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Eggs on Ice

Laura Childs · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Christmas season at the Cackleberry Club café is marred by murder in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling series.Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of "A Christmas Carol" is just playing to type....
 
 
Cold, Cold Heart: A forensic mystery

A.J. Cross · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Professor Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit unearth some shocking findings when they re-examine a 10-year-old murder case.For the past ten years, David Lockman has been serving a life sentence for the murder of Della Harrington. Now an appeal judge has decreed the forensic evidence...
 
 
Bad, Bad Thing, A

Elena Forbes · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Eve West, a police officer with a hidden past, is drawn into a dark and complex case when she's asked to investigate a miscarriage of justice.A highly effective police officer, albeit one who keeps her past carefully hidden, Eve West is suspended from duty after a police operation goes...
 
 
Hunting Annabelle

Wendy Heard · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"Her scream echoes in my memory. I know what happened. Whether anyone believes me or not, I know."Sean Suh is done with killing. After serving three years in a psychiatric prison, he's determined to stay away from temptation. But he can't resist Annabelle - beautiful,...
 
 
Broken Ground

VAL MCDERMID · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet. Six feet under in a Highland...
 
 
Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

CHRISTOPHER FOWLER · Bantam
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

London, 1969. With the Swinging Sixties under way, Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves caught in the middle of a good, old-fashioned manor house murder mystery. The critics are mad for Christopher Fowler, his irascible creations Bryant and May, and the Peculiar author's...
 
 
Deep War: The War with China and North Korea--The Nuclear Precipice

DAVID POYER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The war against China turns dire, as the United States struggles to survive in this gripping thriller featuring Navy commander Dan LensonAfter the United States suffers a devastating nuclear attack, and facing food shortages, power outages, cyber and AI assaults, and a wrecked economy,...
 
 
Sins as Scarlet

NICOLAS OBREGON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"A dark, brutal ride through the underbelly of LA." -- Anthony Horowitz, author of Magpie MurdersIn this follow-up to Nicolás Obregon's critically acclaimed Blue Light Yokohama, Inspector Iwata returns -- in a murder case in his new home of Los Angeles.After a brutal murder...
 
 
The Big Empty

Stan Jones · Soho Crime
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Police Chief Nathan Active investigates a plane crash out in Alaska's Big Empty - and what he finds there casts suspicion of murder on several locals in his small town of Chukchi. Evie Kavoonah, a young mother-to-be, and her fiancé, Dr. Todd Brenner, are on a flight over the Brooks...
 
 
The Sun Dog

Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's novella The Sun Dog, published in his award-winning 1990 story collection Four Past Midnight, now available for the first time as a standalone publication.The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy. It's coming...