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Driving Heat

Richard Castle · Kingswell
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

Richard Castle, New York Times mega-bestselling mystery writer and star of ABC's hit primetime show Castle is back. In the seventh novel of his popular Nikki Heat series, the NYPD's top homicide detective has been promoted to captain just in time to face a thrilling case with a very...
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The Man Who Came Uptown

GEORGE PELECANOS · Mulholland Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover


In bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer George Pelecanos' thrilling new novel, an ex-con must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another path

Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian,...
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A Promise to Kill: A Clyde Barr Novel

ERIK STOREY · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the author dubbed by Jeffery Deaver "a born storyteller" whose first novel Nothing Short of Dying was hailed as "exceptional," "a rollercoaster read," and "adrenaline-fueled" by publications on both sides of the Atlantic, this is Erik...
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Such a Perfect Wife: A Novel

Kate White · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In this next installment of New York Times bestselling author Kate White's Bailey Weggins series, true crime writer Bailey is reporting on a seemingly straightforward missing-wife story when she realizes she might be covering the work of a diabolical serial killer - and that her own life...

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Death Brings a Shadow

Rosemary Simpson · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Investigators Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter discover all that glitters is not gold in the Gilded Age, whether on the island of Manhattan or an island off the coast of Georgia ... DEATH BRINGS A SHADOW In spring 1889, Prudence and Geoffrey set sail from New York...
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Jane Doe: A Novel

Victoria Helen Stone · Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A double life with a single purpose: revenge.Jane's days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She's just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth...
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Ball Park

John Farrow · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Émile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol.

Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously...
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Blackbird: A Novel

Michael L Fiegel · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Michael Fiegel's darkly compelling debut tells the story of an unusual bond between two killers -- and the destruction left in their wake. A cold-blooded killer-for-hire, Edison North drifts across America from city to city, crime scene to crime scene, leaving behind a world in flames....
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Button Men

ANDREW GROSS · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Following up The One Man and The Saboteur, Gross's next historical thriller brings to life the drama of the birth of organized crime in 1930s New York City from the tale of one family.

After a string of New York Times bestselling suburban thrillers, Andrew...

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The Spook in the Stacks: A Lighthouse Library Mystery

EVA GATES · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 313
Format: Hardcover

Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body.

Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical...
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No Mortal Thing: A Thriller

GERALD SEYMOUR · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

Gerald Seymour's No Mortal Thing is a novel of relentless power and mounting suspense, a brilliant portrayal of organized crime in Europe and the under-resourced men and women who fight it.

Two young men - Jago and Marcantonio - both studying business and finance:

Jago...

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Bone on Bone: A Bell Elkins Novel

Julia Keller · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The next powerful chapter in Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's beloved Bell Elkins series.

How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die -- or kill? Three years after leaving Ackers Gap, West Virginia, to serve a prison sentence for murdering her father, Bell Elkins...

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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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Little Deaths: A Novel

Emma Flint · Hachette Books
Pages: 311
Format: Print book

ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017

"Gripping."---Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post

"Mesmerizing."---Associated Press

It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York,...
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The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers, and Dark Roads: Original Stories by Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, C. J. Box, Diana Gabaldon, Ace Atkins & Others

Patrick Millikin · Mulholland Books
Pages: 335
Format: Paperback

Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers.
Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble...
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