By Lydia Adamson

For the 1st time in a single quantity, twisting stories that includes off-off Broadway actress became sleuth Alice Nestleton and her crime-solving cats hairy and Pancho…

A Cat in a Manger

It’s the vacation season and Alice is hoping for a merry little Christmas peacefully cat-sitting at a sprawling new york property. as a substitute, she reveals herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy of high-stakes horse racing, sinister seduction, and lacking money. She is aware she’d larger expect her cat’s smart instincts and 9 lives, due to the fact her personal interest has landed her only a whisker clear of death.

A Cat of a distinct Color

When a moonstruck scholar from Alice’s performing category is killed in a ny bar, Alice is set to unravel the crime, particularly because the stunning Abyssinian-like cat he introduced her is stolen at the related evening. however the catch she devises to nook the cat-napper entangles her in a much bigger mystery— a lifeless actor’s secrets and techniques of affection, revenge, and homicide

By Elise Hyatt

Out damned spot!

As her marriage ceremony to detective Cas Wolfe ways, Candyce "Dyce" Dare, sole proprietor (and worker) of the furnishings refinishing company bold unearths desperately must locate anything to do to prevent sitting down and making plans the development along with her mom and her ally (particularly in view that she suspects their plans contain having her cat costume in a tuxedo). engaged on a desk she lately received at a backyard sale matches the invoice.

Until her sanding efforts discover a aggravating stain--one that appears love it could be blood. Dyce is aware that, with a fiance who's a policeman, mom and dad who personal a secret book shop, and a up to date historical past of inadvertent involvement in homicide circumstances, she will be able to be vulnerable to seeing issues that aren't there. yet then she discovers that the table's past proprietor has long past missing--and once again, she is drawn right into a solve-it-yourself secret undertaking. And while Dyce begins a undertaking, she simply has to determine it through...

By Alex Kava

While a monsignor is located knifed to loss of life in a Nebraska airport restroom, FBI designated agent Maggie O'Dell is named in to profile the ritualistic homicide of a clergyman, the newest in a sequence of killings. Maggie quickly discovers a traumatic web online game that's renowned between sufferers of abuse by way of Catholic clergymen. With this primary actual lead within the research, she wonders if the gang has grew to become our on-line world justice into fact. Then Maggie will get a moment lead—one that leaves her stunned.

For the earlier 4 years she has been keen about discovering Father Michael Keller, whose brutal acts opposed to kids proceed to hang-out her. Now, it sort of feels, he has develop into a aim. whilst Keller deals to assist Maggie remedy the ritual killings in alternate for cover, she makes a decision to best friend herself with the elusive baby killer, getting into a global of malevolence from which she would possibly not go back unscathed.

Maggie is aware the cut price is an important evil…one which may be made in blood….

By Emily Brightwell

Mrs. Jeffries has been fixing Inspector Witherspoon's circumstances for him for years, in her personal demure method, after all. yet this time, Inspector Witherspoon is decided to belief his personal instincts by way of the homicide of an area publican, and he's conserving Mrs. Jeffries at nighttime. Now the full family employees is up in palms, hoping the Inspector doesn't smash his occupation sooner than they could resolve the case themselves. unique.

By Patricia Highsmith

In a small Pennsylvania city, Robert Forrester is improving from a foul divorce and a bout of mental difficulty. One night, whereas riding domestic, he sees a gorgeous younger girl framed through her brilliant kitchen window. quickly, he can’t maintain himself away. but if Robert is necessarily came across, obsession is grew to become on its head, and he unearths himself not able to shake the younger girl, nor solely convinced no matter if he may still. lately made right into a significant movie starring Julia Stiles and Paddy Considine, The Cry of the Owl is vital Highsmith, a contemporary vintage able to be reborn.

By Jacqueline Winspear

Woman Rowan Compton first met Maisie whilst, at 13, she went into carrier as a maid at her ladyship's Belgravia mansion. A suffragette, girl Rowan took the remarkably shrewdpermanent child less than her wing and have become her buyer. She inspired Maisie to review at Cambridge, and used to be aided during this through Maurice Blanche, a chum usually retained as an investigator via the elite of Europe whilst discretion and effects have been required. It was once he who first famous Maisie's intuitive gifts.

The outbreak of warfare replaced every thing. Maisie left for France to coach as a nurse, then served on the entrance, the place she fell in love with a good-looking younger doctor.

After the Armistice, within the spring of 1929, Maisie hangs out her shingle: M. Dobbs, alternate and private Investigations. Her first actual case comprises suspected infidelity yet turns up anything else, a tombstone with just a first name—Vincent. after which she reveals one other. The deceased had lived on a cooperative farm referred to as The Retreat, a well-regarded convalescent safe haven for these grievously wounded within the struggle, ex-soldiers too shattered to renew general existence. while girl Rowan's son makes plans to hitch the reclusive group, Maisie hurriedly investigates and reveals a nerve-racking secret at its center whose solution offers her the braveness to confront the ghost that has haunted her for ten years.

By Ellen Byerrum

As makeover insanity sweeps the nation's capital, reporter Lacey Smithsonian interviews television express makeover good fortune tale Amanda Manville.  yet with Amanda's good looks comes a beast within the type of a stalker with vicious intentions—and Lacey could be the just one who can cease him.

By Andrea Penrose

Girl Arianna's present of an extraordinary quantity of botanical engravings to her husband, the Earl of Saybrook, has whatever much more infrequent hidden inside-sensitive executive records which might mark one they carry expensive as a traitor of King and kingdom. To unmask the villain, they need to root out a crafty conspiracy-armed merely with their wits and services in chocolate...

By Graham Masterton

Someplace within the urban of Cork, a woman's cry echoes throughout the wet streets.

On a bloodstained bed in a filthy flat, a burly guy lies useless. A terrified woman kneels over his physique. She is half-naked, ravenous, screaming. She has been trapped right here for 3 days.

It doesn't take DS Katie Maguire lengthy to spot the homicide sufferer. he's anyone she has been attempting to convict for years - a merciless and robust pimp who terrorised the ladies who labored for him.

It's Katie's task to trap the killer. yet with males like this lifeless, town is more secure - and so are the scared younger women who're trafficked into Cork. whilst a moment pimp is horrifically murdered, Katie needs to make a decision. may still she do her task, or stick with her judgment of right and wrong? should still she enable the killer to strike back?

By Sue Ann Jaffarian

A brand new sequence debut from Odelia gray secret writer Sue Ann Jaffarian! Granny used to be recognized for her award-winning apple pies-and infamous for murdering her husband Jacob at their dwelling house in Julian, California. the one hassle is, Granny was once framed, then murdered. For a couple of hundred years, Granny's spirit has been looking for anyone to aid her see that justice is served--and she hits pay dust while she pops in to a seance attended through her great-great-great-granddaughter, modern day divorced mother Emma Whitecastle. jointly, Emma and Granny Apples resolve mysteries of the past--starting with Granny's personal unjust homicide rap within the ultimate days of the California Gold Rush. in addition to a sprinkling of heritage, this lively new secret sequence beneficial properties the beginner sleuth workforce of Emma Whitecastle and the spirit of her pie-baking great-great-great-grandmother, Granny Apples. "A captivating story, as attractive as apple pie. I are expecting a longevity (and afterlife) for Sue Ann's most up-to-date series."--Harley Jane Kozak, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity award-winning writer of relationship lifeless males "Take colourful characters in an enthralling environment, combine in a touch of romance, upload a pinch of the mystical, and serve it up like one in all Granny's well-known pies. I warrantly you'll be again for seconds."--Deborah Sharp, writer of Mama Rides Shotgun