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The odd couple of crime-solving returns in Olivia Blacke?s Death at the Door, where a ghost and her living roommate find another mystery on their doorstep.Ruby Young is slowly adjusting to her new life in Boston. A big part of that is her unexpected roommate?the ghost of the woman who lived there before. For Cordelia Graves, she may no longer be breathing, but it?s still her apartment and Ruby is the somewhat unwanted houseguest. They?re both happy they?ve managed to become friends, which is a miracle considering they struggle to communicate with each other. Cordelia even set Ruby up with her old job.When Ruby discovers the body of a delivery guy at work, the new life she?s been building hangs in the balance. The last time Cordelia dragged Ruby into a murder investigation, it was almost two ghosts living in the apartment, not one. Determined to protect Ruby, Cordelia tries to shield her from the investigation, but Ruby has other ideas. It will take both of them working together to navigate the fine line between the dead and the living to bring a killer to light.

The fifth book in the delectable Deep Dish Mystery series by Mindy Quigley, set in a Wisconsin pizzeria.It?s February in the swanky resort town of Geneva Bay, Wisconsin, and love is in the air?along with a whiff of danger. Pizza chef Delilah O?Leary is gearing up to celebrate her first Valentine?s Day with her hunky police detective boyfriend, Calvin Capone, great-grandson of the legendary Chicago mob boss. But their romance is put on ice when a chilling discovery plunges Delilah and Capone into the heart of a century-old crime with ties to Capone?s notorious forefather. As old secrets begin to surface, Delilah realizes that nearly everyone in town?from Calvin?s cagey cousin to her own eccentric customers?has something to hide. With the pressure mounting and the past closing in, Delilah must help Capone untangle a web of deceit that could lead them to a priceless treasure... or a heart-stopping finale. Will Delilah and Capone solve the mystery before history repeats itself? Or will they spend their first Valentine?s Day together sleeping with the anchovies?

Death is only the beginning in Olivia Blacke''s A New Lease on Death, a darkly funny supernatural mystery that introduces an unlikely crime-solving duo.Ruby Young''s new Boston apartment comes with all the usual perks. Windows facing the brick wall of the next-door building. Heat that barely works. A malfunctioning buzzer. Noisy neighbors. A dead body on the sidewalk outside. And of course, a ghost.Since Cordelia Graves died in her apartment a few months ago, she''s kept up her residency, despite being bored out of her (non-tangible) skull and frustrated by her new roommate. When her across-the-hall neighbor, Jake Macintyre, is shot and killed in an apparent mugging gone wrong outside their building, Cordelia is convinced there?s more to it and is determined to bring his killer to justice.Unfortunately, Cordelia, being dead herself, can''t solve the mystery alone. She has to enlist the help of the obnoxiously perky, living tenant of her apartment. Ruby is twenty, annoying, and has never met a houseplant she couldn''t kill. But she also can do everything Cordelia can''t, from interviewing suspects to researching Jake on the library computers that go up in a puff of smoke if Cordelia gets too close. As the roommates form an unlikely friendship and get closer to the truth about Jake''s death, they also start to uncover other dangerous secrets.

A woman helps set up a community garden in the Berkshires, only to find a body in one of the plots on opening day.After life threw Maggie Walker a few curveballs, she?s happy to be back in the small, Berkshires town where she spent so much time as a child. Marlowe holds many memories for her, and now it also offers a fresh start. Maggie has always loved gardening, so it?s only natural to sign on to help Violet Bloom set up a community garden.When opening day arrives, Violet is nowhere to be found, and the gardeners are restless. Things go from bad to worse when Maggie finds a boot buried in one of the plots? and there?s a body attached to it. Suddenly, the police are looking for a killer and they keep asking questions about Violet. Maggie doesn?t believe her friend could do this, and she?s going to dig up the dirt needed to prove it.The Gardener?s Plot takes readers to the heart of the Berkshires and introduces amateur sleuth Maggie Walker in Deborah J. Benoit?s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut.

With mystery, intrigue, and the hints of romance international bestselling author Julia Kelly is known for, Evelyne Redfern returns in Betrayal at Blackthorn Park.Freshly graduated from a rigorous training program in all things spy craft, former typist Evelyne Redfern is eager for her first assignment as a field agent helping Britain win the war. However, when she learns her first task is performing a simple security test at Blackthorn Park, a requisitioned manor house in the sleepy Sussex countryside, she can?t help her initial disappointment. Making matters worse, her handler is to be David Poole, a fellow agent who manages to be both strait-laced and dashing in annoyingly equal measure. However, Evelyne soon realizes that Blackthorn Park is more than meets the eye, and an upcoming visit from Winston Churchill means that security at the secret weapons research and development facility is of the utmost importance. When Evelyne discovers Blackthorn Park?s chief engineer dead in his office, her simple assignment becomes more complicated. Evelyne must use all of her?and David?s?detection skills to root out who is responsible and uncover layers of deception that could change the course of the war.

In Michelle Chouinard?s A Tour to Die For, Capri Sanzio is back, giving a true crime tour her guests won?t soon forget. After all, a tour guide who specializes in serial killers knows better than most that San Francisco is a city with killer charm.Capri Sanzio knows that when you give serial killer walking tours for a living, unexpected situations are more common than San Francisco''s famous fog. So, when one of her guests claims to see a woman being attacked during a tour, Capri remains unphased. The police search the apartment in question and find no evidence of anything amiss, so they chalk it up to a false report from a true crime fanatic looking to be a part of a case. And Capri thinks they might be right, since lately her tours have been attracting even more obsessives than usual--as it turns out, finding the actual serial killer who committed the "Overkill Bill" murders didn''t stop the constant questions about her grandfather''s supposed crimes, it only intensified them.But Capri would never forgive herself if someone is in trouble and she walks away. Plus, something about the whole situation has every one of Capri''s investigative journalist instincts going haywire--why would someone lie about seeing an attack? So Capri starts to dig, and when her questions lead to a body, she finds herself at the center of another murder investigation.

Lady Emily investigates the murder of a glamorous debutante in the latest irresistible mystery of Tasha Alexander?s New York Times bestselling series.London, 1907: When the Season''s most accomplished and elegant debutante, Victoria Goldsborough, collapses and dies at her engagement ball, the great and good of London Society prepare to mourn the tragic loss of an upstanding young woman. But all is not what it seems, and after a toxic beverage is revealed to be the cause of death, the king himself instructs Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves to unearth the truth. Who would want to harm one of the most popular women of the year? Is it her fiancé with whom she had an unusually brief courtship; a rival for his affections bitter at being cast aside; her best friend who is almost certainly hiding a secret from Colin and Emily; a disappointed suitor with a hidden gambling habit; or a notorious jewel thief who has taken a priceless tiara from the Goldsborough home? When a second debutante succumbs to poison, the race is on to find a ruthless killer. Emily and Colin?s investigation leads to a centuries old tomb in the center of London with a mysterious link to another death dating back to Roman times and the violent reign of Boudica, ancient Britain''s fearsome warrior queen. As the stakes rise and the clock ticks down, Emily must find the killer before they strike again.

Evelyne Redfern returns in A Dark and Deadly Journey, the next book in international bestselling author Julia Kelly?s captivating historical mystery series. After being sidelined for a pesky gunshot wound, typist-turned-field agent Evelyne Redfern is ready for her next assignment with Britain?s secretive Special Investigations Unit. When a British Intelligence informant in Portugal mysteriously disappears just after hinting that he has vital information about German plans that could tip the balance of World War Two, Evelyne and her dashingly irksome partner, David Poole, are sent headed to Lisbon to find him. Once they land, Evelyne and David aren''t even able to leave the airport, before she discovers one of their fellow aeroplane passengers murdered and uncovers a diary with a clear link between the victim and their missing informant. With their mission in jeopardy before it can truly begin, Evelyne and David fight to keep their cover intact as they descend deeper into the shadows that surround Lisbon?s glittering collection of wealthy expats and dangerous spies. This case will test Evelyne and David?s training, charm, and wit?and their growing attraction for one another.

In this captivating novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of These Silent Woods, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduced them goes missing.Emlyn doesn''t let herself think about the past.How she and her best friend, Janessa, barely speak anymore. How Tyler, the love of her life, left her half dead on the side of the road three years ago.Her new life is simple and safe. She lives alone in her Airstream trailer and works as a fishing and hunting guide in scenic Idaho. Her closest friends are the community''s makeshift reverend and a handsome Forest Service ranger who took her in at her lowest.But when Tyler shows up with the news that Janessa is missing, Emlyn is propelled back into the world she worked so hard to forget. Janessa has become a social media star, documenting her #vanlife adventures with her rugged boyfriend. She hasn''t posted lately, though, and when Emlyn realizes the most recent photo doesn''t match up with its caption, she reluctantly joins Tyler to find her old friend. As the two trace Janessa''s path through miles of wild country, Emlyn can''t deny the chemistry still crackling between them. But the deeper they press into the wilderness, the more she begins to suspect that a darker truth lies in the woods—and that Janessa isn''t the only one in danger.Poignant, suspenseful, and unforgettable, Kimi Cunningham Grant''s THE NATURE OF DISAPPEARING explores what it takes to start over—and the cost of letting the past pull you back in.

Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Off the Air introduces Jolene Garcia in Emmy Award?winning reporter Christina Estes''s Tony Hillerman Prize?winning debut.Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments?anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zoo?and special projects. Stories that take more time to research and produce. Stories that Jolene wants to tell.When word gets out about a death at a radio station, Jolene and other journalists swarm the scene, intent on reporting the facts first. The body is soon identified as Larry Lemmon, a controversial talk show host, who died under suspicious circumstances. Jolene conducted his final interview, giving her and her station an advantage. But not for long.As the story heats up, so does the competition. Jolene is determined to solve this murder. It?s an investigation that could make or break her career?if it doesn''t break her first.

A controversial wild horse round-up in the high desert of Nevada results in two murders and too many suspects for Sheriff Porter Beck to deal with.A helicopter driving a controversial round-up of wild horses suddenly crashes and the pilot is found to have been shot. Then the person coordinating the round-up for the Bureau of Land Management is savagely murdered, buried up to her neck and then trampled to death by the very same wild horses. And there''s no lack of suspects?with the wild horse advocacy group having sworn to protect the horse At Any Cost! Now the state and federal agencies are showing up looking for answers or at least a scapegoat. Sheriff Porter Beck has had better days.Porter Beck''s new girlfriend, Detective Charlie Blue Horse, arrives to help with the investigation, which leads them to Canadian Lithium mining operation near the round-up area that sets off Beck''s mental alarm bells. Brinley, Beck''s sister, is leading a group of troubled kids in a wilderness program, when one of them, Rafa, bolts one night. When Brinley catches up to him, they''re just outside the mine?in the wrong place, at the wrong time. With his personal life in turmoil, too many suspects and too many secrets, the feds pushing for a quick resolution, and his impetuous (if skilled) sister in the mix, one wrong step could be deadly for Porter Beck.

In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenges—a series of unlikely, disturbing and increasingly deadly events of unknown origins.Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, doing the same lawman''s job his father once did now that he''s returned home after decades away. With his twelve person department, they cover a large area that is usually very quiet, but not of late. One childhood friend is the latest to succumb to a new wave of particularly strong illegal opioids, another childhood friend—now an enormously successful rancher—is targeted by a military drone, hacked and commandeered by an unknown source. The hacker is apparently local—local enough to call out Beck by name—and that means they are Beck''s problem.Beck''s investigation leads him to Mercy Vaughn, the one known hacker in the area. The problem is that she''s a teenager, locked up with no computer access at the secure juvenile detention center. But there''s something Mercy that doesn''t sit quite right with Beck. But when Mercy disappears, Beck understands that she''s in danger and time is running out for all of them.

Most Anticipated by GoodreadsScream meets The Guest List in this wickedly compelling and compulsively page-turning thriller of friendship and murder from the author of The Lost Village, Camilla Sten. On a remote island nestled off the coast of Sweden, four friends?Tilly, Anna, Linnea and Evelina?meet every year. Best friends since childhood, the idea is to drink beer, dance by the water, and shake off the weight of life''s expectations. The location of the island is a secret to everyone but them. One night of reckless fun and secret-sharing, and then they return to their normal lives.Ten Years Later. Ever since she was a teenager, Tessa Nilsson has been consumed by the story of four friends who disappeared. As her true crime fervor turned into a wildly popular podcast, Tessa covered Sweden?s most gruesome cases, but could never find the answers behind what happened to these women who disappeared. Now Tessa?s podcast has crashed and burned, any chance she had at uncovering the truth vanishing with it.Anneliese is Tessa?s best friend, and before she walks down the aisle, she wants to have a bachelorette party. The destination: Baltic Vinyasa, a sleek, sophisticated yoga retreat on a small island off the coast?one with such similar characteristics to the tragedy years ago that it raises the hair on Tessa?s neck. The idea is to drink gallons of cava, do sunrise yoga, and get in their last chance to bond with the bride. Tessa will not pass this up. It?s her last chance to find out what happened to the four women, once and for all.And it?s someone else?s last chance to get revenge.

A page-turning, compelling thriller about a woman who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her sister?s disappearance.Shaw Connolly is no stranger to trauma. As a fingerprints analyst, she?s one of the first on-site for crimes, including murder scenes and a mysterious string of arsons popping up throughout the rural Maine community her department serves. But the tragedy of her little sister?s disappearance sixteen years ago has always weighed on her the most; Thea is never far from her thoughts or dreams, and Shaw knows that her obsession with finding the truth about Thea is driving her husband away and impacting her two boys. Still, she can''t let it go and has even started taking disturbing calls from a man named Anders Jansen who all but claims to have committed the crime.Anders taunts Shaw with hints and innuendo about what supposedly happened all those years ago. His calls go to the next level as he reveals just how much he knows about Shaw?s personal life, like her stalled career and ruined marriage. As his stalking escalates to threats on her and her family''s lives, he begins to show just how dangerous he might be. Shaw is too desperate for answers to hang up now, just when she''s getting close to finding proof. The only question left is what she must lose to learn the truth.A taut, atmospheric thriller from Edgar Award-finalist young adult author Gillian French, Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell introduces a compelling new voice in adult suspense fiction.

For the first time in print, Skin and Bones features a collection of eight gripping original short stories in the bestselling Mike Bowditch series?including one brand new, never-before-published story?from Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron.In THE BEAR TRAP, legendary Maine woodsman and bush pilot Charley Stevens tries to convince young Mike of the dangers awaiting rookie game wardens. RABID draws Mike into the story of a gruesome case involving a bat with rabies from his Charley Steven?s past (2019 Edgar award nominee for Best Short Story). When a visiting hunter goes missing in the middle of a snowstorm, a young Charley Stevens sets off to rescue him?but begins to suspect the man may not want to be found in BACKTRACK. In THE IMPOSTER, Mike is confronted with a baffling case of stolen identity when he discovers a dead body whose driver?s license claims he is none other than Mike Bowditch himself. Mike tracks down a sinister prowler who turns a couple''s dream vacation home into a nightmare in THE CARETAKER. An investigation into the killing of a bald eagle in SKIN AND BONES unearths an old case of a missing young man whose physically abusive brother might have murdered him. In SNAKEBIT, Mike must hunt down a killer who uses the unlikeliest of murder weapons: rattlesnakes. (Brand New!) Mike suspects there?s more to a grisly murder-suicide than meets the eye in SHEEP?S CLOTHING. Critically acclaimed for his brilliant crime novels, Paul Doiron proves he is also the master of short story in Skin and Bones.

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods in this nail-biter of a thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron, Pitch Dark.Legendary bush pilot Josie Jonson can’t believe her luck when a skilled builder just happens to show up after she purchases land near Prentiss Pond. All Mark Redmond asks in return for building Josie’s dream cabin is that he be left alone to homeschool his 12-year-old daughter, Cady.For Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch, the intensity of Redmond''s secretiveness is troubling, especially in light of suspicious criminal activity being reported around the area?including rumors of an armed man offering large sums of money in exchange for the location of Redmond and Cady. Josie, though hesitant to violate the trust of her prized builder, eventually agrees to fly Mike and his father-in-law Charley Stevens to the secluded pond in an attempt to protect Redmond and Cady. But hours after landing, the trip takes a dark turn when they witness a horrific murder and are taken captive themselves.Freeing himself, Mike is forced to set off through the impenetrable Maine forest towards Canada, alone and unarmed in pursuit of a mysterious fugitive. As he navigates a windblown landscape choked with deadfalls and blocked by swollen streams, he marvels at his enemy’s bush craft. The killer possesses skills surpassing his own, and Bowditch can''t tell if he is the cat or the mouse in this dangerous game. Can Mike Bowditch stop his adversary in time to save the life of a young girl, or will he be forced to watch another innocent soul die?