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Burglars Can't Be Choosers

Lawrence Block · HarperTorch
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day...
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The Mystery of Mercy Close: A Walsh Sister Novel

Marian Keyes · Viking
Format: Hardcover

A witty novel of second chances from internationally bestselling author Marian KeyesAs the youngest of the five Walsh girls, Helen has had a tough time finding her way in the world—at thirty-three, she has her job as a private investigator that has proven less than fruitful and after...
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The Girl with a Clock for a Heart: A Novel

Peter Swanson · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

Already optioned for film, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is Peter Swanson's electrifying tale of romantic noir, with shades of Hitchcock and reminiscent of the classic movie Body Heat. It is the story of a man swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love...
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Consigned to Death

Jane K. Cleland · Minotaur Books
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover

Josie Prescott's friends thought she was nuts when she left her high-paying New York auction house job and her boyfriend to live on the rugged and beautiful New Hampshire coast. Truth is, Josie wondered a little herself--never mind that her peripheral involvement in a well-publicized price-fixing...
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Airtight

David Rosenfelt · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Judge Daniel Brennan is only days away from achieving a seat on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals bench when hes brutally stabbed to death in his garage. An army of media and law enforcement descend on the case, and thousands of tips pour in from the public. When one tip leads New Jersey...
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The Tooth of Time: A Maxie and Stretch Mystery

Sue Henry · NAL Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

Zigzagging the country in a mini-Winnie means endless adventure-and Maxie McNabb is always up for something new So she and her dog Stretch head for the heat of New Mexico where Maxie plans to learn how to weave But everything changes for the sleepy town when a local woman attempts suicide...
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Mother's Day

Patricia J MacDonald · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In a quiet New England town, the Newhalls live an uneventful life with their adopted daughter. When the child's birth mother is murdered, the first suspect is the adoptive father. The author of The Unforgiven and No Way Home delivers a complex, emotionally intense "family-in-peril"...
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Able One

Ben Bova · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

When a nuclear missile launched by a rogue North Korean faction explodes in space the resulting shockwave destroys the world’s satellites, throwing global communication into chaos. The United States military satellites, designed to withstand such an assault, show that two more missiles...
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Private India: City on Fire

James Patterson · Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

When Jack Morgan opens the Mumbai branch of Private, the worlds most elite detective agency, he hands the reins to top agent Santosh Wagh. Now, in this teeming metropolis of over thirteen million people where the guilty have everywhere to hide, Santosh goes on the hunt for one elusive killer....
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Darned if You Do: A Needlecraft Mystery

Monica Ferris · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries have shown that when it comes to murder, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, doesn't mess around. But when a local hoarder is murdered, she'll need all her wits to dig a new friend out of a heap of trouble...
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The Betrayal of Trust: A Simon Serailler Mystery

Susan Hill · Overlook Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Susan Hills readers met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in the four mysteries that followed. In The Betrayal of Trust, she has written the most chilling and unputdownable book yet. Freak weather and flash floods have hit southern...
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Pleasing the Dead

Deborah Turrell Atkinson · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover

Some nasty predators dwell in paradise, and they arenat all hiding in the azure waters. The day attorney Storm Kayama arrives in Kahului to help Lara Farrell set up her new dive shop, someone bombs a restaurant. When one of Laraas employees, a recent Japanese immigrant, kills himself and one of his young...
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Murder of a Chocolate-Covered Cherry (Scumble River Mysteries, Book 10)

Denise Swanson · Signet
Pages: 255
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Grandma Sal's Soup-To-Nuts Cooking Challenge is coming to town, and Skye Denison is entering. And though she can't solve the mystery of the perfect mousse, murder is another story. Because a cocky contestant has been found delectably drowned in a chocolate fountain...
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White Teeth

Zadie Smith
Format: Hardcover

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