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Bring Me Back: A Novel

B A PARIS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW TWISTY, GRIPPING READ FROM B. A. PARIS, THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING NOVELS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AND THE BREAKDOWN"We're in a new Golden Age of suspense writing now, because of amazing books like Bring Me Back, and I for one am loving it."...
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Murder Underground: A British Library Crime Classic

Mavis Doriel Hay · Poisoned Pen Pr
Pages: 270
Format: Print book

"This detective novel is much more than interesting. The numerous characters are well differentiated, and include one of the most feckless, exasperating and lifelike literary men that ever confused a trail." -- Dorothy L. Sayers, Sunday Times, 1934When Miss Pongleton is found...
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The Fallen Architect: A Novel

Charles Belfoure · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestseller of The Paris ArchitectSomeone has to take the blame.When the Britannia Theatre's balcony collapses, killing over a dozen people, the fingers point at the architect. He should have known better, should have made it safer, should have done something. Douglas...
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The Fifth Doctrine

Karen Robards · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

With her back against the wall, everything's on the line for Bianca St. Ives. She's either going to save the world - or die trying.It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture...
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New Haven Noir

Amy Bloom · Akashic Books
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback

"In an Ivy League town, Bloom turns Yale's motto -- Lux et Veritas -- on its head, finding darkness and deceit in every corner of New Haven...The stories Bloom chooses share a strong sense of place, detailing the quirks that make every corner of New Haven distinctive. But it's...
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The Annotated Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler's 1939 classic The Big Sleep, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem and hundreds of illuminating notes and photographs alongside the full text, is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan's library.A masterpiece of noir,...
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The Infinite Blacktop: A Novel

SARA GRAN · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The "delicious and addictive" (Salon) Claire DeWitt series returns with a thrilling noir mystery that follows three separate narratives starring the self-proclaimed "world's greatest detective." As Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls raves, these novels are "cryptic,...
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Charlatans

ROBIN COOK · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 435
Format: Hardcover

The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from...
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Little Pretty Things

Lori Rader-Day · Seventh Street Books
Format: Print book

OLD RIVALRIES NEVER DIE. BUT SOME RIVALS DO.Juliet Townsend is used to losing. Back in high school, she lost every track team race to her best friend, Madeleine Bell. Ten years later, she's still running behind, stuck in a dead-end job cleaning rooms at the Mid-Night Inn, a one-star...
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Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes

Martin Edwards · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 358
Format: Paperback

Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective story that became so popular during the 'golden age of murder' between the two world wars....
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The Rule of Law: A Novel

JOHN LESCROART · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder.Dismas Hardy...
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Mississippi Blood: A Novel

Greg Iles · William Morrow
Pages: 880
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The #1 New York Times BestsellerThe final installment in the epic Natchez Burning trilogy by Greg Iles"Natchez Burning is extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful. I defy you to start it and find a way to put it down; as long as it is, I wished it were longer. . . . This...
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Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles

A L HERBERT · Kensington
Pages: 336
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Welcome to Mahalia's Sweet Tea - the finest soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland. In between preparing her famous cornbread and mashed potatoes so creamy "they'll make you want to slap your Momma," owner Halia Watkins is about to dip her spoon into a grisly...
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Idaho: A Novel

Emily Ruskovich · Random House
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

A stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss - from O. Henry Prize-winning author Emily Ruskovich Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged landscape in northern Idaho, where they are bound together...
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Marrow Island

Alexis M Smith · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What would you give to save the thing you love the most? It has been twenty years since Lucie Bowen left the islands. Twenty years ago, the May Day Quake set loose catastrophic waves along the west coast, from Alaska to California, shattering thousands of lives. Twenty years ago, Lucie's...
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