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Drawn and Buttered

Shari Randall · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Drawn and Buttered is the third book in a wonderfully satisfying cozy mystery series set at the Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack in coastal New England.The Lazy Mermaid's business has slowed to a snail's pace -- until a monster lobster claws his way onto the scene ... With high season behind...
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Desert Remains: A Gus Parker and Alex Mills Novel

Steven Cooper · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Someone is filling the desert caves around Phoenix with bodies--a madman who, in a taunting ritual, is leaving behind a record of his crimes etched into the stone. With no leads and no suspects, Detective Alex Mills sees a case spinning out of control. City leaders want the case solved...
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Eat Only When You're Hungry: A Novel

Lindsay Hunter · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

One of Nylon's "50 Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2017"One of Chicago Reader's "Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2017"A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts) In Lindsay Hunter's...
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Forsaken

MICHAEL MCBRIDE · Pinnacle
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"McBride writes with the perfect mixture of suspense and horror that keeps the reader on edge." - Examiner IT HAS SURVIVED At a research station in Antarctica, scientists discovered a strange and ancient organism. They thought they could study it, classify it, control it. They...
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Crust No One

WINNIE ARCHER · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Business is booming at Yeast of Eden. But with a deadly mystery taking over the seaside town of Santa Sofia, the Mexican bread shop can't possibly leaven a killer's appetite . . . For once, Ivy Culpepper feels fulfilled. An apprenticeship at Yeast of Eden has opened her world...
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Soul Cage

Tetsuya Honda · Minotaur Books
Pages: 299
Format: Hardcover

A severed hand, a missing body, and a victim who was living under a false identity all add up to the most complex and challenging case yet for Homicide Detective Reiko Himekawa - in Tetsuya Honda's Soul Cage.A worker reports his boss missing, and a large amount of blood is found in the rented...
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Bitter Harvest

Laural Merlington · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Megan Sawyer should be shouting from the barn roof. Washington Acres survived its first year, the cafe has become a hot spot for locals, and Winsome's sexy Scottish veterinarian is making house calls-and not just for the animals! But as summer slips into fall and Winsome prepares...
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Wychwood

George Mann · Titan Books
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

After losing her job and her partner in one fell swoop, journalist Elspeth Reeves is back in her mother's house in the sleepy village of Wilsby-under-Wychwood, wondering where it all went wrong. Then a body is found in the neighbouring Wychwoods: a woman ritually slaughtered, with cryptic...
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The Dark Net

Benjamin Percy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Thrilling . . . one of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself. . . . The setup promises furious action, and Percy delivers, like [Richard] Matheson, like King. . . An awfully impressive literary performance." - New York Times Book Review"[An] imaginative,...
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Blood Crime

Sebastia? Alzamora · Soho Crime
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A multi-genre gothic novel of the horrific early days of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, perfect for fans ofRoberto Bolano andMario Vargas Llosa. It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist...
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Dead Woman Walking

SHARON BOLTON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There's just one survivor. She's seen the killer's face - but he's also seen hers. And he won't rest until he's eliminated the only witness to his crime....
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Fatal Trust

TODD M JOHNSON · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 343
Format: Paperback

Riveting Legal Suspense from Lawyer Todd M. Johnson Ian Wells is a young criminal defense attorney struggling to build a Minneapolis law practice he inherited from his father while caring for a mother with Alzheimer's. Nearly at the breaking point, everything changes for Ian when a new client...
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Bitter Orange

CLAIRE FULLER · Tin House Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past.From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico...
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The Zero and the One: A Novel

Ryan Ruby · Twelve
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A gothic twist on the classic tale of innocents abroad, THE ZERO AND THE ONE is a meditation on the seductions of friendship and the power of dangerous ideas that registers the dark, psychological suspense of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley and the intellectual and philosophical...
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