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Death at Dovecote Hatch: A 1930s country house murder mystery

Dorothy Cannell · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

The second in the brand-new Florence Norris series.November, 1932. Still reeling from the recent murder at Mullings, country estate of the wealthy Stodmarsh family, the peaceful little village of Dovecote Hatch is about to be rocked by news of another violent death. When mild-mannered...
 
 
Lady Cop Makes Trouble

Amy Stewart · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun, Constance Kopp became one of the nation's...
 
 
The Mirror Thief

Martin Seay · Melville House
Pages: 582
Format: Print book

A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece in the tradition of Cloud Atlas.Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay's debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural...
 
 
Crime Song

DAVID SWINSON · LITTLE
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Frank Marr ("a masterly piece of characterization" - Tana French) is back. Marr, a retired D. C. police detective working as a private eye for a defense attorney, has a serious problem. He is secretly a drug addict, and his long-time supply of cocaine is about to run out....
 
 
Perfidia: A novel

James Ellroy · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER     AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIt is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race...
 
 
The Fourth Monkey

J. D. Barker · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called, "A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind." For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police...
 
 
The Reek of Red Herrings: A Dandy Gilver Mystery

Catriona McPherson · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Dandy Gilver is marvelously, hopelessly, hilariously wonderful. If you haven't discovered Catriona McPherson yet, it's time to start!" -- Charles Todd, author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery seriesOn the rain-drenched, wind-battered Banffshire coast dilapidated mansions...
 
 
Hades

Candice Fox · Pinnacle
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Compelling . . . A chilling read." - Sydney Morning HeraldWinner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime NovelTwenty years ago, two children were kidnapped and left for dead . . . Homicide detective Frank Bennett has a new partner - dark, beautiful, coldly efficient Eden...
 
 
A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison...
 
 
Killer: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman · Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAfter thirty-five riveting, internationally acclaimed novels of psychological suspense, 1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman returns with his most stunning thriller to date. Killer is a mesmerizing L.A. noir portrayal of the darkest impulses of human...
 
 
Red Dog: A Slim in Little Egypt Mystery

Jason Miller · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Pitbull fighters, shadowy ne'er-do-wells, and murder mark Jason Miller's wry, darkly atmospheric second novel in his Little Egypt series - perfect for fans of Frank Bill and Greg Iles.One hot summer day, in his home in the southern Illinois coal country known as Little Egypt - a Midwest...
 
 
Tom Clancy Power and Empire

MARC CAMERON · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

A newly belligerent Chinese government leaves US President Jack Ryan with only a few desperate options in this continuation of the #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy series. Jack Ryan is dealing with an aggressive challenge from the Chinese government. Pawns are being moved around...
 
 
W is for Wasted

Sue Grafton · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters."Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.The first was a local...
 
 
The Body Snatchers Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery

Marcia Muller · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 219
Format: Print book

The Body Snatchers Affair: The latest in the Carpenter and Quincannon historical mystery series set in 1890's San Francisco from Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths...
 
 
Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel

James Lee Burke · Pocket Books; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life.In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed...