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A Bad Day for Mercy: A Crime Novel

Sophie Littlefield · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A call from Stella Hardesty's little sister brings the news that Stella's step-nephew, Chip, has been threatened with serious bodily harm if he doesn't settle his unpaid gambling debts. Stella makes the drive to Chip's home in Wisconsin, only to walk in on a wee-hours dismemberment....
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A Deadly Measure of Brimstone: A Dandy Gilver Mystery

Catriona McPherson · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Catriona McPherson's critically acclaimed mystery series set in 1920s Scotland and featuring plucky and laugh-out-loud-funny heroine Dandy Gilver is perfect for fans of PG Wodehouse, Dorothy L Sayers, and Agatha Christie. In A Deadly Measure of Brimstone, Dandy and the whole Gilver...
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Nemesis

Bill Pronzini · Forge Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Young, newly rich Verity Daniels claims to be receiving threatening demands for money from a mysterious caller. When Jake Runyon agrees to investigate, it seems a relatively simple matter to expose the extortionist by setting a trap for him.The case, however, is nowhere near as clear-cut...
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The Travelers: A Novel

Chris Pavone · Crown, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident

It's 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?

Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism...
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Agenda 21

Glenn Beck · Threshold Editions; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

I was just a baby when we were relocated and I dont remember much Everybody has that black hole at the beginning of their life That time you cant remember Your first step Your first taste of table food My real memories begin in our assigned living area in Compound Just a generation ago this...
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A Finely Knit Murder: A Seaside Knitters Mystery

Sally Goldenbaum · NAL
Format: Hardcover

Readers can't help but get entangled in this USA Today bestselling series.In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Murder in Merino, the sleuthing skills of Izzy Chambers Perry and the Seaside Knitters are tested as death mars the beginning of the school year ... Seaside...
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The Day of Atonement: A Novel

David Liss · Random House
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALThe bestselling author of such novels as A Conspiracy of Paper and The Whiskey Rebels continues his masterly run of atmospheric The Washington Post, page-turning The Baltimore Sun, tremendously smart Newsweek historical thrillers....
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Sidney Sheldon's Chasing Tomorrow

Sidney Sheldon · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sidney Sheldon's most popular and enduring heroine - Tracy Whitney of If Tomorrow Comes - returns in a sensational sequel full of passion, suspense, and breathtaking twists.Tracy Whitney never thought she wanted to settle down. With her suave and handsome...
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Lethal Beauty

April Henry · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

It should have been an open and shut murder case, but Mia Quinn finds out nothing about it is simple. After a young Chinese prostitute is stabbed to death by her rich American client, the tabloids dub Dandan Yee "Lethal Beauty" - despite the fact that she was the one who ended...
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One Dangerous Lady

Jane Hitchcock · Miramax; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

No one brings alive the intrigues of the champagne set like Jane Stanton Hitchcock. Now Jo Slater, the wily heroine of her best-selling novel Social Crimes, returns in a dazzling new story of passion, money, and murder. Jo is in Barbados, preoccupied by the notion of a new romance with...
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Sleight Of Hand (Barbara Holloway Novels)

Kate Wilhelm · Mira; First Printing edition
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Gregarious Vegas entertainer Wally Lederer hasn't always enjoyed the attention of center stage--something he learned about himself over thirty years ago when he was in the slammer serving time for picking pockets. He claims he's turned his life around, and his lucrative and legitimate...
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Brush Back

Sara Paretsky · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Chicago's V. I. Warshawski confronts crooked politicians and buried family secrets in the gritty new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky. No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High...
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The St. Zita Society: A Novel

Ruth Rendell · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS From three-time Edgar Award-winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell comes a captivating and expertly plotted tale of residents and servants on one block of a posh London street - and the deadly ways their lives intertwine.Life for the residents...
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The Round House

Louise Erdrich · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting...
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