Calico

Lee Goldberg

“A genre-bending, gripping read”
HARLAN COBEN

“I guarantee you’ve never read a crime novel like it”
IAN RANKIN

“A superb twin-track thriller”
LEE CHILD

“A mind-bending thriller unlike anything I have read before”
LINWOOD BARCLAY

Don’t miss the most unique thriller you’ll read this year!

Disgraced ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade is looking for a shot at redemption in Barstow, California. But a strange skeleton discovered in a shallow desert grave will unearth a mystery beyond her imagination…

Meanwhile, over a century ago in the struggling mining town of Calico, a stranger shows up in town also looking for a second chance.

His fate and Beth McDade’s are linked across time…but how?

A unique genre mash-up that Ian Rankin calls “The X Files meets Deadwood”, Calico will grip you from first page to last.

A Messy Murder

A Decluttering Mystery

Simon Brett

“Few crime writers are as enchantingly gifted”
The Sunday Times

Ellen Curtis – professional declutterer, amateur sleuth and woman of a certain age – investigates the puzzling death of a TV personality who’s past his prime.

The latest in the hilarious and heartwarming Decluttering Mystery series from the original king of cozy crime, Simon Brett.

French Quarter Fright Night

A Vintage Cookbook Mystery

Ellen Byron

“A spooktacular Halloween romp”
TINA KASHIAN, author of the Kebab Kitchen Mysteries

It’s Halloween in New Orleans, and the staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum is setting up a fantastic haunted house tour for their visitors. But when a real body is discover in the prop tomb, suddenly everyone is a murder suspect. Can Ricki and the Bon Vee gang reveal the shadowy killer before someone else becomes part of the Halloween horror show?

Saving Susy Sweetchild

A Silver Screen Historical Mystery

Barbara Hambly

“Vividly evoking the myriad intricacies of the silent-film industry and the shifting fortunes of its players, Hambly crafts a fast-paced mystery infused with Hollywood flapper flair”
Booklist

Script editor Emma Blackstone and her silent movie star sister-in-law Kitty investigate the disappearance of a child star and her mother in 1920s Hollywood. With a ransom note instructing them to keep the cops out of it, it’s up to Emma and Kitty to find them before Emma is forced to rewrite their script with a far more tragic ending . . .

Gina Washington Slept Here

Katherine Bolger Hyde

“[Packs] an emotional punch”
Kirkus Reviews

Twelve-year-old Erin’s world was turned upside down twenty years ago when her mother suddenly vanished and never returned. Now, a newly unearthed clue to her mother’s disappearance sends Erin on a a life-changing quest to unravel the truth – a story of deception, conspiracy and passion. But as she finally starts to find answers, Erin’s own life may be grave danger . . .

Them Without Pain

A Simon Westow Mystery

Chris Nickson

“Filled with frightening twists, bloody violence, suspense, and danger – this may just be Nickson’s best Simon Westow book yet”
Booklist

Thief-taker Simon Westow is hired to find four silver cups stolen by a servant. But when the servant in question is discovered dead in a hidden room in a demolished building, the case turns from theft to grizzly murder. A gripping historical mystery set in the gritty streets of 19th-century Leeds.

Death at Dead Man’s Stake

A Jessica Raker Thriller

Nick Oldham

“Oldham has produced a superb first book in his new series. Readers who like their police procedurals gritty, violent, twisty, and tense will love it”
Booklist starred review

The first in a brand-new British thriller series from acclaimed crime author Nick Oldham (the Henry Christie mysteries).

A split-second decision has life-changing consequences for Metropolitan Police firearms officer Jessica Raker. Sent back to home to take up a sergeant role in Lancashire, she throws herself into dealing with a hostage situation up on Dead Man’s Stake Farm. But old enemies are plotting their revenge – and they’re closer than she thinks . . .