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The Tale Teller: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

ANNE HILLERMAN · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.Joe Leaphorn may have retired from...
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Triple Jeopardy: A Daniel Pitt Novel

ANNE PERRY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat who's accused of a theft that may hide a deadly crime in this compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days.Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas, is delighted that his sister Jemima...
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A Dream of Death

Connie Berry · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

On a remote Scottish island, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton wrestles with her own past while sleuthing a brutal killing, staged to recreate a two-hundred-year-old unsolved murder.Autumn has come and gone on Scotland's Isle of Glenroth, and the islanders gather for the Tartan...
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Foul Play on Words

Becky Clark · Midnight Ink
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Between a kidnapping, a double booking, and a crew of hapless volunteers, Charlee is worried the writing conference will go to the dogs Mystery author Charlee Russo agrees to speak at a Portland writers' conference organized by her friend Viv Lundquist. When Viv picks her up at the airport,...
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The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery

Jean-Luc Bannalec · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Roll over Maigret. Commissaire Dupin has arrived." -- M.C. Beaton on Death in Brittany "Very satisfying ... along the lines of Martin Walker's novels set in Dordogne, or M.L. Longworth's Aix-en-Provence mysteries." -- BOOKLIST on Murder on Brittany ShoresThe...
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A Snapshot of Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery

Frances Brody · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Critically acclaimed author Frances Brody is back with the tenth installment in her Kate Shackleton series, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Nicola Upson.Seven keen amateur photographers gather for the most popular openings of the decade. Only six will return.Yorkshire, 1928....
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Widows-in-Law

Michele W. Miller · Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

After the sudden death of her ex-husband Brian, Lauren helps Brian's much-younger widow, Jessica, arrange the funeral and settle his affairs. Although they were once adversaries in the battle for Brian's heart, Lauren agrees to pitch in for the sake of their troubled sixteen-year-old daughter,...
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Murder from Scratch: A Sally Solari Mystery

Leslie Karst · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Restaurateur Sally Solari's cousin Evelyn may be blind, but she can see all too clearly that her chef mother's death wasn't an accidental overdose -- she was murdered.Santa Cruz restaurateur Sally Solari's life is already boiling over as she deals with irate cooks and other...
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Death of a New American: A Novel

Mariah Fredericks · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks is the atmospheric, compelling follow-up to the stunning debut A Death of No Importance, featuring series character, Jane Prescott. In 1912, as New York reels from the news of the Titanic disaster, ladies' maid Jane Prescott travels to Long...
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With a Kiss I Die

J. A. Hennrikus · Midnight Ink
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Will the kiss of death claim Romeo and Juliet -- and Sully -- before opening night? When retired cop Edwina "Sully" Sullivan learns that a production of Romeo and Juliet -- which Cliffside Theater's Dimitri Traietti left town to direct -- is in serious trouble, she sets aside...
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An Artless Demise

Anna Lee Huber · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won't last for long when her past comes back to haunt her in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series.November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior,...
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The Better Sister: A Novel

ALAFAIR BURKE · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From Alafair Burke - New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife - comes another twisty tale of domestic noir. When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters - one the dead man's widow, the other his ex - must set aside mistrust and old resentments...
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