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Sweet Payback: The Eighth Samantha Sweet Mystery

Connie Shelton · Secret Staircase Books, 2014.
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback

Praise for USA Today bestseller, Connie Shelton: "Connie Shelton gets better with every book she writes."--The Midwest Book Review Revenge is often a cold dish, but in the tiny northern New Mexico town of Sembramos emotions are running decidedly hot. When Lee Rodarte and Jessie...
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Price of Silence, The: A First World War Espionage Thriller

Dolores Gordon-Smith · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling World War One spy story from the author of the acclaimed Jack Haldean series. Working for the British Government as a secret agent, Anthony Brooke wants to expose the people responsible for blackmailing innocent people and gruesome murders. But when the gang plots a kidnap,...
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Mummified Meringues

Leighann Dobbs · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book

Murder hits a little too close to home for bakery owner Lexy Baker when a grim discovery is made in her homicide detective husband, Jack's, basement. With Jack as the main suspect, Lexy has to turn up the heat and find the real killer while still trying to whip up the perfect meringue...
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All By Myself Alone

Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from "Queen of Suspense" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark.Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems...
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House Revenge: A Joe DeMarco Thriller

Mike Lawson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

In House Revenge, Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco is dispatched to his boss Congressman John Mahoney's hometown of Boston. Mahoney wants him to help Elinore Dobbs, an elderly woman fighting against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building for a massive new development....
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Descent: A Novel

Tim Johnston · Algonquin Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A Breakout NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerAn Indie National Bestseller"Outstanding . . . The days when you had to choose between a great story and a great piece of writing? Gone." - Esquire "The story unfolds brilliantly, always surprisingly . . . The magic...
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Crimson Angel: A Benjamin January historical mystery

Barbara Hambly · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Benjamin January is forced to travel to Haiti to seek his familys lost treasure, in order to save everything he holds dearWhen Jefferson Vitrack the white half-brother of Benjamin Januarys wife - turns up on Januarys doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts...
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Classic in the Dock: A Jack Colby Classic Car Mystery

Amy Myers · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Jack Colby is delighted when his friend, the world famous artist Giovanni, calls in at Frogs Hill on his way to Plumshaw Manor to paint a 1930s Alfa Romeo racing car. Jack waves him goodbye--but it isn't for long. Later that day he has a phone call from Giovanni. He has been arrested...
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Catalina: A Novel

Liska Jacobs · FSG Originals
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

A magnetic, provocative debut novel chronicling a young woman's downward spiral following the end of an affairElsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that's her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, and she retreats to Los Angeles...
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Bloodstains with Bronte: A Crime with the Classics Mystery

Katherine Bolger Hyde · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Classic novels and crime solving intertwine in Katherine Bolger Hyde's charming series. Bloodstains with Bronte is the second in a series that will puzzle and please fans of mystery and masterpieces alike.Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writers' retreat. Two of the young workers,...
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The Negotiator: A Novel of Suspense

Brendan DuBois · Midnight Ink
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

"The mysterious George has lots of clout, and the Negotiator has to make some exceptionally sharp and unexpected deals in his quest for payback. DuBois wraps up his clever tale with a few nifty twists. Readers will hope for a sequel." -- Publishers Weekly For the Negotiator, calling...
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Storm Front: A Derrick Storm Thriller

Richard Castle · Kingswell; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From Tokyo, to Bonn, to London, high-level bankers are being tortured and murdered. The killer, caught in a fleeting glimpse on a surveillance camera, has been described as a psychopath with an eye patch. And that means Gregor Volkov, Derrick Storm's old nemesis, has returned. Knowing...
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Southern Heat

David Burnsworth · Five Star, 2014.
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

Gunshots echo down an antebellum Charleston alley. Brack Pelton, an ex-racecar driver and Afghanistan War veteran, witnesses the murder of his uncle, Reggie Sails. Darcy Wells, the pretty Palmetto Pulse reporter, investigates Reggie's murder and targets Brack.The sole heir of his uncle's...
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Death on Delos

Gary Corby · Soho Crime
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Greece, 454 BC: It is illegal to die on the sacred isle of Delos. It's also illegal to give birth there. Yet when murder is committed, the only available detective to solve the crime is the priestess Diotima, and she is heavily pregnant.Delos is the holy birthplace of the divine twins Apollo...
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Scandal Above Stairs

Jennifer Ashley · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Death Below StairsA mystery of stolen antiquities has Kat Holloway setting aside her apron once again for the intrigues of the upper echelons of Victorian LondonPriceless artwork has gone missing from the home of a wealthy baronet, and his wife...
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