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Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel

Sara Paretsky - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers. STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels. And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career: FALLOUT.Before...
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Since We Fell

DENNIS LEHANE - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBarnes and Noble Best Book of the YearBookpage Best of 2017BOOKLIST Best Crime NovelPopSugar Best Book of 2017The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island"Lehane is the master of complex human characters...
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Devil Sent the Rain: A Mystery

Lisa Turner - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

Edgar-nominated and bestselling author Lisa Turner's hard-boiled Detective Billy Able returns in this dark Southern mystery about the murder of a dazzling Memphis socialite - and the scandals revealed in the wake of her deathThe heart can be an assassin. Detective Billy Able knows that...
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IQ

Joe Ide - Mulholland Books
Format: Print book

A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood...
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Every Day Above Ground: A Van Shaw Novel

GLEN ERIK HAMILTON - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

A favor for a dying ex-con turns into a violent battle against a mysterious enemy for Van Shaw in this emotionally powerful and gritty thriller from the award-winning author of Past Crimes and Hard Cold Winter. It sounds like a thief's dream to Van Shaw: A terminally ill ex-con tells him of an easy...
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Racing the Devil: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

Charles Todd - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series.On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last...
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The Believer: A Novel

Joakim Zander - Harper
Format: Print book

An intricately plotted and brilliantly conceived stand-alone sequel to the international bestseller The Swimmer that turns the hottest political topics of our times into a complex, resonant thriller in the vein of John LeCarr.Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough...
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A Dark So Deadly

Stuart MacBride - HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Format: Audiobook

Sometimes the worst thing you can imagine is just the start... Gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Welcome to the Misfit Mob... It's where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can't get rid of, but wants to: the outcasts,...
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Sleeping in the Ground: An Inspector Banks Novel

PETER ROBINSON - HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook

One of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with his twenty-fourth thrilling novel featuring the beloved Inspector Alan Banks, whom the Richmond Times Dispatch called ''one of the most intriguing characters in detective fiction.'' This gripping, powerful new novel features...
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The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything: A Novel

Dror Mishani - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Print book

Inspector Avraham Avraham is back in this sequel to the acclaimed thrillers A Possibility of Violence and The Missing File - internationally bestselling author D. A. Mishani's The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything is a hauntingly psychological domestic noir, perfect for fans of Alafair...
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Bone White: Mundys Landing, Book 3

Wendy Corsi Staub - HarperAudio
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The town of Mundys Landing was founded on a horrifying secret, but stark white bones of the dead never lie. "We shall never tell." Spurred by the cryptic phrase in a centuries-old letter, Emerson Mundy travels to her ancestral hometown to trace her past. In Mundys Landing, she connects...
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Heartbreak Hotel: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex's most mysterious patient to date in the sensational new thriller from the master of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman.At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from...
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The House of Fame

Oliver Harris - Harper
Format: Print book

From the author of the acclaimed The Hollow Man and Deep Shelter, comes the third installment featuring the shrewd, cynical, and brilliant London detective, Nick Belsey, whose investigation into a child's disappearance pulls him into the hedonistic orbit of a young, hot celebrity actress/musician...
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The Himalayan Codex: An R. J. MacCready Novel

BILL SCHUTT - WILLIAM MORROW
Format: Hardcover

In the wake of World War II, zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready is sent to the frozen mountain valleys of Tibet to find a creature of legend that may hold the secret to humankind's evolutionary future - or the key to its extinction - in this explosive follow-up to Hell's...
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The Good Daughter: A Novel

Karin Slaughter - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times BestsellerThe stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author - a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense.Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind ... Twenty-eight...
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Ruler of the Night

David Morrell - Mulholland Books
Format: Print book

The notorious Opium-Eater returns in the sensational climax to David Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mystery trilogy.1855. The railway has irrevocably altered English society, effectively changing geography and fueling the industrial revolution by shortening distances between cities: a whole...
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In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany,...
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Gone Without a Trace

Mary Torjussen - Berkley
Format: Print book

A jaw-dropping novel of psychological suspense that asks, If the love of your life disappeared without a trace, how far would you go to find out why? Hannah Monroe's boyfriend, Matt, is gone. His belongings have disappeared from their house. Every call she ever made to him, every...
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Song of the Lion: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

Anne Hillerman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings.When...
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Kept woman.

Karin Slaughter - William Morrow
Format: Print book

Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just...
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Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil

Melina Marchetta - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

In the wake of a devastating bombing, a father risks everything to find out who was responsible. When Bish Ortley, a recently suspended cop, receives word that a bus carrying his daughter has been bombed, he rushes to be by her side. A suspect has already been named: a 17-year-old girl...
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The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!: A Novel

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In the sequel to internationally-bestselling Swedish author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg's The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules, the League of Pensioners are up to their old tricks, this time swindling the biggest Vegas casinos, outsmarting a gang of young robbers, and evading the Swedish...
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Her Every Fear: A Novel

Peter Swanson - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller - as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark - involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation,...
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Magpie Murders: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times*A New York Times bestseller *#1 Indie Next Pick *NPR best book of 2017*Amazon best book of 2017*Washington Post best...
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Cat Shining Bright: A Joe Grey Mystery

SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

While new father Joe Grey is overjoyed to teach his three young kittens about the world, he misses his cop work - secretly helping solve crimes alongside his human friends at Molena Point P. D. But when beautician Barbara Conley and one of her customers are found dead in the salon, Joe makes...
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A Study In Scarlet Women

Sherry Thomas - Berkley
Format: Paperback

An NPR Best Book of 2016USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down ... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even...
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The Secrets You Keep: A Novel

Kate White - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wrong Man and Eyes on You comes a harrowing new psychological thriller about a successful self-help author who suddenly finds her life spiraling dangerously out of control.What would you do if you realized that your new husband, a man you adore,...
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The Gangster

CLIVE CUSSLER - PUTNAM
Format: Print book

Turn-of-the-century Detective Isaac Bell takes on the upstart leader of a vicious crime organization in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson....
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Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

DONNA LEON - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book

Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral...
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Smoke and Mirrors

Elly Griffiths - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

In the sequel to the "captivating"* Zig Zag Girl, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after two children are murdered in a tragic tableau of a very grim fairy tale. *Wall Street Journal It's Christmastime in Brighton, and the city...
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The Girl on the Bridge: A McCabe and Savage Thriller

James Hayman - William Morrow & Company
Format: Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed McCabe and Savage series comes an electrifying new thriller of taut and twisted suspense.On a freezing December night, Hannah Reindel leaps to her death from an old railway bridge into the rushing waters of the river below. Yet the real...
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A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (11)

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

When a matchmaker begins to question her latest match, Isabel Dalhousie is called upon to help. A new baby brings an abundance of joy to Isabel and her husband, Jamie - but almost-four-year-old Charlie is none too keen on his newborn brother. In fact, he refuses to acknowledge Magnus, and Isabel...
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Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Novel

Sophie Hannah - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The world's most famous detective returns in this ingenious, stylish, and altogether delicious mystery from the author of the instant bestseller The Monogram Murders ("I was thrilled" -- Gillian Flynn) ."What I intend to say to you will come as a shock..."With these...
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City on Edge: A Novel

Stefanie Pintoff - Bantam
Format: Print book

Edgar Award-winning author Stefanie Pintoff shoots to thrill in her gripping new novel of suspense. ON THE DAY AMERICANS GIVE THANKS, A MADMAN GIVES THEM HELL. The night before the Thanksgiving Day Parade, a crowd gathers on Manhattan's Upper West Side to watch the giant balloons fill...
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Black Fall: A Jessica Blackwood Novel

Andrew Mayne - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Print book

In Black Fall, the third book in the ITW Award-nominated series that began with self-published eBook phenomenon Angel Killer, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated, but equally bizarre and sinister, crimes that lead her to the Colorado...
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The Blinds: A Novel

ADAM STERNBERGH - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From the Edgar Award-nominated author of Shovel Ready, a blistering new thriller that Dennis Lehane calls "propulsive and meaningful"For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and LostImagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives,...
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Twelve Angry Librarians

Miranda James - Berkley Pub Group
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of No Cats Allowed and Arsenic and Old Books is back with more Southern charm and beguiling mystery as Charlie and Diesel must find a killer in a room full of librarians... Light-hearted librarian Charlie Harris is known around...
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Change Agent: A Novel

Daniel Suarez - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself.On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle...
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Precious and Grace: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander Mccall Smith - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi help a young woman on a quest to find someone from her past.Changes are afoot at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, where Mma Makutsi, who has recently...
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Crime Song

David Swinson - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover

The return of Frank Marr, the "refreshing" protagonist of one of the New York Times Best Crime Novels of 2016 Frank Marr was a good cop with a bad habit until his burgeoning addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced him into retirement from the DC police. Now barely eking out a living...
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Persons Unknown: A Novel

Susie Steiner - Random House
Format: Print book

In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a complicated detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which those she loves most become suspects. Detective Manon Bradshaw is five months pregnant and has officially given up on finding...
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Murder at the house of rooster happiness

David J Casarett - Redhook
Format: Paperback

Meet Ladarat Patalung - the first and only nurse detective in Thailand. Two nights ago, a young woman brought her husband into the emergency room of the Sriphat Hospital in Thailand, where he passed away. A guard thinks she remembers her coming in before, but with a different husband - one who also...
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Clownfish Blues: A Novel (Serge Storms)

Tim Dorsey - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover

A (Serge A.) Storm is brewing for a cabal of bad guys gaming the Florida state lottery in this insanely funny novel from the maestro of mayhem, Tim Dorsey.If youre loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms, how do you follow up your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot your own "episodes"...
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The Force: A Novel

DON WINSLOW - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times BestsellerRecommended for summer reading by Amazon, New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Miami Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Edmond News, Rutland Herald, Seattle Times, AM New York, BookBub, and theREALbookspy.com"The Force is mesmerizing,...
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The Paris Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery

Susan Elia Macneal - Bantam
Format: Book

American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II. Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she's working undercover...

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The RagTime Traveler

Larry Karp - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

It takes one moment in 2016 for ragtime music expert Alan Chandler to go from sitting in his hotel room in Sedalia, Missouri, to standing beside the King of Ragtime-Scott Joplin-at his upright piano in 1899. Chandler suddenly finds himself more than one hundred years earlier inside the famous...
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The Big Book of Jack the Ripper

Otto Penzler - Vintage Books
Format: Print book

A new anthology from Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler, centered around the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. Of all the real-life serial killers whose gruesome deeds have splashed across headlines throughout human history, few have...
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A Darkness Absolute: A Novel

Kelley Armstrong - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. She knew living in Rockton meant living off-the-grid completely: no cell phones, no Internet,...
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An Obvious Fact: A Longmire Mystery

Craig Johnson - Viking
Format: Print book

In the 12th novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident involving a young motorcyclist near Devils Tower In the midst of the largest motorcycle...
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The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel

JO NESBO - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

#1 International Best Seller In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims . . . on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue - fragments...
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Murderous Mayhem at Honeychurch Hall: A Honeychurch Hall Mystery

Hannah Dennison - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

This nail-biting addition to Hannah Dennison's Honey Church Hall mystery series, Murderous Mayhem at Honeychurch Hall is not to be missed."An enjoyable, lighthearted read, just the thing to chase the blues away." -- M.C. BeatonWhen the only copy of Ravished, Iris...
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Saratoga Payback

Stephen Dobyns - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

The latest installment in Stephen Dobyns's Charlie Bradshaw mysteries, Saratoga Payback follows the latest exploits of Saratoga Springs' most unusual and sardonic detective. Ever since the cops revoked his private investigator's license, Charlie Bradshaw has been adjusting to life...
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Walk Away

Sam Hawken - Mulholland Books/Little
Format: Print book

Camaro Espinoza is "the deadliest female protagonist since Jon Land's Caitlin Strong and Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander" (BOOKLIST ) . Camaro Espinoza is a former combat medic whose past is shrouded in mystery. Having finally achieved a measure of calm and anonymity, Camaro...
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The Ultimatum

Karen Robards - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

"Enthralling ... Readers won't want this adrenaline-rich story to end. " - BOOKLIST (starred review) Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will - Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends....
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Another Day, Another Dali

Sandra Orchard - Revell
Format: Print book

A Fast-Paced, Keep-You-Guessing Whodunit with a Dash of RomanceWhen a valuable Salvador Dali painting belonging to her grandmother's friend is mysteriously replaced by a forgery, FBI Special Agent Serena Jones is called in to investigate. Serena hopes finding the thief will also mean...
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Old News

Ed Ifkovic - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweltering July in Chicago, 1923. Edna Ferber, now a famous short-story writer, is supposed to be researching the novel that will become So Big, her Pulitzer-Prize winner. With her mother, Julia, she spends the week visiting her mother's old childhood friend, Esther Newmann, who lives...
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The Prometheus Man (The Dark Continent)

Scott Reardon - Aspen Press
Format: Hardcover

A Top 40 Amazon bestseller.The Prometheus Man is a thriller about last remaining frontier in the world: ourselves.The story begins as a manhunt for a serial killer and explodes into a race to uncover an experimental program that would rip apart humankind. The characters are people we come...
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Lockdown: A Novel of Suspense

LAURIE R KING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

A community comes together when threatened by someone with a thirst for revenge in this stunningly intricate, tautly plotted novel of rich psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell mysteries. Career Day at Guadalupe Middle School: A day given...
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A Christmas Message: A Novel

Anne Perry - Ballantine
Format: Print book

In the spirit of the season, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry presents readers with the gift of another holiday mystery, taking them to the Holy Land for an intriguing and miraculous journey of discovery. The year is 1900, and Victor Narraway is giving his wife, Vespasia,...
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Sance Infernale: A novel

JONATHAN SKARITON - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel - dark, fast-paced, thrilling - set in contemporary and nineteenth-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures; his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888; and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city...
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Snowblind: A Thriller

Ragnar Jonasson - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

Where: A quiet fishing village in northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors. It is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel.Who: Ari Thor is a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik. He has a past that he's unable to leave behind.What: A young...
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A Clash of Spheres

P F Chisholm - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

It's late August, 1592.Sir Robert Carey, cousin to Queen Elizabeth from the wrong side of Henry VIII's blanket, remains at his post on the Borders at Carlisle. He has at last been confirmed by his monarch as Deputy Warden, is still deeply in love with Lady Elizabeth Widdrington...
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Little Boy Blue

M J Arlidge - Berkley
Format: Print book

Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the twisty new thriller from the author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny.In the darkest corners of the city, there is a thriving nightlife where people can let loose and cross the lines of work and play, of pleasure...
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Knife Creek

Paul Doiron - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery -- a dead baby buried in a shallow grave.Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed...
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Shocking Assassination, A: A Reverend Mother mystery set in 1920s Ireland

Cora Harrison - Severn House
Format: Hardcover

"Well-drawn characters, including a lead capable of sustaining a long series, complement the clever plot" -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Reverend Mother Aquinas is asked to prove a young mans innocence in the second of this atmospheric new Irish historical mystery series.Ireland...
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A Hiss Before Dying: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim surprise. Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain...
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Playing with Fire

Gerald Elias - Severn House
Format: Print book

The latest Daniel Jacobus mystery holds a mirror to the glittery faade of the concert world, delving into the multimillion-dollar sleight-of-hand of violin dealing . . . When an anxious phone call from obscure violinmaker Amadeo Borlotti disturbs Daniel Jacobus's Christmas Eve festivities,...
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The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel

Martin Walker - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Print book

Bruno, the beloved chief of police in the idyllic French town of St. Denis, is back This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff...
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The Girl Before: A Novel

J P Delaney - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity,...
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The Inheritance: A Charles Lenox Mystery (Charles Lenox Mysteries Book 10)

Charles Finch - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER. A mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called "a sterling addition to this well-polished series.". Charles Lenox has received a cryptic...
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A Promise to Kill: A Clyde Barr Novel

ERIK STOREY - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the author dubbed by Jeffery Deaver "a born storyteller" whose first novel Nothing Short of Dying was hailed as "exceptional," "a rollercoaster read," and "adrenaline-fueled" by publications on both sides of the Atlantic, this is Erik...
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Fidelity

Jan Fedarcyk - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A gripping debut novel from "the FBI's First Lady" (Vanity Fair) Jan Fedarcyk, featuring a brilliant young Special Agent named Kay Malloy, whose assignment to the Counterintelligence Program in New York City has devastating consequences - both personal and professional.Kay...
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Death of a Ghost

M. C. Beaton - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M. C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling seriesDEATH OF A GHOSTWhen Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights...
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The Red Hunter: A Novel

Lisa Unger - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger "brings her trademark of intense suspense, believable characters and sharp plotting" (Sun-Sentinel) to this heart-stopping new psychological thriller, and proves once again why she is regarded as "one of today's...
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Ultimatum: A Thriller

Anders De La Motte - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Paperback

A follow up to his "breakneck" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) MemoRandom, this gripping new thriller from the internationally bestselling author Anders de la Motte takes you deep inside the world of police intelligence: a world of secrecy, betrayal, and deadly competition,...
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Shiver Hitch

Linda Greenlaw - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Jane Bunker thought she'd escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she's left behind the bustle...
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Oath of Honor: A Thriller

Matthew Betley - Emily Bester Books/Atria Books
Format: Print book

A break-neck, edge-of-your-seat thriller that moves from a resurgent Russian threat in the Aleutian Islands to North Korean spy ships to secret Sudanese prisons as former Marines Logan West and John Quick, now members of an FBI special task force, uncover a global conspiracy that threatens...
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The Dark Room

Jonathan Moore - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

"Suspense that never stops. If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room." - James Patterson A heart-pounding thriller from an "electrifying"* author that shows what happens when our deepest secrets are unburied....
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The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

David Rosenfelt - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter usually tries to avoid taking on new cases at all costs. But this time, he's happy -- eager, even -- to take the case that's just come his way. Andy's long-time friend Martha "Pups" Boyer takes in stray puppies that the local dog rescue center can't...
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Sulfur Springs: A Novel

WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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Fields where they lay.

Timothy Hallinan - Soho
Format: Print book

It's the week before Christmas and Hollywood's fast-talking fixer for the felonious - Junior Bender - is up to his ears in mall Santas, Russian mobsters, desperate holiday shoppers, and, 'tis the season: murder. It's Christmas in Tinsel Town. Well, it's the week leading up to Christmas,...
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The Trapped Girl: Tracy Crosswhite, Book 4

Robert Dugoni - Brilliance Audio
Format: Paperback

In this #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, Tracy Crosswhite must first identify the victim to catch the killer.When a womans body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they...
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Cruel Is the Night

Karo Hämäläinen - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

Prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hämäläinens English-language debut is a literary homage to Agatha Christie and a black comedy locked-room mystery about murder, mayhem, and morality in our cynical modern world.Three cell phones ring in an opulent London apartment. The calls go unanswered...
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A Game of Ghosts: A Charlie Parker Thriller

JOHN CONNOLLY - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

"An epic supernatural suspense that will forever reset your standards for summer thrillers. From secret realms and horrific homicides to hauntings and criminal empires, there isn't a single dull sentence found in the pages of A Game of Ghosts - and you'll love it." - Redbook:...
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The Shroud Conspiracy: A Novel

John Heubusch - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

In this intense and "absolutely brilliant thriller" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor) , a forensic anthropologist sets out to prove that the Shroud of Turin is a fake, but quickly discovers the opposite - and must race to stop the evil forces who want...
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A Fever of the Blood: A Novel

Oscar De Muriel - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

This riveting new detective novel evokes a spellbinding concoction of crime, history, and horror -- perfect for fans of Arthur Conan Doyle and P.D. James. New Year's Day, 1889. In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local...
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Revenge in a Cold River: A William Monk Novel

Anne Perry - Ballantine
Format: Print book

Master of mystery and historical intrigue Anne Perry once again transports readers to the banks of the Thames in Victorian London for her thrilling new William Monk novel. In Revenge in a Cold River, Monk faces his darkest hour ever as he spars with a quarry hell-bent on vengeance....
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The Spy Across the Table

BARRY LANCET - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In this exciting international thriller featuring Japanese antiques art dealer and PI Jim Brodie, a double-murder at the Kennedy Center forces Brodie into a dangerous game of espionage - putting him in the crosshairs of the Chinese, North Korean, and American governments.Jim Brodie is an antiques...
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Fox Hunter: A Charlie Fox Thriller (Charlie Fox Thrillers)

Zoe Sharp - Pegasus Crime
Format: Hardcover

In the latest novel in this energetic series, ex-special forces soldier Charlie Fox finds herself on a mission to the Iraqi countryside to track down a missing comrade-in-arms.. Special forces soldier-turned-bodyguard Charlotte "Charlie" Fox can never forget the men who put a brutal...
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A Rising Man: A Novel

ABIR MUKHERJEE - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official -- in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else... Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately...
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Betrayal at Iga: A Hiro Hattori Novel

Susan Spann - Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

Autumn, 1565: After fleeing Kyoto, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo take refuge with Hiro's ninja clan in the mountains of Iga province. But when an ambassador from the rival Koga clan is murdered during peace negotiations, Hiro and Father Mateo must find the killer...
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The Lost Boy: A Novel

Camilla Lackberg - Pegasus Crime
Format: Print book

From the #1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation, Camilla Lackberg's latest psychological thriller ensnares Detective Patrik Hedstrom in a confounding new murder case. Detective Patrik Hedstrom is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjllbacka's dead financial...
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Quicksand

Malin Persson Giolito - Other Press
Format: Print book

QUICKSAND is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years...
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The Night Bird

Brian Freeman - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover

Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn't like coincidences. When a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco - as seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks - Frost looks for a connection that leads him to psychiatrist Francesca Stein. Frankie's controversial therapy helps...
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The Secrets of Gaslight Lane: The Gower Street Detective: Book 4

M R C Kasasian - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

The new novel in the atmospheric Gower Street Detective series introduces a chilling locked room mystery to Detective Sidney Grice and his precocious ward March Middleton. London, 1883. All is quiet at 125 Gower Street. Private detective Sidney Grice is studying up on the anatomical structure...
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No Echo: Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Six

Anne Holt - Scribner
Format: Print book

One of Oslo's hottest celebrity chefs is murdered and Hanne Wilhelmsen is called back into action in the sixth installment of the award-winning series from Anne Holt, Norway's #1 bestselling crime writer.When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Oslo...
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Raisins and Almonds: A Phryne Fisher Mystery

Kerry Greenwood - Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Format: Hardcover

In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne Fisher is plunged into a world of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison, and chicken soup. Stopping only for a brief but intensely erotic dalliance with the beautiful...
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Kaiser's last kiss

Alan Judd - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Soon to be a movie titled The Exception starring Christopher Plummer, Lily James, and Jai Courtney, this wonderfully satisfying, sophisticated novel (Daily Telegraph) follows the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, the young Nazi officer assigned to guard him, and the Jewish maid who unwittingly comes...
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City of Strangers: A Novel

Louise Millar - Atria Books
Format: Print book

From the author of Accidents Happen, The Hidden Girl, and The Playdate - called "a supremely accomplished debut thriller by a writer to watch" (Booklist, starred review) - comes a new, heart-pounding novel about a journalist set on discovering the identity of a stranger who has turned...
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Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon

Laurie R. King - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

In a stunning follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger present a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie...
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Banana Cream Pie Murder

Joanne Fluke - Kensington Publishing Corp.
Format: Print book

After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress,...
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A Twist in Time: A Novel

Julie Mcelwain - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

When Kendra Donovan's plan to return to the 21st century fails, leaving her stranded in 1815, the Duke of Aldridge believes he knows the reason -- she must save his nephew, who has been accused of brutally murdering his ex-mistress. Former FBI agent Kendra Donovan's attempts to return to the twenty-first...
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So Say the Fallen

Stuart Neville - Soho Crime
Format: Print book

Henry Garrick, a local car dealer who was maimed in an accident five months before, has apparently taken his own life. A simple case, it should be wrapped up in a few days. But something doesn't feel right to Belfast detective Serena Flanagan, despite the fact that there is no evidence...
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Murder in Saint-Germain

CARA BLACK - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aime Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals...
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Different Class

Joanne Harris - Touchstone
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chocolat comes a dark, suspenseful tale in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith about a sociopathic young outcast at an antiquated prep school and the curmudgeonly Latin teacher who uncovers his dangerous secret.After thirty years...
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Eggnog Murder

Leslie Meier - Kensington Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover

With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine - until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog . . . EGGNOG MURDER by LESLIE MEIER When a gift-wrapped...
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The Amber Shadows: A Novel

Lucy Ribchester - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

During the dangerous days of World War II, Honey Deschamps is spending her days transcribing decrypted messages at Bletchley Park, when she starts to receive bizarrely coded packages. When everyone is keeping secrets, who can you trust? Bletchley Park, 1942: As World War II rages on, Honey...
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The Service of the Dead: A Novel

Candace M Robb - Pegasus Books
Format: Paperback

Expertly recreating the social and political upheavals of late medieval Europe, Candace Robb introduces a new series starring Kate Clifford, a woman forged on the warring northern marches of fourteenth century England. Political unrest permeates York at the cusp of the fifteenth century,...
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City of Masks: A Somershill Manor Mystery

S D SYKES - PEGASUS Books
Format: Print book

Young Lord Somershill flees England for the wonders of Venice, where he becomes involved in a bizarre murder investigation that plunges him into the depths of this secretive medieval city. It's 1358, and young Oswald de Lacy, Lord Somershill, is delayed in Venice as he awaits a pilgrim...
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