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The Wild Hog Murders by Bill Crider

The Wild Hog Murders: New Excerpt

By Bill Crider

July 1, 2011

Like most of the rest of Texas, Blacklin County is being overrun with feral hogs that destroy farmland and crops. A mother and son have opened an animal shelter in the county and they welcome the pests. Someone’s threatened them by leaving a slaughtered animal on their doorstep. Then, while searching the woods for a…

Trespasser by Paul Doiron

Trespasser: New Excerpt

By Paul Doiron

June 20, 2011

In Paul Doiron’s riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher’s Son, while on patrol, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch receives a strange call for help. It’s a cold evening in March, and a woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. Arriving on scene, Bowditch finds blood—but both the driver…

A Bad Day for Scandal by Sophie Littlefield

A Bad Day for Scandal: New Excerpt

By Sophie Littlefield

June 13, 2011

When Prosper homegirl turned big-city businesswoman Priss Porter returns to town with a body in her trunk, she calls Stella Hardesty to dispose of it. Her uppity ways don’t convince Stella to take the job, and Priss attempts to blackmail her with a snapshot of Stella doing what she does best: curing woman-beaters by the…

Mommy’s Little Girl by Diane Fanning

Mommy’s Little Girl: Excerpt

By Diane Fanning

June 1, 2011

When news broke of three-year-old Caylee Anthony’s disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the nation. The search for Caylee made front-page headlines. But there was one huge question mark hanging over the case: the girl’s mother. As the investigation continued and suspicions mounted, Casey…

Misery Bay by Steve Hamilton

Misery Bay: New Excerpt

By Steve Hamilton

May 30, 2011

On a frozen January night, a young man loops one end of a long rope over the branch of a tree. The other end he ties around his neck. A snowmobiler will find him thirty-six hours later, his lifeless eyes staring out at the endless cold water of Lake Superior. It happens in a lonely corner of the…

Bones of a Feather by Carolyn Haines

Bones of a Feather: New Excerpt

By Carolyn Haines

May 26, 2011

When PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner and best friend, Tinkie, take on Monica and Eleanor Levert as clients, they don’t have much hope of solving the case. The wealthy heiresses of Briarcliff in Natchez, Mississippi, claim that a family necklace worth four million dollars has been stolen, and they think that they can…

Bone Appetit by Carolyn Haines

Bone Appétit: New Excerpt

By Carolyn Haines

May 20, 2011

Sarah Booth always has had a lot on her plate—working as a private investigator and actress, keeping her ancestral home together, searching for the perfect man. If those “real” concerns weren’t enough, there’s Jitty, a ghost, who’s on her case to have a child to continue the family line. Sarah Booth’s just about had it…until her…

The Devil She Knows by Bill Loehfelm

The Devil She Knows: New Excerpt

By Bill Loehfelm

May 17, 2011

Life isn’t panning out for Maureen Coughlin. At twenty-nine, the tough-skinned Staten Island native’s only excitement comes from . . . well, not much. A fresh pack of American Spirits, maybe, or a discreet dash of coke before work. If something doesn’t change soon, she’ll end up a “lifer” at the Narrows, the faux-swank bar…

Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo

Breaking Silence: New Excerpt

By Linda Castillo

May 11, 2011

The Slabaugh family are model Amish farmers, prosperous and hardworking, with four children and a happy extended family. When the parents and an uncle are found dead in their barn, it appears to be a gruesome accident: methane gas asphyxiation caused by a poorly ventilated cesspit. But in the course of a routine autopsy, the coroner…

Cover of Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder

Purgatory Chasm: New Excerpt

By Steve Ulfelder

May 10, 2011

The job seems simple. Conway Sax, a no-nonsense auto mechanic with a knack for solving difficult problems, has never liked obnoxious blowhard Tander Phigg. But a promise is a promise. Tander’s a Barnburner, a member of the unique Alcoholics Anonymous group that rescued Conway, and when a Barnburner has a problem, Conway takes care of…

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