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Mother's Day, Muffins, and Murder

Sara Rosett · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

With summer approaching, Ellie Avery's schedule is ruled by attending end-of-the-year events at her kids' school - and avoiding run-ins with her arch competitor. When a murder disrupts the core curriculum, can the two women form an alliance to teach the killer a lesson in justice?As...
 
 
After the Fire

Henning Mankell · Vintage
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only...
 
 
A Catered Costume Party

ISIS CRAWFORD · Kensington
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover

When sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons agree to cater an extravagant Halloween party in their little upstate New York town of Longely, they figured a ghost or two and a blood curdling scream might be part of the menu, but they never expected to be haunted by the deadly specter of murder...
 
 
Dial M for Mousse

Laura Bradford · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Murder takes the cake in an irresistible Emergency Dessert Squad mystery from the national bestselling author of The Silence of the Flans. The Emergency Dessert Squad business is booming, with owner and baker Winnie Johnson working overtime to satisfy the emergency cravings of Silver Lake,...
 
 
The Question of the Absentee Father

E J COPPERMAN · Midnight Ink
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

"Where is your father living now?" This is not a question Samuel Hoening wants to answer, but it's the one his mother has asked him. Samuel's father left when he was four years old and Samuel has no desire to reconnect with him. Ms. Washburn, his friend and colleague at Questions...
 
 
The Throne of Caesar: A Mystery of Ancient Rome

Steven Saylor · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In The Throne of Caesar, award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the most famous murder in history: It's Rome, 44 AD, and the Ides of March are approaching.Julius Caesar has been appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate. Having pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded...
 
 
The Dime

Kathleen Kent · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas--and neither is ready for the fight. Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when...
 
 
The Fallen

Tarn Richardson · Overlook Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The eerie second installment in the Darkest Hand trilogy, where war wages on in a shadowy world and between demons and werewolvesIn Tarn Richardson's follow-up to his gripping work The Damned, the ongoing battle of a paranormal World War I threatens to engulf the Inquisition as dark...
 
 
The Boy Who Saw: A Solomon Creed Novel

SIMON TOYNE · William Morrow
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Solomon Creed, the enigmatic hero introduced in The Searcher, must stop a killer tied to a conspiracy stretching back over generations to the dying days of World War II.Solomon Creed has no recollection of who he is, or where he comes from. The only solid clue to his identity is a label...
 
 
No Second Chances: A voodoo mystery set in New Orleans

Don Bruns · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover

When a fellow cop is shot dead, homicide detective Quentin Archer suspects that there's far more to this case than meets the eye. One of Quentin Archer's fellow officers has been shot dead in broad daylight, in his own squad car. A random cop killing . . . or something more sinister?...
 
 
The Driver: A Novel

Hart Hanson · Dutton
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of the TV show Bones comes a "riveting, smart and funny" (Harlan Coben) debut thriller. "Everything a great thriller should be - always smart, often funny, and relentlessly exciting. I loved every page." - Scott Turow Michael Skellig is a limo...
 
 
A Simple Favor: A Novel

Darcey Bell · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent...
 
 
The Wife: A Novel

Alafair Burke · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

His ScandalHer SecretFrom New York Times bestselling author Alafair Burke, a stunning domestic thriller in the vein of Behind Closed Doors and The Woman in Cabin 10 - in which a woman must make the impossible choice between defending her husband and saving herself.When Angela met Jason...
 
 
Written in Blood

Layton Green · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Detective Joe "Preach" Everson, a prison chaplain turned police officer, is coming home. After a decade tracking down killers in Atlanta, and with a reputation as one of the finest homicide detectives in the city, his career derailed when he suffered a mental breakdown during...