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The Last Widow: A Novel

Karin Slaughter · William Morrow
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won't see comingA mysterious kidnappingOn a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease...
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The Man in the White Linen Suit: A Stewart Hoag Mystery

David Handler · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

The next clever, witty, and touching installment in the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series finds the beloved ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful neurotic basset hound, Lulu, back in 1990's New York City, investigating a bestselling author's stolen manuscript and three...
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This Poison Will Remain

Fred Vargas · Penguin Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Commissaire Adamsberg investigates the death of three men linked by their childhood at an orphanage in Nimes, all killed by the venom of the recluse spider, in the new novel by the #1 bestselling French crime writer"Spry, ironic, yet fully engaged with the horror of contemporary reality."...
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Simply Dead

Eleanor Kuhns · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

1790s, Maine. In the depths of winter Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the woodlands. During the search Will Rees finds her struggling through the snow and woods without shoes or a coat. After two young men begin stalking the community in search of her - including...
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Blood on the Rocks

Priscilla Masters · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

DI Joanna Piercy is irritated at what she perceives to be an attempt to wrap her up in cotton wool during her pregnancy when she is asked to take on the case of Zachary Foster, a missing ninety-six-year-old man suffering from dementia. Zachary has vanished from his residential care home...
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The Cold Way Home

Julia Keller · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, former West Virginia prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins investigates the murder of a teenager while continuing to rebuild her life. Bell Elkins and Jake Oakes make a good team, so good that they decide after years of working together to hang...
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Murder in the Mill-Race

E.C.R. Lorac · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

"Never make trouble in the village" is an unspoken law, but it's a binding law. You may know about your neighbor's sins and shortcomings, but you must never name them aloud. It'd make trouble, and small societies want to avoid trouble."When Dr Raymond Ferens moves...
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Gumshoe Rock

Rob Leininger · Oceanview Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

USA Today best-selling author"Mortimer Angel is my favorite private eye." -- John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling author Early in July, northern Nevada's senior Internal Revenue Service agent, Ronald Soranden -- disliked by every agent in the Reno IRS office -- vanished...
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Vanishing in the Haight

Max Tomlinson · Oceanview Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard and Gillian FlynnBetween fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back together so she can reconnect with her runaway teenage daughter. Then her life...
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Invitation to Die

Barbara Cleverly · Soho Crime
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

An "invitation to dine" quickly loses a letter as DI John Redfyre returns for his second investigation in the hallowed halls of Cambridge academia. Cambridge, 1924 in early summertime. May Balls, punting, flirting and dancing the tango are the preoccupations of bright young...
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