The Unquiet Dead is the debut novel from Ausma Zehanat Khan and the start of the Detective Rachel Getty series set in Toronto (available January 13, 2015). Despite their many differences, Detective Rachel Getty trusts her boss, Esa Khattak, implicitly. But she’s still uneasy at Khattak’s tight-lipped secrecy when he asks her to look into…
The Body Snatchers Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini is the third historical mystery in the Carpenter and Quincannon series set in late-19th century San Francisco (available January 6, 2015). Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown’s opium…
Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander is the debut in the new cozy Bakeshop Mystery series where a recent culinary school grad returns home to help her mother run a bakery (available December 30, 2014). Welcome to Torte—a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it’s criminal… After graduating…
A Nip of Murder by Carol Miller is the second installment in the Moonshine Mystery Series where amateur sleuth Daisy McGovern continues to struggle in converting her diner into a bakery (available December 16, 2014). As Daisy McGovern knows all too well, it isn’t easy being a young, small-town waitress at a local diner in…
Thief by Mark Sullivan is the 3rd book in the Robin Monarch series about a world-class thief who may have stumbled onto the secret to immortality (available December 16, 2014). Robin Monarch is a man with a complicated past and dangerous present. He’s been a soldier, a CIA agent, a freelance operative but first and…
Perfect Sins by Jo Bannister is the 2nd book to feature Gabriel Ash, a British government investigator whose wife and sons were believed killed by Somalian pirates until new information comes to light (available December 9, 2014). Four years ago, Gabriel Ash was working with the British government investigating hijackings in Somalia. But when his…
Five by Ursula Archer introduces Austrian Detective Inspector Beatrice Kaspary who, with her colleague Florin Wenninger, will investigate a corpse tattooed with GPS coordinates to find a killer who's geo-caching more (available December 9, 2014). A woman’s corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles…
The Iris Fan by Laura Joh Rowland is the 18th mystery and finale of this acclaimed series set in feudal Japan, featuring the recently demoted Sano Ichirō whose last case will involve a brutal attack on the shogunate itself (available December 9, 2014). Japan, 1709. The shogun is old and ailing. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue…
Blood Rubies by Jane K. Cleland is the 9th Josie Prescott Mystery about the antiques expert who is hired by a celebrity chef to appraise what turns out to be a fake, and deadly, heirloom (available December 2, 2014). Ana Yartsin is on the verge of becoming a celebrity chef. Her custom Fabergé egg-shaped cakes have…
Soul of the Fire by Eliot Pattison is the 8th mystery featuring Inspector Shan Tau Yun where the former Beijing government investigator turns up in Tibet (available November 25, 2014). When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, support…
