Fiction
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag — The “See No Evil Killer” glues his victim’s eyes and mouths shut and pierces their eardrums before he tortures them to death. One such body is discovered by a couple of fifth graders, and soon their teacher is drawn into the investigation (and drawn to the cop leading it).
Village of the Ghost Bears by Stan Jones — Native Alaska Trooper Nathan Active and his girlfriend come across a body in a creek. Meanwhile, in a small northern village, a fire at the recreation center kills eight people? Could the two be related?
Desert Lost: A Lena Jones Mystery by Betty Webb — Lena Jones stumbles on the body of a woman who turns out to have been a member of a polygamous cult five hours away.
Murder by Artifact: The Murder Quilt by Barbara Graham — Graham is a Cody resident, and this is her second murder mystery involving quilts.
The Disappeared by M.R. Hall — Jenny Cooper is a coroner dealing with a difficult teenage son and her own anxieties when she’s asked by a distraught mother to look into the disappearance of her then college-aged son seven years ago. The problem isn’t just that he disappeared, though — Britain’s intelligence services are convinced that he joined a militant Islamist cell.
Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinskey — Popular, talented teenagers Lily, Mary Kate, and Jess make a pregnancy pact ovoer the summer. When it is discovered, their small town holds their mothers — particularly Lily’s mother, the high school principal and a former teen mom herself — to blame.
The Bone Chamber: A Sydney Fitzpatrick Mystery by Robin Burcell — Forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick is back, this time chasing a mystery through an international intrigue that takes her to the streets of Rome, and the tunnels that lie underneath.
Altar of Eden by James Rollins — A suitcase of genetically altered animal embryos is taken out of a Bagdhad zoo and brought to a remote Gulf Coast island. Now Dr. Lorna Polk and border patrol agent Jack Menard are on the case of just who brought these creatures to the island, and to life.
The First Rule by Robert Crais — Joe Pike and Elvis Cole are on the trail of the person — or the mob — who murdered Joe’s friend Frank, his wife, their children, and their Serbian nanny.
The 13th Hour: A Thriller by Richard Doetsch — Nick Quinn is being interrogated as a suspect in the murder of his wife when a stranger hands him a watch that will allow him to travel back twelve hours in time to save her. But what other history will his actions change? Read Doetsch’s latest to find out!
Snapped by Pamela Klaffke — Sarah founded snarky glamour magazine Snap sixteen years ago. Since then it’s become a huge success, and Sarah’s younger, hipper assistant is turning into a threat just as Sarah is beginning to wonder if making fun of people is an okay way to earn a living.
Gutshot Straight by Lou Berney — Shake Bouchon is just out of prison and determined to stay straight this time. . . well, just as soon as he makes a little delivery and pickup trip to Vegas for an old flame. Fans of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiassen will want to pick this one up to learn just how hilariously badly that goes.
A Whisper to the Living by Stuart M. Kaminsky — The sadly final Inspector Rostnikov mystery — Kaminsky died in October 2009 — finds our hero out to get a killer who has murdered over forty people in Moscow.
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin — Benjamin imagines the life of Alice Hargreaves, the real-life model for Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Death of a Valentine by M.C. Beaton — Hamish Macbeth must work with new — and seemingly ditzy — constable Josie McSween to investigate the death of a local woman whose life turns out to have been much less savory than everyone thought.
No Mercy by Lori Armstrong — Army sniper Mercy Gunderson is back home on the ranch in South Dakota when a young Sioux from the nearby reservation is found dead on the property, and the sheriff arrests her nephew for burglary, and the respite that she hoped to find is quickly gone.
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