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The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress: A Novel

Ariel Lawhon - Random House Inc
Format: Book

"Inspired by a real-life unsolved mystery, this mesmerizing novel features characters that make a lasting impression."--PEOPLE MAGAZINE"More meticulously choreographed than a chorus line. It all pays off."--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW They say behind every great man,...
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Antiques Con

Barbara Allan - Kensington; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"One of the funniest cozy series going." --Ellery Queen Mystery MagazineBrandy Borne and her drama-queen mom, Vivian, take their antiques show on the road, for an off-Broadway farce mixing mirth and murder. A world away from small-town Serenity, the ditsy duo--chaperoned by their...
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Rita Mae Brown - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The chase is on in New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown's gripping new foxhunting mystery, featuring the irrepressible "Sister" Jane Arnold and the wily antics of her four-legged friends. In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, a century-old crime reawakens bad will - and stirs...
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Someone Always Knows

Marcia Muller - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw--a...
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The Drawing of the Three

Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Print book

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba The second volume in Stephen King's #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an "epic in the making" (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld...
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Shockwave: An Aftershock Novel

Andrew H Vachss - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

Dell, a former mercenary, and his wife, Dolly, a former battlefield nurse, believe they have finally found a place of peace in a deceptively idyllic small town on the Oregon coast. But early one morning, just before daybreak, a body washes up on the town's pristine beach. The dead man's...
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A Useful Woman

Darcie Wilde - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduces the charming and resourceful Rosalind Thorne, a woman privy to the secrets of high society - including who among the ton is capable of murder... The daughter of a baronet and minor...
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Boar Island

Nevada Barr - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair...
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Sand and Fire

Tom Young - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A remarkable military thriller from one of the most widely acclaimed new suspense writers in years - "Fans of Clancy and Coonts need to add Young to their must-read list" (Booklist). North Africa. A jihadist leader has seized a supply of sarin gas and is wreaking havoc: a nightclub...
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Wink of an Eye: A Mystery

Lynn Chandler Willis - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy...
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Dangerous Dough: Donut Mystery #18

Jessica Beck - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition
Format: Print book

From New York Times Bestselling Author, Jessica Beck, The Brand New Donut Mystery #18, DANGEROUS DOUGH! Suzanne and Jake are finally married, but the honeymoon is over too soon when they find her mother waiting for them at the airport. Someone has murdered the new police chief in their...
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The Blue Journal: A Detective Anthony Walker Novel

L T Graham - Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

When one of Randi Conway's psychotherapy patients is found dead of a gunshot wound, the investigation is turned over to Detective Anthony Walker.Formerly a New York City cop, Walker now serves on the police force of an affluent community in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He lives among...
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The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShari Lapena's new thriller, A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE, is available now from Viking Books!"The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages." - People"Provocative and shocking." - Lisa Gardner, New York Times...
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Killing Cupid (A Jaine Austen Mystery)

Laura Levine - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

"Im crazy about Laura Levines mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny, they always make me laugh out loud." --Joanne FlukeLove is in the air as freelance writer Jaine Austen begins a new job at the Dates of Joy matchmaking service--but between juggling her bosss demands,...
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Repo Madness: A Novel

W Bruce Cameron - Forge
Format: Print book

From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture!Ruddy McCann is back in Repo Madness--the laugh-out-loud, thrilling adventure from bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron!Ruddy...
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Mountains of the Misbegotten: A Lute Bapcat Mystery

Joseph Heywood - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

In the sequel to Red Jacket, former Rough Rider turned Michigan game warden Lute Bapcat sets out to find a deputy warden who has disappeared from Ontonagon County, one of the Michigan Upper Peninsulas most lawless places. Merely hours into his search, Bapcat is shot by assailants unknown....
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The Marathon Conspiracy

Gary Corby - Soho Crime; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The rollicking fourth book in the Nicolaos and Diotima mystery series set in Classical Athens.Nicolaos, Classical Athens’s favorite sleuth, and his partner in investigation, the clever priestess Diotima, have taken time off to come home and get married. But hoping to get hitched without...
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Black Cat Crossing

Kay Finch - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback

In the first in this cat-filled cozy series, aspiring mystery author Sabrina Tate is about to discover that when it comes to solving murders, her new feline friend Hitchcock is a master of sleuthing ... Sabrina has never been the superstitious type. Still, when she moves to Lavender, Texas,...
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The Bottom

Howard Owen - Permanent Pr Pub Co
Format: Hardcover

Richmond is in a panic. For the fourth time in eighteen months, a young girl or woman has been brutalized and murdered. This time, the body of a fourteen-year-old is found in Richmonds Shockoe Bottom train station. On her ankle is the same perversely cartoonish tattoo that has led the cops...
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In the Dark Places: An Inspector Banks Novel

Peter Robinson - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

Published in the United Kingdom and Canada as Abattoir BluesLouise Penny calls In the Dark Places "brilliant." Tess Gerritsen says it's "thrilling." And Michael Connelly describes Peter Robinson as "amazing." One of the world's greatest suspense writers...
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Doing It at the Dixie Dew: A Mystery

Ruth Moose - St Martin'S Press
Format: Hardcover

Who says you can't go home again?When Beth McKenzie returns to her hometown and attempts to turn an old Southern mansion into a bed and breakfast called The Dixie Dew, her first guest is murdered. Three days later a young priest who looks better in tennis whites than cleric black is found...
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The Mangle Street Murders: The Gower Street Detectives: Book 1

M. R. C. Kasasian - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

After her father dies March Middleton has to move to London to live with her guardian Sidney Grice the country s most famous private detective It is 1882 and London is at its murkiest yet most vibrant wealthiest yet most poverty stricken No sooner does March arrive than a case presents...
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Wolf

Mo Hayder - Pgw
Format: Hardcover

Edgar Award winner and internationally best-selling author Mo Hayder has made her name with nightmarishly dark, impeccably-plotted thrillers that hook readers from the first page and won't let them go. With her latest novel, Wolf, the frighteningly talented Hayder ratchets up the terror...
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Law and Disorder

Mike Papantonio - SelectBooks
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of John Grisham, from radio talk show host and "America's lawyer" Mike Papantonio, comes Law and Disorder, a highly suspenseful legal thriller in which a Florida attorney finds the system working against him.Brash, brilliant, handsome Nicholas Deketomis...
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The Perfect Witness: A Novel

Iris Johansen - St. Martin's Press; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

She had the perfect life.She had the perfect cover.She was the perfect witness.Until they found her.When Teresa Casali was young she discovered she had a strange gift: the ability to read people's memories. But the gift seemed more like a curse as her mob boss father used her to gain...
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Wonderland: A Thriller

Jennifer Hillier - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

"Top of the line thriller writing...You better call in sick, because you're not going anywhere until you finish reading it. Oh, and you might want to lock the door, too. Just to be safe." --#1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver Fans of Chelsea Cain and Lisa Gardner will devour...
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Fifty Mice: A Novel

Daniel Pyne - Blue Rider Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

What if a man is placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program against his will? And doesn't even know what he supposedly knows that merits a new name, a new identity, a new life? Jay Johnson is an Average Joe, a thirty-something guy with a job in telephone sales, a regular pick-up...
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Murder Under the Bridge: A Palestine Mystery

Kate Raphael - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

Winner IPPY Silver in Mystery and IndieFab Finalist in Mystery and Multicultural FictionWhen Rania -- the only female Palestinian police detective in the northern West Bank, as well as a young mother in a rural community where many believe women should not have such a dangerous career -- discovers...
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The Competition (Rachel Knight Book 4)

Marcia Clark - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

In Marcia Clarks most electrifying thriller yet, Los Angeles District Attorney Rachel Knight investigates a horrifying high school massacre.. A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers....
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Apple Tree Yard: A Novel

Louise Doughty - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

Soon To Be a STARZ Mini-Series, Starring Emily Watson . Yvonne Carmichael sits in the witness box. The charge is murder. Before all of this, she was happily married, a successful scientist, a mother of two. Now she is a suspect, squirming under florescent lights and the penetrating gaze...
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The Confession

Robert Whitlow - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

"Fans of John Grisham will find much to like here." - Library Journal Confession is good for the soul, but it could mean death to an ambitious young lawyer. Assistant DA Holt Douglas has made a career of getting confessions from criminals. With a confession in hand, he knows...
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Kill or Be Killed: Thrillers

James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book

Four first-rate thrillers--one killer collection A BOOKSHOTS special edition THE TRIALAn accused murderer called Kingfisher is on trial. And Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club are in for a courtroom shocker you'll never see coming. LITTLE BLACK DRESSCan a little black dress...
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The Do-Right

Lisa Sandlin - Cinco Puntos Press
Format: Paperback

1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she's out. It's 1973, and nobody's rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck...
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The Twenty-Three

Linwood Barclay - Berkley Books
Format: Print book

From New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes the jaw-dropping finale of the Promise Falls Trilogy. Everything has been leading to this. It's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd, and the small town of Promise Falls, New York, has found...
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A Murder in Mohair

Anne Canadeo - Gallery Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

In Anne Canadeo's cozy eighth Black Sheep Knitting Mystery, a cold-hearted murder in Plum Harbor leads the knitters to investigate a new psychic who may be far more dangerous than she seems ... When Jimmy Hubbard, the manager of the local cinema, is murdered in a robbery gone wrong,...
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A Necessary End: A Novel

Holly Brown - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

How far would you go to get what you wanted? The author of Don't Try to Find Me returns with a taut, riveting novel of psychological suspense - a domestic drama full of secrets and twists - about a woman determined to have a child, her ambivalent husband, and a pregnant teenager with...
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The Darkest Day

Tom Wood - Signet Book
Format: Paperback

World-class assassin Victor finds himself under fire in the new thriller from bestselling author Tom WoodHIT THE TARGET ... While carrying out a hit on a terrorist financier, Victor finds himself the target of an assassin who proves to be just as deadly as he is. Never one to let such a thing...
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One Mile Under: A Ty Hauck Novel

Andrew Gross - William Morrow & Co
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross's propulsive thriller, set amid the drought-stricken oil country of Colorado's beautiful high plains, Ty Hauck makes his long-awaited return rallying beaten-down farmers and ranchers against a giant energy company in a deadly confrontation...
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The Hanging Club: A Novel

Tony Parsons - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

A band of vigilante executioners roam the hot summer nights, abducting evil men who they judge unworthy of living and hanging them by the neck until dead. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused dozens of vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child, the drug...
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The Vinyl Detective Mysteries - Written in Dead Wax: A Vinyl Detective Mystery 1

Andrew Cartmel - Titan Books
Format: Paperback

He is a record collector - a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective" and some people take this more literally than others. Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money...
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Tall Tail

Rita Mae Brown - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print Hardcover

In this fast-paced mystery by Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown, Mary Minor Harry Haristeen and her animal friends seek to solve a whodunit rooted in eighteenth-century Virginia uncovering a shocking secret that refuses to stay buried. TALL TAIL At any moment a perfect...
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Coldsleep Lullaby: A Mystery

Andrew Brown - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A finely crafted novel with an unstoppable plot. --Top Billing In the sleepy Cape Winelands of South Africa the body of a young woman is found drifting in a river, and Detective Eberard Februarie is called in to investigate the case. It doesnt help matters that the young woman--Melanie...
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Paw Enforcement

Diane Kelly - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Paw Enforcement introduces police officer Megan Luz and her loyal K-9 partner Brigit-two Fort Worth cops who are worth their weight in kibble.SHE'S ON A SHORT LEASH.Officer Luz is lucky she still has a job after tasering a male colleague where it counts the most. Sure, he had it coming-which...
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Dear Daughter: A Novel

Elizabeth Little - Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

* Winner of the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel * Nominated for the Barry and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel * Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger Award"Quick-witted and fast-paced, this debut mystery should be a hit with Gone Girl fans."...
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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 Deliverance of Evil

Roberto Costantini - Quercus Books
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Scerbanenco Prize for the best Italian crime thriller, The Deliverance of Evil is a masterful psychological thriller about an edgy policeman's personal evolution--or devolution--as seen through the lens of a devilish case that consumed him early in his career and continues...
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Brotherhood of Fear: A Willi Kraus Novel

Paul Grossman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Paris, 1933. A refugee with no papers, no legal status, and few resources, Willi Kraus lives in fear of deportation back to Nazi Germany. His reputation as a top sleuth however precedes him, and he's soon enlisted to work as a private eye--if under shady circumstances. Despite his apparent...
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Blind Moon Alley: A Jersey Leo Novel

John Florio - Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

It's Prohibition. It's Philadelphia. And Jersey Leo doesn't fit in. Jersey is an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he tends bar at a speakeasy the locals call the Ink Well. There, he's considered a hero for having saved the life of a young...
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Murder, D.C.: A Sully Carter Novel

Neely Tucker - Viking, 2015.
Format: Print book

"The test of a crime series is its main character, and Sully is someone we'll want to read about again and again. . . . When the murder victim in the novel is identified as the young scion of one of the city's most wealthy and influential African American families, the story expands...
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No Fortunate Son: A Pike Logan Thriller

Brad Taylor - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator and New York Times bestselling author, a hostage situation places America's most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies. When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter...
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Rebellion: A Thriller in Napoleon's Paris

James McGee - W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Hardcover

Rebellion is brewing in Napoleonic Paris in the fourth adventure in the rollicking Regency thriller series featuring enigmatic Matthew HawkwoodOctober 1812: Britain and France are still at war. France is engaged on two battle fronts - Spain and Russia - and her civilians are growing weary...
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Keep Quiet

Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning author Lisa Scottoline is loved by millions of readers for her suspenseful novels about family and justice. Scottoline delivers once again with Keep Quiet, an emotionally gripping and complex story about one man's split-second decision...
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The Counterfeit Agent

Alex Berenson - G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

Berensons strength is his deep understanding of geopolitics and of the shoddy compromises it demands He clearly has excellent contacts in the world of shadows Wells is a complex and satisfying protagonist tackling bad guys across the worlds conflict zones--The New York Times Book ReviewJohn...
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Slaughter

John Lutz - Pinnacle Books
Format: Paperback

JOHN LUTZ IS . . . "One of the masters." - Ridley Pearson "Among the best." - San Diego Union "An enormous talent." - Publishers Weekly LOVE THEM TO PIECES A beautiful jogger, drained of blood, dismembered, then meticulously reassembled on the grass...
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The Death of Pie: The new Pennsylvania Dutch mystery

Tamar Myers - Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

A brand-new quirky mystery with recipes in the longrunning Pennsylvania-Dutch series.When a bestselling novelist falls face-down dead into Magdalena Yoder’s prize-winning apple pie during the village of Hernia’s 110th Annual Festival of Pies, there is no shortage of suspects...
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The Last Dead Girl

Harry Dolan - G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2014!David Loogan’s dark past is revealed in this prequel to Bad Things Happen—the critically acclaimed mystery that Stephen King called a “great f***ing book.”On a rainy night in April, a chance encounter on a lonely road draws...
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Warning Order: A Search and Destroy Thriller

Joshua Hood - Touchstone
Format: Print book

In the second book of the explosive Search and Destroy thriller series, Mason Kane - a special ops hero with a questionable past, joins forces with the CIA to neutralize a radical off shoot of ISIS and unravel a conspiracy emanating from the White House's inner sanctum.After almost losing...
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Code Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel

Jonathan Maberry - St. Martin's Press
Format: Paperback

For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons--designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away...
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Brain Storm

Elaine Viets - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers...
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The Breaking Point: A Body Farm Novel

Jefferson Bass - William Morrow & Co
Format: Hardcover

Past, present, and future collide to throw respected forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton's successful, secure life into devastating turmoil in this poignant novel in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series.It's been ten years since Dr. Bill Brockton created the Body...
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The Stranger You Know

Jane Casey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

He meets women. He gains their trust. He kills them. That's all London police detective Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes, and it appears to be the work of the same sadistic killer. With no sign of break-ins, every indication...
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Away in a Manger

Rhys Bowen - Minotaur Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

It's Christmastime in 1905 New York City, and for once, Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to the approaching holidays. She has a family of her own now: she and Daniel have a baby son and twelve-year-old Bridie is living with them as their ward. As Molly and the children listen...
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Silent City: A Claire Codella Mystery

Carrie Smith - Crooked Lane Books
Format: Paperback

NYPD Detective Claire Codella has just won a tough battle with cancer. Now she has to regain her rightful place on the force. she hasn't even been back a day when Hector Sanchez, a maverick public school principal, is found murdered. The school is on high alert. The media is howling...
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Easy Death

Daniel Boyd - Titan Books

'TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS ... ... and two robbers hired by a local crime boss manage to heist half a million dollars from an armored car. But getting the money and getting away with it are two different things, especially with a blizzard coming down, the cops in hot pursuit,...
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Twisted Innocence (Moonlighters Series)

Terri Blackstock - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

From New York Times bestseller Blackstock comes a gripping story of a private investigator whose past choices have finally caught up to her - and are now putting her infant daughter at risk. Though Hollys stumbled through most of her adult life as a party girl, she longs to live a more...
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Where My Heart Used to Beat: A Novel

Sebastian Faulks - Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Format: Print book

A sweeping drama about the madness of war and the power of love that marks acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks's return, after twenty years, to the fictional territory of his #1 international bestseller BirdsongLondon, 1980. Robert Hendricks, an established psychiatrist and author,...
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The Accident

Chris Pavone - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling and Edgar Award-winning The Expats As dawn approaches in New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through the explosive revelations about powerful people, as well as long-hidden...
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The Blumhouse book of nightmares : the haunted city

Jason Blum - Blumhouse Books/Doubleday, 2015.
Format: Print book

"A stunning collection of original, terrifying fiction from a unique cast of master storytellers. Jason Blum invited an impressive group of authors, filmmakers, and screenwriters to envision a city of their choosing. and to let their demons run wild. Taken together, the provocative...
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Final Fondue

Mary Ann Corrigan - Kensington Pub Corp
Format: Book

Val Deniston certainly has her plate full running a caf, dabbling with recipes, and helping her grandfather prepare for the town's upcoming tri-centennial celebration, but she's grown fond of her new life in the Chesapeake Bay town of Bayport. . .So when Val is asked to reclaim her old position...
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Safari: A Stanley Hastings Mystery

Parnell Hall - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover

The new Stanley Hastings mystery caper, which takes the ever-loquacious private detective on safari in Zambia . . . What could possibly go wrong? Stanley Hastings on safari? I dont think so. Neither did Stanley, until Alices small inheritancecoupled with scrimping on a few luxuries like...
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Riders on the Storm

Ed Gorman - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

1967 A brutal murder in the midst of an anti-Vietnam War group sparks an investigation by Sam McCain, in Ed Gormans most politically charged mystery yet. When we last saw Sam McCain he had been drafted to fight the war in Vietnam. But Sams military career ended in boot camp when he was accidentally...
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Keep You Close

Lucie Whitehouse - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

When the artist Marianne Glass falls to her death, everyone insists it was a tragic accident. Yet Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, suspects there is more to the story. Ever since she was young, Marianne had paralyzing vertigo. She would never have gone so close to the roof's edge.Marianne--and...
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The Watcher in the Wall

Owen Laukkanen - G. P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

A heart-pounding new Stevens and Windermere thriller from the award-winning author of The Stolen Ones and The Professionals. Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint BCA-FBI violent crime task force have handled shocking cases before, but this one is different. Stevens's...
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Chain of Events: A Novel

Fredrik T. Olsson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A stunning debut thriller about a code that threatens humanity - and the only man can crack it.William Sandberg, once a well-respected military cryptologist pursuing cutting-edge research, is a ruined man. His career is in shambles, his marriage is over, and hes succumbed to a dark depression....
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Robert B. Parker's Kickback

Ace Atkins - G. P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins.What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank...
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Genocide of One: A Thriller

Kazuaki Takano - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling, award-winning Japanese thriller about a child who may be the future of the human race--or the cause of its extinction.During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security: a three-year-old boy named Akili, who is already...
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The Butcher

Jennifer Hillier - Gallery Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed suspense novels Creep and Freak and whom Jeffery Deaver has praised as a top of the line thriller writer, The Butcher is a high-octane novel about lethal secrets that refuse to dieuntil they kill again. A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until...
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The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley: A Novel

Jeremy Massey - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A dark and unexpected novel about a Dublin undertaker who finds himself on the wrong side of the Irish mob.Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established - some say the best - funeral home in Dublin. One night driving home after an unexpected...
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Small Plates: Short Fiction

Katherine Hall Page - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Agatha Award winner Katherine Hall Page presents a book of short stories featuring her famed heroine Faith Fairchild.For years, Katherine Hall Page has delighted readers with her Faith Fairchild series, each book like a delicious, satisfying meal. Now, Page has whipped up a tasty collection...
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The Dead Will Tell: A Kate Burkholder Novel

Linda Castillo - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A Boston Globe Best Book of 2014Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time--and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On a late-night...
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The Exiled

Christopher Charles - Mulholland Books/Little
Format: Print book

Can anyone ever truly outrun his past?
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The Truth and Other Lies: A Novel

Sascha Arango - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Dark, witty, and suspenseful, this literary crime thriller reminiscent of The Dinner and The Silent Wife follows a famous author whose wife - the brains behind his success - meets an untimely death, leaving him to deal with the consequences."Evil is a matter of opinion ... " On the surface,...
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An Officer and a Spy: A novel

Robert Harris - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted...
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A Murder of Magpies

Judith Flanders - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A whip-smart, impeccably crafted debut mystery, A Murder of Magpies takes readers on a whirlwind tour of London and Paris with an unforgettably original new heroineIt's just another day at the office for London book editor Samantha "Sam" Clair. Checking jacket copy for howlers,...
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The Hidden Child: A Novel

Camilla Lackberg - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover

The brilliant new psychological thriller from worldwide bestseller Camilla Läckberg—the chilling struggle of a young woman facing the darkest chapter of Europe’s past. Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother’s possessions....
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The 7th Canon

Robert Dugoni - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Print book

A riveting new legal thriller from the bestselling author of My Sister's Grave.In San Francisco's seamy Tenderloin district, a teenage street hustler has been murdered in a shelter for boys. And the dedicated priest who runs the struggling home stands accused. But despite damning...
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As Gouda as Dead

Avery Aames - Berkley
Format: Print book

Someone is cheesed off . . .Providence, Ohio, is celebrating Valentines Day with weeklong events, including lovers baskets with heart-shaped cheeses at Fromagerie Bessette. Charlotte Bessette is celebrating by finally walking down the aisle with the man of her dreams, handsome artisanal...
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Independence Day: A Dewey Andreas Novel

Ben Coes - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Dewey Andreas is back...and the clock is ticking! Cloud, a high-level Russian hacker, perhaps the best in the world, has acquired a nuclear weapon. It's an older bomb from the USSR's Cold War arsenal with the power to devastate a major city. Fueled by a dark and personal vendetta,...
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Caught Dead Handed

Carol J. Perry - Kensington Pub Corp
Format: Paperback

She's not a psychic--she just plays one on TV.Most folks associate the city of Salem, Massachusetts with witches, but for Lee Barrett, it's home. This October she's returned to her hometown--where her beloved Aunt Ibby still lives--to interview for a job as a reporter at WICH-TV....
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A Body to Spare

Sue Ann Jaffarian - Midnight Ink
Format: Paperback

Odelia Grey's relaxing day of errands is ruined when she finds a body folded like an origami crane in the trunk of her car. And it's not just any dead body - it's the corpse of Zach Finch, a young man who had been kidnapped eight years earlier. But why was he put in Odelia's...
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A Bad Reputation

Jane Tesh - Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

When Wendall Clarke announces plans to open a new art gallery downtown, it’s both the talk of Celosia, North Carolina and the envy of its residents. But the news is upstaged when Clarke is found murdered, prompting beauty queen turned private investigator Madeline Maclin to take...
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Third Rail: An Eddy Harkness Novel

Rory Flynn - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

"Third Rail gets off to a ripping start and never lets off the gas." - Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins At crime scenes, Eddy Harkness, the "Harvard Cop," is a human Ouija board, a brilliant young detective with a knack for finding the hidden something - cash,...
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Killer Reunion

G A Mckevett - Kensington Pub Corp, 2016.
Format: Print book

If you think going home again is hard, try being a plus-sized PI with a troubled family legacy. But Savannah Reid is no shrinking violet. She's ready for her high school reunion, complete with mean girls, ex-beaus--and murder charges ... When Savannah Reid fled McGill, Georgia, all those...
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Long Shot: A Sniper Novel

Jack Coughlin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A top Russian intelligence agent has defected to the West and the only man with whom he will speak is Kyle Swanson, who busted him out of the U.S. Marine Corps Scout/Sniper School years ago. The defector proves to be an Edward Snowden-type gold mine of amazing secrets about the When, Where...
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FaceOff

Steve Berry - Simon & Schuster; First Edition/First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller and "a thriller reader's ultimate fantasy" (Booklist), this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide!In an unprecedented collaboration,...
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The Madness of Mercury

Connie Di Marco - Midnight Ink, 2016.
Format: Print book

San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti's life is turned upside down when she becomes the target of the city's newest cult leader, Reverend Roy of the Prophet's Tabernacle. Driven out of her apartment in the midst of a disastrous Mercury retrograde period, she takes shelter with...
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Hot Pursuit

Stuart Woods - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington is back in the exciting new adventure from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods. It's not often that Stone Barrington finds a woman as accustomed to the jet-set lifestyle as he, so he's pleasantly surprised when he meets a gorgeous pilot who's soon moving to New York,...
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Bushel Full of Murder

Paige Shelton - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of Merry Market Murder returns to Bailey's Farmers' Market where Becca Robins must get her cousin out of a jam ... This summer, Becca is looking forward to selling her delicious jams and preserves, but things are changing fast at the farmers'...
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Family Jewels

Stuart Woods - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

Stone Barrington is back and better than ever in the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Stone Barrington's newest client seems to be a magnet for trouble. A poised lady of considerable wealth, she's looking for help discouraging the attentions of a tenacious...
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Spirit Bridge

James L. Rubart - Thomas Nelson

"The Warriors Riding have battled in astounding supernatural realms, set captives free, and awakened thousands of; hearts. But now their only chance of survival depends on calling for The Spirit Bridge.Reece, Dana, Brandon, and Marcus have achieved staggering success in the spiritual...
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The Housekeeper: A Novel

Suellen Dainty - Washington Square Pr
Format: Print book

"I am the housekeeper, the hired help with a messy past who cleans up other people's messy lives, the one who protects their messy little secrets."When Anne Morgan's successful boyfriend - who also happens to be her boss - leaves her for another woman, Anne finds herself...
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Sometimes the Wolf: A Novel

Urban Waite - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Set in the Pacific Northwest, a spellbinding story of family, violence, and unintended consequences that showcases the searing prose, soulful characters, and vivid sense of place of an acclaimed writer in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, Dennis Lehane, and Elmore Leonard.Sheriff Patrick...
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The Undoing

Averil Dean - Harlequin Books
Format: Print book

On a bitter January evening, three people are found murdered in the isolated Blackbird hotel. Best friends since childhood, Eric, Rory and Celia have always been inseparable. Together they've coped with broken homes and damaged families, clinging to each other as they've navigated...
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Bone Dust White: A Novel

Karin Salvalaggio - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adamss house and wont stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she looks out her bedroom window, she sees a woman she doesnt recognize walking on the trails behind her home. The woman isnt alone for long before a man emerges from the dark...
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Between a Book and a Hard Place: A Devereaux's Dime Store Mystery

Denise Swanson - NAL
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Dying for a Cupcake returns with a new mystery filled with lost family, hidden treasure, and long-buried secrets... Five-and-dime store owner Devereaux "Dev" Sinclair moved to Shadow Bend for her family. But when her long-lost mother...
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Death by Tea

Alex Erickson - Kensington
Format: Print book

Mystery lovers have descended on Pine Hills for this year's book club competition, to be held at Krissy Hancock's bookstore caf. But the killer in their midst seems determined to outwit all the armchair sleuths - and send Krissy to the remainder bin forever. Just before two dueling...
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The Witch and the Dead

Heather Blake - Berkley Books
Format: Print book

The national bestselling author of Gone with the Witch returns as wish-granting witch Darcy Merriweather uncovers dangerous skeletons in the closet - and the garage.... When Darcy moved to Salem, Massachusetts, she never expected her life to change as drastically as it did. But within...
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XOM-B

Jeremy Robinson - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Freeman is a genius with an uncommon mixture of memory, intelligence and creativity. He lives in a worldwide utopia, but it was not always so. There was a time known as the Grind -- when Freeman's people lived as slaves to another race referred to simply as "Master." They were...
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The Final Reveille

Amanda Flower - Midnight Ink
Format: Paperback

As the director of Barton Farm, a living history museum, Kelsey Cambridge is underpaid and underappreciated, but she loves every minute of it. Determined to keep the struggling museum open, she plans to impress Barton Farm's wealthy benefactress, Cynthia Cherry, with a Civil War reenactment...
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The Winter Family: A Novel

Clifford Jackman - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"Sadistic but mesmerizing..."-- The New York Times Book ReviewTracing a group of ruthless outlaws from its genesis during the American Civil War all the way to a final bloody stand in the Oklahoma territories, The Winter Family is a hyperkinetic Western noir that reads like a full-on...
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The Naked Eye: A Novel (Kendra Michaels Book 3)

Iris Johansen - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen and the Edgar Award-winning author Roy Johansen are back with another novel in The Naked Eye featuring Kendra Michaels-hired gun for both the CIA and FBI. How can you catch a killer when everyone thinks hes dead?Kendra Michaels was instrumental...
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As Good as Gone: A Novel

Larry Watson - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book

The American West is bestselling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has created his most vivid, genuine antihero yet in Calvin Sidey, a man stuck in a myth. Calvin Sidey, steely, hardened, with his own personal code, is one of the last cowboys. It's the 1960s,...
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A Virtuous Death

Christine Trent - Kensington
Format: Book

Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dead husband Prince Albert, has found solace in John Brown, an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles in the occult and keeps the grieving queen entertained with his tarot card readings. Undertaker Violet Harper is invited to attend one of Mr. Browns...
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The Lost Girls

Allison Brennan - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Print book

Photojournalist Siobhan Walsh has been searching for two sisters who disappeared two years ago in Mexico, so when she receives a call from a priest in Texas about an abandoned baby holding a locket with her name, she calls her friends in the FBI for help. The infant obviously belongs to one of the sisters,...
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Dear Amy

Helen Callaghan - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Print book

In Helen Callaghan s chilling, tightly-spun debut novel of psychological suspense, a teenage girl s abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case... Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes...
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North of Boston: A Novel

Elisabeth Elo - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

Year's Best Crime Novels: 2014, Booklist
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Playing with Fire

Renee Graziano - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

Reign Grazi is no stranger to dangerous men. Her whole life, they've been there. Grandfathers, uncles, cousins…she knows the difference between people who made the rules and those who broke them. But she has no idea why someone might want her dead. Nick Fattelli is handsome,...
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The Drowning Girls

Paula Treick DeBoard - Mira Books
Format: Print book

Critically acclaimed author of The Mourning Hours and The Fragile World, Paula Treick DeBoard returns with a tale of dark secrets, shocking lies and a dangerous obsession that will change one neighborhood forever Liz McGinnis never imagined herself living in a luxurious gated...
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Deadly Assets

W.E.B. Griffin - Putnam
Format: Print book

The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by #1 New York Times-bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin.In Philadelphia - suffering among the country's highest murder rates - the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long...
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Death of a Chocolate Cheater: A Food Festival Mystery

Penny Pike - New American Library
Format: Paperback

Food truck vendor Darcy Burnett unwraps a murder at the San Francisco Chocolate Festival in this mystery from the author of Death of a Crabby Cook ... At this year's chocolate festival, Darcy and her Aunt Abby hope to win the $10,000 prize in the chocolate contest with Aunt Abby's...
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The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death

Kim Harrison - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce you to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before!Can science save us when all else...
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The Haunted Season: A Max Tudor Mystery

G. M. Malliet - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

"A Demon Summer makes the case that Malliet may be the best mystery author writing in English at the moment (along with Tana French) . She's certainly the most entertaining," raved The Cleveland Plain Dealer about the fourth Max Tudor Mystery.Agatha Award-winning...
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The Question of the Unfamiliar Husband

E. J. Copperman - Midnight Ink
Format: Paperback

For Samuel Hoenig, Asperger's isn't so much a syndrome as it is a set of personality traits. And as the sole proprietor of a business called Questions Answered, Samuel's put his personality traits to good use, successfully answering every question he's ever been asked. But when...
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The Nightmare Place: A Novel

Steve Mosby - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The new suspense thriller from CWA Dagger winner Steve Mosby, "one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction." (Val McDermid) Sometimes, there's a thin line between love and hate. Or at least that's one theory for DI Zoe Dolan, tracking the Creeper...
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I Am No One: A Novel

Patrick Flanery - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book

A mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us.After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University. Though comfortable in his new life, and happy...
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Night of the Jaguar: A Novel

Joe Gannon - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Joe Gannons debut novel, Night of the Jaguar,a former Sandinista guerrilla comandante turned cop investigates a series of murders that appear to be political executions.Sandinista Police Captain Ajax Montoya is six days sober and losing his mind. How else to explain his nights waking...
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Murder, She Wrote: Hook, Line and Murder

Jessica Fletcher - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Hardcover

Jessica Fletcher is a bestselling mystery writer who has a knack for stumbling upon real-life mysteries in her various travels.
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Extra Sensory Deception: A Raven's Nest Bookstore Mystery

Allison Kingsley - Berkley; First Berkley Prime Crime Edition edition
Format: Book

As the owners of the Ravens Nest bookstore, cousins Stephanie and Clara Quinn are the premier booksellers in the quaint town of Finns Harbor, Maine. But with Claras inherited ability to read minds and see the future, shes also the premier crime solverYou dont have to be a psychic to know...
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The Execution: A Jeremy Fisk Novel

Dick Wolf - William Morrow
Format: Audiobook

NYPD Detective Jeremy Fisk - introduced in Law & Order creator Dick Wolf's New York Times bestselling debut The Intercept - must stop an assassin in the pay of a shadowy cartel in The Execution, a tense thriller that superbly blends suspense, politics, intrigue and high-flying action...
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All the Little Liars

Charlaine Harris - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris finally returns to her fan-favorite Aurora Teagarden series with All the Little Liars, a fabulously fun new mystery.Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small Georgia town: four kids...
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Crooked River: A Novel

Valerie Geary - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

With the inventiveness and emotional power of Promise Not to Tell, The Death of Bees, and After Her, a powerful literary debut about family and friendship, good and evil, grief and forgiveness.He is not evil. I am not good. We are the same: broken and put back together again.Still grieving...
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