Mystery

Baxter Clare | Bleeding Out | Fans of police procedurals and the grittier murder mysteries will welcome Baxter Clare’s debut novel, in which a hardened female police lieutenant, L.

Barbara Johnson | Bad Moon Rising | The tantalizing follow-up to THE BEACH AFFAIR…

A bad moon rises over a desolate world. A tawdry world of fast money, mind-numbing highs, an

Ellen Hart | Faint Praise | ‘INTELLIGENT AND ENGROSSING . . . A VERY COMPLEX PUZZLE.’

–Publishers Weekly

Everyone knows Arno Heywood. He’s been a Minneapol

Olivia Stowe | Horrid Honeymoon | As the eighth book in the Charlotte Diamond Mystery series opens, former FBI senior agent Charlotte and her movie star significant other, Brenda Boynt

Elizabeth Pincus | The Hangdog Hustle | Lesbian sleuth Nell Fury returns in a tale of unsolved murder, radical rightists and leftists, cover-ups, and deception. Young Kent Kishida’s body is

Val McDermid | Report for Murder | A girls’ public school in Derbyshire has hit hard times, so a gala fundraising concert seems to be the answer. But proceedings come to an abrupt halt

Mavis Applewater | Checkmate | Detective Caitlin Calloway is happily married to the love of her life, Jamie. She and her family are settling into a new house, and life is good. Unti

Penny Sumner | Crosswords | London in January is dull and dreary. Business is slow. And Victoria Cross is only too happy to take on a routine missing person’s case. The man she’s