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The Clockmaker's Daughter

Kate Morton · Atria Books
Pages: 496
Format: Book

A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day. My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else...
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The Dead Ringer

M C BEATON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"The Agatha Raisin series is my guilty pleasure -- it's full of perfectly pitched interest, intrigue, and charm." -- Lee ChildThe church of St. Ethelred in the village of Thirk Magna is renowned for its team of bell-ringers, the troupe led by identical twins Mavis and Millicent...
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Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge

LAURA LEVINE · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny." - Joanne Fluke Freelance writer Jaine Austen is feeling festive about spending Christmas house-sitting at a posh Bel Air mansion, accompanied by her friend Lance and her cat, Prozac. But when...
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Christmas Cake Murder

JOANNE FLUKE · Kensington
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

It's Christmas many years ago, and topping young Hannah Swensen's wish list is becoming the go-to baker in Lake Eden, Minnesota. But as Hannah finds out, revisiting holiday memories can be murder . . . With her dream of opening The Cookie Jar taking shape, Hannah's life matches the hectic...
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Penned

Eileen Brady · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Kate Turner, DVM, is seven months into her one-year contract to cover for a Hudson Valley vet taking a year-long world cruise. She's getting used to the hospital and house-call workload but not to the sometimes dangerous, if not deadly, critters - animal and human - she meets.Eighty-something-year-old...
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Holy Ghost

JOHN SANDFORD · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (BOOKLIST ) Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls for which the word "moribund" might have been invented....
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The Witch Elm: A Novel

TANA FRENCH · Viking
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King,...
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Ambush

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a set-up, taking an officer down-and it's not Michael Bennett. The life of New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct...
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Desperate Measures

STUART WOODS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington faces down danger on New York's mean streets in the latest thriller from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods.Upon returning to the states from a European jaunt, Stone Barrington makes the acquaintance of a stunning woman who seems like she could be an ideal candidate to meet...
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Never Alone

Elizabeth Haynes · Myriad Editions
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Sarah Carpenter lives with her two dogs in a farmhouse, high on the North Yorkshire moors. Alone for the first time since her husband died and her children left home, she isn't exactly lonely but welcomes the arrival of an old friend, Aiden Beck, who needs a place to stay.Aiden clearly...
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