print book

The fifth book in the exciting Callahan Garrity series sees the cleaning lady/sleuth tracking down the murderer of a woman whom the entire city loved to hate.Callahan Garrity has her hands full trying to expand her House Mouse cleaning business. So she's reluctant to take on a client...