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Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library
by Amanda Chapman
Tory, conservator at Manhattan's Mystery Guild Library, discovers a woman in the Christie Room who says she's Agatha Christie, there to solve a future murder—so when Tory's cousin Nic gets involved in her talent agent's suspicious death, she turns to Mrs. Christie for help.
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The Girl in the Green Dress: A Mystery Featuring Zelda Fitzgerald
by Mariah Fredericks
In this glittering homage to the Jazz Age, Zelda Fitzgerald is incredibly bored while Scott works on his next novel. Meanwhile, Atlanta journalist Morris Markey has arrived in New York and is lost in every way possible. When notorious man-about-town Joseph Elwell is found shot through the head in his swanky townhouse, the fortunes of the two southerners collide when they realize they were both among the last to see him alive.
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Gray Dawn
by Walter Mosley
A number of below-the-law powerbrokers plead with private investigator Easy Rawlins to locate a mysterious, dangerous woman named Lutisha James... though she's gone by another name that Easy will immediately recognize. 1970s Los Angeles is a transient city of delicate, violent balances, and Lutisha has disturbed that. She also has a secret that will upend Easy's own life, painfully closer to home.
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Apostle's Cove
by William Kent Krueger
A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O'Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming sixtieth birthday, he learns that twenty years ago, he was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that likely he did not commit. Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done when there are those in Tamarack County who are willing once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth. Menawhile, Cork's grandson has his own theory: the Windigo—the mythic cannibal ogre—has come to Tamarack County.
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The Face Stealer
by Sarah Rayne
Estranged Simeon has stolen three valuable (and oddly frightening) Stone Heads: the likenesses of three children who vanished over a century ago in Jack's home village in Russia. The Heads were locked away from the world in a remote Russian monastery . . . though whether to protect the priceless sculptures, or to protect the villagers from the Heads themselves, no one can say. From London, Jack seeks to put things right. But peeling back the layers of history reveals the ominous power of the Stone Heads.
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The Burial Place
by Stig Abell
Former London detective Jake Jackson finds his new life in the English countryside threatened when an old case buried deep within an archeological dig site resurfaces. After unearthing an ancient Roman settlement, archaeologists are now receiving ominous threats. Jackson jumps back into action, racing to solve the dig site murder before the killer strikes again.
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| Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-OpokuRecently widowed Savvy Summers runs a Chicago soul food restaurant and catering business in this engaging series opener that even includes recipes. After her fortune takes a turn for the worse when a customer dies and people blame her, she must figure out what really killed the man, or else risk herself and her livelihood. Thankfully she has help from her gossipy sous-chef and her cop ex-husband. |
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| The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant by Liza TullyWhen 20-something Olivia Blunt gets a job assisting famous New York City detective Aubrey Merritt, she's eager to get to work, but finds herself doing boring tasks. Things change when the duo travel to Vermont to investigate the supposed suicide of a wealthy woman at her luxurious resort. There are plenty of suspects, and soon more murders, in this entertaining fair-play mystery. |
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| History Lessons by Zoe B. WallbrookLife as a new history professor at prestigious Harrison University has been pretty good for Daphne Ouverture, even though her love life needs help. But when the school's star professor is murdered right after texting Daphne, she is suspected by the police and targeted by the killer. Teaming up with a handsome book store owner, she takes on the new role of amateur sleuth. |
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Meddling Kids
by Edgar Cantero
The surviving members of a forgotten teen detective club and their dog reunite as broken adults to embark on a wacky effort to solve a terrifying cold case that ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison. By the author of The Supernatural Enhancements.
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The Self-made Widow
by Fabian Nicieza
Mother of five and former FBI profiler, Andie Stern, when the husband of Queen Bee Molly Goode is found dead, looks into the case, much to everyone's chagrin, and soon risks more than just the clique's wrath as she exposes the dark underbelly of suburban marriage.
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Last Seen in Havana
by Teresa Dovalpage
A newly widowed Cuban American baker, Mercedes Spivey returns to her homeland to care for her ailing grandmother and investigate the mysterious disappearance of her mother, in the fourth novel of the series following "Death of a Telenovela Star."
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Mango, Mambo, and Murder
by Raquel V. Reyes
Moving from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, food anthropologist Miriam gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show, which sets the stage for murder—one that could be the recipe for her own death.
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A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
by Raul Palma
When Alexi, the debt collector who has been hounding him for years, asks him for spiritual help in exchange for forgiving his debt, widow and babaláwo Hugo Contreras finds the job to be more than he bargained for when memories from his past collide with Alexi's demons in an explosive climax.
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