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Cat Among the Pumpkins: A Hettie Bagshot Mystery

MANDY MORTON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Cat lovers, rejoice! The second installment in Mandy Morton's cat-driven series has arrived with Cat Among the Pumpkins, where crime-solving is in the capable paws of felines. And these cats haven't been declawed.As All Hallows' Eve approaches, Hettie Bagshot of The No. 2 Feline Detective...
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Expecting to Die

Lisa Jackson · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 346
Format: Print book

Expecting to Die
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Universal Harvester: A Novel

John Darnielle · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller"Brilliant . . . Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent; it's nearly impossible to stop reading . . . [Universal Harvester is] beyond worthwhile; it's a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest...
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Cat About Town

· Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The first novel in a frisky new mystery series set in a small New England town, where an unlikely citizen is called in to solve the purrfect crime. . .Maddie James has arrived in Daybreak Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts, eager to settle down and start her own business -- and maybe...
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Abigale Hall: A Novel

Lauren A Forry · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover

Amid the terror of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Eliza and her troubled little sister Rebecca have had their share of tragedy, having lost their mother to the Blitz and their father to suicide. Forced to leave London to work for the mysterious Mr. Brownwell at Abigale Hall, they...
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London Calling

Sara Sheridan · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"In the years following World War II, former Secret Service employee Mirabelle Bevan has found a refuge in the quiet coastal town of Brighton. But she can t seem to resist an attraction to danger and a thirst for justice . . ." 1952: Eighteen-year-old debutante Rose Bellamy Gore...
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The Death of Kings: A John Madden Mystery

Rennie George Airth · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed John Madden series, the former Scotland Yard detective returns in a gripping post-World War II mystery that will delight fans of Philip Kerr On a hot summer day in 1938, a beautiful actress is murdered on the grand Kent estate of Sir Jack...
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Night of Fire: A Novel

Colin Thubron · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants - including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon;...
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Best Intentions: A Novel

Erika Raskin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Marti Trailor -- social worker on hold, mother of three, wife of a successful obstetrician, daughter of a Congressman -- is ready to go back to work. She's thrilled when the perfect opportunity falls in her lap. The catch? The job is at her husband's hospital and he seems not to share her enthusiasm....
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Lucidity: A Thriller

David Carnoy · Overlook Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Dreams and deception collide in David Carnoy's page-turning tale of murder, manipulation, and mistaken identity.After his "gripping thriller debut" (Kirkus) Knife Music and sophomore "page turner" (Examiner.com) The Big Exit, David Carnoy's Detective Hank Madden...
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Beach, Breeze, Bloodshed

JOHN KEYSE-WALKER · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

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Caramel Crush

Jenn McKinlay · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

When a breakup via cupcake threatens to crumble their friend's life for good, Mel and Angie race to solve the murder as this New York Times bestselling series continues... Love is in the air at Fairy Tale Cupcakes as Angie prepares for her wedding, but co-owner, Mel, is preparing...
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Minds of Winter

Ed O'Loughlin · Quercus
Pages: 500
Format: Print book

In a journey shrouded in mystery and intrigue, Sir John Franklin's 1845 campaign in search of the Northwest Passage ended in tragedy. All 129 men were lost to the ice, and nothing from the expedition was retrieved, including two rare and valuable Greenwich chronometers. When one of the chronometers...
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Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars: A Novel

Miranda Emmerson · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In this sparkling debut novel imbued with the rich intrigue of Kate Atkinson's literary mysteries and the spirited heart of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, a disparate group of Londoners plunge into a search for a missing American actress.In the dreary days of November 1965, American actress...
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Thread the Halls

LEA WAIT · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Christmas in Haven Harbor, Maine, means family, trouble, and murder . . . This Yuletide season, there's no time for Angie Curtis and Patrick West to linger under the mistletoe. Patrick's being needled by his mother - movie star Skye West - to set the stage for a perfect white Christmas...
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