A Fatal Winter
"There are certain things you want in a village mystery: a pretty setting, a tasteful murder, an appealing sleuth . . . Malliet delivers all that." —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
Hiss and Hers : an Agatha Raisin Mystery
Kirkus Reviews A private detective's amatory obsessions get her in trouble once again. Agatha Raisin (As the Pig Turns, 2011, etc.) may be a dogged investigator and no fool, but her penchant for falling for the wrong man always seems to lead to disaster. This time her gardener, George Marston, is the object of her […]
Die a Stranger
Publishers Weekly Every word counts in Edgar-winner Hamilton’s masterful ninth novel featuring ex-cop Alex McKnight (after 2011’s Misery Bay). McKnight, who rents out cabins on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, is trying to put his time in the Detroit PD behind him, while his best friend, Vinnie Red Sky LeBlanc, mourns the death of his mother, Hazel. […]
Dead Scared
Library Journal: Bolton's second novel featuring London police officer Lacey Flint is as suspenseful a psychological thriller as Now You See Me. Working again with Mark Joesbury, Flint goes undercover as a student in Cambridge when a higher-than-usual suicide rate is reported, and authorities begin to suspect that someone is pushing vulnerable students to take […]
Blood In the Water
Publishers Weekly: Edgar-finalist Haddam shows no sign of creative fatigue in her baffling 27th whodunit featuring ex-FBI agent turned police consultant Gregor Demarkian (after 2011’s Flowering Judas). One night at Waldorf Pines, a gated Philadelphia suburb, Arthur Heydreich, whose unfaithful wife, Martha, has disappeared, stumbles on a corpse in the community swimming pool, just when […]
A Simple Murder
Library Journal Will Rees, a Revolutionary War veteran, fled his sorrow over his wife's death by becoming a traveling weaver. Leaving his son David in the care of his sister's family while they ran his farm seemed like a reasonable arrangement, but he learns that David has run away and joined a Shaker community in […]
A Parliament of Spies
Publishers Weekly Clark expertly blends murder and Machiavellian politics in her stellar fourth 14th-century historical featuring Abbess Hildegarde (after 2011’s The Law of Angels). York archbishop Alexander Neville taps Hildegarde to accompany him on a trip to London, where she’s to serve as his spy. England is in turmoil under the tumultuous rule of Richard […]
A Burial At Sea
Publishers Weekly Agatha Christie meets Patrick O’Brian in Finch’s accomplished fifth whodunit set in Victorian England (after 2010’s A Stranger in Mayfair), the best in the series to date. Although aristocratic sleuth Charles Lenox has become a member of Parliament and is expecting his first child, his brother, Sir Edmund, a close adviser to Prime […]
The Rope : an Anna Pigeon Novel
From The Critics The adventures of park ranger Anna Pigeon have filled the pages of 16 books, and now her legion of loyal fans can find out how her story began. After her husband's death in 1995, Anna leaves New York City to take a seasonal position at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. On a […]
Tag Man
Library Journal Every library needs Mayor's police procedural series (Red Herring) on its shelves. Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team try to figure out who's behind the puzzling "tag man" burglaries.