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Walking by Night

Kate Ellis · Creme de La Crime
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Fifth intriguing mystery in the atmospheric Joe Plantagenet police procedural seriesTaking a short cut home beneath the ruined abbey in the centre of the city, a teenage girl reports stumbling across a body. She also claims to have seen a mysterious nun-like figure watching her from the shadows....
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The Detective & the Chinese High-Fin: A John Darvelle Mystery

Michael Craven · Bourbon Street Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Attention, fans of Carl Hiaasen, Harlan Coben, and Robert B. Parker! The author of The Detective & The Pipe Girl - nominated for both the Nero Wolfe and Shamus Awards - returns with another whip-smart, funny, and propulsive mystery featuring singular Los Angeles P.I. John Darvelle.Private...
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Trimmed with Murder: A Seaside Knitters Mystery

Sally Goldenbaum · New American Library
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this holiday yarn from the USA Today bestselling author of A Finely Knit Murder, all Izzy Chambers Perry wants for Christmas is to keep her brother out of jail.... In Sea Harbor, the holidays mean cozy fires, festive carols, and soft skeins of yarn waiting to become hats and sweaters...
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Alone in the Classroom

Elizabeth Hay · MacLehose Press

Hay is the winner of the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Ottawa Book Prize, and the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year for her novel Late Nights on Air. Hay's fourth novel, Alone in The Classroom is a Globe and Mail Best Book. In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie...
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Ruins of War: A Mason Collins Novel

John A. Connell · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A chilling novel of murder and madness in post-World War II Germany ... Winter 1945. Seven months after the Nazi defeat, Munich is in ruins. Mason Collins - a former Chicago homicide detective, U.S. soldier, and prisoner of war - is now a U.S. Army criminal investigator in the American...
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Motherless Child

Glen Hirshberg · Tor Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

In his powerful novel, Motherless Child, Bram Stoker Award-nominee Glen Hirshberg, author of the International Horror Guild Award-winning American Morons, exposes the fallacy of the Twilight-style romantic vampire while capturing the heart of every reader. It's the thrill of a lifetime...
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Classic in the Dock: A Jack Colby Classic Car Mystery

Amy Myers · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Jack Colby is delighted when his friend, the world famous artist Giovanni, calls in at Frogs Hill on his way to Plumshaw Manor to paint a 1930s Alfa Romeo racing car. Jack waves him goodbye--but it isn't for long. Later that day he has a phone call from Giovanni. He has been arrested...
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Come Hell or Highball: A Mystery

Maia Chance · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

31-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer cake, until, her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune...or so Lola thought. As it turns out, all she inherits from Alfie is a big pile...
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A Pitying of Doves: A Birder Murder Mystery

Steve Burrows · Dundurn Group
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

With murder, everyone pays a price ... Why would a killer ignore expensive jewellery and take a pair of turtledoves as the only bounty? 2015 DEWEY DIVA PICK This is only one of the questions that piques Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune's interest after a senior attaché with the Mexican...
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