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The Water Rat of Wanchai: An Ava Lee Novel

Ian Hamilton · Picador; First Edition edition

AVA LEE TAKES ON A MASTER CRIMINAL IN HER MOST DANGEROUS CASE YETIn Ian Hamilton's The Water Rat of Wanchai, we meet forensic accountant and martial arts expert Ava Lee in her early days working for the mysterious businessman Uncle as they track down large sums of money that have disappeared....
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The Frozen Dead: A Novel

Bernard Minier · Minotaur Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Saint-Martin-de-Comminges is a small town nestled in the French Pyrenees. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens. Until the winter morning when a group of workers discover the headless, flayed body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge...
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The White Van

Patrick Hoffman · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

At a dive bar in San Francisco's edgy Tenderloin district, drug-hustling Emily Rosario is drinking whiskey and looking for an escape from her desperate lifestyle. When she is approached by a Russian businessman, she thinks she might have found her exit. A week later - drugged, disoriented...
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The Heiresses: A Novel

Sara Shepard · Harper
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, comes The Heiresses - a novel about the Saybrooks, a diamond family blessed with beauty and fortune yet plagued by a string of tragic and mysterious deaths.The only thing more flawless than a Saybrook's...
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The Angel Court Affair: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, the glorious era when Britain reigned supreme has found its most brilliant modern interpreter. Perry's gripping new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel invites us back to Victorian London, where greed and ambition never sleep, and passion...
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Natchez Burning: A Novel

Greg Iles · William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 791
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet and his first in five years - Natchez Burning - the first installment in an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern...
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Dirty Work: A Novel

Gabriel Weston · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

An informed and arresting debut novel about a young surgeon in crisis, by a writer whose "exactitude of expression is rare and uncanny." (Rachel Cusk)Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical...
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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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The Devil in the Marshalsea

Antonia Hodgson · Mariner Books

Antonia Hodgsons London of 1727 offers that rare achievement in historical fiction a time and place suspensefully different from our own, yet real . . . A damnd good read. —Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian London, 1727. Tom Hawkins refuses to follow in his fathers footsteps...
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Death of a Policeman

M. C. Beaton · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth. Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police...
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