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A Killer Ball at Honeychurch Hall

Hannah Dennison · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this delightful new mystery our heroine Kat Stanford stumbles upon a hidden room in an abandoned wing at Honeychurch Hall. However, Kat's initial excitement soon ends in horror. There, lying on the cold, stone floor, Kat comes across the body of a young woman dressed in an Egyptian...
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Seven Days Dead

John Farrow · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In Seven Days Dead, a woman races in a small boat through a torrential sea storm to Grand Manan island, located off the coast of Maine. She is determined to reach her dying father's bedside. Meanwhile, detective Cinq-Mars is enjoying vacation with his wife on the island until he's caught...
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My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel

Grady Hendrix · Quirk Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of E.T., roller-skating parties, and scratch-and-sniff stickers. But when they arrive at high school, things change. Gretchen begins to act . . . different. And as the strange coincidences and bizarre...
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Meet Your Baker

Ellie Alexander · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 321
Format: eBook

Welcome to Torte-a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it's criminal...After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery....
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Books of a Feather: A Bibliophile Mystery

Kate Carlisle · Obsidian
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ripped from the Pages, San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright's latest project is for the birds, but it may have her running for her life. . . . Brooklyn's friend Ian runs the Covington Library, which is hosting an exhibit...
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Inspector of the Dead

David Morrell · Mulholland Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

LEGENDARY THRILLER WRITER DAVID MORRELL TRANSPORTS READERS TO THE FOGBOUND STREETS OF LONDON, WHERE A KILLER PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE QUEEN VICTORIA.The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters....
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Daisy in Chains

Sharon Bolton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks.But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story -- he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story.Maggie...
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The Methods of Sergeant Cluff: A British Library Crime Classic

Gil North · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 158
Format: Print book

It is a wet and windy night in the town of Gunnarshaw, on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. The body of young Jane Trundle, assistant in the chemist's shop, is discovered lying face down on the cobblestones.Sergeant Caleb Cluff is not a man of many words, and neither does he play by the rules....
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A Haunting of the Bones: A Bell Elkins Novella

Julia Keller · Minotaur Books
Format: eBook

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller comes A HAUNTING OF THE BONES, another suspsenseful and provocative story that will keep readers up all night...Bell Elkins, prosecuting attorney for Raythune C1ounty, West Virginia, had always believed what she'd been told: Her mother...
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Murder at Lambswool Farm: A Seaside Knitters Mystery

Sally Goldenbaum · An Obsidian Mystery
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Late summer blooms in beautiful Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and while a harvest thrives, Izzy Chambers Perry and the other Seaside Knitters will need to cast on their sleuthing skills to save a local farm. Unfortunately, finding a killer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. . . . Seaside...
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Shockwave: An Aftershock Novel

Andrew Vachss · Pantheon
Format: Kindle Edition

Dell, a former mercenary, and his wife, Dolly, a former battlefield nurse, believe they have finally found a place of peace in a deceptively idyllic small town on the Oregon coast. But early one morning, just before daybreak, a body washes up on the town's pristine beach. The dead man's...
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The Graveyard of the Hesperides

Lindsey Davis · Minotaur Books
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

In first century Rome, Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases---cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till---but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius...
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The Secret Life of Souls: A Novel

Jack Ketchum · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A gripping family drama that brilliantly explores the relationship between a young girl and her dog -- and the mysteries that lie within. At the heart of this psychological suspense novel is the haunting depiction of a family's fall and the extraordinary gifted dog, Caity, who knows...
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Hush

Karen Robards · Gallery Books
Pages: 405
Format: Print book

In New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards's latest heart-pounding thriller, a woman must uncover a murderer - or risk being the next victim of a vicious killer.When Riley Cowan finds her estranged husband Jeff dead in his palatial home, she's sure it's no coincidence. The police...
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The Chemist

Stephenie Meyer · Little
Pages: 521
Format: Print book

In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency...
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Broken Trust

W E B Griffin · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 358
Format: Print book

The dramatic New York Times-bestselling adventure in W.E.B. Griffin's Badge of Honor series about the Philadelphia police force.Having investigated his share of gruesome murders, Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think nothing can shock him - until the case of a young...
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Deadly Encounter

Diann Mills · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 390
Format: Print book

Airport Ranger volunteer Stacy Broussard expected a peaceful Saturday morning ride around the perimeter of Houston's airport. What she encounters instead is a brutal homicide and a baffling mystery. Next to the body is an injured dog, the dead man's motorcycle, and a drone armed with a laser...
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