Christmas has come to Cabot Cove, but a peaceful holiday season is not in the cards after Jessica Fletcher is pulled into a centuries-old mystery in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series. Jon Land may have seemed a surprising choice to take over authorship duties of the venerable Murder, She Wrote book…
Dear Child by Romy Hausmann, translated from German to English by Jamie Bulloch, is a captivating thriller about the return of a person missing for 14 years, claiming to have escaped her captor along with a 13-year-old girl who was also held, whose family insists she is not their daughter. Germany’s Romy Hausmann—born into the former…
American operative Charles Jenkins once again finds himself in Russia on the run for his life in a thriller of heart-stopping betrayal and international intrigue. Robert Dugoni—New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite and David Sloane series—thought he was writing a standalone with last year’s The Eighth Sister. That book introduced Charles Jenkins,…
Blood World by Chris Mooney is a well-balanced thriller exploring the morality of both sides of the law as LAPD Officer Ellie Batista goes undercover with the Blood Squad to stop a criminal enterprise attempting to farm special blood from innocent civilians. Chris Mooney is the international bestselling author of 12 novels that have sold…
The Butcher’s Daughter by Wendy Corsi Staub is the third and final book in the Foundlings series, where Investigative Genealogist Amelia Crenshaw suspects that the key to her birth parents’ identities lies in an unexpected connection to a stranger who’s hired her to find his long-lost daughter. New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub…
Bestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan delivers The First to Lie, another twisty, thrilling cat-and-mouse novel of suspense that will have you guessing, and second-guessing, and then gasping with surprise. Investigative reporter/bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan carries a long tradition of excellence. She’s won 37 Emmy Awards (yes, 37) and dozens…
Karin Slaughter is one of the most recognizable names in crime fiction. Her books have sold more than 35 million copies in 37 languages across the globe and are perennial New York Times bestsellers. In addition to her popular Grant County and Will Trent series, she has written standalones including the Edgar-nominated Cop Town, The…
This June, Cate Conte—aka Liz Mugavero—launches a new paranormal mystery series for Kensington with Witch Hunt. As Mugavero, she previously wrote the seven-book Pawsitively Organic Mysteries, which launched with 2013’s Agatha Award-nominated Kneading to Die and concluded with Murder, She Meowed (2019). As Conte, she continues to helm the Cat Café Mysteries for St. Martin’s;…
I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick is a gripping thriller that follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses to murder and the other becomes determined to uncover the real truth no matter the cost. Kit Frick is a novelist, award-winning poet, and MacDowell Colony fellow who hails from Pittsburgh, PA.…
Spring Girls by Karen Katchur is the third book in the Northampton County series, which follows Detective Geena Brassard as she enlists the help of Janey Montgomery, the Strangler’s only surviving victim, to stop the killer before they strike again. Karen Katchur is an award-winning suspense novelist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice,…
