Ace reporter John Cotton finds his best friend's corpse sprawled in the central rotunda of the US Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal involving a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And powerful people are willing to kill him to keep their secrets hidden.
Novel, 307 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1971)
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 006206844X / 9780062068446
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Hillerman, Tony
Leaphorn & Chee #05: The Dark Wind
A corpse with its palms and soles removed after death is the first of a string of disturbing occurrences: a nighttime plane crash, a vanished shipment of cocaine, and an attack on a windmill. Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee must deal with an ill wind caused by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.
Recommended by Elizabeth
Novel, 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1982)
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062018027 / 9780062018021
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Hillerman, Tony
Leaphorn & Chee #07: Skinwalkers
When three shotgun blasts rip through Jim Chee's trailer, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Officer Chee was a target, and if there's a connection to a series of murders on the reservation. The investigation leads them to rumors of Navajo witchcraft.
Recommended by Elizabeth
Novel, 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1986)
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062018116 / 9780062018113
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Hillerman, Tony
Leaphorn & Chee #16: The Sinister Pig
Sergeant Jim Chee is troubled by a nameless corpse discovered just inside his jurisdiction, especially when the FBI insists on taking over the case. Suspicion of the Feds brings Joe Leaphorn out of retirement, but it's Bernadette Manuelito, now working for the Border Patrol, who uncovers the link to a conspiracy of greed and murder.
Recommended by Elizabeth
Novel, 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2003)
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062018043 / 9780062018045
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Hilton, Matt
Joe Hunter #3: Slash and Burn
Joe is enjoying some much-needed R&R when Kate Piers, the sister of a deceased comrade in arms, approaches him to help find her missing sister Imogen. The search takes them to Imogen's Kentucky hometown, and to Robert Huffman, a local businessman with links to organized crime. He's also looking for Imogen - and kidnaps Kate to act as bait.
Novel, 389 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st US Edition
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0061718475 / 9780061718472
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Hoag, Tami
Oak Knoll #2: Secrets to the Grave
Detective Tony Mendez and teacher turned child advocate Anne Leone investigate when a woman is found brutally murdered and the only witness is her young daughter.
Novel, 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Signet - 2011 - ISBN: 0451235150 / 9780451235152
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Jaffe, Michele
Rosebush
Ages 12 and up. Jane wakes up tangled in a rosebush, paralyzed and unable to remember a single detail from the night before. Her mother and friends say the hit-and-run was an accident, but Jane knows someone tried to kill her. As she lies in bed, long-buried memories begin to resurface. Her friends come and go, each with a different version of what happened that night. Jane must use the clues they leave behind to figure out who's really on her side - before the killer strikes again.
Novel, 326 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Ages 12 and up. Cadel has a new family and a new life - no more hacking, no more false identities, and, most of all, no more Prosper English. But when his best friend Sonja is attacked, it's up to him to figure out who was behind it.
Novel, 378 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Graphia - 2011 - ISBN: 0547577273 / 9780547577272
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Johnson, Claire M.
Mary Ryan #1: Beat Until Stiff
San Francisco pastry chef Mary Ryan arrives at work early, and steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation exposes all the dirty secrets that the food business would like to keep hidden, but it will take Mary's unique skills to get to the bottom of a poisonous scheme.
Novel, 203 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2002)
US Army CID officer Eric Rider is enjoying his war until he's sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote Highland province, and discovers that someone close to home has a stake in the drug-smuggling ring .
A taxi in Vienna crashes, hurling its two passengers - a man and a woman - from the backseat as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost control; he only says that the couple was about to kiss. As the investigation into their deaths deepens, a lonely researcher will uncover a mutually destructive relationship that blurs the line between fact and fiction, fear and desire.
Novel, 265 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Grove Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0802145515 / 9780802145512
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King, Laurie R. (editor) / Klinger, Leslie S. (editor)
A Study in Sherlock
Sixteen original stories inspired by the Holmes canon.
Contents
An Introduction == Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
You'd Better Go in Disguise == Alan Bradley
As to 'An Exact Knowledge of London' == Tony Broadbent
The Men with the Twisted Lips == S.J. Rozan
The Adventure of the Purloined Paget == Phillip Margolin and Jerry Margolin
The Bone-Headed League == Lee Child
The Startling Events in the Electrified City == Thomas Perry
The Mysterious Case of the Unwritten Short Story == Colin Cotterill
The Case of Death and Honey == Neil Gaiman
A Triumph of Logic == Gayle Lynds and John Sheldon
The Last of Sheila-Locke Holmes == Laura Lippman
The Adventure of the Concert Pianist == Margaret Maron
The Shadow Not Cast == Lionel Chetwynd
The Eyak Interpreter == Dana Stabenow
The Case That Holmes Lost == Charles Todd
The Imitator == Jan Burke
A Spot of Detection == Jacqueline Winspear
A Study in Sherlock: Afterword == A Leslie S. Klinger/Mary Russell Twinterview (with Laurie R. King)
Awards: ♦ The Case of Death and Honey: Finalist for the 2012 Edgar Award for Best Short Story
John Shannon is a petty thief on the run after being framed for murder. A foreigner who calls himself the Identity Man offers Shannon an incredible chance to start again. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose.
Novel, 280 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Mariner - 2011 - ISBN: 0547597193 / 9780547597195
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Koefod, Susan
Washed Up
When shy eleven-year-old Abatha finds a dead baby on the riverbank, social worker Christine Ivory and detective Arvo Thorson are assigned to the case. They grew up together in the Minnesota town, and have no use for each other, but when a similar cold case comes to light, they must work together to protect Abatha.
Novel, 231 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
North Star Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0878394427 / 9780878394425
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Koontz, Dean
What the Night Knows
Alton Blackwood murdered four families, then was killed by the last survivor of the families, fourteen-year-old John Calvino. Two decades later, someone is recreating Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain his wife and children will be targets - and an extraordinary experience has him convinced that, sometimes, the dead return. Plus bonus novella 'Darkness Under the Sun'.
Novel, 584 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Bantam - 2011 - ISBN: 0553593072 / 9780553593075
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Kuhfeld, Ellen
Secret Murder: Who Shall Judge?
Alternate history set in a North America settled by Europeans in the Middle Ages. Thorolf Pike was trouble. Declared an outlaw and exiled from his home, he had come from Surtsheim, where his fellow Norsemen lived, to Northlanding, where English settlers lived. Now he was dead, by an unknown hand. Who killed him? And should the murderer be judged by English law, or by Norse law?
Novel, 154 pages, Trade Paperback, Print on Demand
Ages 12 and up. 1868: Staying in Hampshire with his uncle and aunt, fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes and his American tutor investigate when two people die from symptoms that resemble the plague. (Endorsed by the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate)
Novel, 311 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Square Fish - 2011 - ISBN: 031256371X / 9780312563714
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Lane, Vicki
Full Circle Farm #6: Under the Skin
Elizabeth Goodweather and her city-girl sister Gloria couldn't be more different. Elizabeth lives on a farm in the Great Smoky Mountains. Gloria lives in Florida off an ex-husband's fortune. Now Gloria has parked herself at Full Circle Farm, on the run from her latest man, who, she insists, is trying to kill her. Elizabeth thinks this is just another of her sister's fantasies. Besides, Elizabeth has her wedding to plan - if only she can overcome her fear that the man who already shares her life may not be what he appears to be.
Novel, 385 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Bantam - 2011 - ISBN: 0345533658 / 9780345533654
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Lawson, Mike
Joe DeMarco #1: The Inside Ring
After a failed assassination attempt on the US President, there's some indication that his Secret Service agents might have been compromised. Speaker of the House Dan Mahoney assigns his fixer Joe DeMarco to determine if the Secret Service was really involved.
Novel, 410 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2005)
Grove Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0802145590 / 9780802145598
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Leonard, Elmore
Djibouti
In Djibouti to make a documentary, filmmaker Dara Barr finds more than she expected: pirates, a Saudi diplomat with dubious connections, a billionaire American who loves to fire his 600 caliber elephant gun, and an al Qaeda terrorist from Miami who wants to blow up something big.
Novel, 279 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0061735213 / 9780061735219
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Limon, Martin
Sueno & Bascom #1: Jade Lady Burning
1970s: When a young Korean woman is found murdered in a torched apartment in Seoul's red-light district, her American soldier boyfriend is a suspect; military policemen George Sueno and Ernie Bascom investigate.
Novel, 254 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1991)
Signed by the author on the title page. Not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods, Dexter plans to deal with the copycat in his own pleasurable way.
Fifteen-year-old Huger and 'Unc' (his blind Uncle Leland) stumble upon the body of a well-to-do Charleston hunter. Who wanted him dead? And why is the Hunt Club, a tract of woods and swamp belonging to Huger's family, suddenly at the heart of a dark secret worth killing for?
Novel, 243 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 1998 HC
Ages 14 and up. Noah has been getting drunk, getting high, and dissing the religious beliefs of his father, who hosts a Christian radio show, and whom Noah accuses of spreading hate. When two gay teens are murdered, Noah is convinced the killer is a caller on his dad's program, and is drawn into a game of cat and mouse as he investigates.
Novel, 228 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Ember - 2011 - ISBN: 0375845437 / 9780375845437
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Mallo, Ernesto
Lascano #2: Sweet Money
Superintendent Lascano is drawn into a war between the Buenos Aires chief of police and the Apostles, drug-dealing cops who want to control the city. When the chief of police is murdered, Lascano becomes the Apostles' next target. His only way out of the country is to retrieve the loot from a bungled bank robbery.
