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Second Watch: A J. P. Beaumont Novel

J. A. Jance · Harper; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

With Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thought-provoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont. Second Watch shows Beaumont taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work,...
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Werewolf Cop: A Novel

Andrew Klavan · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Edgar Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Andrew Klavan, a supernatural thriller about a good cop in the grips of an evil curse. In the tradition of Dexter and The Shield, the first in a riveting trilogy about a crime-fighter on a quest to control the beast within....
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Sins of the Fathers

ANTHEA FRASER · Severn House Pub Ltd
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Three families, separate yet joined by the sins of the fathers; sins that will ultimately lead to tragedy.Mark Richmond?s trip to York takes a surprise detour when he runs into Helena Crawford and ends up accompanying her to her parents? ruby wedding anniversary in Drumlee, Scotland.Six...
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The Mother-in-Law

Sally Hepworth · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what...
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Dead Between the Lines: A Devereaux's Dime Store Mystery

Denise Swanson · NAL
Format: Paperback

Opening an old-fashioned five-and-dime shop in her small Missouri hometown has been a great change for Devereaux "Dev" Sinclair. But when she hosts a reading group there, she learns that bad writing can mean life or death. To keep her new business in the black, Dev opens up her shop...
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The Glass Ocean: A Novel

BEATRIZ WILLIAMS · William Morrow
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century - two deep in the past, one in the present - to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.May 2013Her finances...
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The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate

Jill Paton Walsh · Minotaur Books; First Edition - So Stated edition
Format: Hardcover

When a dispute among the Fellows of St. Severins College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers that as the Duke of Denver he is the Visitor--charged with the task of resolving the issue. It is time for Lord Peter and his detective novelist wife, Harriet, to revisit...
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Keep Quiet

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 338
Format: Mass Market Paperback

How far will one father go to save his son? Jake Buckman's relationship with his sixteen-year-old son Ryan is not an easy one, so at the urging of his loving wife, Pam, Jake goes alone to pick up Ryan at their suburban movie theater. On the way home, Ryan asks to drive on a deserted...
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Full Service Blonde

Megan Edwards · Imbrifex Books
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback

A working girl is found dead in the desert. Can a calendar girl uncover the truth? In this prequel to GETTING OFF ON FRANK SINATRA, it's Christmastime in Sin City. Aspiring journalist Copper Black meets Victoria McKimber, an outspoken prostitute at one of Nevada's legal brothels....
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All Day and a Night: A Novel of Suspense

Alafair Burke · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A new murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads Detective Ellie Hatcher into a twisting investigation with explosive and deadly results in this superb mystery from the "terrific web spinner" (Entertainment Weekly) Alafair Burke.When psychotherapist Helen Brunswick...
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The Witches' Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery

M. C. Beaton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The Witches' Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series -- now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.Cotswolds inhabitants are used to inclement weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Devere, the new vicar and his wife,...
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Yesterday's News

R. G. Belsky · Oceanview Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A classic cold case reopened -- along with Pandora's box When eleven-year-old Lucy Devlin disappeared on her way to school more than a decade ago, it became one of the most famous missing child cases in history. The story turned reporter Clare Carlson into a media superstar overnight....
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On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service

RHYS BOWEN · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In the latest paperback in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series, Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother. But it's all in a day's work when you're thirty-fifth in line to the British Crown.When royal sleuth Georgie...
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Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster: A Novel

Karen Lee Street · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The famed writer and poet sails to London to engage the illustrious detective Auguste Dupin to solve a Poe family mystery, in a stylish and brilliantly constructed debut novel. Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, with the hope...
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Broken Bone China

LAURA CHILDS · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally....
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