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Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indridason

Operation Napoleon: New Excerpt

By Arnaldur Indridason

September 13, 2011

Why is the U.S. Army trying secretively to remove a WWII-era plane from an Icelandic glacier, and why should they be threatened by a young Icelandic rescue volunteer, who contacts his sister just before disappearing off the face of the earth? Kristin, who will not rest until she discovers the truth of her brother’s fate,…

City of Secrets, a Miranda Corbie Mystery, but Kelli Stanley

City of Secrets: New Excerpt

By Kelli Stanley

September 9, 2011

When young Pandora Blake is murdered at San Francisco’s 1940 World Fair and her body marked with an anti-Semitic slur, Private Investigator and former escort Miranda Corbie is soon entangled in a web of deceit and betrayal that is only overshadowed by the threat of impending war. All too soon, Miranda finds herself  in a battle…

Laura Griffin Snapped

Snapped: New Excerpt

By Laura Griffin

August 25, 2011

On a sweltering summer afternoon, Sophie Barrett walks into a nightmare. A sniper has opened fire on a college campus. When the carnage is over, three people—plus the shooter—are dead and dozens more are injured. Sophie escapes virtually unscathed. Yet as details emerge from the investigation, she becomes convinced that this wasn’t the random, senseless…

Bye Bye Baby by Max Allan Collins

Bye Bye Baby: New Excerpt

By Max Allan Collins

August 3, 2011

It’s 1962, and Twentieth Century Fox is threatening to fire Marilyn Monroe. The blond goddess hires Nate Heller, private eye to the stars, to tap her phone so she will have a record of their calls in case they take her to court. When Heller starts listening, he uncovers far more than nasty conversations. The…

The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews

The Real Macaw: New Excerpt

By Donna Andrews

July 12, 2011

During a 2:00 A.M. feeding for her four-month-old twins, Meg Langslow hears an odd noise and goes downstairs to find her living room filled with dozens of animals—cats, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, guinea pigs, and a stunningly foul-mouthed macaw. She soon learns that financial woes have caused the local animal shelter to repeal its no-kill policy.…

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…

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