Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2015 Set in Mule Stop, Tex., this lighthearted series launch from Martin (A Little Night Murder) delivers bold, brash Texas attitude and small-town color. Outsider Sunny McKillip, the new personal assistant to rich eccentric matriarch Honeybelle Hensley, becomes the object of both envy and suspicion when the will read after Honeybelle’s sudden death […]
An Uncertain Grave
Overview A stray hiker reports finding a partially decomposed body on Mt Lafayette in the "North Country" – the top third of New Hampshire around and the Franconia Notch – where the rugged terrain and sparse population provides the space and isolation to keep any number of secrets. Cliff Codey and Mike Eldrich – New […]
The Art of Crash Landing
Publishers Weekly 07/06/2015 Decarlo’s excellent debut chronicles what happens when 30-year-old Mattie Wallace finds herself unearthing family secrets in her mother’s hometown. Mattie remembers her deceased mother, Genie, as a broken alcoholic who dated a string of losers—save for Mattie’s erstwhile stepfather, Queeg, with whom she still has a relationship. After being identified as the […]
Cross Justice
Library Journal 06/15/2015 Yep, Alex Cross is back—in his North Carolina hometown, where he's returned after 30-plus years to defend a cousin accused of a terrible crime. Soon, Alex is reeling from the discovery of a family secret, and if that doesn't kill him, his hunt for the brutal murderer of several local socialites might. […]
Crimson Shore
Library Journal ★ 11/01/2015 Agent Pendergast is back! Taking on a case involving a stolen wine collection would seem to underutilize his superior detective wizardry, but the pay is a bottle of priceless wine. How can he resist? He and his ward Constance head to the tiny town of Exmouth on the rocky Massachusetts coast. […]
Home By Nightfall
Publishers Weekly 09/28/2015 Set in the autumn of 1876, Finch’s capable ninth Victorian mystery (after 2014’s The Laws of Murder) takes gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox from London to Sussex, to try to console his brother, whose wife has died after a sudden illness, but he’s soon distracted by a bizarre puzzle. Before a local insurance […]
Tricky Twenty-two
Library Journal 06/01/2015 Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her friends, family, and lovers return for a 22nd adventure after Top Secret Twenty-One, which hit the top spot on the New York Times hardcover, ebook, and combined best sellers lists. Plot? Does it even matter?
The Mistletoe Inn
Library Journal 10/15/2015 In the second holiday love story of Evans's "Mistletoe Collection" (The Mistletoe Promise), Kim Rossi is recently divorced and working as a finance officer at a car dealership. When Kim hears about a romance-writing retreat at the Mistletoe Inn, she decides it may be time to pursue her dream of becoming an […]
All Dressed In White
Library Journal 06/15/2015 In this follow-up to The Cinderella Murder, the New York Times best-selling launch of the authors' "Under Suspicion" series, television producer Laurie Moran returns to investigate another cold case for her risky new show: the disappearance, five years ago, of Amanda Pierce on her wedding day. A reputedly less-than-peachy bride-to-be and the […]
The Guilty
Library Journal06/01/2015 Third in the Will Robie series, The Target was a No. 1 New York Times best seller. Now the deadly CIA assassin is back for another round of bullets, though who knows what he will be doing next. With a 600,000-copy first printing.