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In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon

Leslie S. Klinger · Pegasus Books
Pages: 262
Format: Book

In the follow-up to the nationally bestselling A Study in Sherlock, a stunning new volume of original stories from award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger

The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were recently voted as the top mystery series...

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Summit: A Novel

Harry Farthing · Blackstone Audio Inc
Pages: 418
Format: Print book

An action-packed mountaineering adventure in which a mysterious discovery leads to breathtaking revelations about the world's highest peak.A summit is a summit, and the truth is the truth. But the view from 8,848 meters isn't always so clear. Two men, seventy years apart, push for the top of Mount...
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Black Horizon LP

James Grippando · HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Pages: 540
Format: Paperback

In Black Horizon, a riveting and timely thriller drawn from tomorrow's headlines, New York Times bestselling author James Grippando brings back popular Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck in an international case involving a devastating oil spill that pits him against his most...
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Detroit Is Our Beat: Tales of the Four Horsemen

Loren D. Estleman · Tyrus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The place: Detroit. The time: World War II.While most of the police department is fighting overseas, the four men of the Racket Squad struggle to keep a lid on a powderkeg stuffed with draft-dodging troublemakers, Black Market gangsters, enemy saboteurs, and a mixed bag of racial and ethnic...
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The Promise: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel

Robert Crais · Putnam
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in the new heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais.

Loyalty, commitment, and the fight for justice...
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The Alpine Yeoman

Mary Daheim · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Mary Daheim's bestselling novels, set in Alpine, a picturesque village tucked away in the Cascade Mountains, have charmed a generation of mystery lovers with suspenseful tales of the peril that bubbles up from below the serene surface of small-town life. An ill wind blows through...
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The Howling Beast

Noel Vindry · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

In its starred review, Publisher's Weekly says : " ... couples a clever plot with an understated but powerful atmosphere of terror." Pierre Herry is on the run. Not just from the police, who suspect him of a double murder, but also from the memory of the circumstances in which...
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Identical

Scott Turow · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon...
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The Lost Girls of Rome

Donato Carrisi · Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

A grieving young widow, seeking answers to her husbands death, becomes entangled in an investigation steeped in the darkest mysteries of Rome.Sandra Vega, a forensic analyst with the Roman police department, mourns deeply for a marriage that ended too soon. A few months ago, in the dead...
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Red 1-2-3

John Katzenbach · Pgw
Pages: 400
Format: Book

Three women. They have nothing in common. They are different ages, come from different background, and lead drastically different lives. The only thing that binds them together is their red hair - and that each of them has been targeted for murder.

When each 'Red' receives a chilling...
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Scandal in the Secret City: A World War Two mystery set in Tennessee

Diane Fanning · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the Lucinda Pierce series, comes a thrilling new mystery, set during the Second World War . . .Oak Ridge, Tennessee, otherwise known as the Secret City, rose seemingly overnight in 1942, built by the US Government. No one was quite sure what its purpose was or where it came...
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Zigzag

Bill Pronzini · Forge
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective """Zigzag "is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. "Grapplin,...
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Quicksand

Malin Persson Giolito · Other Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

QUICKSAND is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years...
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Devil in the Hole

Charles Salzberg · Five Star
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover

In the ballroom of a sparsely furnished Connecticut mansion, police find a shocking sight: four bodies lined up next to each other, three teenagers and a middle-aged woman, each lying on a blanket, each shot once in the head. In an upstairs bedroom: an elderly woman and the family dog,...
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Spy Games

Adam Brookes · Redhook
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In a world of lies, one man wants the truth. Journalist Philip Mangan is trying to stay out of trouble in East Africa, his reputation and his life in tatters. But when he is caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a shadowy Chinese figure approaches him in the dead of night with...
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