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General Fiction

The Afrika Reich
By Guy Saville
A tale set in an alternate world where a victorious Nazi Germany has enslaved the native populations of Africa traces the efforts of former assassin Burton Cole to stop a threat against Britain’s surviving colonies by a messianic racist with ties to a brutal plot.

The Andalucian Friend
By Alexander Soderberg
Breaking her personal code against such behavior, Sophie Brinkmann dates a charming patient, only to discover that he is the head of a powerful international crime organization warring against a ruthless German syndicate, a situation that pits her against an itinerant arms dealer, a disturbed detective, a vicious hit man and a wily police chief.

As Sweet As Honey
By Indira Ganesan
A tale set on a gorgeous Indian Ocean island at a large family compound presided over by a stalwart matriarch conveys the stories of a marriage ceremony that include a pregnant widowed bride, cousins who follow family gossip to puzzle out an aunt’s story, and a newly-in-love woman who struggles with cultural and family identities.

The Aviator’s Wife
By Melanie Benjamin
A story inspired by the marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador’s daughter whose relationship is marked by wild international acclaim, history-making flights and the world shocking abduction of their child.

Bay of Fires
By Poppy Gee
Home for the holidays and looking for a calm escape, Sarah Avery instead discovers a woman’s body washed ashore in her parents’ quiet, small seaside town and teams up with a journalist to uncover the mystery behind the woman’s death.

Benediction
By Kent Haruf
A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the family contemplates their individual relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother.

The Blast That Tears the Skies
By J. D. Davies
Captain Quinton commands a vast man-of-war in the seventeenth century British fight against the Dutch, while at the same time he is forced to confront  an uncomfortable truth about himself and his family.

The Book of Killowen (Nora Gavin)
By Erin Hart
Returning to the bogs after a year away from the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin investigate a ninth-century corpse found in the trunk of a car along with the body of a provocative television philosopher, a case that is tied to an ancient volume of philosophical heresy.

The Boyfriend By Thomas Perry
Jack Till must delve into the shadowy world of the online escort business to find a serial killer who hops from city to city.

Breaking Point (Joe Pickett)
By C. J. Box
Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman who recently had property he had intended to develop for his retirement income declared as wetlands – and therefore is unable to be built upon, making him the chief suspect in the murder of two EPA employees.

The Burgess Boys
By Elizabeth Strout
Catalyzed by a nephew’s thoughtless prank, two brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives.

The Burning Air
By Erin Kelly
Leading a cozy life of upper-class privilege, altruistic private school headmaster Rowan and his three grown children gather for the first time since the family matriarch’s passing and are torn by years of secrets when a vengeful stranger arrives, claiming that their relative was a murderer.

Cage of Bones
By Tania Carver
Stumbling across the machinations of an insane serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight for three decades, Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and psychologist Marina Esposito discover a cage constructed of human bones containing a feral child whom the killer is determined to reclaim.

Capital Punishment
By Robert Wilson
When Charles Boxer, a private security expert who specializes in kidnap and recovery, is hired by Indian tycoon Frank D’Cruz to find his daughter Alyshia, he goes up against religious fanatics, Indian mobsters, and London’s homegrown crime lords to beat the kidnappers at their own game.

Child of Vengeance
By David Kirk
Worshiping his absent warrior father and urged by the Buddhist monk uncle who raised him to embrace a peaceful life in turbulent late-16th-century Japan, Bennosuke confronts painful family truths before pursuing the life of a samurai and eventually participating in the epochal battle of Sekigahara.

The Comfort of Lies
By Randy Susan Meyers
The lives of three women intersect five years after a fateful love affair, including the search by a woman who gave up her baby for adoption, an adoptive mom who questions her suitability as a parent, and a married woman who views her husband’s affair differently upon learning about the baby the romance produced.

Damage Control
By Amber Dermont
Dermont’s collection of short stories features characters at a crossroads, from a man who teaches etiquette while his girlfriend is indicted for a crime, to a widow who rents herself out as a “professional grandchild” to elderly women.

Dirty Little Secret
By Jon Stock
A final entry in the espionage trilogy that includes Dead Spy Running follows an estrangement between the U.S. and Britain in the aftermath of an audacious terrorist attack that has been linked to renegade MI6 officer Daniel Marchant.

The Dream Merchant
By Fred Waitzkin
A charismatic salesman’s participation in a series of financial scams escalates to the point that he becomes an addicted gambler, womanizer and head of a violent gold mining operation in the Brazilian jungle before forging a passionate, late-in-life relationship with a darkly ambitious Israeli woman.

Drop Dead, Gorgeous
By J. D. Mason
A sequel to Beautiful, Dirty, Rich follows the vigilante justice quest of Desimonda’s best friend, Lonnie, who hunts down the secret half-brother of a man who violated her and left her for dead.

The End of the Point
By Elizabeth Graver
Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders.

The Engagement
By Chloe Hooper
A follow-up to the award-winning A Child’s Book of True Crime finds Englishwoman Liese Campbell visiting the Melbourne country mansion of heir Alexander Colquhoun, with whom she shares a no-strings-attached affair until discovering deeper, more erotic aspects of his character.

Family Pictures
By Jane Green
Living on opposite coasts and preparing to see their children depart for school, two women married to frequently-traveling husbands are shattered by a devastating secret that brings them together and tests their beliefs about forgiveness.

Farewell, Dorothy Parker
By Ellen Meister
Wielding considerable influence as a Hollywood critic in spite of insecurity and social anxiety in her private life, Violet Epps is approached by the ghost of Dorothy Parker who, in exchange for help with moving to the afterlife, offers advice on how Violet can find the courage to speak out.

Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles
By Ron Currie   
Mourning the death of his father and pining for an elusive woman he has loved since childhood, a writer who has lost the manuscript for his latest book in a fire fakes his own death and exiles himself to a small Caribbean island where unexpected fame reveals the price of his deception.

Frozen Solid
By James Tabor
When a zealous group of scientists launches a plot to release a pandemic virus designed to end overpopulation, Hallie Leland races against time during a brutal week at the South Pole to save the world from mass annihilation.

The Fun Parts
By Sam Lipsyte
Originally published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review among other magazines, the collection stars such characters as a deranged male birth midwife and a doomsday hustler.

The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
By Jennifer Cody Epstein
Yoshi, a Japanese teenager, faces the destruction of everything she knew and a new life living among the enemy after her home city is bombed with napalm.

The Guardian (Home to Hickory Hollow)
By Beverly Lewis
After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers about the child’s identity and circumstances.

Helsinki Blood (Inspector Vaara)
By James Thompson
Entreated by a desperate mother whose daughter, a young woman with Down’s syndrome, has gone missing while seeking employment in Finland, Karl Vaara sees the case as a chance to redeem himself from black ops failures and pursues leads through Helsinki’s high-class clubs to the darkest circles in underground trafficking.

I Want to Show You More
By Jamie Quatro
Quatro’s debut collection of short fiction offers a disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith and family.

Ice Cold Kill
By Dana Haynes
Working as an interpreter for the FBI and taking occasional freelance operative jobs, Daria, a thrill-seeking former Shin-Bet agent in exile in the U.S., receives an anonymous warning just before she is set up to appear as if she is working with a terrorist by an adversary who would hijack a highly dangerous shipment.

The Icecutter’s Daughter
By Tracie Peterson
Feisty lady Merrill Krause and carpenter Rurik Jorgenson find their chance at love threatened by a major scandal in their Minnesota community.

In the Land of the Living
By Austin Ratner
Two brothers try to understand their family, grief, and the lasting effects on their relationships and careers and how they can change the future.

Island 731
By Jeremy Robinson
Feeling out of his element on board a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, expert tracker Mark Hawkins is trapped on a tropical island with a crew after a mysterious series of malfunctions, and uncovers evidence of the island’s history as the site of a brutal World War II human experimentation program.

The Leviathan Effect
By James Lilliefors
Receiving a frightening communication from an anonymous hacker who has triggered numerous disasters designed to look like natural events, Homeland Security Secretary Catherine Blaine is threatened to comply with the hacker’s instructions or risk nation-destroying events, a situation that involves a journalist pawn and a former CIA agent.

The Liars’ Gospel By Naomi Alderman
The life of Jesus Christ is described by the four people who were closest to him before his death: his mother, his friend Iehuda, the High Priest of the Temple, and a rebel named Bar-Avo.

The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
By Teddy Wayne
A bitingly satirical tale about America’s obsession with fame follows the experiences of preadolescent pop idol Jonny Valentine, who uses his megastar success to hide the bitterness and innocence of a child who feels manufactured by his LA recording label and hard-partying manager mother.

The Magic of Saida
By M. G. Vassanji
Driven by an old regret from his life as a successful doctor and family man, Kamil Punja journeys to his mother’s native Africa to keep a childhood promise and confronts his unresolved mixed racial identity while addressing the nightmarish legacy of a past mistake.

Middle Men
By Jim Gavin
A debut story collection features a sequence of men who make doomed forays into middle-class respectability in southern California.

The Next Time You See Me
By Holly Goddard Jones
When a hard-drinking and unpredictable woman goes missing from her small Southern town, her unhappily dutiful sister, a failed athlete-turned-detective, a socially awkward teen, and a factory worker with a tormented past become connected in unexpected and violent ways.

Night Moves (Doc Ford)
By Randy Wayne White
Unsure if he or his friend Tomlinson was the target of a recent murder attempt, Doc Ford continues investigating a near-poisoning, a plane crash and an explosion off Sanibel Island.

Nose
By James Conaway
Delightedly discovering a first Cabernet to receive his highest score, egotistical wine critic Clyde Craven-Jones investigates the vintage’s mysterious origins with his wife and two assistants only to land in the middle of a scandalous family squabble with ties to a decades-old wrongdoing.

Nothing Gold Can Stay
By Ron Rash
Rash’s collection of stories navigates the emotionally harsh terrain of Appalachia, including “The Trusty”, in which a convict sent to fetch water for a chain gang tries to convince a farmer’s young wife to help him escape.

The Obituary Writer
By Ann Hood
An obituary writer searching for her missing lover at the turn of the tweetieth century is linked to a woman considering leaving her loveless marriage in 1963.

Oleander Girl
By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Enjoying a sheltered childhood with adoring grandparents but troubled by the silence surrounding her parents’ deaths, 17-year-old Korobi is prompted by a love note found among her mother’s possessions and a fiance’s shattering revelation to travel from India to America in the days after September 11 in search of her true identity.

The Pretty One: A Novel about Sisters
By Lucinda Rosenfeld
Living lives carefully constructed by their loving but domineering mother, three politically connected sisters enter midlife while struggling with unexpressed anger, failed relationships, and their mother’s freak accident, all of which compel them to reevaluate their prospects.

The Retrospective
By A. B. Yehoshua
Unsettled during a retrospective of his early work, aging film director Yair Moses attempts to reconcile with the difficult but brilliant screenwriter from whom he is estranged, but the price that Trigano demands is one that will have strange and lasting consequences.

Six Years
By Harlan Coben
Harboring an enduring love for Natalie six years after her marriage to another man, Jake Sanders learns of his rival’s death and attends the funeral only to discover that Natalie is not the woman she seemed to be, a situation that compels a determined search for answers.

The Story of My Purity
By Francesco Pacifico
Growing tired of his sexless marriage, and deciding to dedicate his life to Jesus, 30-year-old Piero Rosini takes a job at an ultraconservative Catholic publishing house. Tempted both physically and intellectually, Piero finds his religious resolve breaking down and vows to guard his purity.

The Striker (Isaac Bell)
By Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible.

The Sunshine When She’s Gone
By Thea Goodman 
Told from alternating viewpoints, this satiric look at modern marriage and parenthood follows the actions of a young couple and their infant daughter over one life-changing weekend during which the husband flees with the child to a Caribbean island while his wife remains in Manhattan and tries to recapture the zest for life she had before being thrust into motherhood.

The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
By Edward Kelsey Moore
Forging a friendship at the height of the civil rights movement, Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean meet regularly at the first diner owned by black proprietors in their Indiana city and are watched throughout the years by a big-hearted man who observes their struggle, with school, marriage, parenthood and beyond.

The Thief of Words
By Starling Lawrence
Arriving as a volunteer in Sierra Leone, Nora Fenton has little understanding of the complexities of race and religion in the nation nor does she comprehend the hidden politics of the diamond trade. Nevertheless, she embarks on many affairs which are subsequently documented by a writer named Owen who is secretly in love with her.

This Is the Way
By Gavin Corbett
Fearing that he has reignited an ancient feud between the two halves of his family, Anthony Sonaghan hides out in an old tenement house in Dublin until his roguish uncle Arthur, who is on the run, arrives on his doorstep bringing with him a world of trouble.

This Magnificent Desolation
By Thomas O’Malley
Possessing no memories of his life before entering an orphanage, young Duncan recites fantastical stories about his origins and is astonished when his singer mother claims him, thrusting him into an adult world of hazy bars, a salty Vietnam veteran lover, and an ancient radio that reports on the fates of the lost Apollo mission astronauts.

A Thousand Pardons
By Jonathan Dee
Forced back into the working world after her corporate lawyer husband’s spectacular downfall, Helen discovers a talent for public relations and is tempted away from her dysfunctional family by her childhood crush, now a movie star who needs her professional assistance.

Three Graves Full
By Jamie Mason
Pushed by an extreme circumstance into committing a murder that he covers up by burying the body in his backyard, mild-mannered Jason Getty finds his life completely unraveling when a landscaper discovers two other graves on his property, a situation that ties Jason to an abandoned woman, a small-town detective, and a fringe-dweller with a threatening past.

Traps
By MacKenzie Bezos
The brief but significant connections between four very different women include a commitment-phobic special operative, a betrayed Oscar-winning actress, a prostitute teen mother, and a recovering alcoholic.

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
By Therese Anne Fowler
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father’s opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera.

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Bloodfire Quest (Dark Legacy of Shannara)
By Terry Brooks
A sequel to The Wards of Faerie places the fate of an innocent young girl in the hands of protectors who embark on a dangerous quest to protect a once-peaceful world from dangerous creatures imprisoned behind an eroding magical barrier.

Children of Kings: A Darkover Novel
By Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross
After an interstellar civil war, heir to the throne Gareth Elhalyn takes on a secret mission to stop the seedy population of Darkover from arming the Dry Towners with forbidden weapons.

A Conspiracy of Alchemists (Chronicles of Light and Shadow)
By Liesel Schwarz
Set during the Belle Epoque in a Europe where mythological beings interact with modern scientists and aviators, a first entry in a new series introduces spunky dirigible pilot Elle Chance and handsome warlock Marsh, who face off against a shadowy band of alchemists intent on breaking the barrier between the supernatural and mortal worlds.

Dreams and Shadows
By C. Robert Cargill
Long ago, friends Ewan and Colby pierced the veil between their world and a supernatural realm and while trying to lead normal lives soon discover that fate can never be outrun as they are called back to the Limestone Kingdom.

Frost Burned (Mercedes Thompson)
By Patricia Briggs
Shapeshifter and mate of the local werewolf pack’s Alpha, Mercy Thompson, discovers the entire pack has been abducted while she and her stepdaughter were in a minor car accident.

Garden of Evil (Rook)
By Graham Masterton
Remedial English teacher Jim Rook gets the shock of his life when he returns for a new semester to find something more than unpleasant in his classroom.

The Gate Thief (Mither Mages)
By Orson Scott Card
A sequel to The Lost Gate finds Danny North posing as an everyday high school student while holding the stolen outselves of 13 centuries of gatemages and learning about why Loki closed the Great Gates, an effort that is complicated by a near-powerless Wad’s efforts to make peace.

Hellhole Awakening (Hellhole Trilogy)
By Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
A confrontation between General Adolphus and the fleets of Diadem Michella Duchenet is compromised by a shadow-Xayan mental blast, an imminent asteroid collision in the outer Candela system and a fanatical band of rogue telemancers.

The Last Threshold (Neverwinter Saga)
By R. A. Salvatore
Drizzt fears the loss of Dahlia to his former enemy while agents of the elite drow dark elves hide a secret agenda and Tiago Baenre enlists Bregan D’aerthe in his quest to destroy Drizzt.

Shadow of Freedom (Honor Harrington)
By David Weber
Receiving a suspicious warning about a rising rebellion against an oppressive leader, Manticore Tenth Fleet commander Michelle Henke believes that she is being set up by the shadowy Mesan Alignment who would sabotage her ongoing conflict with the Solarian League.

Shattered Pillars (The Eternal Sky)
By Elizabeth Bear
A second entry in the trilogy that began with Range of Ghosts pits exiled heir Re-Tamur and his wizard friend Sarmarkar against dark forces that would conquer the great Empires along the Celedon Road.

Sister Mine
By Nalo Hopkinson
Possessing no magic but a beautiful singing voice, Makeda leaves her formerly conjoined twin sister Abby to set out on her own for a life of independence, but must reconcile with her sibling after their father goes missing.

Wolfhound Century
By Peter Higgins
Sent to the capital city of Mirgorod to capture a terrorist, Inspector Vissarion Lom finds the city to be a corrupt world of secret police, revolutionaries, cabarets, and lost artists, and slowly comes to the realization of exactly why he was chosen for the job.

Written in Red: A Novel of the Others
By Anne Bishop
Blood prophet Meg Corbyn escapes enslavement by the Others and teams up with a shape-shifter who employs her as a Human Liaison.

You
By Austin Grossman
After joining a revolutionary video game company run by his once-closest friends and a team of eccentric nerds, Russell discovers a software bug that leads him to uncover a mystery stretching back twenty years.

Mystery & Detective

Bear Is Broken
By Lachlan Smith
Following in the footsteps of a successful attorney brother who raised him, Leo searches for answers when a shooting puts his brother in a coma, a situation that reveals startling truths and dangerous enemies on both sides of the law.

Deadly Virtues
By Jo Bannister
When an inmate who knew he was about to be killed gives him a cryptic message before being beaten to death, Ash, a man from an English town where the low crime rate is linked to a chief’s zero-tolerance policy, shares his knowledge with police recruit Hazel Best, who risks her career to uncover the truth.

Death of Yesterday (Hamish Macbeth)
By M. C. Beaton
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth pays no mind to a bothersome woman who went out drinking and forgot all the events of the evening; her death, however, does manage to catch his attention.

Death on a Pale Horse (Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty’s Secret Service)
By Donald Thomas
Sherlock Holmes and his biographer Dr. John Watson go up against their toughest adversary yet when Colonel Hunter Moran, who bears upon his body The Mark of the Beast, cuts a swath of destruction across the world, starting with the annihilation of members of the British army.

Eleven Little Piggies (Jake Hines)
By Elizabeth Gunn
When a family feud between Minnesota farmers ends up with one of them dead, Detective Jake Hines must find the killer.

Evil in All Its Disguises
By Hilary Davidson
Traveling with fellow journalists on an all-expenses-paid trip to Acapulco, Lily Moore is dismayed by the faded region’s rising crime and nearly deserted tourist areas and worries about a colleague who goes missing after revealing an intention to expose a company’s fraudulent activities.

False Alarm (Abbot Agency Mysteries)
By Veronica Heley
Bea Abbot is asked to find the man or woman who laid a booby trap for Sir Lucas Ossett, the powerful head of an international company.

The Family Way (Molly Murphy)
By Rhys Bowen
Feeling restless and confined by her pregnancy, Molly is sent to her mother’s for the summer by her long-suffering new husband Daniel, who refuses to let her investigate two new cases, including the disappearance of an Irish serving maid and a disturbing string of baby kidnappings.

The Good Cop
By Brad Parks
Rushing to scoop the story of a local policeman’s death, Newark investigative journalist Carter Ross doubts the official suicide ruling and resolves to uncover the truth when his inquiries are repeatedly blocked.

A Good Death
By Christopher R. Cox
Hired by an insurance company to investigate the suspicious suicide of a talented Lao immigrant, down-on-his-luck Boston private investigator Sebastian Damon finds the case leading him halfway around the world to the streets of Bangkok, where he is pitted against police corruption and bureaucracy in life-changing ways.

The Gray Ghost Murders
By Keith McCafferty
A follow-up to The Royal Wulff Murders finds fly fisherman and private detective Sean Stranahan tackling two assignments including the theft of a valuable fly and the murders of two men who have been found on Sphinx Mountain, cases with possible ties to local superstitions and powerful adversaries.

Killer Honeymoon (Savannah Reid)
By G. A. McKevett
Now that plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid has finally walked down the aisle, she’s ready for a romantic island getaway with new husband Dirk Coulter. The trip is supposed to be a blissful week of rum drinks and sunshine, so witnessing a cold-blooded murder isn’t exactly what they signed on for.

A Matter of Trust (Mia Quinn Mysteries)
By Lis W. Wiehl
When the DA asks her to head up the investigation into best friend and coworker Colleen’s death and its connection to the murder of another Seattle prosecutor four years later, Mia Quinn finds that many people could have wanted Colleen dead, including people in Mia’s life she thought she could trust.

A Medal for Murder (Kate Shackleton)
By Frances Brody
A follow-up to Dying in the Wool finds Kate Shackleton investigating a pawn-shop robbery that brings her into the wealthy neighborhoods of 1920s Harrogate where a night at the theater is shattered by a brutal murder and the kidnapping of a leading lady.

The Missing Italian Girl: A Mystery in Paris (Bernard Martin)
By Barbara Corrado Pope
Investigating the disappearances of young immigrant girls from a working-class neighborhood in late twentieth- century Paris, magistrate Bernard Martin and his teacher wife, Clarie, embark on a perilous rescue mission that pits them against a particularly vicious predator.

Murder Below Montparnasse (Aimee Leduc)
By Cara Black
Single-handedly running the detective agency when her long-term partner leaves for a new job, Aimee is hired by a mysterious elderly Russian to protect a valuable painting. However, the painting is stolen before Aimee can start her work, a situation that is further complicated by the client’s murder and the appearance of dangerous adversaries who also seek the painting.

Ordinary Grace
By William Kent Krueger
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred when he was 13, a man explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small Minnesota community in 1961.

Red Velvet Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries with Recipes)
By Joanne Fluke
When one of her famous Red Velvet cupcakes is thought to have caused the death of her rival – a scandalous Lake Eden legend who was trying to steal her boyfriend – Hannah Swensen becomes the unlikely suspect in a murder investigation and must whip up the real killer before someone else gets iced.

Scratchgravel Road (Josie Gray)
By Tricia Fields
Small-town Texas police chief Josie Gray stumbles across a nearly dead heatstroke victim who is unable to explain why he was out in the desert and why he was found beside the murdered body of a Mexican immigrant.

The Sound of Broken Glass
By Deborah Crombie
While investigating the murder of a well-respected barrister who was found dead at a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot begin to question everything they think they know about their world and the people they trust.

Sweet Tea Revenge (Tea Shop Mysteries)
By Laura Childs
Tea shop owner and bridesmaid Theodosia Browning investigates when the groom is late on the couple’s big day.

A Walk with the Dead (DCI Monika Paniatowski Mysteries)
By Sally Spencer
After a girl is found murdered only a few hours after DCI Paniatowski saw her alive, the investigator just may get too emotionally involved in the case.

What Darkness Brings
By C. S. Harris
Aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr must find the true culprit and defend his former lover, Kat Boleyn, when she is accused of the murder of a notorious diamond merchant.

Romance

A Little Folly
By Jude Morgan
Rejecting an unwanted suitor and opening the family’s Devonshire estate to her fashionable cousins after the death of her straitlaced father, Valentine is seduced by the intrigues and scandals of Regency London and begins to wonder if her newfound freedom is as exciting as she imagined it would be.

You and I, Me and You (FBI Trilogy)
By Mary Janice Davidson
Candice is unable to stop dreaming about Dr. Gallo in spite of her promising relationship with Patrick, a situation that is complicated by the escaped Threefer Killers.

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