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Dear Mr. M: A Novel

Herman Koch - Hogarth
Format: Print book

Once a celebrated writer, M had his greatest success with a suspense novel based on a real-life disappearance: a history teacher who went missing one winter after having a brief affair with a beautiful student of his. The teacher was never found. Upon publication, M's novel was a runaway...
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Nine Days: A Mystery

Minerva Koenig - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

She's short, round, and pushing forty, but Julia Kalas is a damned good criminal. For 17 years she renovated historic California buildings as a laundry front for her husband's illegal arms business. Then the Aryan Brotherhood made her a widow, and witness protection shipped her off to the tiny...
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Holy Ghost

JOHN SANDFORD - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (BOOKLIST ) Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word...
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The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum

Kirsten Weiss - Midnight Ink, 2016.
Format: Print book

When Maddie Kosloski's career flatlines, she retreats to her wine-country hometown for solace and cheap rent. Railroaded into managing the local paranormal museum, she's certain the rumors of its haunting are greatly exaggerated. But a new ghost may be on the loose. A fresh corpse...
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Awakened: A Novel

JAMES S MURRAY - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

The star of truTV's hit show Impractical Jokers - alongside veteran sci-fi and horror writer Darren Wearmouth - delivers a chilling and wickedly fun supernatural novel in the vein of The Strain, in which a beautiful new subway line in New York City unearths an ancient dark horror that...
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The Twisted Dead (Gravekeeper Book 3)

Darcy Coates - Black Owl Books
Format: Paperback

Keira is ready for her life to return to normal. Though, to be fair, normal is a tall ask when your ability to see ghosts has landed you the job of groundskeeper in a small town's cemetery.When Keira receives an invitation to dinner at Dane Crispin's crumbling ancestral estate,...
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A Simple Choice

DAVID PEPPER - ?G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive political thriller featuring two outsiders caught up in a stunning conspiracy, filled with details and twists that only a true political insider could write.When one of the nation's most prestigious senators jumps from a cliff in Maine, it is no surprise that the political...
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For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon

Laurie R. King - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

In a sensational follow-up to Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon.For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times bestselling editors Laurie...
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The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington

Charles Rosenberg - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

A thought-provoking novel that imagines what would have happened if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington, for fans of alternate histories like The Plot Against America, The Guns of the South and The Man in the High Castle.British special agent Jeremiah Black,...
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Cop Job

Chris Knopf - Permanent Pr Pub Co
Format: Hardcover

The sixth installment in the Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery series brings back Knopf's ensemble of famously eccentric and involving characters, not the least being Sam's dog Eddie Van Halen. A hardboiled crime novel, it also examines the fraught intersection of wealth, culture, politics...
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