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Berlin Red: An Inspector Pekkala Novel of Suspense

SAM EASTLAND · OPUS Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

(Book) . April 1945 Inspector Pekkala is in a race against time as he heads to Berlin to capture the plans for a secret weapon that could change the course of the war. "Excellently plotted and paced, with a lively cast, real and fictional." The London Times (Book of the Month)...
 
 
Mangrove Lightning

Randy Wayne White · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The ghosts of a 1925 multiple murder stalk Doc Ford in the electrifying new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series. Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering...
 
 
Murder in Disguise

Mary Miley · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover

1920s script girl Jessie Beckett investigates the murder of a movie projectionist in this absorbing historical mystery. "Joe Petrovitch was gunned down on a sunny Saturday afternoon in early October, during the ninth reel of Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush." Employed by Douglas...
 
 
War and Peach

Susan Furlong · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The author of Rest in Peach serves up another bite of Southern charm in the latest Georgia Peach mystery. Nola Mae Harper is too busy restocking the jars of preserves and chutney flying off the shelves of her shop, Peachy Keen, to keep up with all the gossip about the upcoming mayoral...
 
 
She Died Young

ELIZABETH WILSON · Serpent's Tail
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

"Combines glittering, dark-hued prose with levels of penetrating psychological insight the equal of her great predecessors in the field. Wilson's upwards trajectory continues" - Financial Times"Vividly evoking the seedy side of London against the background of the Cold...
 
 
The party : a novel

Robyn Harding · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this stunning and provocative domestic drama about a sweet sixteen birthday party that goes horribly awry, a wealthy family in San Francisco finds their picture-perfect life unraveling, their darkest secrets revealed, and their friends turned to enemies.One invitation. A lifetime of regrets....
 
 
An Unjust Judge: A Mystery set in 16th century Ireland

Cora Harrison · Severn House Pub Ltd
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

An unfairly harsh judge meets a gruesome end in the latest intriguing Burren mystery. It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent...
 
 
Keller's Fedora

LAWRENCE BLOCK · SUBTERRANEAN PRESS
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

A NEW HAT. FOR A NEW HIT.Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking him to tackle the most unusual assignment of his career. The client's wife is having...
 
 
Blood Red, White and Blue: A canine cozy mystery

Kathleen Delaney · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 233
Format: Hardcover

Santa Louisa's Independence Day celebrations lead to a case of cold-blooded murder in the latest highly entertaining Mary McGill dog mystery. It's the 4th July and the town celebrations have gone off without a hitch. Except for the body in the oak grove, shot in the back. The unfortunate...
 
 
Final Stop, Algiers: A Thriller

Mishka Ben-David · The Overlook Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author Mishka Ben-David's new thriller spans continents, as a Mossad operative must choose between duty and love.By the author of Duet in Beirut and Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg, Final Stop, Algiers is former Israeli intelligence agent Mishka Ben-David's...
 
 
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...
 
 
Nothing Stays Buried

P J Tracy · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

The Monkeewrench crew returns to face the city of Minneapolis's worst nightmare - a rampant serial killer on the loose - in the electrifying new thriller. When Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to a crime scene in a heavily wooded city park, everything...
 
 
Imperial Valley

Johnny Shaw · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 348
Format: Print book

Jimmy Veeder has finally settled down, completing his dramatic transformation from hell-raiser to family man. With his new wife, Angie, and eight-year-old son, Juan, he lives the quiet life. No trouble, no problems.Or so he thought. But this is Jimmy Veeder's Fiasco, after all.The night...
 
 
Death at the Emerald: A Frances Ffolkes Mystery

Richard J Koreto · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

One-named stunning actress Helen mysteriously vanished 30 years ago. An elderly family friend is unable to bear not knowing any longer and commissions Lady Frances Ffolkes to track her down. Taking on the role of Lady Sherlock, with her loyal maid Mallow drafted as her Watson, Frances finds...
 
 
The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew

Susanna Gregory · Sphere
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

In 1360 a deputation from Cambridge ventures to the Suffolk town of Clare in the hope that the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh has left a legacy to Michaelhouse. Yet when they arrive they discover that the report of her death is false and that the college seems destined for bankruptcy.Determined...