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The City Son

Samrat Upadhyay · Soho Press
Format: Hardcover

Set in Samrat Upadhyays signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womans lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyay—the first Nepaliborn novelist...
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Spring Tide

Cilla Börjlind · Hesperus Press
Format: Paperback

A gripping, cinematic crime thriller from the scriptwriters known as the king and queen of Scandinavian crime, expertly crafted and full of twists and turns The spring tides are the highest of the year in Nordkoster the beach will be covered in particularly deep water tonight. Three...
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Shadow's Blade

David B Coe · Baen Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Book #3 in The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, the critically acclaimed contemporary fantasy series from fantasy all-star David B. Coe. A hardboiled, magic-using private detective fights dark sorcerers in Phoenix, Arizona.Justis Fearsson is a weremyste and a private detective. He wields...
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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Dave Eggers · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answers...
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Who Buries the Dead: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery

C.S. Harris · NAL
Format: Hardcover

The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr's past combine to put C. S. Harris's "troubled but compelling antihero" (Booklist) to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling mystery.London, 1813. The vicious...
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Murder Has Nine Lives

Laura Levine · Kensington Books
Pages: 247
Format: Print book

"I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny." --Joanne FlukeThe future is looking bright for freelance writer Jaine Austen. She's signed up for a new job, she's looking forward to a tropical vacation, and her cat Prozac is slated to star...
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Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters

Georges Simenon · Penguin Books
Pages: 179
Format: Paperback

Maigret goes up against a group of American gangsters and finds he just might have met his match. The thirty-ninth book in the new Penguin Maigret series. In Maigret's latest adventure, the Inspector learns that his hapless colleague Lognon is being menaced by some notorious American...
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Uncorking a Lie

NADINE NETTMANN · MIDNIGHT INK
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

It was the kind of invitation Katie Stillwell had only dreamed about: a dinner party at the Sonoma mansion of famed wine collector Paul Rafferty to celebrate a rare bottle of wine. Everyone enjoys drinking the $19,000 wine, but Katie realizes it's not the older vintage listed on the label....
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Athenian Blues

Pol Koutsakis · Bitter Lemon Press
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback

The first in the Stratos Gazis mystery series and the first time this Greek novelist is available in English.Stratos hates being called a hitman. A conscientious fixer is what he is. He fixes problems that very few can deal with. Things that people are willing to pay handsomely to get done,...
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A Soufflé of Suspicion: A French Bistro Mystery

DARYL WOOD GERBER · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

The buoyant mood at Bistro Rousseau deflates when Chef Camille's sister, Renee, turns up dead in the chef's kitchen, and Mimi Rousseau must tease the real killer out of a mélange of menacing characters.Crush Week in Nouvelle Vie is a madhouse -- in a good way. Tourists pour into...
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Bliss House: A Novel

Laura Benedict · Pegasus Books
Pages: 446
Format: Hardcover

Death never did come quietly for Bliss House . . . and now a mother and daughter have become entwined in the secrets hidden within its walls. Amidst the lush farmland and orchards in Old Gate, Virginia, stands the magnificent Bliss House. Built in 1878 as a country retreat, Bliss House...
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The Lie Of You

Jane Lythell · Head of Zeus
Format: Paperback

One woman's fear is a another woman's weapon..."When I look back on my relationship with Kathy I marvel at how naive she was, how little she knew. But then, she always thought she had everything: the job; the baby; the friends; and him. She thought she was safe. She thought...
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In Bitter Chill

Sarah Ward · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The deepest secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves in this richly atmospheric, compellingly written, and expertly constructed crime debut from an emerging talent.Derbyshire, 1978: a small town in the idyllic English countryside is traumatized by the kidnapping of two young schoolgirls,...
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Gentlemen Formerly Dressed

Sulari Gentill · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

Book #5 in the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries
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G-Man

Stephen Hunter · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

"A roaring good read." - FORBES.com Master sniper Bob Lee Swagger returns in this riveting novel by bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter. Ryan Philippe currently stars as Bob Lee Swagger on the hit USA Network series Shooter. The Great Depression was marked...
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