Hairstyles of the Damned meets The Lovely Bones.

“Joanne Proulx’s debut novel is an impressive literary feat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet is a pitch-perfect glimpse of that powerful yet paradoxically fragile moment in adolescence when the world is rushing at you and you are rushing at it.”
—Katharine Weber, Triangle

“Lovesey deftly blends suspense and humor in this excellent ninth whodunit to feature Peter Diamond.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)

A Swedish pastor, his wife, and son are executed Gangland style.

“Huss is quickly becoming one of the
most satisfying lead characters in the
thriving world of Swedish crime.”
—Booklist

Winner of the 2007 Ned Kelly award for Best Novel.

“Moody, inventive, and extremely hard to put down.”
—Booklist (starred)

A Book Sense pick and Midwest Connections pick.

“Soars and sings like an angel.... It should be listened to, its words allowed to take wing before coming to rest in your heart.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“A master of black humor and macabre plot twists.”
—The New York Times Book Review

An aristocratic detective in Victorian England, the seventh of a series.

“Fine prose, high society, and [a] complex plot recommend this series.”—Library Journal

An armed man takes hostages at a nursery school.

“Stylish and engaging.”—Washington Post

The third in a series of well-reviewed English country house mysteries.

“Agatha Christie fans will find much to like in this
traditional whodunit.”—Publishers Weekly

“Hits all the frets of a powerful story: sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of guitar strings…. I hold up my lighter and turn it full-flame for Stein’s latest work. Encore!”
—Seattle Times

Shadowed by Nazi Germany, a British journalist walks a perilous line between warring intelligence services.

“A finely drawn portrait of the capital of a nation marching in step toward disaster.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Commissario Alessandro Cenni Investigates the murder of an American woman in Assisi.

“Evocative…. Cenni is well set up to return, and traditional mystery readers should welcome his continued investigations.”—Baltimore Sun

In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the shocking murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman is barely credible. That is, until Inspector Alessandro Cenni of the State Police discovers that this retired cultural attaché was not just a diffi cult tenant, but also a bisexual swinger with an African lover recently in residence, as well as a blackmailer.

Third in a series of London Gangland mysteries.

“You might expect a crime novel written by
the widow of Reg Kray would be tough… and
it is. Recommend this to fans of Ian Rankin.”
—Booklist

Fifth in a series of medieval murder mysteries set in Glasgow.

“McIntosh provides an intelligent, authentic, and suspenseful historical whodunit that will please the most demanding of Ellis Peters’ fans.”—Booklist

John Russell plays a dangerous spy game on the eve of World War II.

On his way home to Berlin in the summer of 1939, British journalist John Russell learns that his girlfriend Effi has been arrested by the Gestapo.

A family haunted by grief becomes entangled with a possible murder.

“A chilling and memorable tale of hearts in turmoil, rendered with grace and intensity.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch

The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Chosen By A Horse, a book sense pick and a B&N discover pick.

“An inspired story of what family means, and what> the loss of one can do to us, and for us.”
—Boston Globe

Marshal Guarnaccia investigates a young woman's brutal murder.

“It takes a writer as good as Magdalen Nabb to remind us of how subtle the art of the mystery can be…. Nabb has Simenon’s knack.”
—The New York Times Book Review

Second in a series of contemporary ecclesiastical mysteries: The Norbridge Chronicles

“A pleasure to read … remained engrossing to the end.” —San Jose Mercury News

Forensic psychologist Kennedy and DCI Trentham are in a race against time to find a killer.

Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy has given up
police work for a quiet life in the Lancashire village
of Kelton Bridge, but when Martin Hayden,
a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI
Max Trentham, Jill’s ex-colleague, wants her back
at work. As they hunt Martin’s killer, they discover
that nothing is as it seems.

“Fans of Palahniuk and Irvine Welsh will relish the graphic fight sequences and gritty social commentary.”
—Rocky Mountain News

Commander Jana Matinova, Slovakian policewoman pursues a master criminal.

“A truly fine novel. It’s filled with exactitude of place and people, taking us into a world that seethes with dangerous secrets. On that treacherous journey, Michael Genelin makes unfamiliar worlds seem knowable, and does so with great style.”
—Pete Hamill, North River

Second in a series set in the 1920s featuring amateur investigator Jack Haldean.

It’s the height of summer 1923. At a ball in Sussex, Jack Haldean, former Royal Flying Corps pilot, investigates an apparent suicide, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian revolutionaries become involved in the aff air. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnapping, torture and murder, Jack will face an agonizing choice.

A Victorian mystery set in the mystical Salisbury plains.

“Gooden will give you a gratifying taste of the danger
and excitement of that lusty place and time.”
—Publishers Weekly

A blind man, a transvestite, and a Laotian shaman walk into a bar...

“Siri’s lingering idealism, hidden beneath his cynical—and often hilarious—digs at the government, provide unexpected emotional depth.”
—Entertainment Weekly

The seventh in the Joe Sandilands series by a CWA Dagger Award winner.

“Cleverly maintains the high standards set by earlier Sandilands tales, blending a sophisticated whodunit with full-blooded characters and a revealing look at her chosen time and place.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)

A pogo stick brings a curse down upon a Hmong village.

“In Curse of the Pogo Stick… Cotterill achieves a new and compelling sophistication.”—John Burdett

If P.G. Wodehouse had written a mystery...

“I think this is tremendous.”
—Dame Beryl Bainbridge