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New MysteriesSeptember 2020 |
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Execution
by S. J. Parris
When spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham decides not to interfere in a Catholic nobleman’s assassination plot that has the potential to condemn Mary Queen of Scots, heretic-turned-spy Giordano Bruno goes undercover to prevent the murder of Elizabeth I.
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Fire in the bloodby Perry Edmond O'BrienA traumatized Army soldier in Afghanistan goes AWOL and finds the limits of his military training tested when he tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's fatal hit-and-run accident. It doesn't take long before he finds himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy that reaches all the way into the Albanian mafia, Upper East Side royalty, and a scam at a recovery center for heroin addicts.
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Booked for death by Victoria GilbertCharlotte Reed, the heir to a recently renovated book-themed B&B, finds herself wrongly implicated in the murder of a rare book dealer who claimed the inn was built with stolen funds. With the murderer still at large and determined to silence anyone who might discover the truth behind the book dealer's death, Charlotte must outwit an unknown killer - or end up writing her own final chapter.
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The less dead by Denise MinaNavigating burnout, an unfaithful ex and a relative's recent death, Margo reaches out to her birth family before discovering that her biological mother was murdered years earlier by a killer who begins sending her threatening letters. Someone out there has been waiting and watching and, in Margo, sees the spitting image of her mother.
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Mums and mayhem by Amanda FlowerWhen Fiona finds a famous fiddler starring in the homecoming concert dead in his trailer during a break, her Scottish father becomes a suspect and Fiona is determined to find the culprit and clear her father, even though her boyfriend, Chief Inspector Neil Craig, disapproves. To make matters worse, the magical garden she inherited from her grandfather has withered, and it is up to Fiona to make it bloom again.
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A private cathedral by James Lee BurkeSwept up in a criminal underworld rivalry involving a pair of star-crossed teen lovers, Detective Dave Robicheaux is targeted by a time-traveling superhuman assassin who forces him to confront the demons of his own past - in a mystery that is both vintage James Lee Burke and one of his most inventive works to date - mixing romance, violence, mythology and science-fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love.
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The midwife murders
by James Patterson
When two kidnappings and a stabbing occur on her watch in a Manhattan university hospital, a fearless senior midwife teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to investigate rumors that shift from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network.
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Choppy water
by Stuart Woods
When his Maine vacation is interrupted by extreme weather that a menacing adversary uses as cover to target a close friend, Stone Barrington uncovers a massive scheme with corrupt ties spanning New York City through Key West.
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Auntie Poldi and the handsome Antonio by Mario GiordanoWhen her idyllic Sicilian retirement and sultry romance with Chief Inspector Vito Montana is interrupted by one of her unfaithful detective-inspector husband's cases, the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi uncovers shocking secrets in her effort to rescue an in-law from the Mafia.
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Muzzled by David RosenfeltAndy Carpenter investigates the story of a stray yellow lab whose owner is risking his safety to reunite with the dog after faking his death weeks earlier - by the Shamus Award-winning author of Dachshund Through the Snow.
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Love and theft by Stan ParishTo save his family, a charismatic thief is forced to delay retirement in order to pull off one last spectacular, international caper and soon discovers that he is not the only one with dark secrets when he learns what his new wife Diane is really capable of in a loose sequel to 2014's Down the Shore.
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Once you go this far : a Roxane Weary mystery by Kristen LepionkaBelieving that her father, a well-connected ex-cop, killed her mother Rebecca, Maggie turns to PI Roxane Weary for help, drawing Roxane into a situation that doesn’t add up, and Roxane must find a way to connect the pieces (Leila, a secretive church group, a women's health organization and Rebecca's fall in the woods) before a dangerous secret gets someone else killed.
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Buried by Ellison CooperReturning to the field after six months of desk duty, FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair investigates the grisly discovery of a serial killer's uncovered body-dump site, reopening a decades-old case with ties to a recent abduction. Right after Altair arrives at the park, someone attempts to set her and her colleague on fire, and the fast-paced twists and turns in the agent's work and personal life don't let up from that point.
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A sprinkling of murder by Daryl Wood GerberFairy-garden store owner Courtney Kelly believes in inviting magic into one's life, but when uninvited trouble enters her shop, she’ll need more than a sprinkling of her imagination to solve the murder of neighboring dog-grooming business owner Mick Watkins, who is found dead beside her patio fountain. To clear her name, she gets help from the fairies that live in her garden.
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The cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa HartVisiting a formidable science-book collector’s home in the hopes of identifying plant specimens, 18th-century herbalist Cecily Kay finds herself investigating her host’s untimely murder when she observes unsettling inconsistencies. To discover the truth, she must enter the world of the collectors, a realm where intellect is distorted by obsession and greed, and as her pursuit of answers brings her closer to a killer, she risks being given a final resting place amid the bones that wait, silent and still, in the cabinets of Barnaby Mayne.
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The last Mrs. Summers
by Rhys Bowen
Helping her friend inspect a recently inherited but uninhabitable Cornwall property, Georgie investigates a bossy host's suspicions that her husband murdered his first wife, allegations that are complicated by a creepy housekeeper and a long-ago tragedy.
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Poppy Harmon and the hung jury
by Lee Hollis
For retiree-turned-PI Poppy Harmon, spending her golden years running the Desert Flowers Detective Agency is far from the glamorous life she once knew, but becoming ensnared in two twisted Palm Springs crimes might be her worst look yet.
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More better deals by Joe R. LansdaleDispatched to repossess a Cadillac from a deadbeat pet-cemetery owner and his beautiful wife, an unscrupulous used-car salesman embarks on an affair that tests the limits of his character - by the Edgar Award-winning author of The Bottoms.
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Then she vanished by T. Jefferson ParkerHelping a rising politician whose wife has gone missing amid an inexplicable series of bombings, private investigator Roland Ford investigates the activities of a mysterious group before uncovering sinister ties to a kidnapping that threatens an entire city.
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Before she was Helen by Caroline B CooneyA woman hiding her identity behind half a century of secrets lands in the center of a dangerous conspiracy involving a neighbor's disappearance from their South Carolina retirement community in an absorbing mystery that explores the danger of confronting your own past life - by the best-selling author of The Face on the Milk Carton.
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